April 2013 Moms
ClandestineX
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Controversial GTKY
ClandestineX
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Just want to see some people's opinions on topics, other than breastfeeding or vaccines, that usually start wildfires.
1. Are you religious? Can you accept someone who has a different view as you on this?
2. Politics. Do you agree with the two party system or not? (Canadians, you can give me your view on your country's politics)
3. Pro-Life or Pro-Choice?
4. 2 Amendment or Pro-Gun Control or in the middle (Explain)?
5. Your view on Occupy Wall Street and/or Anonymous?
6. Are you Vegan/ Vegetarian or not? And do you support the other?
7. Do you believe in aliens?
8. What is one of your biggest pet peeves?
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Re: Controversial GTKY
Yes and yes
2. Politics. Do you agree with the two party system or not? (Canadians, you can give me your view on your country's politics)
As terrible as this is to admit as an adult, I'm not really a political person. I think it's great we get to vote for someone based on how alike our view points are but that's about as deep as that thought will go
3. Pro-Life or Pro-Choice?
I am such a middle of the road thinker. I can see both sides arguments. I think without abortions a lot of kids would be born into some effed up situations but I also think being irresponsible with your body and choices doesn't give you the right to decide who lives and who dies
4. 2 Amendment or Pro-Gun Control or in the middle (Explain)?
Again, middle of the road. America is based on freedom and the 2nd amendment gives us the freedom to own and carry a gun if you so choose but I also think things need to change when we keep having these tragedies whether 1 person or 1000 people die. People have ruined the2nd amendment for everyone. Is that fair, no, but that's life.
5. Your view on Occupy Wall Street and/or Anonymous?
I think it's great when people stand up for what they believe in and try to make a change
6. Are you Vegan/ Vegetarian or not? And do you support the other?
I used to be a vegetarian. I think it's important to be educated about what goes into your body. I fully support vegans and vegetarians
7. Do you believe in aliens?
No.
8. What is one of your biggest pet peeves?
Texting and driving. And cell phones. Everything about cell phones. If it was possible to live in 2013 without one, I would in a heartbeat
(I know it's technically possible, but you get what I'm saying)
ETA: after reading my post, I totally sound like a hippie...
2. Politics. Do you agree with the two party system or not? No.
3. Pro-Life or Pro-Choice? Pro choice but I don't think abortions should be used as birth control. Incest, rape, if carrying the baby puts the mother's life at risk, and a few others I think abortion is "ok".
4. 2 Amendment or Pro-Gun Control or in the middle (Explain)? I think guns are ok but with regulations and stricter laws.
5. Your view on Occupy Wall Street and/or Anonymous? I don't feel like I have done enough research to have an educated opinion about this.
6. Are you Vegan/ Vegetarian or not? And do you support the other? Not vegan. I am fine if people want to be vegan. I'm not sure I agree with people forcing their children to be. As long as the child is getting everything they need from their diet I guess I am ok with it.
7. Do you believe in aliens? Yes.
8. What is one of your biggest pet peeves? When someone thinks they are entitled to something they personally haven't worked towards or earned.
I am religious but don't attend church. I was raised in a Christian church and still hold those beliefs. People are free to believe what they want. I enjoy hearing others' beliefs, but I do NOT wish to discuss or debate about it. To each his own.
2. Politics. Do you agree with the two party system or not? (Canadians, you can give me your view on your country's politics)
No opinion on politics. My views are moderate.
3. Pro-Life or Pro-Choice?
My instinct is to say life. But I would want to have a choice if put in an extreme situation. I believe people will be judged for their actions, so choose wisely.
4. 2 Amendment or Pro-Gun Control or in the middle (Explain)?
2A all the way. Why should the bad guys be the only ones armed? Gun control will not stop criminals from getting guns any more than the war on drugs has stopped people from dealing and using. I firmly believe that a properly secured gun is the difference between life and death in a home invasion. I want to keep the right to protect my family. I do support more extensive background checks to make it harder for the mentally ill to get guns.
5. Your view on Occupy Wall Street and/or Anonymous?
No opinion on this.
