Saudi court sentences rape victim to 90 lashes

Bush gets jealous when he reads stories like this. He wishes he could do this to his own people.

 

Seriously, though, Ragu. The Saudis are among are major allies and Bush has ties with them going back to his oil days. Don't you think he should exert some pressure on the prince and his pals to keep courts in their country from doing crap like this?

 

C'mon Ace. The fucking Idiot in Chief has no standing anywhere in the world to exter any pressure on anyone. He is laughed at or ignored by everyone except his pal in Britain.

 

Our partners in peace, Saudi Arabia.

 

Stand behind your president if you know what's good for you , poin

 

http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/11/02/socal.wildfire.ap/index.html
POSTED: 5:37 p.m. EST, November 2, 2006
Authorities on Thursday filed murder and arson charges carrying the death penalty against a man suspected of setting a Southern California wildfire last week that killed five firefighters.

The suspect, Raymond Lee Oyler, 36, was in police custody after he was arrested in connection with two June fires in the Banning Pass area, a windy corridor that carries Interstate 10 between mountain ranges west of Palm Springs.

October's blaze was the deadliest for firefighters since 14 were killed in July 1994 near Glenwood Springs, Colorado, according to the National Interagency Fire Center statistics. (Fire victims)

Oyler, of Beaumont, California, will also face two so-called special circumstances, one alleging murders committed during arson and another alleging multiple murders, District Attorney-elect Rod Pacheco Pacheco said.

The charges are punishable by life in prison without parole or the death penalty, Pacheco said.

The fire was stoked by Santa Ana winds as it swept southwest through the San Jacinto Mountains. The flames overran the fire crew, destroyed 34 homes and charred more than 60 square miles before being contained Monday.

Three firefighters died at the scene, and a fourth died soon after at a hospital. A fifth was taken off life support and died this week.

Investigators interviewed Oyler on October 27, served a search warrant on his residence Monday, then arrested him Tuesday.

In Joplin, Missouri, police and court records show Oyler had mostly minor run-ins with the law from 1997 through 1999. The most severe was a 1999 misdemeanor charge of violating a protection order by entering his wife's apartment while she was out. The couple divorced in 2001.

My analysis: All white men set forest fires.

 

Since five firefighters were killed, does that mean white men hate firefighters?

And is it because firefighters get all the chicks? [/obscuremoviereference]

 

Well played, C~T.

 

Bush should exert pressure on the Saudis to curb their human rights violations, just like so many presidents before him did.

 

The really great thing, of course, is that there isn't a single thing this president has done that hasn't made this medievalism worse.