Are Cowboys Secretly Frequently Fond Of Each Other?

[FaninAma]

And all this time I thought it was sheep they were fond of....at least the ones from Stillwater. :texan:

Second question: Has Willie Nelson crossed over from spending too much time in Austin?

And if he has does this draw into question his good friend Darrel Royal's sexual orientation?

Just a few Sunday night ponderings.


There's many a strange impulse out on the plains of West Texas;
There's many a young boy who feels things he don't comprehend.
Well small town don't like it when somebody falls between sexes,
No, small town don't like it when a cowboy has feelings for men.

Well I believe in my soul that inside every man there's a feminine,
And inside every lady there's a deep manly voice loud and clear.
Well, a cowboy may brag about things that he does with his women,
But the ones who brag loudest are the ones that are most likely queer.

Cowboys are frequently secretly fond of each other —
What did you think those saddles and boots was about?
There's many a cowboy who don't understand the way that he feels towards his
brother,
Inside every cowboy there's a lady who'd love to slip out.

Ten men for each woman was the rule way back when on the prairie,
And somehow those cowboys must have kept themselves warm late at night.
Cowboys are famous for getting riled up about fairies,
But I'll tell you the reason a big strong man gets so uptight:

Cowboys are frequently secretly fond of each other —
That's why they wear leather, and Levi's and belts buckled tight.
There's many a cowboy who don't understand the way that he feels towards his
brother;
There's many a cowboy who's more like a lady at night.

Well there's always somebody who says what the others just whisper,
And mostly that someone's the first one to get shot down dead:
When you talk to a cowboy don't treat him like he was a sister
Don't mess with the lady that's sleepin' in each cowboy's head.

Cowboys are frequently secretly fond of each other —
Even though they take speed and drive pickups and shoot their big guns;
There's many a cowboy who don't understand the way that he feels towards his
brother;
There's many a cowboy who keeps quiet about things he's done.

[usmc-sooner]

Willie's always been a pot smoking little punk hippie.

[FaninAma]

Willie's always been a pot smoking little punk hippie.

Agreed, but has he now taken up smoking other things?

[afs]

now? that song was written well before now.

[usmc-sooner]

I think he and Dolly are old and desperately want back in the spotlight and to be in the in crowd.

I guess ole Willie decided he's put just about everything else into his body he's willing to try that if it's popular.

[FaninAma]

now? that song was written well before now.

Really? Weird. He probably wrote it as a joke. I agree with USMC's assessment of Dolly Parton. I think Willie Nelson could care less if he was popular again or not.

[SicEmBaylor]

Old Willie though the greatness that he is, has always been a leftist and thus at least sympathetic to the various sub-cultures of leftism.

He supplied pizza and other food to the Chicken D's (the Democratic House members who fled Texas for Oklahoma to stop the redistricting vote). It's one thing to sympathetically play a song about people I don't like; it's quite another to provide them with food and logistical support.

[RacerX]

I guess ole Willie decided he's put just about everything else into his body he's willing to try that if it's popular.

:texan:

[FaninAma]

Old Willie though the greatness that he is, has always been a leftist and thus at least sympathetic to the various sub-cultures of leftism.

He supplied pizza and other food to the Chicken D's (the Democratic House members who fled Texas for Oklahoma to stop the redistricting vote). It's one thing to sympathetically play a song about people I don't like; it's quite another to provide them with food and logistical support.

I thought Willie was a big supporter of farmers and ranchers? Doesn't he realize that all of the farm-aid concerts he held were necessary because of the economic policies of Jimmah Carter?

[OklahomaTuba]

Shhh Fan, lefties and libz don't like facts n stuff. It crushes their egos and fragile world view.

