Tuesday, July 29, 2014
Transliterate Heartstrings V
Transliterate Heartstrings IV
Transliterate Heartstrings III
Transliterate Heartstrings II
Transliterate Heartstrings I
Monday, July 28, 2014
Republican Chicanery
(M)an: Dude! A week from tomorrow, four states will be
having their primaries—Kansas, Michigan, Missouri, and Washington.
(D)ude: Man! So Kansas, Michigan, Missouri, and Washington
have not had their primary elections yet and all are scheduled for Tuesday,
August 5, 2014? Do voters have to choose a party affiliation before casting
their ballots and is there still time for interested individuals wanting to vote
in these primaries to be able to walk in to a polling place and register to
vote on the same day as they cast their ballot?
M: Dude! As to the issue of primary elections in these four
states, let’s begin with being an Independent in Kansas where Republican
obstructionist Senator Pat Roberts is up for reelection this year and the
American Press Corps is prematurely identifying Republican Tea Partier Milton
Wolf as Roberts’s primary faceoff, when in actuality there are six additional kooks
just like Pat Roberts and Milton Wolf listed on the rosters, with the exception
of the lone intellectual Independent named Greg Orman.
D: Man! Okay, as an unaffiliated Kansan voter, I have the
rare opportunity to hold Pat Roberts accountable for voting against the Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act
of 2013 that included the issue of human trafficking worldwide, the exact
issue that the oppositional Congressional Republicans have now chosen to
readdress and pass through the House of Representatives via the Strengthening Child Welfare Response to
Trafficking Act of 2014?
M: Dude! Yes. The Congressional Republicans are duplicate as
well as duplicitous, aren’t they? But voters like US have the right to choose
to participate in the Republican Primary and oust Senator Pat Roberts from the
ballot on National Election Day November 4, 2014, a Tuesday. The Independent
intellectual Greg Orman is deserving of the Republican Nomination for United
States Senate.
D: Man! Who’s next? Ah, Michigan! Michigan’s got an open
primary election system where unaffiliated voters need not identify with a
specific party. From what I’ve
understood, voters are not required to identify with a party as long as they
keep in mind that they may vote in only one party’s primary. Therefore, as a
Michigan resident, I can vote in the Republican Primary and keep my political
neutrality as an Independent but vote for the Democrats in the National
Elections, Tuesday, November 4, 2014—if the candidates appeal to me, that is.
M: Dude! There are reasons similar to that of the case in
Kansas to participate in the Republican Primary in Michigan as an Independent
or unaffiliated voter.
D: Man! I’ve got four reasons to vote in Michigan’s
Republican Primary next week, August 5, 2014, and my reasons are the then-incoming
Republican Tea GOP Classers from 2010’s devolution and era of errors like Congressmen
Dan Benishek, Bill Huizenga, Justin Amash, and Tim Walberg. Actually, I think I
can easily add a fifth reason, that being Kerry Bentivolio.
M: Dude! Who are the better alternatives to the four 2010s
and one 2013?
D: Man! Michigan’s District 1 Representative Dan Benishek’s
challenger Ellis Boal is running as a Green Party candidate and, unlike
Benishek, does respond to press inquiries, having provided thorough answers to
the Detroit Free Press in 2012 when then-incumbent Dan Benishek won the congressional
seat. Apparently, delineating political stances is not a priority for the
Congressional Republicans, an overall disappointment for US as this is a
symptom of the chronic reticence plaguing the Republican Tea GOP. However, the
Green Party candidate in Michigan’s First District has concrete concerns he
wants to address such as metallic sulfide mining that is endangering the Great
Lakes that are a major source of freshwater for the world and tourism that
brings in significant revenue for cities in the Upper Peninsula, while Benishek
insists that global warming is quote unquote “baloney” and has shamelessly
incited pro-gun militias against the Federal Government because, “We have the
rights as citizens to be armed if we have a tyrannical government, so they
cannot just make us do what they want” while being a National Rifle Association
member with an 100% rating and an A rated
member of the Gun Owners of America.
M: Dude! How about the four other reasons you listed as
having influenced you to take part in the Republican Primary in Michigan as an
unaffiliated or Independent?
D: Man! Representative of Michigan’s Second District Republican
Bill Huizenga is up against a Rock-Goth enthusiast and supporter of Rand Paul
and Ron Paul’s brand of Libertarianism, Kipp Welch II. Representative of Michigan’s
Third District Republican Justin Amash is up against the Green Party of
Michigan’s candidate Tonya Duncan who, like Ellis Boal in District 1, deserves
a chance and clearly offers perspectives that are conducive to action beyond
party lines, unlike Justin Amash’s Republican primary rival on the ballot Brian
Robert Ellis who is offering severer partisanship in Washington, DC.
M: Dude! And what about Tim Walberg and Kerry Bentivolio?
