I keep trying to stay out of it, but they keep pulling me back in. I'd rather stay in a peaceful, light-hearted frame of mind but the great, self-righteous majority keeps eating away at the foundation of this republic like termites multiplying constantly and getting fatter by the day.

With George W. Bush as their head, they've taken us to unjustified and unprovoked war against our weak neighbor across the sea, resulting in the needless deaths of as many as 100,000 innocent citizens.

Their worship of Bush stands right up there with the Catholic's worship and adoration of the pope, in my eyes. I find it amazing that normal people can believe so completely in such fantastic notions as a selection committee electing a mainline to God and that God itself is really doing the voting.

In their eyes, Bush can do no wrong. It's even all right for him to lie and it's all right for his minions to lie. The best liars are promoted and sent out as representatives of America to the world.

It is not clear why the self-righteous majority has decided that lying is all right. It may be that they don't mind it as long as it accomplishes the task. It may be that they are just not morally intelligent enough to pick up on lies.

It is not clear which is the more dangerous, lying hypocrites or the morally impaired thinkers. When you've got them both working on the same side it's hard to sort them out. It's even worse when you realize that a lot of the morally impaired thinkers are lying hypocrites as well.

I thank God that I live in a country where I can say that the president of the United States is a morally impaired thinker, a lying hypocrite and a silly goose who actually likes to think of himself as the high sheriff selected by God to tame the planet.

Every time I see him strut, as if he had just finished a workout with the dumbbells, I frighten myself with thoughts of me and him in a boxing ring and how much I'd love to rap his monkey skull until it rings like a Chinese gong.

Don't take that out of context. I said "boxing ring." We're about the same age and weight. I smoke three packs of cigarettes a day and I haven't done any exercise in about 40 years. I think it would be a fair match.

It's not going to happen but at least I still have the right under the 1st Amendment to speak my mind, for now. But the way it's going, I suspect that the right of free speech is headed for a rise in prices under this self-righteous majority.

Look at what they are trying to do with the checks and balances. They want to stack the Supreme Court with morally impaired thinkers like themselves.

I saw one of those self-righteous religious political operatives on television the other night with a gavel in one hand and waving the Bible in the other.

His message to the multitude was that the country would be better off following the rules as set down in the Bible than following the rules of law set by the government and administered by the courts, especially the Supreme Court.

Of course the self-righteous multitude ate that up because they are morally impaired thinkers and self-righteous. If it were left up to them there would be no separation of church and state.

Despite what the self-righteous majority believes, the founding fathers had no intention whatever of forming a church state. They thought they were forming a republic. Which is to say a republican form of democracy founded on the principles of free speech and government of, for and by the people - not a church state headed by preachers and Bible thumpers.

One of the problems of the self-righteous majority is that their thinking is impaired by their self-righteousness. Their thinking just doesn't reach out far enough. And why should it when you have an electorate as gullible and self-righteous as exists in this country today?

As long as humans remain imperfect there will never be a perfect government. But the American government with its Constitution and Bill of Rights - which is to say its checks and balances of power on which the government stands and operates - is the best government ever seen in the history of the world, in my opinion.

The common, self-righteous majority understands the power of the will of the majority. What they don't understand and don't appreciate is the power set aside in the Constitution and Bill of Rights that gives a certain amount of power to the minority as a measure aimed at preventing the misuse of the great power of the majority.

That's one of the reasons why executive nominations to important positions, such as the Supreme Court, are subject to the advice and consent of the Senate.

Being subject to the advice and consent of the Senate would be meaningless if all that meant was a straight up or down vote on the nomination. If the majority of the Senate were of the same party as the president, what would be the point? The president would have the perfect freedom to install whatever self-righteous, Bible thumping fanatic he wanted.

That's why the Senate has used the filibuster for more than 200 years. It allows the minority to debate the issue for as long as they want, (or until the debate is cut off by a super-majority vote), in order that the president not be allowed absolute and total power to do as he pleases. Otherwise the term "advice and consent" would just be empty words.

The filibuster is just a gear in the mechanism of checks and balances, to allow as much debate and exchange of opinion as possible in hopes of changing the opinion of those on the other side.

Today it can be stopped by a 60 vote majority. But since a 60 vote majority is a little hard to come by, the current leadership of the self-righteous majority would like to cut that out so that the president can just snap his fingers and get what he wants.

It appears to me that the trend of the self-righteous majority is to put as much power in the hands of the president as possible and do away with as much of the checks and balances as possible.

We left England a long time back, but there seems to be something about a king that the self-righteous majority still has a yearning for. It reminds me of the need that Catholics have for a pope.

Of course, if they were not so morally impaired in their thinking, they might think ahead a little bit to the day when they will not be in the majority and their chickens might come home to roost.

It's just not a good idea to weaken the checks and balances and put too much power in the hands of a morally impaired thinker and religious hypocrite like George W. Bush, or even a good president. It is not good for America and it is not good for the world. And I don't like it.