My first authored post. I'm the old version.
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 ...'
Occupy the Anthill stages a demonstration in front of the ant's house where the news stations film the Black Lives Matters group singing, We shall overcome.
Then Reverend Al Sharpton has the group kneel down to pray for the grasshopper
while he damns the ants. He later appears on MSNBC to complain that rich people do not care.
Former President Obama condemns the ant and blames Donald Trump, President Bush 43, President Bush 41, President Reagan, Christopher Columbus, and the Pope for the grasshopper's plight.
Nancy Pelosi & Chuck Schumer
exclaim in an interview on The View 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 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 2018.
I was amazed. Maybe it doesn't take much.
My all time favorite, "Get yur tongue out of my mouth cause I'm kissin' you goobye".
[quote=Morgan}Last month, Steven Wagner, an official with the department of health and human services, told a Senate committee that his agency had “lost track” of 1,475 immigrant children who had been seized after crossing the US-Mexican border; some of these kids, it was feared, had been turned over to human traffickers.[/quote]
That also:
They are baby sitting and cleaning houses for the Washington elite, just like always. They're not lost.
Going to be one helluva expensive chicken sandwich.
kemmer wrote:
Nope. The Republicans are just moaning about voter fraud so that they can impose enough voter restrictions to discourage poor, elderly, student, and rural Dems from voting. It’s their only chance to avoid a total disaster in the midterms. The midterms will be strictly a referendum on Trump.
Yet one more completely ridiculous claim with absolutely no basis in truth. But it's a headline, therefore we must endure it every time the subject comes up. There is no citizen in this country who couldn't acquire voting credentials of any kind at no cost.
Soros, Clinton, etc, etc, etc. etc. He sure didn't earn it or gain it by his brains or wit.
The gene pool is a little cleaner this morning!
Repeal the 2A. Right. Ban ALL guns. Sure. Collect them. Oh yeah.
You lib douche rockets have any other ideas? This one's pretty old not to mention lame.
Well written, and a good beginning. But I doubt the liberal douche rockets can sustain the attention span to read this till the end.
For those that may not know, there is also a "moving" wall. It's a smaller, but complete replica of the wall in DC. I was 17 in 1973 so I didn't serve during any wartime. But a friend did and asked me to go with him to downtown Cleveland to see that moving wall. I haven't had a similar experience before or since. The atmosphere was amazing. Vet's everywhere asking other vets if they need a hand, many we talked to had experiences to share with my friend, asked me if I served, of course I hadn't at that point then thanked me for supporting them. Very humbling indeed. The most amazing thing was on display in an exhibit hall were citations for Purple Heart, Medal of Honor and other awards many awarded posthumously. The citations described the circumstances leading up to the various medals. You can't imagine how many examples of ultimate courage and self sacrifice there were. And they are almost unbelievable. Viet Nam was a horrible period in our history for many reasons. Our Viet Nam vets are a special kind of person.
There were two viable candidates. You can't dispute that HRC was a horrible choice for the left. There was a very long line of independents that may have voted for a democrat, just not her. That's all, and that's all. BTW, Sanders wouldn't have won either.
Aside from user20650's uninformed verbal puke, what is a requstion?