6. Are you Vegan/ Vegetarian or not? And do you support the other?
Definitely not. I only know one person who is, and he always makes it an issue at family gatherings, even though we prepare foods especially for him. I find him annoying, but I'm sure it's his personality that makes him so.
7. Do you believe in aliens?
Anything is possible.
8. What is one of your biggest pet peeves?
So many...I'm a total pessimist. But cigarette smoking is a big one.
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2. Politics: generally a democrat, but I agree that there is substantial room for improvement in the US.
3. Pro-life. I don't love that term either, but like to think I fall into the broader category of being pro-life (anti death penalty, pro universal access to health care,etc.). I was also kind of torn on this issue until I saw my son's heart beating at 6 weeks gestation. For me, it ceased to be a choice at that point.
4. Guns scare the crap out of me.
5. OWS did seem like kind of an ineffective joke as far as protests go. I'll admit I've never heard of the other. My early confession I guess is that I am terrible about keeping up with the news lately.
6. I like beef, but to each their own.
7. There is probably some other life form out there.
8. Audible gum chewing. I don't need to hear your spit, TYVM.
Happy anniversary!
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I was baptized Catholic, but my family wasn't religious at all, I think it was more of a formality to give me godparents. We did the same thing with B and had her baptized by the gay Episcopalian priest who married us. He is one of the smartest, most loving men I've ever met and he opened the ceremony by saying that he understood that we weren't religious in the traditional sense, but to take the words to mean whatever we want them to mean and that the one thing we could all agree on was that we want to raise B in light and steer her away from darkness. So I guess I'm in the general, 'God is love' camp. Spiritual, but not religious.
I have no problem with what anyone else believes - to each their own - but I have a strong-held belief in the separation of church and state. I don't want your religious beliefs imposed on my life in any way.
I'm another registered libertarian. I'd classify myself as fiscally conservative and socially liberal.
I hate the terms pro-choice and pro-life. I think these terms turn the issue into one that seems black and white, when it's actually a lot more complicated than that. I strongly support abortion rights. I strongly support a woman's right to decide what happens with her body.
I would lean towards limiting them after say, twelve weeks, but then you get into the situation where a woman could be forced to carry a severely handicapped child, or one who would die shortly after birth, to term because she didn't find out that was the case until the anatomy scan. That doesn't seem right to me, but more fundamentally, it's not a decision I have a right to make for her. That's between her and her doctor.
I'm totally in the middle on this one. I support the right to own guns, but I think we need much tighter background checks and I don't think we need assault rifles or high-capacity magazines.
I also think that gun owners should be required to buy liability insurance. Just like you have to have car insurance to cover any injuries or property damage you inflict on others with your car, you should have to hold liability insurance for any guns you own.
As far as occupy is concerned, I think the sentiment was dead-on, but the execution was awful. I think there was genuine momentum in the beginning and a definite opportunity for change, but it was completely wasted and lost in the disorganization of the movement.
I eat meat, but am very selective about it. I feel really strongly about the humane treatment of animals and the idea that they should be respected and treated with kindness even if they're being raised for food. By eating meat, I don't want to be indirectly responsible for the torture of animals.
I eat only grass-fed, local organic beef from small farms and organic free-range, local poultry and pork. I also buy eggs produced from organic, free-range chickens. I don't eat meat at every meal and rarely when I eat out, unless I can be sure of the source. If it's a farm-to-table restaurant in Brooklyn, I'll have the steak; if it's a Ruby Tuesdays I'll be eating veggies.
The odds of there being intelligent life other than us somewhere out there seem pretty good to me. I would be much more surprised if we were alone.
Can't limit it to one. People who tailgate, mean people, Monsanto and the Toxic Substances Control Act of 1976. :-q
2. Politics. Do you agree with the two party system or not? I am a pretty hard-core Democrat, but I wish we had more real options here in the US. I'm quite fed up with politics right now and I think the two-party system has become incredibly divisive. I also feel that both parties (although IMO this applies more to conservatives) ignore what the people they represent want in favor of their own political future.
3. Pro-Life or Pro-Choice? Pro choice. I am against late term abortions (when the baby is viable outside the womb) except in the case of life/health of the mother, because at that point, it is a totally separate life we're talking about. I find it so ridiculous that so many "pro-lifers" are those who are in favor of less government assistance and interference in their lives. It doesn't get much "bigger government" than the government dictating what a woman must do with her own body.
