I love the smell of dung fires in the morning from the front opening of my mud hut.
You can use the gobar (wet cow dung) to clean up your kitchen too. Roll it around with your bare hands to pick up the food scraps, and ritually purify the space at the same time!
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This process of Third World-ization has been on-going in Greater Metropolitan Washington DC since the Eisenhower administration, beginning with the surplus slap-dash brick apartment buildings erected following World War II.
There isn't an apartment building inside the Beltway (the modern equivalent to Nineveh's (Mosul) city walls) that doesn't come with a full time cabbage boil underway, 24-7.
There was a time when the clash between the European and the American Indian, sad as it continues to be, was written off as an unavoidable result of contact between the neolithic and the Industrial Revolution.
Now we're dealing with something quite different. "Social Engineering," pretending to be a science, is being employed deliberately to disrupt a "nativist" civilization with the consent of the governed, persuaded using propaganda.
One litmus test for the candidate for president who wants my vote will be their attitude toward the State Department, long overdue for a clean and wide broom, followed by fumigants.
Live in OK, near an Indian rez?
/sarc
Sorry, that was a cheap shot.
I mean, they DID use dried dung as fuel at one time...