Follow-up to "The Ant and the Grasshopper"

Today’s post is a follow-up to yesterdays write up on the “Ant and the Grasshopper”analogy” which I received in an email from a fellow political activist friend of mine with the caveat of forwarding it to “ants” only as “grasshoppers never can understand it.”, he wrote.  I found that to be true throughout the day yesterday, therefore I will try to explain this for all my grasshopper friends or those who sympathize with grasshoppers. If you haven't read my previous  post then you should read that first.

 The first example written in the form of a Biblical parable compares those who work with those who don’t or rather won’t.. Enough said!

The second example, of course, brings the unending saga into modern times and includes those who play the victimization card as well as those who encourage such behavior for the sole purpose of advancing their own agendas. Most Conservatives I know get this illustration  immediately understanding it is an entertaining over simplification, perhaps that would probably not stand up in a more sophisticated discussion of Kenesian Economics and the growth of the government sector(more grasshoppers) vs Free Market Economics and the growth of the Private sector(more ants).

Furthermore, the exploitation of problems by liberal special interest groups is always about their access to power and never about the problem itself. Their involvement in most cases further exacerbates the problem and in the end predictably destroys the very people they were trying to help by enslaving them to an entitlement and victimization mentality that only strips them of their dignity and work ethic. This behavior can lead to the destruction of a family, community, and even a country, which has occurred over and over throughout history.

 Yet the liberal establishment in this country continues to insist on implementing big government solutions to problems like Nationalized Health Care which presently threatens to change this country like nothing that has ever happened before. Our whole life will be controlled by the leverage the government has over us and the ability of bureaucrats to withhold our access to life saving medical procedures, unless we adhere to the demand of unelected bureaucrats regarding the products we purchase, places we live and families we raise. Don’t believe me? Allow Obama to win a second term if you dare to cast your vote for him..

So get those pacemakers and expensive surgeries done now while you can before Obama and his Czars bring this country closer to its day of destruction even though the liberal constituency they represent is actually a very small segment of the entire population. It  just seems larger because of the inclusion of the very powerful liberal mainstream media, which most liberals I know won’t even acknowledge the very existence of and get all worked up when a single cable news network emerges that attempts to report the truth, or a larger than life voice appears behind enemy lines on AM talk radio encouraging the "ant" population to persevere because the truth is on their side. The alternative that is being advanced down our throats, big government socialism simply won’t work, because it hasn’t worked anywhere it has been tried. Hence I give  you…..(drum roll please) North Korea, where millions have starved to death and the government had to photoshop an official photo of the funeral procession yesterday of Kim Jung Il simply to present the precise and sanitized image they wanted the world to see of their country which is other wise a totally dysfunctional mess. It was also noted by journalists who attended the State Funeral that no tears were seen despite some very loud wailing from organized groups of “mourners”, who were watched very carefully by their handlers..

The Ant and the Grasshopper

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 OLD STORY:

Be responsible for yourself!

MODERN
VERSION

The ant works hard
in the withering heat and the rain 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 he is 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 EasyBeing Green...'

Occupy the Anthill stages
a demonstration in front of the ant's
house where the news stations film the SEIU group singing, We shall overcome.

Then Rev. Jeremiah Wright
has the group kneel down to pray for the grasshopper's sake,

while he damns the ants.

President Obama condems the ant
and blames
President Bush 43, President Bush 41, President Reagan, Christopher Columbus, and the
Pope
for the grasshopper's
plight..

Nancy Pelosi & Harry Reid
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 theGovernment GreenCzar
and given to the grasshopper.

The story ends as we see the grasshopper
and his free-loading friends finishing up the last bits of the ant's food while the government house he is in, which, as you recall, just happens to be the ant's old house,
crumbles around them because the grasshopper doesn't maintain it.

The ant has disappeared in the snow, never to be seen again.

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 ramshackle, once prosperous and peaceful, neighborhood.

The entire Nation collapses
bringing the rest
of the free world with it.


MORAL OF THE STORY:


Be careful how you vote in 2012.

