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To: 10K a day who wrote (230728)	4/26/2005 9:13:24 AM
From: longnshort	Respond to of 1572613

How Many Democrats Does It Take to Screw in a Light Bulb? Four hundred and seventy one: 12 to investigate the Texas Oil Industries involvement in the failure of the old bulb, 23 to reregulate the light bulb industry, 16 to demand funding for alternative lighting R&D, 34 to increase the marginal tax rate on high-wattage light bulbs, 9 to threaten trade sanctions if Germany and Japan don't start buying more 110-volt bulbs, 53 to design a block grant so the states can change the bulb, 40 to fully fund a new "volunteer" youth program which guarantees $10.00 per hour for anyone who can write an essay about why the environment and whales will be saved if light bulbs are changed. 43 to organize a protest including the NAACP, NEA and AFL-CIO to demand reparations for all building janitors who have slaved to change light bulbs all by themselves for decades. 35 to take polls in California to prove that if the bulb really needed to be changed, Californians would have already formed an encounter group, funded a multi cultural task force and have assigned gay and transsexual experts. 41 to chat with defense contractors about equipping everyone in the building with night-vision gear instead, and 165 to pass a law making it illegal to discuss naked bulbs, or screwing anything, on the Internet.