D: Man! Representative of Michigan’s Seventh District and Tea
Party Caucus Republican Tim Walberg is up against Independent David Bernard
Swartout who is an outspoken advocate and tech pioneer in the classroom as a
teacher, administrator, and coach at a private high school in Jackson, Michigan
for over four decades, but is ready to reinvigorate the American public school
education system with those privileged innovative opportunities he was able to
afford, like the incorporation of educational computers by Apple in the late
seventies and eighties, at Lumen Christi Catholic High School.
M: Dude! Wow! And what about Kerry Bentivolio?
D: Man! Representative of Michigan’s Eleventh District and Tea
Party Express Republican Kerry Bentivolio was one of 144 Congressional Republicans
who wanted the 2013 United States Government Shutdown, October first through
the sixteenth, to continue indefinitely and which cost US ten billion dollars
per week. His Republican rival David A. Trott has been endorsed by fellow “job
creator” millionaire Mitt Romney. That’s how Trott self-identifies, as a quote
unquote “job creator” and is reportedly tied to 23 energy companies, all of
which I’m certain could not have been proponents of renewable and alternative
fuels, but proponents of outdated coal-fired, natural gas-fired, and nuclear
electricity sources.
M: Dude! So who’s left as a plausible alternative to both
Bentivolio and Trott?
D: Man! There’s a Libertarian candidate running in the
Michigan’s Eleventh District Republican Primary, an Army Veteran and retired
teacher named John Tartar.
M: Dude! Returning to Kansas for a moment, the Kansan
Secretary of State is Republican Kris Kobach and when the Republican Party felt
threatened by unaffiliated and Independent voters after the record high voter turnout
of unaffiliated Independents in the 2012 Election, Kobach issued the added
hassle of voter registrants having to provide documentation proving United
States citizenship. Kobach’s Republican rival for Secretary of State in the
2014 Kansas Primary is campaigning on this very issue of Kobach defrauding the
electorate through such hassles like proving U.S. citizenship and not following
through with registrations put on hold, 57% of which are from individuals
identifying themselves as unaffiliated.
D: Man! Who is Kobach’s rival for Secretary of State in the
Kansas Republican Primary again?
M: Dude! Scott Morgan is running as the Republican
alternative to Kobach in next Tuesday’s Kansas Republican Primary, and has the
endorsements of the major Kansas newspapers. Candidate Scott Morgan rejects
Kobach’s extremism and is promising to keep his focus on the job unlike Kobach
who has refused to release his tax returns that would fully disclose his extracurricular financial activities
outside of office.
D: Man! How can you make any selections from a bucket full
of such rotten apples?
M: Dude! I’m exhausted!
Saturday, July 26, 2014
Millennial Paradigm Shifter Jeremy Ryan from Wisconsin
(D)ude: Man! Wisconsin’s Republican Party has not decided on
whether District One Congressional Republican Representative Paul Ryan is its
candidate for the Tuesday, November 4, 2014 Nationwide Midterm Election. Instead,
there is a Republican Primary being held in two weeks on Tuesday, August 12,
2014 and, fortunately, the people of Wisconsin’s District One can still show up
at the polls physically on Tuesday, August 12, 2014 and register to vote then
and there before going on to make a critical decision for the United States of
America, whether the House of Representatives would be better served by
Representative Paul Ryan or his Republican Primary challenger Jeremy “Segway”
Ryan.
(M)an: Dude! Hold on! We are talking about Wisconsin’s
District One where Representative Paul Ryan was unable to secure the Republican
Primary vote against contender challenger Jeremy Ryan?
D: Man! The Wisconsin Republican Primary hasn’t taken place
yet, and is scheduled for Tuesday, August 12, 2014. And, although the last day
to register to vote by mail was this past Wednesday that just went by last
week, July 23, 2014, there is still an opportunity for Wisconsin residents to
register at the Republican Primary polling places on the day of the Republican
Primary that is going to be taking place on Tuesday, August 12, 2014!
M: Dude! But don’t you have to register as a Republican or
Democrat at the polling places in Wisconsin? And are not the Republican Primary
and Democratic Primary in Wisconsin on separate days?
D: Man! Wisconsin is one of 14 States in the United States
with an Open Primary System, hence, if you are a Wisconsin resident, you do not
have to join either the Republican Party or the Democratic Party to vote in
either the Republican Party’s Primary or the Democratic Party’s Primary. But
you do have to register to vote by October 15, 2014 in order to vote in
Wisconsin on National Election Day, November 4, 2014, and only then do you have
to decide whether you want to vote as a Democrat or a Republican.
M: Dude! I am a disgruntled Wisconsin resident who wants
change in the Wisconsin Republican Party and am particularly angered by the
piecemeal legislative fraud that the Republican Tea GOP is practicing in the
State of Wisconsin, specifically the five Wisconsin Republican Tea GOP House
Members in United States Congress—
Congressman Paul Ryan of District 1, Congressman James
Sensenbrenner of District 5, Congressman Thomas “Tom” Petri of District 6,
Congressman Sean Duffy of District 7, and Congressman Reid Ribble of District
8—I can vote in the Republican Primary on August 12, 2014 without having to
declare a political affiliation and then register by October 15, 2014 as a
Democrat to vote on National Election Day, Tuesday, November 4, 2014, for the
Democratic Party?
