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January 5, 2015
Title: We the People
Topic: Encouraging Thoughts for Today
Discussed by Unknown Guest Author
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The is the audio from the similarly titled video in the right column on the What's UP Radio program's website.
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October 20, 2014
Title: We the People
Topic: Encouraging Thoughts for Today
Discussed by Unknown Guest Author
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The is the audio from the first video on the What's UP Radio program's website.
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July 17, 2014
Title: We the People
Topic: Encouraging Thoughts for Today
Discussed by Unknown Guest Author
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July 9, 2014
Title: We the People
Topic: Encouraging Thoughts for Today
Discussed by Unknown Guest Author
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This is the audio for the video
found at the right under “videos/We the People.
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November 1, 2010
Title: The ANT AND THE GRASSHOPPER
Topic: Encouraging Thoughts for Today
Discussed by Terry Lowry
with Host of the What's UP Radio Program
Two Different Versions ...Two Different Morals
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!
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.
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.
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...'
ACORN stages a demonstration in front of the ant's house where the news stations
film the group singing, We shall overcome.
Then Rev. Jeremiah Wright has the group kneel down to pray for the grasshopper's
sake.
President Obama condemns the ant and blames President Bush, President Reagan,
Christopher Columbus, and the Pope for the grasshopper's plight.
Nancy Pelosi & Harry Reid exclaim 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 Green Czar 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 take
over by a gang of spiders, who terrorize the ramshackle, once prosperous and
peaceful, neighborhood.
The entire Nation collapses bringing the rest of the free world [down] with it!
MORAL OF THE STORY: Be careful how you vote in 2010.
I've sent this to you because I believe that you are an ant not a grasshopper!
Make sure that you pass this on to other ants. Don't bother sending it on to any
grasshoppers because they wouldn't understand it, anyway.
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October 25, 2010
Title: We the People
Topic: Encouraging Thoughts for Today
Discussed by Unknown Guest Author
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This is the audio for the video found at the right under “videos/We the People.
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October 8, 2010
Title: NEVER ALONE
Topic: Encouraging Thoughts for Today
Discussed by Terry Lowry
with Host of the What's UP Radio Program
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