{"id":9729,"date":"2012-01-20T18:03:11","date_gmt":"2012-01-21T00:03:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davidmcelroy.org\/?p=9729"},"modified":"2012-01-20T18:03:11","modified_gmt":"2012-01-21T00:03:11","slug":"friday-funnies-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/?p=9729","title":{"rendered":"FRIDAY FUNNIES"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Now that it&#8217;s looking more and more as though Mitt Romney will be the Republican nominee, the truth can come out about this family relationship.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Romneycare-twins.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9730\" title=\"Romneycare-twins\" src=\"http:\/\/www.davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Romneycare-twins.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"459\" height=\"410\" srcset=\"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Romneycare-twins.gif 459w, https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Romneycare-twins-300x267.gif 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 459px) 100vw, 459px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Some might see this as a statement about global warming or manmade climate change (because of the title of Al Gore&#8217;s documentary), but I just see it was an all-purpose piece of truth about what people believe. Crazy lies sell well. Truth doesn&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Reassuring-lies.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9731\" title=\"Reassuring lies\" src=\"http:\/\/www.davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Reassuring-lies.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"459\" height=\"329\" srcset=\"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Reassuring-lies.jpg 459w, https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Reassuring-lies-300x215.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 459px) 100vw, 459px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I know a number of teachers and I&#8217;ve found that their levels of satisfaction differ wildly from time to time (and school to school). In this case, though, Calvin is obviously trying his best to influence teacher satisfaction.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Teacher-satisfaction.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9732\" title=\"Teacher satisfaction\" src=\"http:\/\/www.davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Teacher-satisfaction.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"458\" height=\"146\" srcset=\"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Teacher-satisfaction.jpg 458w, https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Teacher-satisfaction-300x95.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 458px) 100vw, 458px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Biblical scholars are divided about whether Moses&#8217; power to part the waters started early or developed later in life.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Moses-at-bath-time.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9733\" title=\"Moses at bath time\" src=\"http:\/\/www.davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Moses-at-bath-time.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"459\" height=\"328\" srcset=\"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Moses-at-bath-time.jpg 459w, https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Moses-at-bath-time-300x214.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 459px) 100vw, 459px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And, finally, this one is a bit off the beaten path of what typically gets used here. I&#8217;m not sure why it amuses me, but, well, I can&#8217;t help laughing at it. Forgive me if my level of humor is slipping even further.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Wildlife-gone-bad.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9734\" title=\"Wildlife gone bad\" src=\"http:\/\/www.davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Wildlife-gone-bad.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"460\" height=\"345\" srcset=\"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Wildlife-gone-bad.jpg 460w, https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Wildlife-gone-bad-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 460px) 100vw, 460px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now that it&#8217;s looking more and more as though Mitt Romney will be the Republican nominee, the truth can come out about this family relationship.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-9729","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1x9iR-2wV","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9729"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9729\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9737,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9729\/revisions\/9737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}