The More I See Democrats, Relentlessly Demonizing President Donald Trump, The More I Understand (Why The Washington Post's Jamal Khashoggi Is Dead)

 

In America, reporters lie without consequences - for themselves. In Saudi Arabia, when they tell a dishonest journalist to stop being unfair, they mean it - and do something about it. 

Since decency, and respect for readers and the truth, won't stop them, I can't feel sorry for them any longer.

 

Liars: I Got Your "Free Country" Right Here (No I Don't)

Since America's whites beheaded blacks for centuries this seemed a good fit

I was with a good friend, just last night, who was explaining why he doesn't drive a car - and it all came down to white people:

"The 9 Things Black People Can’t Do"

It's like the U.S. is some weird version of Saudi Arabia, which - just like American whites - the Saudis also find to be fair, fine, and dandy,...

A Cult Capital Of The World Discovers Slavery Going On (Continues Attacking Anyone Who Sees And Mentions It)

“You like ignorant agony more than anything else,…

...Everyone but yourself can free your mind, and we all choose not to.

..ROAR!”

- NotquiteunBuckley, a TMR heckler, not altogether "up" on how racism is being dealt with, toe-to-toe, here

So - "everyone" could stop this, but they "all choose not to" - as they'd rather watch me struggle alone with it? Well, along with that being nothing new, it certainly explains why I always have so much material to work with:

     “Last week,...the FBI accused [a] couple of enslaving an Indonesian woman who is in her early 20s. For four years, reads the indictment, they created "a climate of fear and intimidation through rape and other means." The slave woman cooked, cleaned, took care of the children, and performed other tasks for little or no pay, fearing that if she did not obey, "she would suffer serious harm."

The two Saudis face charges of forced labor, aggravated sexual abuse, document servitude, and harboring an alien. If found guilty, they could spend the rest of their lives in prison. The government also wants to seize the couple's Al-Basheer bank account to pay their former slave $92,700 in back wages.

It's shocking, especially for a graduate student and owner of a religious bookstore - but not particularly rare.”

No, as the American experience with slavery continues to prove, religion can be THE prime ingredient for cruelty,...

 

Hit 'Em Hard (And Then Hit 'Em Again)

“Lawyers and a member of the Federal National Council have said a 1983 law that considers sorcerers con artists was insufficient, and have called for the law to be amended to allow harsher punishment.

'Magic and sorcery has nothing to do with religion,' Salim Al Ameri (Abu Dhabi) said. 'It only affects people badly.'

He recently recalled a case he heard of a 'sorcerer' who told someone he could make the sky rain money.

'Some people believe this,' he said. 'Sorcerers say "I can help you get a job", and people believe them. We want to protect people in society from this.'

Prison sentences for those found guilty should exceed the current three years, he said.”

Peruvian Punk Rock, Imaginary Saudi Fears, Imaginary Bird Spies, Imaginary White Eyes, And Christian Killers

Oil exec says 

Saudis should fear U.S. oil production

Bird that's ruffling government feathers: 

Stork suspected of being a SPY 

detained by police in Egypt

Walking While Black in the 'White Gaze'

You Got To Get It Together (Or Leave It Alone)

O.K., we've been kind of falling behind on our blogging, so here's a bunch of random stuff that's been slipping through the cracks as we've been following Wisconsin and whatnot.


BTW, the photos might even be more random than usual, because we're emptying that file, too. Alright, here we go:

Colorado Springs police used a stun gun early Thursday morning to try to stop a man calling himself 'God' from what was originally reported as an attempted burglary.

The incident happened at an apartment complex just north of Austin Bluffs Parkway and North Academy Boulevard around 3:40 a.m. Thursday. When police arrived, they said a man claiming to be God charged for them, a police report said.

A neighbor told KRDO Newschannel13 he walked outside when he heard the commotion.

"One of the cops told me to go back to my apartment, but of course I sat there with the door cracked and listened. The guy was totally tripped out," said Rod Smith.

Police said he would not comply with orders, forcing officers to use a stun gun. It didn't stop the man, and he charged officers once again, according to police.

Police tried again to use a stun gun, but it still didn't work. The man tried to run, but was tackled by officers in the hallway, police said. It took four officers to get him under control.

After medical personnel arrived, the man admitted to smoking mushrooms, a hallucinogenic drug with similar effects to LSD.

Smith said the man was talking, but not making much sense.

"He kept trying to tell the cops that he would take them on one by one if they'd take his cuffs off. he asked them if they wanted to smoke a bowl with him," said Smith.

