Man! Dude! Session #241 Monopolistic Highway of Loopholes

(M)an: Dude! None of the major American television networks, noncable and cable, broadcast the entirety of the President’s barely 20-minute speech in San Francisco, California yesterday. Even MSNBC chose to preempt it with commentaries about Iran and what took place in Geneva, Switzerland early Sunday morning.

(D)ude: Man! I tuned into CSPAN after being fortunate enough to have become cross with MSNBC the last time they preempted the President’s address. 

M: Dude! And then there’s the term of the week that the political commentators have latched onto since Sunday. They are saying that immigration reform is a quote unquote distraction from what’s happening elsewhere in the world, specifically Iran.

D: Man! I’ll tell you what I’ve come to realize since my parents’ broadband services through AT&T U-Verse have been interrupted off and on now for over two weeks. Government intervention is necessary to balance the scales in favor of the customers. My parents’ home business and office has been nonfunctioning for almost three weeks because of the lack of quality in services provided by AT&T.

M: Dude! You’re mother called me by cell phone yesterday to inform me that the electric company blamed the power outages in the neighborhood to the change in weather and the onset of winter. It reminded us of how your parents’ power was turned off abruptly by Reliant Energy four years ago.

D: Man! The guy from Reliant Energy did not even acknowledge our inquiries and inconsiderately went about my parents’ back porch like he had every right to enter the property and carry out whatever instructions Reliant Energy had given him.  

M: Dude! You called Reliant Energy and they placed the blame upon your parents’ shoulders initially and then apologetically admitted later on that their guy had mistakenly turned off the electricity at the wrong address.

D: Man! And now AT&T is giving my parents free movie channels for the duration of November only, but the phone line and the Internet and the television all are still lacking clarity and there is no certainty that AT&T U-Verse will remain throughout the evening and into the night. All the services go dead around 7 PM.

M: Dude! I read an article in the November 2013 AARP Bulletin that reminded me of the unfair practices that are exercised against everyday Americans because of this privatizing of services like broadband in the homes of self-sufficient folks like our parents.

D: Man! Lawyer and writer Robin Gerber contributed a story about Sharon Green, the 68-year-old great-grandmother who was evicted from her government subsidized apartment unit by the private company who managed the apartment complex. Right?  

M: Dude! Yes! A divorcee with an independent exuberance that defies all the stereotypes of how women age and the elderly interact within their community, Sharon Green chose to setup tent in a local campsite and step up to the hurdles placed before her by Anchor Pacifica Group, the private company that evicted her, without a concrete reason why, in 2009.

D: Man! Robin Gerber sums up the private sector versus government intervention debate clearly and succinctly on page 28 of the AARP Bulletin, Anchor Pacifica argued that, as a private company, it had no duty to give cause for an eviction and that only a government entity is required to provide the due process that [Sharon] Green requested.

M: Dude! Professional accountability is what is in peril right now in the United States of America. There is no competition in the broadband services market, at least not the kind we would like to have. In order for US to move forward with fortitude, we’ve got to start with the monopolistic highway of loopholes that Cisco, Motorola, AT&T, and others have built into the simplistic equation of providing Broadband WAN, or Wide Area Network. According to Harry Newton’s Telecom Dictionary [1999], Broadband WAN is essentially a transmission facility providing bandwidth greater than 45 Mbps (T3).

D: Man! Professional rascality is what we’re facing! Fiber optic cable is better than copper and far more capable of handling the rigors that these telecommunication companies claim their transmission services cannot handle due to extreme weather conditions. The next several generations of insight into fiber optics is here, but in the hands of the private companies that patent practically every nook and cranny they discover in their daily logistics.

M: Dude! According to Harry Newton’s Telecom Dictionary [1999], T-3 is the North American Standard for DS-3, or Digital Signal Level 3. Capable of handling 672 voice conversations, T-3 runs on fiber optic or microwave transmission media, as twisted pair [two insulated copper wires twisted around each other to reduce induction (thus interference) from one wire to the other. The twists, or lays, are varied in length to reduce the potential for signal interference between pairs] is not capable of supporting such a high signaling rate over distances of any significance. Running on fiber, it is typically called FT-3. Both Bill Gates and George Lucas have T-3 lines coming into their houses. 

D: Man! Fiber optics is here and the wealthy think they are entitled to such a services while overlooking that people like us are in need for our families to remain in touch and in safety. My parents fall asleep with their iPhones and iPads charged thoroughly since the phone goes dead in the evening and remains dead throughout the night and next day.

M: Dude! What if the electricity were to go out?

D: Man! I don’t know. My parents use the light emitted by their Apple devices as a flashlight with which to maneuver in the dark.

M: Dude! It’s criminal to keep an entire community, like my parents’ neighborhood, out in the dark without a decent land line or access to the their television and Internet. With global warming’s devastating onslaught of terrible storms and catastrophes like earthquakes due to nearby fracking facilities, we deserve justice.

D: Man! And my parents are paying AT&T over $3,000 annually for keeping them in the backwoods through refusals to install fiber optics!

Man! Dude! Session #240 President Putin's Days of Diplomacy

(D)ude: Man! We’re going to be losing a lot of talent in 2015. Lady Gaga and Richard Branson are scheduled to rocket into space and hold a series of concerts there as the Virgin Mobile mogul and the megastar musician converge for a rather epic farewell tour.

(M)an: Dude! While I will cry for her, I cannot bring myself to feel anything remotely anywhere near the Boulevard of Broken Dreams for him.

D: Man! Richard Branson will not be missed at the Caribbean tax haven conferences keynoted by George W. Bush and attendees like Mitt Romney. However, his brandishing about Phil Collins’ success affording him a private island will be terribly missed. Just terribly!    

M: Dude! Terribly missed and just terribly? I agree with the latter myself. I react just terribly whenever I am tuning into a channel on Apple Radio and it gets taken over by Phil Collins’ crooning and pleading ways.

D: Man! Does he croon and plead for a day when baldness will be no more?

M: Dude! I don’t know! Go ask John Boehner! His caucus is the manufacturer of austere circumstances that collapse upon the lives of the working poor.

D: Man! I did! John Boehner gave me an ambiguously repetitive negative and asked to see my report card. Did you know that he’s carrying decorative pencils with those holiday erasers on the end with which he omits whatever college students and children request him to scrap off?

