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Three strangers strike up a conversation in the airport passenger lounge in El Paso, Texas, while awaiting their respective flights. One is an American Indian from Lame Deer, Montana; another is a Texas cowboy on his way to Dallas for a livestock show; and the third passenger is a fundamentalist Arab student, newly arrived in the U.S. from the Middle East. Their discussion drifts to their diverse cultures. Soon, the two Westerners learn that the Arab is a devout, radical Muslim and the conversation falls into an uneasy lull. The cowboy leans back in his chair, crosses his boots on...

June 10: President Bush walks to a news conference with European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso, Janez Jansa, prime minister of the European Union, and their security detail at Brdo Castle, Slovenia. Jason Reed-Reuters President Bush is touring Europe; but he seems to have lost his ability to draw stadium-sized crowds of protests: The young anarchists, middle-aged peace activists and established left-wing politicians here have at least one thing in common: none bothered to keep a six-year tradition alive by organizing a protest against President Bush’s arrival here Tuesday. “Bush is not even popular in the role of the enemy...

Cowboy sets out to show a different America Associated Press FREDONIA - When rancher Bill Inman decided to show there's more to America than what's seen on the nightly news, he hopped on his horse Blackie and started riding.And riding, and riding.Weary of the daily drumbeat over war, crime, poverty and assorted social ills, he and his wife are burning through their life savings to tell the stories of hardworking, honest everyday people in rural America. Inman soaks it all in atop Blackie, a 16-year thoroughbred-quarter horse mix who's averaging 20-25 miles a day along backroads from Oregon to...

  based on the following news story: Hillary Clinton declares: The era of cowboy diplomacy is oversix Democrats court Iowa activists at annual Harkin Steak Fry  This cartoon/graphic is free for noncommercial use in emails, blogs, and forums.  IowaPresidentialWatch.com

Urban cowboy with holstered handgun arrested Updated: 06/02/07 11:06 AM A Best Street man was arrested late Friday on weapons possession charges after he was spotted by police wearing a holstered handgun in plain view. The incident happened just before midnight. Samuel Shannon, 23, was walking north on Myers Street with the revolver in a black holster on the right side of his waist, according to police, and he tried to conceal the weapon with his sweat shirt when he saw a marked police car. When police got out of the car, Shannon tried to remove the gun from the...

WHEN WE WERE COWBOYS... We Were Invincible Golda Meir once said (paraphrase) "... the fighting will stop when they love their children more than they hate us." I've said multiple times that the #1 killers of Palestinian children--or any child whose parents follow Islam--are Palestinian adults. The left's mantra of "Won't someone puhlease think of the children?" rings hollow and impotent given their appalling inaction on behalf of the children who truly need it--children of Islam. Their suffering is inexcusably ignored by these self-styled paragons of the defenseless. These little ones are on their own, left to their own devices,...

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John Wayne is possibly the greatest Western cowboy of all time. He was a one-man show who had the fastest guns in the West and always found his enemy and brought him to justice. Cowboys go through life on their own, and they always get the bad guys, whether it's "dead or alive." It should come as no surprise, therefore, that a recent Times article (July 9) called for the "end of cowboy diplomacy"-our nation's policy of going it alone when it comes to world affairs. The Wild West had no real laws and was much like our current international...

BOAZ, July 26 (UPI) — The newest iteration in the U.S. church growth movement's drive to boost attendance on Sunday mornings is something called "cowboy churches." As evangelical Christian congregations within the country and western culture, cowboy churches often meet in a barn or western-themed building. Some have their own rodeo arenas and country bands. Oftentimes, cattle tanks are used for baptisms. During the recent Southern Baptist Convention annual meeting in Greensboro, N.C., a "stampede event" aimed at highlighting cowboy churches showcased cowboys and cowgirls from across North Carolina. Jeff Smith of the Cowboy Church Network of North America attended...

Picture perfect cowboy BY JOE GULICK AVALANCHE-JOURNAL A photograph taken of a Lubbock cowboy and his horse in front of a spectacular West Texas sunset has gained fame both inside and outside the Lubbock city limits and was honored in Austin last week by both houses of the Texas Legislature. Employees of Visit Lubbock, the city's convention and visitors bureau, titled the photograph "The Legend Lives On" and used it as the cover of its current Lubbock Visitor Guide. The picture also has been used in several advertisements for Lubbock, including ones in People Magazine, Texas Monthly and Continental Airlines....

