Predictable: 'You lie!' now shouted by Dems, Gays

"civility has degraded generally in politics," said Barbara O'Connor

I have to agree with Barbara O'Connor.  Civility has been in decline markedly since August, one would think that Congress people would view themselves as leaders in meaningful, civil debate on issues.  What has happened to political confrontation through the exchange of ideas in a manner that is respectful to the arguments and wrought with solutions? 

Personally, it is embarrassing to the people of California to see their elected officials turning a fundraiser into a locker room. 

Dear Ms. SMK,

It has come to our attention in the Border Patrol of the Land of Good and Evil that for some reason you have placed Obama outside of the bounds of our fair land.

As you may know, all Human Beings are required to stay within the boundaries of our fair land of Good and Evil as long as they remain in the flesh, charged with what has been deemed "soul power", a causal body of sorts that, once invested entirely, moves the human out of blind reaction and places him or her under the rubric of reason and conscience.

Our group would ask on what basis Obama was qualified to be placed "beyond Good and Evil" and wonders if this was not some kind of primitive Superman projection, a deification derived from a Shadow element gone very, very rogue, as it were?

"Out of love" would not seem to explain this assignment of powers un-wordly, as any woman knows about her husband.

Sincerely,

Janus and Company.

Dear Sirs of Janus and Co.:

I realize I am reckless to place the President of the United States "in the realms beyond good and evil",  but I read too much Nietzsche in my youth,  my favorite book of his being,  "Beyond Good and Evil".  In addition,  I have stuck in my head the past 20 years his quote on his friendship with Richard Wagner:

"and here I give vent to a last sigh.  In whatever realms there exist beyond good and evil,  I will always place him.  No cloud ever darkened my sky when I was with him;  I experienced,  I revered him as a foreign land.  All my treasons ceased when I saw his face."  

I was fortunate enough to see then-Senator Barack Obama during the campaign;  I stood rather close to him.  As he passed,  the very air crackled with charged electricity.  He has a sulking look on his face,  his eyes scanned the gathered press arrogantly,  but twinkly softly as they would light on you.  "All my treasons ceased when I saw his face."

Put that in your Van Couver pipe and smoke it,  harumph!  *flounces off*

Dear gentile Signora,

Thank you for your quick and very pointed supply. I regret to inform you that I have had to quit smoking my favorite "Illusions" tobacco because, as you know already, when you smoke "Illusions", first you smoke them. Then the "Illusions" smoke themselves, and then the "Illusions" smoke the smoker. :)

I will grant that inhalation-and-exhalation does do the job well of raising up disembodied feeling by moving it up the chakras from below the diaphragm where it can be "made flesh". But inhalation-and-exhalation must be confined to "reality-based-atmosphere" or else the clarity of the astral field is distorted, muddied, and the relation to the causal body is weakened.

I believe it was all well described in the famous "Very Big Corporation of America" scene in Monty Python's "Meaning of Life".

Sincerely,

Janus and Co.

What was that about wearing hats?

Dear J. & C.:

To stop smoking illusions for some would be to stop living.  In certain lives stress keeps one alive.  I hold no illusions:  I pretend to hold illusions.  

And one word to you,  Mr. used-to-look-like-Sean-Connery-now-looks-like-the-bartender-up-in-Provincetown:  "Submit now to the law which you yourself proposed."  Touche.