Curators' note: This is an updated version of this "Be careful how you vote" tale of 2008.
> > THE ANT AND THE GRASSHOPPER
> >
> > 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 !
> >
> > 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 Easy
> > Being Green.'
> >
> > ACORN stages a demonstration in front of the ant's house where the
> > news stations film the group singing, "We shall overcome." Then Rev.
> > Jeremiah Wright has the group kneel down to pray to God for the
> > grasshopper's sake.
> >
> > President Obama condemns the ant and blames President Bush, 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 the Government Green Czar 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 once 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 2010 & 2012.
> >
> >
> > I've sent this to you because I believe that you are an ant - not a
> > grasshopper! Make sure that you pass this on to other ants. Don't
> > bother sending it on to any grasshoppers because they wouldn't
> > understand it, anyway.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
Fw: ANT AND THE GRASSHOPPER
2/09/2010 06:10:00 AM | Key Words: ABC, BARACK OBAMA, CBS, CNN, CONGRESS, DEMOCRATS ARE LAZY, DRUGS, FISA, HARRY REID, HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON, JESSE JACKSON, KERMIT the FROG, LARRY KING, NANCY PELOSI, NBC, PBS, TAXES | 7 Comments
Fw: Pastor Rick Warren's view on Proposition 8-Truly very sad!
Subject: Fw: Pastor Rick Warren's view on Proposition 8-Truly very sad!
If you want to see why people have no faith in church leaders and pastors on what they do and do not beleive , then take a moment and read what this impostor tells his church members at a service and then when in the National spot light on Larry King goes in the other direction on what the Bible plainly states againest homosexual conduct in any form . people like this freak is why more and more people are turning away from the churches and beleiving lies that satan is more than willing to spread . watch the Larry King video on this site about this story and you will hear for your self what i mean after reading what he preached just two weeks before he went on tv. check it out for your self it is well worth it . Thank God there are a few of us that still beleive what God say's in His word more than what men think .
Subject: Pastor Rick Warren's view on Proposition 8-Truly very sad!
To:
Date: Thursday, April 9, 2009, 7:51 AM
SCROLL DOWN AND READ WHAT RICK WARREN SAID TO HIS CHURCH, AND THEN SCROLL BACK UP AND CLICK ON THE LINK AND SEE WHAT HE SAID TO LARRY KING, WHICH IS IN STARK CONTRAST. HE SAYS ONE THING TO HIS CHURCH CROWD AND QUITE ANOTHER TO LARRY KING, AND APOLOGIZES TO HOMOSEXUALS. A FOUNTAIN CANNOT SEND FORTH BOTH BITTER AND SWEET WATER (JAMES 3:11); NO MAN CAN SERVE TWO MASTERS, FOR HE WILL CLING TO ONE OR THE OTHER (MATTHEW 6:24); ONE CANNOT PLEASE BOTH GOD AND MAN (GALATIANS 1:10 / I THESSALONIANS 2:4-6); AND THE TRUMPET, TO BE UNDERSTOOD, MUST SEND FORTH A CERTAIN SOUND (I CORINTHIANS 14:8).
ON MORAL ISSUES, ONE MUST GET IN OR GET OUT, GET ON OR GET OFF, AND NOT RUN AROUND THE FORTY ACRES. IF THERE IS TO BE ANY HOPE FOR HOMOSEXUALS, IT IS FOUND IN I CORINTHIANS 6:9-11...THEY MUST BE "WASHED" FROM THAT SIN, JUST AS THOSE GUILTY OF OTHER SINS. THE BLOOD OF CHRIST IS THE ONLY REMEDY FOR SIN OF ANY DESCRIPTION, AND IT IS ALL HEINOUS AND VILE IN THE SIGHT OF THE HOLY AND JUST GOD, WHO HAS ALREADY ANNOUNCED JUDGMENT UPON ALL WHO ARE NOT IN CHRIST (JOHN 3:18, 36).
