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Two Cows
Democrat:
You have two cows. Your neighbor has none.
You feel guilty for being successful.
You vote people into office that put a tax on
your cows, forcing you to sell one to raise money
to pay the tax.
The people you voted for then take the tax money,
buy a cow and give it to your neighbor.
You feel righteous.
Barbara Streisand sings for you.
Socialist:
You have two cows. The government takes one and
gives it to your neighbor.
You form a cooperative to tell him how to manage his cow.
Republican:
You have two cows. Your neighbor has none.
So?
Communist:
You have two cows. The government seizes both
and provides you with milk.
You wait in line for hours to get it.
It is expensive and sour.
Capitalism, American Style:
You have two cows. You sell one, buy a bull,
and build a herd of cows.
Democracy, American Style:
You have two cows. The government taxes you
to the point you have to sell both to support a
man in a foreign country who has only one cow,
which was a gift from your government.
Bureaucracy, American Style:
You have two cows. The government takes them
both, shoots one, milks the other, pays you
for the milk, and then pours the milk down the drain.
American Corporation:
You have two cows. You sell one, lease it back
to yourself and do an IPO on the second one.
You force the two cows to produce the milk
of four cows. You are surprised when one cow
drops dead. You spin an announcement to the
analysts stating you have downsized and are
reducing expenses.
Your stock goes up.
French Corporation:
You have two cows. You go on strike because you
want three cows.
You go to lunch.
Life is good.
Japanese Corporation:
You have two cows. You redesign them so they are
one-tenth the size of an ordinary
cow and produce twenty times the milk.
They learn to travel on unbelievably crowded trains.
Most are at the top of their class at cow school.
German Corporation:
You have two cows. You engineer them so they
are all blond, drink lots of beer,
give excellent quality milk, and run
a hundred miles an hour.
Unfortunately they also demand 13 weeks of vacation
per year.
Italian Corporation:
You have two cows but you don't know where they are.
While ambling around, you see a beautiful woman.
You break for lunch.
Life is good.
Russian Corporation:
You have two cows. You have some vodka.
You count them and learn you have five cows.
You have some more vodka.
You count them again and learn you have 42 cows.
The Mafia shows up and takes over however many
cows you really have.
Taliban Corporation:
You have all the cows in Afghanistan, which are two.
You don't milk them because you cannot touch any creature's
private parts. Then you kill them and claim a US bomb blew
them up while they were in the hospital.
Florida Politics:
You have a black cow and a brown cow.
Everyone votes for the best looking one.
Some of the people who like the brown one best,
vote for the black one.
Some people vote for both.
Some people vote for neither.
Some people can't figure out how to vote at all.
Finally, a bunch of guys from out-of-state tell
you which is the best-looking one.
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This unique Buddha statue was destroyed by Taliban together with the other one in the same rock formation in the year 2001
Bamian Valley marked the westernmost extent of Buddhist expansion. Since the 6th century, its reddish-brown cliffs had held the Buddhas of Bamian, standing 180 (this one) and 125 feet tall. They were celebrated landmarks on the Silk Road, the ancient trade route linking China, the Middle East, and Europe until the mid-15th century. The cliffs were also honeycombed with caves where monks once lived. A dark spiral stairway, carved inside the cliff, climbed to the top of the tallest Buddha, passed around its head, then down the other side. Openings at the shoulders allowed anyone brave enough to climb out and take in the view. Both Buddhas were destroyed by the Taliban in March 2001.
Il 15 agosto, l' Ascensione al Cielo di una Donna che non poteva morire.
Il 15 agosto, un anno dalla presa dell' Afghanistan da parte dei Talebani, un anno in cui le donne , invisibili, vivono come se fossero già morte
August 15th Ascension Day
August 15th Taliban came to power in Afghanistan. And women stopped to live
That was the claim made by a friend who was fiercely holding on to a position of faith. It is generally true, that at a certain point we just must take a position, subjectively, willingly or not. However, what when these various subjective absolutisms collide with each other? The Talibans are "subjective absolutists" for example. Then, my friend says, we need to exercise our individual absolutism with tolerance and kindness. Sounds good. But where do tolerance and kindness come from? Neither Christianity nor Islam have a convincing record when it comes to the treatment of others or of people thinking differently. According to the logic of both religions, only God is absolute - man is relative. This basic principle makes a 'tolerant' exercise of subjective absolutism really difficult. In other words, the profound problem here is not subjectivity, we all have got that, the problem is "absolutism". We all hold positions - absolute they are not.
