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>Here is a wash email I got from extended family recently. The racism inherent in the message is about how the shit is going to go down. Feed us more bullshit and we will grow stronger. Because all you who are truly American know the sound by the sound of the sound...eh, too cryptic...what a strange life it must be to disseminate foul thought....It would take a mighty strong bankbook to do that...and at the ringing of the bells Edgar Allen Poe, armed with seaworthy men and women will free all the sad ones...
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> I know how you all enjoy a good /moraled/story!
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> The Ant and the Grasshopper 2008**
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> OLD VERSION: The ant works hard in the withering heat all summer long,
> building his house and laying up supplies for the winter.
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> 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.
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> The grasshopper has no food or shelter, so he dies out in the cold.
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> MORAL OF THE STORY: Be responsible for yourself!
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> 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 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 others are cold and starving.
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> 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.
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> How can this be, that in a country of such wealth, this poor grasshopper
> is allowed to suffer so ?
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> Kermit the Frog appears on Oprah with the grasshopper, and everybody
> cries when they sing, 'It's Not Easy Being Green.'
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> 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.
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> Nancy Pelosi & John Kerry exclaim in an interview with Larry King 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.
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> Finally, the EEOC drafts the Economic Equity & Anti-Grasshopper Act
> retroactive to the beginning of the summer.
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> 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.
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> 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 Clinton appointed from a list of single-parent welfare
> recipients.
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> The ant loses the case.
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> 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.
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> The ant has disappeared in the snow.
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> 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.
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> MORAL OF THE STORY: Be careful how you vote in 2008**
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