This is too funny not to post.

[asdjrocky]

Email I received from MoveOn after "signing" the latest petition.

Dear MoveOn member,

Thank you for endorsing the "Fight Washington Corruption" pledge.

Earlier today you may have received a confirmation e-mail that mentioned a pony. Unfortunately that was a testing draft that was sent by mistake. Sorry for any confusion! There is no pony.

Ending corporate control of our democracy is an important and serious challenge. More than 11,000 lobbyists are hard at work in DC each day doing the bidding of big corporations. Now that the Supreme Court has opened the floodgates to unlimited corporate spending in elections, the need to restore power in democracy to real people is even greater than ever.

By endorsing the "Fight Washington Corruption" pledge you've joined a growing movement that's committed to ending business as usual in Washington this year.

Again, please accept our apologies for the erroneous email.

Thank you for participating and please encourage others to endorse the pledge at:

http://fightwashingtoncorruption.org

Thanks for all you do.

[LaurenG]

1. That is funny. nt

[BrklynLiberal]

2. No pony..just a carrot.

[slay]

3. Wha.. wha.. what do you mean there's no pony?

:(

[asdjrocky]

4. The 'Not Yours' in the cornor really makes that zing. Too funny. nt

[csziggy]

5. I should send this poem to MoveOn.org AND to President Obama

Because it is what will happen if we do not get a pony - or at least some of the promises made during the election.

Little Abigail and The Beautiful Pony

By Shel Silverstein, published in A Light in the Attic, copyright 1981

There was a girl named Abigail
Who was taking a drive
Through the country
With her parents
When she spied a beautiful sad-eyed
Grey and white pony.
And next to it was a sign
That said.
FOR SALE - CHEAP.
"Oh," said Abigail.
"May I have that pony?
May I please?"
And her parents said,
"No, you may not."
And Abigail said,
"But I MUST have that pony."
And her parents said,
"Well, you can have a nice butter pecan
Ice cream cone when we get home."
And Abigail said,
"I don't want a butter pecan
Ice cream cone.
I WANT THAT PONY -
I MUST HAVE THAT PONY."
And her parents said,
"Be quiet and stop nagging -
You're not getting that pony."
And Abigail began to cry and said,
"If I don't get that pony I'll die."
And her parents said, "You won't die.
No child ever died yet from not getting a pony."
And Abigail felt so bad
That when she went home she went to bed,
And she couldn't eat,
And she couldn't sleep,
And her heart was broken,
And she DID die -
All because of a pony
That her parents wouldn't buy.


(This is a good story
To read to your folks
When they won't buy
You something they want.)

If the left does not get our pony, we will go to bed, not eat or sleep, and die. We need more than what we are getting and the left is shrinking more and more each year.

[dixiegrrrrl]

6. It's a better story to tell the kids when you won't give them what they want.