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A Sad Parallel
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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


TOPICS: Political Humor/Cartoons
KEYWORDS: bird; birdfeeder; birds; freebees; illegals; welfare
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1 posted on 04/26/2007 1:25:11 PM PDT by wolfcreek
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To: wolfcreek

At least you didn’t have a mulberry bush.


2 posted on 04/26/2007 1:26:13 PM PDT by 3AngelaD (Enoch Powell was right.)
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To: wolfcreek

ping for later usage


3 posted on 04/26/2007 1:27:16 PM PDT by BipolarBob (Yes I backed over the vampire, but I swear I didn't see it in my rear view mirror.)
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To: 3AngelaD
At least you didn’t have a mulberry bush.

or an olive tree

4 posted on 04/26/2007 1:32:48 PM PDT by ElkGroveDan (When toilet paper is a luxury, you have achieved communism.)
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To: 3AngelaD
At least you didn’t have a mulberry bush.

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.

5 posted on 04/26/2007 1:34:48 PM PDT by Gorzaloon (Global Warming: A New Kind Of Scientology for the Rest Of Us.)
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To: 3AngelaD

I had 3 of those when we moved to our new home in ‘02. I cut them ALL down and dug out the stumps............


6 posted on 04/26/2007 1:36:05 PM PDT by Red Badger (My gerund got caught in my diphthong, and now I have a dangling participle...............)
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To: wolfcreek

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!


7 posted on 04/26/2007 1:37:16 PM PDT by hardworking (Giving an accused rapist a third and fourth term is just being properly PC.)
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To: wolfcreek
Great post! One thing though: It is time for “we the people” to take down the feeder.
8 posted on 04/26/2007 1:37:55 PM PDT by samm1148 (Pennsylvania-They haven't taxed air--yet)
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To: samm1148

“It is time for “we the people” to take down the feeder.”

Since the Gov is listening, I think you’re correct.


9 posted on 04/26/2007 1:40:20 PM PDT by wolfcreek (DON'T MESS WITH A NATION IN NEED OF MEDICATION !)
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To: wolfcreek

is = isn’t


10 posted on 04/26/2007 1:41:13 PM PDT by wolfcreek (DON'T MESS WITH A NATION IN NEED OF MEDICATION !)
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To: 3AngelaD

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.


11 posted on 04/26/2007 1:43:29 PM PDT by fishergirl (My warrior, my soldier, my hero - my son. God bless our troops!)
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To: wolfcreek

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.


12 posted on 04/26/2007 1:43:31 PM PDT by California74
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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.


13 posted on 04/26/2007 1:53:55 PM PDT by 3AngelaD (Enoch Powell was right.)
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To: California74

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!


14 posted on 04/26/2007 1:56:39 PM PDT by FormerLib (Sacrificing our land and our blood cannot buy protection from jihad.-Bishop Artemije of Kosovo)
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To: 3AngelaD

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.


15 posted on 04/26/2007 2:03:12 PM PDT by geopyg (Don't wish for peace, pray for Victory.)
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You could be in my movie. Were you pointing dramatically at the cash register during that exchange? Acting out the idea of “receipt”?


16 posted on 04/26/2007 2:08:49 PM PDT by 3AngelaD (Enoch Powell was right.)
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To: wolfcreek

Great analogy.


17 posted on 04/26/2007 2:32:54 PM PDT by kalee (The offenses we give, we write in the dust; Those we take, we write in marble. JHuett)
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To: wolfcreek

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)


18 posted on 04/26/2007 2:34:08 PM PDT by wolfcreek (DON'T MESS WITH A NATION IN NEED OF MEDICATION !)
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To: California74

Plus they have great burgers ....


19 posted on 04/26/2007 6:01:31 PM PDT by Tennessee Nana
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To: geopyg

You want fries with that there receipt?

ROFL


20 posted on 04/26/2007 6:03:41 PM PDT by Tennessee Nana
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