The real Obama revealed in his Osawatomie Speech

I studied this speech all night and it’s incredible to think the words came from an American President because it could have been given by Lenin . Marx, Mao, or Castro with the insertion of a couple of substitute words like proletariat and bourgeoisie. Read the whole speech by clicking on the link at the end of this post, and notice the incredible number of lies like when explaining the Bush tax cuts, the banking crisis, and the implication that college students won't have to pay for their education. (I guess that means their professors won't be getting paid their sky rocketing salaries anymore). The part that jumped out and scared the crap out of me though is the following excerpt: “Our rugged individualism and our healthy skepticism of too much government doesn’t work. It has never worked”. (Really?)

In a way I’m glad he gave this speech before it’s too late because now he is out in the open and even even the most inattentive dull brained observer of this guy now knows what he meant when he spoke of change…whether it be socialism, Marxism, or communism, it’s all the same…tyranny and it’s always followed by the cracking of heads and the transition to a prison state with the masses living in extreme poverty and misery, except for the chosen few like Obama and his girls. I'm sure Michelle will still be able to go on her high "falluten" vacations and shopping sprees

Read the Full text of Barack Obama's speech in Osawatomie, Kansas

About the So Called News Media

I was browsing through various news services in search for something I could install on my blog that would include news stories reported in an unbiased way, when I realized it was almost an impossible task. Even the stories that are factually correct are selected for a reason that coincides with their liberal-big-government-anti republican-pro democrat agenda. When I typed in the Boston Herald on my news roll gadget on my blog, for example, I got the Herald's articles as submitted, but when I typed in Drudge Report, Rush Limbaugh, Fox News ie fair and balanced or conservative sources, I ended up with very vicious critical articles about those sources, not the articles from those sources itself. And I thought...what is that all about? Can't you just let me read the article that Drudge selected for his website? It doesn't require a subscription. Which leads me to believe that...

Most Americans are under the impression that the journalists that work for NBC, ABC, CBS, CNN, MSNBC, CNBC or any newspaper in the country with the exception of the Washington Times or the Wall Street Journal are reporting the news, but they're not. They are operatives for the Democrat Party selecting stories and reporting in such a way that helps Democrats and Liberals, and hurts Republicans and Conservatives and that is a fact, whether they know it or not. And the truth is most do not know that, which is why they laugh at the mere sugestion that is going on.

The people in the media are part of the liberal political class which began years ago for each of them, probably in k-12 or at least College unless they were fortunate to begin thinking on their own after moving away from the Democrat conclaves where they may have grown up. In addition today we have a growing segment of the population that were Rush babies listening to Mom and Dad's favorite radio show every day, and therefore became exposed to the truth very early on. And these conservative sources are very truthful for the most part, though at times they go over board from an emotional perspective, but that is usually when they jump all over the mainstream media for their out of balance reporting and commentary. Unlike the liberal media, conservative media hosts admit from the outset that they are conservative, which is what I mean by being honest.

The mainstream or as Rush calls it State-controlled media is so biased now, they refuse to discuss the possibility of liberal bias as it appears silly to them. The reason they feel this way is because their liberal spin is not an act of conspiracy, it's genuinely who they are., which is a much more serious problem than simply reporting the news in a way that favors Democrats. But having said that I must add that they are all skilled communicators and I don't doubt their sincerity in the slightest which opens up the possibility of mental and psycotic behavior. Considering the fact that most all liberals are long-time, avowed aetheists, I think that is something that should be considered. Far right conservative commentator, Michael Savage has been saying for years that liberals are suffering from a mental disease. And though I haven't istened to Mr Savage in years, I always thought he might be on to something.

Also those of us who get our news from the new media may not realize how much more informed we are. I am no longer intimidated by liberals who seek to argue with me because I have learned they are clueless. They have no idea what they are talking about because they are too proud and brainwashed to ever listen to Rush Limbaugh, Mark Levin, Sean Hannity, or countless other conservative analysts because they actually consider it lies I discovered. One of my diehard liberal friends was forced to withdraw from an argument he started, because he said he didn't trust my sources, which is another way of attacking the messenger when you can't win the argument. The truth is I think he was shocked at how informed I really was.

In 1996 Annenberg School of Journalism, University of Pennsylvania a liberal journalism school, completed a thorough study of Rush Limbaugh's audience and discovered to their surprise that his audience was the most informed of any segment of society, so I've been aware of this for a long time.

