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To: baddog 219

Psychology 101

If you start with a cage containing five monkeys and inside the cage, hang a banana on a string from the top and then you place a set of stairs under the banana, before long a monkey will go to the stairs and climb toward the banana.

As soon as he touches the stairs, you spray all the other monkeys with cold water. After a while another monkey makes an attempt with same result all the other monkeys are sprayed with cold water.

Pretty soon when another monkey tries to climb the stairs, the other monkeys will try to prevent it.

Now, put the cold water away.

Remove one monkey from the cage and replace it with a new one.

The new monkey sees the banana and attempts to climb the stairs.

To his shock, all of the other monkeys beat the snot out of him.

After another attempt and attack, he knows that if he tries to climbthe stairs he will be assaulted.

Next, remove another of the original five monkeys, replacing it with a new one. The newcomer goes to the stairs and is attacked.

The previous newcomer takes part in the punishment... with enthusiasm.

Then, replace a third original monkey with a new one, followed by a fourth, then the fifth. Every time the newest monkey takes to the stairs he is attacked. Most of the monkeys that are beating him up have no idea why
they were not permitted to climb the stairs.

Neither do they know why they are participating in the beating of the newest monkey.

Finally, having replaced all of the original monkeys, none of the remaining monkeys will have ever been sprayed with cold water.

Nevertheless, none of the monkeys will try to climb the stairway for the banana.

Why, you ask? Because in their minds... that is the way it has always been!

This, my friends, is how Congress operates... and is why, from time to time, all of the monkeys need to be REPLACED AT THE SAME TIME!


12 posted on 08/06/2011 8:09:19 AM PDT by KeyLargo
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To: KeyLargo
This, my friends, is how Congress operates... and is why, from time to time, all of the monkeys need to be REPLACED AT THE SAME TIME!

Indeed, tiz time to flush Congress, the bowl is full.

30 posted on 08/06/2011 9:02:52 AM PDT by American in Israel (A wise man's heart directs him to the right, but the foolish mans heart directs him toward the left.)
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To: KeyLargo

EXCELLENT!


31 posted on 08/06/2011 9:02:59 AM PDT by dannyboy72a (the circuit is closing)
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To: KeyLargo; NFHale; stephenjohnbanker; sickoflibs
This, my friends, is how Congress operates... and is why, from time to time, all of the monkeys need to be REPLACED AT THE SAME TIME

*public service* was not meant to be a career...!!!

50 posted on 08/06/2011 10:35:26 AM PDT by Gilbo_3 (Gov is not reason; not eloquent; its force.Like fire,a dangerous servant & master. George Washington)
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To: KeyLargo
This, my friends, is how Congress operates..."

That is weird because going through the description it also sounds like the ghetto mentality of attacking anyone that tries to improve their lot in life by "acting too white". they are unable to break out of the ghetto because their own friends and relatives pull them back down.

57 posted on 08/06/2011 1:06:49 PM PDT by oldbrowser (They're socialists don't call them liberals)
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