Incredible Photos Show What Life Is Really Like in Afghanistan
- Posted on April 10, 2012 at 12:20pm by
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Afghanistan appears daily in headlines as a dangerous, war-torn and impoverished country. Almost all of the media coverage focuses on the fighting there, making it difficult to get any sense of what is going on away from the gunfire, and what daily life is really like.
Enter intrepid contractor (and photographer) Peretz Partensky.
Partensky spent four months in Afghanistan capturing these amazing images, which were originally posted to his blog Jalalagood. Business Insider described Partensky as an independent contractor, which allowed him to “travel freely around the nation with credentials that allowed him access to Army bases but he also ‘had the local garb and faithful friends’ to guide him around the country.”
Look at his fascinating photos and see for yourself.
A rooftop view of the Jalalabad valley with its green fields leading to the Kabul river, and in the background, the imposing Hindu Kush Mountains.
The ferry to get across the Jalalabad river certainly has an old-fashioned feel.
When workers in the field want some music to keep them going, they turn to nature’s stereo– the sound of songbirds.
A so-called “carpet classroom,” similar to many like it across Afghanistan.
The Jalalabad-Kabul highway is a treacherous drive through the Hindu Kush mountains.
Perhaps to the chagrin of warlords visiting wounded relatives, hospitals require you to leave your kalashnikov at the door. Conveniently, many establishments in Afghanistan have lockers that allow you to check weapons in.
To provide safety for the revelers below during Nowruz, the Persian New Year, soldiers slept on nearby roofs in the city center of Mazar-i-Sharif in northern Afghanistan. Note what appears to be a Russian-style PK machine gun on his cot.
There is no shortage of guns in Afghanistan. This shop, which sells mostly Soviet-made shotguns, apparently will give visitors a tour of the “behind the counter” weapons if asked nicely.
Visa is apparently accepted everywhere you want to be, including this rug store in the old quarter of Herat in western Afghanistan.
Not for the faint of heart, tourists can get a haircut on the street for $1, including the use of a straight razor. Ouch.
Here you see riders engaged in Afghanistan’s national sport– a sort of Panjshir valley take on polo called “Buzkashi.” Men on horseback try to drag a goat carcass into a hole, and lots of fighting and yelling ensues.
You can see more of the slideshow here, courtesy of Business Insider.
(H/T: BI)
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Comments (173)
auntyfeminist
Posted on April 10, 2012 at 2:46pmI didn’t see any girls in the carpet classroom. In fact, the only female I could clearly see in any of these pictures was a woman wearing her burqua and with her back turned to the camera. I thought we liberated all the woman in this forsaken place?
Report Post »Old_Bones
Posted on April 10, 2012 at 3:08pmYeah, me too. Good Point.
Report Post »Marci
Posted on April 10, 2012 at 3:12pmCorrect Aunty. It’s still a hell hole.
Report Post »Carl McPherson
Posted on April 10, 2012 at 3:24pmCarpet Classroom, 2nd row.. blue blob in burqua.
Report Post »rangerp
Posted on April 10, 2012 at 3:58pmmay sound weird, but the photos make me want to go back. Advising the Afghanistan National Civil Order Police (ANCOP) was one of the most rewarding jobs I have done in the Army. They are not the smartest people I ever met, but they are hard.
Life is to easy here.
Report Post »another_mormon_4_Ron_Paul
Posted on April 10, 2012 at 4:34pmI think that blue blob might be a hoodie. Notice someone in a row farther back with a reddish-pink hoodie.
Report Post »RJJinGadsden
Posted on April 10, 2012 at 6:13pm8th photo down. The guy in uniform standing on a roof next to his cot. The author calls a Russian PKM an M240. Yeah, he knows his weapons, doesn’t he?
Report Post »out of many one
Posted on April 10, 2012 at 6:17pmHow much you wanna bet the classroom is teaching jihad?
Report Post »Immigrantswife
Posted on April 10, 2012 at 6:55pm@ Carl- I have to respectfully disagree. I think the blue blob is a hoodie; a girl would never be allowed to sit in the second row, in front of boys. If she were ever allowed to go to school, she would have to sit in the back of the classroom.