M: Dude! I have found out that the eraser on his current seasonal pencil has been reduced to Santa’s waistline.

D: Man! Thanksgiving is still one week away and he’s begun using Christmas stationery?

M: Dude! Talking about Boehner’s stationery, the Congressional Republicans are infiltrating the foreign policies that Secretary of State John Kerry, and Hillary Rodham Clinton before him, reestablished after George W. Bush and Dick Cheney’s premeditated horrors.

D: Man! We have to get the American Voter to realize what is at stake here. The United States of America is endangered in the eyes of our allies. We are infected legislatively with dangerous supremacist sentimentalists. However, if you listen to world news channels like BBC America and Al Jazeera America, there is a transparency that is not found anymore in national news in the United States.

M: Dude! If it weren’t for the two you just mentioned, I would not have known that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is visiting with President Putin in Moscow today to discuss their countries’ situations with regards to Iran and the Ukraine. I believe the Republican Party is exporting its own xenophobic and corrupt agenda upon the Russians and Israelis in an attempt to isolate the Iranians and Ukrainians and perhaps trample all the peace processes that have been taking place since the decision to diplomatically resolve problems, not just heedlessly beginning a situation that has always proved ruinous in the new millennium, which is all forms of warfare.

D: Man! Warfare is the way the United States status quo retains its wealth and stronghold in world markets. It’s the way to perpetuate poverty and instability and total destruction. When Kentucky Senators Mitch McConnell and Rand Paul and Florida Governors Jeb Bush then and Bobby Jindal nowadays promote their evangelical brand of quote unquote Christendom, they also promote an intolerance where there ought to be constitutional soundness that permits and celebrates freedom of religion.

M: Dude! The both of us are White, Christian, and male! We need to mobilize our brothers and sisters in every income bracket to the polls to cast their ballot in order to restore the social safety nets and democracy in the United States. Right now, we’ve got gerrymandering anarchists who have surfaced and unmasked their offensive policies upon the world.

D: Man! The Financial Times reported something interesting about the EU’s intolerance towards Eastern Europe joining their organization. And that’s the reason why Netanyahu and Putin are probably meeting in Moscow, because the EU has negotiated what turned out to be essentially very unstable and half-hearted commitments to Armenia just this past September and the Ukraine this month.

M: Dude! The EU needs to back away from making half-hearted promises and overcome its own prejudicial anxieties about Eastern Europe. President Putin is dealing far more compassionately with Ukraine as its spokesperson on matters involving the EU.

D: Man! If the EU is so hesitant about accepting Eastern European nations, then President Putin is correct to want to represent them and speak on their behalf. And I believe Putin has every right to want the Eurasian Customs Union to become a robust force for the world to acknowledge finally.

M: Dude! The conservatives, the status quo, lean towards war confidence and that was actually resolved for the United States by the American Revolutionary War in the eighteenth century.

D: Man! The conservatives and the status quo lean towards Western sovereignty by all means necessary and that was actually discredited by the Russo-Japanese War at the start of the twentieth century.

M: Dude! Admiral Heihachiro Togo’s leading the Japanese fleet to victory in the Battle of Tsushima brought an unprecedented fraternity throughout Central and South Asia. Parents of newborns in China and in India named their arrival descendants Togo, while the West was left speechless.

D: Man! The West did not remain speechless. Quite the contrary, the jabber got vindictive and has remained so towards Eurasia since! But President Putin is trying to introduce self-efficacy and self-sufficiency in hopes of uplifting the depressions left in place by centuries of exploitation, whether it is fraying imperialism or booming technology. People ought not judge President Putin as an atheist because he may just be the man of the hour who can bridge the divides that keep the world resistant.

M: Dude! Diplomacy and constant negotiations, not warfare and constant battles! President Putin’s op-ed in the New York Times was the first step towards international unity and openhearted open-mindedness. The USA and the EU need to read it once more without casting judgment upon its author.

D: Man! Diplomacy, not death! Death to death!

Man! Dude! Session #239: Where art thou, Roe V. Wade? Suffering the same ill fate as the Voting Rights Act!

(M)an: Dude! The Texas Hospital Association is basically cracking the eggshells it set forth on uninsured Texans, the THA thinking it could masquerade as a bipartisan body that it is not. But, like the exiting Texas Governor Rick Perry and campaigning as the Republican candidate frontrunner in the governor’s race David Dewhurst, the THA awards very specific people as honoraries.

(D)ude: Man! What’s one example of a THA honorary that exposes their Republican orientation and movement away from accepting the Affordability Care Act in the State of Texas?

M: Dude! State Representative Susan Lewis King of Abilene, Texas is one such example. According to The Texas Tribune’s “Elected Officials Directory”, Susan Lewis is a surgical nurse by occupation and a Republican by political party affiliation. The Texas Tribune goes on to provide a transparent overview of how King and her spouse have made their money, apart from the $7,200 per year that she makes as a member of the Texas House of Representatives.

D: Man! That’s it? Just $7,200 per year is an embarrassingly small amount!

M: Dude! State Representatives in Texas have to have other sources of income in order to make a living, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures, or the NCSL. State Representative Susan Lewis King of District 71, for example, holds over a thousand shares of stock in her own business entity and two of her husband’s business entities, specifically stated in the Personal Financial Statement processed by the Texas Ethics Commission on April 30, 2013.

D: Man! What kind of business entities are we talking about here? Like a medical practice where she is a surgical nurse and then the two others being her husband’s investments in corporations?

M: Dude! She’s employed by Elm Place Ambulatory Surgical Center and her husband is a self-employed physician, specifically an otolaryngologist, as well as a self-employed rancher. However, while her stocks are held with her employer, his stocks are in his own private practice, a “PA” or Professional Association, and the Chevron Corporation.

D: Man! What’s up with the Professional Association or “PA” anyways? It’s only a factor by which doctors and lawyers remain in control and protected in their practices while the general public’s overall power in disputes is marginalized. Whatever happened to the malpractice insurance that professionals were required by licensure to get before they could practice?

M: Dude! The Professional Association carries the same weight and tax relief as a corporation where all the shareholders identify with each other professionally, whether doctors or lawyers.

