My Insights

This is so hilarious - This guy goes around kicking people in the nuts and he tapes himself doing so. Watch: http://kickedinthenuts.com/

Photo from CNN.com

Saddam Hussein was captured this morning around 7:00 or so (EST). There is a great deal of information on the internet already. Read this CNN article.

“About 600 4th Infantry Division soldiers and Special Operations forces conducted the raid in Adwar, near a compound of ramshackle buildings, about 9 miles outside Saddam’s hometown of Tikrit, on Saturday night.

The raid was based on intelligence that Saddam was at a particular location in the area, the officials said. Forces arrived at the location within three hours of receiving a tip from an Iraqi, and Saddam had no time to move.

The U.S. forces moved easily into the area where there were no security forces to protect the ousted leader.

Photo from CNN.com

Saddam, thin, dirty and hiding in the cellar of mud hut, willingly identified himself to interpreters. He was wearing a white T-shirt, dark trousers and a long-sleeved dark shirt.

U.S. forces found weapons and about $750,000 in U.S. $100 bills with the former dictator, Sanchez said, along with two AK-47s, a pistol and a white and orange taxi”
From CNN.com

Also check this out! Here is a very very funny video from Schockwave.com - The Real Hussein . Turn up those speakers.
If you don’t want to download the video, the click here to watch it streaming from the internet (need flash player). Turn up those speakers.

Just take a look at the following graphic:

This is totally ridiculous. If there are two people who are consenting and want to get married, then what business is it of the government to call it illegal.

I looked up the Defense of Marriage act and according to section 7 of the act titled “Definition of ‘marriage’ and ’spouse’”,

“In determining the meaning of any Act of Congress, or of any ruling, regulation, or interpretation of the various administrative bureaus and agencies of the United States, the word ‘marriage’ means only a legal union between one man and one woman as husband and wife, and the word ’spouse’ refers only to a person of the opposite sex who is a husband or a wife.”

Now was the congress so bored that instead of focussing on unemployment and economic growth they pass a bill to define the words ‘marriage’ and ’spouse’? It’d be better if they left that to the Oxford dictionary for all practical purposes.

Anybody who voted for this act must’ve been a homophobic wierdo. I just don’t know what to say. Isn’t this discrimination? I was totally shocked that this act even existed!

Now this is what I’m talking about. Yes you read it right … Canada may allow small amounts of marijuana. The decision (bad decision) to smoke marijuana has a serious penalty attached to it as of now. Canada is just decriminalizing the offense and making it a ticketable offense. “possession of up to 15 grams of marijuana, about half an ounce, would become punishable by fines of up to the equivalent of about $290 U.S. for adults and $182 for minors” (from washingtonpost.com). So in effect, if you are found possessing weed, you would get a ticket as opposed to getting arrested and getting a criminal record. This is reasonable as far as I think because I don’t think that possessing or smoking weed is a criminal act … its just bad for you like cigarettes and shouldn’t be done. The government should try to influence the decisions of people through programs and education but by no means should the government penalize ‘cruelly and unusually’ if a person does decide to smoke weed. Even our constitution guards us against cruel and unusual punishment … how is criminalization of marijuana justice then?