The Bishop and the Butterfly: Murder, Politics, and the End of the Jazz Age
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    Behead sorcerers? Sure. But not pot smugglers!

    By jollyroger on Thu, 10/02/2014 - 8:25am |

     

     

    With all the spillover umbrage at beheading available, I thought I'd capitalize on it and mobilize some hostility towards Saudi Arabia.

     

    Granted, when they do their beheadings, they give the head and body a decent interval hanging side by side in which to say goodbye.

    Saudi Arabian officials display the beheaded bodies of five Yemeni nationals.

     

     

    Now I will say that one problem that suggests itself to me as far as the sorcery charge, I would propose that the successful service of an arrest warrant and taking into custody of an individual should be prima facie evidence they are no kind of magician.

     

    And. of course the beheading of several men for supposedly being involved in the humanitarian delivery of cannabis to the suffering of Saudi Arabia gives me the serious vapors.

     

    But anyway, pot smuggling aside, really, Sorcery??!

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    Showing more style than that ISIS clown.  Note the elegant follow through position of the sword at stroke's end, as well as the balletically turned out left foot, subtly following the line of the sword...

     

     

     

    cSaudi Arabian public beheading -- a practice that American conservatives and Saudi Arabians called "savage, barbaric and animalistic" when ISIS did exactly the same. 

     

     


    by jollyroger on Thu, 10/02/2014 - 9:06am

    Deduct five points for black socks w/sandals before Labor Day.


    by jollyroger on Thu, 10/02/2014 - 9:09am

    Keep in mind that in the United States we inefficiently spend hours trying to put felons to death with unique drug combinations. Perhaps we should try the Guillotine.


    by rmrd0000 on Thu, 10/02/2014 - 1:34pm

    Perhaps, but we insist on white lab coats on the fake doctors.

     

    Plus, they always swab with alcohol where they are inserting the needle, which is damn considerate, I say.


    by jollyroger on Thu, 10/02/2014 - 5:58pm

    Are you sure the needle is sterile?

     Prison nurse tied to hepatitis C exposure at Buckeye facility


    by Resistance on Thu, 10/02/2014 - 6:29pm

    I'd say injection is more humane than the guillotine; it recalls Socrates and the hemlock.


    by Aaron Carine on Fri, 10/03/2014 - 4:11pm

    You got me interested. I found this:

    Saudi Arabia's War on Witchcraft

    The Atlantic, Aug 19 2013

    A special unit of the religious police pursues magical crime aggressively, and the convicted face death sentences.
     

    by artappraiser on Fri, 10/03/2014 - 3:22am

    Saudi citizens are also urged to use a hotline on the CPVPV website to report any magical misdeeds to local officials, according to the Jerusalem Post.

     

    DIal 1-800-CROWLEY....(the magus will see you now...)

     


    by jollyroger on Fri, 10/03/2014 - 11:55am