D: Man! So there’s King’s husband, who has a medical Professional Association and ties to ranching? Is he aware that the United States Geological Survey recorded three more earthquakes due to fracking Tuesday, now the grand total being 10 within Parker County since November 1st?

M: Dude! Parker County, Texas? That must be Azle and Weatherford, yeah?

D: Man! Yeah! And Fort Worth, Texas is going to be next! With the massive highway construction going on these days, I think these fracking earthquakes are going to be biblical in their destruction of homes, neighborhoods, and perhaps even the wealthier communities too. I wonder what effects all these fracking structures being built alongside the booming highway system will have with regards to the phenomenon of urban decay. I think there will be mass rural decay as well later on down the road.

M: Dude! Governor Rick Perry’s latest comments regarding today’s Supreme Court decision to uphold Texas’ restrictions on women’s access to safe reproductive health services that include birth control and abortion, is appalling. Texas Governor Perry said, “This is good news for both the unborn and the for the women of Texas, who are now better protected from shoddy abortion providers operating in dangerous conditions.”  

D: Man! Governor Perry is not accepting Medicaid Expansion from the Federal Government for the over one million uninsured Texans living in medical dire straits. And now Justices John Roberts, Antonin Scalia, Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, and Anthony Kennedy of the United States Supreme Court have severed Roe V. Wade! So do these men on the United States Supreme Court seriously think we live in a post-racialist and post-abortion society where there is no need for the crux of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 or Roe V. Wade Verdict of 1973 because there is no need to protect the American Voter and the American Woman anymore?

M: Dude! Did you know my brother and sister-in-law decided to terminate a pregnancy once it was found that the baby would be born with severe physical dysfunctions? They actually received counseling and compassion and care throughout what both of them would agree was a stressful and devastating time. My sister-in-law researched various options that led her to become a hand holder at that abortion clinic shortly after her own loss.

D: Man! You’re sister-in-law is a hand holder?  

M: Dude! She was a hand holder and it gave her a chance to look into the abortion debate from a personal perspective. But the clinic where she worked will shutdown now after the Supreme Court basically placed the “undue burden” on women seeking care, counseling, and compassion in their time of desperation through restrictions placed on the physicians that run the abortion clinics to have admitting privileges with a hospital within a 30-mile radius of their location.

D: Man! The people of the United States must speak up and demand their right to vote before the 2014 midterms and show up and vote. And people in power and influence must pursue the implementation of public funding to finance the procurement of passports and at least three other valid forms of identification for registering constituents who are either frustrated or angry with or unaware of the specifications state-to-state varying conflictingly with their lives and day-to-day schedules.

M: Dude! State Representative King’s response to State Senator Wendy Davis’ 11-hour filibuster included quote unquote, “Women have a constitutional right to a safe and legal abortion within certain pentameters.” That’s the stance of the Republican Woman Legislator to the American Woman right there! Women and their doctors are supposed to keep a functioning reproductive health services clinic within earshot of a hospital and certain pentameters?

D: Man! I’ll tell you what State Representative Susan Lewis King purposefully forgot to mention, and that is the complexity of pregnancy and the complexity of abortions. With women resorting to underground access to reproductive healthcare and abortions, including unsafe pills to chemically induce termination and the high risk of death by toxicity, I’m afraid for the lives of the countless girls and women who could die in the hands of deplorable charlatans or outright criminals.

Man! Dude! Session #238: "Cigar Parlor Invites Entrenched In Racism"

(D)ude: Man! Tammy Duckworth is aligned with 38 other Democrats on the side of the Fred Upton Bill, or the “Keep Your Health Plan Act of 2013” as it is titled.

(M)an: Dude! This is a Tea Party-based attempt to topple the Affordable Care Act. House Speaker John Boehner is a Tea Party shark that doesn’t care for the consensus or consideration of United States voters. He is the result of gerrymandering and will remain in place because of gerrymandering due to the state-to-state trend of choking the legislatures with heinous rules that have been put into place by the Tea Party majorities to keep power on their side.

D: Man! What about Republicans and these 39 Democrats and President Clinton?

M: Dude! It’s important to keep in mind that President Clinton has spoken out himself like these 39 Democrats voted and that he and they must be studied thoroughly daily and dismissed coherently. They are tomorrow’s bigots and their treachery will go down as the cruelest divide ever made within the Democratic Party leadership.

D: Man! Why?

M: Dude! The 39 Democrats and President Clinton before them, have essentially spoken out against Obamacare because the Affordability Care Act is for the poor and disenfranchised as well as the middle and working classes, which means economic mobilization that is unacceptable for the top 2% of society’s wealthiest. President Clinton probably accepted a down payment on another Manhattan or Martha’s Vineyard residence or timeshare in exchange for democratic principles.

D: Man! What democratic principles are we talking about here?

M: Dude! Look at Mike Bloomberg. Bloomberg is exiting the stage and Bill de Blasio is just starting his crusade for economic parity in the Big Apple. Both guys are showing respect and both know the other’s antics, vices, and triumphs. They appear not to suffer complexes and competitiveness, as President Clinton obviously shows in his day-to-day and night-after-night soul deterioration.

D: Man! I choose to differ there! I think the competiveness can be a source for greater tenacity to combat the problems that face the world and those who are on the lower rungs of the economic ladder and needing a hand up to be at least near the center or middle. And, I also think that President Clinton’s rotting from within with jealousy, the gravest disease. I don’t care how many cigar parlor invites he accepts to entertain those who will prove profitable in the long run for his organizations and self. President Clinton is entrenched in racism and taking the 39 defecting Democrats down the pathway to zero chance of regaining or keeping their positions in the House.

M: Dude! I think Tea Party Republicans are deliberately causing the enrollment problems with Obamacare in states like the ones the 39 Democrat defectors represent. And I also believe that President Obama’s policies and procedures will be plagiarized and redistributed under different names by the next two presidents, as President Bill Clinton and the GOP once again court each other in the West Wing for their own sake.

D: Man! The Tea Party already has a plagiarist wing inside its leadership and it is Senator Rand Paul and his staffers. And, then again, there are not a lot of scriptwriters in the Tea Party. Instead, there are terribly recorded messages that each member of the Tea Party must memorize and state over and over again like a broken record as they do. But I think the Congressional Tea Party members are straightforward to the point that they even rehearse the deletions and the repetitions that come with their signature audiocassette.      

