The Eleventh Little Indian Boy

Tuesday, July 15, 2003:

In anticipation of the upcoming "recall" elections in the great state of California.....I found this to be very entertaining:


The Ant And The Grasshopper


OLD VERSION:

The ant works hard all summer long in the withering heat to build his house and collect supplies for the upcoming winter.

The grasshopper thinks he's 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 all summer long in the withering heat to build his house and collect supplies for the upcoming winter.

The grasshopper thinks he's 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 fed while others were cold and starving.

CBS, NBC, and ABC show up to provide pictures of the shivering grasshopper next to a video of the comfortable ant in his home with a table full of food.

America is stunned by the sharp contrast. How can this be, that in a country of such wealth this grasshopper is allowed to suffer so?

Kermit the Frog appears on Oprah with the grasshopper, and everyone 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 crews film the group singing " We Shall Overcome." Jesse then has the group kneel down to pray to God for the grasshopper's sake.

Tom Daschle and Walter Mondale exclaim in an interview with Peter Jennings that the ant has gotten rich off of the grasshopper's back, 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 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 lawsuit against the ant, and the case is tried before a panel of judges that Bill appointed from a list of single parent welfare recipients. *LIB note: I thought this portion was a bit harsh.....=P

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 b/c he doesn't maintain it.

The ant has disappeared into 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 now terrorize the once peaceful neighborhood. *LIB note: Hahahaha......too funny!!!


MORAL OF THE STORY: Vote Republican.


Been along time since I've posted.

*inhale*.....eyes shut......smile.....*exhale*.....eyes open.....it's good to be back.

Stay tuned.
LIB // 9:44 PM

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