Man! Dude! Session #195

(M)an: Dude! United Nations investigators will be leaving Syria tomorrow after gathering hard evidence of chemical weaponry utilized and the numbers of civilians killed. However, Russia has stated that Britain’s position against a military response from the United States is the stance of almost all European nations, with the exception of France who is providing a collaborative coalition of support to US.    

(D)ude: Man! I was reading up on the Battle of Badr and found that there was a spirit of intellectualism within the Muslim community that involved prisoners of war winning their freedom via teaching at least 10 Muslims to read and write after capture. Likewise, I was also thinking what it would be like if we got our so-termed “lost generations” to do something like that for the betterment of our global economy.

M: Dude! The Republican GOP is not going to encourage anything but conflict and division. We are in the capable hands of the Obama Administration and must not forget that despite the turbulence abroad, there is an equally sinister presence at home that is the gerrymandered cheats that have obstructed justice for women, minorities, and practically everybody not within the status quo.

D: Man! No, really! What ever became of coolheaded calmness and hard work? I’ll tell you! It is launching the careers and lives of teachers and their students in schools like Rothenberg Preparatory Academy in Cincinnati, Ohio under the leadership of Principal Alesia Smith. Did you know that Principal Smith picked up on the value of healthy snacks and occasional indulgences for her students to have for their hard work and drive and the incredible eventual results? Right now, the children have a proficiency of 60% in reading and 50% in mathematics and getting better with the ensuing months because of the uplifted spirits of the teachers due to Principal Smith’s encouragement.   

M: Dude! Likewise, I think I’ve figured out the common denominator in the mathematics of the Republican GOP. Hafez al-Assad, Bashar al-Assad’s father, was born into poverty and joined the Ba’ath Party as a 1946 student activist. Like John Boehner and Eric Cantor, after a career in strife due to limited IQ resulting from evil intentions, Hafez al-Assad befriended the Soviets to build the military in Syria while coughing up support for public works in Syria, only to suppress the Muslim Brotherhood insurgency in 1982, slaughtering tens of thousands of people in the town of Hama.        

D: Man! President Hafez’s younger brother, General Rifaat al-Assad, carried out the Hama massacre in February of 1982, which became the deadliest attack on civilians by an Arab government in the modern Middle East.

M: Dude! How do you know?

D: Man! Bashar al-Assad’s eleven-year-old son purportedly posted on a Facebook account belonging to children of the Assad Administration a menacing forewarning to the United States that would have gotten equally limited intellectuals in the Republican GOP into a back-and-forth with whoever was behind that now deleted post.

M: Dude! Evil breeds evil breeds evil!

D: Man! Dictator to dictator to brat-in-training-for-dictatorship!

M: Dude! Isn’t John Boehner a bratty Republican?

D: Man! Forty-five percent of John Boehner’s family is probably struggling near poverty. The likes of Boehner just drive by their old neighborhoods and lament his relatives’ inabilities to prosper as he did!

M: Dude! Hafez al-Assad and John Boehner have much in common. In fact, the eleven-year-old heir apparent to Bashar al-Assad has a lot of the same values as the Republican GOP. I guess when you start out in life in poverty, you can look ahead and march forward, or you can look ahead and march forward while trampling and conniving people right and left of you to get to the prize.

D: Man! What prize? Power?

M: Dude! Perhaps. Hafez al-Assad and John Boehner choose to live out in polyester suits from Sears, 

changing lanes in public when confronted with the possibility of being sighted by a downtrodden relative.

D: Man! Changing lanes on the highway? Or like at a department or grocery store? I can imagine, more likely I have probably seen, John Boehner change lanes at Wal-Mart at the sight of downtrodden relatives.

M: Dude! That’s how middle class values have become a platform for the progressives! Conservatives, on the other hand, choose to live in grandiosity within a universal school of social cruelties that they impose upon their own as well. You think Bashar al-Assad’s eleven-year-old son is growing up with a concern for all those who suffered at the hands of his grandfather?

D: Man! Or worse, the eleven-year-old is probably plotting his own prejudices and cruelties based on his inherited dictatorial status, like that Facebook comment. He’s already pouring hot sauce all over the wounds of projected enemies.  

M: Dude! Bashar al-Assad’s supporters are leaving Syria in sedans, not trekking through the dirt roads with single suitcases from their past like their refugee counterparts.

D: Man! Reminds me of the cheap pins that John Boehner and the Congressional Republicans adorn to promote what I consider a, pardon the expression, gringo culture of accomplishment through personal inaction and professional malaise.

M: Dude! The pins are easy indications of just who is lower than the lowest in the United States government, because the Tea Party candidates particularly love symbols.

D: Man! How many vacation days have the Congressional Republicans instituted?

M: Dude! I wonder if ABC News’ Consumer Watchdog segment will ever provide numbers of the government waste that is incurred by the constant adjournment in the House of Representatives and the meaningless committee hearings in the Senate.

D: Man! Talk about those, excuse me, gringo badges of inaction and polyester suits from Sears inside the United States Republican Party! John McCain is constantly pressing his! 

Man! Dude! Session #194

(D)ude: Man! The Daily Beast’s Josh Rogin reported this morning of how a senior Republican Senate aide mentioned quote unquote This is a disgrace. Even North Korea is willing to send gas masks to the side they are backing.  

(M)an: Dude! North Korea? According to South Korea’s largest daily newspaper Chosun Ilbo, North Korea’s Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un ordered a firing squad execution of his onetime ex-girlfriend Hyon Song Wol and eleven members of the preeminent acting troupes of North Korea.

D: Man! When? What? Where?

M: Dude! On August 20, 2013, Kim Jong Un followed through with the firing squad execution of his one-time on and off again girlfriend Hyon Song Wol. The ruler’s father had disapproved of the younger Jong Un’s choice of women, hence when the elder Jong Il died, his successor married another female performer Ri Sol Ju. 

D: Man! Did Hyon Song Wol get charged for any crimes?

M: Dude! On the grounds of pornography, but after seeing one of her videos vindicating the hard work and toil of laborers, I am now convinced that she and the eleven others were revolutionaries and sentenced to die because of their message of plausible better tomorrows for their people.

D: Man! How safe is Ri Sol Ju?            

M: Dude! I think Ri Sol Ju became irate when she was often mistaken for being Hyon Song Wol and probably had a hand in Jong Un’s decision to execute the singing troupe in front of their families who were jailed because of the cruel practice of punishing relatives as well as the indicted.

D: Man! Do you think Ri Sol Ju is next? I think so. And I’ll tell you why. I think Jong Un’s sexual orientation is ambiguous at best and, like the British Parliament that ridiculed Oscar Wilde for his homosexual orientation when indeed many members of Parliament exercised sexual ambiguity themselves, has a harem of male personal assistants.

M: Dude! In all fairness, I think Jong Un’s harem consists of equal parts female assistants as male assistants.