Hanford, Ca.
Could someone please advise me in what universe one would want to be known as a "savage assassin?" Well, the Taliban use motorcycles a lot. Huh?
Trace de vie dans le périple d'un soldat américain blessé transporté par son interprète en Afghanistan alors qu'ils sont poursuivis par les soldats talibans..
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Church Street. "Temperance Halls" such as this mid-19th century example were part of the Temperance Movement in the UK and usually aimed at the working class. Mostly run by Nonconformist churches (the Protestant Left if you want) they agitated against the sale and use of alcohol ("teetotalism"). Chesham in the 16th century was a centre of religious dissent. The established church authorities (and later what was to become the Anglican Church) reacted with violence. The Amersham Martyrs in the early 1500s were burned at the stake because they dared to pray and read the Bible in English (not in Latin). Thomas Harding was also burned at the stake, here in Chesham in 1532, because he dared to doubt the "real presence" in the sacrament of Holy Communion (the dogma that the wine and the bread consumed were actually and "really" the flesh and the blood of Christ). Shall we add the mass murder of the 30 Years War between Protestants and Catholics a century later that wiped out about a third of the central European population? The West is appalled these days by the atrocities committed by the Taliban. But violence meted out in the name of religion is not unknown to the West. We just need to look back long enough.
Boxi
ARTotale Lüneburg 2009
Das Graffiti basiert auf einer wahren Begebenheit:
Ein afghanisches Pärchen wollte entgegen des Wunsches der Eltern heiraten und dafür in den Iran flüchten. Noch vor der Grenze wurden sie von den Eltern verraten und von den Taliban hingerichtet.
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One of the few safe area in Afghanistan , as talibans are 50km away. People are so happy to welcome foreigners, but they live a very hard life... i was surprised by the extrem poverty of those people, a great contrast with their incredible beauty.
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It is a sad day for Afghan girls/women to hear the Taliban have banned any and all education for women in Afghanistan. I heard many girls have committed suicides after the order of Taliban's leadership to put a ban on university-level education of women.
What is next?
9/11 -We will never forget all sacrifices of first responders, families and loved ones of those who perished at the hands of savages and still bear the deeply rooted emotional & physical scars.
And as CENTCOM Commander Gen. Kenneth McKenzie praised the Taliban for being "helpful, useful, businesslike and pragmatic" during the evacuation where 13 US military personnel died & hundreds were critically wounded on August 26th; let us remember it was Taliban who sheltered al Qaedas Osama bin Laden & his henchmen after the attack of 9/11 of course, till they slithered over to Pakistan to hide.
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Where were you...
Lyrics by Alan Jackson
"Where were you when the world stopped turnin' that September day? Were you in the yard with your wife and children Or workin' on some stage in L.A.?
Did you stand there in shock at the sight of that black smoke
Risin' against that blue sky? Did you shout out in anger, in fear for your neighbor Or did you just sit down and cry?
Did you weep for the children, they lost their dear loved ones
Pray for the ones who don't know?
Did you rejoice for the people who walked from the rubble
And sob for the ones left below? Did you burst out with pride for the red, white, and blue And the heroes who died just doin' what they do?
Did you look up to heaven for some kind of answer and look at yourself and what really matters?
I'm just a singer of simple songs, I'm not a real political man
I watch CNN, but I'm not sure I can tell you the diff'rence in Iraq and Iran. But I know Jesus and I talk to God
And I remember this from when I was young,
Faith, hope, and love are some good things He gave us
And the greatest is love
Where were you when the world stopped turnin' that September day? Teachin' a class full of innocent children
Or drivin' down some cold interstate? Did you feel guilty 'cause you're a survivor? In a crowded room did you feel alone? Did you call up your mother and tell her you love her?
Did you dust off that Bible at home?
Did you open your eyes and hope it never happened
Close your eyes and not go to sleep? Did you notice the sunset for the first time in ages and speak to some stranger on the street? Did you lay down at night and think of tomorrow, g o out and buy you a gun? Did you turn off that violent old movie you're watchin' And turn on I Love Lucy reruns?