M: Dude! I think the Republican and Democratic leadership in Congress is trying to postpone everything during the Obama Administration because they are convinced they have the cheating tactics perfected that will lead to another big win for the Republicans in 2014 and yet another excuse for the majority of Democrats to swing towards Bill Clinton’s brand of centrist racist politics that he has been attempting to inject into the American conscience since candidate Obama and candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton faced off in the presidential primaries.

D: Man! Bill Clinton is a centrist racist politico? That in itself is enough to warrant a crisis inside the Democratic Party for 2014 because I think Bill Clinton is willing to inject his propaganda of hate and resentment in all out warfare that the Republican Party is fully informed about and basing their victory in the 2014 midterm elections on so quietly while feigning false images of themselves as being concerned about the sexual assault and rape victims inside the United States Military.   

M: Dude! I cringe when New York’s junior Senator Kirsten Gillibrand tends to smile throughout press conferences about sexual assault and rape inside the United States military. But then I remember that Senator Gillibrand was a Blue Dog conservative Democrat while serving as a United States Representative and that she took Hillary Rodham Clinton’s senate seat when Rodham Clinton became Secretary of State for the Obama Administration.  

D: Man! Are you implying that even a Blue Dog conservative Democrat would inherit the curse of foolishly smiling at inappropriate moments?

M: Dude! Certainly! Inappropriate and forced rationalizing comprises the new millennium conservatism. Representative Gillibrand was very conservative since her upstate New York District 20 constituents happen to be very conservative. Senator Gillibrand is considered progressive, but I have my reservations. I think she is a calculating lawyer who can argue on both sides of the political spectrum, but flawed nonetheless in her unpredictability and lack of commitment to either side.   

D: Man! Who are you with, Senator Claire McCaskill of Missouri or Senator Kirsten Gillibrand of New York, on the issue of sexual assault and rape being placed outside of the chain of command inside the military, or not, by Congress?

M: Dude! If it means taking a side, I would choose to agree with Claire McCaskill because of a Gillibrand technicality that I find potentially life-threatening for our soldiers. You see, Gillibrand is willing to drop some parts of the amendment she is proposing to take prosecuting sexual assault and rape out of the chain of command that is, eventually, the Pentagon.

D: Man! What parts to her amendment is she willingly dropping?

M: Dude! Senator Gillibrand is constantly changing the specifics of her amendment. Now she is willing to take out entirely the part concerning prosecuting for murder and theft inside the military. I think murder and theft ought to remain included within the chain of command but with the insight that Claire McCaskill brings to the table.  

D: Man! How come?

M: Dude! If prosecuting sexual assault and rape are taken out of the chain of command, but not murder and theft, the setbacks will be even more hazardous to the safety and health of our soldiers, male and female. Specifically, the sexual predators inside the United States military will just choose to murder their victims and utilize theft to wipe out evidence completely.

D: Man! So the theft and murder exclusion make the Gillibrand argument weak? And Claire McCaskill is far more realistic? So, technically, murder, theft and sexual assault and rape ought to be left in place as is in the chain of command? McCaskill’s the one with the better resolution because of her sound experiences as a sex crimes prosecutor, but most of all, her sincerity towards the victims that Gillibrand, Rand Paul and Ted Cruz, and filmmakers are exploiting over and over again in their careers of self-service.

M: Dude! I’ve had it with the exploiters’ insincerities!

Man! Dude! Session #237

(M)an: Dude! Major League Baseball is more worthwhile than the GOP Tea Partier Republicans. At least the kangaroo court in Major League Baseball results in some kind of addition to the American social safety net through the fines charged and allocated to charities. The Grand Old Partiers’ kangaroo court is comprised of complete waste of time and lack of sensitivity to the working class poor.  

(D)ude: Man! Former President Bill Clinton is in desperate need of having his Hatfield and McCoy roots treated with some chromaticity ASAP. His alignment with the GOP yokels, like both George H. W. and W. Bush and now House Speaker John Boehner and Stephen Colbert and Jon Stewart of Comedy Central, is shameful.   

M: Dude! President Bill Clinton has forgotten the intellectual powerhouse he married and how much she has endured because of his marital missteps. The future is so beautiful and bright for Hillary Rodham Clinton and their daughter Chelsea if and only if President Clinton can concentrate more on listening to people than concentrating on his own responses to their insights.  

D: Man! President Bill Clinton needs to be very careful and clever, both of which he is seriously lacking in his jealous tendencies towards his own wife and party right now. He is beginning to sound competitive in the media with his crooked stance against Obamacare. President Clinton is in many ways sounding and looking like Stephen Colbert right now. Have you noticed how Stephen Colbert’s lost his good senses and becomes sanguine in the face when someone far more interesting than he speaks?

M: Dude! Stephen Colbert follows the Clinton Global Initiative and John Boehner has begun quoting him as someone who speaks against the White House and the Affordability Care Act. And the irony is that Senator Ted Cruz of Texas has opted personally to be on his wife’s healthcare insurance through Goldman Sachs, but sounds off as if Obamacare is targeting the poor as it is targeting his Goldman Sachs coverage.

D: Man! You mean that the GOP Republican Tea Partiers have basically adopted the same tactic on the national and international level as they have put into practice in local elections in Texas? Like Dave Wilson of Houston who did not include his Republican and White identities on his campaign literature, most of which depicted African American families from ads that Wilson had found by searching the Internet.

M: Dude! I really meant to emphasize the deceptively simple strategy that did work in the bond elections for some of Tarrant County. The City of Keller, for example, bought the Ted Cruz Tea Party bogus about Texas taxpayers having to deal with large government spending projects and so on and so forth and basically defeated the proposition that would have brought road maintenance and expansion to burgeoning Keller.

D: Man! I know another angle to that news. Susan Combs, the Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts currently under Governor Rick Perry, has a website that looks and feels very academic and personable in its rhetoric and it is WWW DOT tellthetruthtexas DOT ORG. And guess what? Susan Combs and the website are totally trying to sell the Paul Ryan non-budget Budget Path To [GOP leaders’ progeny only apply] Posterity.