D: Man! Fine!

M: Dude! Montgomery County Philadelphia is in the news for having revoked the marriage licenses 150 plus same sex couples were issued since July 24, 2013 on the grounds that the licenses were issued when marriage equality had never existed there. The Republican Governor Tom Corbett’s attorneys paralleled the issue with underage child marriages that too have been banned due to a 1996 law. 

D: Man! That’s what happens when gerrymandering and GOP cheating is made acceptable by the status quo and the Supreme Court of the United States guts the Voting Rights Act of 1965. The Reverend Al Sharpton is scheduled to meet with black leaders including Condoleezza Rice, George W. Cheney’s Secretary of State. I hope the Reverend hasn’t reverted back to his conservative roots. I hope he will hold Condoleezza Rice accountable for having maimed countless of our sons and daughters in uniform on  fallacious weapons of mass destruction claims and, instead, invite Colin Powell to evaluate the direction the country has taken since the wrap up of Iraq II and the Afghanistan War.

M: Dude! This tribal diversity in the Middle East has me confused to a certain extent after which I wonder about the months of the Islamic Calendar, particularly the first and most sacred of all Muharram.  

D: Man! Does Muharram have anything to do with the separation between the Shia and the Sunni, the two major Muslim sects?

M: Dude! Actually, N.J. Dawood’s translation of The Koran includes background information that the Prophet Mohammed had been able to keep Arab tribes and caravans calm and within a monotheistic unity until his death, when formal rulers ascended to power, like the successor of Caliph Abu Bakr, Caliph Umar I who had even greater ambitions than the one before him in terms of expanding what would become the Islamic Empire.

D: Man! When you mix worship and warfare, the results cannot be without significant pain and suffering from within and without!

M: Dude! Arabian paganism was in fashion at the time the Prophet Mohammed came and ended idolatry. Ironically, Arabian paganism incorporated an Allah who had multiple daughters who were deities worshipped by those living in the region we now refer to as the Arabian peninsula. Mohammed, however, had studied the Jewish and Christian perspectives and basically constructed a faith that implored an educated monotheistic sophistication while renouncing the power of performances of miracles. 

D: Man! Sounds like the Prophet Mohammed reinforced a stricter monotheistic perspective than the Jews and the Christians. He brought unity to a region divided up into multiple bodies of polytheistic claims.

M: Dude! The Prophet Mohammed had the advantage of time over the Jews and Christians, having studied their histories and religious texts. There is no valid reason for the violence that erupts during Muharram. It is a time of grief for both the Shia and the Sunni. Hussein was beheaded in battle and Hasan was poisoned at home. However, they are depicted as having been killed while children by mourners.

D: Man! Then how did the division and unrest happen? And the last point you made, do you think they reverted accidentally to semi-idolatry by depicting Hussein and Hasan as small children?

M: Dude! Manmade distractions like the kind the GOP is creating right now in the United States and world. Interests in the Syrian civil war crises are distractions from the big picture, which is that the world right now needs the United States to reconsider the Republican Sequestration and the subsequent challenges to our economy for the sake of the world economy.

D: Man! I get it! Chris Christie is changing New Jersey culture for the worse and needs to have his foulmouthed remarks towards his own constituents listed and read back to him! How can the people of New Jersey want representation from a blatantly disrespectful thug? Disrespect is only moments away from vulgarity, which leads to  all-out perversion and callousness!

M: Dude! Likewise, the Sunni and the Shia bring up topics of poverty and housing and education to their leaders too. It is a common ground for both the Sunni and the Shia. But you have corrupt officials that construct manmade distractions from the economics of sustenance for the multitude while hiring people to obstruct justice against the complaints of the likes of activists, game changers like Hyon song Wol and her public service announcements disguised in song and dance videos for mass distribution. It is censorship where the censor claims to have unfounded evidence of illicitness when in fact it was just a musical revelation of the unjust toiling inside factories.

D: Man! The culture of deterioration begins with publicly humiliating one’s own delegation! That’s what Chris Christie is doing right now in New Jersey.

Man! Dude! Session #193

(M)an: Dude! The Foreign Policy dot COM report on the Reagan Administration’s purposefully 

mishandling of the conflicts between Iran and Iraq throughout the 1980s is very chilling!

(D)ude: Man! David Rothkopf clearly hadn’t read Monday’s article! His article yesterday in the online periodical you named just then, what was it?  

M: Dude! Foreign Policy dot COM, right?

D: Man! Yeah! Well, Rothkopf is very critical of President Obama’s handling the Syrian government’s actions against its own people. Rothkopf states that in 1999 President Clinton carried out Operation Allied Force to get the Yugoslavs out of Kosovo. But what Rothkopf fails to realize is that there are repercussions to the Arab Spring that came alongside President Obama’s Administration, particularly former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton’s leadership. Our heartstrings are intertwined with those who courageously stood their ground in the city streets then.

M: Dude! Have you read yesterday’s article by Shane Harris and Matthew M. Aid, about the Reagan Administration’s atrocity in dealing with the fighting nations of Iraq and Iran?

D: Man! Tune me in. I’ll remember. Did Reagan have a hand in the Middle East decline like Bush 41 and Bush 43?

M: Dude! The Reagan Administration deemed an Iranian victory against Iraq unacceptable as early as 1987, after the Defense Intelligence Agency had released a top-secret report entitled At The Gates of Basrah.

D: Man! So there was a conflict happening between Iran and Iraq in the 1980s and President Reagan and his Administration were handling matters all on their own, disregarding the Geneva Protocol of 1925 which banned the use of chemical weapons in warzones?

M: Dude! You have successfully recalled what I’d like to discuss! In November 1983, the CIA began to come undone with the possibility that Iranian forces could retrieve the shells of the chemicals used and find concrete evidence that Iraq had disobeyed the 1925 Geneva Protocol.

D: Man! President Reagan and his administration were unafraid to admit that they were on the side of the Iraqis. In fact, as cruel as it is, the fact is that the Reagan Administration was probably, I believe, wanting both Iranians and the Iraqis to annihilate each other while the United States GOP in the White House and Congress looked on with apathy and disdain.

M: Dude! David Rothkopf cites again and again the casualties of the civil war within Syria as being 100,000 dead thus far. But, I ask, what about the refugees? If we go into Syria, and Russia sees our action of getting involved as the go-ahead of launching attacks on the region and surrounding countries that thus far have opened their fledging borders to the displaced, we’re going to fulfill the dream of the negligent Congressional Republicans who are teeming even more venom towards humanitarian efforts at home to sincerely care about the Middle East!

D: Man! According to the New York Times today, Britain is awaiting the findings of the United Nations inspectors sent into Syria to investigate the use of chemical weaponry. But the Syrian government is trying to delay the exit of the inspectors by claiming the United Nations representatives take a look at plausibly three more instances of the utilization of chemical weapons within the region.

