davidl on December 14th, 2011

From the BBC:

A Saudi woman has been executed for practising “witchcraft and sorcery”, the country’s interior ministry says.

A statement published by the state news agency said Amina bint Abdul Halim bin Salem Nasser was beheaded on Monday

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davidl on December 3rd, 2011

From Daily Mail (UK):

Repealing a ban on women drivers in Saudi Arabia would result in ‘no more virgins’, the country’s religious council has warned.
A ‘scientific’ report claims relaxing the ban would also see more Saudis – both men

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davidl on August 21st, 2011

DavidL's Breakfast Scramble
The Obama energy policy, or lack thereof, the Obami have very simple energy, and job, policy. It if has no possibility of success, subsidize it. If on the other glove, it will succeed, regulate it to death.

First on

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davidl on March 9th, 2010

DavidL's Breakfast Scramble
Health care is Obama’s Stalingrad, William A. Jacobson, Legal Insurrection:

Waterloo was a short but decisive battle. The health care fight has turned out to be more like the battle of Stalingrad.

The battle of Stalingrad was a

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Eric Florack on February 9th, 2010

Welcome to one and all to this most intense nightly read anywhere on the ‘sphere… The BitsBlog Nightly Ramble


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davidl on June 10th, 2009

DavidL's Breakfast Scramble
Glenn Reynolds, Instapundit, notes:

THEY TOLD ME THAT IF I VOTED FOR MCCAIN, the White House would be taken over by “Christianists.” And they were right! “Barack Obama invokes Jesus more than George W. Bush did.”

When you

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Eric Florack on April 1st, 2009

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Welcome one and all to the most intense nightly read anywhere on the ‘shpere… The BigsBlog Nightly Ramble

This is the Teleprompter Edition.

We have written a virus that only works on Teleprompters, as demonstrated here, on the President’s prompters

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usedcarrambleWelcome, one and all to the most intense nightly read on the sphere; Bitsblog’s Nightly Ramble

This is the “Would you buy a used car from this Blog?” edition.  Rmemeber, no down payment and 72 years to pay.

  • Our

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davidl on February 27th, 2009

Barack Obama doesn’t like freedom, democracy, or dissent.    As further evidence,  BO has hired one Carl Freeman, Israel Matzav:

What the left is unable to do is defend Freeman’s views on China, where he unapologetically supports the bloody crackdown

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davidl on January 15th, 2009

Daily Mail (UK):

Ten-year-old girls are ready for marriage, according to Saudi Arabia’s most senior cleric.Sheikh Abdul-Aziz Al Sheikh, the country’s grand mufti, told Al Hayat newspaper that those saying ten or 12-year-old girls are too young to marry are

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Eric Florack on August 8th, 2008
  • 08-08-08. Not sure it means anything, but it’s interesting.
  • Just about mid-summer. The Telegraph reports what I told you about at about mid-spring would happen at Mid-summer: The great oil Bubble has burst.

    The market’s conviction that oil prices were

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Eric Florack on June 23rd, 2008

(RTTNews) – Oil production in Saudi Arabia will be raised, although officials in the oil-rich nation are expressing doubts as to its affects on the rising price of crude in the global market.

After an oil “summit” Sunday in Jeddah,

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davidl on May 18th, 2008

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“Those who are screaming the loudest for increased production from Saudi Arabia are the very same people who are fighting the fiercest against domestic exploration, against the development of nuclear power and against expanding refining capacity,”

President George W. Bush,

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Eric Florack on April 24th, 2008

April 24 (Bloomberg) — Brazil’s discoveries of what may be two of the world’s three biggest oil finds in the past 30 years could help end the Western Hemisphere’s reliance on Middle East crude, Strategic Forecasting Inc. said.

Saudi Arabia’s

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Eric Florack on April 16th, 2008

It appears so. Indications are between May 1 and June 30th.

The War Room did a thing on this, this morning, and so did Boortz, and so does Newsmax, who says:

Contrary to some claims that the Bush administration

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