Did you go to a church and hold hands with some strangers
Stand in line to give your own blood? Did you just stay home and cling tight to your family & Thank God you had somebody to love"
A year ago today, a young woman in Kabul decided to try her wings. When the Taliban took over, she knew her life as she knew it was over.
She was a painter, but she had to burn her paintings so they would not fall into the hands of people who hate art, and those who create it.
She was a student, but she could not take any of her records as the university would close its doors to her the next day.
She had to leave her beloved dad behind, and her three young half-siblings. (She has talked to them on the phone every single day ever since).
But she had a sister in far-away Germany who would do everything to help her, and that was her hope.
One year later, Saliha has turned 20, and is happily reunited with her sister, and lives in a peacefull small town in Germany, and can converse in German, and has joined a football club, and is learning to swim. But actually, she can fly!
Un fin de semana de meditación y silencio, desintoxicación , incluso permitiendo la levitación de estos seres de luz... nada de ruidos ni excesos
perfecto no? ;)
Dedicated to the over 100 Hazara students, teachers, residents of Kabul who lost their lives in yesterday's massacre.
The world is busy feeling for Ukraine, and has grown so used to Islamic State victims that these dead Afghan children barely register.
But there is a genocide taking place in Afghanistan against the Shia Hazara, an ethnicity the Talibans despise. Dari-speaking Hazara look East Asian and tend to be better educated than Pashtuns.
All Taliban regimes have targeted and persecuted Hazara. Conditions improved when the Taliban were out of power, and have become unbearable yet again.
I had to go through 40 pages of google search before i could find this map of Pakistan "including Kashmir" in it!!!!!!
obviously this isnt my on work! i dont think many people can say that the map was drawn or taken by them! unless you work for NASA or similar!
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Here are two suspected Taliban, captured by the American backed Militia of Hamid Karzay the Afghan president.
Afghan National Army (ANA) soldiers, partnered with U.S. Special Operations Forces, uncovered multiple weapons caches in eastern Zabul province July 31. The largest of the three caches was found in the Now Bahar district mosque. The items in this photo are a small part of the overall cache found and destroyed. (U.S. Navy courtesy photo)
Their father was killed in a nighttime operation of ISAF on their home; he was reportedly unarmed, pushed against a mud wall of their house and shot dead. Women and children from the family were rounded up and kept in a nearby room. They heard and saw everything through a small window opening up on a courtyard.
Now that areas like e.g. South, or South-East of the country became accessible, how many more such stories there are? How many more we will learn?
October 18th, 2021, Andar district, Ghazni province, Afghanistan.
One of the few safe area in Afghanistan , as talibans are 50km away. People are so happy to welcome foreigners, but they live a very hard life... i was surprised by the extrem poverty of those people, a great contrast with their incredible beauty.
People live in big houses, with lot of space, but all stay together in only one room that is used as kitchen and bedroom in winter time, to get maximum heat from the fire wood or animal dungs. The light comes from a hole in the roof, and gives a very strange atmosphere as everything is darken by the smoke for generations...
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Navy Adm. Mike Mullen addresses students at the Pakistani National Defense University in Islamabad, Pakistan, Dec. 15, 2009. (DoD photo by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Chad J. McNeeley, U.S. Navy/Released)
I don't often bother going to the Lone Tree at Padarn these days. Since the giddy days of Christmas bauble hanging, and fabulous dawn skies, too often it has been a let down after my early Sunday morning two hour drive. And it gets a bit busy too, everyone trying to get the same thing. Quite why I went last Sunday is a bit of a mystery too. I suppose I'm looking to find past memories, things that made me happy. Today it was foggy and I couldn't even see the V of the mountains that makes this shot so special. But there was something: an air of stillness and tranquility, until I was disturbed by some semi naked women messing about in the bushes behind me on a paddleboard...and it wasn't even 7.00am.
I like this for it's simplicity and the geometry of the tree trunk in its reflection. A bit different I think. So, happy TmT, happy tree-mendous Tuesday.........wherever you are.