M: Dude! Susan Combs is retiring in 2015. She is a Tea Partier GOP Republican and her website that you just mentioned is red all over. And there’s a link to another DOT ORG that you can go to for sound misinformation that President Clinton has adopted since Terry McAuliffe’s win in the gubernatorial race in Virginia. The website is WWW DOT texastransparency DOT ORG and makes the bogus claim that pensioners ought to find out whether their pension plan is quote unquote compliant with state law.

D: Man! There’s something going on in all the information online. It is all infiltrated with a slant towards the Tea Partier Republican GOP! And that website you mentioned just now has a loophole in its links that lead eventually to Susan Combs, the Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts!  

M: Dude! Virginia’s Governor-Elect Terry McAuliffe should be careful how he deals with President Clinton. McAuliffe will be drowning in red if he isn’t careful to pull himself from the labels that define him as a Clinton Democrat. There is no such term. There cannot be such a term. That’s that.

D: Man! What about Iran?

M: Dude! Secretary of State John Kerry has been facing congressional opposition, according to Fox News’ Barnini Chakraborty, and Stephen Colbert is fueling an anti-Obama and anti-Iran shockwave through the middle class and especially the upper classers who are still enjoying their twenties and thirties.

D: Man! We have less than 12 months to dodge the Tea Party canons being fired from all sides, including President Clinton and Stephen Colbert’s bayonets. Hey! Why are you quoting Faux News sources?

M: Dude! That’s what Colbert and Stewart now consider watchable for their audiences, Faux News and CNN, both bought out and red all over now with the same sanguinity as Colbert. Have you noticed elements of the perversion that is the Tea Party GOP Republicans?

D: Man! Yeah! And they claim to be biblically inclined and Sunday school teachers. I’m a Sunday school teacher! I’ve read the King James Version of the Bible twice! It’s taken out of context too many times and I always make sure my students know that context comes before interpretation.

M: Dude! The United States of America is in trouble. The people need to be mobilized to cast their ballots in the 2014 midterms. And we cannot have anybody step up and register to vote and then tear up their registration card out of protest with the poll workers.   

D: Man! You’re making reference to Kendall McCook, the gentleman who identifies as a Roosevelt Democrat, and was hassled by poll workers on Election Day 2013!

M: Dude! Even if the United States Supreme Court is not for Voting Rights and US, the least voters can do is be there for themselves and for the disenfranchised, like the FWISD students who will be able to enjoy public school education upgrades like laptops for high school and two additional state-of-the-art magnet schools and immense improvements throughout the school district like new school buses, because of folks like Keith Annis, the guy who created FWISD Parents for Kids, the group that mobilized voters to vote in favor of the bond elections in the district, despite the out-of-state funds and opposition groups that formed to keep the electorate confused to the point of self-disservice.

Man! Dude! Session #236: Subliminal Methodology

(D)ude: Man! What’s the difference between that Miami Dolphins guy Incognito and Stephen Colbert?

(M)an: Dude! You tell me! One violently tormented Jonathan Martin and the other has made it fashionable amongst high society youth to make fun of the poor while disrespecting women. I cannot tell Stephen Colbert apart from the Duck Dynasty clansmen. Can you?

D: Man! Colbert crossed the line when he visited a New Jersey Food Bank to meet with Debbie Palacios, a female navigator who he went on to torment on camera as she assisted him with filling out an application for Obamacare.

M: Dude! The sudden rise in racialism and sexism has spiked with the Republican Sequestration and GOP Government Shutdown and the John Boehner Congressional Obstructionism that continues being subliminally fed to the millennials and the two extremes of society, the rich and the poor.

D: Man! Subliminally is exactly the methodology that Stephen Colbert and Jon Stewart have utilized in order to push a culture of cold-blooded disregard for the working class poor and those in even graver circumstances. Are Colbert and Stewart’s own children such non-achievers in their whatever or otherwise that the two pundits play bridge with Arianna Huffington and Newt Gingrich as they all ponder how to divide up the institutions of higher learning amongst their progeny?

M: Dude! Aasif Mandvi and Colbert’s guests are the only reasons why I record both shows in the first place. I am certain that Mandvi’s flawless acting night after night is the reason why the play Disgraced won the 2013 Pulitzer for drama.   

D: Man! I saw the entire play, well almost the entirety of the play, online somewhere. And, like you, I am also convinced that Mandvi’s the reason why the production was able to not only survive but garner awards as well.

M: Dude! Imagine the inequity in Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert’s efforts to suppress, oppress, and depress everybody who doesn’t fall into their income bracket.

D: Man! Stephen Colbert actually stated he is not pro-poor to NPR’s Brian Lehrer. And he went on to degrade the value of preschool for all New York kids that Mayor-Elect Bill De Blasio is trying to bring in an effort to balance the landscape so that every borough can celebrate the miracles of early childhood education.

M: Dude! Children’s librarians can do so much for preschoolers. Did you know that there is an entire reading system installed at all the branches of the Fort Worth Public Library?

D: Man! I didn’t think working class families facing poverty get the opportunity to explore the library, but I was wrong. Did you know that the local metro bus routes all lead to a library and that there is a bench outside many branches for patrons to wait for their rides home at the end of the workday? But there should be more shelter at the bus stops, especially considering the overwhelming temperature surges that we’re suffering for some time now, every public school ought to reward that kid who invents a way to convince the City of Fort Worth to at least provide a state-of-the-art sunroom apparatus that works to block the blazing sunlight while being hardy enough to withstand the crowds that form around the time the buses run.

M: Dude! I cannot tell you how many working mothers I have seen at the library picking out picture books and chapter books for their children. There are also a lot of fathers who too bring their children to the library to type up their school reports. The parents either reward themselves by checking out a movie or television serial alongside their favorite contemporary fiction and nonfiction new releases.

D: Man! Developing a habit for books while making regular library visits can be very refreshing. Remember that college readiness academy my sister attended throughout middle school? Well, the English teachers actually shelved books all over their classrooms and required mandatory 55 minutes of silent reading daily alongside weekly letter writing between classmates.  

M: Dude! Your sister showed me her reading list and accompanying letters. Did you know, she actually confessed that the idea of having to basically engage in writing literary letters to fellow students was more daunting than the total of six she had to write to her teacher?

D: Man! What if Stephen Colbert and Jon Stewart were to retort that we have taken them too seriously?

