Old Mother Ashby wrote:

> Dave Smith wrote:
>
> >Nancy1 wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> >>>TEHRAN, Iran - Iranians love Danish pastries, but when they look for
> >>>the flaky dessert at the bakery they now have to ask for "Roses of the
> >>>Prophet Muhammad..."
> >>>
> >>><http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060216/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iran_danish_pastries>
> >>>
> >>>-bwg
> >>> Jihadi in the Cartoon Intifada
> >>>
> >>>
> >>So, it's not o.k. to portray Muhammad with a bomb on his turban, but it
> >>IS o.k. to have him endorse flaky pastry. Hmmmmm.
> >>
> >>
> >
> >I thought it was pretty goofy when Merkins started called fries Freedom Fries.
> >
> >I bought some Danish beer the other day. I intend to buy some Danish Cookies
> >and some Danish Blue Cheese when I go shopping today.
> >
> >The other day I was on my way to an appointment and had to stop for some gas. I
> >went to the new self serve station around the corner from my doctor's office.
> >When I went in to pay I discovered that it is run by Moslems. I won't be
> >taking any more business there.
> >
> >
> >
> Really, I thought better of you than that. Being a curmudgeon is one
> thing, but bigotry is something else altogether.
>
> Tell me you're joking, please...



"A Mouse looked through the crack in the wall to see the farmer and his

wife open a package.

"What food might this contain?" The mouse wondered-- he was devastated
to discover it was a mousetrap.

Retreating to the farmyard, the mouse proclaimed the warning.

"There is a mousetrap in the house! There is a mousetrap in the
house!"

The chicken clucked and scratched, raised her head and said, "Mr.
Mouse, I can tell this is a grave concern to you, but it is of no
consequence to me. I cannot be bothered by it."

The mouse turned to the pig and told him, "There is a mousetrap in the
house! There is a mousetrap in the house!"

The pig sympathized, but said, "I am so very sorry, Mr. Mouse, but
there is nothing I can do about it but pray. Be assured you are in my
prayers."

The mouse turned to the cow and said "There is a mousetrap in the
house! There is a mousetrap in the house!"

The cow said, "Wow, Mr. Mouse. I'm sorry for you, but it's no skin off
my nose."

So, the mouse returned to the house, head down and dejected, to face
the farmer's mousetrap alone.

That very night a sound was heard throughout the house-- like the
sound of a mousetrap catching its prey.

The farmer's wife rushed to see what was caught. In the darkness, she
did not see it was a venomous snake whose tail the trap had caught.

The snake bit the farmer's wife. The farmer rushed her to the
hospital, and she returned home with a fever.

Everyone knows you treat a fever with fresh chicken soup, so the
farmer took his hatchet to the farmyard for the soup's main ingredient.


But his wife's sickness continued, so friends and neighbors came to sit

with her around the clock. To feed them, the farmer butchered the pig.

The farmer's wife did not get well; she died. So many people came for
her funeral, the farmer had the cow slaughtered to provide enough meat
for all of them.

The mouse looked upon it all from his crack in the wall with great
sadness.

So, the next time you hear someone is facing a problem and think it
doesn't concern you, remember-- when one of us is threatened, we are
all at risk."

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