An Afghan policeman fills a container with fuel leaking from a tanker, which was set on fire by the Taliban, in Kunduz province October 2, 2009. Two fuel tankers which were carrying fuel for NATO forces in northern Kunduz province were set on fire by the Taliban on Friday, local officials said. REUTERS/Wahdat (AFGHANISTAN CONFLICT)
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I was inspired to create this after reading a newspaper article during the week about a man who had lost his ears and his nose, all because he chose to exercise his right of free speech.....
40-year old Lal Mohammad was attacked by Taliban extremists on his way to the voting poles during this week's elections in Afghanistan. The illiterate farmer, who knew little about who was running for the upcoming election, but who was nonetheless excited for his opportunity to have his say by casting his vote for a new president, was ambushed on his way by the Taliban extremists, who savagely beat him with the butt of an assault rifle before cutting off his ears and nose. (MX News, 12)
Other Afghani citizens who were already at the voting booths were also attacked by Taliban militants, having their "ink-stained" fingers taken away from the polling booths and having them chopped off.(MX News, 12).
The Taliban extremists had previously threatened Afgani citizens before the election day that such things would happen, if they chose to go to the voting booths (MX News, 12).
The saddest part of the story for me was when Mr Mohammad told reporters after the incident, "I regret very much getting the card and going to vote." (MX News, 12).
I am very grateful and lucky to be living in a country where I have the right to have an opnion, and that I can share it openly, without feeling pressured by other people to think differently. People may not agree with what I say, but I have the freedom to say it without the fear of having someone threaten me with a knife or a gun to change my opinion and conform with what he/she wants me to believe. At the same time though, I am saddened to hear of many people all over the world, who do not share the same freedom I do, whose right to an opinion has been taken away from them by those who wish to oppress them.
I wanted to do this project to raise awareness of this issue, that there are people out there who are unable to enjoy the privilege of exercising free speech. I deliberately covered my nose for this photo, so that the viewer can be reminded of the kind of sacrifices people like Lal Mohammed have had to make, in order to fight for their right to exercise free speech. My hands are turned upwards, as if in prayer, hoping for a brighter future to those who are still living under oppression from corrupt militant leaders.
I hope that those who are reading this can gain a better appreciation of the freedoms we do have, and to pray for those who do not as of yet enjoy those freedoms.....
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"Farmer loses nose for daring to vote." MX News, Tuesday, September 1 2009.
A portuguese man with a large fortune, bought a working farm near my house and become it as an Oriental Garden in honor of Buddha`s statues destroyed by Taliban people in Afagnistão. All my photos were taken there. See it´s location on my map.
Freedom fighter to Reagan, insurgent to Bush. Fought the Soviets, the Taliban, NATO, the US and Karzai.
my crew of Mujahideen fighters / Taliban. The decals are by roaglaan, and the other torso's are form the IJ series.
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El "Taliban" pasa el día en el Prado
El Paseo del Prado es una avenida en La Habana. En 1928 el Arquitecto paisajista francés Jean-Claude Nicolas Forestier diseñó el Paseo del Prado en La Habana para convertirse en uno de las avenidas más importantes de La Habana y quizás en América Latina. Fue sembrado con árboles y se colocaron bancos de mármol. En su trayecto norte-sur se localiza en la concurrida zona de La Habana Vieja y a solo una cuadra de la Calle Industria, que marca el límite con Centro Habana, se extiende desde la Fuente de la India y la Plaza de la Fraternidad hasta Malecón.
In the photo is a very shrewd Taliban warlord. If you have any information about him please immediately contact the closest police station. Please do not try to confront the suspect as he is armed and dangerous. Extreme caution is advised.
Ernestas was murdered by a group affiliated with the Taliban this week while attempting Nanga Parbat.
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091001-A-1211M-013: KUNAR PROVINCE, Afghanistan ? U.S. Army Soldiers with Company B, 2nd Battalion, 12th Infantry Regiment, search a suspicious man while on patrol in the Korengal Valley in Afghanistan's Kunar province, Oct. 1.
The 4th Infantry Division Soldiers routinely search suspicious looking individuals, with the assistance of Afghan National Army Soldiers, looking for weapons, insurgent communicators and other deemed illegal by the Afghan government in order to limit the freedom of movement of insurgent forces operating in the area. (Photo by U.S. Army Sgt. Matthew Moeller, 5th Mobile Public Affairs Detachment)