AMERICA - The Right Way!! (Day 1154) [Remember the Trade Center!!]

Various News Sources and FReepers | March 20, 2004 | All of Us

[Iowa Granny]

Checking in. It's been a full day. I got a quick, TOO SHORT nap before Mass tonite. We drove to a town about 25 miles from here and ate steak tonite.

I'm about to go change into my flannels.

[DollyCali]

I see you are sick too.. that makes 4 of us - and some maybe too "out of it" to check in.

Here is a little smiley for you Peach.. get better!

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The Ant and the Grasshopper

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 he's 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 he's 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, CNN, NBC, 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.

Tom Daschle, Dick Gephart, Hillary Clinton and Howard Dean exclaim in an interview with Peter Jennings that the ant has gotten rich off the back of the grasshopper, and both calls for an immediate tax hike on the ant to make him pay his "fair share."

Finally, the EEOC drafts the "Economic Equity and 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 Clinton 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:

Vote Republican.

[DollyCali]

Hi Ms. Flannels!

You may have also missed pres bush's speech. I have not found a tape on line yet..but here is link to the speech text. If anyone does find a link for video/audio tape, please post

http://www.georgewbush.com/News/Read.aspx?ID=2346

this is at Bush/cheney 04 site

There is nothing of it on the white house site (guess becasue it is political speech/not official business)

[Iowa Granny]

Hi! I'm going to go try to get to sleep. I may or may not succeed. Much on my mind.

[DollyCali]

good luck on the Zzzzzs.. Me too. I just poured a glass of wine & put some sliced cheese on triscuts(put in microwave for about 30 secs..)

I am turning in also

[Utah Girl]

Happy Spring!!! 75 degrees here in Utah, absolutely gorgeous. I put the spring quilt on the bed, it is very cheerful.

[kayak]

It went to 70 here today and was a really lovely day.

We had thunderstorms tonight.

We have freeze warnings issued for tomorrow night and Monday night (when the temp may be in the mid-20s).

Welcome to Spring!

[Utah Girl]

We're supposed to get another snowstorm next week. Indeed, welcome to spring. :)

[CONSERVE]

Can you send some of that heat up here? please.

[Utah Girl]

I'm trying to push the heat eastward. My youngest sister is going to school in Rochester, NY. 14 inches of snow fell there on Tuesday. Yikes.

[CONSERVE]

14 inches that can stay over there no more of that stuff for me. I am so ready to get outside in the globally warmed sunshine.

[MozartLover]

Kay must've been busy, so I whipped up a little breakfast buffet for all y'all.:)

[MozartLover]

Hope you're okay, Sweetie.......it's not like you to miss breakfast...........

[MozartLover]

Whoops.......forgot the beverages......

[MozartLover]

Some morning reading material for you:

KERRY FLOPPED THE DAY BEFORE TOO

Best line from the article: in fact best line I've heard yet:

"I SEE THE IDIOT IS HERE!!

ROFL..........

[MozartLover]

.....cogh...cough.........sniff....

....back to bed........

[Iowa Granny]

Thanks for that lovely breakfast. I'm waiting on my coffee to perk.

[LBKQ]

Good morning.

Hope you feel better soon, Mozie.

You okay, kay?

How's Sadie this morning, Dog?

Anything on the agenda today, IG, or will you get a little R&R for a change?

[DollyCali]

morning friends.. You did cover your mouth with that cough while you were fixing breakfast didn't you ML? *G* hope you are doing a bit better.

I was in bed before noon & slept pretty well until about 5:30.. need to walk oliver now & see what "surprises" mother nature has out there now.

more winter coming here for molly & I - not sure it will hit your area conserve.

Iowa.. hope you are okay. You have had lots of tension lately & then the death of colleagues wife.. lots to think about. Did you sleep???

I am going to try to get to our new botanical gardens this week. The orchid display will only be there until the 28th.
Have you been there Molly? It is been under construction for a few years. Across for Cleveland Art museum

http://www.cbgarden.org/index.cfm

[Iowa Granny]

I slept last night,, not quite 7 hours. I will nap this afternoon.

Not much going on here today. Laundry, a nap & a visit to the Care Center to check in on FIL.