{"id":56,"date":"2004-11-07T17:40:00","date_gmt":"2004-11-07T23:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/of2minds.org\/michael\/?p=56"},"modified":"2004-11-07T17:40:00","modified_gmt":"2004-11-07T23:40:00","slug":"whats-your-stand-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/of2minds.org\/michael\/2004\/11\/07\/whats-your-stand-on\/","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s your stand on&#8230;?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/tnh.livejournal.com\/\" class=\"lj-user\">tnh<\/a><\/p>\n<p><center><\/p>\n<div align=\"center\" style=\"width:450px;\">\n<table style=\"border:0px;width:450px;\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\">\n<tr>\n<td colspan=\"2\">\n<p style=\"font-family:Verdana;font-size:14px;font-weight:bold;color:#fff;background-color:#1F5892;width:450px;text-align:center;padding:5px;padding-bottom:0px;margin:0px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bzoink.com\/surveys.php?id=3013\" style=\"color:#fff;\" title=\"What is your stand on.....\">What is your stand on&#8230;..<\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td colspan=\"2\">\n<p style=\"font-family:Verdana;font-size:11px;color:#fff;background-color:#1F5892;width:450px;text-align:center;padding:5px;margin:0px;\"><em>Created by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bzoink.com\/users.php?id=spyndakitrose\" style=\"color:#fff;\" title=\"User Profile\">spyndakitrose<\/a> and taken 15494 times on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bzoink.com\" style=\"color:#fff;\" title=\"bzoink!\">bzoink!<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"font-family:Verdana;background-color:#3886D3;padding:5px;font-size:12px;color:#fff;text-align:right;\">Abortion?<\/td>\n<td style=\"background-color:#8AB8E6;color:#000;font-size:12px;padding:5px;text-align:left;\">A legal choice for every woman.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"font-family:Verdana;background-color:#3886D3;padding:5px;font-size:12px;color:#fff;text-align:right;\">Death Penalty?<\/td>\n<td style=\"background-color:#8AB8E6;color:#000;font-size:12px;padding:5px;text-align:left;\">The state should not have the power to kill people. Period.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"font-family:Verdana;background-color:#3886D3;padding:5px;font-size:12px;color:#fff;text-align:right;\">Prostitution?<\/td>\n<td style=\"background-color:#8AB8E6;color:#000;font-size:12px;padding:5px;text-align:left;\">Make it legal and then regulate it.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"font-family:Verdana;background-color:#3886D3;padding:5px;font-size:12px;color:#fff;text-align:right;\">Alcohol?<\/td>\n<td style=\"background-color:#8AB8E6;color:#000;font-size:12px;padding:5px;text-align:left;\">Single-malt, by preference.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"font-family:Verdana;background-color:#3886D3;padding:5px;font-size:12px;color:#fff;text-align:right;\">Marijuana?<\/td>\n<td style=\"background-color:#8AB8E6;color:#000;font-size:12px;padding:5px;text-align:left;\">Legalize, regulate and tax.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"font-family:Verdana;background-color:#3886D3;padding:5px;font-size:12px;color:#fff;text-align:right;\">Other drugs?<\/td>\n<td style=\"background-color:#8AB8E6;color:#000;font-size:12px;padding:5px;text-align:left;\">Some are just insanely unsafe, but for many others, legalize, regulate and tax.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"font-family:Verdana;background-color:#3886D3;padding:5px;font-size:12px;color:#fff;text-align:right;\">Gay marriage?<\/td>\n<td style=\"background-color:#8AB8E6;color:#000;font-size:12px;padding:5px;text-align:left;\">Either the same as heterosexual marriage, or the state entirely out of the marriage business<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"font-family:Verdana;background-color:#3886D3;padding:5px;font-size:12px;color:#fff;text-align:right;\">Illegal immigrants?<\/td>\n<td style=\"background-color:#8AB8E6;color:#000;font-size:12px;padding:5px;text-align:left;\">Stop looking the other way while these people are exploited as cheap labor to line the pockets of American businesses.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"font-family:Verdana;background-color:#3886D3;padding:5px;font-size:12px;color:#fff;text-align:right;\">Smoking?<\/td>\n<td style=\"background-color:#8AB8E6;color:#000;font-size:12px;padding:5px;text-align:left;\">Take it outside, or, better yet, just quit.