Why did Obama want us over there anyway?
Report Post »Kaoscontrol
Posted on April 10, 2012 at 7:47pmActually most of these are women. The Taliban makes the men wear burkas and the women grow beards to avoid capture.
Report Post »9111315
Posted on April 10, 2012 at 8:41pmSure is. I though it was a smurf. LOL
Report Post »Mil Mom
Posted on April 10, 2012 at 10:39pmThat was pre b o and hillary taking over, now the people know it‘s only a matter of time until they’re given back to the taliban and the women know what will happen to them then!
Report Post »Gumbercules
Posted on April 10, 2012 at 11:18pmThey’re there. It’s like finding Waldo.
Report Post »younonothing
Posted on April 11, 2012 at 2:13amWhy does my post go to page four?
Report Post »1TrueOne55
Posted on April 11, 2012 at 2:50amWhy do women have to be “Liberated”, if they are happy with their culture why do you have to force them into yours?
Report Post »Mil-Dot
Posted on April 11, 2012 at 8:02amPlease lady, dream on. Everything is not about “liberating” women. The reason American forces are there is to pacify the people so some NWO banker goons can get at all of the gold, silver, platinum, diamonds, rubys and emeralds that are there by the tons in those giant mountains. What, you think we went there for the chicks? Ha……please.
Report Post »mils
Posted on April 11, 2012 at 9:59amwe didn’t help the afghan people. we lost so many people to merely ..well..why were , are we there?..these people have been born into war for many generations and don’t want to change.
Report Post »These people are scrappers, they will survive. we go in trying to change their way of life..leave them alone. Get out of their country..get out of the middle east..we hve better things to do..
objectivetruth
Posted on April 11, 2012 at 11:25amYou mean reliberated them right?See until the soviet invasion and the ensuing mujadeen fighters very few women in afganistan wore burkas or were even muslim.The only time you saw a women bundled up like frosty the snow man was in the winter or during wind sand storms.Please do so background research.You will see that I’m right.I would go grab the links for reference for you.Unfortunately I’m a little pressed for time at the moment.
Report Post »Highland
Posted on April 11, 2012 at 12:16pmObama’s war on women!!
Report Post »Cerealface
Posted on April 11, 2012 at 2:14pmBecause they’re faces were blurred? A hurp derp
Report Post »ChiefGeorge
Posted on April 11, 2012 at 2:57pmIn a few more years, this is what America will be reduced to!
Americas remaining power is being zapped to the bone and our finances stretched to infinity and beyond. America will fail not because the people want it to but because the elite want it dismantled so no one like Reagan could ever come along again and use its power for good in the world. Reagan used Americas power and influence to bring down Communism, the only way to have communism rise once again to ensure that no America in the future would be there to deter it. Make no mistake the battle is on to ruin this country and make everyone a citizen of the collective state wiping all ideas of freedom, individualism away.
BHO will get a second term by hook or crook. Once that happens we will be on our way to being reduced to an Afghanistan like existence. Americans are already reducing their footprint on a voluntary basis with the smart car and little homes built for 12k. There will come a time and soon that if you have to much excess in the way of home and material things that you will be viewed as the enemy and those things will be confiscated by the State elite for themselves.
Report Post »Eraina962
Posted on April 10, 2012 at 2:43pmIf time is not on OUR side, it is less on the side of the Afghan people. Drug addiction in that country is at astronomical levels and you can videos on Youtube of entire families (once prosperous farmers and shepherds) lying around (literally) doing nothing but getting stoned. The poppy has become the chief source of “health care” for a great many people including children. The idea to get back at the West by exporting drugs has backfired on them. They paid workers in drugs, exposed them to easy highs and now have a totally unproductive population (aside from the Taliban and warlords who contribute nothing but misery. Not to mention that women there are so unhappy, suicide is a primary cause of death for them. They set themselves on fire just to get out from under their oppressive families and the “hospitals” are filled with burned and mutilated Afghan women. Things will only get worse for the Afghans and if there are any left in 25 years, it will be truly amazing. Never was there a more worthless effort than sending our valuable troops there. It is a wasteland!
