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So contrary to my better judgement I’ve decided to post an old video of myself at the GOP convention back in the day. I remember I was a big Republican, back when I really just wanted to be different than my parents and I was told that abortion was murder. Anyway one good thing that came from this was that I did a "mock" news reporting for the GOP convention. Yes this is me in 2000, when I was about 12ish. I was probably just about to turn 13. Anyway, hopefully you’ll get a kick out of it.

Was surprised to find this, among other things, two days ago during the financial crisis on wall street:

I was thinking about a statistic I had seen the other day about how only a little over 1/3 of Americans believe that the death penalty is immoral and should be removed from the justice system. I find it actually quite appalling, since I happen to be a staunch opponent of the death penalty for a number of reasons. It is for this reason that I’m writing this article. I hope that some people will read it and have it open their eyes to the complete foolishness of the death penalty.

I believe there are two types of individuals in this issue. People that have really thought about it, and people that haven’t (or won’t). People that have really thought hard about it may have originally been for it, or following some chain events, came to analyze the mounds of sociological evidence and decided against it. Or rather, they carefully examined the reasoning behind their morality, and found it to be contradictory. Those who haven’t thought about it usually have some pretty shallow justifications for their beliefs. Beliefs that are not ground in morality or logic, but in raw emotion. Unfortunately for them, raw emotion doesn’t make you right or rational.

So what I’m going to do is this. I’m going to prove that if you believe in the death penalty, you are irrational (meaning you aren’t using logic in your argument and therefore your argument is not valid), and furthermore, I’m going to prove that you don’t care about anyone but yourself. In short, I’m going to try and make you look like a bad person. If you don’t support the death penalty, then you have nothing to worry about. Don’t believe me…follow carefully. Oh and I promise to be a little less bias in the rest of the article.

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