D: Man! Yeah, you have to keep in mind that as a resident of
Wisconsin, you only are allowed to go undeclared in terms of political
affiliation in the Open Primary System, but remember that you must register by
October 15, 2014 as a Democrat or a Republican or an Independent in order to
cast a ballot in Wisconsin’s General Elections on National Election Day, Tuesday
November 4, 2014.
M: Dude! Let’s stay focused on Representative Paul Ryan’s
challenger with the same last name as he, Jeremy Ryan, in the Republican
Primary to be held on August 12, 2014. Is Jeremy Ryan, or “Segway” Jeremy Ryan
as he is known in Wisconsin politics, any better than Paul Ryan for US
Wisconsinites in District 1 to actually favor participating in the Republican
Primary, not the Democratic Primary, come August 12, 2014?
D: Man! Yeah! The Republican Tea GOP in Wisconsin is so
threatened by Jeremy “Segway” Ryan it actually has been misreporting
Representative Paul Ryan as the surefire winner and lone Republican in
Wisconsin’s District 1 Republican Primary. The United States Media and
Wisconsin’s Press Corps refuse to provide Jeremy “Segway” Ryan a public platform
to make his case because Paul Ryan has substantially outraised in the millions
of dollars Jeremy Ryan’s six-figure financial bid for the position.
M: Dude! What kind of platforms has Republican Candidate for
Wisconsin’s First District Jeremy Ryan supported in the past? If Jeremy Ryan is
choosing to challenge Paul Ryan, is there significant difference between the
brands of Republicanism Jeremy Ryan is offering when placed side by side for
analysis with Paul Ryan’s Republican Tea GOP obstructionist inactions?
D: Man! Jeremy Ryan deserves his name placed alongside a
Democratic rival on Election Day Tuesday, November 4, 2014. He rides a Segway
mobile device instead of walking due to a rare and chronic medical condition,
but his Republican values match that of the Republican greats like Abraham Lincoln and
Theodore Roosevelt. If you carefully read and watch what he has to say, Jeremy
Ryan is considerate and genuine and coherent, unlike incumbent Paul Ryan and current
Congressional Republicans on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, who are enslaved
to their corporate donors, as Jeremy Ryan points out on his campaign website.
M: Dude! What has Jeremy Ryan been doing for Wisconsin?
D: Man! Jeremy Ryan has successfully protested the rules
prohibiting demonstrations and political signs in the Madison, Wisconsin
Capitol rotunda under Republican Tea GOP Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker’s so-called
Department of Administration since Walker’s questionable 2010 campaign for
governor and subsequent win. Plus, Jeremy Ryan did agree to answer questions,
as Paul Ryan has chosen to not respond, to the League of Women Voters’
candidate details pages on Vote411’s Voter Guide. Both crowds, the Republican
Tea GOP and the Democratic Party, are unfairly assessing Jeremy Ryan’s fearless
transparency and previous status as an Independent in another attempt at
political office as a mark of personal instability and lack of integrity, but
what has Paul Ryan done for the people of Wisconsin since ascending to the
position of United States Representative in 1998. That’s sixteen years too much
of nothing done.
M: Dude! Aye to
millennial paradigm shifters like Jeremy Ryan!
Tuesday, July 22, 2014
The Republican Tea GOP Agenda: Planes, Trains, and... Automobiles?
(M)an: Dude! President Putin wants to take action on the
world stage and address the gruesomeness by which Alexander Yurevich Borodai brutally
mishandled the human remains and all evidence of our now shattered destinies aboard
Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17, but
is afraid that his beloved Russia and he, Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin, are
being erased, as we speak, by the neighboring members of the European Union and
the Republican Tea GOP. Yes, that’s right, the Congressional Republicans in
United States Congress, senators and representatives, have methodically been
trying to resurface a Second Cold War but unsuccessfully—until last week.
(D)ude: Man! I haven’t been able to retrieve anything
objective by the American Press Corps. Thank goodness for the Internet! I
actually came across a levelheaded perspective online via Singapore’s The
Straits Times. Alexander Yurevich Borodai identifies and is identified as a
quote unquote “Pro-Russian” by The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal.
But The Straits Times is far less demagogic and sincerely concerned for
civilian lives crossing pathways with Alexander Yurevich Borodai, like the
precious lives lost aboard Flight MH17.
