Our Hearts Have Sustained Injurious Pain This Easter Sunday

Communication is a bereaved countryside.

Oh! Messages cannot be rendered…

Inside that place where you’ve gone!

Communication stands bereft!

Communication is a bereaved countryside.

Messages cannot be rendered…

Inside that place where you’ve gone!

This heart has sustained injurious pain in this pining…

About your bearings!

In one harrowing sigh you must have called out

Without us hearing and heeding to your leave!

This is our sorrow all the time that at that time

We were elsewhere.

Where have you gone?

Communication is a bereaved countryside.

Messages cannot be rendered inside that place

Where you have gone!

Where have you gone?

This heart has sustained injurious pain in this pining…

About your bearings!

My tears have written your name on every little thing

These streets and pathways leading home

Were unable to keep you safe!

Every question will remain unanswerable in the heart.

You slipped from our hands in an instant...

Where have you gone?

This heart has sustained injurious pain in this pining…

About your bearings!

Now the thorns of memories pierce this heart!

Neither the pain subsides nor do the tears stop falling.

Love searches for you…

How must we accept this?

Are we going to accept this?

Oh! Where have you gone?

Anand Bakshi translated from the Hindi by M.S. Alverston & Associates

Man! Dude! Session #136

(D)ude: Man! Patti Blagojevich and her teenage girls have suffered way too long. It is time for her husband, their dad, to return home under probationary status.

(M)an: Dude! Rod Blagojevich is still behind bars? I thought Karl Rove’s cheating and dealing in the era of the Citizens United ruling by the Supreme Court and the reexamination of the second Iraq War and its ties to deliberate misinformation on the part of the George W. Cheney-Rice-Rumsfeld presidency were far more deserving of public scrutiny and attempt at retribution through just punishment. 

D: Man! I agree! I would like to see Karl Rove and the individuals in the conglomerate known as the George W. Cheney-Rice-Rumsfeld presidency spend time behind bars for a 14-year time frame that Blagojevich was sentenced to last year.

M: Dude! Where did you get wind of Rod Blagojevich’s prison term?

D: Man! Rod Blagojevich is behaving perfectly behind bars, even teaching a history class on the Civil War at the Colorado federal prison where he’s been running around a track in order to remain fit for his return to family life.

M: Dude! Obviously, the GOP leadership ought to be sentenced to federal prison and be given the opportunity to teach a history class about the Civil War, instead of trying to create yet another one through gerrymandering. Don’t you think gerrymandering is too deflated a term for the anti-democratic blows it defines?

D: Man! It’s pure crookedness! Could be treason, couldn’t it?

M: Dude! Grover Norquist’s congressional posse and the lobbyists that have aligned with the crookedness, including the Supreme Court in its Citizens United ruling, are far more leveled against the welfare of the constituency of the United States. It is like the people do not count, just how much a person is worth financially.

D: Man! Imagine what lives would not be under a GOP White House! They speak on behalf of the unborn, yet want to cut all the safety nets needing to be in place for the well being of the lives of the infants and children and their parents and/or guardians.

M: Dude! I honestly think that the whole premise upon which the Republican Party pushes pro-life agendas is related to crafting a hopelessness and emptiness in the lives of the disenfranchised deliberately so that suffering prevails at a certain level globally.

D: Man! If you cannot be certain about whether or not you’re going to have a meal or housing arrangements in place as an American citizen, I don’t know how you can possibly even begin to think about the mezzo and macro levels of suffering that exist. It’s like the GOP wants medical progressiveness, like disease or paralysis.

M: Dude! If the Republican Party is broadly clinical in its approach, than why does the GOP Budget make such close-minded references to small-minded cads like Californian Representative Darrell Issa and Richard Vedder of the American Enterprise Institute?

D: Man! Reading Paul Ryan’s budget, I got the sense that a system like the one Vedder supports, one in which there ought to be quote unquote different options after high school than just a college degree, may have been in place in Wisconsin when Paul Ryan was in high school, hence the completely bogusness and repetitiveness of The Path To Prosperity: A Blueprint for American Renewal.

M: Dude! Paul Ryan attended college!

D: Man! Where?

