Re: [CTRL] Fwd: Re(2): [CTRL] Fwd: Poor Ant

1999-04-01 Thread Teo One Thousand
-Caveat Lector- In a message dated 3/31/99 2:42:35 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: i know that your ant and grasshopper story was posted seriously with something that you believed to be true but the context, the situation, the characters, the principle, all of it were

Re: [CTRL] Fwd: Poor Ant

1999-03-31 Thread E Mael
-Caveat Lector- this was posted as an example of propaganda was it not? abdication of the plight of the poor equals abdication of responsibility for the planet. for my part; f*** the ant and the grasshopper and the writer for that matter. [EMAIL PROTECTED],Internet writes: Interesting new

Re: [CTRL] Fwd: Poor Ant

1999-03-31 Thread Colleen Jones
-Caveat Lector- Here is a story I never understood; a lady with 3 children moved into a house through some kind of HUD program; the house was a foreclosure, bought up by those who provide housing for the poor and hopeless. That is just fine. For $1.00 this lady had a home - the house cost

Re: [CTRL] Fwd: Poor Ant

1999-03-31 Thread E Mael
-Caveat Lector- a fine example to contrast my post but if you dig a little deeper you would see that for every subsidy program the gov comes up with for the poor, there are a thousand republican busybodies already in the works to distort loopholes (placed intentionally by, guess who) so that

Re: [CTRL] Fwd: Poor Ant

1999-03-31 Thread Bob Stokes
-Caveat Lector- In a message dated 99-03-31 03:57:56 EST, you write: a fine example to contrast my post but if you dig a little deeper you would see that for every subsidy program the gov comes up with for the poor, there are a thousand republican busybodies already in the works to distort

Re: [CTRL] Fwd: Poor Ant

1999-03-31 Thread E Mael
-Caveat Lector- [EMAIL PROTECTED],Internet writes: The Truth, Not reported anywhere that I know of. When I was a child about 11 years old I had a friend that lived across the street. There were four children in her family and four in mine. She only had a Mother, no Father was around,

Re: [CTRL] Fwd: Poor Ant

1999-03-31 Thread YnrChyldzWyld
-Caveat Lector- Very cute story... And as always, written from the "ant's" perspective, as those who control all 'the stuff' ALWAYS write the history books. When the fact of the matter -- if we were to have an ACCURATE story having ants and grasshoppers reflecting the ACTUAL state of affairs

Re: [CTRL] Fwd: Poor Ant

1999-03-31 Thread Teo One Thousand
-Caveat Lector- In a message dated 3/31/99 3:34:27 AM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: this was posted as an example of propaganda was it not? abdication of the plight of the poor equals abdication of responsibility for the planet. for my part; f*** the ant and the

[CTRL] Fwd: Re(2): [CTRL] Fwd: Poor Ant

1999-03-31 Thread E Mael
-Caveat Lector- [EMAIL PROTECTED],Internet writes: Of course it is propaganda, BUT one must not forget ones own personal responsibility. The poor must not be forgotten and in the "land of plenty" that is the US it should be something that is of paramount importance. I think it is an object

[CTRL] Fwd: Poor Ant

1999-03-30 Thread Teo One Thousand
Interesting new version of the old Ant and Grasshopper story, that is particularly relevant in these "interesting times". Forwarded from a friend. Teo1000 From: Rand [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Rand netcom [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Poor Ant Date: Mon, 29 Mar 1999 22:58:30 -0800 THE ANT AND