{"id":280,"date":"2006-02-02T14:53:54","date_gmt":"2006-02-02T18:53:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.prosebeforehos.com\/alec\/02\/02\/so-give-me-what-i-want\/index.html"},"modified":"2012-12-26T20:56:29","modified_gmt":"2012-12-27T01:56:29","slug":"so-give-me-what-i-want","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prosebeforehos.com\/alec\/02\/02\/so-give-me-what-i-want\/","title":{"rendered":"So give me what I want?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So I think for the sake of giving a frame of reference for my perspective to the few people that are daily perusing this site and for the hopes that someone out there has similar thoughts to me, here is where I think I stand politically:<\/p>\n<ul>Abortion &#8211; I disagree with it on a personal level &#8212; I don&#8217;t think I could be involved with one &#8212; but I don&#8217;t think I have the right to take away that right from someone else<\/p>\n<p>Republicans and Democrats are equally deleterious.  Democrats work on ulterior motives, Republicans make their motives known.<\/p>\n<p>My view is the same on the Middle East.  I&#8217;m <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/world\/middle_east\/4294502.stm\">no fan of Israel<\/a>, and I am no fan of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chron.com\/disp\/story.mpl\/world\/3621735.html\">other side either<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I think we went into Iraq for all the wrong reasons, and I think the Administration in conjunction with intelligence agencies <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Yellowcake_forgery\">manipulated evidence to justify a war on Iraq<\/a> domestically and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Downing_street_memo\">abroad<\/a>.  I do think that getting rid of Saddam Hussein was good.<\/p>\n<p>Who seriously cares if gay people get married?  It doesn&#8217;t affect me and there is no &#8216;sanctity&#8217; of marriage.  The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.divorcereform.org\/rates.html\">divorce rates in America<\/a> are nearing 50 percent:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;the proportion of marriages taking place right now that will eventually divorce, which has since been revised downward to roughly 43% by the National Center for Health Statistics but was moved back up to around 50% by the Census Bureau in 2002.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I think &#8216;values&#8217; are a smoke-screen that Republicans use to get the poor, ignorant, and white to vote for them.  I think &#8216;economics&#8217; are a smoke-screen that Democrats to make the poor and ignorant think they don&#8217;t represent the same wealthy interests the Republicans do.<\/p>\n<p>Afghanistan &#8211; good. United Nations &#8212; decent, needs reforms.  Capitalism bad, Democracy good.  European Union, good but flawed. I hate the Yankees and the Lakers, the Washington Times is not a newspaper, nor is Fox News &#8216;news&#8217;. The government is a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.prosebeforehos.com\/author\/government_employee\/\">joke<\/a> and China is a looming threat.<\/p>\n<p>Else than that, you can assume I make a common sense approach to my thoughts.  I&#8217;d go more in detail, but this can only go on for so long.<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So I think for the sake of giving a frame of reference for my perspective to the few people that are daily perusing this site and for the hopes that someone out there has similar thoughts to me, here is where I think I stand politically: Abortion &#8211; I disagree with it on a personal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[259],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>So give me what I want? - Prose Before Hos<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"So I think for the sake of giving a frame of reference for my perspective to the few people that are daily perusing this site and for the hopes that\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.prosebeforehos.com\/alec\/02\/02\/so-give-me-what-i-want\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"So give me what I want? 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