M: Dude! Their humor is tastelessly corporate and thoroughly vulgar as of recently. It’s really alarming to hear Stephen Colbert using the terminology of the Tea Partiers who want to secede from Colorado. Did you hear how Colbert has incorporated “nanny state” into his working vocabulary? 

D: Man! The price is Right, so he is White. That’s what’s happening to White American guys like Colbert and Stewart. They are sellouts that only see the color green around the time of midterm elections in the United States, so the Koch and the Adelson and PepsiCo can do as they wish with the two flippant showmen.

M: Dude! The guests on Colbert’s show are not fooled into the money trap like him. Instead, burgeoning entrepreneurs like Zach Sims and medical researchers like Jack Andraka are very astute to point out that their startups and inventions are totally not tied to how much money could possibly result in the sales of their ideas and innovations.

D: Man! They love creating and empowering everyday people like US with their visions, inventions, and hard work.

M: Dude! Stephen Colbert is always mentioning the “Colbert Bump” but I think it’s working the other way around nowadays.

D: Man! You mean that the guests are saving his show from becoming totally off?

M: Dude! Julius Erving, aka Dr. J, has such a relaxed classiness about him that he managed to fool Colbert in a game the host brought up for the guest out of the blue and appeared to have won, expect that Dr. J had led Colbert into the trap of exposing the host’s lie about not being able to see color, his own or others’.

D: Man! Finally! About time Stephen Colbert got set into place!

M: Dude! Dr. J ought to become a United States Senator, don’t you think?

D: Man! Remind me to check out Senator-Elect Julius Erving’s autobiography from the library. I’ve got several books on hold and need to make a round before the holds expire.

Man! Dude! Session #235: Suppression, Oppression, Depression.

(M)an: Dude! Aaron Swartz’s twenty-seventh birthday’s here but he is not.

(D)ude: Man! Aaron Swartz is a causality of war I mourn every day. He tried to make the world responsive and free of the capitalist landmines all over the Internet.  

M: Dude! He was about to launch an intellectual revolution counter to the suppression and oppression and depression that the Koch brothers are trying to tactically put into place and that George W. and Jeb Bush are just waiting to embrace in another presidential election win for their family through Jeb or his son George Prescott Bush.

D: Man! I’m appalled at United States Attorney for Massachusetts Carmen Ortiz’s decisions with regard to Aaron Swartz.   

M: Dude! Carmen Ortiz was high as a kite in accolades from her peers and the press. The Boston Globe praised her in 2011, citing her pursuit of “corruption and white-collar crime” while the magazine Boston recognized her as one of three powerhouses in the city in 2012.

D: Man! So you think Carmen Ortiz should have kept her pride and pursuit of even greater prosecutions and accolades in check?

M: Dude! Her husband is an IBM executive, so you got a real terrible recipe for disaster like in the case of Aaron Swartz.

D: Man! You think she thought herself an expert in the computer field?

M: Dude! She did have plenty of significant reprimands in her career lowlights. But the one thing that really sums up her arrogance is what she said regarding the federal charges brought against Aaron Swartz. She said quote unquote, “Stealing is stealing whether you use a computer command or a crowbar, and whether you take documents, data, or dollars.”

D: Man! That is tragic overreach! And to think that the people and organizations now recognizing Aaron Swartz as an activist remained silent when he needed the support of the technology community that he helped build and innovate. 

M: Dude! And the charges were dropped when it no longer mattered. Aaron had been gone permanently two days when sensibility came in and pushed aside all the fecklessness. He was only twenty-six-years-old.

D: Man! When will the sensibility come in and push aside all the fecklessness that has gripped Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert?

M: Dude! Probably when the 2014 midterm elections have passed and the Tea Partiers have secured a majority in the House of Representatives with John Boehner as their obstructionist mouthpiece? Gosh! I thought Stewart and Colbert had learned something from the 2010 results and how they allowed a political predator like Arianna Huffington fill up buses for the Rally to Restore Sanity!

D: Man! Yeah! The two are suffocating tomorrow’s future by being the only two guys in the business of punditry who college and university enrollees tune into regularly and exclusively for the news.

M: Dude! Do they know that Stewart and Stephen Colbert are sellouts? Have they forgotten the way George W. Bush invited Colbert to his White House Correspondents Dinner and Colbert came out in a W. mask and gave the flattest performance like he was being tamed by the far right crooks?

D: Man! I had reservations but always gave the benefit of the doubt to Stephen Colbert until he and his sister Elizabeth Colbert Busch orchestrated a political comeback for the scumbag pervert Mark Sanford.

M: Dude! Elizabeth Colbert Busch betrayed so many Independent affiliates with her clearly scripted performances that, like her brother Stephen’s declaration that he does not see color, she fooled even the most courageous Democrats into endorsing her when she had no intension to win.

D: Man! Political progressives must become aware of false campaigns and PACs. What ever happened to the Colbert Super PAC money that so many viewers contributed before the 2012 presidential election?

M: Dude! That fate of the million or so dollars raised is not as significant as how the pattern of treachery is returning once again.

D: Man! That’s so true! Stephen Colbert has essentially ripped apart efforts to get the message about the healthcare marketplaces to populations like the millennials. The millennials are the focus of a lot of television channels produced in part by the Far Right.

M: Dude! Pivot, Fusion, and other delusions of democracy being advertised and marketed to basically American youth at that crucial time in their lives where they are trying to figure out how they would like to contribute to their own and others’ destinies.

D: Man! The Employment Non-Discrimination Act passed the United States Senate yesterday, but did you know a lot of Americans are not aware that ENDA will finally make it legally illegal to fire a person based on the individual’s sexual orientation and gender identity?

M: Dude! It’s about time! George W. Cheney managed to keep the legislation out of the 109^th Congress, from January 2005 to January 2007, despite ENDA having been brought forth in Congress since the Clinton Administration circa 1994. 

D: Man! Have you noticed how Stephen Colbert has adopted a meretricious “cha-ching” mentality that’s getting him into trouble with guests like Stephen John Fry?

M: Dude! I personally thought Stephen Fry’s intelligent insight into the pundit’s deterioration due to sellout really exposed the truly troubled Colbert, who threw cheap shots through  revelations about Stephen Fry’s struggles with bipolar disorder and his sexual orientation as a gay man. Stephen Colbert essentially humiliated himself by conveying the message that such personal identifications were egregious.     