M: Dude! Russia doesn’t want to be held accountable to having to open its borders to the dislocated Syrian population of men, women, and children flooding into welcoming nations that are clearly startled and awaiting-action from the UN as to how to go about the handling of so many homeless.

D: Man! We need the United Nations right now and the United States knows its place with regards to the perils of the refugees. If we position ourselves against the Assad regime and go in with ammunition, havoc will ensue because the Congressional Republicans have been provoking White Supremacist rant and reasoning across the USA with their pseudo-religious pseudo-intellectual diatribes. We are drowning in unwanted Republican austerity and Republican sequestration.    

M: Dude! We need to be focused on the economy and job market here in the United States. We need to vote out the likes of Governor Chris Christie and Senator Mitch McConnell. New Jersey and Kentucky deserve better and brighter and brilliant leadership without the “it’s not right until it happens to me” rogues that want earlier elections so that they can have a greater chance of toppling their competitors at the polls.

D: Man! Christie and McConnell want government deregulations at the same time they approve of upping government restrictions on voting rights. And they want to do something about Middle East unrest? How about convincing their own party to not dwell in hatred and inaction and get a jobs bill passed?  

M: Dude! The GOP is rattling the economies of the world because they are, admit it, judging President Obama by the color of his skin, not the content of his character.

D: Man! I think the GOP is judging the diversification of our booming electorate by the color of their skin and not the content of their character.

M: Dude! Do you think that the Reagan Administration came in and tore apart what could have been a Muslim Renaissance?

D: Man! I think Margaret Thatcher came in and tore apart with Reagan what was already unfolding as a Muslim Renaissance at the time of President Carter.

M: Dude! Will the churches and mosques destroyed in the conflicts in the Middle East ever be resurrected? Could the wounded soldiers that are suffering PTSD combine their expertise and construct blueprints for a Judeo-Christian-Muslim architectural revival in the region?

D: Man! Can soldiers be ambassadors? And can Harvard-educated Aga Khan IV and other Islamic humanitarian cultural crossovers negotiate something alongside the disenfranchised Judeo-Christian-Muslim populations for the sake of much more than betterments and settlements?

Man! Dude! Session #192

(D)ude: Man! How can we engage militarily where everything has been reported as happening allegedly?

(M)an: Dude! The United States House of Representatives and the GOP Super PACs are responsible for these alleged stories coming out of Syria that claim the Assad regime used chemical weapons while others are certain it is the rebels.

D: Man! Then how can we differentiate between the Assad regime and the rebels?

M: Dude! They will come into focus if left alone to resolve their civil war on their own turf without United States intervention. I sincerely believe that Russia and China and all the neighboring nations in the region do not want the war to spill over into their physical domain.

D: Man! That’s an excellent means of generating camaraderie amongst all nations right now. Trying to keep the war contained.  

M: Dude! Israel has already carried out 3 strikes on Syrian targets in 2013! And BBC News reported this morning that the countries surrounding Syria do not want outside intervention because in the Gulf War, Saddam Hussein used Scud missiles to get Israel drawn into the conflict.  

D: Man! How do you contain a country with the capacity and will to use chemical weapons on its own people?

M: Dude! There is the government and there are the rebels. However, in regards to Egypt, Republican Senator John McCain actually made a trip to the region to meet with the Muslim Brotherhood in 2012 while outright refusal to meet with the other parties involved with that particular conflict then.

D: Man! That too came to pass?

M: Dude! Yes and no. I wonder what the United States Republicans categorize as the Syrian government and the rebels, because the American Press Corps refuses to find connections between the austerity of the GOP and its intentions abroad. Like, for example, the Family, Faith, and Freedom Protection Act of 2013 that is also known as House Bill 695 in North Carolina where it originated. In this piece of legislation, the GOP inadvertently aligns itself with the Muslim extremists and agitators by abolishing a woman’s right to an abortion and restrictions on reproductive health clinics across North Carolina and, later, the United States.

D: Man! What do extremist Muslims have in common with the United States GOP?

M: Dude! It is a really big mess of miscalculations. The GOP cites that it is siding against infanticide in what is essentially an anti-abortion bill. However, they insist that what is generally known as female infanticide in the Muslim world is what they are preventing with this piece of convoluted legislation. But it is not that either, actually. You see how meaningless and dangerous these convolutions are for the global community and US?

D: Man! We should contain the region of Syria from spreading outwards into an international ring of disasters!

M: Dude! According to BBC News, Hezbollah from Lebanon have sided and fought alongside the government of Syria and the rebels!

D: Man! Huh?

M: Dude! Hezbollah is a Shia militancy that has sided with the Assad regime. But its Sunni counterparts have taken the side of the rebels. Even the Lebanese Foreign Minister Adana Mansour is against strikes on Syria. And, keep in mind, that the Israelis do not want to be pushed into the conflict if the United States and its supporters come in and take any action that might provoke the Syrian government or the rebels to spread the violence and utter instability into the neighboring countries.

D: Man! How does Iran fit into the affairs of the Syrian government and the rebel forces?

M: Dude! Iran supports the Syrian government, but insists that the rebel forces are the ones utilizing chemical weapons.

D: Man! Sounds like every nation in that region of the world is wanting to mind their own business and are actually discouraged by the prospect of the United States interfering in what is too jumbled and chaotic mess for anyone to truly figure out militarily.

M: Dude! We mustn’t forget that practically all of Syria’s neighbors are assisting with the mass movement of displaced refugees coming out of Assad’s grip.

D: Man! Cannot we negotiate the release of all the civilians inside the places infected by the chemical weapons?

M: Dude! The situation is volatile at best.

D: Man! You think if the United States were to go against the Syrian regime, it might set off fuses and cause a conflagration and desertion of multiple regions across the Middle East and North Africa?

M: Dude! The United Nations is being portrayed unkindly in the American Press. They are seen as craggy and reluctant, but they may have to be afraid right now of the asinine Republican Party of the United States at this very moment with its Super PACs and billionaire mobsters and legislative inhumanities.

D: Man! There are Republican wars going on against, let me get this straight, a stimulus package, women’s rights, workers’ rights, and social safety nets that have been in place and working just fine until the gerrymandering GOP new wave of neoconservatives pushed aside democratic representation and voter’s rights in favor of sneaky cheating tactics. If the GOP is being so clandestine, how can the United States be trusted overseas?

M: Dude! I think we’re in a time where the GOP cheats are cutting across all cultural barriers and decencies in order to loot whatever region of the world they can get their hands on. Sneaky cheating social climbers do not have a conscience. If they could care less about a certain majority of Americans, what purpose but selfish monetary gains would they have within the Muslim World or anyplace else?

D: Man! Do you think the GOP will drill and destroy the Great Pyramids and other wonders of the world like they’re fracking nonstop in the Metroplex? The drilling sites are quite expansive and ugly, aren’t they? I don’t think preservation and goodwill exist in the Republican vocabulary!

