If you’re wondering who is defending the weirdos at NPR and the strange idea they need federal funding, it’s Harry Reid! What weird, stupid thing is he saying now:
“The mean-spirited bill, H.R. 1, eliminates National Public Broadcasting. It eliminates the National Endowment of the Humanities, National Endowment of the Arts. These programs create jobs. The National Endowment of the Humanities is the reason we have in northern Nevada every January a cowboy poetry festival. Had that program not been around, the tens of thousands of people who come there every year would not exist.”
So is he saying without federal funds cowboy poetry won’t exist or that cowboy poets will die or that we’ll alter timeline by cutting federal funds and cowboy poets will cease to exist?
And what’s cowboy poetry?
Apparently, when we’re looking at our huge budget deficit, it’s just one of those things we can’t cut. The federal government can’t bear to go on without cowboy poetry. We’ll have to find something less essential than cowboy poetry to cut.
Oh wait, there nothing in the universe less essential than that… except maybe Harry Reid himself.
I have one last idea for spending: Build a giant catapult aimed at the ocean. Then we launch Harry Reid and all the other useless idiots spending out money on the most pointless things imaginable. It will quickly pay for itself.
Cowboy poetry receives NO federal money. It’s self supporting. Maybe “Sierra” Harry can STFU
Hehe – “…tens of thousands of people who come there every year would not exist.”
Maybe he’d be one of ’em. Harry who?
Harry Reid is a living, breathing example of the Peter Principle in action.
I think he means tens of thousands of people were conceived there. Crazy times at those cowboy fests. Must be some wild poetry.
Wouldn’t Cowboy Poetry be something George Bush would do?
I love the whole “mean-spirited” thing. That bill is MEAN! You’re MEAN! I’m TELLING! Once again, Congress proves to be the world’s most expensive day-care center.
Behold, cowboy poetry:
Shotgun . . .
Harry Reid starts talking
Banging sound
I’d fund a cowboy poetry festival if it also included a competition for the fastest time to rope and brand a US Senator.
You mean those cowboys might have to go back to working with cows? Horrors!
I think he meant Cowboy Poultry. After all if you ride a horse for too long you resemble poultry-in-motion.
Look the two cultures are not compatible. Example you cant have a welfare state and low taxes they just cant co exist. Either both sides quickly begin pushing for some hardcore federalism or I don’t see how this wont turn into another civil war.
Cowboy Poetry…..Ghey…..Brokeback Mountain Ghey…..Harry Reid wouldn’t exist without it…..Buh Bye Government Sponsored Cowboy Poetry……Buh Bye Harry Reid.
See the mooing cows.
The Mooing Cows are tasty.
They will make nice steaks.
Cowboy Haiku.
From http://www.cowboyfun.com
What I think is strange is why tax money funds this!
Harry, you sure have a plumb purty mouth there boy.
Spokeback Mountain
As a cowboy, I can tell you no self respecting son of the land would do poetry. Well maybe a limerick or two.
There once was a roper from bucket….
I roped the cow, it kicked me.
Yeah, that hurt.
sqish!, ick.
Ahhh poetry.
Its amazing that dingey harry knew about a cowboy circle * in northern nuh vah duh, that no one else has ever heard of, yet he didn’t know of 105 billion dollars tucked away in the illegal duh bah muh care bill. What an SFB.
A real cowboy would never recite poetry. A real cowboy would never attend a “festival.” And, Real men don’t use phrases like “mean-spirited.”
Since I live in a “Cowboy” friendly area I have known several Cowboy Poets. They are entertaining and engaging, funny and thought provoking but they aren’t bellyed up to the public teat. These are independent individuals who don’t take money from the likes of National Liberal Radio.
The only reason NPR has ever had anything at all on about Cowboy poets is two fold. One they can pretend they have something, small but there none the less, in common with the “Common Man”. Two they can make fun of all of us here in flyover country for our “quaint” entertainment. A more refined form than nasty, smelly Nascar-from the rarefied air of the mouthpiece of the Democratic Party.
just sit back and imagine 10 gallon hats, spurs, chaps, a lot of leather, and guns – now toss in some beatnicks and stir – – – cowboy poetry
how many ways can you rhyme “Git” and “Yee-HAW”
What shall we do without it? What this tells me is that of the tens or hundreds of thousands of things that we pay for which we shouldn’t be paying for he just happened to pick something cheap and ridiculous. I’ll bet there are a heck of a lot more expensive AND ridiculous ones out there that we have no conception of.
To further save funds, could we just repurpose the Mexi-cannon to launch Reid into the ocean?
Cowboys don’t do poetry unless they are Brokeback Mountain ghey! Cowboys ride bulls with their balls tied up in a rope to irritate them even more! No self respecting cowboy would EVER do poetry! These “cowboys” are cityfied ghey Cowboys who like to wear Chaps with no pants on!
Oh give me a home where conservatives roam
Where the Libtards are thrown in the Bay
Where seldom is heard
A tele-prompted word
And the skies are free of EPA
Home, home on the range
Where the NRA sponsors gun play
Where seldom is heard
A PC-censored word
And the skies are free of TSA
From the perverted pen of Peter Stampfel:
Take me back to Random Canyon
Where the griffin’s always riffin’
And the unicorn is horny in the spring,
Where the crystal coyote calls
Over sleepy guarded walls
And the wileless wombat wanders on the wing.
Here on the mislocated mesa
With my counterfeit contessa,
Who is secretary for the local Grange,
The psychedelic sage
Sets the cattle in a rage,
And the changing range is getting might strange.
