I guess you got tired of defending your pro-abortion, "the man has no right until the baby is born" stance.
I really hope you stay in Great Britain. I think you will be much happier in a socialist country than in the USA, unless you choose Mass., NH or VT.
FYI to all, Here is Pendantic_Lady Profile page:
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Pedantic_Lady
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I'm an American living overseas who is planning to return to the United States in 2004. I consider myself to be fairly independent-minded politically, but in the UK I'm considered conservative. In a nutshell, I hate lazy people, broccoli, drug use, and people who won't mind their own business. I love Mexican food, loud bluegrass and classical music, non-fiction books, and growing native Texas plants in my English garden...which never fails to annoy the neighbors. A bit more...I speak four languages fluently: English, French, Spanish, and Portuguese. I was born in Texas and raised in Dallas. I went to UT Austin and graduated in 1997 with a BA in French. I've always been interested in politics; my dad is a hardcore conservative and my grandmother (his mom) is a New Dealer Democrat, so family gatherings were always interesting and filled with arguments about politics, particularly during the Reagan and Clinton years. My politics fall in between my father's and my grandmother's. Socially, I suppose I'm pretty liberal...I like a strong separation between church and state, abortion doesn't bother me...neither do gay people. On some issues, though, I'm pretty conservative; I can't stand illegal immigration. As an immigrant I know how hard it is to fit into a new society but I'd never be arrogant enough to ask British taxpayers to subsidize my life here. I don't really like unions and I think being tough on crime is a GOOD thing. I don't like globalization because I see it tearing up the middle class in England and in the U.S., but you'll never see me marching on May Day or smashing up a McDonald's. I'm more likely to be inside the McDonald's ordering a Quarter Pounder with fries. I think vegetarians are crazy...beef IS what's for dinner...and though I'm not religious, I don't really care if other people are as long as they don't come to my door and try to drag me to church with them. Basically, as long as people stay out of my business, I'll stay out of theirs. It's nobody's business what books I read, what shows I watch, what I like to eat for dinner, and what my spending habits are...as long as I'm not doing anything illegal, I should be left in peace to live my life. I think the government here is far too intrusive; the average British resident is filmed 300 times a day and now the government wants to introduce mandatory national ID cards. I'm not big on guns...I've never owned a gun in my life and I don't see what the average citizen needs with an assault weapon...but I don't stay up nights worrying about it. Odds are, nobody's going to break down my door brandishing a weapon...in the U.S., anyway! I didn't worry about crime in the U.S. and was never a victim of it myself until I moved to the UK. Here, I have been assaulted in broad daylight in a city center and have had my house broken into, my car broken into and vandalized, and items stolen from the bike shed next to my house. A woman in my neighborhood was dragged from her home by her hair and forced (at gunpoint in a country where handguns were banned six years ago) to withdraw every penny in her bank accounts at two ATMs within a mile of my home. I think Britain is in a serious crisis and I cannot wait to return to the United States. Why did I leave in the first place? Fair question, and one I can't give a simple answer to. I married a British man who couldn't face living in Texas, which is why we're looking at New England as our new home...kind of a compromise, but hey...you do silly things for love. |
