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Ant and the Grasshopper,
Two Versions:
The ANTAND THEGRASSHOPPER
This one is a little different....Two Different Versions ...Two Different Morals
OLD VERSION
The ant works hardin the withering heat all summer long,building his houseand laying up supplies for the winter.
The grasshopperthinks the ant is a fooland laughs and dancesand plays the summer away.
Come winter, the ant is warmand well fed.
The grasshopper hasno food or shelter, so hedies out in the cold.
MORAL OF THE OLD STORY:
Be responsible for yourself!MODERNVERSION
The ant works hardin the withering heat and the rainall summer long, building his houseand laying up supplies for the winter.
The grasshopper thinks the antis a fool and laughs and dances and plays the summer away.
Come winter, the shivering grasshoppercalls a press conferenceand demands to know whythe ant should beallowed to be warm and well fedwhile he is cold and starving..
CBS, NBC, PBS, CNN,and ABC show up toprovide pictures of the shivering grasshoppernext to a video of the antin 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 grasshopperis allowed to suffer so?
Kermit the Frog appearson Oprahwith the grasshopperand everybody cries when they sing,'It's Not Easy Being Green ...'
Occupy the Anthill stagesa demonstration in frontof the ant's housewhere the news stations filmthe SEIU group singing,We shall overcome.
Then Rev Al Sharpton's assistanthas the group kneel down to pray for the grasshopperwhile he damns the ants.The Reverend Al can not attend as he has contractual commitments to appear on his MSNBC showfor which he is paid over two million dollars a year to complain that rich people do not care.
President Obama condemns the antand blamesPresident Bush 43,President Bush 41,President Reagan,Christopher Columbus,and thePopefor the grasshopper'splight..
Nancy Pelosi & Harry Reidexclaim in an interview on The Viewthat the ant hasgotten rich off the back of thegrasshopper ,and both call for an immediate tax hike on the antto make him pay his fair share.
Finally, the EEOC draftsthe Economic Equity &Anti-Grasshopper Actretroactive to the beginning ofthe summer.
The ant is fined for failing to hirea proportionate numberof green bugs and,having nothing left to pay his retroactive taxes,his home is confiscated by theGovernment Green Czarand given to the grasshopper .
The story ends as we see the grasshopperand his free-loading friendsfinishing up the last bits of the ant's foodwhile the government house he is in,which, as you recall,just happens to be the ant's old house,crumbles around thembecause the grasshopper doesn'tmaintain 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 takenover by a gang of spiderswho terrorize the ramshackle,once prosperousand peaceful,neighborhood.
The entire Nation collapsesbringing the restof the free world with it.
MORAL OF THE STORY:
Be careful how you vote in 2016.
I've sent this to you because I believe that you are an antnot a grasshopper !
Make sure that you passthis on to other ants .
Dumb Idea of the Year Award
by Douglas Murray • December 28, 2015 at 5:00 am
Vadim Nikitim is the genius who last week proposed not only that we treat ISIS as a state, but that we grant ISIS diplomatic recognition.
Rather than realizing that the Soviet Union collapsed because of its economic system, Nikitim seems to think it fell apart because countries such as the US and UK recognized it diplomatically -- demonstrating that there is no better way to get the present wrong than by getting the past wrong.
The case of Saudi prince Saud bin Abdulaziz Bin Nasir might give the impression that you can rape and kill a manservant in a London hotel and get away with only the lightest of sentences.
Ambassadors from ISIS, on the other hand, will need to prove themselves somewhat, and first funnel many lucrative contracts our way before behaviour like this becomes acceptable.
Of course, there is always that pesky problem: What if militant Islam (or Iran) does not want to "forge a long (or short) peace" with us? Is there a Plan B?
It is that Dumb Idea of the Year Award time again, and among the many stellar contenders, one in particular stands out.
The diplomatic convention in Great Britain is that new ambassadors present themselves at the Court of St James. There they meet representatives of the monarch and are officially recognized as representing their state in the UK. So it would be interesting to consider even just the earliest ramifications of the British Independent newspaper contributor Vadim Nikitim getting his way. This is the genius who last week bypassed all those tedious arguments over whether or not ISIS constitutes a state, and proposed not only that we treat it as such but that it is also time to grant ISIS diplomatic recognition.