Posted on 11/30/2002 8:03:21 AM PST by B4Ranch
Standing and cheering on that note! You are sooo right! Evidenced by my uncle's heart attack when he was being harrassed. I said it was because of his grass, but that is not the only thing they complained about. My uncle has classic cars and the city TOWED all of them off his private property in the middle of the night!!! Why? Because they said they were inoperable...in various stages of renewal. One simply had the tires off because the brake drums were in the shop being reground! You talk about regulating people to the point of harrassment, I have NEVER in my life seen anything so ridiculous as what I saw here in Minneapolis! There were feeders on the ground for little creatures that roam around the area. On his private property! He was told that he could not have them! There were metal trash cans set against the side of the garage for the purpose of allowing the tenants a place to RECYCLE plastic, cans, etc. He was told that they could not be there because they were an eye-sorer! For God's sake! This was in my uncle's backyard where it is no one's damn business, imo! It is private property NOT IN VIEW OF THE GENERAL PUBLIC!
Uhhhh....now you have got me going! LOL...and I haven't even finished reading what you wrote yet! :) I'll be back, I'm sure. :)
Yes, and you present some viable solutions to illegal immigration IF our government actually cared about about preserving American sovreignty. It's crystal clear they don't. Not when invaders are welcomed with open arms, and massive Third World immigration is encouraged regardless of any expection to assimilate AS "Americans". A "war" of sorts has indeed been waged against the United States -- and the net result?
We shall all be "World" citizens -- Or even perhaps "sponsored" by a a multi-national corporation. With NO borders, NO alligiances, and NO traditions. Welcome to Stage I of our 'New World Order indoctrination'...
Somalis have been getting prefered treatment lately it seems. I'll tell you a little secret, "they go where the welfare dollar is the highest!"
That is why they flock to Mn,NY,NJ and Maine has a major influx. Kinda funny when you consider the difference in the weather!!!!
Citizen K had a very good post. That one is a keeper for sure.
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 the ant is a fool and laughs, and dances, and plays the summer away.
Come winter, the ant is warm and well fed. 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, NBC 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 Jesse's group singing..."We shall overcome." Jesse then has the group kneel down to pray to God for the grasshopper's sake.
Al Gore 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 EEAGA, "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. The case is tried, before a panel of federal judges that Bill 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:
************************************ ********VOTE REPUBLICAN ********
1) We must recognize what is, and what has been, happening to our country with respect to the rise of socialism in America during the 20th Century.
2) We must vociferously demand tax reduction, reform of the tax system, deregulation, and the restoration of property rights.
3) We must bring an end to the effectiveness of class warfare in politics with the inculcation of the American Dream and the American way of life based on the supremacy of the individual and individual rights, self-reliance, personal responsibility, independence, and freedom.
4) We must advocate adherence to the limitations placed upon government by the Constitution, and we must do so by holding politicians accountable, both in terms of elections and in public relations, when they demonstrate their contempt for the Constitution.
5) We must seek out and elect better leaders by effectively changing the political discourse and taking command of the terms of political debate and the ground upon which political debate occurs.
6) Finally, we must dismantle the welfare state and the government largess of socialism by advocating and promoting the very real and honest truth that alternatives to government exist. We don't need big government, subsidies, tax breaks, and the sanction of the political elite where it comes to addressing the regulation of the market economy and other social problems that make up the bulk of our everyday life experience. America's brand of socialism is a.k.a. corporatism
I must now catch up on about thirty posts. The pingy thingy is now working.
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