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Curators' note: This is an updated version of this "Be careful how you vote" tale of 2008.


> > 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 supplies 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.
> >
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> >
> > MORAL OF THE STORY: Be responsible for yourself !
> >
> > MODERN VERSION
> > The ant works hard in the withering heat and the rain all summer long,
> > building his house and laying up supplies 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 he is 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." Then Rev.
> > Jeremiah Wright has the group kneel down to pray to God for the
> > grasshopper's sake.
> >
> > President Obama condemns the ant and blames President Bush, President
> > Reagan, Christopher Columbus, and the Pope for the grasshopper's
> > plight.
> >
> > 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 and given to the
> > grasshopper.
> >
> > The story ends as we see the grasshopper and his free-loading friends
> > finishing up the last bits of the ant's food while the government
> > house he is in, which, as you recall, just happens to be the ant's old
> > house, crumbles around them because the grasshopper doesn't maintain
> > it.
> >
> > The ant has disappeared in the snow, never to be seen again.
> >
> > 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 ramshackle, once prosperous and once peaceful neighborhood.
> >
> > The entire Nation collapses bringing the rest of the free world with
> > it. MORAL OF THE STORY: Be careful how you vote in 2010 & 2012.
> >
> >
> > I've sent this to you because I believe that you are an ant - not a
> > grasshopper! Make sure that you pass this on to other ants. Don't
> > bother sending it on to any grasshoppers because they wouldn't
> > understand it, anyway.
> >
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"Howdy! .... Here's a funny one I got the other day (well, I was told it was funny), written in the super-terrific Comic Sans MS in Glorious Technicolor font, with the requisite number of insults to Democrats. Classic! When I called the person on the BS factor, he accused me of not using my sense of humor!

Can you imagine? Why didn't I just use the sense of humor? I'll remember that next time, and I'll hit myself repeatedly in the head with a mallet, just to help the humor appreciation work its magic.

Great site, I sat here reading (and commenting) until I reached the end. I feel dirty now.

I will look in my old email to see if there are any more of these gems left over, as I have not emptied the trash in a while. If I have them, I will forward."
-Mark

--begin forwarded message--

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The President has said that American lives will be sacrificed if Congress does not change FISA.  But he has also said that he will veto any FISA bill that does not grant retro-active immunity.  No immunity, no FISA bill.  So if we take the President at his word, he's willing to let Americans die to protect the phone companies.

-  Sen. Edward Kennedy