D: Man! Stephen Colbert is that narrow-minded? He definitely is not a catholic Roman Catholic! But, of course, there is also Representative Paul Ryan who, like Colbert, refuses to acknowledge seeing the blunders in the budget proposal and the cruel lies that Tea Partiers have adapted to disenfranchise the disenfranchised further and further. And both men are very showy Roman Catholics as well.

M: Dude! Keep in mind that there’s always the very catholic Roman Catholic Conan O’Brien and his sidekick Andy Richter!

D: Don’t get any classier catholic than Conan O’Brien! Andy Richter is a quiet riot!

M: Dude! I think there was an eighties metal band that went by that name, Quiet Riot!

"His twenty-seventh birthday's here but Aaron Swartz is not."

Sahir Ludhianvi (1921-1980), page 395. Translated from the Hindi-Urdu by Alverston & Associates.

“And only you are the one who is not here.”

Everything of this world is still there.

But you are not here.

The vision and the view are still exactly the same.

The silent expanse’s signs are still there.

As per say everything is still there but still there is nothing.

In every teardrop there is glitter of some lost happiness.

In every sigh there is sharp pain of the moment that has passed without you.

Wherever you are now, your pain is still here.

There is no regret.

There is no wistfulness.

There is no defense.

Other than memories in my possession there is nothing.

Who has the assurance that even these memories are going to stay or not?

Sahir Ludhianvi (1921-1980), page 395. Translated from the Hindi-Urdu by Alverston & Associates.

"Lighting a Billion Lives"

(D)ude: Man! I’ve become dependent on BBC America for the morning news and Hardball with Chris Matthews right before supper. Both have a crispness that is unparalleled in American Media.

(M)an: Dude! I’m totally trying to understand the George H. W. and George W. Bush presidencies and the total chaos that they left the Middle East and South Asia in after their total 12 years in the White House.

D: Man! The spent one and one fifth decade in the White House, it could be said. I’ll tell you what they did in that span of time, they basically tore apart the Muslim countries and spread a marginalization campaign of Islamophobia throughout the world.   

M: Dude! According to a recent opinion piece in Aljazeera dot COM, Maung Zarni of the London School of Economics brought forth the sad reality of how even the female human rights activist Aung San Suu Kyi has intellectually surrendered to an Islamophobic pretense. She has chosen to remain misinformed of the facts, which Zarni clearly delineates as stemming from the seventies onward.

D: Man! Why doesn’t Aung San Suu Kyi repent by just reading Maung Zarni’s article and acknowledging her deliberate denial of what’s taking place in Burma, now Myanmar, with 4% of the population?

M: Dude! If you think about it, Suu Kyi is protecting herself from the military, which is currently running the country of Myanmar with hate towards the Burmese Muslims there, like the Rohingya Muslims that aren’t even recognized by the government! 

D: Man! What are we to do?

M: Dude! First off, we have to protect our own media outlets in the United States. Personally, I don’t entirely trust the big name newspapers and prefer to Google cross-reference and read a worldwide mix of articles from about as many corners of the world I can process without becoming cross over American journalism’s inability to free itself from the corporate grasp that has choked the Supreme Court of the United States’ six male justices since 2010.

D: Man! And then what?

M: Dude! Secondly, we have to protect voters in the United States. Wendy Davis can win the Texas governorship only if we secure two forms of identification for all our brothers and sisters. That’s the only way to get around the voter suppression hurdles being placed in front of US.   

D: Man! Have you seen the way Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert have torn up the Affordable Care Act? Why would two brilliant men subject themselves to enslavement in Pepsistan? 

M: Dude! The Burmese media is silent, like the American Media was during the reign of the Bush Dynasty, which cost US countless lives in very Islamophobic war engagements. Bush Senior #41 put into place the forces necessary to create the international turmoil that Bush Junior #43 exploited for spoils like his paternal grandfather, a government contractor, had during the World War. 

D: Man! What about the newly minted Pepsicans Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert?

M: Dude! The state of Pepsistan laid its foundation last week when Stewart and Colbert basically sold their shows to the Huffington Right.  

D: Man! The Huffington Right? What’s that? The latest in Arianna Huffington’s efforts to preserve the Tea Party Right, which she ushered into Congressional power with Stewart and Colbert’s assistance during the March to Restore Sanity in 2010?

M: Dude! The Huffington Right descends upon American democracy when progressives appear to disappear into the midst, especially when there is a slump in defense spending and a steady movement towards peace accords by the United States.   

D: Man! We have to get our sisters and brothers to vote! Why does Arianna Huffington do such collateral damage to democracy in America? Why can’t she and her Tea Partiers see that their daughters stand to inherit so much pain and persecution along with the instability that comes when American democracy fails to protect the disenfranchised?

M: Dude! Arianna Huffington and Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert actually believe that they have secured enough treasure that their children will inherit fenced in communities where likeminded moneybags essentially go after each other by constantly competing to acquire the loudest house and the tackiest personalities.

D: Man! Talking about the tackiest personalities, have you heard of Pakistani cricketer Imran Khan’s latest mix up?

M: Dude! Imran Khan wants to block NATO trucks carrying crucial supplies for American military personnel in Afghanistan through Pakistan until the United States agrees to stop drone strikes targeted at terrorist organizations and leaders. However, we must keep in mind that Imran Khan lost the June 2013 election for Pakistan’s Prime Minister and is still recovering from the loss to Nawaz Sharif.

D: Man! Nawaz Sharif’s the guy who built the highways in Pakistan. And Imran Khan’s ex-wife was a good friend of Princess Diana of Wales. Isn’t Imran Khan always frustrated and falling off platforms?

M: Dude! He fell off a forklift during a campaign rally this summer. It might be that the brutal impact to his body and mind could have led to the sore loser that he has become. Mohammed Hanif of the Guardian explained Pakistani politics magnificently in a May 13, 2013 article entitled Pakistan Elections: How Nawaz Sharif beat Imran Khan and what happens next.

D: Man! What’s the solution to move Pakistan forward?

M: Dude! Nawaz Sharif wants to provide electricity to all Pakistanis. Surprisingly, this is a venture that Imran Khan has dealt with in his charitable works. If Sharif and Khan could forget about party lines, with Khan releasing himself from the grip of terrorists, and work together, electricity in Pakistan can be a clean and modern endeavor.