Man! Dude! Session #191

(M)an: Dude! Where do you find the words to describe Paul Ryan and Rand Paul?

(D)ude: Man! Urban dictionary?

M: Dude! So you are only allegedly utilizing the urban dictionary?

D: Man! Do you really want to undermine me?

M: Dude! The way the Republican Party operates reminds me of the pinching game that we used to play in crowds while growing up. Likewise, the Republicans like John McCain and Rand Paul pinch one nation in the deluge of Muslim countries and go to the sidelines themselves afterwards and laugh at how they and the GOP managed to mangle up Obama Administration’s efforts to keep things from falling apart so much so that a USA military intervention seems even more unquestionable.  

D: Man! You mean to say that the Republican GOP is to blame for the chaos?

M: Dude! Where does all that PAC money go? Jonathan Karl was leading the round table discussion on This Week With George Stephanopoulos today and there was a message on the bottom of the screen from Rand Paul of Kentucky mentioning something being like assigning a wolf to look after a hen house.   

D: Man! I remember that too! Could that mean that Rand Paul is the guy responsible for the Republican pinching game with our Middle Eastern allies? Rand Paul was tooting with his bazooka about a junta and how the US needs to cut off aid to Egyptians and others struggling with the refugee crises.

M: Dude! Remember how we would pinch another kid’s arm in a crowd at school and he would turn around and pinch somebody else because he was convinced they were the culprit when in fact we had blended into the crowd and moved ahead from where we had stood and horsed around?

D: Man! What are we to do about the rascality of the Republican GOP? They are clearly incapable of initiating peace talks with anyone who is not like them! Do you think we could hand over a red perm wig to anyone who wants to speak to Rand Paul so that the junior senator from Kentucky does not feel alienated and booby-trapped?

M: Dude! Rand Paul is a mouse with countless lives! He talks himself into multiple booby-traps that would be the end of anybody else’s political career, but not his because of father Ron Paul’s faithful backward Tea Party followers.

D: Man! Does kava render backwardness? I don’t think so. I mean, if it did, China and India would have quite an intellectual fit!

M: Dude! We cannot speak of countries like this! We must give the utmost respect and dignity, a trait seriously lacking inside the Republican GOP!

D: Man! What about a solution to the problems in Syria and elsewhere in the Middle East? The pundits all say that military inaction will give Iran encouragement, no?

M: Dude! What do the cognoscenti know? Do they understand that in Islamic culture, there are still tribal cultures within the overall political framework? And that the Prophet Muhammad understood how women and children were used as collateral and ended such a practice with the acceptance of multiple marriages in the times of war and unrest.  

D: Man! I am reminded right now of Euripides’ The Trojan Women. The surviving women of Troy are made concubines and slaves or sentenced to death! Do you mean to say that the Prophet Muhammad tried to appease the cutthroat cultural consequences facing those most vulnerable to the aftermath of warfare and defeat?

M: Dude! In Islamic culture, hearts are filled with gratitude over allies coming in and taking care of the fighters’ women and children! If the women and children are dishonored, it is interpreted as dishonoring entire families including the fathers, brothers, husbands, and sons who have voluntarily gone to participate in whatever domestic conflict their nation is wrapped up in at the moment.

D: Man! What should the United States do right now?

M: Dude! Right now the Syrians are fighting amongst brothers but if the United States interferes, the Syrians will forget the original purpose of their fighting, hence, all Syrian citizens will join together against the newly identified enemy from outside- the United States! It is a dangerous step for US and the Middle East.

D: Man! What if the Europeans had intervened in Birmingham, Alabama when it was burning up with racial violence? Seriously! If outside forces had come into the United States and taken sides with either the status quo or minority communities, it would have destroyed the purpose behind the fight for civil rights inside the United States! There are chemical attacks happening in Syria, but wasn’t there teargas and a lot of military means of intervening being utilized in the American South prior to the mid-sixties?

M: Dude! The poisonous gas released upon the suburbs of Syria where there are crops and farms, like in the Ghouta area just days ago, are disenfranchising even more grandmothers and mothers and children who will be needing a safe haven of some sort to retreat to regain their strength and sort out possibilities with, hopefully, the US aide going into neighboring countries who are opening up their borders to the populations of refugees fleeing in masses from hostility to plausible hope.

D: Man! Do Damascenes know who is responsible for the chemical weaponry?

M: Dude! So far, no, the Damascenes only blame the side they oppose. And, right now, the two sides are the government and the rebels.

D: Man! The government and the rebels are far safer bets than having the Republican GOP force the Obama Administration into an all-out international war theatre with countries like those providing a place and resources for displaced refugees.

M: Dude! The Obama Doctrine ought to be one of reconciliatory repair. The world is doing its best and to run in and place missiles in the air and boots on the ground would be like ceding the entire region to the pain and end that has faced every region where the United States has been involved since the nineteenth century series of naval battles in the Mediterranean Sea with the Ottoman Empire.

D: Man! You know, one of the first things you’re taught in soccer and ice skating is how to fall and get back up. It is traumatizing in soccer, but quite fun in the ice skating ring.

Man! Dude! Session #190

 

(D)ude: Man! Robin Thicke guiltily tried to payout the late great Marvin Gaye’s family members who refused the six-figure offering in favor of court hearings about Thicke’s first number one track Blurred Lines having borrowed heavily from Gaye’s Got to Give it Up. And then you have Paula Deen’s racial indecencies being dismissed altogether regarding the racial slurs and blatant disregard for African American culture. 

(M)an: Dude! Myrlie Ever-Williams said it best at this morning’s activities in D.C. commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of the March On Washington. We are on stand still today that favors looking backwards and that we need to flip the coin regarding Stand Your Ground policies by standing our ground for freedom and justice.

D: Man! Let me tell you what I found most heartening in today’s March On Washington! Instead of saying anything out loud, the people peacefully and classily displayed the same color yellow as the Tea Party Republican GOP, but with blue borders instead of the green grass and evil snake! Did you notice that?

M: Dude! I was amazed too at how the marchers peacefully demonstrated the taking back of the color gold from the crassness of division, hate, and intimidation that the Tea Party flag conveys with that horrid rattlesnake emblem.

D: Man! I’ve been trying to find a tea party fiction book for a girl that includes the attendance of an African-American child as well as a Hispanic representative and an Asian invitee too. All I’ve been able to track down is a remote watercolor of an African- American girl pouring tea into the cups of her White-American Caucasian invitees. It is not condescending in any way, but quite heartwarming and inspiring.

M: Dude! Maybe a multicultural tea party picture book for children from all backgrounds, reflecting our changing demographics within the United States and inclusive of all lifestyles as well as their philosophies, is just what we need to get the conversation started as sooner as possible. I really appreciated the way all the speakers made clear at the march today that comprehensive immigration reform and pathway to citizenship is not just for Dreamers to aspire and hope for, but for all of US to achieve from within.

