This one is a little different... 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.
The story ends as we see the grasshopper finishing up the last bits of the ants 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.
This is the reason for warnings like that... cuz of deaths like this..Coconuts kill 150 people each year, which is more than are killed by sharks. You are more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than a poisonous spider. Donkeys kill more people than plane crashes.
i'm sitting in chemistry and its the last day that im going to be at school this week (yaaaay, falcon days!), so i couldn't concentrate. so as i let my mind wander, i began thinking about the giant periodic table that is at the front of the room. its so neat and orderly and i was thinking how amazing it was that all the elements of the earth fit perfectly into this table. i couldnt help thinking about God, how he made our extremely intricate world, and how anyone couldn't see God's power in this absolute order in the universe. by chance? i think not. then i thought,
I wonder if God is entertained by our scientific advances. Does he chuckle when he sees our periodic table and say, good job! ya'll figured it out!
when you study chemistry you realize the gravity of the task of creating the lands and the sea. and our powerful and amazing God, he did this in a day.
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and...incense, an obsession?
The deeper you go into one subject the more complex it becomes. Each new chemistry class makes the other seem so simple and makes chemistry that much more complex...God truly is powerful and amazing
Right now so much is going on in the world. In my debate class (or, really, a current events forum as i see it) we learn about what's happening in the world, discuss issues, and explore the inner-workings of modern politics which happens to be on a lot of Americans' minds right now. but like every other day, we had to read a few articles on the election of 2008 and the general political scope and write about them. All i saw was..
and more nonsense about how they are slitting each other's throats and splitting the democratic party, when i discovered something fascinating! sheli's new word: quagmire. maybe im just dumb for not knowing this but its new to me.
quagmire-definition for normal people who wouldn't know it
*soft miry land that shakes or yields under the foot (Louisiana)
or
*a difficult, precarious, or entrapping position or predicament
George Bush is in one supposedly according to Fox news (u know, where we get all our trustworthy news from)
i'm not even going to try and figure out how long its been...
so i finally have an interesting weekend that i could talk about. He came to visit for a little bit, less than forty-eight hours. seven of which were in a car, but still it was fun. On Saturday we went to Dothan and visited Will Childress, the only Dothan citizen we knew and went to a concert. It was in this really quaint small town opera house. It was a small venue so we were close to the band. It's there i discovered one of my new favorite bands: Mae. don't know what took me so long.
and if you were wondering, since i've been away for a while, nothing much has changed except i have short hair now. she can be thanked for that, she inspired me.