"As I have said time and time again, a negotiated settlement is the best solution." -- Kofi Annan, Secretary General of the United Nations The American ambassador to that non-august body calls the Iran problem one of the great dangers facing the West, and indeed the world. China and Russia have both said they will veto any attempt to create sanctions in the Security Council -- which may be taken to signify that to them Iranian terrorists with their own stock of nukes are less a threat to world peace than was South African apartheid. Events are shaping the situation...

Priest Advises a “Brokeback Lent”, Homily Encourages Propaganda Film By John-Henry Westen BOSTON, March 7, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The homosexual propaganda film Brokeback Mountain, besides winning three Oscars over the weekend, has shown itself as an adept tool for outing dissidents within the Catholic Church.  While committed Catholics have seen in the film as a dangerous propaganda tool which normalizes homosexuality, left-leaning Catholics have been hard-pressed to outdo one another in lauding the film. First, the director for the USCCB Office for Film and Broadcasting Harry Forbes gushed over Brokeback saying, "Director Ang Lee tells the story with a sure sense...

This is the story of an American little girl. Let’s call her Jake. She was born deprived and poor like the majority of Americans and lived in a ghetto. She had evil, heterosexual Christian parents. But an amazing transformation took place when those wicked parents imposed a gender on little Jake by buying her a barbi doll. She was so severely traumatized by this untoward affront that she became a Pimping Gay Transexual Cowboy Suicide Bomber. This was no easy transformation, because she was poor. She had to move to California and commit a crime, pimping, so that she could...

CENSORS in China have banned the screening of Brokeback Mountain because they object to its homosexual content. The film is directed by the hugely popular Taiwanese director Ang Lee, whose 2000 Oscar-winning film Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon helped to raise the profile of Chinese cinema internationally. But a report by the official Xinhua News Agency said that the film's "sensitive topic" of gay love meant that it could not be screened. World Trade Organisation rules require China to screen a minimum of 20 foreign films a year. Gay activists in China have regularly complained of harassment and discrimination. Last month,...

After a great speech at Kansas State University today, the President had an even better Q & A.... including when someone caught the President off guard, asking if he'd seen Brokeback Mountain... Hilarity ensued http://www.rightwinged.com/2006/01/video_bush_hasnt_seen_brokebac.html

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. — The "gay cowboy movie" "Brokeback Mountain" led the Golden Globes Monday night with four prizes, including best dramatic film and the directing honor for Ang Lee. As expected, it was a triumphant night for films dealing with homosexuality and transsexuality. Along with the victories for "Brokeback Mountain," acting honors went to Felicity Huffman in a gender-bending role as a man preparing for sex-change surgery in "Transamerica" and Philip Seymour Hoffman as gay author Truman Capote in "Capote." "I know as actors our job is usually to shed our skins, but I think as people our job...

THIS JUST IN - REVERBERATING © by Norman Liebmann THIS JUST IN: Couturiers have ordained, because of the success of the gay cowboy film epic, Brokeback Mountain, buckskin lingerie is “in”. THIS JUST IN: Some parochial viewpoints: Democrats are determined to handle the attack on the World Trade Center through the courts. ACLU attorneys take the legal position that the deaths of the three thousand people killed in the WTC be reduced from a felony to a misdemeanor. (Predictably, the gay community insists there was no crime involved and that the three thousand died only because AIDS research was underfunded.)...

OS ANGELES (Reuters) - It has wowed film festivals, won rave reviews and sparked Oscar buzz, but when "Brokeback Mountain," a.k.a. the gay cowboy movie, begins playing to general audiences on Friday, it faces its toughest challenge yet -- wooing mainstream America. [snip] ...Jake Gyllenhaal and Heath Ledger, risk alienating fans and sending their stars plummeting if, after watching the pair have sex on screen, audiences cannot see them any other way than gay. Winning over middle America is important for the roughly $12.5 million movie because its backer, art house specialist Focus Features, wants a big box office and...