M: Dude! Thank goodness for the Internet, specifically
Google and Wikipedia’s encyclopedic yet constantly updated mechanics and
features. Like Singapore’s The Straits Times, Google and Wikipedia remain
objective and levelheaded in their uncensored search results and meticulously
researched articles. Concerning what is happening in Russia and to President
Putin, I believe we must look onto what happened to Rahul Gandhi in the Indian
General Election of 2014 and his May
11, 2011 arrest for peacefully demonstrating in the Uttar Pradesh village of
Bhatta Parsaul and his being
overlooked in the Gujarat assembly elections of 2009. And, finally, I believe
Wikipedia’s coverage of the Cuban Revolution is crucial reading for those
wanting to understand the Republican Tea GOP’s inflammatory speeches and
deliberate efforts to obstruct President Obama and Secretary John Kerry’s domestic
and international peace talks and signature diplomatic stature as leaders
refraining from the incendiary tactics of incompetent blowhards like Texas
Governor Rick Perry and the Congressional Republicans in both houses of the
United States Congress under the leadership of GOP Tea Kentucky Senator Mitch
McConnell and GOP Tea Ohio Representative John Boehner.
D: Man! The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal are
purposefully misreporting by strategically not reporting at all about Alexander
Yurevich Borodai and his self-proclamation that he is the Prime Minister of the
Donetsk People’s Republic, located ninety minutes from Grabovo, Eastern
Ukraine, the physical location of Flight MH17’s demise and subsequent desecration
by drunken guerilla fighters, Borodai
acknowledging his two-timing through association with the desecrators in
press releases from a Sunday, July 20, 2014 press conference he held in
Donetsk, Eastern Ukraine. These are some of the double-edged wounds he tore into
our mourning hearts through words of sheer terrorist despotism, unfortunately
The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal have chosen not to qualify
Borodai as a coldblooded killer as they have an ethnocentric profiling system
for eligibility into that category of human monstrosities, specifically the
darker the complexion and the more pronounced an accent, the higher the suspicions. But, again, these are
actual statements made by Borodai after Thursday, July 17, 2014:
We have found some
technical parts.
We assume they are
black boxes. We do not have aviation experts and that is why we cannot state
precisely that they are. Those parts have been delivered to Donetsk and they
are under my control. We are waiting for experts to pass on the stuff.
I am an ordinary
citizen of Russia, not a government worker.
A lot of people from
Russia are coming to help these people. I am one of them.
We don’t trust them
[Ukrainian Authorities], as they may tamper with the devices, swap them and
prevent investigation.
We have already
refused to wait for the experts and had to start clearing the bodies from the
scene of the event, because waiting longer was contradictory to what it means
to be humane.
Officially, no [on
whether he was in contact with Russian Authorities].
No comment [on
whether he, Alexander Yurevich Borodai, is unofficially
in contact with the Russian Authorities].
M: Dude! ORA PRO
NOBIS! ORA PRO NOBIS!
Sunday, July 20, 2014
Man! Dude! Session #292: Visceral Pain of Helpless Children Worldwide
(D)ude: Man! The Republican Tea GOP Majority in the House of
Representatives wants to sue and impeach the Executive Branch, the Speaker of
the House John Boehner insisting that the President of the United States can be
found to be in violation of something in the Constitution of the United States
of America. But what about Speaker Boehner and the Congressional Republicans
violating that exact document themselves time and time again?
(M)an: Dude! Florida Republican Tea GOP Governor Rick Scott
violated Article 4 of the United States Constitution when he allegedly forced
on-duty Tampa Bay police officers to a local campaign event, which is a cited
misdemeanor under Florida law as well. Article 4 states clearly that The right of the people to be secure in
their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and
seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable
cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place
to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
D: Man! The Congressional Republicans and the John Roberts
Supreme Court and places of business such as Hobby Lobby are violating Article
9 of the United States Constitution, which clearly states that the enumeration in the Constitution, of
certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by
the people. If, like how Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan spoke at their 2012 Republican
Tea GOP political rallies, insisting that the crowds of attendees understand,
as Mitt Romney declared, quote unquote “Corporations are people, my friend”
with a sly smirk, then isn’t there a logical rebuke here that the we the people
can insist upon? I mean, if corporations
are people, then can we not declare corporations to be sexually abusive
predators if they insist upon specifying something as confidential as birth
control methodology to their female employees?
M: Dude! They’re also violating Article 10 of the United
States Constitution, which clearly states the
powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited
by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
Women are people, too! And what about HIPPA and the entire medical records
confidentiality and patients rights guarantees that are clearly being violated
in the practice of the Hobby Lobby ruling by the John Roberts SCOTUS? Where are
the American Medical Association and the National Association of Social Workers
and the American Counseling Association anyways?
