{"id":613,"date":"2017-02-04T22:06:50","date_gmt":"2017-02-05T05:06:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blastedscience.com\/?p=613"},"modified":"2017-02-06T13:19:49","modified_gmt":"2017-02-06T20:19:49","slug":"our-political-agenda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blastedscience.com\/our-political-agenda\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Political Agenda"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blastedscience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/corruption.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-627 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/blastedscience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/corruption-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"Political Corruption\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blastedscience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/corruption-1024x682.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/blastedscience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/corruption-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/blastedscience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/corruption-400x266.jpg 400w, http:\/\/blastedscience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/corruption.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As an official member of &#8220;The Media,&#8221; we are legally obligated to share every single one of our political opinions with you.<\/p>\n<p>Blasted Science has, thus far, remained politically neutral on every issue. However, it is impossible for a media organization to ignore its conscience forever. There are quite a few controversial issues in America at the moment, and Blasted Science has a strong opinion about <em>every single one.<\/em><\/p>\n<h2><strong>Where We Stand on the Issues<\/strong><\/h2>\n<h3>Gun Control<\/h3>\n<p>Guns should be banned. However, it should be legally required for everyone over the age of eight to carry a class IIIb laser weapon on them at all times and its use should be entirely unregulated.<\/p>\n<h3>Health Care<\/h3>\n<p>Every component of the human body should be replaced with a robotic counterpart. The extra durability this provides should reduce the need of health care. At that point, heck, let the government foot the bill. It&#8217;ll probably cost like eight bucks a month <em>total.<\/em><\/p>\n<h3>Abortion<\/h3>\n<p>Human children are annoying and should be replaced with mechanical versions as soon as possible.<\/p>\n<h3>Foreign Policy<\/h3>\n<p>Blasted Science refuses to recognize as legitimate any country that meets one or more of the following criteria:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Has the letter A in its name.<\/li>\n<li>Is smaller than Texas.<\/li>\n<li>Has a leader with at least one X chromosome.<\/li>\n<li>The local dialect pronounces the word &#8220;robot&#8221; like <em>row-baht<\/em> instead of <em>row-bit.<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Is purple on any popular world map.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Homeland Security<\/h3>\n<p>A government should never spy on its citizens. However, it is acceptable as a hobby if the NSA ever gets bored.<\/p>\n<h3>Free Trade<\/h3>\n<p>Free trade is fine. Great, even. So long as it&#8217;s the <em>United States<\/em> that&#8217;s getting the stuff for free. It&#8217;d be a lousy deal if we had to <em>pay<\/em> for the goods. Let Canada do that.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Conclusion<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>It should come as no surprise to intelligent readers that, based on the information above, Blasted Science is a proud supporter of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zoltanistvan.com\/TranshumanistParty.html\">Transhumanist Party.<\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_625\" style=\"width: 348px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blastedscience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Zolt_Transhumanist_Party_shirt-338x600.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-625\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-625 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/blastedscience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Zolt_Transhumanist_Party_shirt-338x600.jpg\" alt=\"Zoltan Istvan\" width=\"338\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blastedscience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Zolt_Transhumanist_Party_shirt-338x600.jpg 338w, http:\/\/blastedscience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Zolt_Transhumanist_Party_shirt-338x600-169x300.jpg 169w, http:\/\/blastedscience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Zolt_Transhumanist_Party_shirt-338x600-225x400.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 338px) 100vw, 338px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-625\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">All hail Zoltan Istvan, the dark mage and founder of the Transhumanist Party.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>We political folk at Blasted Science be liking the idea of people robots. That is all.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As an official member of &#8220;The Media,&#8221; we are legally obligated to share every single one of our political opinions with you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":627,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[55],"tags":[67,66,51,54],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blastedscience.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blastedscience.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blastedscience.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blastedscience.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blastedscience.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=613"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/blastedscience.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":630,"href":"http:\/\/blastedscience.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613\/revisions\/630"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blastedscience.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blastedscience.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blastedscience.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blastedscience.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}