{"id":430,"date":"2012-04-29T03:26:36","date_gmt":"2012-04-29T07:26:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/arnpriornews.wordpress.com\/?p=430"},"modified":"2012-04-29T03:26:36","modified_gmt":"2012-04-29T07:26:36","slug":"local-political-cartoon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/aerendel.ca\/IndieNews\/index.php\/2012\/04\/29\/local-political-cartoon\/","title":{"rendered":"Local Political Cartoon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>3:06 am Sunday, April 29, 2012. (-1\u02daC \/ +30\u02daF @ the Ottawa Airport)<\/p>\n<p>A recent political cartoon in the Arnprior Chronicle-Guide\/EMC (The two local freebie newspapers merged last winter) shows a guy on a telephone saying this: &#8220;I&#8217;ll stop believing that all politicians are dishonest when you stop believing that we&#8217;re all \u00a0stupid.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; The whole world sometimes looks like a rabid political cartoon gone bad.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been listening to people on a radio talk show arguing over what the definitions of leftists vs rightists really are.<\/p>\n<p>Were Soviet style &#8216;Communists&#8217; really fascists pretending to believe that the people they were herding around were all created equal (to them?)<\/p>\n<p>Do &#8216;Free Market&#8217; types \u00a0have an agenda? What might that agenda be? &#8220;Let the bankers rule the world and manipulate everybody into debt so they can call all the shots&#8221;?<\/p>\n<p>Have the definitions of all types and forms of economics, governments and philosophies been put through a double speak grinder? Like a meat grinder that spits out b.s. where nineteen eighty-four type double speak rules? Love is Hate? War is Peace? Peace is Hell?<\/p>\n<p>Are all forms of government (at least all the ones we&#8217;re aware of?) necessarily\u00a0psychotic?<\/p>\n<p>Do we have to be out of our minds to allow anybody, elected or appointed or whatever&#8230;. tell us what to do?<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;Hey- Let me know what you think&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;thanks,<\/p>\n<p>~~~~~Jim<\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-icon-text sd-sharing\"><h3 class=\"sd-title\">Share this:<\/h3><div class=\"sd-content\"><ul><li class=\"share-twitter\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-twitter-430\" class=\"share-twitter sd-button share-icon\" href=\"http:\/\/aerendel.ca\/IndieNews\/index.php\/2012\/04\/29\/local-political-cartoon\/?share=twitter\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Twitter\"><span>Twitter<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-facebook\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-facebook-430\" class=\"share-facebook sd-button share-icon\" href=\"http:\/\/aerendel.ca\/IndieNews\/index.php\/2012\/04\/29\/local-political-cartoon\/?share=facebook\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Facebook\"><span>Facebook<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-end\"><\/li><\/ul><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>3:06 am Sunday, April 29, 2012. 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