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"font-family:Verdana;background-color:#3886D3;padding:5px;font-size:12px;color:#fff;text-align:right;\">Drunk driving?<\/td>\n<td style=\"background-color:#8AB8E6;color:#000;font-size:12px;padding:5px;text-align:left;\">Jail time on the second offense.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"font-family:Verdana;background-color:#3886D3;padding:5px;font-size:12px;color:#fff;text-align:right;\">Cloning?<\/td>\n<td style=\"background-color:#8AB8E6;color:#000;font-size:12px;padding:5px;text-align:left;\">Research and regulate.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"font-family:Verdana;background-color:#3886D3;padding:5px;font-size:12px;color:#fff;text-align:right;\">Racism?<\/td>\n<td style=\"background-color:#8AB8E6;color:#000;font-size:12px;padding:5px;text-align:left;\">A way for those in power to set people with common interests against each other.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"font-family:Verdana;background-color:#3886D3;padding:5px;font-size:12px;color:#fff;text-align:right;\">Premarital sex?<\/td>\n<td style=\"background-color:#8AB8E6;color:#000;font-size:12px;padding:5px;text-align:left;\">Yes.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"font-family:Verdana;background-color:#3886D3;padding:5px;font-size:12px;color:#fff;text-align:right;\">Religion?<\/td>\n<td style=\"background-color:#8AB8E6;color:#000;font-size:12px;padding:5px;text-align:left;\">Freedom of, and, where the government is involved, freedom from.  Worship your god(s) and leave me alone.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"font-family:Verdana;background-color:#3886D3;padding:5px;font-size:12px;color:#fff;text-align:right;\">The war in Iraq?<\/td>\n<td style=\"background-color:#8AB8E6;color:#000;font-size:12px;padding:5px;text-align:left;\">A bad idea from when G.W. first started lying about it, and now an endless, bloody quagmire.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"font-family:Verdana;background-color:#3886D3;padding:5px;font-size:12px;color:#fff;text-align:right;\">Bush?<\/td>\n<td style=\"background-color:#8AB8E6;color:#000;font-size:12px;padding:5px;text-align:left;\">Liar, thief, and deluded fool.  <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"font-family:Verdana;background-color:#3886D3;padding:5px;font-size:12px;color:#fff;text-align:right;\">Downloading music?<\/td>\n<td style=\"background-color:#8AB8E6;color:#000;font-size:12px;padding:5px;text-align:left;\">Try, then buy.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"font-family:Verdana;background-color:#3886D3;padding:5px;font-size:12px;color:#fff;text-align:right;\">The legal drinking age?<\/td>\n<td style=\"background-color:#8AB8E6;color:#000;font-size:12px;padding:5px;text-align:left;\">21 works, but 19 may be fair too.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"font-family:Verdana;background-color:#3886D3;padding:5px;font-size:12px;color:#fff;text-align:right;\">Porn?<\/td>\n<td style=\"background-color:#8AB8E6;color:#000;font-size:12px;padding:5px;text-align:left;\">Hardly the problem some make it out to be.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"font-family:Verdana;background-color:#3886D3;padding:5px;font-size:12px;color:#fff;text-align:right;\">Suicide?<\/td>\n<td style=\"background-color:#8AB8E6;color:#000;font-size:12px;padding:5px;text-align:left;\">Assisted suicide should be legal, with plenty of safeguards.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td colspan=\"2\">\n<p style=\"font-family:Verdana;font-size:12px;color:#fff;background-color:#1F5892;text-align:center;padding:15px;padding-bottom:10px;margin:0px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bzoink.com\/create.php\" style=\"color:#fff;\" title=\"Create a Survey\">Create a Survey<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bzoink.com\/search.php\" style=\"color:#fff;\" title=\"Search Surveys\">Search Surveys<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bzoink.com\" style=\"color:#fff;\" title=\"bzoink!\">Go to bzoink!<\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>via tnh What is your stand on&#8230;.. Created by spyndakitrose and taken 15494 times on bzoink! Abortion? A legal choice for every woman. Death Penalty? The state should not have the power to kill people. Period. Prostitution? Make it legal and then regulate it. Alcohol? Single-malt, by preference. Marijuana? Legalize, regulate and tax. 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