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Chasing Camels in Afghanistan

by Justice
The US Marines thought a camel was a vehicle and shot it. As you read the dialogue in the article, try to imagine the scene of some gung-ho 18-year-old who believes the government propaganda of defending US freedom, shooting that camel. See:
http://www.rense.com/general17/jumpyUSmarinesfire.htm
The US Marines thought a camel was a vehicle and shot it. As you read the dialogue in the article, try to imagine the scene of some gung-ho 18-year-old who believes the government propaganda of defending US freedom, shooting that camel. See:
http://www.rense.com/general17/jumpyUSmarinesfire.htm

This reminds me of Charlie Chaplin in "The Gold Rush" where he and another starving gold miner are sitting in their miserable shack stuck in a snowstorm trying to figure out how they are going to get food. The large miner starts hallucinating and imagines little Charlie as a chicken whom he proceeds to chase. Chaplin as usual does a hilarious act to insist he is a human.
Here is the dialogue:
"How come you can't tell a vehicle from a camel?" asked one Marine in a company control center, a hole in the sand.
"One has wheels, the other has legs," another Marine threw in. "I can't believe we're chasing damn camels around the desert," said another."
by Mike (stepbystepfarm [at] shaysnet.com)
When the oil is all gone, even here people will again not think it strange to consider horses, oxen, and yes camels "vehicles". The self powered wheeled things have only been around for a little over a hundred years and may not make it another hundred. Humans have used riding animals for several thousand years
by Justice
The solution to the limited and dirty fossil fuel problem is not to go backward to the 19th century and earlier, but to move forward into the 21st Century. That means we build housing near where people work and attend school and we rely on alternatives such as the wind, sun and water for our energy needs. It also means the elimination of the private profit system and its related parasitical enterprises and institutions such as the insurance industry, the stock market, privately owned utilities and transportation systems, private ownership of the means of production and private ownership of land. The replacement is of course a planned economy based on public ownership by the workingclass, run by and for the workingclass, where labor shares the wealth it creates as equitably as possible with everyone. That is called socialism. The choice we face today is barbarism or socialism. What the 20th Century has proven is that socialism does work, in spite of the Stalinist counter-revolution and its allies, the Nazis, who were first and foremost staunch capitalists and anti-communists. The task of the 21st century is for the workingclass to finally liberate itself from capitalism, religion and primitivism, and instead embrace science, which means knowledge, and socialism, both for the benefit of all humanity.
by peacenick
it says powered by veg. oil on the back.
i grow my own fuel
if you don't know about it check it out now:
http://www.veggievan.org
http://www.biodiesel.org

by ol danny thomas
buying ammo for my pistol and rifle at the bulk ammunition / firearms warehouse retailer in my neighborhood i began a argument with deer hunters. i wanted they should explain why hunting is considered a sport ? angry and irritated immediately ten or twelve of these baccer chewin sweat faced white guys lets in on me. finally they shut up waiting for me to speak ? , .."give the deer a fucking high powered rifle and 4 thousand dollars of camo gear and there youve got a god damn SPORT !!!, i remember saying.
so later that morning around 10 i arrived at the private restricted no hunting area where i purchase written right to target shoot. there along the treeline tucked deep in the closed valley high in the branches were three new treestands built of glistening new lumber, illegally. taking a back route on four wheelers they had cut the distant fence and setup camp. breaking many many laws. turning off the truck and dropping the tailgate i faced the stands some thirty yards away. new mossberg and winchester long barrel pump shotguns, 3030 lever action, multiple make and caliber handguns, colt r6721. for one hour i focused on where fine hewn lumber met fine hewn lumber. not a board remained in a tree and not a tree was worsened per my endeavor. True story.
shooting stuff is cool. unless its meaty. shooting meaty stuff is never cool. i havent seen any camels in afghanistan yet. but im HOUSEBOUND !! so i have a excuse, huh ?
by freds
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