{"id":54603,"date":"2015-08-02T09:30:28","date_gmt":"2015-08-02T14:30:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=54603"},"modified":"2015-07-29T11:38:16","modified_gmt":"2015-07-29T16:38:16","slug":"54603","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=54603","title":{"rendered":"Doakes Sunday:  Pick Your Poison"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>President Obama [last weekend]\u00a0\u00a0made a personal plea for gay rights during his visit to Kenya, warning that \u201cbad things happen\u201d when countries discriminate against certain groups of people.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>But Obama\u2019s call for universal gay rights was quickly dismissed by Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta, who described the issue as something \u201cour culture, our society does not accept.\u201d \u201cFor Kenyans today, the issue of gay rights is really a non-issue. We want to focus on other areas that are day-to-day living for our people,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>America\u2019s current obsession with fashionable sexual deviancies such as gay marriage and gender reassignment are signs of a decadent culture not long to survive.\u00a0 Kenyans can\u2019t afford to subsidize idlers and hangers-on, they need to work for a living.\u00a0 When Americans run out of Other People\u2019s Money to subsidize favored victims, our massive debts will be defaulted and the world economy will collapse again.\u00a0 At that point, those Americans who survive will be too busy trying to find food and shelter to worry about trigger warnings and micro-aggressions.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Enjoy it while it lasts, fellas.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Joe Doakes<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Prosperity is a two-edged sword; it makes it possible to solve intractable problems\u00a0&#8211; disease, Naziism &#8211;\u00a0while simultaneously giving us the leisure to develop new intractable problems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: President Obama [last weekend]\u00a0\u00a0made a personal plea for gay rights during his visit to Kenya, warning that \u201cbad things happen\u201d when countries discriminate against certain groups of people. &nbsp; But Obama\u2019s call for universal gay rights was quickly dismissed by Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta, who described the issue as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[321],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-big-left"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54603"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54603\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54605,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54603\/revisions\/54605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}