A Tourist walked into a Chinese curio shop in San Francisco . While looking around at the exotic merchandise, he noticed a very lifelike, life-sized, bronze statue of a rat. It had no price tag, but was so incredibly striking the tourist decided he must have it. He took it to the old shop owner and asked, “How much for the bronze rat ?”
“Ahhh, you have chosen wisely! It is $12 for the rat and $100 for the story,” said the wise old Chinaman.
The tourist quickly pulled out twelve dollars. “I’ll just take the rat, you can keep the story”.
As he walked down the street carrying his bronze rat, the tourist noticed that a few real rats had crawled out of the alleys and sewers and had begun following him down the street. This was a bit disconcerting so he began walking faster.
A couple blocks later he looked behind him and saw to his horror the herd of rats behind him had grown to hundreds, and they began squealing.
Sweating now, the tourist began to trot toward San Francisco Bay .
Again, after a couple blocks, he looked around only to discover that the rats now numbered in the MILLIONS, and were squealing and coming toward him faster and faster.
Terrified, he ran to the edge of the Bay and threw the bronze rat as far as he could into the Bay.
Amazingly, the millions of rats all jumped into the Bay after the bronze rat and were all drowned.
The man walked back to the curio shop in Chinatown .
“Ahhh,” said the owner, “You come back for story ?”
“No sir,” said the man, “I came back to see if you have a bronze Democrat.”
Every time the issue of ‘gay rights’ comes up on a ballot, voters overwhelmingly assert that marriage is between one man and one woman. (I’ll have to explain why ‘gay rights’ belongs in quotes in another post) Interesting to note that each time this happens (30 states so far) that the talking heads and Democrats and activitist are appalled at the outcome and accuse people of being homophobic or being bigots for voting to uphold the traditional definition. It is also interesting to note that the same people put so little value on ‘the will of the people’ and move to get their pet project implemented in more nefarious ways, against the will of the people. (ironically, exclaiming the whole time how we need more democracy!)
Snippets from Ken Emanuelson’s post:
I’ve been hesitant to pick sides on the Global Warming topic. Here is some interesting reading in a recent Scott Adams blog post on the subject:
“The circumstances of our lives actually matter less to our happiness than the sense of control we feel over our lives.” –Rory Sutherland
