The reason it's not funny is because it takes intelligence to be funny.[?] Humor ability reveals intelligence, predicts mating success, http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0160289611000523 How do you manage to get fired the first day in a Winnie the Pooh costume? By putting your costume pants on backwards! Scotty On Thu, May 1, 2014 at 6:25 AM, Richard Freedland <richardfl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote: > Here we go again. This is not in any way attributable to David Letterman. > It's a satirical take-off (and not a very funny one at that) of a David > Letterman-style Top 10 list. Why not have the subject line read "Ron > Ristad - Why I Vote Democratic"? It would have exactly the same degree of > authenticity and it wouldn't be any less humorous. > > Back to the Ignore List for you-know-who. > > 73, > > Richard Freedland > Miami > > Sent from my iPad. > > On May 1, 2014, at 8:35 AM, Ron Ristad <ristad@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > *#10. I vote Democrat because I love the fact that I can now marry > whatever I want. I've decided to marry my German Shepherd.* > > > > *#9. I vote Democrat because I believe oil companies' profits of 4% on a > gallon of gas are obscene, but the government taxing the same gallon at 15% > isn't. * > > > > *#8. I vote Democrat because I believe the government will do a better job > of spending the money I earn than I would. * > > > > *#7. I vote Democrat because Freedom of Speech is fine as long as nobody > is offended by it. * > > > *#6. I vote Democrat because I'm way too irresponsible to own a gun, and I > know that my local police are all I need to protect me from murderers and > thieves.* > > > > *I am also thankful that we have a 911 service that get police to your > home in order to identify your body after a home invasion. * > > > > *#5. I vote Democrat because I'm not concerned about millions of babies > being aborted so long as we keep all death row inmates alive and comfy and > get sex change operations if they want one on the tax payers dime. * > > > *#4. I vote Democrat because I think illegal aliens have a right to free > health care, education, and Social Security benefits, and we should take > away Social Security from those who paid into it.* > > > > *#3. I vote Democrat because I believe that businesses should not be > allowed to make profits for themselves. They need to break even and give > the rest away to the government for redistribution as the Democrat Party > sees fit. * > > > *#2. I vote Democrat because I believe liberal judges need to rewrite the > Constitution every few days to suit fringe kooks who would never get their > agendas past the voters.* > > > *#1. And, the #1 reason I vote Democrat is:* > > > *because I think it's better to pay billions of U. S. dollars for oil to > people who hate us, but not drill our own because it might upset some > endangered beetle, gopher or fish here in America. We don't care about the > beetles, gophers or fish in those other countries. * > > > .... > >