Report Post »jungle J
Posted on April 10, 2012 at 3:25pmsounds like most ghettos in usa
Report Post »bignebraskan
Posted on April 10, 2012 at 4:18pm“I love their culture, the country is so beautiful.” Those are words from my boss. She’s a loon. So is their islamic government culture. The left embraces sick cultures like theirs. All the while women are third-rate citizens there, only good for producing suicide bombers and cooking. Remember, islam is a government not a religion. The government of islam was formed when a dude wanted to control the masses. The dude decided that he would install a government system of control by calling it religion. The islamic government says if anyone steps out of line or doesn’t agree with our government, they will be killed. The dude believes that someday all nations will fall under his government. It has infiltrated the US already with sharia courts. The islamic government is now operating within our country and slowly trying to take it over. Do you know of any other country that has their nation’s governmental courts operating in America?
Report Post »GovtIs4JusticeplusDefense
Posted on April 10, 2012 at 9:19pmIt is fairly obvious most who posted here do not understand: a. The difference between the various ethnic groups b. The history of Afghanistan pre-Soviet invasion c. How easily we could have avoided this war if we had supported the country properly in the past. I disagree with the policies in place, but putting all Afghans into one group is downright disrespectful. I apologize for being slightly condescending, but I’m sick of ignorance. Education and having a memory longer than 32 years will serve us all well. President Bush Jr. overextended us when we entered Iraq and took the focus off Afghanistan. We should have finished Afghanistan by 2005, then took out Saddam. Hindsight is 20/20, but it is a lesson to be learned. Let our troops off the leash or bring them home. Let the State Dept rebuild countries, our troops destroy them.
Report Post »objectivetruth
Posted on April 11, 2012 at 11:20am@bignebraskan
Report Post »I don’t kinow of other countries governments operating there courts here.There is a group that has its own justice system here however.They are the largest oldest non criminal non religious based justice system in the world.Our constitution was formed from them.
We are in afganistan for wealth creation protection.If we had of been there strictly for AQ and Laden we would have been out long before now.I will agree with the posters stating that we need a longer memory about afganistan.The people of afganistan are very diverse and weren’t for the most part muslims until the soviet invasion.They were buddists hindo and practiced certain tribal religions.The soviets did more to damage there culture than you could ever have imagined.Its funny how communism especially its invasion can spark bed mates of the most unlikely types.Why do you think the mujadeen were accepted so readily?They were supposed to be a fighter against the soviets and help defeat them.The afganis swapped the witch for the devil in this case.[yeah I know just the opposite of the normal saying It fits here]
cop4hire
Posted on April 10, 2012 at 2:28pmIf the Russians said this place sucks, let get the heck out of here. Why would we think things would be better once we got there?
Report Post »Skrewedretiree
Posted on April 10, 2012 at 9:14pmNot just the Russians! The British had at least 2 Afghan Wars, then the Russians came and went (it was their “Viet Nam”) and now we are there…..our SECOND “Viet Nam”.
Funny…..The Democrats were in power during the majority of Viet Nam and promised to get us out of Afghanistan, but we are still there. History repeats itself. I suppose the Dems think that they can succeed because they are American Democrats, just like they think they can make Socialism work because it is being administered by American Democrats.
Report Post »GovtIs4JusticeplusDefense
Posted on April 12, 2012 at 6:46pmPlease see my other post. And more troops died in the deadliest month in Vietnam than the entire war in Afghanistan. Also, the vast majority of the public has supported the troops, vice the hippies spitting on them when they returned from Vietnam. Number of troops-lower. $780 billion (adjusted for inflation) for Vietnam versus $518 billion in Afghanistan…need I put more here?
Report Post »Guitar Master
Posted on April 10, 2012 at 2:11pmzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
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When you see photo‘s like this you’ve got to wonder what the h – - – are we doing there?