D: Man! There’s a selection of books about a particular African-American preteen named Keisha and her friends. The series is simply entitled The Magic Attic Club where Keisha and her friends play dress up, and are transported into a fairy tale world where fundamental questions are explored alongside the overall storyline.

M: Dude! We’ve come a long way since Hans Christian Andersen and the Brothers Grimm            and Shirley Temple Black! You should be looking forward to taking your nieces and nephews to the latest Annie starring Quvenzhane Wallis. 

D: Man! I’m certain the movie is still in the making, but I do look forward to taking my nieces and nephews to the film when it does come out. Tatum O’Neal’s Paper Moon is already a favorite I share with the kids. It’s been a long time since I’ve checked out the latest movies, but Beasts of the Southern Wild is on the top of my to-watch list.

M: Dude! Talking about youth standouts, that nine-year-old guy Asean Johnson is quite the crusader! The youngest speaker today at the march, he would have continued onwards if it were not for the apparent time crunch due to the multitude of speakers at the march.

D: Man! I think he should be considered in the same league as Malala Yousafzai and the two ought to be assigned to read Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s novels before their next big speaking engagement. It would be the perfect launching of an international literacy campaign, and God knows how many preteens and teenagers need to be given that kind of introduction into the human psyche and the pain therein.

M: Dude! Fyodor Dostoyevsky is a heroic figure for children facing medical and social odds- he had epilepsy and struggled with the condition into his fifty-ninth year.  

D: Man! His characters all have to face such hard circumstances! I really think that gangs and violence could be considerably decreased if The Brothers Karamazov was not only required reading, but also read together in groups and discussed page-by-page. Reimagining Vanya Karamazov’s turbulent reaction to his half-brother Mitya Karamazov’s actions and fate, I always feel like the injustices my father instituted in our home when we were teenagers were nothing at all after all.

M: Dude! What sort of injustices did your father render?

D: Man! Colossal sorts! Enough said!

M: Dude! There is an element of irony in that Vanya is so troubled as to give up, yet Mitya strives on and so does Alyosha. 

D: Man! The keynote address was Reverend Al Sharpton’s, right?

M: Dude! I recorded the entire event just for you. But, yes, Reverend Sharpton’s speech was the keynote and his acknowledgment of the Reverend Jesse Jackson having turned his life around was sincere and moving. He gave a memorable response to Clarence Thomas’ rebuttal that his credentials were sufficient for success without the need for civil rights legislation. The Reverend pointed out that the civil rights leaders then made it a possibility that someone would read an African-American’s resume now.  

D: Man! Reverend Al Sharpton is the voice today that we so desperately need to call out hypocrites like Clarence Thomas and all the male injustices of the United States Supreme Court! Hallelujah! Alleluia!

M: Dude! Reverend Sharpton brought up the need for conducting ourselves with respect and respect for all the women in our lives. Accordingly, we need to clean up our house to clean America of all pain and anger to form that coalition which will unite all of US to get well together, not individually. And, most of all, we must give our youth dreams again.

D: Man! Reverend Sharpton spoke beautifully! I’ll definitely be watching the 2013 March on Washington tonight! Thanks for recording it!

M: Dude! Let the cry for jobs and freedom be heard once again! Let professionals train the rest of US to be paraprofessionals to organize high school dropouts and give them second and third chances as C.T. Vivian proposed, even fourth and fifth might be required right now for many, but this too shall pass with intervention and adaptation! But, then again, according to the Reverend Joseph Lowery, we must be aware that everything and nothing has changed!

D: Man! Alleluia! Hallelujah! Alyosha!

Man! Dude! Session #189

(M)an: Dude! You are either really mad or in a passionate slosh. What happened? Did our friends from high school drive you mad with their public displays of affection?

(D)ude: Man! I thought any public display of affection was indicative of a troubled or doomed marriage! And then they had the get-up-and-go to actually bring their four and eight-year-olds! 

M: Dude! You’re really still wrapped up in the blatant disregard the kids had for the leather couch and the pillows. Do you need me to launder the accessories and polish the furniture?

D: Man! These bare foot markings were looking cute, before the cola spilled and the children began to invite the discussion of what they would like for Christmas! Who are we? Santa Claus and the Lucky Charms Leprechaun?

M: Dude! I was going to mention the Kentucky Woman up for reelection this year, Mitch McConnell, but you are clearly too exhausted to be entertaining anything near a conversation.

D: Man! Wait! If she gets to know you, she’s going to own you! Kentucky woman!

M: Dude! Well, she isn’t the kind that makes heads turn at the drop of her name!

D: Man! That’s certainly for sure about Mitch McConnell! She shines with her own kind of light! What about that Jersey girl?

M: Dude! Chris Christie makes me want to break out in either a Bon Jovi number or Ricky Martin’s Maria!

D: Man! Un pasito pa’delante, Maria! Un, dos tres! Un pasito pa’tras!  

M: Dude! One step ahead, Maria! One, two, three! One step back! Sounds like the Republican GOP! Hey, were the children in the same category of annoying and undisciplined as Paul Ryan and Clint Eastwood?

D: Man! Equally ungovernable! First time I didn’t like them, this time I couldn’t stand them, next time I’m going to despise them!

M: Dude! I was watching a NOVA episode on PBS about Making Stuff Smaller. Did you know that at the smallest attainable level of existence, the molecular and even tinier, there are now nanobots that are only in need of polishing up in order to go after cancer cells?

D: Man! Nanobots? NOVA? Wow! What are nanobots? Nanotech robots that are released into the bloodstream and then powered to attract to the cells in question and obliterate them, is that it?

M: Dude! Yeah! But we’re still at the starting line because the nanobots right now appear to be obliterating every cell in the body instead of a specific kind.

D: Man! So, what else did you learn about nanobots?

M: Dude! There was a segment on the Canterbury Cathedral’s stained glass windows as well. Did you know that gold yields ruby pink glass? And that silver yields golden glass? Were you aware that the David H. Koch Fund for Science yields an episode of NOVA on PBS? Well, partially that is. The National Science Foundation is also a funder, and so is the Department of Energy and The Boeing Company.

D: Man! David H. Koch probably is a realistic heartless Republican! He clearly doesn’t want cancer to hit him and his family and he does, remember this, have a master’s degree in chemical engineering from MIT. So, the man is a calculating Republican. He probably funds such shows because he wants to recruit imaginative and trainable minds into the sciences as earliest as possible so they will give the most return on investment!

M: Dude! Reminds me a lot of parents these days introducing music before their baby has even left the womb! And yet, before a lot of children have even left the home for preschool, they have come by homes like ours to make lasting impressions on our furniture and appliances and et cetera and so forth!

D: Man! I really would like to call up the PDA couple from earlier and tell them, as Taylor Swift has sung over and over again, “We’re never getting back together!” God Almighty! Have mercy upon me!