[royalfan5]

I thought Willie was a big supporter of farmers and ranchers? Doesn't he realize that all of the farm-aid concerts he held were necessary because of the economic policies of Jimmah Carter?
Yeah, the inherent structral promblems in Agriculture are all Carter's fault:rolleyes: The early 80's down turn had to do more with poor lending practices, and the inflation prior to Carter's time, as well as the Nixon's policies with Earl Butz to push people to get big or get out. The 80's farm crisis was the reaction to many years of pushing hard in one direction, and Carter's adminstration merely contiuned on with those policies. and then when outside economic conditions came into play like high interest rates it only excaberbated the conditions. Regan then responsded with socialism for farmers like any good Republican does.

[SicEmBaylor]

I thought Willie was a big supporter of farmers and ranchers? Doesn't he realize that all of the farm-aid concerts he held were necessary because of the economic policies of Jimmah Carter?

Not even hardly.

[C&CDean]

Yeah, the inherent structral promblems in Agriculture are all Carter's fault:rolleyes: The early 80's down turn had to do more with poor lending practices, and the inflation prior to Carter's time, as well as the Nixon's policies with Earl Butz to push people to get big or get out. The 80's farm crisis was the reaction to many years of pushing hard in one direction, and Carter's adminstration merely contiuned on with those policies. and then when outside economic conditions came into play like high interest rates it only excaberbated the conditions. Regan then responsded with socialism for farmers like any good Republican does.

Spoken like a true mid-western democrat who wasn't even alive - and if he was, still on momma's teat - when Nixon and Carter were in office.

My wife's Iowa farming relatives are all a bunch of yellow-dog dems who blindly just bash anything that has an "R" in front of it. The funny thing is that in almost every other point (abortion, guns, welfare, capital punishment, etc.) they support the same ideals as Republicans.

Midwestern dems are a strange lot.

[mdklatt]

My wife's Iowa farming relatives are all a bunch of yellow-dog dems who blindly just bash anything that has an "R" in front of it. The funny thing is that in almost every other point (abortion, guns, welfare, capital punishment, etc.) they support the same ideals as Republicans.

Midwestern dems are a strange lot.

How is this any different than Southern Democrats?

[royalfan5]

Spoken like a true mid-western democrat who wasn't even alive - and if he was, still on momma's teat - when Nixon and Carter were in office.

My wife's Iowa farming relatives are all a bunch of yellow-dog dems who blindly just bash anything that has an "R" in front of it. The funny thing is that in almost every other point (abortion, guns, welfare, capital punishment, etc.) they support the same ideals as Republicans.

Midwestern dems are a strange lot.
Actually, I want to get rid of all ag subsidies and force people to compete or fail. However, I should have went further back and included Ezra Taft Benson and the soil bank as the beginning of the major shift in Ag policy. The main problem is that people contiually want to bail ag out and all that does is retard the natural process of change. The 80's came about because Ag policy was built without an eye to changing conditions in the future, and then things changed and people got hammered. Much like Freedom to Farm was built on the premise of growing exports every year, and that didn't happen. Either way the South American's are going to dominate the U.S.A in row crops in the near future anyway, so prolonging things through subsidies doesn't do any good anyway.

[OklahomaTuba]

How is this any different than Southern Democrats?
They owned fewer slaves? ;)

[mdklatt]

They owned fewer slaves? ;)

Heh.

[FaninAma]

Either way the South American's are going to dominate the U.S.A in row crops in the near future anyway, so prolonging things through subsidies doesn't do any good anyway.

Not if South America's population keeps exploding or if the radicalism of Venezuela's President Chavez creeps across the continent.

[royalfan5]

Not if South America's population keeps exploding or if the radicalism of Venezuela's President Chavez creeps across the continent.
There is a ridicoulus amount of space for row crops in Brazil and Argentina. Cargill and Bunge will make sure that doesn't get messed with. Plus those aren't big oil nations, they need ag there. Brazil wants keep building their production as it has already gotten them energy independent through sugar ethanol. Brazil could double their population and it would make a dent in their production unless they start dropping huge masses of people out their back country and building metropolis's from scatch out there.