Shit happens.
Mike L.
AN5 10426
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From frogeye <frogeye at gateway.net>
To: <healeys@autox.team.net>
Sent: March 2, 2000 9:49 AM
Subject: Political humor-green paint?
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> Dave@Taos Garage Annex in Albuquerque
> click below for pictures
> http://ibelong.koz.com/ibn/193/FSLO-947281688-900193.jpg
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> ----- Original Message -----
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> Sent: Wednesday, March 01, 2000 7:51 AM
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> > > >
> > > >The Ant and The Grasshopper
> > > >
> > > > CLASSIC 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.
> > > >
> > > >
> > ========================================================
> > > > 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 whileothers are cold and starving. CBS, NBC
> > and ABC show up to
> > > > provide pictures of the shivering grasshopper
> > next to video of the
> > > > ant in his comfortable home with a table filled
> > with food. America
> > > > is stunned by the sharp contrast.
> > > >
> > > > How can it be that, in a country of such wealth,
> > this poor grasshopper
> > > > is allowed to suffer so? Then a representative
> > of the NAAGB (National
> > > > Association of Green Bugs) shows up on Nightline
> > and charges the ant
> > > > with "green bias," and makes the case that the
> > grasshopper is the
> > > > victim of 30 million years of greenism.
> > > >
> > > > Kermit the Frog appears on Oprah with the
> > grasshopper, and
> > > > everybody cries when he sings "It's Not Easy
> > Being Green."
> > > >
> > > > Bill and Hillary Clinton make a special guest
> > appearance on the
> > > > CBS Evening News to tell a concerned Dan Rather
> > that they will do
> > > > everything they can for the grasshopper who has
> > been denied the
> > > > prosperity he deserves by those who benefited
> > unfairly during the
> > > > Reagan summers, or as Bill refers to it, the
> > "Temperatures of the
> > > >80's."
> > > >
> > > > Richard Gephardt exclaims in an interview with
> > Peter Jennings that the
> > > >
> > > > ant has gotten rich off the back of the
> > grasshopper, and calls for an
> > > > immediate tax hike on the ant to make him pay
> > his "fair share."
> > > >
> > > > Finally, the EEOC drafts the "Economic Equity
> > and Anti-Greenism Act"
> > > > retroactive to thebeginning 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
> > > >
> > > > grasshoppers. 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's
> > in, which just happens
> > > >to
> > > > be the ant's old house, crumbles around him
> > since he doesn't know how
> > > >to
> > > > maintain it.
> > > >
> > > > The ant has disappeared in the snow. And on the
> > TV, which the
> > > > grasshopper bought by selling most of the ant's
> > food, they are showing
> > > > Bill Clinton standing before a wildly applauding
> > group of politicians
> > > > announcing that a new era of "fairness" has
> > dawned in America.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> >
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