4. 2 Amendment or Pro-Gun Control or in the middle (Explain)? Pro gun control and totally against assault weapons. Why on earth any private citizen has a need for a military-grade weapon is beyond me. There is no argument there that makes sense.
5. Your view on Occupy Wall Street and/or Anonymous? While I don't think these movements tend to accomplish what they set out to, I agree with the sentiment.
6. Are you Vegan/ Vegetarian or not? And do you support the other? I eat and love meat, but I certainly don't care if other people are vegetarian or vegan.
7. Do you believe in aliens? While I very much doubt that aliens are the little green men of science fiction, I am 99.99% sure there is other life out there. It's kind of ignorant to think only our planet has life.
8. What is one of your biggest pet peeves? Leaving dishes in the sink overnight, nail biting, and loud cereal chewing/soup slurping.
ClandestineX There is a lot of US appeasing, and it drives me mad (For the record I am NOT anti-American, I just love my country and what makes us Canada). Our current Prime Minister is very fond of the American way of running things and is trying and in some ways succeeding in implementing legislation that has a very "American" feel to it.
The problem with this is that we are not the US, we are Canada and we need to retain what makes us Canadian, such as public health care and services, and a more rehabilitative criminal system... all of which are taking hits under his "reign." He is undoing years and years of work, in just a few omnibus bills that get pushed through without a closer look since we currently have a majority government. This is just scratching the surface of my irritation with our current government.
Let me explain further, since it is a majority government it would seem as though the majority of Canada voted Harper himself into power, this is not so for a number of reasons.
Reason number one we as citizens vote in our MPs or Members of Parliament and have no say as to who the leaders of the parties will be. This also means that as we vote for our MP we are voting based on their platform for our area which can be different from the greater party, meaning although we may be liberal at heart- we might vote conservative, or green, or NDP (Or any number of other parties) based on what they want to do for our area and not necessarily what their party wants to do for the country.
Reason number two, as I mentioned before we have a wide variety of political parties. There are four main parties, Liberal, Conservative, NDP, and Green. On the political spectrum Canada's parties are mainly to the left with Conservative riding just right of the middle. This means that if you feel that you are to the right there is one party for you to vote for. If you are to the left there are at least three parties for you to vote for which splits the vote.
So back to the "majority" government, it can be swayed by voting for local matters over national matters and it can also seem as though most Canadians wanted the conservative government, when in reality of all the people who voted (a pathetically small percentage), most people did not in fact vote conservative, but instead for a different party.
Sorry for the novel, and sorry if it is confusing. I still don't understand it all.
I am not entirely familiar with the second Amendment (Canadian). BUT gun control all the way.
They certainly do a good job at bringing attention to their causes, but I am not sure that they accomplish all that they wish to. OWS needs more organization. I don't know about the ethics of Anonymous, but I am not going to disagree with them entirely.
Nope. Eat what you like, but be educated about it.
Yep, not tiny green men. The universe is infinite, there is definitely other life out there.
Bullying in all its forms.
1. Are you religious? Can you accept someone who has a different view as you on this?
I was raised Catholic but I really can't bring myself to identify with it anymore. To be fair, the new Pope seems cool, but I would say I identify more as spiritual than religious. A higher power makes sense to me and I believe things happen for a reason.
2. Politics. Do you agree with the two party system or not? (Canadians, you can give me your view on your country's politics)
I hate politics so much. It seems like everyone wants the same things on a basic level and just complicate things for the purpose of a fight. I tend to vote Democrat, but would also vote Republican if I agreed with their stance.
3. Pro-Life or Pro-Choice?
Prior to pregnancy I would have said pro-choice and there are instances I probably still would be. But with so many couples unable to get pregnant, I'm pro-adoption if you don't want to keep a baby.
4. 2 Amendment or Pro-Gun Control or in the middle (Explain)?
More regulations. I don't think a thorough background check is asking too much in exchange for a firearm.
5. Your view on Occupy Wall Street and/or Anonymous?
I appreciate what they are trying to do, but it's not for me.
