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To: BEEF JERKEY who wrote (706387)	10/7/2005 10:57:10 PM
From: Hope Praytochange	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769667

>>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 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 in the withering heat all summer long, building his >>house and laying up supplies for the 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 well fed while others are cold and >>starving. >> >>CBS, NBC, 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. >> >> >>Tom Daschle & John Kerry exclaim in an interview with Peter Jennings 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 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: Vote Republican >> >> >>Jerry Henry >>GOP Teamleader >>Fairburn, GA 30213

To: BEEF JERKEY who wrote (706387)	10/10/2005 12:44:57 AM
From: Wayners	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 769667

So you just admitted that a large portion of the 10 Commandments are common sense, yet you are offended by it? Get your act together and straight.