M: Dude! Miami University in Oxford, Ohio! Yeah! He was a campaign volunteer for John Boehner and introduced to the National Review by libertarian professor Richard Hart. Or is it the other way around?

D: Man! Either way, I think there is another bleak lesson in it all: Republicans have many more opportunities to advance up than their Democratic counterparts. It’s like trying to teach catch with snowballs. All the Republicans need to do is create movement and noise and not worry about the sheer absurdity, while the Democrats must define and redefine and build accountability.

M: Dude! Huh?

D: Man! Think about it!

M: Dude! I’m trying!

D: Man! Pardon me, but please do try and process this!

M: Dude! Do you want me to process that Paul Ryan could not juggle all the balls in the air when presented with intellectually progressive constructs like the ones President Obama proposed in his State of the Union Address that Marco Rubio didn’t get at all?

D: Man! That’s just it! Look at the way the GOP leaders reacted to the President’s Address! They could not even remember the list of recommendations made!

M: Dude! I get it! However, I would sometimes prefer to catch snowballs, wouldn’t you?

D: Man! The current GOP crooks cannot get away with such blatant disregard for the President of the United States!

M: Dude! It is a blatant disregard of the American electorate!

D: Man! I get a headache trying to figure out the differences in congressional districts and state senate districts. The system is deliberately set into play for people like US to become discouraged because of personal ignorance.

M: Dude! It is so terrible that we must have Congresswoman Kay Granger and then State Senator Wendy Davis.

D: Man! None of the guys at work ever voted for Texas Senators Ted Cruz and John Cornyn! In fact, the two men were not even on our radar except as befuddling embarrassments that wanted US to not even take note when Kay Bailey Hutchinson left and Cruz came in, and when Phil Graham resigned early in order for Cornyn to get preferential seniority over the competition via Governor George W. Bush.

M: Dude! What Governor Nikki Haley has done in South Carolina via Jim DeMint’s resignation and appointing Tim Scott?

D: Man! Yeah! Except, this time around Governor Nikki Haley’s choice as replacement is the African-American Scott who is a Tea Partier nevertheless, like the now-President of The Heritage Foundation’s DeMint.

Man! Dude! Session #135

(M)an: Dude! The United Nations has only received one-third of $1.5 billions dollars pledged by the international community according to reports out of Jabir, Jordan courtesy Nabih Bulos. However, Paul Ryan’s budget proposal is openly providing for $554 billion dollars for keeping America safe through national defense spending.

(D)ude: Man! As the United States of America Commander In Chief, President Obama can collaborate with the House Budget Committee and secure funds for assisting Jordan and other nations like it to keep aiding the countless and quadrupling populations of refugees from Syria that will otherwise have perished under Assad’s regime.

M: Dude! Aren’t refugee encampments like the ones in Zaatari, Jordan deserving of some of the United States’ defense spending? I mean, look at the way the Jordanian soldiers already have to deal with the stifling conditions due to the overpopulation in encampments. The only way to bypass the Jihadists from creating and spreading trouble in the torn Syrian landscape under Assad’s regime, is for US to assist Lebanon, Turkey, and-as much as the GOP will be terrified in its small-minded hysterics in the United States Congress- Iraq!

D: Man! If these Halliburton tycoons like George W. Cheney-Rice-Rumsfeld are so adamant about how they liberated the Iraqi people, then the Republican Party under House Speaker John Boehner and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell must follow through on the promises made with the new Iraq that is right now struggling to fit the influx of refugees from Syria with the financial backing of the Persian Gulf nations like Saudi Arabia.

M: Dude! The militaries of these countries have done so much with so little financing. The least the United States Congress can do is give our allies in these defining times the 2 to 10 billion dollars necessary to make the living conditions in the refugee camps tolerable and safe.

D: Man! Refugee camps are a form of militarization and national defense for US. If we want to protect the world from Jihadist chaos, we need to fund the military engagements that nations like Jordan, Lebanon, Turkey, Iraq, and Saudi Arabia are making in goodwill. Maybe the Jihadists will also begin to decline with the United States’ ability to entrust its allies with financial aid for these refugee camps. There is one refugee camp in Saudi Arabia that hasn’t opened yet. Maybe as our sons and daughters are returning from Afghanistan, we could give them reassurance that their sacrifices are continuing to keep Americans safe by US engaging in funding these refugee camps for Syrians.