What is our mission? For what purpose are Americans suffering and losing their lives?
Why is our country wasting it’s blood and treasure in this God forsaken land?
Once out of this non-place, what has America accomplished?
These people actually do not want any other lifestyle than what they already have. They don’t want democracy or a vibrant economy. They love life as it is. They are living in the 3rd Century A.D., they are a step above Neanderthals.
Report Post »Mateytwo Barreett
Posted on April 10, 2012 at 2:23pmIt’s the same as it was a hundred years ago. And if you could go there in another hundred years, it would be the same.
Report Post »Beckofile
Posted on April 10, 2012 at 3:33pmWhen a bomb cost so much more then the mud hut it blows up then you know it is financially unsustainable
Report Post »Nobummer
Posted on April 10, 2012 at 11:59pmMaybe we should lay down MOABs from one end of the country to the other and leave. It looks like someone beat us to it. Like most wars, politicians are the problem. Left to the military, this would have been over long ago.Nation building is a stretch in this dump. On a positive note, I now know the origin of polo. The goat carcass is a nice touch.
Report Post »ChiefGeorge
Posted on April 11, 2012 at 3:00pmThats the problem! The Left views them stuck in the evolution process and wants to give a helping hand to move them up and out even if that means by force. Dems! Gotta love em.
Report Post »Eric_The_Red_State
Posted on April 10, 2012 at 2:03pmHi, I’m Joe Beets! Hey, what chance does a returning deceased war
Report Post »veteran have for that good paying job, more sugar, and the free mule you’ve been
dreaming of. Well, think it over, then take off your shoes. Now you can see how
increased spending opportunities means harder work for everyone and more of it
too. So do your part today, Joe. Join with millions of your neighbors and turn in
your shoes.
wallyworld
Posted on April 10, 2012 at 2:52pmShoes for industry!
Americans, ask yourself these question: “Who’s going to get your garbage, us or Tojo?”
Today’s winner is Mrs. Beverly Yatamoto of Camp 13. She crocheted her entire month’s allotment of garbage into a splendid barrage balloon.
Report Post »Constructionist
Posted on April 10, 2012 at 1:48pm3 of these pictures are actually of Detroit… see if you can pick them out.
Report Post »let us prey
Posted on April 10, 2012 at 2:04pmLol.
Report Post »maccow
Posted on April 10, 2012 at 2:19pmHaving logged a few hundred hours in a UH-60 over Southern Afghanistan I must tell you that many of these pictures are of the more modern areas. Mazar-i-Sharif (Seen in one photo), Kabul, and Kandahar are the modern metropolises. Outside these cities most of the towns look like the Flintstones’ town of Bedrock.
Report Post »That being said, where is all the lefts compassion and I am my brother’s keeper crap. Afghanistan could have been helped to rise out of the 7th century but once again, thanks to the leftist media and politicians, we will walk away and self fulfill the lefts view of America as evil and uncaring.
Cambodia, Vietnam, N. Korea, Serbia, Hattie, Somalia; all epic fails, brought to you courtesy of the American left.
AB5r
Posted on April 10, 2012 at 2:51pmMaccow, it was 100% a waste from the very start, or at least the second after the terrorist camps were destroyed at the very beginning. Because we failed to deal with the problem of Islam, all of our efforts to “improve” Afghanistan were doomed from the start. Islam is the problem and nothing that is done will help Afghanistan until that issue is dealt with.
Report Post »hi
Posted on April 10, 2012 at 3:25pmHaha!
Report Post »annie brown
Posted on April 10, 2012 at 6:31pmI do think though, that the worst of our inner cities, on a bad day… are 100 times better than the horror these people live with. Thank God for the U.S.A. !
Report Post »Cemoto78
Posted on April 10, 2012 at 7:33pmI thought they were all of Detroit and Dearborn.
Report Post »KidCharlemagne
Posted on April 10, 2012 at 1:42pmNo mention whatsoever of the exponential level of opium cultivation in Afghanistan since the U.S. invasion of 2001?
