Costellos split on primary choice: She backs Clinton; he backs Obama
From The Belleville News Democrat
Friday, January 25, 2008
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Costellos split on primary choice: She backs Clinton; he backs Obama
From The Belleville News Democrat
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Chuck
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Ant & the Grasshopper
Two Different Versions! Two different Morals!
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 the ant is 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!
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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.
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.
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.
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.
Finally, the EEOC drafts the Economic Equity & 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 Clinton 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: Be careful how you vote in 2008
You have got to be joking.... The corporate owned media does absolutely nothing to help anyone on the left. In fact, it is pretty easy to make a case that most of the corporate media is %100 in the corner of the right wing of this country. For example, they would not even let Dennis Kucinich in the debate they sponsored, and pretty much sunk his campaign:
Kucinich's 'futile fight' reveals worries about the media's influences
Also, even though we all saw the results of Katrina on the people of New Orleans, did the Bush administration do anything to help the people or just earmark the money allocated for corporate hand outs??
Feds OK Mississippi's Katrina grant diversion
Amy Goodman wrote a really good book about the problem of corporately owned for profit media called "Static". I would encourage you to get a copy. If you would like, you can borrow mine.
Cheers,
Chuck
Something else to consider before going to the polls in November:
A Somalian arrives in Minneapolis as a new immigrant to the United States.
He stops the first person he sees walking down the street and says, 'Thank
you Mr. American for letting me in this country, giving me housing, food
stamps, free medical care, and free education!'
The passerby says, 'You are mistaken, I am Mexican.'
The man goes on and encounters another passerby. 'Thank you for having such
a beautiful country here in America!'
The person says, 'I not American, I Vietnamese.'
The new arrival walks further, and the next person he sees he stops, shakes
his hand and says, 'Thank you for the wonderful America!'
That person puts up his hand and says, 'I am from Middle East, I am not
American!'
He finally sees a nice lady and asks, 'Are you an American?'
She says, 'No, I am from Africa!'
Puzzled, he asks her, 'Where are all the Americans?'
The African lady checks her watch and says... 'Probably at work!!!!!!!
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