We don't know - he sounds like "the real deal" to us - not like this flake:

Saudi police arrested a man who was stopping people and telling them that he was the long-awaited savior of the world, a newspaper in the oil-rich Gulf country reported on Sunday.

The 43-year-old man was shouting to passers-by in a street in the central town of Makkah to stop and listen to him.

“He used his car to block their way to force them to listen to him,” Sabq online Arabic language daily said.

“He claimed that he was Al-Mahdi Al-Montathar (the Chosen Imam Al-Mehdi) and that he has an advice for all Moslems.”

Police caught the unnamed man red-handed and took him for investigation to determine if he is mentally normal.

Now you see, we don't get that:

You've got all these people waiting for a savior - whole societies based upon the idea they believe one will show up - but every time somebody claims to be "that guy", they either lock him up or haul him away to see if he's mental. What gives?

It's enough to make you wonder if anybody believes in this stuff,...all it takes is a little imagination. Like this guy, for instance:

I'm not one of those people who spends his whole life wishing things had turned out differently. Sure, the so-called "real world" can be a pretty cruel place sometimes, but why sit around all day worrying about the way things are when, with a little imagination, determination, and blinding denial, you can convince yourself that everything is great?

It may sound crazy, but I'm telling you, if you put your mind to it, you can make yourself believe just about anything!

Don't let annoying little hang-ups like logic, reason, or even reality stand in the way of what you want to be true. Your mind is the most powerful tool you have, and if you use it correctly, you'll be amazed at all the incredible things you can deny.

Yeah, "it may sound crazy", but that's right! So the next time you want to believe, say, a naturopath's a doctor, or recycling's a good thing, or even The New York Times is a good paper because their lies are so well written, just remember - you don't have to!

Hell, you don't have to "believe" anything at all! You don't even have to think! We swear! Let it go, man!

At that point you'll be fitting right in!

Smiles All Around: It's A Wonderful World

"The lawyer of a Lebanese TV psychic who was convicted in Saudi Arabia for witchcraft said Thursday her client could be beheaded this week and urged Lebanese and Saudi leaders to help spare his life.

Attorney May al-Khansa said she learned from a judicial source that Ali Sibat is to be beheaded on Friday. She added that she does not have any official confirmation of this. Saudi judicial officials could not be immediately reached for comment.

A Lebanese official said Beirut has received no word from its embassy in Riyadh about Sibat's possible execution. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to the media.

The Saudi justice system, which is based on Islamic law, does not clearly define the charge of witchcraft.

Sibat is one of scores of people reported arrested every year in the kingdom for practicing sorcery, witchcraft, black magic and fortunetelling. These practices are considered polytheism by the government in Saudi Arabia, a deeply religious Muslim country.

New York-based Human Rights Watch said last year that Sibat's death sentence should be overturned. It also called on the Saudi government to halt 'its increasing use of charges of "witchcraft," crimes that are vaguely defined and arbitrarily used.'

Last year, the rights group presented a series of cases in the kingdom, including that of Saudi woman Fawza Falih, who was sentenced to death by beheading in 2006 for the alleged crimes of 'witchcraft, recourse to jinn (supernatural beings)' and animal sacrifice.

On November 2, 2007, Mustafa Ibrahim, an Egyptian pharmacist, was executed for sorcery in the Saudi capital of Riyadh after he was found guilty of having tried 'through sorcery' to separate a married couple, Human Rights Watch said."

-- Bassem Mroue, reporting on some serious trouble - crazy Muslims, crazy NewAgers, "sorcery, witchcraft, black magic and fortunetelling" - that's all led to a horrible situation where apparently everybody seems to be losing their heads, according to The Associated Press.

The Perfect Solution For People With No Sense*

"RIYADH, Sept 14 (Reuters) - A senior Saudi cleric has said purveyors of horoscopes on Arab television should face the death penalty, a paper said on Sunday, days after another cleric argued death for TV owners.

'Sorcerers who appear on satellite channels who are proven to be sorcerers have committed a great crime ... and the Muslim consensus is that the apostate's punishment is death by the sword,' Sheikh Saleh al-Fozan told al-Madina daily.

'Those who call in to these shows should not be accorded Muslim rites when they die,' the prominent cleric added.

Many of the hundreds of Arab satellite channels have sprung up in recent years specialise in horoscopes and other advice to callers on solving problems that is seen as 'sorcery'.

In their capacity as judges, clerics of Saudi Arabia's austere form of Islam often sentence 'sorcerers' to death."

-- Reuters, on the one Middle Eastern crusade TMR can get with*, on Alert.net.

* I'm being flip here, folks.