Seems to me like this should at least get some sort of honorable mention of “life in Afghanistan” (as it certainly seems to be a rather significant part of it now):
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“Despite the expenditure of tens of billions of dollars in a conflict that has so far cost the lives of almost 3000 Coalition troops, including 32 Australians, production of the drug by Afghan farmers rose between 2001 and 2011 from just 185 tonnes to 5800 tonnes.
It increased by 61 per cent last year alone. The United Nations yesterday warned that the situation was out of control.
Declaring that the West had lost its war against the drug, a glum UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon added: “Time is not on our side.”
A separate news report in the Washington Post yesterday said the US military expected that sustaining the Afghan army and police forces after the planned withdrawal of American combat forces in 2014 would cost about $4 billion each year.”
Report Post »http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/drug-war-in-afghanistan-a-lost-cause/story-e6frea6u-1226274264900
Anonymous T. Irrelevant
Posted on April 10, 2012 at 4:48pmI have never read of so many people getting busted these days for selling or possessing heroin. Byproduct of our involvement in Afghanistan?
Report Post »nighttrainno9
Posted on April 10, 2012 at 8:34pmWhere do you think the CIA and DEA have been getting their
Report Post »drugs to sell. 95% of the drugs distributed in the USA come
from the DEA and CIA, they’ve been doing it right out in the
open for years. Just another part of our corrupt govt.
MNYukon
Posted on April 10, 2012 at 1:37pmBackward people, backward country. Never will get ahead in life. All the money in the world could be given to them and they would squander it and the country and people would still be the same.
Report Post »Kisha
Posted on April 10, 2012 at 1:21pmThis is why communism, dictatorships never work. There is no room for progress. Governments oppress until all that’s left of what you have is a walking stick and a dead goat. While they live in the “Palace” with air-conditioning. Your staring at the proof! Welcome to our future! (if we stay on this train wreck)
Report Post »Jaycen
Posted on April 10, 2012 at 1:39pmAmen to that, Kisha.
Report Post »USACommoner
Posted on April 10, 2012 at 2:52pmTalk about your 1%-ers!! And if you protest at their gate, they can kill you. Nuff said.
Report Post »Sirfoldallot
Posted on April 10, 2012 at 1:17pmIsn’t our mission there over ?
Report Post »TPaine
Posted on April 10, 2012 at 1:13pmIt is a beautiful country in some places, but war is still ever-present. And if nothing else, these pictures show that life in the ‘Stan is still mired in the 17th century. Why do we keep trying to pull these people, kicking and screaming, into the present day? Just like the old saw – never try to teach a pig to dance, it’s a waste of time to you, and it irritates the pig.
Report Post »SgtB
Posted on April 10, 2012 at 2:03pmFar too many people forget that less than 150 year ago, Even the most well off American lived in conditions no better than those seen in a 3rd world country today. We keep trying to force our culture and beliefs on nations that aren‘t ready or that don’t want to be like us and we wonder why we suffer casualties in senseless wars. From these pictures it should be obvious that we have no need to be there. Afghanistan has its’ demons that it needs to fight, but they are by and large an impoverished and undeveloped nation that has no military capability to do harm to this nation in any way.
Report Post »auntyfeminist
Posted on April 10, 2012 at 2:58pmWrong. 150 years ago, N.Y., Charleston, Boston, New Orleans just to name a few, where bustling cities with advanced architecture and technological advances beyond what this place has now. Have you not visited or seen pictures of historical cities and buildings from that time? People in New Orleans, close to where I live still live, quit large I might add, in entire neighborhoods that old. As for shoving our culture down anyone’s throat; I agree, I say we treat them like Cuba or any other place that hates us, good riddance and good luck. Besides, why have we moved beyond this quality of life, while these people remain there with no sign of let up? Must be a problem somewhere
Report Post »horsefeathers99
Posted on April 10, 2012 at 1:13pmWhere are the women in these pictures?
Oh, I missed the one under the burka they apparently still wear.