The 12 Days of Christmas...US Navy Band Sideboys

This is a great rendition of the 12 Days of Xmas performed in entertaining fashion by one of the best musical groups in the world, The Sideboys of the US Navy Band. It takes a little while to get into it, but it's worth the wait.

Laughing Conservatively!

I love the idea of Conservatives making fun of liberals. For years it was the opposite. Do you remember a show called That was the week that was!. How about Laugh-in, The Smothers Brothers Show, and of course the Mount Everest of all political satire TV Saturday Night Live. Now we have Jon Stewart, David Letterman, Jay Leno and couple of other guys whose names escape me because I've never learned who they were. Most of the time these liberals come across as mean, nasty and hardly funny, as far as I'm concerned. And I'm not even going to discuss the beastly Michael Moore, who has redefined the word treason, which is a subject I intend to write about sometime.

You know what was really funny though? Remember the time Jane Fonda joked with the North Vietnames and clowned around with guns that were still being used to kill Americans while the war was still raging and many former POW's including Admiral Stockdale later wrote that there were indications about that time that the North Vietnamese were ready to give up as their artilery guns were all burned out and the POWS were starting to get better treatment and medical attention in preparation for war trials. And then Hanoi Jane arrived kicking the anti-war movement in the states into high gear, which gave great encouragement to the enemy, by the way. But still, the memory of Jane on those guns kidding around and flirting with the North Vietnamese soldiers really brings a chuckle to my face. (ha ha ha ha) Man was that funny! Anyway...

Rush Limbaugh has been combining political news commentary with tongue & cheek humor for years at the expense of liberals. But the thing about Rush's humor and the reason it is so popular among his 20 million + Conservative audience is that there is always an element of truth to it, which has always been one of the characteristics of effective comedy. The musical satire played on breaks for those who listen to his show as I do everyday online is worth the price for membership in the Rush 24/7 club alone. Listening to musician Paul Shanklin imitate Barney Frank singing the Banking Queen is a scream. And you haven't heard satire until you've heard his imitation of Barney Frank, Bill Clinton, and Ted Kennedy singing background vocals while Barack Obama performs lead vocals on a satiric renditions of a Shanklin produced pop song. Now that's funny!

Recently one of my liberal friends on FaceBook ran a you tube video of convicted rapist Mike Tyson doing an impersonation of Herman Cane about the time a couple of women came forward with questionable sexual harassment claims, making me suspicious of the timing and the real message the producers of the video were trying to get across. I mean, Tyson, who is hardly known for being a comedian, unless you consider the time he bit Buster Douglas's ear off funny, actually did a surprisingly good impersonation of Herman Cain, but surely the creators could have found someone else who wasn't a real live sexual predator to do it. Were they trying to get a subliminal message across? Well, that was the first thing I thought about and when I didn't find it funny, my friend accused me of not having a sense of humor.

He also explained to me one time in a real heart to heart way that Obama deserves respect because he is the President. Oh really? It's interesting however that he and his friends didn't apply that same reasoning when George W Bush was president. And what about the way they treated Dick Cheney, Don Rumsfield, and Karl Rove. How many "Bush is so dumb jokes" can you take? Where is the element of truth when you're talking about someone who has an MBA from Harvard, as though he is dumb. Granted, I'm sure it helped to have his father's name when he applied for admission after a less than stellar career while sewing his oats at Yale, but he was on his own once he arrived at Harvard and began the grueling program of studies, which many are unable to complete. But Bush actually graduated which is a lot more than what Al Gore was able to accomplish. And furthermore those in his inner circle knew him to be a voracious reader even while dealing with his day to day presidential responsibilities, something never mentioned by the White House Press Corps as it ran against the image they had molded for him of not being very smart.

Now I'm not saying that all jokes told by liberal comedians aren't funny, because much of it is and most conservatives I know can laugh when they make fun of Sarah Palan as much as they do at Obama and Anthony Weiner jokes, but more times than not lately they cross the line into an area that is not funny.

These jokes from Newsbusted, however are indeed funny, my liberal friends, so lighten up will you! Don't you have a sense of humor?

For more from Newsbusted go to http://newsbusters.org/other-topics/humor/newsbusted