MIDI - RHINESTONE COWBOY From Wyoming we've learned something new About what their cowboys do When they say "Let's take a ride"...it's something disgusting They have cute earrings in their ear...the meaning, of course, is clear It's a sight to behold Their startled horseys stand their viewing...cattle wonder what they're doing At night they know how to keep warm...they never get cold A Wyoming cowboy...with a cute rainbow flag and a nice little lacy shirt A Wyoming cowboy...if there is no bunkhouse, he'll roll around in the dirt Be careful, the cacti can hurt They are very much unlike...

Cowboy president is courting disaster, says Powell's man By Francis Harris (Filed: 21/10/2005) Colin Powell's right-hand man has launched a blistering attack on the White House, describing President George W Bush as "cowboyish", his secretary of state Condoleezza Rice as "extremely weak" and American foreign policy as "courting disaster". The attack came from Col Larry Wilkerson, who for four years was Mr Powell's chief of staff at the state department during the first Bush administration. In a sometimes savagely phrased speech at a Washington think-tank, the former US marine said that the Bush team had so damaged the country's foreign...

RAT DISCUSSION THREAD PJ-COMIX EXPOSURE THREAD ====================================================================== MIDI - RHINESTONE COWBOY Will Pitt's ready for the long plane flight...he hopes he'll score late tonight He has vaseline and in his suitcase some sex toys There's a cute earring in his ear...that's shouting out "Look, I'm queer" He's been naughty indeed He doesn't like the baby sitter...like his pervert pal Scott Ritter Big muscles and big derriere is what William needs A Northeast gay cowboy...he is ready to take a nice ride with a Texas man A Northeast gay cowboy...some line dancing with a big smile while he shakes his...

On a hot blistering summer day, a redneck cowboy comes riding into town on his horse with his dog following. He tied the horse and dog under the shade of a tree and went into the bar for a cold beer. About 20 minutes later a policeman comes into the bar and asks who owns the dog tied under the tree. The redneck cowboy said that it was his. The policeman said, "Your dog seems to be in heat." The redneck cowboy replies, "No way dog's in heat, he's cool cause I got'im tied under the shade of the tree."...

Cowboys, Indians - et les Français It's hard to imagine the French embracing anything American, so why, wonders Abigail S Carroll, have they gone wild for le country? (Filed: 07/05/2005) My first contact with le country was accidental. While travelling last summer in Lorraine, I saw a banner reading "Marange-Texas Rodeo" and decided to investigate. Rough ride: interest in the Wild West is strong in France Two smiling Frenchmen dressed in 10-gallon hats, cowboy boots and spurs welcomed me to the event. I paid €2 (£1.42), but only because I had showed up in a Peugeot hire car. Anyone riding...

Just a good ol' boy, Never meanin' no harm, Beats all you've ever saw, been steppin' on the Communists' claws since the day he was born. Straight'nin' the curve, Flat'nin' the hills. Someday the mountain might get 'im, but the immoral Leftists never will. Makin' his way, The only way he knows how, That's just a little bit more than the corrupt UN will allow. Just a good ol' boy, Wouldn't change if he could, Fightin' terrorists and genocidal dictatorships like a true modern day Robin Hood.

Famed Cowgirl Makes Run For Cowboy Hall Of Fame 'I Thought Everybody Forgot' There's good reason many have never heard of Prairie du Chien's (WI) Elaine Kramer. After all, she rode into the sunset of retirement more than 30 years ago. She still keeps a horse at her brother's ranch, but her team is long gone, reports News 3's Joel DeSpain. There was a time in this country when her name was headline news from the Madison Square Garden to San Francisco's Cow Palace. Her performance was something little girls would remember forever. "She comes flying into the arena at...

Prayers for TexasCowboy! TexasCowboy has been using his hip injury as an excuse to prevent his friends from shooting his new riot gun. Well some of us offered to take a look at it for him and he decided both a proffesional and sober opinion might make more sense. So he found a coupon and now he is going to let some old saw-bones cut on him. Probably a better idea than letting us do it, but a few folks feelings are still hurt! Please all say a prayer for our Cowboy that he is back in the saddle...