D: Man! Probably wondering if their professional lives will
be swept in the same swift hegemonic messiness of the Republican Tea GOP’s
deconstructing the Office of Economic Opportunity, or OEO, that resulted from
the Economic Opportunity Act of 1964 through LBJ’s Great Society policymaking
strides? And, speaking of hegemonic messiness of the Republican Tea GOP, I’ve
got a lot to say with regards to the twentieth century of Presidents
Eisenhower, Nixon, Ford, Reagan, and H. W. Bush regarding Central and South
America, and the Middle East and Asia, specifically the ending of FDR’s New
Deal coalition and the current attack on civil rights and voting rights as the means
to pit neighbor against neighbor domestically and abroad.
M: Dude! The OEO? You know, the Republican Tea GOP of today
came to fruition with Eisenhower and Nixon and Ford and Reagan and Herbert
Walker Bush, because Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld were present in all five
of those presidencies. It was a toxic concoction, really, considering others
like Alexander Haig, George Romney, Billy Graham, Robert Dole, Margaret
Thatcher, Bob Woodruff, and Peggy Noonan figuring into the mix to create the
unnecessary havoc in the world of deliberated inaction at home.
D: Man! The folks you just listed methodically tore apart
OEO, beginning with the big trouble of the tremendous positive outcomes of the Office
of Economic Opportunity’s reach with Native American populations in the United
States attaining political capital and confidence through tribal community
action programs. Maria Shriver’s father championed collaboration and cohesion as
the first director of the OEO, from 1965 through 1968, the time period within
which he successfully cosponsored funding alongside the National Congress of
American Indians for Head Start preschools and modern tribal colleges, in
addition to increasing availability to advanced legal counsel and medical
services on reservations throughout the United States.
M: Dude! In other words, as the Native Americans rose in
stature economically and politically, particularly the Navajo, through the
efforts of R. Sargent Shriver and the OEO, later directors, particularly its
third director Donald Rumsfeld, became convinced of the intellectual hence
political threat empowered minority groups posed for degenerates like Donald
Rumsfeld and Dick Cheney’s clique, after which the agency basically was dissolved
into other federal government agencies such as the Department of Health and
Human Services? The current Congressional Republican budget proposal The Path To Prosperity outlines similar
fates for federal government assistance lifelines, like Medicaid and Supplemental
Nutrition Assistance Program for example, on the grounds of waste and
fraud.
D: Man! The less than less than one percent of waste and
fraud in Medicaid and food stamps has got the Congressional Republicans concerned?
Then why, despite the booming statistically verifiable success of expanding
Medicaid and twenty-two states and the District of Columbia finally agreeing,
nineteen Republican Tea GOP-led state governments and their Republican Tea GOP governors
are refusing Medicaid Expansion? And why are the Republican Tea GOP House of
Representative members under Speaker John Boehner refusing to pass
comprehensive immigration reform and a jobs bill after four years of
essentially sitting on their hands and declaring themselves incapable of any
constructive action, only willing to submit to the ridiculous rulings of the John
Roberts SCOTUS while surrendering to oligarchic tomfooleries such as the Koch
Klutz Klan?
M: Dude! Have you seen the Sunday, June 1, 2014 broadcast of
This Week With George Stephanopoulos, or read the rushed transcript online of
that specific show?
D: Man! Yeah! Did you see the Sunday, July 6, 2014 broadcast
of Face the Nation with Bob Schieffer, or read the transcript online of the
program?
M: Dude! Yeah! Yeah!
D: Man! Sunday, June 1, 2014 was seven weeks ago! Wow! And I
see you have really marked up the transcript in your hand. Seven weeks ago! Go
ahead, you go first, I’ll follow since mine’s from last week. Yeah, aren’t the
transcripts available online awesome?
M: Dude! Totally! Republican Tea GOP Senator Ted Cruz from
Texas was on This Week with Stephanopoulos seven weeks ago and the President of
the United States had just delivered the commencement address at the United
States Military Academy in West Point, New York the Wednesday before, if I
remember correctly, May 28, 2014?
D: Man! Yes, and Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl had just been
released after five years of captivity by the Taliban the day before this
particular broadcast you’re wanting to address, Saturday, May 31, 2014! Yes. In
exchange for five Taliban detainees being held at Guantanamo Bay, Bergdahl’s
rescue by special operations forces helicopter was immediately denounced and is
still being criticized by Republican Tea GOP Senators Ted Cruz of Texas,
Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, and John McCain of Arizona et al.
M: Dude! You’ve got three governments involved in the
tedious brokering of a peaceful resolution in POW Bergdahl’s release: US,
Qatar, and Afghanistan. Yet, the Congressional Republican Tea GOP reps like
Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee’s seventh district keep repeating the same ambiguous
messages over and over again, and again and again. Recycled, inconclusive, fragmentary
scripts like the damaged vinyl records that our grandparents used to mourn or the
scratched cassette tapes our parents agonized over. The sound and the insanity
of the Republican Tea GOP! Talking about blasts from the past and the evident
future of world affairs according to overzealous hoodlums who cannot keep from
sharing their own abhorrent intents and actions tomorrow today, Senator Ted
Cruz’s excitability on This Week with George Stephanopoulos was obscene, as he
laid out the plans he would have made if he were given executive authority:
It’s [negotiating]
not the only way. We can go in and use military force, as needed, to rescue our
fallen compatriots. But, look, Sergeant Bergdahl was fighting to capture these
terrorists.