Report Post »db321
Posted on April 10, 2012 at 3:14pmAll the Women are standing in line waiting on the Free Birth Control they were promised. It’s true, they had an election not long ago and Bluppe Huinanny Obubber was run for a 2nd term.
He came out and said “Nobody loves you Women more than Bluppe – I will give you free Birth Control Pills if you vote for me. And suddenly Bluppe ratings when up and all the Women of Afghanistan voted for Bluppe. They have been standing in line for two years – still no birth Control.
Those STUPID Women of Afghanistan – how could they fall for the old Birth Control Trick! As stupid as they are – maybe they deserve to be in Burka’s – Just saying!
Report Post »C141BEngineer
Posted on April 10, 2012 at 1:11pmCan’t we just leave these people alone? Did we not learn anything from the Russians on this matter?
Report Post »Ella
Posted on April 10, 2012 at 1:24pmExcellent point.
Report Post »yubba
Posted on April 10, 2012 at 1:07pmLooks like us, if Obama get’s re-elected. Just like him gazing across the DMZ into paradise from South Korea, saying some day Trayvon some day.
Report Post »Sirfoldallot
Posted on April 10, 2012 at 1:04pmLet me see if this is on my vacation places 2 visit ,,,, nope.
Report Post »leonardo44
Posted on April 10, 2012 at 12:59pmWow, those photos are fantastic ! Definitely not something you are seeing on mainstream media. The Blaze scores a touchdown bringing this much needed perspective of Afghanistan to its readers.
Report Post »countryfirst
Posted on April 10, 2012 at 2:52pmI didn’t know that Liberals have been there for a long time
Report Post »USACommoner
Posted on April 10, 2012 at 3:02pmExactly. We forget to give thanks that we live in a country with such natural resources like grass, trees and bodies of fresh water. Our highway systems, no matter how many potholes, are so much better than what some countries have. We have the freedom to travel anywhere, and every home could even have its own garden plot to grow food for the family. Instead, we complain that gays can‘t get married and the government does not pay for women’s contraceptives. How petty we’ve become.
Report Post »KingCanon
Posted on April 10, 2012 at 12:53pmIf this were the old “make lemonade out of lemons” scenario the
Report Post »best that can be said of the lemonade, if ice is available, is that
“it sure is cold”.
wewantchillywilly
Posted on April 10, 2012 at 12:52pmmost of the people there are just trying to live their lives like anybody else. it’s really a shame they die as a result of the other extremist elements.
Report Post »Kathleen
Posted on April 10, 2012 at 2:23pmYes, I often feel for the ordinary average Joe who just wants to live and ordinary, peaceful life.
Report Post »JACKW3526
Posted on April 10, 2012 at 12:52pmLooks like Detroit to me
Report Post »Sirfoldallot
Posted on April 10, 2012 at 1:16pmlol, funny & true.
Report Post »disastros
Posted on April 10, 2012 at 1:38pmthat was my first thought!!!!!!
Report Post »thegreatcarnac
Posted on April 10, 2012 at 2:47pmNah! Detroit is worse.
Report Post »USACommoner
Posted on April 10, 2012 at 3:15pmIn Detroit, the people are just as poor but they’re dressed much nicer.
Report Post »pap pap
Posted on April 10, 2012 at 12:41pmThis looks like life a few hundred years ago.
Report Post »cemerius
Posted on April 10, 2012 at 12:46pm7th Century is where the middle east is stuck at!! They do have sat dishes on their mud huts though!
Report Post »poster
Posted on April 10, 2012 at 12:48pmAnd, it looks like 200 years from now,
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on April 10, 2012 at 12:49pm@Cemerius – too true, they are a combination of the lost ages and the modern all wrapped into one.
Report Post »JohnLarson
Posted on April 10, 2012 at 12:51pmThe same time period cons want to take us back to.
Report Post »let us prey
Posted on April 10, 2012 at 2:08pmJohn Larsen
Report Post »Conservatives make the USA look like that? Did you miss your risperidol this month?