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Lily Rodgers holds up what, for her, is essential equipment. "These are earplugs for the horse," the Scottsdale woman says before placing the black foam discs in the ears of a complacent Steppin’ Bill, her bay quarterhorse and partner of her sport of choice. She then throws a leg of fringed buckskin over the saddle and, after a few adjustments, gallops away, holding reins in one hand while using the other to pull out a Colt single-action .45 revolver. BLAM! BLAM! BLAM! BLAM! BLAM! BLAM! Rodgers "kills" six green balloons as Steppin’ Bill charges past the spaced targets. They wheel....

ROME - The words may have been more conciliatory, but many Europeans sensed the swagger was still there. President Bush's outreach efforts to European leaders this week appear to have gone a way toward establishing an official thaw, but citizens around the continent remain deeply resistant to giving in to any charm offensive from a man they view as dangerous and irresponsible. Above all, Europeans balk at what they see as the underlying message coming through all the sweet talk from Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and the president: America intends to be the world's policeman and expects Europe's help...

MIDI - MAMA, DON'T LET YOUR BABIES GROW UP TO BE COWBOYS Dubya, do not consider Chirac as a cowboy The Euro crap weasel is scared of a calf To think he's tough enough is such a laugh Dubya, do not consider Chirac as a cowboy If he saw a snake, we are sure that'd he cry He'd whimper, "Please, don't let me die" We all know that cowboys don't keep a white flag in their pocket Or a letter from grandma that says to be a good boy If they should see some stray doggies, real cowboys are...

President Bush called the French leader by his first name Jacques and joked about inviting the Iraq war opponent to his Texas ranch, saying, "I'm looking for a good cowboy." Bush's self-described working dinner with President Jacques Chirac, like the rest of Bush's European tour, aimed to showcase Bush's new willingness to reach out to long-time European critics, including Chirac, who led opposition to the war.A public exchange of pleasantries before dinner was meant to show relations had come a long way since the darker days before the Iraq invasion, when the U.S. Congress renamed French fries "Freedom Fries" and...

Bush on Chirac: 'I'm looking for a good cowboy' /// During a meeting with French President Jacques Chirac in Brussels, Bush was asked by reporter whether he would invite the Frenchman to his ranch in Crawford, Texas. Bush, who only invites his favorite world leaders to the ranch, smiled and said: 'I'm looking for a good cowboy'...

Let's make this the official "post your pictures of Bush on a horse"-thread. In all the pictures I've seen of him, and thanks to the excellent "day in the life"-threads it's quite a number, I have yet to see a single one in which he's on a horseback. Does he even keep any at his ranch? The photo ops with Barney are cute and all, but c'mon, seeing a man play with his dog gets kinda stale after a while, and it isn't even that manly to begin with. So if there's a reason I ain't seen him with no...

The last of my grandparents just passed away. We had been keeping a vigil over my grandmother for the last couple of weeks knowing that her time was near. About 2 months ago she fell and broke her hip and leg as well as fracturing several vertebrae in her back. Since that time she had progressively deteriorated to the point we knew her death was inevitable. Interestingly enough - apparently this morning my uncle was sitting with my Grandmother and she sat up and asked him 'why won't you let me die?' He responded with 'mother, if that's what you...

After a very busy week, both on the business and social calendars, the President and First Lady are relaxing at the White House this weekend. In his radio address today, the President continued his efforts to inform the American people about his vision for the nation's economic future. The President joined Barney on the south lawn for a little fun, then took his daily bike ride. QUOTE OF THE DAY: This week my administration hosted an important conference on America's economic future. We heard from business owners, workers, economists, and many other Americans who are seeing hopeful signs throughout our...

Every day the Toronto Sun, a high circulation daily newspaper, publishes a "Sunshine Girl" and "Sunshine Boy" in full color. The women are usually decked out in small bikinis, and the men span from local fire fighters to calendar hunks. It's a very popular feature of the Sun as so many residents cut out their favorites for keepsakes. My personal favorite has to be blue eyed George from Texas, check it out...