D: Man! Ted Cruz gives me the creeps! Whether white men can’t jump or not, white men
sure can corrupt! White men like Senators Ted Cruz of Texas and Rand Paul of
Kentucky and the Congressional Republicans led by Ohio rep and Speaker of the
House John Boehner, hide hideous hooded agendas and waste taxpayer money on keeping
a filibuster going on the Senate floor for over twenty-one hours with readings
of Dr. Seuss lit and endorsing reality television decay like Phil Robertson when
white guys like us cannot afford a basic electricity bill without having to
plan ahead of time as to whether to schedule an afternoon at the shopping mall
or the public library when our bustling vacationing nieces and nephews complain
about the temperature and humidity inside.
M: Dude! What about stay-at-home moms living in public
housing without means of transportation but in need of keeping their infants
and toddlers cared for throughout the summer days? And what about the added
stress of having school-age children home for the duration of a three-month
summer? We the people must elect responsible replacements for the Republican
Tea GOP kooks in the United States Congress who are obstructing legislation, hence creating or worsening crises
across the country and around the globe. Much worse, Senator Ted Cruz admitted
to George Stephanopoulos seven weeks ago on television, Sunday, July 1, 2014, about
being in that very region himself— interfering in President Obama’s strategies,
particularly endangering the troops of United States Military Advisors being
sent to assist Secretary John Kerry with international diplomatic negotiations—where
the Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 crashed this past Thursday, July 17, 2014:
Well, you know, I
just got back last week from traveling to Israel and Ukraine and Poland and
Estonia. And it was striking – you know, one of the things Ambassador [Susan]
Rice said that was absolutely correct is that America is the indispensible leader.
But what our allies
are expressing over and over again is that leadership is missing. And the most
frequent thing you hear when you talk to an ambassador, a foreign minister of our
friends and allies is they pull you aside quietly in hushed tones, they say,
“Where is America?”
Number one,
President Obama should have spoken out clearly in support of freedom, in
support of the protesters when the protesters began in the Maidan Square
[centrally located in Kiev, Ukraine].
I had the privilege
of traveling through Maidan Square, being led by 16-year-old high school girl
who saw her compatriots shot by army snipers. And they continue to protest for
freedom. America should speak out for freedom.
But then after that,
we should stand with our allies and not give into Russia. We should, number
one, right now, install the anti-ballistic missile batteries in Eastern Europe,
in Poland, the Czech Republic, that were scheduled to go in 2009, that
President Obama canceled in an effort to appease Putin. That hadn’t worked.
And number two, we
should be using energy as a tool to help liberate the Ukrainian people and
impose costs on Putin. There are over 20 applications to export liquid natural
gas bottled up in the Obama Administration. He should approve them because that
would be a meaningful step to stand with the Ukrainian people and free them
from Russia’s economic blackout.
D: Man! And this is how Bob Schieffer conveyed what Republican
Tea GOP hawks John McCain and Lindsey Graham were up to in the Middle East and
the surrounds, having conveniently returned from Afghanistan at the exact time
that the head of the militant group ISIS, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, surfaced on
videotape in Iraq urging followers towards hawkishness, keep in mind this Face
The Nation episode was broadcast two weeks back, on Sunday, July 6, 2014:
And here in
Washington, we’re joined now by Republican Senators John McCain and Lindsey
Graham, who spent a lot of time there [Israel]. They are also just back from
Afghanistan. Let me start with this video we just saw of this child [15-year-old
Palestinian-American and Tampa, Florida resident Tariq Khdeir who was beaten by
Israeli security forces during summer break in East Jerusalem when violent
protests erupted as a result of the teenager’s cousin’s abduction and death
earlier]. The State Department has put out a statement condemning the beating.
They’re demanding a full investigation. But is there anything the United States
can do here, Senator McCain, to calm this situation?
M: Dude! The
child, teenager Tariq Khdeir, is an American citizen and lives in Florida. He
has recovered, but he too now is vulnerable to feeling the visceral pain helpless
children and women and families suffer as the direct result of Republican Tea
GOP hawks purposefully breaking down President Obama and Secretary John Kerry’s
peace talks and negotiations abroad while obstructing President Obama and Secretary
Jeh Johnson’s efforts at home to protect the middle and working classes while
compassionately confronting poverty—versus the resolute inaction and
incompetent insistences on part of
the Congressional Republicans—as well as resolving the refugee crisis that the
Republican Tea GOP hawks insist is entirely a matter of securing our border
physically.
