{"id":3223,"date":"2004-11-05T00:31:00","date_gmt":"2004-11-05T05:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/?p=3223"},"modified":"2021-06-06T00:36:11","modified_gmt":"2021-06-06T04:36:11","slug":"defending-my-values","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/2004\/11\/05\/defending-my-values\/","title":{"rendered":"Defending My Values"},"content":{"rendered":"\n    All day I’ve been hearing how Americans disregarded Bush’s obvious gross incompetence and in favor of voting for his morsel values. I find this bewildering since the Republicans hardly have the monopoly on that. I’ve been preaching morsel values for years. Few things are as satisfying as finishing your drive-thru meal and then discovering there’s still a little left at the bottom of the bag!


Open your palm. Moisten a finger tip. Them’s good eating.<\/small><\/center>
    That’s not just for neocons. That’s free to all Americans. So I am alarmed that President Bush is saying yesterday’s vote allows him some exclusive claim on morsel values, or that it’s a special province according to one’s religious beliefs. It’s sad such an opinion is being voiced. It’s sad the media and punditry are falling in line behind it. It’s sad that we are allowing ourselves to believe it. The freedom to exercise morsel values is available to us all — just check the bottom of your bag.
    (And please note: just because I eat the occasional chicken strip and not bacon cheeseburgers every day does not make me some kind of queer.)\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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