Defending the American Cowboy

Not that the American Cowboy (I'm talking real ones here, not Hollywood Cowboiths) need anyone to defend them. They are a breed, that in this day and age still, are in the saddle all day long, packing a gun stating before their age is in the double digits.

I vacation in the boonies in Montana and lived in a one grocery store/one gas station/two bar town in Colorado for 4 years. I've seen, known, drank with, and heard tales of the American Cowboy. Bareback Mountain ain't about Cowboys.

The latest piece of Hollywood pavlovian conditioning (and I mean that in the strictest sense. What you see on the screen has nothing to do with the feelings the soundtrack invokes, but your brain will connect them simply because it is exposed to them at the same time so you will walk out of the theatre feeling sorry for the homos and not their wives or children) put out by the MHL is incredibly ignorant of the American Cowboy.

First Cowboys wrangle cows. It's in the name. In Intestionalparasite Mountain, the main characters are sheep ranchers, the longtime foe of Cowboys. From what I hear, other than the hats, there's not a cowboy in the movie.

Secondly, sheep aren't left out on the range overnight, night after night. They are to vulnerable to too many predators. Cow, yes, sheep no. Wolves, coyotes, large eagles, will all eat a sheep. It takes a grizzly or a pack of wolves to take down a cow. The sheepranchers will corral the sheep each night if they can.

So any movie with a plotline that is dependent on sheepranchers going up into the mountains on anything longer than an afternoon trip is based in ignorance. But then the MHL doen't really like dealing in the facts, do they.

Anyway, do your part to oppose the MHL. Don't go see the movie and inform people that Faecalincontinence Mountain is about sheepranchers, not cowboys. I'm sure the MHL is trying to associate the rugged independence of the American Cowboy with their lifestyle through this movie in an attempt to try and make it appealing. Much in the same way as a midgrade woman's cigarette became the worlds best selling cigarette when I adopted a coyboy as its logo.

Ever notice how the MHL tells you that they were born that way, that there is a 'gay gene', but tries real hard to influence people to the homosexual lifestyle? Ah, but I digress here...

Maybe sheepranchers, and the connotations that go with them, are an appropriate symbol for the gay lifestyle?

And no, I didn't see the movie, nor will I. A coworker saw it, he was 'dragged there' by his wife. To her credit, my wife is probably more opposed to this movie than I am (and she has a homosexual cousin who she loves dearly).

Lastly, here is my tribute to the American Cowboy:

There were three men sitting on a bench, one was a Texan wearing a cowboy hat, one was a Muslim wearing a turban, and the last fellow was an Apache with a feather in his hair.

The Indian was sad and gloomy as he said, "My people were many, but now we are few."

The Muslim puffs up and said, "Once my people were few, but now we are many."

The Texan adjusts his hat, rolls a smoke, leans back and drawls out, "That's because we ain't played Cowboys and Muslims yet."