A Rough Life

14 Replies to “A Rough Life”

1. Oh, boy, look at those two faces. On the other hand, the woman in 21 surely has a different, if not necessarily more encouraging mindset, and for that matter, so does the kid in 17. But I draw no conclusions. Great link.

2. This looks like the lifestyle that the Suzuki nation and the rest of the Kyoton’s have in mind for us.
   These people may not have much now but after their well deserved carbon credits start rolling in they will all be able to trade those donkeys in for shiny new SUVs.

3. Freedom has a price…these folks seem to be willing to pay that price.
   They may not have hot tap water and the trappings of urban dwellers but neither do they have to kiss the foot of some commie ruler for their daily bread.
   It’s just a matter of time though isn’t it?
   Control freaks can’t stand to see free people no matter how wretched their existance…it is their will to be free that scares/enrages the tyrant.

4. I believe that photo is decades old – I’m fairly sure I’ve seen it before, long ago ( or times haven’t changed…)

5. It looks like Muammar Qaddafi in drag.

6. Are these people Muslims? If they are, then the presence of dogs in some of those photos gives the lie to the claim that Muslims cannot abide being around dogs since they are “unclean”.
   Minneapolis cabbies, take note.

7. Is that a cross around the neck of the young man in photo 19?

8. Nice photo essay. The area looks a lot like Arizona/New Mexico, pretty hard-ass geography to make a living in. Admirable people.
   I bet you the Iranian Hijab Police don’t bother those women for wearing red though, eh? They look hard enough to chew nails and spit rivets.

9. I can see her ankle. She must be a prostitute.

10. A quote from Winston Churchill’s “The River War.”
    “How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries! Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog, there is this fearful fatalistic apathy. The effects are apparent in many countries. Improvident habits, slovenly systems of agriculture, sluggish methods of commerce, and insecurity of property exist wherever the followers of the Prophet rule or live…The fact that in Mohammedan law every woman must belong to some man as his absolute property – either as a child, a wife, or a concubine – must delay the final extinction of slavery until the faith of Islam has ceased to be a great power among men.”

11. Beautiful photo collection.

12. Those estimable ladies look like they would brook no nonsense from any leftard. I also notice that they wear bright, vibrant clothing, unlike their urban counterparts in the same country who have to wear what Imadinnerjacket and his cronies decree. The situation is similar in Saudi Arabia, where urban women live closed-in lives compared to their Bedouin sisters who dress in bright clothes and jewellery if they have it, often don’t wear veils at all, and *gasp* drive cars and trucks, though far from the eyes of the religio-cops.

13. A superb photo essay of pastoral nomadic life in Iran.
    This would be the kind of crowd that Jesus of Nazareth may have addressed his Sermon on the Mount.
    Just basic decent folk who know about living off the land.
    One of the many reasons that Jesus used the imagery of the Good Shepherd, camels through the Eye of the Needle, etc.
    If one is to communicate effectively, you use the imagery that the culture most easily understands or can relate to.
    Note the shepherd dogs to fend off the predators.

14. …the latest fashion dress for the Kyotokoo’s?