IJMC - Windows 95 Reinstall Number What?

Well, in trying to get Red Alert and Norton Utilities working together I 
ended up reinstalling the entire system. Oh well, at least the Linux box 
is still running...anyway, I'm going to let Pat tell you about tonight's 
post just ahead. I'm going to see what else still needs to be fixed other 
than the lobotomy I ordered for Bill Gates.                         -dave



A little Aesop's Fable and the new, politically correct version.  Usually,
I find these rewritings to be tedious and poorly attempted, and most
importantly, not actually funny.  This has some of those failings, but
even so, try reading it and skip to the good quote at the end when you've
had enough.

--pat

The Original Version...

The ant works very 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 New Over-Liberalized Version...

 It starts out the same but when winter comes 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 and show pictures of the shivering grasshopper next to film of
the ant in his comfortable home with a table filled with food.  America is
stunned by the sharp contrast.  How can it be, in a country of such wealth
that this poor grasshopper is allowed to suffer so?  Then a representative
of the NAGB (The National Association of Green Bugs) shows up on Night Line
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 and 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 unfairly during the
summer, or as Bill refers to it, the "Temperatures Of The 80's".  Finally
the EEOC drafts the "Economic Equity and Anti-Greenism 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 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, Bill Clinton is standing before a
wildly applauding group of Democrats announcing that a new era of
"Fairness" has dawned in America.

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"You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift.  You cannot
strengthen the weak by weakening the strong.  You cannot help the wage
earner by pulling down the wage payer.  You cannot further the brotherhood
of man by encouraging class hatred.  You cannot help the poor by destroying
the rich.   You cannot build character and courage by taking away a man's
initiative and independence.  You cannot help men permanently by doing for
them what they could and should do for themselves." 
  --Abraham Lincoln