A Man Of Mysterious Powers

Jimmy made some progress on the AskGenghis Inbox since Ron Paul zealots laid waste to it last week. He said that if you submit a question now, it might make it to us, but no promises. And, as you will see, there is an additional complication.

We continued our U.S. Presidential Candidates study with an interview of Fred Thompson. I think. We all distinctly remember entering the Thompson headquarters. Just outside the headquarters there were a number of buckets, some filled with ice water, while others were empty. I remember thinking this must have something to do with the global warming that Senator Edwards discussed.

We were served very strong coffee on entering, which Asashoryu politely refused, due to strict dietary regiments (he is having great troubles here, please continue to pray for him), then ushered immediately into Mr. Thompson's office.

All three of us remember being warmly greeted by Mr. Thompson, a noble and gentle man. But our next memory, each of us, was that of lying outside the headquarters with Mr. Thompson's assistants throwing a bucket of ice water on each of our faces. So strange. By the time we felt reoriented, we realized we were well on our way to returning to our hotel rooms. And we had been at the Thompson headquarters for approximately 4 hours.

This was most disturbing, especially since I do not wish to qualify, or disqualify Mr. Thompson based on our mutual punctuated amnesia. After all, I sense a great strength in Mr. Thompson. So after some discussion, it was decided that Asashoryu would attempt a hypnosis to determine what had transpired in the Thompson headquarters. Asashoryu is not a professional hypnotist, but has been hypnotized by a great master prior to many of his fights.

So Jimmy was hypnotized while I watched. He seemed to be trying to recount our discussion with Mr. Thompson. I believe I heard, "actuarial planning horizon," "cola price inflation indexing," "diversity visa lottery," and "incentivize tranparent performance gap." Then something odd happened. Jimmy said, quite distinctly, "at the end of the day" at which point the trance seemed to ricochet. Both Asashoryu and Jimmy were left stone still, and I was left to, with great difficulty, awaken them both.

An hour later Asashoryu suggested that we try again with his master hypnotist, Kageyu Ikoma. So we did, teleconferencing in to him. Kageyu is amazing. He took almost an hour just to condition Jimmy before beginning to probe the discussion with Thompson. He pulled out, "strict constructionist judges" and "affordable, fully accessible, and portable," and "Dobson sucks."
Then Jimmy said, "at the end of the day."

The telecom link immediately went dead, and Jimmy has not responded to any stimulation since, and Kageyu Ikoma cannot be reached.

We will have to continue our candidate interviews with or without Jimmy. Please pray that he is not permanently damaged by this ordeal. As for the endorsement, I will have to reflect deeply on the disturbing developments at the Thompson headquarters.