(M)an: Dude! New Jersey Governor Chris Christie and his
Republican Governors Association operate like they are disconnected, as if the
Republican Party and Tea Party and GOP are all separate entities.
(D)ude: Man! They are utilizing all the tactics of the colonial
and post-colonial period.
M: Dude! Divide up the general population according to crude
characterizations that continue to be rearranged with each successive legislature?
Like the Germans siding with the minority Tutsis in Rwanda over the Hutus, and
then Belgium coming in 1916 and cruelly distinguishing the Tutsis and Hutus based
on physical features, the Tutsis owning more cattle and having lengthier noses
than the Hutus, who had less cattle and broader noses.
D: Man! The Bharatiya Janata Party, or BJP, in India is
attempting to do the same by placing the Chief Minister of Gujarat Narendra
Modi in India’s general elections as a prime ministerial candidate. Like New
Jersey Governor Chris Christie boasting balancing New Jersey’s budget despite
the fact that every United States Governor has to do so as a given role in
their job description, Narendra Modi’s supporters point to similar economic
achievements while overlooking his public policy record and brute disregard for
human lives, particularly choosing to ignite animosity and violence among differing
religious groups.
M: Dude! Did you watch Norah O’Donnell on Face the Nation?
D: Man! No. Why?
M: Dude! Apparently, the Koch Brothers are attempting to
make a legitimate case for their brand of percolating politics and policies
through religion and have their eyes set on defrocking Pope Francis I through
such crass embodiments of Christ like Cardinal Timothy Dolan, the Archbishop of
New York who admitted to Norah O’Donnell this past Easter Sunday to being a
major fan of Republican Jeb Bush and a supporter of the Green family from Hobby
Lobby fame who do not want to provide their employees contraceptive care as
part of the national healthcare mandate through the Affordable Care Act.
D: Man! I don’t get why the Green family cannot keep their
spirituality to themselves and allow others to practice as they wish. It
reminds me of Saint Teresa de Avila’s Counter Reformation pursuits in sixteenth
century Spain. Did you know Saint Teresa de Avila was responsible for the
severe lifestyle adopted by nuns into the present day?
M: Dude! I’ve overheard how people inflict themselves the
severest blows in their pursuits for self-actualization. As far as the nunnery
goes, I remember reading about the jewelry of the nun in The Canterbury Tales. If I am not mistaken, the nun in Chaucer’s
masterpiece keeps a piece of gold near her clavicle as a reminder of the family
life she surrendered in order to enter into a covenant with God.
D: Man! The most coherent spokesperson for present day
diplomacy and democracy is President Putin of Russia. He has adapted by
adopting a rather dry sense of humor about the situation in Ukraine, I think.
President Putin is uncomfortably aware of the United States of America’s
volatile race and ethnic relations within and without, as are Secretary of
State John Kerry and President Obama.
M: Dude! It’s interesting you bring that up, because I think
you may be onto something here. The United States of America needs to
differentiate between the micro, mezzo, and macro in terms of managing race and
ethnic relations at home and abroad. The state of affairs at the University of
Michigan admissions offices may not be seen as earth-rattling after the most
recent affirmative action verdict by the John Roberts Supreme Court, but I
think American publishing houses and the culture of celebrity are colliding up
against each other and tearing apart the connective tissues between the joints
of human decency and integrity.
D: Man! A lot of people in the media world in the United
States have written bestselling testimonials about their coming of age
reasoning and heroics. Arianna Huffington is instructing women and girls to Thrive whilst Peggy Noonan is
passionately spelling out the nitty-gritty about John Paul the Great and her own personal journeying through the
spiritual realm. Can you actually have written for President Ronald Reagan
without compromising principles and hackneyed the American intellect worldwide?
M: Dude! No. The American Press needs to see the world through
President Putin’s eyes. It is the same perspective with which Syria and Iran
are nervously pacing the floor awaiting something from US. And the world is
crying as a result of these bogus literary endeavors by the folks at ABC News
and George Will and Peggy Noonan at the Wall Street Journal. There is a
collective convoluted state of oppression upon US as a society. And Chelsea Clinton
is having a baby.
D: Man! Huh?
M: Dude! Hillary Rodham Clinton’s also coming out with a
book this year and Chelsea Clinton is pregnant with her first child.
D: Man! Chelsea Clinton’s perspective is unforgivably
redneck. I don’t care how many advanced
studies and Clinton Global Initiatives
she pursues. Once a redneck, always a redneck, as Jeff Foxworthy commented
generations ago.
M: Dude! Chelsea Clinton’s redneck ways only make me more
uncomfortable with John Roberts’ Supreme Court. And let’s keep in mind that it
was the backwoods nonsense scripted by Peggy Noonan for then-President Reagan
that shook affirmative action up really bad. Remember reverse discrimination?
D: Man! It’s interesting that you bring up the eighties
because I was thinking about de facto discrimination the other day when I was
reading up on President Clinton and Hillary Rodham Clinton. The way Chelsea
Clinton behaved by not welcoming the sitting First Family to her wedding was
unforgivably classless.
M: Dude! That’s just it! Chelsea Clinton’s not inviting the
sitting First Family to her wedding was the officiating end to her mother’s
presidential aspirations.
D: Man! I agree. Hillary Rodham Clinton choosing to dip her
fried chicken nugget in the honey mustard sauce was very commendable, but not
forward enough.
M: Dude! I’m tired of having to acknowledge the cultural
considerations being made by the dominant culture all the time. What ever
happened to respecting cultural differences and being sensitive towards
minorities?
D: Man! President Reagan made it hip to be square, plain, and
bland. Peggy Noonan wrote dipping fried chicken nuggets into honey mustard
sauce trendy once again.
M: Dude! How did Peggy Noonan get away with it?
D: Man! We’re headed in that direction once again. Chelsea
Clinton hired the Asian American designer Vera Wang to design her wedding dress,
but could not bring herself to invite the first African American President and
First Lady to her wedding.
M: Dude! Stay off my lawn! Stay out of my neighborhood!
D: Man! You know you’re a redneck if you want to dip fried chicken
nuggets into honey mustard sauce!
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