Blackhawk1
Posted on April 10, 2012 at 3:55pmJohnLarson
No that would be the Democraps trying to spread the misery. You know it would only be FAIR that everyone have nothing!
Report Post »momprayn
Posted on April 10, 2012 at 12:40pmOver the weekend we went on a tour of an historic homestead of a past President. We had an interesting tour guide. While waiting for it to start, we talked about how hot the weather will probably be this year and he said that’s ok, he just got back from Afghan and how bad it was there. Said he haed just retired (think Army)…then we somehow got on the subject of the Senate and he said he had been one to testify on the Senate floor about a certain operation they had conducted – I think he was in Intelligence. He said McCain really raked him over the coals – surprised him – as did another senator (can’t remember name). He said they didn’t seem to get it – the reason they did what they had to do from their Intelligence reports. Acted like he was lying or something.
Report Post »You could tell this man was highly patriotic and VERY nice, liked people, etc. I‘m glad he wasn’t killed – but as we know, too many have. I have a feeling McCain was unjust in this & just proves once again how clueless they are. None seem to get how we need to get out of there & the realities of Islam – we are NOT making us more safe — probably just the opposite. Makes me upset just typing this…..
cemerius
Posted on April 10, 2012 at 12:49pmMcCain was once a POW and with that said has been usinig that as a “big stick”……I commend him for his survivqal but seriously how much “heroism” does it take to get caught? McCain is just one more in a LONG line of clueless drones collecting paychecks while they re-disrtibute the nations treasures!!!!
Report Post »ADNIL
Posted on April 10, 2012 at 12:36pmCan someone please remind me what, exactlly, are our troops trying to accomplish over there?
Report Post »justangry
Posted on April 10, 2012 at 12:45pmBuilding our empire.
Report Post »cemerius
Posted on April 10, 2012 at 12:45pmNo idea, but, I did hear a rumour Obama single handedly gave the order from a desk to have Usama shot dead……from the way it was reported it was a heroic action too!
I say we pull out and when we are retrograding do a bit of stomping through pakistan to the sea…..
Report Post »SageInWaiting
Posted on April 10, 2012 at 1:14pmI think we were trying to drag them, kicking and screaming, up into the 15th century.
Report Post »TXPilot
Posted on April 10, 2012 at 12:34pmTake a good look, at what it’s like to live in a society that is generations removed from ours, without much of the technology and conveniences we take for granted. This is what America is going to look like, once our economy has been collapsed. At least there won’t be anymore political correctness, and many of the other worthless endeavors that have infected our society, because we will all be too busy trying to survive.
Report Post »SageInWaiting
Posted on April 10, 2012 at 1:12pmWhen that happens, there will be starvation in our streets. The elites in NYC and major cities might wish they were in fly-over country then. How many in the US today can grow a tomato, much less anything else? Spring is arriving – the wise will plant that ol’ “Victory Garden.” Of course, by then, only the gov’t will have the guns and home-grown food (now regulated, by the way) will be confiscated for the good of the collective. Welcome to the future US reenactment of the Soviet Ukraine cleansing.
Report Post »jespasinthru
Posted on April 10, 2012 at 6:08pmHome-grown food is regulated? Since when? That’s news to me. The last time I checked, you can still buy the kind of non-hybrid fruit and vegetable seeds that can feed you for years from the first crop. And their inexpensive, too, when you buy them online from places like J.L. Hudson The Seedsman. My spring “victory garden” is abundant and thriving, and I’ve got less than 2 acres to work with.
Report Post »momrules
Posted on April 10, 2012 at 8:50pmjespasinthru……….. check out Senate Bill S 510……….The Food Safety Modernazation Act.
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Posted on April 10, 2012 at 12:32pmInside look at Crapistan
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Posted on April 10, 2012 at 12:26pmIt’s a **** hole, get the hell out now ! We have lost two soldiers everyday in April so far ……
Report Post »martinez012577
Posted on April 10, 2012 at 12:39pmExactly!!! Gtfo of there!!!
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Posted on April 10, 2012 at 11:07pmI thought Chicago Ill. was the arm-pit of the world…
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