Hey all, check this out (friend sent it to me, and I had to share)

THE ANT AND THE GRASSHOPPER in 1999

THE CLASSIC 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 he's 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.

THE 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 he's 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, CNN, NBC, and ABC send crew to show the shivering, starving grasshopper next to video of the ant in his comfortable home with a table filled with food.
America and the world is stunned by the sharp contrast. How can it be that, in a country of such wealth, this poor grasshopper is allowed to suffer so?

Then a representative of the NAAGB (National Association of American Green Bugs) shows up on Nightline and charges the ant with "green bias", and makes the case that the grasshopper is the victim of 30 million years of greenism. Kermit the Frog appears on Oprah with the grasshopper, and everybody cries when he sings "It's Not Easy Being Green." Bill and Hillary Clinton make a special guest appearance on the CBS Evening News to tell a concerned Dan Rather that they will do everything they can for the grasshopper who has been denied the prosperity he deserves by those who benefited from the inequities of the Reagan years, also know as the "Temperatures of the 80's."

Richard Gephardt exclaims in an interview with Peter Jennings that the ant has gotten rich off the back of the grasshopper, and calls for an immediate tax hike on the ant to make him pay his "fair share."

Finally, the EEOC drafts the "Economic Equity and Anti-Greenism Act". Retroactive to the beginning of the summer, the ant was fined for failing to hire a proportionate number of green bugs to benefit from his industry and share in his ill-earned prosperity. His house is confiscated by the government.

The story ends as we see the grasshopper finishing up the last bits of the ant's food while the government house he's in, which just happens to be the ant's old house, crumbles around him since he doesn't know how to maintain it. The ant has disappeared in the snow. And on the TV, which the grasshopper bought by selling most of the ant's food, they are showing Bill Clinton standing before a wildly applauding group of compatriots announcing that a new era of "fairness" has dawned in America.

My comments:
This is the SOCIALIST (O.K. DEMOCRATIC. But I like to call it what it is!) idea of "The Land of Opportunity". They continue to confuse equal OPPORTUNITY with equal OUTCOME. One is worth fighting and even dying for. The other isn't worth SPIT!!

Good thing some of us ants have assault weapons

Here's an interesting long lost fact - In 1969 a group of Black Panthers decided that a fellow black named Alex Rackley needed to die. Rackley was a fellow Panther suspected of disloyalty. Rackley was first tied to a chair. Once safely immobilized his 'friends' tortured him for hours by, among other things, pouring boiling water on him. When they got tired of torturing Rackley, Black Panther member Warren Kimbo took Mr. Rackley outside and put a bullet in his head. Rackley's body was later found floating in a river about 25 miles north of New Haven, Conn.

Perhaps at this point you're curious as to what happened to these Black Panthers. In 1977, that's only eight years later, only one of the killers was still in jail. The shooter, Warren Kimbro, managed to get a scholarship to Harvard. He later became an assistant dean at Eastern Connecticut State College.

Isn't that something? As a '60s radical you can pump a bullet into someone's head,and a few years later, in the same state, you can become an assistant college dean! Only in America!
Erica Huggins was the lady who served the Panthers by boiling the water for Mr.Rackley's torture. Some years later Ms. Huggins was elected to a California School Board.

How in the world do you think these killers got off so easy? Maybe it was in some part due to the efforts of two people who came to the defense of the Panthers. These two people actually went so far as to shut down Yale University with demonstrations in defense of the accused Black Panthers during their trial.

One of these people was none other than Bill Lan Lee. Mr. Lee, or Mr. Lan Lee, as the case may be, isn't a College dean. He isn't a member of a California School Board. He is now head of the U.S. Justice Department's Civil Rights Division.

O.K., so who was the other Panther defender? Is this other notable Panther defender now a school board member? Is this other Panther apologist now an assistant college dean? No, neither! The other Panther defender was, like Lee, a radical law student at Yale University at the time. She is now known as the "smartest woman in the world." She is none other than the unofficial Democratic candidate for the U.S. Senate from the State of New York, our lovely First Lady, the incredible Hillary Rodham Clinton.

This is an interesting chain of events. May I ask what your source for this info is?

From a book:
Hillary Clinton and the Racial Left
By David Horowitz

I too was curious about this. I found it posted at: http://www.frontpagemag.com/inyourface/2000/iyf01-31-00.htm
Front Page Magazine, an article (email) by David Horowitz has found that the original author of this post is apparently John STROADE Shay, Sr. He states "These are indeed the facts of the case. Alex Rackley was tortured and then murdered by the Panthers. Hillary and Bill Lann Lee organized demonstrations to shut down the trial of the Panthers. The convicted killer Warren Kimbro was released from jail and admitted to Harvard under an affirmative-action program and later became a dean of a Connecticut college. I believe most of these facts are in Radical Son (http://www.cspc.org/books/radical.htm). The detail about Bill Lann Lee I learned reading The Big Test (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0374299846/centerforthest01A) by Nicolas Lehmann."

Here are some articles:

http://www.yale.edu/ydn/paper/Commencement.1996/gb.html

http://cosmos.netgate.net/~pleiades/voices/controversy/20_1.html

http://www.hwwilson.com/databases/cbhillary.htm

As you can see she wasn't alone - it was a popular cause. But, none the less, one should be careful of the causes they choose as it may come back to haunt them.

Love it.

ps
My wifes maiden name Barbara Sue Schlice orig from Stevens Point Wi
Any relation??