{"id":663,"date":"2012-10-01T14:10:07","date_gmt":"2012-10-01T18:10:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dansdigitaldive.com\/web\/?p=663"},"modified":"2014-07-31T15:52:33","modified_gmt":"2014-07-31T19:52:33","slug":"what-is-the-difference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dansdigitaldive.com\/web\/archives\/663","title":{"rendered":"What IS the difference?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Democrats and Republicans have more in common with on another than they do differences (I can feel my friends shuttering now).\u00a0 A good article (<a href=\"https:\/\/dansdigitaldive.com\/web\/wp-content\/downloads\/other\/2012_Presidential_Elections.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">view it here<\/a>) by Sweendog is a good write up about what both parties have done, and why a third party candidate may be worth looking at.<\/p>\n<p>I enjoy reading Sweendog&#8217;s feedback.\u00a0 It is pretty well thought out and gets my two brain cells to actually communicate with one another.\u00a0 Check out his comment in response to the article &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/dansdigitaldive.com\/web\/archives\/500\" target=\"_blank\">We could all learn from naturalized immigrants on this July 4th<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/dansdigitaldive.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/elephants_and_asses_screwing_the_masses.gif?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-665\" title=\"elephants_and_asses_screwing_the_masses\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/dansdigitaldive.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/elephants_and_asses_screwing_the_masses.gif?resize=250%2C40&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"40\" \/><\/a>What say you to the phrase &#8220;Elephants and Asses, screwing the masses!&#8221;\u00a0 I think Sweendog has provided a pretty good case supporting the statement. Care to discuss?\u00a0 I look forward to your comments.<\/p>\n<p><em>Bonus shot<\/em>:\u00a0 Today is the start of the new Fiscal Year for our penny pinching government, it has been over 3 years; it&#8217;s been 3 years, 6 months and 28 days (or 1306 days total) for those of us counting since Congress has passed a budget.\u00a0 <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">DAMN I wish I could run my house like this!<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democrats and Republicans have more in common with on another than they do differences (I can feel my friends shuttering now).\u00a0 A good article (view it here) by Sweendog is a good write up about what both parties have done, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/dansdigitaldive.com\/web\/archives\/663\">Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"kt_blocks_editor_width":"","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":[4],"tags":[50,56],"class_list":["post-663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-america","tag-stupid"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2650,"url":"https:\/\/dansdigitaldive.com\/web\/archives\/2650","url_meta":{"origin":663,"position":0},"title":"Cyber Security for the home user","author":"DR D","date":"January 16, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Recently I received an email from a readers board that I'm a member of; the site was hacked. \u00a0That sucks, now I have to around and change all my passwords again! \u00a0This coupled with all the news of the Russian hacking, I thought it might be a good time to\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Computing&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Computing","link":"https:\/\/dansdigitaldive.com\/web\/archives\/category\/computing"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/dansdigitaldive.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/cyber-security-1721673_1280-300x300.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":834,"url":"https:\/\/dansdigitaldive.com\/web\/archives\/834","url_meta":{"origin":663,"position":1},"title":"VA HB1375 &#8212; I can feel the crap already&#8230;","author":"DR D","date":"January 28, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"I just know that today's article is going to start a proverbial \"shit\" storm (pun intended). 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