Posted on 03/09/2011 10:43:29 AM PST by JedEckert2000
As we now all know, Harry Reid LOVES cowboy poets. Luckily, my good friend Todd Greenberg has some experience with cowboy poetry:
They used to bring cowboy poets to our schools in Arizona. I can't believe this is federally funded stuff. Don't get me wrong... cowboy poetry can be cool, I guess, and it's good work if you can get it, but last thing I wanted to do in H.S. was get dragged to the amphitheater to watch four old guys dressed like cowboys and dramatically read poetry like it was down home Summerstock/Shakespeare and tell us about campfire life.
I only remember one poem, it was called "Damn ol' Dog." If it didn't have damn in it no one would have cared.
The two hours I lost that day (and they did if from 6th grade to 12th) could have been summed up by listening to Thin Lizzy's "Cowboy Song" or screening "High Noon." If they really wanted to do kids a favor they should have given everyone DVD's of "For A Few Dollars More." That movie taught me more about life and the Old West than anything else up to that point in college when I first saw it. Things would have been different if I saw that in H.S.
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In 2003 the Los Angeles Times exposed the millions in lobbying, consulting and legal fees Reid's family pockets for connecting corporations and individuals with federal funds.
Probably the kind who are making three times your salary.
Which one is that? I get that one confused with "Fistfull of Dollars". Is that the one where Clint and Van Cleef play a couple of bounty hunters out to get the bad guy with the musical watch?
Cowboy poetry.....”well it’s 40 below and I don’t give a f**k, got a heater in my truck and I’m off to the rodeo....”
Most Cowboy Poetry I’ve witnessed was best described as unfunny standup comedy that was borderline painful to watch.
Not something tax dollars should be supporting.
Maybe Harry is paying people to watch it, because I haven’t run across a cowboy poet I would actually pay to see.
Most Cowboy Poetry I’ve witnessed was best described as unfunny standup comedy that was borderline painful to watch.
Not something tax dollars should be supporting.
Maybe Harry is paying people to watch it, because I haven’t run across a cowboy poet I would actually pay to see.
Most Cowboy Poetry I’ve witnessed was best described as unfunny standup comedy that was borderline painful to watch.
Not something tax dollars should be supporting.
Maybe Harry is paying people to watch it, because I haven’t run across a cowboy poet I would actually pay to see.
Maybe I found a new career!
“There once was girl from Nantucket.....”
” Hey boy, you looking mighty fine in those jeans . . “
Elites think they know what is good for you—That’s about it. CUT the COWBOYS and let them work for a living. Today many of the modern cowboys are illegal aliens.
I went to a cookout,
My poor horse got lost,
Then I found him slow roasted..
and covered with barbecue sauce!
He was so tender, so juicy and rare,
I wished they had skinned him as I cough up the hair,
But enough of this gossip, chatter and prattle,
At least I had meat instead of the saddle!
I went to a cookout,
My poor horse got lost,
Then I found him slow roasted..
and covered with barbecue sauce!
He was so tender, so juicy and rare,
I wished they had skinned him as I cough up the hair,
But enough of this gossip, chatter and prattle,
At least I had meat instead of the saddle!
My favorite part of Reid’s speech was that the tens of thousands of people who attend these events would no longer exist without the subsidy. Were these people manufactured like a cadre of Al Gores?
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