D: Man! Imagine
the emotional trauma that the unaccompanied immigrant children and women suffered
at the hands of deliberately misinformed, hence unwelcoming protestors
blockading Homeland Security buses carrying them, conscionable refugees
unwilling to submit to the violent, cartel, terrorist, separatist, underground
opposition party dynamics that have shredded the sovereignty of Central
American governments. The Republican Tea GOP is responsible and has applied
this method of gradual yet corrosive corruption in India with the calculated downgrade
of Rahul Gandhi and the United Progressive Alliance to second place status during
the 2014 Indian General Election in which the victor, Narendra Modi and the
National Democratic Alliance, had already been on the Republican Tea GOP radar,
specifically congratulated by Republican Tea GOP Representative Aaron Schock
from Illinois’s eighteenth district, on Friday, January 3, 2014 on the House
floor, for Modi winning reelection a third time as Chief Minister of Gujarat,
the Western Indian State and site of the 2002 Gujarat riots, which Modi handled
with the same animus as that of Congressional Republican Representative Darrell
Issa towards Democratic Representative Elijah Cummings in the House Oversight
Committee.
Saturday, July 5, 2014
Bexar County, San Antonio
(M)an: Dude! I was Google searching Susan Sontag’s images
and came across various pages about her life, particularly Camille Paglia’s
stressing Sontag’s erratic behavior periodically throughout her midlife and
later years as a writer and filmmaker. I think Sontag could have benefitted
tremendously if she was not singed from the feminist scene in the United States,
as Camille Paglia claims, when Kate Millett’s works were beginning to be widely
read although far less in rank from that of Sontag’s genius.
(D)ude: Man! Remember the Kate Millet books I brought home
from the library sale? Well, Susan Sontag’s Against
Interpretation and Other Essays is far more refined and complete in its
dissections of the art scene and its overkill in the department of criticism.
You know, I agree with Sontag on all her insights about the need for less
evaluation and more immediacy in the experience of encountering every piece of
art individually.
M: Dude! Camille Paglia acknowledges and discredits Sontag and
I am suspecting the reason for the brazen overview has a lot to do with Paglia’s
own intellectual frustrations about the difficulty in following in the
footsteps of greatness. Camille Paglia’s dissertation on Sontag and coupled
with the subsequent harsh feedback by Yale faculty like Harold Bloom. Overall,
I think Paglia ought to have endeavored upon a dissertation about Sontag at a
far less upper crusty institute, like Sontag’s own journeying through the University of California at Berkeley to
the University of Chicago before turning seventeen, the age at which the
prodigy married, having graduated high school at age fifteen by the way.
D: Man! The University of California at Berkeley would have
been the perfect fit for Camille Paglia because she too disagrees with affirmative
action policy. However, according to what you’re saying, Paglia became
intimidated by Sontag, someone who Paglia had admired and whose footsteps she
ardently followed, up until the point of committing an entire doctoral degree
attainment cycle to the intellectual powerhouse that was Sontag.
M: Dude! Susan Sontag was a formidable academic and an
ardent humanist who spoke on behalf of history and society’s disenfranchised,
choosing to write a short story published in The New Yorker about the AIDS crisis in 1986 when the epidemic was
still taboo. She also covered the Vietnam War and the Siege of Sarajevo during
the Bosnian War firsthand as a freelance photojournalist and filmmaker.
D: Man! Counter to Susan Sontag’s palpable humanity, there
is a school of discrepant reasoning, an erudite chauvinism, such as the Supreme
Court of the United States’ intransigent prejudiced decrees smoldered beneath
an academic surface, when the truth is that the male Justices Roberts, Alito,
Scalia, Thomas, and Kennedy are essentially Republican Tea GOP patrons
themselves, having accepted hush kickbacks in exchange for their neoconservative
decisions.
M: Dude! Chief Justice John Roberts’ academically decreeing
injustices with outrageous lines like, quote unquote, the way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop
discriminating on the basis of race, has me convinced that there are four branches
of United States government and those are the Judicial, Legislative, Executive,
and Civilian, the last of which depends on all Americans to exercise their
right to vote like on Election Day Tuesday November 4, 2014.
D: Man! The checks and balances system is comprised of the
Judicial Branch, the Legislative Branch, the Executive Branch, and, fourthly,
the Civilian Branch?
M: Dude! Yes! The Civilian Branch was stressed throughout
the founding documents, including The
Constitution of The United States of America.
D: Man! Really? The Civilian Branch is cited in The Constitution of The United States of
America? Or was the Civilian Branch so fundamental, the framers of the
document believed it would be a requisite that could not be axed as the
Congressional Republicans and John Roberts’ SCOTUS have succeeded in axing.
Fortunately, President Obama’s Administration understands that they have a
lose-lose situation on their hands right now with a Congressional Republican
Majority in the House of Representatives. If President Obama reengages and
submits to the outrageous caprice of the Congressional Republicans, threatening
Republican Tea GOP turkeys like Paul Ryan and Darrell Issa will verbally
besiege him.
