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Two Different Versions! Two Different Morals!
I got this from my friend Heather. Normally, I don’t encourage such thing but I really liked this one.
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!
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MODERN VERSION:
The ant works ha rd 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 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. Americans are 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 demon stration 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 explain 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 Clint on 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
Freezer Friday
Freezer Friday is on hiatus. It will return. But please go to my last Freezer Friday and post there!
Hanukah Faux Paux
Now I openly admit that I don’t keep kosher, as a matter of fact we had pork sausage, eggs w/cheese and latkes last night for dinner. But I guess back east they take their Hanukah very seriously. NancyKay Shapiro (who also eats pork;) noticed this advertisement at a grocery store and snapped a couple of pictures. She then posted it on her blog so we could all get a kick out of it. The next day the signs were gone and there are at least 2 news stories (one and two). Everyone knows the really sin is that people are paying between $8.99 and $6.29 a pound for ham!
(HT: Silicon Valley Moms)
Music Choice and Devo 2.0
So a new thing on TIVO is Music Choice. You can choose specific videos and download them onto the Tivo. I have been surprised of the amount of Christian videos and very happy about it. But NerdDad and I also saw Whip it! by Devo 2.0 and had to give it a go. While it isn’t THAT bad, it is pretty corny. NerDad said that they must be rolling over in their graves. When I said I didn’t think they were dead yet, he said they were probably dieing of embarrassment;). View it for yourself and tell me what you think!
Great Holiday Video
And it is from a bunch of Math Nerds (more on that later).
Meal Plan Monday
I didn’t make a menu plan last week and it all went to pot. So I am back with this week’s menu.
Monday: Marinated Pork Loin, Beer Bread, Broccoli
Tuesday: Cube Steak, Sweet Corn Muffin, Broccoli
Wednesday: Crockpot Roast and Potatoes, Broccoli
Thursday: Chicken, Broccoli and Rice
Friday: Pasta Carbonara Florentine
Freezer Friday: Sweet Corn Muffins
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These are great muffins and you can freeze them! I have used vanilla yogurt when I am out of plain.
Ingredients:
1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
3/4 cup granulated sugar
1/2 cup yellow cornmeal
2 tsp baking powder
1/4 tsp salt
2/3 cup plain/vanilla low/non-fat yogurt
1/4 cup butter, melted
3 tbl milk
1 large egg, beaten
Process:
Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Combine flour, sugar, cornmeal, baking powder and salt in a medium bowl with a whisk. Combine yogurt, butter, milk and egg with a whisk in another bowl. Then add the wet to dry ingredients. Stir just until moist. Then put the mix into muffin tins. Bake for 20 minutes or until toothpick comes out clean. Cool on a wire rack. Makes 12.
Freeze individually and just thaw in the frig!
Wordless Wednesday
Chicken, Broccoli and Rice
So when I haven’t been a good wifey and have a menu set up and it is around dinner time, this is what we throw on the table. If you pull out a bag of made ahead chicken, this will take thawing plus about 10 minutes.
Ingredients:
2 cups diced cooked chicken
1 1/2 cups water
1 can Cream of Chicken Soup
2 cups Broccoli (I use frozen, straight out of the freezer)
2 cups Instant Rice
Process:
In a large skillet, make sure that you chicken is warm and put aside in a bowl. Then mix water and soup together and bring to a boil (now is when you add any seasonings). Turn down and mix in all ingredients remaining. Cover and cook on medium/low for 5 minutes. If you are using frozen broccoli it will take up to another 5 minutes.
That is it!