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Dear Susie: I love rainbows and lollipops and Mickey Mouse. I love long walks on the beaches.
Uhh, let’s stay away from beaches, though.
And I love taking long, leisurely drives …
But let me drive, m’kay?
Dear Susan:
I want to have kids, but I’m afraid they’ll be too big to fit in car seats, so you won’t legally be able to drive them into a lake…
Actually it’s against my religion to drive and it should be against yours, too.
How 'bout them Braves? They really killed the Cubs the past few days … do you think they can keep the Cubs under .500 in the other two games of the series? Maybe their fans can drown their sorrows in some beers.
Randall Simon really ought to be jailed for taking a bat to the head of that sausage a few days ago. I bet his wife thought he’d never do something like that.
I went swimming a few days ago. The pool was only an inch deep so the kids couldn’t drown even if they fell in and got smothered.
Love,
me.
You know, sometimes it’s good to be judgemental.
I had that happen when I was 19.
A convicted child molester answered my personal ad in the Wisconsin gay magazine.
It was a serious moment of ick.
Not in a million years would I waste paper and stamps on her.
She’s really sweet-looking.
I don’t know if growth and maturity are really what you need to come back from something like that. If she had instead said, “I am considerably less murderously unbalanced since I’ve been in here,” I might be a bit more interested.
Even still, she’s way higher-up on my “to do” list than, say, Karla Homolka.
I am having a tremendous amount of fun reading all of the personals on that site.
Who could pass up a chance to get to know someone who is “…educated, graduated and knowledgeable in area’s that does not come with instruction manuals.” ‘Area’s’ such as home invasion and breaking and entering!
You beat me to it, Andy Licious. I was going to post in the Pit about this very same thing today. That website has asked her to remove the ad. Last night our local news said she had received over 800 emails already.
Gah.
[slight hijack]
This one hits close to home. I knew Susan Smith when I was a teenager–our church youth groups played softball together and one of my mother’s best friends was her children’s babysitter and was one of the last people to see them alive. Everyone always thought Susan was a really “nice girl” and she was one of those people that fit the cliched saying about murderers, “I never thought she’d do something like that–she was such a nice girl!”
(I’ve always wondered, does anyone ever say things like, “Yep, I always thought s/he was evil–I’m not surprised one bit that s/he killed 14 people and buried them in the basement”?)
[/slight hijack]
Sort of a hijack: In her book “Motherhood, the Second Oldest Profession,” Erma Bombeck writes in the introduction: This book was written too late for Judy, a woman in her early 20’s I met through a brief correspondence who was in prison for the unspeakable crime of killing her child. Withdrawn, unable to communicate, and living in her own private hell, she spent her days in solitaire reading and re-reading my earlier books. Later she wrote to me: Had I known mothers could laugh at these things, I probably wouldn’t be where I am today.
I do agree though, that Susan Smith is a serious problem of ick.
Well, a guy my husband knew in college committed sexual assault with a healthy dose of plain assault and attempted murder tacked on. My husband says he was always an ass and never nice.
Damn. I checked the site and Diane Downs is not listed.
I bet her and Susan could have lovely chats about drowning vs shooting your children, about being so desperate for love you’d kill… about the difficulty of being a modern day Medea.
:rolleyes:
Come on, there’s no need to be so cruel. Justice was served, the woman is in prison having received her punishment. Now is the time for forgiveness to begin. Christian Dopers should understand this (people of other moral persuasion may continue their slamming of this woman).
UnuMondo
From her ad:
Quite a jaring juxtaposition.
You know, I think deliberately drowning your kids makes you subject to people being judgemental. If we can’t be judgemental about that, it’s time to throw in the towel.
Maybe I’m just picky, but I don’t think religious leanings play here. I’m fairly sure that a lot of people agree that people who kill children, especially their own, deserve the scorn they get.
hardygrrl: as fun as that sounds… nope. Go back and reread - it’s God’s job to be judgemental. We have to forgive the goat-felching asshat.
“If you like Pina Coladas, and getting caught with a shiv.
If you’re not in solitary, if the governor will forgive
If you like making love at midnight, but find that cell floors will scrape
I’m the lady you’ve looked for, write to me, I’ll escape”
Well, I ain’t no steenkin’ Christian, so I can be as judgmental as I wanna be.
Besides, what the Bible actually says is “Do not judge, or you too will be judged. For in the same way you judge others, you will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you.”
I don’t personally have any problem with being held up to the standard that if I ever drown small children I will be judged harshly.
Well, there’s two nice things about being a atheist right there. I can still be judgemental toward child-killers and I won’t go to hell for cracking up over the immediately preceding post.