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Thought I would share, this is funny.  

ineedyounow55 65F
1425 posts
11/13/2009 6:51 pm
Thought I would share, this is funny.

THE ANT AND THE GRASSHOPPER

This one is a little different....

Two Different Versions! ........... Two Different Morals!

OLD VERSION:

The ant works hard in the withering heat all summer long, building his house and laying up<b> supplies </font></b>for the winter.

The grasshopper thinks the ant is 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<b> supplies </font></b>for the winter.

The grasshopper thinks the ant is 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, PBS, CNN, 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.'

Acorn stages a demonstration in front of the ant's house where the news stations film the group singing 'We shall overcome.' Rev. Jeremiah Wright then has the group kneel down to pray to God for the grasshopper's sake.

Nancy Pelosi & Harry Reid exclaim in an interview with Larry King 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 & 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 Green Czar.

The story ends as we see the grasshopper finishing up the last bits of the ants 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: Be careful how you vote in 2010.


I am who I am and I am not going to change for anyone, so don't ask!



ineedyounow55 65F
826 posts
11/28/2009 5:36 pm

    Quoting lovetokisnsuk:
    do you know the author, i forgot to ask if you wrote the second version or is it Unknown?
I do not know who wrote it, someone sent it to me in an email marked author unknown.

I am who I am and I am not going to change for anyone, so don't ask!


lovetokisnsuk 75M
11626 posts
11/28/2009 4:11 pm

do you know the author, i forgot to ask if you wrote the second version or is it Unknown?


ineedyounow55 65F
826 posts
11/23/2009 4:13 pm

    Quoting lovetokisnsuk:
    This is so politically relevent and so in tune with my political irreverence.

    May I have your permission to copy and post this on my blog?

    I will give you credits and a link on the my posting to your blog.

    Will
Go right ahead.

I am who I am and I am not going to change for anyone, so don't ask!


lovetokisnsuk 75M
11626 posts
11/23/2009 11:17 am

This is so politically relevent and so in tune with my political irreverence.

May I have your permission to copy and post this on my blog?

I will give you credits and a link on the my posting to your blog.

Will


gudfun9 46M
45 posts
11/15/2009 7:09 am

LOL I sometimes wonder how one will vote if there were no television.... one have to attend the rallies and see for yourself how and what the candidate stands for and not get influenced by the way the media tells the story - because its subjected to the OPINION of the story teller.I despise the media in that sense cause they are out for a buck - and not the complete truth.wishing you all in USA a peaceful election!


lusciousnshy 44F

11/14/2009 12:21 am

    Quoting Trapper69:
    So very true in these "socialist" times!!!!! I hated to see Obama win last year knowing from his track record what changes he was talking about, but something good has come of it....those people who never voted or got involved are now awake and see what their apathy has created. I'm hoping that 2010 will bring the change this country really needs....the type of change our forefathers would be proud of!!!!!!!! I'm sure a lot of people will read your post and think of you as a racist, but let me assure you, you wrote the truth!!!!!

    PS>>>>>A few corrections are needed though, MSNBC would be leading the mainstream media's way to the ants house & only FOX news (the only real news channel in the US) would be defending the ant! Revs, Sharpton & Jackson would be involved also!!!
Tell me you are kidding!!!! I hope people that think like you never vote again.

Click here and visit my blog For the Whole Truth lusciousnshy


Trapper69 67G  
2657 posts
11/13/2009 10:43 pm

So very true in these "socialist" times!!!!! I hated to see Obama win last year knowing from his track record what changes he was talking about, but something good has come of it....those people who never voted or got involved are now awake and see what their apathy has created. I'm hoping that 2010 will bring the change this country really needs....the type of change our forefathers would be proud of!!!!!!!! I'm sure a lot of people will read your post and think of you as a racist, but let me assure you, you wrote the truth!!!!!

PS>>>>>A few corrections are needed though, MSNBC would be leading the mainstream media's way to the ants house & only FOX news (the only real news channel in the US) would be defending the ant! Revs, Sharpton & Jackson would be involved also!!!


outtherelinda 57F  
18868 posts
11/13/2009 8:35 pm



Oh the joys of modern democracy and progress eh!

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Linda xxx




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