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Making Sense of the Health Care Debate

So you think Michelle Obama's arms are a bit risque, do you?
And you aren't sure whether Malia's hair is straight enough to travel overseas?
Maybe you even remember that Nancy Reagan channeled
old silent motion picture movies, or whatever it was.

How about Miyuki Hatoyama, the wife of the new Japanese Prime Minister?
While her body slept, she flew on a triangular UFO to Venus.
She came back and said it was green and extremely beautiful.

She also said she knew Tom Cruise in a previous life,
when he was Japanese, but no one is surprised about that.
We knew he had one.  He is still having it. 

In Samuel Beckett's play, Endgame, Clov asked:
"Do you believe in the life to come?",
and Hamm replied, "Mine was always that".

I have been having an out-of-the-body experience, myself.
I keep thinking that aliens arriving in stone-age UFOs,
wearing hair, mostly, have been landing everywhere
and giving free Kool-Aid to lots of people, who ask for more.

A non-licensed scientist I know, recently conducted an experiment
with a specially made brownie cookie.  He just wanted to know
what the Sixties had been all about.  I am not sure, but I think
he said he went to Venus with Miyuki Hatoyama, and that
Tom Cruise waved to him.  He said that Tom Cruise was green
and extremely beautiful.  The rest of what he saw seemed
to be a factual description of the health care debate.

It didn't make any sense unless, in fact, Neanderthal aliens
in stone spaceships have been handing out free Kool-Aid.

I am almost embarrassed to admit it, but I am greatly relieved
to know that what people are saying is not what they would say
if they were not stoned out of their minds.  It would be surreal
to believe that people like Senator Grassley believe what they say.

The Japanese Prime Minister's spokesperson said that
Mrs. Hatoyama hadn't really gone to Venus and back. 
He said she had just been sleeping, or having a nightmare,
or something like that.  He did not deny that Tom Cruise
used to be Japanese, and he had no comment about Kool-Aid.

I think I know what really happened.
The evidence is all around us. 

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