(11/30/04 - REGINA, Saskatchewan) — A real cowboy is never caught without his boots, but his pants are another matter. Police in Regina, Saskatchewan, found a bare-butted cowboy hanging from a fence. It seems the Canadian cowpoke had a little too much to drink at an agriculture festival Saturday night. He tried climbing an eight-foot-tall fence but snagged a pant leg, leaving him dangling upside down. He dropped his cell phone, too. Police say he unzipped his pants to get free, but discovered he couldn't get them off. He eventually reached the phone's keypad and dialed 911. Officers found the...

Over Thanksgiving I had very little to do. I was ahead of schedule on a consulting project, which is where I like to stay. I accepted an invitation to a great cook’s home for a traditional Thanksgiving meal, which meant I would not need to cook for several days. This hostess always invited six or seven friends over and prepared enough food to feed everyone that came to the Salvation Army’s Thanksgiving dinner. Well as luck would have it the guest list included mostly liberal Democrats who were still depressed and complaining about the election their candidate and party had...

You can bet President Bush's poll ratings will go up after the Chilean security incident. He reached through a local protective detail and pulled his Secret Service agent to safety. Bush's Chilean clean-and-jerk played on television like someone retrieving luggage at a crowded airport carousel. But this president plunged right in after his man, and he could have been Arnold Schwarzenegger battling goons.

SANTIAGO, Chile — President Bush broke up a fight last night between his lead Secret Service agent and a Chilean security detail, pulling the agent through a wall of men trying to bar his bodyguard's access to a state dinner[snip]Mr. Bush calmly turned right as the other three continued on and inserted himself into the fight. The president reached over two rows of Chilean security guards, grabbed his lead agent by the shoulder of his suit jacket and began to pull.     The tape of the incident, viewed by reporters last night, could not pick up any words the president...

<p>President Bush stepped into the middle of a confrontation and pulled his lead Secret Service agent away from Chilean security officials who barred his bodyguards from entering an elegant dinner for 21 world leaders Saturday night.</p> <p>Several Chilean and American agents got into a pushing and shoving match outside the cultural center where the dinner was held. Bush noticed the fracas after posing for pictures on a red carpet with the summit host, Chilean President Ricardo Lagos and his wife and first lady Laura Bush.</p>

Check out this great tribute to GWB (and other cowboys). I searched for this every way my feeble mind could imagine and I did not see it. If it has been previously posted, I offer my humble apologies in advance. Lando

Subject: Our Cowboy President It used to tick me off when the Muslim detractors in the Middle East, or the socialist detractors in Europe, Hollywood and others called our President a cowboy, but the more I think about it, the more glad I am that he is. When I was a kid, cowboys were my heroes. Well, I mean the ones in the white hats, not the black hats, who were usually the bad guys. There was Tex Ritter, Tom Mix, Buck Jones, Hopalong Cassidy, the Lone Ranger..... there was Red Ryder, Gene Autry, Roy Rogers...... then later, there was...

During the second presidential debate, John Kerry said: "I ask each of you just to look into your hearts, look into your guts. Gut-check time. Was this really going to war as a last resort?" How about this for "gut-check time": When you close your eyes, can you see the Democrats defending America? Because I can't see it. These are the people who are obsessed with getting the French to like us. They call terrorism a "nuisance," like prostitution and other petty crimes. ("Hundreds of Children Killed in Chechnya by Nuisance," "British Civilian Beheaded by Annoyance," "9-11: What a Hassle!")...

They call him a cowboy. Well, that aint all bad. Nice music to go along with it, too....

I found this page on "Good Ones from Mike." Check it out at: http://www.catsprn.com/cowboys.htm

Debate surprise... John Kerry does the ultimate flip-flop to win votes! This is an email-able, copyright-ready cartoon you can use in emails, on blogs, in flyers, on posters... anything that's noncommercial.

A great symbol of the rugged old West, or at least as it was portrayed by Hollywood, is riding off into the sunset. The Ponderosa Ranch, an American West theme park where the television show "Bonanza" was filmed, closed on Sunday after its sale to a financier whose plans for the property are unclear. The show, which ran on NBC from 1959 to 1973, was the top-rated U.S. program in the mid-1960s.