Have cowboy hats and boots become the new Nazi uniform?

[Cyrano]

Yeah, I know, this is going to piss off everyone who wears cowboy hats or boots.

Well, you know what they say about cowboy hats and hemrhoids (sp?). Sooner or later, every asshole gets 'em.

As far as cowboy boots, if you don't own a horse, it's at best, an affectation.

But last night, there was an inaugural Boots (and something or other bullshit Texas) party where everyone yelled "Yeeeeehawwww" and cheered for the Moron-in-Chief.

I pity Molly Ivins and any other rational person who lives in the hell called Texas.

But beyond that, I pity anyone who lives in America who recognizes that Bush and Cheney are the biggest fascists pricks this country has ever seen. And we may not survive the rule of these people.

[The Sheik]

1. Now that you mention it, I sort of see the logic.

[tridim]

2. And here's the new Nazi salute..

[Celeborn Skywalker]

6. What's up with the Bushes always doing that Devil sign?

I've seen Poppy do it, and Shrub's daughters do it.

[greatauntoftriplets]

9. UT Texas Longhorn symbol.

They are big fans of Bevo.

[Celeborn Skywalker]

10. Oh, okay

That explains it. I thought it was some weird cult thing or something.

[greatauntoftriplets]

12. Well...my sweetie who is a University of Oklahoma graduate....

thinks Bevo fans ARE some weird cult.

Bevo is the UT mascot....and they are fierce rivals of OU.

[Red_Viking]

19. Well, then he's well aware...

...of what UT fans think of OU fans! :P

Trust me, however poorly they think of UT fans, it's returned in full force right back at them.

Yeah, they beat UT this year, but I sure as heck enjoyed the Orange Bowl.

Hook 'em!

RV

[greatauntoftriplets]

21. Please remind me....

What bowl game did UT - Austin play in this year?

[argyl]

24. The Rose Bowl.They beat Michigan as time ran out.The most exciting Bowl

of the season, IMHO.

[onecent]

17. That's the devil sign.

[Red_Viking]

18. Wait, I'm a UT grad!

AND a flaming liberal. UT is in the middle of Austin, the blue oasis in an otherwise red state. The students at UT are a patchouli-smelling, dreadlock-wearing, body-pierced, tattooed, open-minded, liberal bunch. Since it's Texas, there are of course your Young Republican types on campus, occupying the Greek houses where they paddle each other on the weekends for fun. For the most part, you'd be hard pressed to find a large group of chimp supporters there.

They've co-opted the school sign, and I for one am pissed about it! That asshat has no right to flash the Hook 'em Horns symbol! AAAARGH! And Pickles went to SMU!

POSERS!

RV

[muchacho]

3. easy buddy

As a Texan that appreciates a fine pair of calfskin boots I think you're barking up the wrong tree. Now if you are talking about tailor made suits you might be on to something....


Besides..you can't judge a book by it's cover..didn't your mama teach you that?

[Cyrano]

7. Take it with a grain of salsa.

Texas is becoming as much of a right-wing symbol as New York is a left-wing symbol.

Neither is true. Ease up and at least feel some sympathy for the calf that gave his life for those boots.

[muchacho]

8. what a second...

you accuse Boot wearers of donning Nazi regalia and you are asking ME to ease up?

[Cyrano]

13. Sorry, didn't mean to imply that people who wear boots are Nazis.

There's a bit of tongue in cheek in this posting, but no way in the world is Gary Cooper, John Wayne, Clint Eastwood, or anyone else who wears cowboy boots a Nazi.

For the most part, this was a shot at the Jett Rink's of the world.

[muchacho]

23. cool

now I'll go back to my Lone Star beer...

[MuseRider]

4. Well shit.

At least I have horses therefore an excuse. FWIW, I never wear my boots or my hat unless I am riding and my spurs come off when I leave the horse.

[wildeyed]

5. Well all fashion is, at best, an affectation.

I love my vintage Tony Lamas and I'm not giving them up.

