When is the last time you have changed your mind about something you believed?

[morninggirl5]

I changed my mind about the school where I'm going to be teaching. (The principal fucked up and didn't do any paperwork.) Once I had a chance to see the other offered school, the first one was no longer a possibility.

I changed my mind about my Capstone topic no less than five times.

I changed my mind about parents and schools. Weird Harold made me see that my idea was at the least overbearing and probably arrogant and condescending.

I changed my mind about several people this week. When the simple sight of their name gives me a headache, it's time to ignore them completely.

I changed my mind about the testing required by the education bill. (Texan hasn't been around since, but he pointed me to some good info about TAAS.)

 

[shadowsource]

Gored

I always knew Al Gore was a preachy little wimp-ass schmuck, and I happily helped trash him in the '88 New York primary, but Big Bill made him look better, so I supported him last year. If he had any backbone and vision, we'd have forgotten Bushie by now. Instead, we're supposed to be holding our breath while Al prepares his comeback!

If that idiot had had the gumption (!) to remind people about the environment during the election, he'd have been elected by sufficient margin that even Todd would accept it. Gore had only written a book about the environment, for Chirst's sake. But he thought he'd play it cool, live down his "green" rep. So now they move toward drilling in Alaska.

I blame that mealy-mouthed fool for many things. He didn't even try properly to carry his own state. When he comes around - and he will, soon - let's all tell him to fuck off.

Of course, he won't come HERE. That was a rhetorical point.

So that's the last time I changed my point about anything really important. I did alter my stance on the Gulf War about halfway through, and then they stopped it without geting rid of the bugger!

 

[rambling man]

dems would have been smart to change their mind and go bradley last time...I didnt support him either but he would have smashed Bush in the election

 

[Mensa]

Just asking

I used to be pro-Death Penalty, but the evidence against its effectiveness as a deterrent plus the fact that it costs much more than life imprisonment PLUS the possibility of my tax dollars going to murder an innocent person has changed my mind.

Do you really think society would be better off with Ted Bundy and Timothy McVeigh still with us?

 

[Mensa]

September 5, 1998 2:45 p.m.

I thought my favourite flavour was banana but I switched to strawberry!

 

[rambling man]

make the death penalty criteria the same as treason....signed confession or two witnesses

that would weed out any doubt and would still kill McVeigh

 

[shadowsource]

make the death penalty criteria the same as treason....signed confession or two witnesses

But Ramblin', McVeigh never confessed and there were no eyewitnesses.

Do you really think society would be better off with Ted Bundy and Timothy McVeigh still with us?

And Mensa: Yes, McVeigh would get bored and tell us who helped him, besides that pathetic Terry Nichols. Life in prison can be pretty evocative, I'm told. And if the Death panelty's so much worse than life without parole, why did McVeigh prefer it so much?

Sorry folks: I'm just figuring out how to use the text tricks. But I said what I meant, and meant what I said, and vice versa!

 

[rambling man]

as long as they dont kill the girl who just walked onto the craig kilborn show it's cool

im too tired to argue coherently unless its about sex

 

[Siren]

I used to think this place was full of mostly nice caring and interesting people

 

[Never]

Please, when was the last time I actually made up my mind about something?

 

[Mensa]

But Ramblin', McVeigh never confessed and there were no eyewitnesses.



And Mensa: Yes, McVeigh would get bored and tell us who helped him, besides that pathetic Terry Nichols. Life in prison can be pretty evocative, I'm told. And if the Death panelty's so much worse than life without parole, why did McVeigh prefer it so much?

Sorry folks: I'm just figuring out how to use the text tricks. But I said what I meant, and meant what I said, and vice versa!

Actually when finally facing his inevitable demise, McVeigh had a change of heart and decided that he didn't reallly want to die, but unfortunately for him there was the matter of his signed confession. Tough one to overcome that!

He originally wanted to die in order to become a martyr to "the cause". He would have lasted as long in prison alive as that other waste of skin and space who ate portions of his victims and whose name eludes me at the moment. I keep thinking John Wayne Gacy, but it wasnt him. Perhaps someone else can remember the freak's name, I don't really care to! He was stabbed to death in the prison showers.

The guy's name was Jeffery Dahmer.

 

[shadowsource]

McVeigh sidn't sign anything

He pretty much told some reporters from Buffalo that he'd done it. That in no way constitutes a confession. If I were framed for a vicious murder, I'd probably want the guys in prison to believe I'd done it, for my own security. Of course, McVeigh was guilty (and I believe he wanted to be caught, or he might just have put plates back on his car before trying to get away), but he never confessed in any way that's legally binding. For me, once he was caught, HE ceased to be a threat - the problem is: Who else helped him? Now we'll never know....