{"id":9980,"date":"2012-02-03T14:00:39","date_gmt":"2012-02-03T20:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davidmcelroy.org\/?p=9980"},"modified":"2012-01-28T11:48:19","modified_gmt":"2012-01-28T17:48:19","slug":"friday-funnies-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/?p=9980","title":{"rendered":"FRIDAY FUNNIES"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some enemies can mend fences and learn to love each other. With others, though, the animosity is too deep.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Arch-enemies.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10006\" title=\"Arch enemies\" src=\"http:\/\/www.davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Arch-enemies.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"460\" height=\"356\" srcset=\"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Arch-enemies.jpg 460w, https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Arch-enemies-300x232.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 460px) 100vw, 460px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><!--more-->If a politician &#8220;gives&#8221; you money, does it really count if he takes it out of your own pocket (or the pockets of your children) in order to give it?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Obama-keeping-a-promise.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10007\" title=\"Obama keeping a promise\" src=\"http:\/\/www.davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Obama-keeping-a-promise.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"458\" height=\"272\" srcset=\"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Obama-keeping-a-promise.jpg 458w, https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Obama-keeping-a-promise-300x178.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 458px) 100vw, 458px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Continuing along the same theme, does it ever seem as though those who favor higher taxes miss the whole point when they talk about the &#8220;fairness&#8221; of taking even more money away from those who pay taxes to support those who pay little or no taxes?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Obama-taxes.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10082\" title=\"Obama-taxes\" src=\"http:\/\/www.davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Obama-taxes.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"458\" height=\"334\" srcset=\"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Obama-taxes.jpg 458w, https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Obama-taxes-300x218.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 458px) 100vw, 458px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If we all ate more from the &#8220;farmacy,&#8221; do you think we might have to pop fewer pills from the pharmacy?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Farmacy.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10008\" title=\"Farmacy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Farmacy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"459\" height=\"547\" srcset=\"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Farmacy.jpg 459w, https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Farmacy-251x300.jpg 251w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 459px) 100vw, 459px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Finally, aren&#8217;t there times when we all agree with Linus here, whether it&#8217;s reasonably consistent or not?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/mankind.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10084\" title=\"mankind\" src=\"http:\/\/www.davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/mankind.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"459\" height=\"323\" srcset=\"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/mankind.png 459w, https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/mankind-300x211.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 459px) 100vw, 459px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some enemies can mend fences and learn to love each other. 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