GRASSHOPPER IS FOUND DEAD…

In an apparent drug related incident:

 

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 OLD STORY:
Be responsible for yourself and / or hard work has its just reward.

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.

CBC, CTV, Global and City TV 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.  Canada 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?  The little guy in the White House points to Canada as an example of a country that allows its rich to gain at the expense of the poor.

Kermit the Frog appears on CBC News with Peter Mansbridge along with the grasshopper and everybody cries when they sing, 'It's Not Easy Being Green.'

People Against Poverty stages a demonstration in front of the ant's
house where the news stations film the group singing, We Shall Overcome.

Then Justin Trudeau has the group kneel down to pray for the grasshopper's sake.

Kathleen Wynne condemns the ant and blames Prime Minister Harper, former Premier Mike Harris, Bill Davis, Joe Clarke, Harold Ballard, and Conrad Black for the grasshopper's plight.

Justin Trudeau and Scott Brison explain in an interview with Wendy Mesley 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 Provincial Liberal/NDP coalition 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 Ontario Government's Green Czar, Dalton
McGuinty, 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 and ramshackle the once prosperous and peaceful neighbourhood.

The entire Nation collapses bringing the rest of the free world with it.

MORAL OF THE STORY:

Be careful how you vote in the next
election  and / or hard work has its unjust reward.

As someone on the internet sees it…

‘K.D. Galagher’

Bastion of Democracy and …

 

Sober Second Thought.

I am speaking of course of Canada’s illustrious Senate.

(Speaking of Sober Thought – I do believe by Elizabeth May’s drunken antics earlier this week she now qualifies for a Senate Seat or at the very least – Honourable Senator Status).

But back to the Senate itself.

The papers yesterday and today are awash with articles saying that our dear Senate is planning to deep six Michael Chong’s Bill intended to give greater powers to the average Member of Parliament.

All the Senate needs do is talk it out under the election is called this fall and the Chong bill dies on the order paper.

As was said in a famous movie – “they can’t handle the truth”  …. or in this case – they can’t handle democracy.

And why for heaven’s sake should they …after all they are but appointed hacks, flacks and ne’er do wells.

But don’t think for a minute the Senate is acting out of some sort of belief in their independence.

No sir – they are acting as the executioner for the Party Leaders in the Commons who were forced to support the Bill solely for public appearance sake.

Regardless of Party – Tory, Grit or Dipper – the last thing their Leaders want is empowered Back Benchers.

Dear Reader – we are in desperate need of a shake-up.  We need to get rid of the Senate – roll back the all powerful PMO and curtail an out of control Supreme Court.

The voters took matters into their own hands in Alberta – it is now time that this same rise up occurs at the national level.

Michael Chong for Prime Minister, anyone?