Ohio's "Opportunity Corridor" & Harris Parkway via "The Chisholm Trail"

Man! Dude! Session #328

(D)ude: Man! The Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Dr. Thomas Frieden and the Obama Administration are under fire by rightwing neoconservative conglomerates such as the United States Press Corps and the Republican Party stationed in the United States but wheeling and dealing in an underhanded counter government scheme that was utilized by the Republican Party abroad during the Kennedy Administration to label Martin Luther King, Jr. and The Civil Rights Movement as prideful militarists deserving the fatal end and violence that was orchestrated at them by the 1950s and 1960s mechanics of GOP leaders like Congressmen Joseph William Martin, Jr. of Massachusetts, Charles A. Halleck of Indiana, John J. Rhodes, Jr. of Arizona, and Leslie C. Arends of Illinois.     

(M)an: Dude! Senators John McCain and Lindsey Graham and Representatives Newt Gingrich of Georgia and John Boehner of Ohio had comparable predecessors who fouled  American Policy and were just as toxic to American Democracy as their coconspirators inside the United States Press Corps. And let’s remember that the late Andrew James Breitbart set into motion Arianna Huffington’s The Huffington Post online in 2005 before the 2007 online launch of his own publication conglomerate Breitbart DOT COM.  

D: Man! Breitbart was a self-identified liberal who became a Tea Partier conservative activist, while Arianna Huffington was the intransigent conservative who wrote the following 1973 criticism of feminism or the women’s movement,

Women’s Lib [Women’s Liberation Movement] claims that the achievement of total liberation would transform the lives of all women for the better; the truth is that it would transform only the lives of women with strong lesbian tendencies.    

M: Dude! I would relate Arianna Huffington with Henry Kissinger politically, but for her own history within Svengali bureaucracies as democratic a tutelage as her relationship with Bernard Levin and as fascist a surrendering as her marriage to Michael Huffington.     

D: Man! What ever became of that 1983 television movie starring Jodie Foster and Peter O’Toole? Svengali? I think it’s still available and the actor performances still higher up in caliber than the usual afterschool specials and made-for-television features. Remember those?

M: Dude! Goodness! If American Voters do not vote and the Republicans manage to attain majority party status in both houses of the United States Congress, our nieces and daughters will have to endure the same dynamics of compromise within their relationships with men as Arianna Huffington has proven through her lifetime of sacrifices within the status quo with both Levin and Huffington.

D: Man! We have to get up and register to vote and cast our ballots on or before Election Day Tuesday November 4, 2014 for the Democratic Ticket candidates across the United States regardless of our prior political affiliations or fallouts because if the Republican Party manages to lie, cheat, and steal through shredding voter registration applications like they’re doing in Georgia, or through Voter ID Laws like the ones in Texas not willing to accept Student IDs as valid forms of identification for the purpose of registering to vote and then actually following through with voting on or before November 4, 2014.   

D: Man! Georgia and Texas have predominantly Republican-led State Legislatures. What’s it like politically in Ohio? Are any of the hospitals dealing with Ebola over in Ohio a part of the Texas Health Resources and USMD Hospitals Network?   

M: Dude! Why are the state health officials at the Ohio Department of Health in Columbus, Ohio recommending instead of enforcing Ohio hospitals to train and prepare for the possibility of coming into contact with the Ebola virus?

D: Man! Can Ohioans trust the Republican Governor John Kasich to follow through on his commitments to low-income constituents? The Opportunity Corridor Project in Cleveland, Ohio is of particular concern to me as is The Chisholm Trail toll road in Fort Worth, Texas.

M: Dude! How so?

D: Man! Wake up and smell the gasoline! Gasoline is a fossil fuel?

M: Dude! Enlighten me! I’m totally listening! We’re dealing with an oil and natural gas economy being hammered into our lives and homes by corporations being run by women like Marillyn Hewson of the defense industry giant Lockheed Martin and a Press Corps totally committed and obligated to the Republican Party and being run by women like Arianna Huffington and Tina Brown. Tina Brown’s got a Svengali like tale of success as well and, again, I register and vote in these Midterm Elections in the United States on or before Election Day Tuesday November 4, 2014 because I do not wish our nieces and daughters to have to endure the wrath of such disrespect and degradation as the GOP Male has planned for all girls and women, mere chattels who will be told to find their own personal Christ and until then be delegated the humiliation and indignities of Mary Magdalene.

D: Man! The Republican Party wants to close down hospitals in the United States accepting ObamaCare recipients in a last ditch effort before the Midterm Elections concluding on Tuesday, November 4, 2014 to distract voters from registering and voting on the basis of the GOP’s portrayals of President Obama and his Administration as adversarial and as ineffective as the Congressional Republicans.

M: Dude! Talk to me about the Opportunity Corridor in Ohio and the Chisholm Trail Toll Road. I haven’t driven on the toll road although it gets you from Harris Parkway in Fort Worth to Downtown Fort Worth in less than 13 minutes when traffic’s okay, not too congested. But is traffic ever going to be congested on that toll road if the Republicans demolish us like they did Detroit, Michigan?

D: Man! Speaking of Chisholm Trail toll road in Fort Worth, Texas makes my heart ache. Texas Health Resources is a non-profit health care deliverer operating since 1997, when Fort Worth’s Harris Methodist Health System and Dallas’s Presbyterian Healthcare Resources merged. There are twenty-four hospitals in North Texas that come under the Texas Health Resources umbrella and they are all situated along prominent highways, particularly Texas Health Harris Methodist Hospital Southwest Fort Worth that is located off Harris Parkway, the road that the Chisholm Trial toll road runs alongside.

M: Dude! Texas Health Resources is a nonprofit network of hospitals and affiliates therefore the Republican Party wants to demolish its infrastructures and construct fracking sites all along that toll road they have carefully constructed alongside Harris Methodist Hospital Southwest Fort Worth. Ora pro nobis!

D: Man! The Republican Party is masterminding ways to get the Ebola virus spread to the extent that the GOP can declare Texas Health Resources facilities contaminated, after which American voters will refuse to venture outside and, instead, remain self-quarantined in their homes until the Big Scare of 2014 concludes with the Republicans taking over the House and Senate in January 2015 due to another underhanded tactic of declaring runoffs in December 2014 because none of the listed candidates in any of the races managed to get a majority of the vote on Election TuesDay November 4, 2014.

M: Dude! What did you read up on the Opportunity Corridor in Cleveland, Ohio?

D: Man! Northeast Ohio’s The Plain Dealer’s Alison Grant wrote up an article titling Opportunity Corridor historic pact sets aside 20 percent of contract dollars for minority-owned firms. Although dating back to September 11, 2014, this necessary reading exposes the highest degree of treacheries defining the Republican Party agendas in the 21^st Century,

Black-owned companies are to get 8.5 percent, or $22.7 million of the total contract awards; Hispanic-owned companies are to get 1.5 percent or $4 million, as are Asian/Native American companies. All other companies certified as disadvantaged businesses, which can include female-owned businesses, are in line for an 8.5 percent, or $22.7 million share.

Though the percentages and amounts are expressed as "goals," Kasich said he would ride hard on his cabinet members to make sure that they are met. He noted government-funded construction projects in the state routinely miss their disadvantaged business enterprise (DBE) targets.

"I think it's fair to say that we are going to meet the set-aside numbers for the first time in Ohio history," he predicted.