D: Man! Huh?

M: Dude! The Imran Khan Foundation has already introduced parts of Pakistan to solar powered technology via the “Lighting a Billion Lives” project through Buksh Energy.

D: Man! I’ll tell you another source that is lighting billions of lives. Barbara Buono attaining 40% of the vote in New Jersey’s gubernatorial race has lit the way for women in United States politics. The question of how to face a night like that has been accomplished by a woman of integrity and mettle. Barbara Buono’s graceful composure throughout the campaign was breathtakingly exemplary.

M: Dude! Barbara Buono has liberated women and opened countless doors to the future for girls all over the world.

D: Man! Barbara Buono and Milly Silva will be the ones to watch as the glass ceiling breaks further and quicker.

Christie's curtain call stained with Tea and Koch...and Alice W. too!

(M)an: Dude! Have you noticed anything particularly peculiar about the people in attendance at the Chris Christie rallies?

(D)ude: Man! Yeah, the White female stand-ins look familiar, like they’re recycled tokens of the Republican Party from the error of 2012 that was Mitt Romney.

M: Dude! You noticed it too! And the tragedy is that those women are not even registered voters in New Jersey who try to throw off New Jersey voters by campaigning with Chris Christie.

D: Man! It’s like Sheldon Adelson provides the GOP tokens again and again, thinking folks like US cannot differentiate between our own sisters and mothers and daughters.

M: Dude! Barbara Buono is an evidence-based practitioner and will actually achieve milestones for New Jerseyans if they elect her to lead them as governor.

D: Man! Chris Christie harbors resentment towards the most vulnerable New Jerseyans, telling them to shoo if they are not of the same mindset as him.

M: Dude! You know the kind of verbal abuse Chris Christie practices with men and women with opposing viewpoints reminds me of the Cycle of Violence.

D: Man! The people of New Jersey had better refer to the domestic violence charts that are provided online in Google Search. I would refer them to domesticviolence.org, an excellent website explaining the Cycle of Violence.

M: Dude! Let’s see. Have you got a copy of the stages in the Cycle of Violence?

D: Man! Yeah. Every stage varies and the complete cycle can take up to years to move through each stage. According to domesticviolence.org, the final stages- where the perpetrator attempts to make-up and establish calm- usually disappear altogether with time.

M: Dude! Okay. So you got basically two formidable stages in this cycle. The “incident” that could be any combination of physical, sexual, and emotional abuse… Then there’s the “tension builder” when the abuser becomes angry and the structure of healthy communication falls apart with the victim feeling overwhelmed and overly cautious with an edge of self-doubt and blame.

D: Man! Chris Christie’s submissive corporate wife always wears a smile throughout what I consider psychological ordeals.  

M: Dude! Have you seen the photographs released today of Chris Christie berating a teacher on a campaign stop, pointing finger and all the anger of a truly dangerous man, while Mrs. Christie receives the woman with a “better than thou” attitude- and let’s not forget the beaming toothy smile- so characteristic of the GOP Republican Tea Partiers and their families?

D: Man! You know, I have never seen Mrs. Boehner and Mrs. Cantor ever smile, have you? I have a theory about why John Boehner and Eric Cantor’s wives never smile publically. They don’t smile because they have had a Lorraine Lonegan moment where their husbands basically brushed them off in public.   

M: Dude! The GOP wives do certainly have either a strained toothy smile or a strained indifference upon their faces. Sheldon Adelson and the Koch Brothers can spend whatever they want on their candidates like Lonegan and Christie, but I would recommend they first release all their wives from the clutches of their husbands’ contempt. Don’t the people of New Jersey care about the lives of their girls and women? Is it really too much to ask?

D: Man! Alice Munro’s The Lives of Girls and Women explored the intimate dynamics between women and men, including deinstitutionalizing girls from the second sex syndrome paralysis that gets in the way of a healthy relationship with a male significant other.

M: Dude! How so?

D: Man! Alice Munro dissects the physics of the physical and the raw emotions involved in a teenage girl’s first love affair. But the thing that American folks ought to understand is that these highly personal journeys must be respected and granted dignity via health clinics like Planned Parenthood, which do so much more than just address sexual health crises.

M: Dude! Going back to Alice Munro, I agree with the Nobel Laureate completely in her analysis of men and women. That a man can leave a room and everything tied to that place including the experiences shared, while a woman carries every nuance and moment in a room with her for the rest of her life, is so true!

D: Man! Alice Munro far more elegantly arranged that line, but I cannot say anymore because I have forgotten the title of the anthology of short stories that moment you just described came from.

M: Dude! If a man achieves such a characteristic as the one Alice Munro metaphorically describes in the woman exiting a room, that man is considered gay. 

D: Man! Why is that? Is it because of the sheer magnitude of disappointment in parents that results even to this day around an LGBT child’s identity?

M: Dude! Times are changing for the better. It does get better faster than ever. But roadblocks like Sheldon Adelson and the Koch brothers are standing in the way, care of the six men in the United States Supreme Court that have sworn their allegiance to these supremacist financiers.   

D: Man! Do they know they are supremacists?

M: Dude! The billionaires and the male justices ruling on the United States Supreme Court either put John Grisham’s thrillers to shame or a venerated place alongside US history.

D: Man! The six male justices of the United States Supreme Court would rather protect the sauce recipe for McDonald’s Big Mac than to uphold justice for all of US?

M: Dude! I thought the sauce recipe was revealed back in the nineties?

D: Man! That’s incorrect! The alternatives proposed have, thus far and by far, tasted like variations of the Thousand Island salad dressing. But I have  discovered that the secret sauce recipe is actually in the details of the salad utilized for Big Macs.

M: Dude! What details?

D: Man! McDonald’s sprinkles Romano cheese gratings heavily on the salad shred atop the beef patty of the Big Mac.

M: Dude! Would you like some Tea or Koch with your Big Mac today?

D: Man! Tea or Koch? What’s the difference?

M: Dude! I agree!

D: Man! I’ll just have a peanut butter and jelly sandwich and 2% milk from Aldi, thank you. Let me repeat, A-L-D-I! I don’t want to come across anything of Alice Walton’s! Always dismissing cops after yet another DUI! Why can’t she get an automobile chauffeur?