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Home at the End of the World, A (2004)
IMDB rating: 6.70
Plot: Two childhood friends face their past relationships, including their own, alongside a new friend in the 1980’s in New York City. Their friendship becomes a love triangle as they struggle with a father’s death and an unexpected pregnancy. Together, the shall face each other as they realize that everything they have may not be what they expected.
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Home at the End of the World, A
Directors: Mayer Michael
Actors: Chalmers Andrew,Donowho Ryan,Authors Jeff J.J.,Lea Ron,Smith Erik,Allan Harris,Frewer Matt,Farrell Colin,Roberts Dallas,Roberts Shawn,Drama,Music,Romance,
Have you ever read an anecdote more appropriate for today than this?
This one is a little different… … Two Different Versions…. ………. …. Two Different Morals
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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 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 to God 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 Czarand 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 the ramshackle, once prosperous and once peaceful, neighborhood.
The entire Nation collapses bringing the rest of the free world with it.
MORAL OF THE STORY: Be careful how you vote in 2010.
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If you believe that, I’ve got an e-mail that says the President was born in Kenya for ya.
Oh, wait….nevermind.
upstream soft pop | Jan 04, 2010
The Modern Version sucks.
I like the old one better. It makes more sense and is more in touch with reality.
Quan | Jan 04, 2010
LOL
Thank you, I love it.
em | Jan 04, 2010
Its so typical that Republicans can make a case for the world ending because an insect dies.
Happy Fox watching!
justagrandma | Jan 04, 2010
Exactly, look before you vote, as I pointed out PRIOR to the elections http://www.theobamafile.com/
RU Quazee | Jan 04, 2010
DING DING DING DING!!!!
BINGO!!!!!!!! WE HAVE A BINGOOOOOOO!!!!!!
You hit the nail square on the head. Perfect bull’s eye!
Now for the REST OF THE STORY:
All the children watching the story say "Stupid ant!!!! I want to be the grasshopper. The grasshopper RULEZZZZ!!!"
Yes, this is EXACTLY what they have tried for generations to achieve.
The dumbing down of America has achieved its objective.
The public school system is a "useful idiot" factory, churning out ignorant and gullible future criminals who will eagerly jump on the communism bandwagon as soon as it rolls into town.
I know, I used to work as a public high school teacher. It made me sick to watch kids getting churned through the communist indoctrination mill all day long.
And how well it worked.
gws35 | Jan 04, 2010
AMEN to that one!
Vickilynn | Jan 04, 2010
WOW!!!
Excellent contrast. Too bad there weren’t enough ants to vote against the grasshopper government. Now the ants must suffer for the foolishness of the lazy and misguided grasshoppers.
jusapobo | Jan 04, 2010
This sadly but very truly depicts the American way of life, under the ass sucking, appeasing
liberal wonder of the world. This marxist is leading us directly to this anecdote you have
shared, Time to wake up America, Or you will have nothing left to share or have taken
away from you.
Obama must go, in 2012, And the Grasshoppers friends must be voted out of office
come Nov this year,.
Thank you for offering this true picture of reality.
raymond | Jan 04, 2010
Pedro Bishop