THE LAST THING HOMOSEXUALS NEED IS TO BE APOLOGIZED TO OR COMFORTED IN THEIR INORDINATE LIFESTYLE, WHICH GOD SAYS IS "AGAINST NATURE" AND "VILE" (ROMANS 1:24-32). HE RAINED FIRE AND BRIMSTONE ON SODOM AND GOMORRAH FOR THAT VERY SIN (GENESIS 191-25). HOMOSEXUALS MUST COME TO FACE THE FACT THAT GOD DID NOT MAKE THEM THIS WAY; IT IS A LEARNED BEHAVIOR, ONE THAT IS TAUGHT THEM ALONG THE WAY.
IN ANY CASE, WHATEVER THEY FEEL MADE THEM THAT WAY, THEY MUST, AS THE DRUNKARD, THE LIAR, THE THIEF AND EVERY OTHER SINNER, AGREE WITH GOD ABOUT THEIR CONDITION AND CRY OUT TO GOD FOR MERCY AND DELIVERANCE. IF THEY REMAIN IN THEIR PRESENT SIN AND REBELLION, THEY SHALL SURELY PERISH UNDER THE WRATH OF GOD, AND WILL JOIN THE INFAMOUS LIST OF UNREPENTANT REBELS LISTED IN REVELATION 21:8 IN THE LAKE OF FIRE.
I AM CONGNIZANT OF THE FACT THAT MOST PEOPLE IN OUR DAY HAVE ABANDONED THE WORD OF GOD AND HAVE THROWN OFF ALL RESTRAINT FROM GOD OR MAN AND HAVE RUN RAMPANT INTO LICENTIOUSNESS AND DEBAUCHERY. SUCH PEOPLE WILL NOT AGREE WITH WHAT I HAVE WRITTEN, NOR WILL THEY AGREE WITH WHAT THE BIBLE SAYS ON THE MATTER. FINE, BUT THAT DOES NOT, AND WILL NOT, CHANGE THE TRUTH. A HORSE WHICH TAKES THE BITS IN ITS TEETH AND KICKS AGAINST ITS MASTER CAN LOOK TO GET THE WHIP ON HIS BACK UNTIL HIS STUBBORN WILL IS BROKEN, AND THERE IS A ROD FOR THE BACK OF FOOLS (PROVERBS 26:3).. READ ALL THE ARTICLES BELOW, THEN CLICK ON THE LINK, OR VICE VERSA (WALT)...
Here is a video from the Larry King.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bYIWSyMrhRA&feature=related
Rick Warren disavows support for Prop. 8
Jim Brown - OneNewsNow - 4/8/2009 7:00:00 AM
California mega-church pastor and author of The Purpose Driven Life Rick Warren says he apologized to his homosexual friends for making comments in support of California's Proposition 8, and now claims he "never once even gave an endorsement" of the marriage amendment.
Monday night on CNN's Larry King Live , Pastor Rick Warren apologized for his support of Prop. 8, California 's voter-approved marriage protection amendment, saying he has "never been and never will be" an "anti-gay or anti-gay marriage activist."
"During the whole Proposition 8 thing, I never once went to a meeting, never once issued a statement, never -- never once even gave an endorsement in the two years Prop. 8 was going," Warren claimed.
However, just two weeks before the November 4 Prop. 8 vote, Pastor Warren issued a clear endorsement of the marriage amendment while speaking to church members. "We support Proposition 8 -- and if you believe what the Bible says about marriage, you need to support Proposition 8," he said.
The following is a complete transcript of Warren 's comments just weeks before the Prop. 8 election:
"The election's coming just in a couple of weeks, and I hope you're praying about your vote. One of the propositions, of course, that I want to mention is Proposition 8, which is the proposition that had to be instituted because the courts threw out the will of the people. And a court of four guys actually voted to change a definition of marriage that has been going for 5,000 years.
"Now let me say this really clearly: we support Proposition 8 -- and if you believe what the Bible says about marriage, you need to support Proposition 8. I never support a candidate, but on moral issues I come out very clear.