M: Dude! Taylor Swift managed to outsell every performer who has ever held a show at the Staples Center by about three performances. Swift had eleven sold out shows this week, surpassing Madonna and Britney Spears’ record of eight each.

D: Man! Remind me of today if I ever express the desire to become a father!

M: Dude! You’ll be a wonderful father! You don’t believe in corporal punishment and I’ve seen you negotiate surprising deals with countless tots before! You’re the best!

D: Man! Thanks for that friendly reminder! I’m seriously wasted right now! Do you know that I actually had to assist in the bathroom breaks the children made? I noticed the Sesame Street Brand hand soap bottles in there. Where did you find them?

M: Dude! Aldi! I don’t go to Wal-Mart anymore!

D: Man! Aldi? When I told the rowdy children’s parents about Aldi, they insisted that they could not possible make the switch due to the limited items at Aldi compared to Wal-Mart!

M: Dude! They really were morons! Because if I were a father, I would begin by converting my children to the Aldi brands! You can buy so much more for so much less! An excellent return on investment!

D: Man! I don’t understand the Republican GOP! They want military intervention abroad in the Middle East at a time when the United Nations estimates that one million children have been forced to flee Syria! And then, UN officials are warning, according to the LA Times’ Alexandra Zavis, that a lost generation of Syrian children will be growing up illiterate and full of hatred!

M: Dude! With the Republican Sequestration and subsequent Republican austerity measures and furloughing, the United States is going to have to contend with similar crises at home with its children! And the GOP wants to rise up the military and cut all financial assistance at a time when countries are depending on US to provide the morale and the way to a future of hope and compassion: Lebanon, Jordan, Turkey, Iraq, and Egypt, and now North Africa and Europe.

D: Man! Almost three-fourths of the child refugees from Syria are under the age of eleven! And of the three billion dollars the UN needs, only one-third of it has been funded! Add to that the closings of Head Start in the United States due to the Congressional Republicans; American families will not be able to think much about the top in the Maslow pyramid of hierarchical needs in response to what’s happening and needed in the Muslim world right now.

M: Dude! The Congressional Republicans are instituting criminal policies! All because of their backwoodsman perspectives of moneymaking through government funds and hellish hatred towards anyone not within the status quo!

D: Man! These backwoodsmen Congressional Republicans will just throw their political hands up and refuse to give aide to our Muslim allies, accusing President Obama for their own Sequestration tactics. They must be voted out because they will only throw our children at home and abroad under the bus of developmental jargon like The child refugees have missed the opportunity to develop healthily because they are 11-years-old and too old to go back and master the stages set forth by Jean Piaget and Erik Erikson.

M: Dude! Even adults who think they are in young adulthood or even middle adulthood haven’t accomplished Erik Erikson’s earliest stage of mistrust versus trust!

D: Man! The Republican Party leadership must be voted out of office this fall and next year’s midterms!

M: Dude! Of course! I think Jean Piaget would see the Republican GOP for what they indulge in most: a habitual self-preoccupation!

D: Man! They are dangerous! They’re what Richard Connell wrote about in his 1924 short story, “The Most Dangerous Game”! The GOP is Sanger Rainsford and General Zaroff combined into one monstrosity!

M: Dude! It’s the millennium goliath! GO-liath-P!

Man! Dude! Session #188

(D)ude: Man! What animal at the zoo could Bo Obama and his new one-year-old sister Sunny replace temporarily?

(M)an: Dude! Well, Bo could easily be a remote animal relation to the giant panda that is black and white. And as for his canine sibling Sunny, I think she could be passed as an American black bear?

D: Man! Yeah, Sunny could be seen as a special case study as an undersized black bear. However, I’m not certain about Bo being perceived as a legitimate substitute for a giant panda. He is more like an overgrown black and white skunk.

M: Dude! You’re seriously making decisions like the Louhe City Zoo in China that tried to convince visitors that there was essentially no distinguishing between an African lion and a Tibetan mastiff?

D: Man! Exactly! Did you hear how the parents became suspicious after their children observed that the Tibetan mastiff barked?

M: Dude! What were the parents up to anyways? Were they multitasking with phones and tablets on which they conducted full scale businesses on the go?

D: Man! Maybe? More likely, I believe that the parents were presumably so conditioned not to inspect their children’s everyday activities, so long as they were close by, that they completely had blocked the possibility of such a rascality as the placement of a variety of canines into the zoo cages to keep the otherwise emptying facility functioning as a business.

M: Dude! When did the Republican Party mentality infiltrate China? Do you know the line at the local government offices take 2.5 hours to matriculate and before the effects of the Republican Sequestration of 2013, the waiting period was 15 minutes, plus or minus two minutes?

D: Man! The GOP ought to be set into their own traps. The Republican GOP is purposefully cutting statewide jobs across the map, state to state. They are so methodical that they are currently on vacation and calling each other up and laughing hysterically over what they think they’re doing to the presidency of Barack Obama.

M: Dude! There is de facto racial divide that is too visible because of the cheating tactics of the GOP Republicans like gerrymandering that has given unfair advantage and misconstrued messages of absolute nonsense. It’s like given the people an ugly untruth: That the system is such that their voices are being suppressed and their rights infringed upon by the liberals, when in actuality the GOP Republicans are responsible for austere policies and strategies.

D: Man! The Republican Party is cutting jobs statewide, therefore the middle classers and working classers are losing employment and the inherent benefits upon which members of their families depend. Laborers are losing just as much as anybody else because the currently vacationing Congressional Republicans want to win in the midterms this year and next year.

M: Dude! The Republican Party wants to win the midterm elections in order to place all the blame for the Republican Party’s Sequestration Doctrine onto President Obama’s shoulders. But then they’re vacationing for five weeks as a lot of US don’t even get enough to subsist and our taxpayer money is being blown off in the most inactive and idiotic GOP Congress to date.

D: Man! So John Boehner and Eric Cantor are dating after all? Well, they were made for each other! In fact, the entire lot of them were made for each other’s perverse pleasures like seeing gridlock and reemphasizing the woman’s reproductive health issues in measures like the personhood amendment, despite wanting to end the social safety network in place for disenfranchised Americans. The hypocrites! 

M: Dude! Dude! Dude! Carly Fiorina, the Hewlett-Packard Company’s former chair and CEO was taking the place of the absentee Republican loons George Will and Peggy Noonan this past Sunday on This Week with George Stephanopoulos, and you could see her squirming like a lying Republican commentator at a loss for words other than sheer glib nonsense without even a personal commitment to one’s words.    

D: Man! The Republican GOP is creating hell on earth for countless families and individuals. Did you know that even children have gotten word of the enemy amongst US that is the GOP?

M: Dude! The United States economy remains strong despite the GOP. But things could look a lot better if the Republicans would not steadfastly refuse to pass a jobs bill in order to create jobs for Americans.

