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I'm not even close to being wrong. Where the hell did you learn that government owning oil companies are a right wing ideology? Come on, back it up by giving me examples.. You'd rather stand here and tell me I'm wrong than admit you're out in left field with this one..
Where did I say it was right wing ideology? I never made such argument. You composed that sentence, not me, so don't try to stuff it in my mouth.
I have said repeatedly that I do not see SA either left or right, because it is a weird mixture of both. It's a monarchy, where government services are financed by natural resources. The nations revenue is owned by a large royal family, which distributes the money to programs such as health care. It could be argued that it is charity, which is touted by the right wing as alternative for tax-payer funded welfare. But is it really charity? Yes, and no. Is the money really theirs? Yes, and no. Monarchies are different creatures because the royal families can declare that the land and everything in it is theirs, and they pretend to be generous enough to give some of it back to the people. To me it is not right wing or left wing.
Where did I say it was right wing ideology? I never made such argument. You composed that sentence, not me, so don't try to stuff it in my mouth.
I have said repeatedly that I do not see SA either left or right, because it is a weird mixture of both. It's a monarchy, where government services are financed by natural resources. The nations revenue is owned by a large royal family, which distributes the money to programs such as health care. It could be argued that it is charity, which is touted by the right wing as alternative for tax-payer funded welfare. But is it really charity? Yes, and no. Is the money really theirs? Yes, and no. Monarchies are different creatures because the royal families can declare that the land and everything in it is theirs, and they pretend to be generous enough to give some of it back to the people. To me it is not right wing or left wing.
Monarchies are not even close to right wing. The americans fought against a Monarchy in order to win our freedoms from government oppression. To say they arent left wing is completely false.
Saudi authorities have beheaded a murderer and crucified his body after he killed and raped a Pakistani national.
The kingdom's interior ministry announced the execution, stating that the man had murdered and sodomised another male. Both actions are punishable by death.
'The Yemeni citizen Mohammed Rashad Khairi Hussain killed a Pakistani, Pashteh Sayed Khan, after he committed sodomy with him,' said a statement carried by state news agency SPA.
Hussain was also convicted of robbery and carrying out a series of attacks.
The execution, in the southern city of Jizan, was followed by crucifixion, a punishment used by the ultra-conservative country for serious crimes.
I find many parallels with the ultra-conservative Tea Party/GOP and their harsh take on gays and religious subjects and the ultra-conservatives in Saudi Arabia. I am not saying they are the same but the more right-wing the GOP becomes the more they resemble the Saudi conservatives. Lets hope we don't turn into Saudi Arabia if the Tea Party somehow takes over America..
The TEA party is not a religious organization. A religious conservative zealot of Islam is in no way comparable to a Constitutional conservative in the US. but the left lives off of ignorance, hence your thread.
I agree, the teaparty in america is the same as the radical muslims in the middle east. Given the opportunity, I'm sure the teabaggers would love to implement their own kind of jihad on the nation.
Sorry to say but I agree. I think if they had the full reins on power they likely would implement some extreme measures and justify them in the name of public morality. It would take time for that power to go to their heads, but it would eventually get there, I'm quite certain.
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BTW....I thought you lefties LIKED the muslims?
Um...no. Conservative islamic societies are backward and socially regressive.
Having said that, the Unites States used to have death penalty for sodomy, but Jefferson reduced it to castration. Personally I agree with Jefferson and think castration is sufficient.
I'm sure you also agree with Jefferson that powdered wigs, lace trimmed blouses, satin waistcoats and velvet breeches are appropiate attire for a gentlemen; and that slavery is fine and you have a right to have your slaves submit to your sexual desires, and they ought to bear your children.
Sorry to say but I agree. I think if they had the full reins on power they likely would implement some extreme measures and justify them in the name of public morality. It would take time for that power to go to their heads, but it would eventually get there, I'm quite certain.
A) Sodomy in their country is illegal and punishable by death.
B) Murder in their nation is illegal and punishable by death.
C) Refrain from both in their nation.
BTW....I thought you lefties LIKED the muslims?
Why would we like Muslims?
If I've got no use for pious Christians and Christianity itself (and i don't), then why would you think that I'd have any use for an offshoot of Christianity (that would be Islam)?
I guess this puts Saudi Arabia off limits to the gays who travel the world looking for countries that turn a blind eye to the young boy sex trade, huh?
I'm very sure it isn't a fraction of the billion dollar heterosexual sex tourism of straight men roaming the world supporting female child prostitution. I remember a retired friend in Santo Domingo, the Dominican Republic describing how whole towns such as Boca Chica that were turned over to European and North American men looking for pretty and young Senoritas. Not to mention other places like Brazil, Venezuela, the Philippines, Cambodia, Thailand, Colombia, Russia, and so on.
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