6. Are you Vegan/ Vegetarian or not? And do you support the other?
7. Do you believe in aliens?
Only if they believe us.
8. What is one of your biggest pet peeves?
One-uppers. Especially when it's not a competition.
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1. Are you religious? Can you accept someone who has a different view as you on this?
I am not personally religious. I was raised Catholic and went to Catholic schools but was taught by more of the "liberal" social justice sort of Catholics ... you know, the kind associated with Jesuits. That does make a difference, actually, and a lot of the things I was taught was not exactly on the same page as the Vatican.
I respect your beliefs, but, please, don't try to convert me and stop trying when I ask you to.
I'm agnostic but I do believe that religion teaches good value systems and wouldn't hesitate to send my child to a religious school.
I do not believe in a two party system and I try to vote for my candidate of choice on party lines that are NOT Democrat or Republican. So, when I voted for Obama, I voted for him on another party line, like the Working Families or whatever. I believe that having a two party system is a recipe for exactly the kind of issues we have in Congress. We need a Parliamentary system.
Pro-Choice, but personally Pro-Life.
I've thought extensively about gun control in light of the Newtown shootings and have blogged about it quite a bit. I'm not against guns. I'm not against people owning many guns. But I do believe that people need to be trained how to use them and background checks need to be more thorough without marginalizing those who sought the help of mental health specialists for things like depression.
I was a vegetarian for many years. To each their own.
If I'm agnostic, I can hardly say that I can believe one way or another in aliens. Is it likely? Probably not. Is it neat to think about? Sure.
Holier than thou people. People who don't use their turn signals. People who snap their gum.
1. Are you religious? Can you accept someone who has a different view as you on this?
I am not religious. I have absolutely no problem with other people's religious views except when they try to impose those views on others, or when they want their country's laws to align with their religious teachings. I am a firm believer in the separation of church and state.
2. Politics. Do you agree with the two party system or not? (Canadians, you can give me your view on your country's politics)
While there are many flaws in the Canadian system of government, our constitution is exceedingly difficult (pretty much impossible) to amend, so I don't waste any energy arguing that we should change it. I am diametrically opposed to the political views of our current Prime Minister. I cannot wait until he is no longer in office (who knows when that will be). I think his policies are racist, sexist, intolerant, and outdated.
3. Pro-Life or Pro-Choice?
Pro-choice, for the reason that adult women should be respected as autonomous individuals that have the right and ability to make decisions about their own bodies. I don't think I personally would ever get an abortion (barring extreme circumstances), but women, as adult humans, should be able to make the medical decisions that are right for them. We don't allow the law to dictate that men can't receive certain medical treatments... /end feminist rant.
4. 2 Amendment or Pro-Gun Control or in the middle (Explain)?
As a Canadian, I am very much a pacifist, and am very pro-gun control. I personally see no need whatsoever to own a gun. If others want to own them for hunting, fine, but other than that, no.
5. Your view on Occupy Wall Street and/or Anonymous?
OWS: Too disorganized to have an effective impact, although I agree with the sentiment. Anonymous: I am not a fan of vigilante justice.
6. Are you Vegan/ Vegetarian or not? And do you support the other?
Nope. Sure.
7. Do you believe in aliens?
Yes - the statistical probability of other lifeforms existing in the universe is very high. I don't necessarily believe that aliens have visited Earth.
8. What is one of your biggest pet peeves?
There are a ton, so I will lump them together under the heading of irrationality/fanaticism. I think that most of the craziness around these topics stems from this problem, and if everyone was to appreciate every other person as a fully autonomous individual worthy of respect and the ability to shape their own life, a lot of these issues would go away.
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Nov siggy challenge: animals eating Thanksgiving food
Rhys - born 04.17.2013
Harry - born 04.18.2016
@pinottoparenthood Believe me, I totally get it. I work in an urban high school EBD program + I coach a high schoolers. My pet peeves = my life too!
~10.23.10 - Mr&Mrs ~ 04.12.13 - Daddy&Mommy~
Every Super Star needs a Sidekick! Miss B. is being promoted to BIG SIS ~ January 2015!
Baby GIRL #2 is due Jan. 7, 2015!