M: Dude! We need an alliance with the Muslim world and our militaries. Maybe the soldiers who have come home can build a system of communication with which to assist their international counterparts with strategies and other problem-solving models of intervention via Skype and/or however else US soldiers can communicate and lead without necessarily their boots on the ground.

D: Man! Representative Tammy Duckworth of Illinois is an Iraq War Veteran with countless ideas of how to administer military intervention via Internet. We could even have our Veterans become paraprofessional counselors and consultants operating via Skype with not only the boots on the ground over there, but with civilians who have lost their loved ones and battling the wounds within and without. Maybe the 22 US soldiers who commit suicide daily can finally be given the justice they are long overdue.

M: Dude! I would like to see the backlogs at the Veterans Administration cleaned up and computerized immediately with part of the national defense funding the GOP Budget offers. A war does not entail soldiers engaging in battlefields necessarily. The new millennium warfare entails an attitude of justice for our sons and daughters in uniform that Eisenhower put into place: that warfare is not over until the last veteran of a war has lived a life of personal fulfillment at home and died from natural causes in the arms of his or her loved ones, not alone and facing personal financial ruin because the leading country in the free world could not get its Veterans Affairs organized into efficiency.

D: Man! I’m going to be losing a lot of sleep now that we’ve talked. Imagine how hard an existence it must be for the countless men and women who return home to only find their deservedly due compensations missing in some backlog! There is no time to waste in the field of mental rehabilitation, let alone physical rehab.

M: Dude! Time is too precious and there is a window of opportunity here right now.

D: Man! Time is everything! And if we can clean up the administrative mess in our military and assist others in maintaining peace and coherence in the overpopulated refugee camps, then we are on the road to somewhere productive in the wake of this Republican Sequestration.

M: Dude! I agree with you all the way in supporting our veterans and making sure of their welfare and achievements in overcoming the wounds of service.

D: Man! What about the militaries of our allies? What about them?

M: Dude! President Obama must redefine warfare in the new millennium. He can collaborate with Representative Tammy Duckworth and others like her in leadership positions that have survived insurmountable pain and anguish to rise up once again on behalf of our allies and US.

D: Man! Never again! Remember how that line was adopted after the Holocaust?

M: Dude! Never again! It mustn’t be set-aside for historians alone.

D: Man! The people must act in order for nightmares like that to be averted and peace maintained. God only knows how many Chinua Achebe-like poet-writers will surface in the wake of political strife going on all over the world.

M: Dude! The poet-author died today at 82!

D: Man! We don’t want American Colonialism and an influx of Christianity in the Middle East care of 

the United States of America!

M: Dude! That’s why we cannot cling to the military theories of the past and must embrace a far more inclusive community of countries focused on Democracy.

Man! Dude! Session #134

(D)ude: Man! Did you see Baylor University president Ken Starr donning the NoZe Brotherhood’s facial apparatus consisting of dark rimmed eye frames and crudely exaggerated plastic nose?

(M)an: Dude! I don’t understand what kind of Christian principles folks like Ken Starr purport. The NoZe Brotherhood is disgustingly misogynistic and downright degrading, even more so than the foibles of President Bill Clinton that Ken Starr pursued aggressively in the attempt to impeach him.

D: Man! Hypocrisy? It’s like how Senators Marco Rubio from Florida and Rand Paul from Kentucky are being highlighted by the GOP as being possible contenders for 2016. Seriously? Rubio cannot even deliver on the promises he makes in his talking engagements. He was to have responded to President Obama’s recent State of the Union Address, yet he honked a response in which he never even cared to pinpoint the President’s talking points from the speech.

M: Dude! During CPAC 2013, Rubio did the exact honking about something entirely different from what he was scheduled to address. He was scheduled to address immigration reform and, instead, went off course into the great abyss of sheer nonsense. A far more coherent choice for possible presidential bid in 2016 would be Ruben J. Kihuen from Nevada.