M: Dude! Representatives Paul Ryan and Darrell Issa are so
deficient in orating contrarian perspectives, they resort to rude and insulting
rottenness instead of basic civility and statesmanship.
D: Man! All the members in the United States House of
Representatives are up for reelection on Election Day Tuesday, November 4,
2014.
M: Dude! Imagine the Civilian Branch of United States Government
finally being able to demand an automated voting system that can be accessible on
voters’ cell phones and tablets at work or home or public libraries like in San
Antonio, Texas and online nowadays. Do you know about the Digital Public
Library of America and San Antonio’s BiblioTech Digital Library?
D: Man! Of course! San Antonio’s Bexar County Judge Nelson
W. Wolff was inspired by Walter Isaacson’s biography of Steve Jobs and, circa
2012, recruited professionals in the community to make the conceptual into a
beautiful and state-of-the-art reality that opened its doors on September 14,
2013 and, of course, became a huge success opening day onward, providing the
best technology for visitors, the latest models of Apple iMacs and iPads, for
example.
M: Dude! Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg is facing
a lot of ageist remarks in the media suddenly, but her judicial insights and decisions
are comparable to the best like- well, actually she’s in a league of
brilliances all her own, like Susan Sontag!
D: Man! Wow! The quintessential Justice Ginsberg et al versus
the quintuplet rascals Justice Anthony Kennedy et al!
M: Dude! The
quintessential Justice Ginsburg versus the quintuplet rascals Justice Anthony
Kennedy et al. Remember, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is single-handedly sustaining
the pulse of this nation’s judiciary integrity in midst of such corruption!
Friday, July 4, 2014
"Desa-SOS-iego!" Fourth of July (2014)
Sahir Ludhianvi (1921-1980) "Inheritance", p.251, translated from the Hindi-Urdu by Manfred Spencer Alverston & Associates.
“Inheritance”
(Addressing rich people’s avarice)
This country is not the descendant estate from your generation or mine.
Hundreds of generations of labor have arranged it so:
How many minds’ hard work curtailed?
So many eyes strained!
How many men of modest mien dishonored?
So many foreheads’ vermillion breaking out in the sweat of toiling widows!
All these perils were offered to the earth.
Then these views were diffused:
These young idols carved of stone
This perplexity of voices
This language of colors
The abounding twisted smoke emitted from chimneys
It is not of your creation,
It is not of my creation!
We can insist upon there being one, but there is no one process to confirm all these wonders.
Knowledge was ascended onto the cross, then apprised afterwards.
Centuries washed down poison, before insight was found agreeable.
Hundreds of feet were severed before the construction of the staircase.
Under your feet, or under my feet,
The destiny of Humanity’s days or nights is not dependent.
This nation is not the descendant estate from your generation or mine.
Hundreds of generations of labor have arranged it so:
Whatever your sorrows be,
Whatever my grief be,
Whatever the tyranny of wealthy people be,
Tomorrow’s generations are also to be accounted for!
Whenever we subvert,
Their inheritance turns into ruins.
Please do not perpetuate such tyranny,
It is not your creation alone,
So don’t ruin it!
From which a farmer is unable to get a daily sustenance,
I will never advise you to burn that field,
For only if the crop exists, then distribution can be explored!
Are you going to ask for Democracy from the ashes of crops?
Only if bridges are safe and sound, then you can go across
Or it’s grounds for opposition from the grass roots!
Otherwise, my dear comrade, my friend Ghalib has said so,
“Every wave has a snare of hundreds of crocodile palettes!”
Think and consider this before you set out
To break down proletariat infrastructure.
Is your fight with structuring a battle for destruction?
If government officials are delusive, and they were elected by proletariat support,
And bourgeoisie households, then the body politic is criminal.
Even if they were elected by my support, then I am criminal.
Train tracks, city buses, telephone lines,
Why suffer for our corruption?
Why traumatize those whose fault is none?
This country is not the descendant estate from your generation or mine.
Hundreds of generations of labor have arranged it so:
Your complaint is also worthy, as is my grievance
The need to change the milieu’s color is just.
Who says you cannot criticize the circumstances?
That you do not have to agree with the rulers’ wrongfulness
You have every right to express your views
And this right is not the alms from history
Our comrades have, by offering their blood,
Planted in this soil of oppression, a tree of equity
Which has, after a long time, bore flowers and fruits.
Asking for your own rights is paramount
However, do not ask through their assistance, these delusive cheats
About those swindlers, they will even kill the conception of your right!
Raise your hands, but do not raise them in these shufflers’ company!
About these people, who will sever your hands from your body,
They are not the interpretation of Humanity’s dream of emancipation.
They are wearying, debilitating, disheartening!
This nation is not the descendant estate from your generation or mine.
Hundreds of generations of labor have arranged it so!
Sahir Ludhianvi (1921-1980) "Inheritance", p.251, translated from the Hindi-Urdu by Manfred Spencer Alverston & Associates.
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