Say Anything Blog

Heh… although subtitles may be helpful ‘cause ey toalk a bit oadd yannow

OLD VERSION: (Aesop)

The ant works hard in the sweltering 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: (Unknown author)

The ant works hard in the sweltering 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:  Be sure to vote in 2010.

Apparently a replacement ball was given to the Dad later in the game, but nothing can be as valuable to that dad as that keepsake video. Priceless

(Version 3.0)

Oh yeah… we won
we won
oh yeah
28-0

Plus ... I won $25 on the board

I have been spending some relaxing time at the cabin in the Cascade Mts ... my reprieve from the SAB trolls;-)

As you can see in the images Sam and Dixie have trapped a squirrel and are relentlessly pursuing it to the point of digging, biting, and trying to enter the log. The two would dutifully seek the squirrel and then switch ends every few minutes ... around and around and around. After a solid two hours of me relaxing in the hammock and the dogs continuous perseverance I felt sorry for the critter and ordered the two into the pickup and headed to town for some ice. Of course on our return the dogs headed straight back to the log for more fun, but low and behold it was vacant of any possible kill.
LOL… chalk one up for the squirrel with a lil help from me. My dad will surely kill me when he finds out I saved a “furry tailed rat”

BEIJING (AFP) – A six-year-old girl has become a media darling in China on her first day of school by expressing her aspiration to become a “corrupt official” when she grows up, state media said Friday.

The young student stated her aspirations in a televised interview that was posted on a southern China website, leading bloggers to describe her comments as “a reflection of social reality,” the Southern Metropolis Daily reported.

“When I grow up I want to be an official,” said the girl, whose face was blurred to protect her identity.

“What kind of official?” the interviewer asked.

“A corrupt official because corrupt officials have a lot of things,” she replied.

Numerous other children appearing in the video were asked the same question, with many saying they wanted to become teachers, while others said they were not sure what they wanted to be when they grew up.

Many chatroom users praised the child for her “realistic” outlook on life, while others expressed cynicism over rampant corruption in China.

“Socialism has issued a new version of ‘The Emperor’s New Clothes’,” said one posting.

“The ugliness of life has already tainted the children—how are we ever going to educate the next generation?” another posting said.

Chinese President Hu Jintao has repeatedly warned that corruption is one of the greatest threats to the legitimacy of Communist Party rule.

If you receive an email from the Department of Health telling you not to eat canned pork because of swine flu….........

Ignore it.

It’s just Spam.

An Excerpt From Meghan McCain’s Totally Awesome Six-Figure Book, Coming Soon!

Meaghan McCain ... the Twitter Godess:

From Chapter 16, “Staying Extremely Cool In The Face Of Extremism”:

… having a hard time understanding why people were so slow to follow my warnings, and steer clear of extremely extremist ppl like that extreme Michelle Malkin. I mean, like, we’re right in the middle of this historic debate about giving people health care so they won’t die any more, and she’s pushing some stupid book that says our historic black president is actually some kind of crook. Talk about ankle-biting! I mean, President Obama is not only historic and totally cool, but he probably has even more Twitter followers than me, and here’s this nasty little book by a woman that has less than half as many Twitter followers as I do, trying to cut him down! How stupid is that? Hello, Michelle? This President is a giant walking through history, and you’re like a little blob of pink bubble gum on the pavement, and I would totally be honored to be the curb he uses to scrape you off his shoe after he steps on you.

Uncool people like Michelle Malkin just want to block health care so everyone will get sick and die, I guess. That’s the kind of cruelty I’m doing battle with, in my righteous quest to reform the party of hateful, retarded, gay-bashing rednecks that I love so much. I sincerely believe there is a place in my party for evil far-right homophobes like Michelle… but it’s way behind the hot, fresh young vanguard of the new conservative generation. One of the basic principles of conservatism is that young people know more than old people, and make better leaders. You know who all the top news anchors say is the leader of those cutting-edge young Republicans? I’ll give you a hint: her initials are “MM”, but it isn’t Michelle Malkin.

Maybe the old fossil conservatives could do our laundry and make sure we have a steady supply of Funions and frappucinos, while we fight the battle for a brighter Republican future. Only hip young tattooed New Republicans have a chance of winning major conservative victories, like chopping a few thousand dollars off the national debt, and forcing fundamentalist extremists to attend gay weddings if they want to keep the tax deductions for their hateful little churches.

My party will need leadership in the years to come. We need someone who can win the approval of the same media that worships me, then go on to run a principled, respectable campaign to lose gracefully to President Obama in 2012. We need to show America that we Republicans are totally inclusive and moderate, like the Democrats. That way, everyone will love us, and we’ll enjoy friendly and respectful media coverage in 2016. If we run some kind of fundamentalist extremist gay-bashing animal-hating extremist from some weird state nobody ever heard of, like Alaska, we’re just going to nuke the fridge for a whole generation of young Republicans.

I mean, if we want to win like the Democrats, we have to be like the Democrats, right? It’s just common sense, like everything that guy Kewie Dee says. Democrats are soooo cool and inclusive, they make me want to giggle like a giddy schoolgirl. Like, one time I’m walking from the limo to a trendy restaurant in D.C., and I bump into Sheila Jackson Lee, and she’s all like “Meghan, I’m buying,” and I’m like OMG, this place is really expensive, but she says no problem, she can write it off as a travel expense - she had to cross the street to get there, and that’s travel, right? So she has her bodyguards clear all the riff-raff out of our way, and this one guy - he looked like one of those nasty old extremists that shows up at town-hall meetings - he starts shouting questions about health care legislation at Sheila, quoting entire paragraphs from the freaking bill. Sheila was just totally cool about it. She had the guy tasered without breaking a sweat. I mean, how awesome is that? No one who needs Regnery Publishing to handle their dead-tree stuff can approach that kind of refined, elegant style..

You know who would be a completely fantastic leader for a hip, young, reinvented Republican party? My dad, that’s who. He sure knows better than to get snarky with people who have more Twitter followers than he does. He is also the undisputed black-belt grand master at losing gracefully to President Obama, which, as I mentioned, will be a key component of Republican strategy in 2012. Here’s a little juicy inside dish for you: my dad wanted to cancel his campaign and concede the race in, like, September of 2008… but that witch from Wasilla wouldn’t let him. It would have been a totally brilliant move, because it would have built up so much love and respect from reporters, and it would have showed moderates just how inclusive our new Republican Party can be. But You-Know-Who was too extreme and homophobic to listen to reason.

My party should learn from my dad’s example, and quit trying to sell hate and fear. We should be more like the Democrats, who just want to stop greedy doctors from stealing children’s tonsils, give people free money for cars, and pass environmental legislation before greedy businessmen destroy the Earth. We should stop trying to scare everyone by talking about runaway spending, Constitutional principles, political corruption, and similar extreme topics. In my next chapter, I’ll explain how support for gay marriage will lead my party back into control of the White House and Congress, after President Obama is finished using them…

H/T Doctor Zero

“Chili today, hot tamale…”

Bless their innocent lil hearts ... say, what was the weather anyway

Saw it @ SondraK

HEH!

MOLLOY (3:50): I have a good news to report; Glenn Beck appears closer to suicide - I’m hoping that he does it on camera; suicide is rampant in his family, and given his alcoholism and his tendencies towards self-destruction, I am only hoping that when Glen Beck does put a gun to his head and pulls the trigger, that it will be on television, because somebody will capture it on YouTube and it will be the most popular video for months.