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cough cough *Reagan* cough cough
Excellent post Carrie... many good points.
I'm a pretty nice guy, part conservative and part tree hugger, and I don't like to argue politics. Well, last night I got a bit of a shock from a children's book I was reading to Sweet T's little guy who is almost four... I forget the name of the book, but it has won "Abbey" awards since 1995 for being such a wonderful story.
It's a story about a fish. This fish has beautiful, shiny, rainbow colored scales, unlike any of the other fish around. Everyone thinks he is so beautiful, but they don't really talk to him and he doesn't really talk to them. The story alludes to the fact the he's basically showing off and they are jealous...
One day one of the fish goes up to him and asks if he can have one of the pretty scales so that he can be pretty too. The fish says no, and now all the other fish completely ignore him and won't even go near him. He is *oh so lonely* without anyone... Some days later the little fish goes to the pretty fish once again and asks if he can have just one of his scales. He explains that he doesn't want a lot from this fish, just one little scale. So the pretty fish gives him one. All of a sudden, all the fish are crowded around and want just one scale so that they can be pretty too. The rainbow fish eventually gives everybody one scale. Now they are all friends and everybody (including the shiny rainbow scaled fish) has just one very pretty, shiny scale.
And they all lived happily ever after....
I'm sorry, but that made me sick to my stomach.
Last edited by VooMan at Oct 17 2003, 03:05 PM