D: Man! The GOP Republicans are only going to be focusing on how they can secure funding cuts into their pockets. Hosni Mubarak and M. Morsi are just like the Tea Party Express: Don’t Tread On Me! Is their shared logo and emphasis on the top 2% of society than the others.

M: Dude! The United States is not the enemy abroad. The GOP Republicans are the evildoers and perpetrators in countries like Egypt. The Egyptians loved their churches and the GOP is destroying them so that refugees cannot take shelter inside those very churches. And they’ve already done tremendous damage upon the mosques that too had been of service to the countless refugees resulting from the bloodshed that they are financing through their PACs and what-have-you.

D: Man! It is planted hatred by the GOP Republicans that the Egyptians do not understand and are against American ideals. The Muslim World will only hate the USA if aide is withdrawn because of the GOP’s disrespect and insistence that the billions of dollars in aide go directly into their own pockets.   

M: Dude! I still wonder how funding is dispersed in the GOP run states right now!

D: Man! Injustice!

M: Dude! Even Americans hate the GOP as poverty and so many constituents are facing oppression in the United States! And all Americans are feeling the dire effects of the Republican Party’s Sequestration Doctrine!

D: Man! These are manmade hells on the part of the GOP Republicans. Egyptians need Americans and Americans need to remain engaged in the democratic process, not war and the resulting casualties of our sons and daughters too in these danger zones. With the chemical attacks taking place in Syria, we must remember not to create an issue like Agent Orange or the hot mess of the Middle Eastern desert that had its own set of devastating side effects on the health of our soldiers in the past.

M: Dude! The GOP is creating the endless lines at government agencies and offices with their state-by-state furloughs and what not! And the people waiting for services in the long lines are workers who have been reduced by the GOP’s doctrine of insanity. I’m afraid that people are losing their patience and tolerance at home and the misrepresentation through voter identification and redistricting practices being enforced by the GOP state legislatures is  just as questionable as Faux News.

D: Man! GOP Drama NOT Obama!

M: Dude! GOP Drama NOT Obama!

Man! Dude! Session #187

(M)an: Dude! There must be a separation between the mosque and military in the Middle East, yet there is an undercurrent set in place by  Ronald Reagan that is still being rehashed lately about prayers in public schools in the United States. I think the way the Michele Bachman and the John Boehner Congressional Tea Party Republicans formally outlawed Sharia Law within the United States this year is indicative of illiterate rage on the part of the GOP.

(D)ude: Man! The world dynamics are such that you could probably categorize all countries according to the side they take in terms of being with the majority Democratic Party or the majority Republican Party in the United States of America. You either acknowledge corruption charges and do not, for the most part, hide such individuals like the USA Democrats, or you never out and acknowledge corruption within your own party and everyone knows you are shamelessly corrupt practitioners as in the USA Republicans.

M: Dude! Either way you have to eventually take one of the sides of the primary superpower in the world today, the United States! And these days, The US Democratic Party is the party of transparency and the US Republican Party is the party of steamed out windows.

D: Man! But, essentially, like the saying goes, everybody is naked in the sauna, meaning that everybody is corrupt and accepting everybody else because all are nakedly shameless and corrupt. But, I always wonder about the female everybody. What about them?

M: Dude! I think the glass ceilings inside the saunas from which the heated debates cannot leak are waiting for someone to break them. And, as I was saying earlier, even the first wife of Muhammad, Khadija bint Khuwaylid, could not break the glass ceiling for anyone but herself. She was a brilliant merchant and married thrice and had children from all her marriages.

D: Man! Can women only break glass ceilings for themselves and society must respond in kind? That’s really tragic! Especially when you consider the forces from the far right trying to push US backwards. Look at how Chris Christie is straddling the fence in terms of big issues whose fates he’s vetoed, like the ban on military rifles in New Jersey, that I consider a blatant tell-tell sign of his ties with the NRA.  

M: Dude! I’m really off on the religious end of the spectrum right now. I want to calibrate myself to come back to center. But I cannot get that image of the sauna out of my mind. Even the corrupt minority senators like Marco Rubio are sitting with the Republicans inside the sauna of underhanded contemptuousness!  

D: Man! You know, you’re feeling inundated by Thomas Kinkade images and paintings? 

M: Dude! No? No! You’re absolutely right!

D: Man! Remember how the Middle East flourished in the 1960s and 1970s?

M: Dude! Yeah?

D: Man! Afghanistan was a cultural homestead for UNESCO stints by what were essentially scholars like Dr. William Podlich and his family, who left Arizona State University for a two-year excursion to the land of what Podlich recalled recently as a “fierce and proud yet fun loving people [who] have been beaten down by terrible forces.”

M: Dude! Harry S. Truman was run out of office instead of becoming a two-term president, most likely because of the litany of policies that not only expounded upon FDR’s New Deal, but introduced what was essentially known as the Fair Deal. Alongside the Fair Employment Practices Act at home, the Truman Doctrine was adopted to assist both Turkey and Greece against bullying Russia. And The Marshall Plan, named after Truman’s Secretary of State, was a stimulus package intended to boost the recovery efforts in war-devastated Western Europe.

D: Man! Kind of like how President Obama is staying put our sons and daughters in uniform and allowing the world theatre of war and strife to play out, but instead of airlifts, he is supplying financial assistance in the billions of dollars for the countless refugees and their families in essentially exile. There were thousands of displaced individuals brought into Iraqi territory recently, no?

M: Dude! Yes! The way the surrounding community of nations is harboring and saving the refugees from hunger and death is monumental. The assistance is like the harkening back of that Middle East that was sound and safe in its own existence, before British Colonization, and the back and forth between Russia and the United States. 

D: Man! Truman decided not to run again, no?

M: Dude! No. The White House website has excerpts on the United States presidents and I firmly believe that President Truman decided not to run because the American Press Corps was bought into the right wing agenda and he did not want to have his legacy torn apart by politics as usual.  

D: Man! Thank goodness President Obama did not back down from running for a second term! Where would we be without him?

M: Dude! At war with everybody!

D: Man! Goodness no!

M: Dude! The American voters must be made aware of the dynamics abroad and at home too in order to get them to run to the polls in the midterm elections.

D: Man! I cannot find a list of all the people running in the midterm elections! Have you found one?

M: Dude! It’s very tedious, but possible, but barely!

D: Man! With no outside warring strategy in the hands of the United States, there is a hope and certainty that the groups fighting with one another right now over there will come to the epiphany, “Why fight? Why not talk peace?” sooner than if we intervene militarily, that fighting is a course of action that only Hosni Mubarak and Bashar al-Assad and the USA Republican Party want continued.

