[Occupymendocino] Beware for whom the bell tolls when you place your vote.

[Mark Safron]

You can learn a lot while farming. Beware for whom the bell tolls when you place your vote. 
 
Fred was in the fertilized egg business. He had several hundred
young 'pullets,' and ten roosters to fertilize the eggs.
He kept records, and any rooster not performing went into
the soup pot and was replaced.
 
This took a lot of time, so he bought some tiny bells and
attached them to his roosters.
 
Each bell had a different tone, so he could tell from a
distance, which rooster was performing.
 
Now, he could sit on the porch and fill out an efficiency
report by just listening to the bells.
 
Fred's favorite rooster, old Butch, was a very fine
specimen, but this morning he noticed old Butch's bell''
hadn't rung at all!
 
When he went to investigate, he saw the other roosters were
busy chasing pullets, bells-a-ringing, but the pullets, hearing
the roosters coming, would run for cover.
 
To Fred's amazement, old Butch had his bell in his beak,
so it couldn't ring. He'd sneak up on a pullet, do his job
and walk on to the next one.
 
Fred was so proud of old Butch, he entered him in the
Brisbane City Show and he became an overnight sensation among
 
the judges.  The result was the judges not only awarded old Butch
 
the "No Bell Piece Prize," but they also awarded him the "Pulletsurprise" as well.
 
Clearly old Butch was a politician in the making. Who else
but a politician could figure out how to win two of the most
coveted awards on our planet by being the best at sneaking
up on the unsuspecting populace and screwing them when
they weren't paying attention.
 
Vote carefully in the next election, you can't always hear the
bells.
 
If you don't send this on, you're chicken.
 
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