A Few Of FR's Finest....Every Day....06-24-03....Happy First Anniversary To The Finest!

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[JustAmy]

America old and new

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!

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, 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 &Walter Mondale exclaim in an interview with Peter Jennings 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 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 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 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

[The Mayor]

What does this do with your side business????

This winter I will have plenty of time for that.
My business (siding and windows) is slow in the winter months. The company I work for keeps me on year round even when it's slow.

[dutchess]

So great to see you humble. I haven't started my range lessons yet...have been so busy...but am doing my hand strengthening exercises....Hope to hit the range soon. Good to see you here.

[dansangel]

((((((Libertina))))))

Have seen *you* in *two* months of Sundays!

I've missed you! :-(

[FreeTheHostages]

Top Ten Reasons Aquamarine is so fantastic

10. She is so cool.

9. She's really neat-o.

8. Aqua is spiffy.

7. Aqua is fab.

6. Aqua is terrif.

5. Aqua is peachy!

4. Aqua is wicked.

3. She is phat.

2. Aqua is the cat's meow.

and the number one reason she's be a great new hostess:

1. Aqua is like, so, well, you know, Aqua.

[dansangel]

And I am proud to call *you* my FRiend, as well!

(((((((Amy))))))

[dutchess]

I can'r believe it has already been one year....it seems like only 365 days ago!

Too cute. BTW...if the recall really happens could you end up with Feinstein as governor???...groan for you...but YES...she'll be your problem only :o) ......sorry....

Hey...we might end up with Jerry Springer as our US Senator...seriously...the dems are so desperate they are really courting him...geesh!

[dutchess]

Hi Before...Have missed your smiling face...Don't be a stranger...

[dutchess]

Amy...beautiful flowers you've posted today. Usually don't have time to post on your after action reports...but always enjoy them and appreciate the ping PLUS all you are doing!

[dutchess]

Hi JustPiper. Welcome. This is a wonderful site and hope you come back. Just a safe place to kick back and visit!

[dutchess]

Hi Gail...Hugs to Rocky! (and to you too!)

[dansangel]

((((((((Mama_Bear)))))))))

Thank you for all of your words of encouragement from my beginnings with the thread right up until now.

The *Lexus* may be in the shop, but this old VW Bus fits me like a glove here at the Finest!

:-)

[LadyX]

Truth is, larryjohnson, we really, really need you here on the Eastern Watch vantage point!

Without your bellwether guidance, alerting us to the first rays of the sun in the morning from Maine, we tend to get a little confused and kinda mill about...

Not that it requires much to get us steered off course, but - -

WE NEED YA, MAN !!!

[dutchess]

Hey Thin Man...wow...another newbie hostess to "torment" ah I mean "greet". Actually we all love you lots but don't tell anyone I said that...I might get fired!

[dansangel]

I know the pies would be delish!

LOL!

Our jwfiv did a fabulous job with the embellishments. He can paint a wonderful picture with his words. Enough to leave you hungry for more! LOL!

Glad you enjoyed - it's always a pleasure to *see* you!

:-)

[dutchess]

What precious babes you have....thanks for posting the picture. Hugs to you and your family.

[dutchess]

Oh wow...any "bubbly" left for the dinner hour???? Thanks for all you do here Julie. You're a great asset to the Finest!

[dansangel]

Thank you for the lovely anniversary graphic, (((((dubya))))). It's always a pleasure to see you here!

:-)

[MeekOneGOP]

Chante Mallard will get a taste of Texas Justice before it's over methinks!

...Thanks for all you do on the Finest!

I don't do much. Thanks go to YOU! :O)

Jerry Springer is what bill clintoon would have been doing had he not got into politics, LOL !

[dansangel]

So remember, each time you see someone who has served our country, just lean over and say Thank You.

Went to a concert Saturday (Ted Nugent and ZZ Top) and sat next to a man that had come alone. I started talking to him between sets and found out that one of his sons is in the Navy. I told him to please thank his son for his service to our country the next time they spoke. At first he looked surprised and then, with pride, told me he'd surely do that.