Aesop's Fable Friday
The Frogs Asking For a King
The Frogs were discontented because no one ruled over them, so they asked Jupiter for a King.
Jupiter, despising their folly, cast a log into their pool, and said that would be their King.
The Frogs were terrified by the splash, and jumped to the deepest parts of the pool; but when they saw the log remain motionless, they began to feel such contempt for it that they even took to sitting upon it.
Thinking that King was an insult to their dignity, they sent to Jupiter again, and begged him to take away the sluggish King and to give them another and a better one.
Jupiter sent a Stork to rule them, who arrived and began to catch and eat the Frogs as fast as he could.
Moral of the story: That governs best which governs least.
posted by Grizzly Mama | 22:02
11 Comments:
The lesson would be lost on a liberal, who would start stammering "But, but, but..."
I agree AOW.
God I miss blogging Hey people! ^..^
Love it always on watch! LOL
Monica good to see you still at it!
Glad to see you dcat! Thanks for coming by.
It's as good a description of Marxist Animal-House economic benefits as any: storks are more equal than frogs!
Never send a stork to do a logs job.
That's my favorite. lol!
Skye: Great minds think alike!
Monica: Don't know if you have already done the story of the fox and the hounds? Not even sure that is an authentic Aesop fable.
Anyway, former Congressman J.C. Watts has an interesting take on that one:
http://www.reviewjournal.com/lvrj_home/2006/Aug-27-Sun-2006/opinion/9233072.html
It's how Democrats have turned on their lifelong friend Joe Lieberman.
Leftists are famous for turning on their own. I was first introduced to the existence of this bizarre behavior in David Horowitz's book Radical Son.
There is no room on the left for departure from the line they have drawn.
The tent on the right, however, is big enough for many different views! We debate and disagree and it is okay to do that.
I like that idea Rastaman but I am not sure if it is feasible. It's a nice idea though.
I haven't found the fable of the fox and the hound that JC Watts refers to in his article. Atleast not in a quick search of Aesop's Fables. I have seen this type of mentality manifested in situations in my own life though.
Exactly why the frogs in my bog are happy. Well, sometimes the Silly Goose gets pretty out of sorts...
But hey...
She's a Frog of a different feather.
Off to another subject now...
Here in the Bubbas Bog we are trying to determine if the Demorats are Muskrats or 'Possums.
We are sure that they are not Nutrias because Nutrias have valuable pelts and a Demorat skin is hardly worth nailing to the barn door. Hence the origin of the phrase "get your worthless hide out of here."
And they are absolutely not beavers. I have never met a wasteful Beaver that graduated from an Ivy League School and then proceeded to create nothing whilst living of a trust fund.
Would love to hear any comments on genus Demorat!
Kermit
And further more swamps are not fetid. Knock off the profiling by flora you heartless and thoughtless chunk of hummanity. My environment may not be your environment, but that does not make it less viable.
You probably discrinate against non carbon based life forms, Earthling!
It' not easy being green!
Kermit
Kermit - are you alright? ;-)
I would never call your bog fetid. Never! As for demorats I think you've got them nailed.
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