Posted on 04/26/2007 1:25:10 PM PDT by wolfcreek
Subject: Bird Feeder
A Sad Parallel...
I bought a bird feeder. I hung it on my back porch and filled it with seed. Within a week we had hundreds of birds taking advantage of the continuous flow of free and easily accessible food.
But then the birds started building nests in the boards of the patio, above the table, and next to the barbecue. Then came the poop. It was everywhere: on the patio tile, the chairs, the table...everywhere. Then some of the birds turned mean: They would dive bomb me and try to peck me even though I had fed them out of my own pocket. And others birds were boisterous and loud: They sat on the feeder and squawked and screamed at all hours of the day and night and demanded that I fill it when it got low on food.
After a while, I couldn't even sit on my own back porch anymore. I took down the bird feeder and in three days the birds were gone. I cleaned up their mess and took down the many nests they had built all over the patio. Soon, the back yard was like it used to be...quiet, serene and no one demanding their rights to a free meal.
Now lets see...our government gives out free food, subsidized housing, free medical care, free education and allows anyone born here to be a automatic citizen. Then the illegals came by the tens of thousands. Suddenly our taxes went up to pay for free services; small apartments are housing 5 families: you have to wait 6 hours to be seen by an emergency room doctor: you child's 2nd grade class is behind other schools because over half the class doesn't speak English: Corn Flakes now come in a bilingual box; I have to press "one" to hear my bank talk to me in English, and people waving flags other than "Old Glory" are squawking and screaming in the streets, demanding more rights and free liberties.
Maybe it's time for the government to take down the bird feeder
At least you didn’t have a mulberry bush.
ping for later usage
or an olive tree
We had mulberry TREES, a century old. And sometimes white cars, though they did not stay that way on top. I had a convertible with a (haha) white vinyl top.
I had 3 of those when we moved to our new home in ‘02. I cut them ALL down and dug out the stumps............
LOL Reminds me of some of the employees I’ve had over the years! Never enough ‘bread’ but they sure could ‘poop’ up a job!
“It is time for “we the people” to take down the feeder.”
Since the Gov is listening, I think you’re correct.
is = isn’t
Ain’t that the truth! We had one on some business property we were developing. While my husband was bushhogging underneath it, some mulberries fell on the tractor seat and he sat on them. I never could get the stain out and had to throw away his pants, it looked like he’d eaten mulberries and had a bad “accident”. Oh, yes - the aforementioned article: Time to cut down the mulberries in Congress - they’re a huge stain on the integrity of America and our troops.
Love that email... it’s worse than that, though.
I have to repeat my order at mcdonalds 5 times because the person taking my order doesn’t speak english very well. Then when I get to the window, I have to double check my order and EVERY-TIME — I’m missing something.
I go to the mall, and in Sears, the recorded commercials advertising sales over the loud speaker are in SPANISH. (I have since vowed never again to shop at Sears and I complained to customer service explaining this). Signs in store window at Payless shoes are in Spanish. Everyone who waits on me barely speaks English. And this is in a mostly-American city in Southern California!
That’s why I’ve been going to IN-N-OUT lately - all American kids work there.
One of the MacDonald’s where I live has peole who speak four different languages, but no English. I, too, double check my order. Some of them don’t get the ketchup-on-french-fries thing very well, either. When I ask for ketchup, I’m told, “Already has on burger.” I have seriously thought about taking a video camera over there sometime and making a movie. It takes them forever to do the simplest things. My movie would be pretty funny, because not only can they not communicate with the customers, who are standing there pointing and gesticulating, but none of the workers can communicate with each other, except the two who are eating pupusas in the drive-through window.
I spent a lot of time out in Long Beach working on a contract. What amazed me about the Hispanics working at the restaurants around there was that they spoke much better English than the food service workers I encounter in the DC area.
And they were a hell of a lot more polite, too!
I once asked for a receipt for my meal at a McDonalds. The guys says “no receipt”. I said - oh, is your register broken, I got a reciept yesterday? “no receipt”. Pressing the issue I asked him one more time.
He turns around, scans the menu board above him for awhile, turns back and says “no receipt”.
I then asked him to get me the manager and had a talk with him about receipts and other things.
You could be in my movie. Were you pointing dramatically at the cash register during that exchange? Acting out the idea of “receipt”?
Great analogy.
Surprisingly, living in south Central Texas, I don’t run into a lot of problems communicating. Except for the *immigrants* who come up to me on the street thinking I’m a Mexican or something. (I work outdoors and usually have a year round tan)
Plus they have great burgers ....
You want fries with that there receipt?
ROFL
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