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Mid-Month Ping!!!

Ant VS The Grasshopper

This one is a little different.. Two Different Versions! Two Different Morals!

OLD VERSION:

MORAL OF THE STORY: Be responsible for yourself!

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, the EEOC drafts 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 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

1,081 posted on 05/15/2008 6:07:14 AM PDT by Monkey Face ("Science has proof without any certainty. Creationists have certainty without any proof.")

This is the boat I liked best of the ones you could rent.

These are Lasers and can get going fast. Down on Mission bay in San Diego if got this cold almost no one would be out on the bay.

1,082 posted on 05/15/2008 6:54:37 AM PDT by ThomasThomas (the evening ThomasThomas wore his wolf suit and made mischief of one kind and another ....")

To: ThomasThomas

Lasers?
*perks up*

Oh, not the vape stuff kind.

1,083 posted on 05/15/2008 7:11:17 AM PDT by Darksheare (Do you or anyone you know suffer from Bunny on the Head?)

To: Monkey Face; Tax-chick; sionnsar; ThomasThomas

1,084 posted on 05/15/2008 7:40:43 AM PDT by rottndog ("The Ides of May....they have come." "Aye....But they are not gone....")

Hey! You’re back!

WOO-HOO!

1,085 posted on 05/15/2008 7:44:35 AM PDT by Monkey Face ("Science has proof without any certainty. Creationists have certainty without any proof.")

Morning!

How are you feeling today?
*HUG*

1,086 posted on 05/15/2008 7:45:14 AM PDT by Monkey Face ("Science has proof without any certainty. Creationists have certainty without any proof.")

true.

fwiw, i'm sick to death of having to decide WHICH is the LEAST BAD person to be POTUS.

free dixie HUGS,sw

1,087 posted on 05/15/2008 7:51:18 AM PDT by stand watie (Resistance to TYRANTS is OBEDIENCE to God. T. Jefferson, 1804)

Wandering randomly.
As usual.

1,088 posted on 05/15/2008 7:51:44 AM PDT by Darksheare (Do you or anyone you know suffer from Bunny on the Head?)

I misread that as ‘last’ bad.

Conclusion: I need coffee.

1,089 posted on 05/15/2008 7:52:47 AM PDT by Darksheare (Do you or anyone you know suffer from Bunny on the Head?)

I suspect a lot of us are having the same problem.

*smooch*

1,090 posted on 05/15/2008 7:52:49 AM PDT by Monkey Face ("Science has proof without any certainty. Creationists have certainty without any proof.")

Ah. Lurking, no doubt.

1,091 posted on 05/15/2008 7:54:08 AM PDT by Monkey Face ("Science has proof without any certainty. Creationists have certainty without any proof.")

1,092 posted on 05/15/2008 7:57:02 AM PDT by sionnsar (trad-anglican.faithweb.com |Iran Azadi| 5yst3m 0wn3d - it's N0t Y0ur5 (SONY) | UN: Useless Nations)

I’m glad you liked it!

Did LoM get to her destination OK?

1,093 posted on 05/15/2008 8:02:56 AM PDT by Monkey Face ("Science has proof without any certainty. Creationists have certainty without any proof.")

Lurking, larking, something like that.

1,094 posted on 05/15/2008 8:05:14 AM PDT by Darksheare (Do you or anyone you know suffer from Bunny on the Head?)

I could embellish that, but I won’t.

*snark*

1,095 posted on 05/15/2008 8:06:18 AM PDT by Monkey Face ("Science has proof without any certainty. Creationists have certainty without any proof.")

1,096 posted on 05/15/2008 8:11:13 AM PDT by Darksheare (Do you or anyone you know suffer from Bunny on the Head?)

:singing quietly:

Happy Birthday to me,
Happy Birthday to me
Happy Birthday dear ‘Face,
Happy Birthday to me!

1,097 posted on 05/15/2008 8:14:19 AM PDT by Monkey Face ("Science has proof without any certainty. Creationists have certainty without any proof.")

A little whipped....

Didn’t get to the shop to start my work day until after 4 in the afternoon. It was a long day.

1,098 posted on 05/15/2008 8:19:36 AM PDT by rottndog ("The Ides of May....they have come." "Aye....But they are not gone....")

1,099 posted on 05/15/2008 8:21:34 AM PDT by Monkey Face ("Science has proof without any certainty. Creationists have certainty without any proof.")

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MONKEY FACE!!!!!!

1,100 posted on 05/15/2008 8:21:53 AM PDT by rottndog ("The Ides of May....they have come." "Aye....But they are not gone....")

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