Here's some "sediments" straight from Texas
I was born in Arkansas, but I have always been a cowboy. At age 5, I would answer the phone as "Roy Rogers", and get mad if I was not called Roy. My 1st grade teachers learned to call me Roy in class, even though all my school records said Will. I still have a large collection of Roy Rogers and John Wayne movies, because they were made for all ages and always promoted good and right. Anyway, here is an article I received today....
"They call my President a 'cowboy." It used to tick me off when the Muslim detractors in the Middle East, or the socialist detractors in Europe, or the ultra-liberals in 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 the bad guys. There was Tom Mix, Buck Jones, Johnny Mack Brown, Hopalong Cassidy, Red Ryder, Gene Autry, Roy Rogers, then later Marshall Matt Dillon, Hoss Cartright and others. Personally, I think Roy Rogers could beat 'em all up, and then sing a song afterward to his girl friend. He was my favorite.
What were common attributes of these legendary cowboys?
Here are a few:
1. They were never looking for trouble.
2. When trouble came, they faced it with courage.
3. They were always on the side of right.
4. They defended good people against bad people.
5. They had high morals.
6. They had good manners.
7. They were honest.
8. They spoke their minds and they spoke the truth, regardless of what people thought or "political correctness," which no one had ever heard of back then.
9. They were a beacon of integrity in the wild, West.
10. They were respected. When they walked into a saloon (where they usually drank only sasaparilla), the place became quiet, and the bad guys kept their distance.
11. If in a gunfight, they could outdraw anyone. If in a fist fight, they could beat up anyone.
12. They always won. They always got their man. In victory, they rode off into the sunset.
Those were the days when there was such a thing as right and wrong, something blurred in our modern world, and denied by many.
Now as a senior citizen, I still like cowboys. They represent something good --something pure that America has been missing.
Ronald Reagan was a cowboy. I liked Ronald Reagan, who was brave, positive, and who gave us hope. He wore a white hat.
To the consternation of his liberal critics, he had the courage to call a spade a spade and call the former Soviet Union what it was -- the evil empire. Liberals hated Ronald Reagan.
They also hate President Bush because he distinguishes between good and evil. He calls a spade a spade, and after 9-11 called evil "evil," without mincing any words, to the shock of the liberal establishment. He also told the French to "put their cards on the table" (old West talk), which they did, exposing their cowardice and greed. That's what cowboys do, you know.
The Arabs are wrong. In the old West, might did not make right. Right made right. Cowboys in white hats were always on the side of right, and that was their might.
I am glad my President is a cowboy. He will get his man. Cowboys do, you know. |
