Messages By: marianparoo

I think in many cases, the folks who get conned aren't that innocent to start with.

Sometimes they are pitifully dumb, but sometimes, esp. in financial cons, are out to make an illegal buck themselves.

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I mean I do not understand these people!

I'll tell you why I am amused.

Because one of the slogans I learned very early in life is - "If it sounds too good to be true, it usually is!"

I do have a certain amount of sympathy for the "I love you" stuff, though if someone said they loved me to death, I would still keep my separate checking account.  Someone who loves you doesn't ask you to give up everything you have for them.

But those people who "invest" sums like 100,000 or even 500,000 in what they are told is a tax-free deal aren't feel sorry for material - they are greedy, greedy, greedy. They aren't people with 10,000 trying to make it  go further, they are greedy people who want more and more.

Not that I don't care mind you,it's just not the subject here.

I would expect any church, mosque or synagogue to check the credentials of anyone working there, too.

I think you are so right :  the couple should understand  that they are married by their own faith and spirit.

I don't like women who dress like, um. uh, working girls, but what really scares me is people who think they are better and more moral than others.

Given the choice I'd rather sit next to a woman who has embraced a hooker look than someone who is looking forward to the end of the world and is dressed for it.

Double jeopardy is one of the finest advances of the American justice system and something to be proud of. If sometimes it lets murders like Simpson off, we just have to sadly live with it, because without it, we'd be seeing a lot of innocent people tormented.

And I think Goldman turned the corner with the book thing - it's getting really difficult to feel for him. Me, anyway.

Considering that many psychopaths claim that they received a message from God to kill certain people, I don't see how religion in the classroom will have any effect on children that are psychotic or sociopathic.

I think this is a horrifying situation, and really don't think that other than intense inpatient treatment there is a solution (and even that fails at times).

I rememer reading in the late 1960s that some states had laws where a man (only a man) had to compensate a woman if he jilted her (nothing if she jilted him).

Are these laws still on the books?

I think that they were afraid of rioting should OJ have been found guilty, but knew that they had to charge and try him.

Remember that they didn't even say they were going for the death penalty?

Not necessarily.

Not all people with schizophrenia are violent.