ok, well, i didn't watch it, but suffice to say, i'm damn glad boston asshole rob did not get the other million dollars. for all his so-called manipulating "smarts" he's a true dumbass. didn't i say that if he took amber with him to the final two, he'd be walking away without the money? course, he gets it anyhow now doesn't he? so i guess thinking with his dick did work out for him in the end. now i hear they're going to do a tristan thing and sell the rights to their wedding to the highest network bidder. yep, that's right folks, nothing is sacred anymore, not even love and marriage(course, fox proved that to us some time back).

now onto the other idiots. no wonder the rest of the world thinks americans are the stupidest people. while we tell dumb pollack jokes, they tell stupid american ones.

i'm of course talking about the iraqi prisoner abuse "scandal" only an american would be dumb enough to put the whole thing on film. my husband's russian friend says they're all laughing about it. i mean, we're talking about a country whose present is not too far removed from the sensory deprivation of the kgb.

listen folks, that's not nothing other countries haven't done before. but we were stupid enough to leave printed proof(omg, how that makes me chuckle) and get caught.

now hey, before everyone starts jumpin my ass saying how horrible it all was, and what an unfeeling bitch i am, let me stress, i'm not by any means saying it was the right thing to do.

however, every country, yes even the so-called civilized ones, used different techniques to gain information. most are through painful and psychological torture.

we americans just have a thing for humiliation, and let's face it, we're like a bunch of giggling second graders when it comes to nudity. i mean we live for humiliation, don't we? why else would we be such reality tv freaks? and look at all the people who willingly go on jerry springer.

but our humiliation tactics go waaaaay back to the stockades and scarlett letters, both ways of humiliating the "criminal"

public execution is another form of humiliation. we made people walk up on a scaffold, stare at a crowd of people who hooted and hollared negative things, before fitting a rope around their neck and hanging them publically. i mean really, now humiliating is that, especially if the bodily functions release all over the place.

but humiliation is not a thing of the past. we still practice it here today.

one judge decided to make those convicted of drunk driving plaster a bumpersticker on their cars stating so. another one insisted drunk driving offenders place a sign in their yard.

sexual predators have to register with the city, and in some cases, have to go door to door telling neighbors he's now living in their neighborhood.

local newspapers print a list of people who don't pay their taxes, and it's been stated(here at least) that it's for no other reason than to humilate the deadbeat.

and last but not least, several years ago, my husband was in minnasota visiting a friend. while there, a guy was fixing to "serve" his punishment for drunk driving. the punishment was a public lashing in downtown minniapolis. Huge crowds gathered, they sold beer, t-shirts and bumperstickers as reminders of the day. they covered it on the tv and radio.

imagine how humiliating it is to have thousands of people hear you scream like a girl.

everyone of us has at some time or another suffered a great humiliation. notice we're still here and living. some people never get over said humiliations...but the strong ones do, dusting themselves off and going on with their lives.

so punish the soldiers responsible(and please make sure we get the higher ups that ordered it and should be responsible for their soldiers' behaviors, isn't that why they have a chain of command in the first place?), but by all means, next time leave the camera in your footlocker, dumbasses.