"This is one thing, friends, that all politicians tend to agree on. Both Barack Obama and John McCain , I flat-out asked both of them: what is your definition of marriage? And they both said the same thing -- it is the traditional, historic, universal definition of marriage: one man and one woman, for life. And every culture for 5,000 years, and every religion for 5,000 years, has said the definition of marriage is between one man and a woman.
"Now here's an interesting thing. There are about two percent of Americans [who] are homosexual or gay/lesbian people. We should not let two percent of the population determine to change a definition of marriage that has been supported by every single culture and every single religion for 5,000 years.
"This is not even just a Christian issue -- it's a humanitarian and human issue that God created marriage for the purpose of family, love, and procreation.
"So I urge you to support Proposition 8, and pass that word on. I'm going to be sending out a note to pastors on what I believe about this. But everybody knows what I believe about it. They heard me at the Civil Forum when I asked both Obama and McCain on their views."
During his CNN interview on Monday, Warren expressed regret for backing Prop. 8. "There were a number of things that were put out. I wrote to all my gay friends -- the leaders that I knew -- and actually apologized to them. That never got out," he admitted.
Additionally, Pastor Warren said he did not want to comment on or criticize the Iowa Supreme Court's decision last week to legalize same-sex "marriage" because it was "not his agenda."
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Bryan Fischer with the Idaho Values Alliance says Warren is abdicating his biblical role as a pastor. "For Pastor Warren to say that shoring up marriage is not something that's on his agenda is just something that's hard to believe for somebody who believes the Bible is our rule for faith and practice," Fischer notes.
Dr. Jim Garlow , the senior pastor of Skyline Wesleyan Church in the San Diego suburb of La Mesa , helped spearhead the Prop. 8 effort in California . Garlow admits he is confused and troubled by Pastor Warren 's decision to apologize for supporting Prop. 8.
"Historically when institutions and individuals back away from convictional biblical truth, it is driven primarily by one single factor -- and that is the respectability of other people. In other words, much more caring about what other people think about them than what God thinks about them," he concludes.
Pastor Warren did not respond to a request from OneNewsNow for an interview.
5/19/2009 06:26:00 AM | Key Words: BIBLE, GAY, LARRY KING | 3 Comments
[Fwd: The Ant and the Grasshopper (two versions)]
"Howdy! .... Here's a funny one I got the other day (well, I was told it was funny), written in the super-terrific Comic Sans MS in Glorious Technicolor font, with the requisite number of insults to Democrats. Classic! When I called the person on the BS factor, he accused me of not using my sense of humor!
Can you imagine? Why didn't I just use the sense of humor? I'll remember that next time, and I'll hit myself repeatedly in the head with a mallet, just to help the humor appreciation work its magic.
Great site, I sat here reading (and commenting) until I reached the end. I feel dirty now.
I will look in my old email to see if there are any more of these gems left over, as I have not emptied the trash in a while. If I have them, I will forward."
-Mark
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The President has said that American lives will be sacrificed if Congress does not change FISA. But he has also said that he will veto any FISA bill that does not grant retro-active immunity. No immunity, no FISA bill. So if we take the President at his word, he's willing to let Americans die to protect the phone companies.
- Sen. Edward Kennedy
Subject: The Ant and the Grasshopper (two versions)
TRADITIONAL 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!
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 conferenc e and
demands to know why the ant should 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 t! o God for the
grasshopper's sake.
Nancy Pelosi, John Kerry & 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 and 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
1/23/2008 05:00:00 PM | Key Words: ABC, BILL CLINTON, CBS, CNN, COMIC SANS FONT, CONGRESS, DEMOCRATS ARE LAZY, DRUGS, FISA, HARRY REID, HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON, JESSE JACKSON, KERMIT the FROG, LARRY KING, NANCY PELOSI, NBC, PBS, TAXES | 1 Comments
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