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Offline rockbilly

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Not far from the truth!
« on: August 17, 2008, 04:16:38 PM »
 This one is a  little different.. Two Different Versions! Two Different
Morals!

OLD VERSION: The ant works hard  in the withering heat all summer long,
building his house and laying up  supplies for the winter.

The grasshopper  thinks the ant is a fool and laughs and dances and
plays the summer away.  Come winter, the ant is warm and well fed.

The grasshopper has no food or shelter, so he dies out  in the cold.

MORAL OF THE STORY: Be responsible for  yourself!
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MODERN VERSION:

The  ant works hard in the withering heat all summer long, building his
house  and laying up supplies for the winter.

The grasshopper thinks the ant is a fool and laughs and  dances and
plays the summer away.

Come  winter, the shivering grasshopper calls a press conference and
demands to  know why the ant should be allowed to be warm and well fed
while others  are cold and starving.

CBS, NBC, PBS,  CNN, and ABC show up to provide pictures of the
shivering grasshopper next  to a video of the ant in his comfortable
home with a table filled with  food. America is stunned by the sharp
contrast.

How can this be, that in a country of such wealth, this  poor
grasshopper is allowed to suffer so?

Kermit the Frog appears  on Oprah with the grasshopper, and everybody
cries when they sing, 'It's  Not Easy Being Green.'

Jesse Jackson  stages a demonstration in front of the ant's house where
the news stations  film the group singing, 'We shall overcome.' Jesse
then has the group  kneel down to pray to God for the grasshopper's
sake.

Nancy Pelosi & John Kerry exclaim in an interview  with Larry King that
the ant has gotten rich off the back of the grasshopper, and both call
for an immediate tax hike on the ant to make  him pay his fair share.

Finally,  President Obama approves the EEOC draft from the Economic
Equity & Anti-Grasshopper Act, retroactive to the beginning of the
summer.

The ant is fined for failing to  hire a proportionate number of green
bugs and, having nothing left to pay  his retroactive taxes, his home is
confiscated by the  government.

Hillary gets her  old law firm to represent the grasshopper in a
defamation suit against the  ant, and the case is tried before a panel
of federal judges that Bill  Clinton appointed, when he was in office,
from a list of single-parent  welfare recipients.

The ant loses  the case.

The story ends  as we see the grasshopper finishing up the last bits of
the ant's food  while the government house he is in, which just happens
to be the ant's  old house, crumbles around him because he doesn't
maintain it.
The ant has disappeared in the snow.

The grasshopper is found dead in a drug related incident and the house,
now abandoned, is taken over by a  gang of spiders who terrorize the
once peaceful  neighborhood.

MORAL OF THE  STORY: Be careful how you vote in 2008.


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Re: Not far from the truth!
« Reply #1 on: August 18, 2008, 07:32:42 AM »
This is like over worked under paid by a greedy employer.

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Re: Not far from the truth!
« Reply #2 on: August 18, 2008, 03:08:37 PM »
No, it's not.

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Re: Not far from the truth!
« Reply #3 on: August 18, 2008, 03:10:26 PM »
Probably closer to the truth than any of us would like to see.
Not all Muslims are terrorist, but oddly enough, all terrorist are Muslims.