I usually post to this blog on weekends, but this just came in from a co-worker and its too important not to post as soon as reasonably possible. I'm using my lunch break to make this post. The title should be familiar, we've heard the story since we were children. They even made a movie about it (A Bugs Life), but as a society, have we learned the lesson? More importantly, do the politicians understand the difference. Read on...
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.
MORAL OF THE OLD 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 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, Stimulus #12, & 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 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.
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
p.s. My 7 year old grandson understands the principle and the solution real well. He was helping me do yard work yesterday and caught several grasshoppers. Without any prompting from me, he killed the freeloading grasshoppers and then looked for some hardworking ants.
Tuesday, September 7, 2010
Sunday, September 5, 2010
Never Again - Or so I thought
The following is from R.C. "Doc" Weaver. I received it a number of years ago, just after Bill Clinton left the White House. I never thought that I would see that day that I thought things could go worse than the Billy & Hilly show. Boy was I wrong. The Obama abomination makes the Billy & Hilly show appear very mellow.
Never again will I have to watch Bill Clinton walk down the steps of Air Force One while a proud Marine in full dress uniform crisply salutes him. A Marine who fully comprehends duty, honor and country in a way that the man he is saluting never will.
Never again will I have to watch Bill Clinton on Veterans' Day place a wreath on the hallowed Tomb of the Unknown Soldier while he dramatically bites his lower lip in an effort to appear that he cares or even appreciates what this place is all about. A place where truly brave men and women who personally paid the ultimate price for freedom are forever remembered.
Never again will I have to watch Bill Clinton on national television wag his finger at each and every American and unconscionably lie to us. Never again will I have to witness Bill Clinton sending young men and women of the military into frivolous but life-threatening action to deflect attention from the personal scandals that confront him at home. Never again will I see Bill Clinton's name on a ballot. Never again will I be embarrassed by Bill Clinton's disgusting and abhorrent behavior with a twenty-four year old woman in the Oval Office.
Never again will Bill Clinton have the power to conduct an eight year" social experiment" with the United States Armed Forces,driving the best out while systematically crippling the overall capability, effectiveness and morale of the remaining troops. Never again will I have to be embarrassed to say Bill Clinton represents me, a proud citizen of the United States of America.
Never again will Bill Clinton be able to sell the historic Lincoln Bedroom to the highest bidder, the Chinese, felons, and other disreputable characters. Never again will I have to watch Bill Clinton departing church with equally pitiful wife clutching an oversized Bible in his hand as if to make us believe that he has repented for any of his misdeeds. Never again will I have to see a joint session of Congress rise to their feet in the Capital building when the deceitful and shameless Bill Clinton enters the chamber.
And finally, Never again will I have to refer to Bill Clinton as "President of the United States."
By R.C. "Doc" Weaver
Never again will I have to watch Bill Clinton walk down the steps of Air Force One while a proud Marine in full dress uniform crisply salutes him. A Marine who fully comprehends duty, honor and country in a way that the man he is saluting never will.
Never again will I have to watch Bill Clinton on Veterans' Day place a wreath on the hallowed Tomb of the Unknown Soldier while he dramatically bites his lower lip in an effort to appear that he cares or even appreciates what this place is all about. A place where truly brave men and women who personally paid the ultimate price for freedom are forever remembered.
Never again will I have to watch Bill Clinton on national television wag his finger at each and every American and unconscionably lie to us. Never again will I have to witness Bill Clinton sending young men and women of the military into frivolous but life-threatening action to deflect attention from the personal scandals that confront him at home. Never again will I see Bill Clinton's name on a ballot. Never again will I be embarrassed by Bill Clinton's disgusting and abhorrent behavior with a twenty-four year old woman in the Oval Office.
Never again will Bill Clinton have the power to conduct an eight year" social experiment" with the United States Armed Forces,driving the best out while systematically crippling the overall capability, effectiveness and morale of the remaining troops. Never again will I have to be embarrassed to say Bill Clinton represents me, a proud citizen of the United States of America.
Never again will Bill Clinton be able to sell the historic Lincoln Bedroom to the highest bidder, the Chinese, felons, and other disreputable characters. Never again will I have to watch Bill Clinton departing church with equally pitiful wife clutching an oversized Bible in his hand as if to make us believe that he has repented for any of his misdeeds. Never again will I have to see a joint session of Congress rise to their feet in the Capital building when the deceitful and shameless Bill Clinton enters the chamber.
And finally, Never again will I have to refer to Bill Clinton as "President of the United States."
By R.C. "Doc" Weaver
Winter is coming - again
This is posted under current events because winter is coming. I don't remember where I got this, but it is certainly sage advice for younger drivers.
It was snowing heavily and blowing to the point that visibility was almost zero when the young blonde got off work. She made her way to her car and wondered how she was going to make it home. She sat in her car while it warmed up and thought about her situation. She finally remembered her daddy's advice that if she got caught in a blizzard she should wait for a snow plow to come by and follow it. That way she would not get stuck in a snow drift.
This made her feel much better and sure enough in a little while a snow plow went by and she started to follow it. As she followed the snow plow she was feeling very smug as they continued and she was not having any problem with the blizzard conditions.
After an hour had passed, she was somewhat surprised when the snowplow stopped and the driver got out and came back to her car and signaled for her to roll down her window. The snow plow driver wanted to know if she was all right as she had been following him for a long time. She said that she was fine and told him of her daddy's advice to follow a snow plow when caught in a blizzard. The driver replied that it was ok with him and she could continue if she wanted, but he was done with the Wal-Mart parking lot and was going over to Sears next....
....go figure!
It was snowing heavily and blowing to the point that visibility was almost zero when the young blonde got off work. She made her way to her car and wondered how she was going to make it home. She sat in her car while it warmed up and thought about her situation. She finally remembered her daddy's advice that if she got caught in a blizzard she should wait for a snow plow to come by and follow it. That way she would not get stuck in a snow drift.
This made her feel much better and sure enough in a little while a snow plow went by and she started to follow it. As she followed the snow plow she was feeling very smug as they continued and she was not having any problem with the blizzard conditions.
After an hour had passed, she was somewhat surprised when the snowplow stopped and the driver got out and came back to her car and signaled for her to roll down her window. The snow plow driver wanted to know if she was all right as she had been following him for a long time. She said that she was fine and told him of her daddy's advice to follow a snow plow when caught in a blizzard. The driver replied that it was ok with him and she could continue if she wanted, but he was done with the Wal-Mart parking lot and was going over to Sears next....
....go figure!
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