Here I’ll spend each golden year
Watching all the cattle fear
For no sight upon this earth evokes my charm,
And the dragons fly by night,
Though they very seldom bite,
But if you mess with one, he’ll do you harm.
I’m a Random Canyon fan,
And I’ll mess with any man
Who denies that Random Canyon is the best.
You can find no canyon greater
Either side of the equator.
Random Canyon is the glory of the west.
If Harry Reid wants to support writing like that, I’m on board.
You are an idiot Frank J.. Have you ever listened to NPR?
Probably not, most likely because you are uneducated, only watch Fox News, reality television and shop at Wal-Mart. Get a clue.
The only funny thing about this blog is that you won’t post any comments that disagree with you. You must never be wrong! I bet your wife loves that.
Crap of all the days to have to work! My city is “The Cowboy Capitol of the World” Google that! No poets here just rodeos from Memorial day to Labor Day. Plenty o drunks and motorcycles but I have not seen the first poet. I could have raised the content quality but it looks like i
got beat to all the punchlines.
Good one Iowa Jim.
In the immortal words of
Cowboy Poet Bruce Willis,
“Yippie-Ki-Yay,
Obama-Voter.”
I wish I could get over you Harry!
Iowa Jim – Great poem! But I don’t care if we are funding guys that paint and sculpt like Michelangelo, the Government has no role!
ussjimmycarter –
I agree. It’s just that it’s such a great poem. Well, actually, it’s song lyrics. I own a recording of the song on vinyl by the late, great Dave Van Ronk.
One of my favorites.
Awesome, A TROLL!! And, he’s even got a cool nickname, like when they call fat guys “Slim” or tall guys “Shorty.”
Informed Citizen wasn’t informed about first-time commenters getting filtered until they’re verified. And his first post is an ad hominem attack on Frank that got through! There’s a bit of irony there. Talk about clueless!
Why is shopping at Wal Mart supposed to be an insult? It’s a rational decision for people of limited means. Wal Mart was the only place I could afford to shop (apart from the Cancer Society used goods store) during a lean period in my family’s life. Now that we have a bit more money, I see no reason to donate it to perpetuate the life-styles of people whose retail stores compete with Wal Mart for my business. There are more urgent and deserving charities who do get my money. Wal Mart exists because people need it. Personally, I am profoundly grateful for the power of a giant to purchase at deep discounts that can be passed on to folks like me who can’t (or choose not to) afford boutique prices for the same goods. Yay Wal Mart! Testify!
Oh, yes, and Fox News? I have a doctorate, a measured IQ that is one point below genius, and I turned to Fox News because it was the only major news outlet offering balanced news rather than liberal propaganda. Our Troll is so deeply indoctrinated that he sees any opposing viewpoints as necessarily wrong, stupid, and motivated by narrow-minded bigotry — you know, just like his main-stream media keep telling him they are! Good boy! You have earned their permission to feel smug and superior.
Embrace Diversity, [Mis]Informed Citizen! Treasure the Wal Mart shopper, the NRA member, and the Tea Party rebel – they are the future of America. Also, you might want to joing the Brotherhood of Bacon-Eating Bastards. Bacon will make you happier than Kool-Aid.
i second the excitement over the troll! Its great to see “informedcitizen” on here because we dont have to go look at other websites to see idiotic irrelevant liberal comments! I have honestly tried to listen to NPR but it makes me fall asleep and vomit and laugh and cry all at the same time………what a mess! Id honestly rather eat snakes than listen to NPR and believe me ive had to eat some snakes in my time…Semper Fi.
Joing? Must be that missing IQ point. Missed it by THAT much . . .
Better find it, Crabby. You don’t wanna leave it lying around here as some troll will pick it up and eat it.
Naw, real intelligence makes them pick up their skirts and run squealing in the other direction.
Ah the beauty of irony. Obviously “Informed Citizen” has little to no sense of humor and even less intelligence. NPR is the liberal, left wing, mouth piece of the Demoncratic Party. They haven’t had an objective piece on since………….well OK. They’re never had an objective report on.
They couldn’t find objectivity with Sonar, OnStar, GPS, Laser Targeting, Google Map, a platoon of sherpas and a Peak-a-poo. They only know one way to report anything. They ask Obama what they should say and he tells them. If they can’t find him they ask Hillary and if all else fails Algore’s probably at home. No one else wants him in their town.
So like if we de-fund NPR, is Harry Reid going to pass a law that we all have to listen to ghey Cowboy poetry on all channels every night from 7:00PM – 9:00PM. No exemptions. All movies channels and sports channels will now be broadcasting Cowboys spouting their wares…even during the SuperBowl!!!
The Cow Polk rode in from the range
He offered me a Polk in the rear
I told him that his horse had an ugly mange
and that I wasn’t a cowboy queer!
Hey…I’m a cowboy poet and don’t know it…
Brokeback Mountain had nothing to do with cowboys. It was about sheep boys. I have known some cowboy poets; good men with a love of drinking, loose women, quiet nights on the range, and most of all independence. I mean independence from the government, and and even sometimes the boss.
My ass it is red
my pockets are green
f**k so and so
and his money machine.
“Informed Citizen” has the classic attitude of those who believe themselves educated. Listening to NPR (and especially BEING SEEN listening to NPR) is one of those avenues by which one can feel sophisticated while capitalizing on their dime-a-dozen university diploma. Something like attending a local opera in a tuxedo or being seen with a martini in your hand. Education and programming are not the same thing. Any idiot can drink a martini.