[happyslug]

11. Follows the NAZI pattern

Remember the Black Uniform of the Nazis were adopted for it had been the Color of the Prussian Military. The Brown-shirts (the SA) had been adopted in the early 1920s for wearing true military Uniforms were Illegal so brown was adopted as being a non-military color. With the Nazis took power in 1933 the first thing they did was kill off the SA for they no longer needed street thugs (They had the police). On the other hand the Nazis were able to adopt the old Prussian color as their own (The German Army had dropped "Prussian Blue" an almost black blue, in the late 1800s when the adoption of smokeless powder meant the fancy Uniforms of the Napoleonic period were no longer usable on the Battlefield, before the adoption of smokeless powder the smoke on the Battlefield made by Black Powder make everything on the battlefield so gray that bright color uniforms were NOT an disadvantage. With Smokeless powder the haze almost disappeared and the need for less conspicuous uniform color became clear. Thus by WWI Germany had converted to "Field Gray" as a less conspicuous color for its uniform. This left the old Black Color open for the Nazis to adopt, which they did).

Remember Hitler and the Nazis were using every symbol of Germany's History to be also a Nazi symbol. Thus if you saw a movie where Frederick the Great was defeating the Russians, the French, the Austrians etc, his troops were wearing Prussian Black, the Color of the Nazi SS. This was deliberate.

Bush and Company are doing the same with the Cowboy hat and clothing, they want you to think Bush and Company every time you see a Cowboy hat. Like the Nazi's grabbing Prussian Black the GOP has made a constant effort to Grab the Cowboy for the GOP. If you like America, you like American History, than you like the America Cowboy and thus you like the GOP (Just like the Nazi's had people thinking, you loved Germany, You loved German Troops, you loved German Troops wearing their Black Prussian Uniforms, you loved the Nazi SS in their Black Uniforms).

[Jack Rabbit]

14. It reminds one of Howard W. Campbell

The Americans in the slaughterhouse had a very interesting visitor two days before Dresden was destroyed. He was Howard W. Campbell, Jr., an American who had become a Nazi. Campbell was the one who had written the monograph about the shabby behavior of American prisioners of war. He wasn't doing more research about prisoners now. He had come to the slaughterhouse to recruit men for a German military unit call "The Free America Corps." Campbell was the inventor and commander of the unit, which was supposed to fight only on the Russian front.

* * *

Campbell was an ordinary-looking man, but he was extravagantly costumed in a uniform of his own design. He wore a white ten-gallon hat and black cowboy boots decorated with swastikas and stars. He was sheathed in a blue body stocking which had yellow stripes running from his armpits to his ankles. His shoulder patch was a shilhouette of Abraham Lincoln's profile on a field of pale green. He had a broad armband was red, with a blue swastika in a circle of white . . . .

"Blue is for the American sky," Campbell was saying. "White is for the race the pioneered the continent, drained the swamps and cleared the forests and built the roads and bridges. Red is for the blood of American patriots which was shed so gladly in years gone by."

-- From Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut

[Jack Rabbit]

20. . . . and so it goes . . .

Campbell offered the Americans food now, steaks and mashed potatoes and gravey and mince pie, if they would join the Free America Corps. "Once the Russians are defeated," he went on, "you will be repatriated through Switzerland."

There was no response.

"You're going to have to fight the Communists sooner or later," said Campbell. "Why not get it over with now?"

* * *

And it developed that Campbell was not going to go unanswered after all. Poor old Derby, the doomed high school teacher, lumbered to his feet for what was probably the finest moment of his life. There are almost no characters in this story, and almost no dramatic confrontations, because most of the people in it are so sick and so much the listless playthings of enormous forces. One of the main effects of war, after all, is that people are discouraged from being characters. But old Derby was a character now.

His stance was that of a punch-drunk fighter. His head was down. His fists were out front, waiting for information and battle plan. Derby raised his head, called Campbell a snake. He corrected that. He said that snakes couldn't help being snakes, and that Campbell, who could help being what he was, was something much lower than a snake or a rat -- or even a blood-filled tick.

Campbell smiled.

Derby spoke movingly of the American form of government, with freedom and justice and opportunity and fair play for all. He said there wasn't a man there who wouldn't gladly die for those ideals.

He spoke of the brotherhood between the American and Russian people, and how those two nations were going to crush the disease of Nasism, which wanted to infect the whole world.

-- ibid.

[President Jesus]

15. nah. that's still the official tard uniform.

[signmike]

16. from Jack Boots to Jim-Bob shoes...

One way or t'other, W is going to git hisse'f a funny hat to show us who's Boss.

I remember a few years ago the Calif Highway Patrol, whose motorcycle riders' uniform was an almost exact copy of the storm troopers, wanted a lightning insignia for their collars. It was voted down -- but that was back then.

[0007]

22. Brown shirts are out?

[Moderator]

25. I'm locking this thread

Reason :

Flamebait