Saudi gang-rape victim is whipped and jailed

[mike311gd]

I'd have said elephant, too.

 

[writing irish]

Depends on the elephant, perhaps. And what phase the moon is in.

 

[JC]

Easy solution to the whole problem (and I mean Mideast-West relations): pull out all U.S. interests in the entire region, Israel included. If they want to multilate their women, repeal constitutions and bomb each other into oblivion, so be it. In a few years, there should be the means to survive almost oil-free.

Sorry, but we are more then a few years away. Now, if we figure out a way to hit up the green river formation in a cost effective way then at least we can get off foreign oil. Oil is here to stay. Even if we ween our vehicles off of it within 20 years(no way) it is used in way too many other things for us to ever kick the habit completely.

Cars and trucks are not the only users of petroleum. Plastics, of which our society uses a bunch for everything, is made from petroleum.

And you're right. Oil is not going away. If we could just drill in that wasteland up in Alaska that has the greenies up in arms, we could possibly leave the M.E. oil to Europe and Japan.

As for the punishment of that rape victim, that just goes to show you that the "religion of peace" is nothing of the sort. Sharia law is flat-out tyranny.

What an intelligent solution that would be. Alaska is a wasteland?

 

[mike311gd]

Depends on the elephant, perhaps. And what phase the moon is in.

Plus the elephant could eat the moon, too, since it's made of cheese.

 

[Lyman_Bostock]

Easy solution to the whole problem (and I mean Mideast-West relations): pull out all U.S. interests in the entire region, Israel included. If they want to multilate their women, repeal constitutions and bomb each other into oblivion, so be it. In a few years, there should be the means to survive almost oil-free.

Sorry, but we are more then a few years away. Now, if we figure out a way to hit up the green river formation in a cost effective way then at least we can get off foreign oil. Oil is here to stay. Even if we ween our vehicles off of it within 20 years(no way) it is used in way too many other things for us to ever kick the habit completely.

Cars and trucks are not the only users of petroleum. Plastics, of which our society uses a bunch for everything, is made from petroleum.

And you're right. Oil is not going away. If we could just drill in that wasteland up in Alaska that has the greenies up in arms, we could possibly leave the M.E. oil to Europe and Japan.

As for the punishment of that rape victim, that just goes to show you that the "religion of peace" is nothing of the sort. Sharia law is flat-out tyranny.

What an intelligent solution that would be. Alaska is a wasteland?

No, but Alaska is a big land. Surely some more of it can be explored for oil responsibly.

And yes, using Osama's pronouncements to buttress your case is a pretty dumb idea.