M: Dude! The GOP is engaging in all-out gang violence abroad, against President Obama’s Administration. And, keep in mind that those who form gangs rarely, if ever, die. There is gang membership and then there’s the innocent bystander. The Republican Party is the gang leader and the bystanders are United States soldiers and civilians who are trying to rationalize how an entire party like the GOP can even imagine and start to shred the social safety net in our superpower democracy!

D: Man! If there are starving and poor people at home, not enough to eat and subsist on, then the GOP will have accomplished the goal of trying to get disenfranchised Americans so wrapped up in their own hellish nightmares to look the other way at the hellish nightmares that the Republican Party is personally instigating.

M: Dude! The AP’s Erica Werner has said it best about Immigration Reform in the USA. That Marco Rubio is scared that if the legislature cannot come up with comprehensive immigration reform, the mentally disparaging things the GOP wants won’t be included under President Obama’s watch, and that are more and more border security and the implementation of an e-verification system of finding out workers’ legal status.

D: Man! The GOP has always had a fringe mentality. But, this time, they are flooding US with fringe policies at home as well as abroad.

M: Dude! The alleged rapist Julian Assange endorses father-son pair Ron Paul and Rand Paul. Edward Snowden lists Dick Cheney as a hero. I bet this whole NSA controversy has been blown out of proportion and constructed by Republicans behaving badly. I mean, I wonder, if people really think their conversations are so provocative and one-of-a-kind to need protection. What do the American people want to protect? Hackers have managed to hack into practically everything, including for reasons-beyond-reasonableness baby monitors!

D: Man! Really?

M: Dude! Yeah!

D: Man! Where were the disgruntled when George W. Cheney started it all?

M: Dude! Hibernating?

D: Man! Perhaps. But, seriously, I see your point. If the Supreme Court of the United States cannot keep from indulging in partisanship, then why should anyone be surprised if Hosni Mubarak is being released and Bashar al-Assad is still on the loose?

M: Dude! Exactly!

Man! Dude! Session #186

(D)ude: Man! The Republicans are very dishonest when their focus as the GOP boils to oil drilling enterprises at home and abroad. The casualties of their greed are alienated even more when oil spills and other environmental disasters due to their enterprising like fracking and extracting billions of dollars worth of barrels of oil from remote locales like the Amazon Rainforest’s Yasuni basin in Ecuador, home to more tree wildlife species than in all of North America! And let’s not forget the indigenous people living there right now and afraid of permanent damage to their ancestral grounds.

(M)an: Dude! The United Nations and President Rafael Correa of Ecuador are going to be exploiting the Yasuni basin in a matter of just a few weeks. The Amazon Rainforest is a rich source of ecology lessons waiting revelation. It is sad when the GOP and the American Press totally play out a swooping unawareness of issues like the one unfolding about the Yasuni basin.

D: Man! Did you see Diane Sawyer on ABC News last night? The ABC News crew in Cairo, Egypt conveniently placed an unemotional Muslim Egyptian woman on camera with obviously rehearsed dialogue that conveyed clearly what the ABC News folks wanted to hear the lady say- that the survivors of the bloody Cairo unrest would construct the next terrorist plot against the United States.

M: Dude! The GOP is an association of shameless scoundrels that includes ABC News!

D: Man! The Egyptian woman was just as spurious as the bad actors and actresses on Faux News!

M: Dude! Yes, the folks at ABC News and Faux News are unconvincing daytime soap opera rejects!

D: Man! Ecuador is part of OPEC, the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries, which is a cartel, meaning that producers and manufacturers at competing firms are in agreement, which results in fixed prices, fixed marketing, and fixed production that yields increase in profits for all members through the reduction of competition.

M: Dude! Sounds like there could be a parallelism between OPEC and drug cartels, no?

D: Man! Cartels are just formal agreements made between competing producers and manufacturers of, in the case of OPEC, petroleum exports. And, get this, Ecuador joined in 1973 at the time of Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford, left OPEC in 1992 at the time of Clinton and Gore and then returned in 2007 at the time of George W. Cheney.

M: Dude! I think the Republican GOP and George H. W. and George W. Bush particularly were the unofficial American OPEC affiliates because the transitional government set into place by the United 

States via Lewis Paul Bremer and Great Britain via Jeremy Q. Greenstock, referred to simply as the Coalition Provisional Authority, following the 2003 invasion of Iraq, was cloaked in mystery. And remember that the Office for Reconstruction and Humanitarian Assistance, or ORHA, was established in Iraq just two months before its 2003 invasion by the United States government.

D: Man! Could it possibly be that this xenophobia towards the Muslim World that was fostered again and again by the Republican Party was being set into motion since Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford and Ronald Reagan?

M: Dude! Gerald Ford was Nixon’s successor, Nelson Rockefeller was Ford’s vice president, and George H. W. Bush was vice president to President Reagan!

D: Man! They all had planned to advance into the Middle East and had been coordinating and organizing their revenge upon the Muslim World!

M: Dude! Do you think that they pumped xenophobia into their psyches and the American heartland’s as well towards the Muslim world through strategic austerity measures like President Reagan’s chipping away at President Carter’s creation of a Department of Education?

D: Man! What exactly did President Reagan say about President Carter’s creating the Department of Education?

M: Dude! Reagan called US A Nation at Risk because of the influx of student immigrants coming to the United States to study and live, believed that the integration that President Carter oversaw from the creation of such a department as that of education, was leading to mediocrity. I think President Reagan was steadfastly against the racial integration that was resulting slowly but steadily throughout the sixties, seventies, and eighties.

D: Man! What about reverse discrimination?

M: Dude! Reverse discrimination was the alternative name given to affirmative action by President Reagan. Clearly, President Reagan was the most influential Republican leader to voice what has, I believe, led to these fringe extremists on the conservative right side.

D: Man! I’m afraid that you may be onto something here!

M: Dude! I’m afraid you may really have a point there!

D: Man! What are we going to do?

M: Dude! First, we have to get these voter restrictions thrown out. Second, we have got to get the multicultural majority of the American Electorate to realize how crucial their exercising their right to vote is to the midterms! We have to get out and vote with the same courage and fighting spirit that has persevered our democracy and made US persevere.

D: Man! What do you think is happening or taking place right now if we are indifferent or fall into the mode of helplessness?

M: Dude! We’re in trouble! The fringe conservatives are going to topple US through a period of cultural decline, like in the Hellenistic era that led to the medieval slump that led to a Renaissance that led to Descartes, Spinoza, and Kant, which led to Hegel, Kierkegaard, and Marx, which led to Dewey, Sartre, and so on and so forth!

D: Man! Like the conflagration of the Royal Library of Alexandria, let knowledge and culture not be destroyed through the destruction of rainforests and mosques and churches and lives due to the Republican GOP and its moneymaking schemes! I would much rather choose liberty and love and liberalism than to give someone like Paul Ryan or Rand Paul the glib satisfaction of being the chosen and spoiled whores of the Brothers Koch and the two-percent!

M: Dude! Dude! Dude!