Lesson for Today
TRADITIONAL 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 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 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 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.”
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.
Nancy Pelosi, John Kerry & 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 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 Clinton 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:
Be careful how you vote in 2008
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Ha, good story Vote McCain.
October 23rd, 2007 at 4:12 pmlol great one, Iggy.
October 23rd, 2007 at 5:55 pm
So true.
October 23rd, 2007 at 6:39 pmQuite a vision there. 50 points for the spiders.
October 24th, 2007 at 3:57 amGreat post Iggy!! I think the only thing that you forgot was Hillary sending our Armed Forces to feed poor Grasshoppers world wide, while radical spiders plotted bombings to kill ants and grasshoppers with no fear of reprisal.
Semper Fi
October 24th, 2007 at 6:56 amOutstanding, Iggy. So true.
October 26th, 2007 at 11:20 amNothing but truth there Iggy. and an interesting way to tell it too. good one
October 26th, 2007 at 12:09 pmHey Iggy —
Glad you’re doing well! And that you have support of like minded folks on this site.
October 26th, 2007 at 10:04 pmMelanie,
Thanks. Hopefully there is no sarcasm in your statement.
Semper.
October 27th, 2007 at 11:00 pmIggy for president!
thanks and semper fi
November 3rd, 2007 at 7:37 am