1) She got 15 days in prison instead of whippings, and she'll be deported once her sentence is served.

2) It wasn't so long ago in the West that 'blasphemous' and 'sinful' things could get you thrown in prison. In fact, if you can believe it, anal sex is illegal in many places in the US still.

3) Aren't there *people* named Mohammed? Did their parents insult the prophet, or does this have something to do with making idols?

P-Dog - That's precisely the problem with the way the US's second amendment is interpreted these days. Any kid with $50 can have a gun, and in turn the concept of 'militia' and keeping a wary eye on Washington has been utterly marginalized, declared anti-patriotic, or downright treasonous.

Until that's reversed, the only right the gun lovers will care about is the right to love guns, and there's no chance (and now, with the new crowd-suppression weapons rolling out, no need) for their government to worry about the second amendment.

Taser-wielding cops have killed at least 5 people in North America in just the last week. I hope these soccer moms are prepared to spend time in prison when they kill.

Oh no! Even suggest that you don't believe the Bible is 200% literal and scientifically accurate and the Jesus freaks go batty!

Rosi, I guess you don't know much about Thanksgiving if you think it's unique and not commercialized.

I'm thankful I don't live in a police state run by a chimp with a messiah complex.

Dear Internet;

Just putting words such as 'what', 'why', 'how', and 'wonder' in a sentence, or implying 'I don't know', DOESN'T MAKE THE SENTENCE A QUESTION.

She lives in the Uncanny Valley, that's for sure.

Is skh.pcola reading a different Neatorama? Most commenters here are basically Republicans.

Nonsense. I could understand this as a protest thing for a while, but not as a lifestyle and not for the stated reasons.

If you want to live free of the capitalist machine you need to provide for yourself and barter/trade/labour exchange with others to provide the rest. That simple. And she evidently has the funds to do it.

Let's take a moment and remember the lives of the innocent people lost-- the 100,000+ Afghani and Iraqi civilians killed by coalition weapons and tactics in reaction to the Saudi Arabian terrorist actions of 11/9/2001.

The Shaker *religion* may have survived, but the commune didn't.

The 'capitalist' utopia is quite telling. Pullman's greed (ie, human greed) counteracted the ideals, proving it's a system that will collapse on itself just as much as any other.

And if they had been Americans from the start they would have paid *more* for the services of the hospital than they end up paying in taxes for Canada's hospitals.

I seriously doubt "Sid" got the "rest of the story" right at all. Perhaps they wanted their daughters to have dual citizenship from birth, who knows?

It's a shame this site is infested with Republiscum like Sid, turning everything into a wedge to drive people apart.