D: Man! Ruben J. Kihuen is vocally steady and mindful of his position of power and prestige, unlike Rubio’s unsteady public embarrassments. And let US never forget the fili-blustering lifelong member of the NoZe Brotherhood Kentuckian Senator Rand Paul’s staunch support of the morning after pill despite the fetal personhood arguments he stands in great favor of.

M: Dude! Rand Paul speaks from experience about the morning after pill, doesn’t he? He still looks like an unfathomable bachelor upon close examination, with the exact same lewdness as Newt Gingrich’s bringing props like a candlestick and light bulb to the podium during his scheduled performance at CPAC 2013.

D: Man! These conservative males are all unfathomable bachelors and very misogynistic in their overall 

public decorum. They go as long as they can without any backing from the Lord or their conservative peers, and then they shamelessly enlist both in the very end to make themselves look more suitable and legitimate.

M: Dude! There’s an angle to Mark Sanford’s run for the congressional seat in Charleston, South Carolina. It is part of an elaborate plan of the Right Wing to obstruct President Obama’s initiatives on behalf of the citizens who reelected him in 2012. The GOP wants to win the 2016 race for the White House and in order to get there, they have set into place a sordid game of running around the quip, “Huh? Who was the 44^th president of the US? Well, George W. Bush only mattered last.” This campaign to erase the Obama Administration in the long run began last night when Bob Woodruff and Diane Sawyer observed the tenth anniversary of the Iraqi War 2.0.

D: Man! ABC News’ Diane Sawyer and Bob Woodruff were implying certain twisted conservative perspectives such as for US to say that the Iraqi War 2.0 was a mistake would be like denouncing our sons and daughters in uniform who fought that war.

M: Dude! NO UNITED STATES SOLDIER EVER DIED IN VAIN!

D: Man! I wholeheartedly agree!

M: Dude! In Craig Brown’s nonfiction masterpiece Hello Goodbye Hello, there are two meetings of the mind between the literary celebrities of the times, H. G. Wells in 1934 and Maxim Gorky in 1936 respectively, and Josef Stalin of Russia. Up close and personally, Josef Stalin is an intelligently astute and generous man with both writers. But H. G. Wells is too in tune with hearing his own voice, hence proving himself a terrible listener, and Maxim Gorky is too inflated about the perks and privileges given to him by the calculating Josef Stalin.

D: Man! Reminds me of how Arianna Huffington showed off the Pulitzer Prize win of one of her own writers on The Colbert Report. Do you think the committee that awarded the Pulitzer to the Huffington Post’s David Wood in 2012 for the coverage of wounded American soldiers from the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, is somehow tied with a Stalinist-like player in a game of superficiality and fame hoarding?

M: Dude! Maxim Gorky was given all the accolades that Russia could have bestowed upon him because of his supposed blind trust in Josef Stalin. But, in the last act, it was uncovered that Stalin had duped Gorky to his death, after which the ruthlessly shrewd leader sentenced practically all of Gorky’s acquaintances to exile or death.

D: Man! That’s the kind of cruelty with which the ABC Family of channels is trying to now discount President Obama and reposition the ruthlessly shrewd Commander in Chief George W. Cheney-Rice-Rumsfeld into the annals of American History as the premier premiere.

M: Dude! I wholeheartedly agree!

D: Man! Countless US soldiers volunteered after the tragedy of the Twin Towers to serve the United States military and the Bush Administration exploited and pillaged and body-bagged and/or disabled them. The Republican Party is an example of how it is not the system of government that ought to be feared, but the leadership that perpetuates either a democratic agenda or a totalitarian mess of propaganda that Bob Woodruff and Diane Sawyer were sentenced to adopt last night.

M: Dude! This is the time to refute the onslaught of lies that the Paul Ryan Budget purports and John Boehner supports so he is not annihilated by Eric Cantor and the ridiculously incompetent speakers that are Grover Norquist and Karl Rove.

D: Man! Did Stalin ever use curses in public broadcasts like this GOP?

M: Dude! Sarah Palin and Reince Priebus were absolutely hammered by means of alcohol at CPAC and the presentation of the report outlining the Republican Party’s failings in the 2012 election cycle. But, no, Josef Stalin never cursed in public broadcasts like the current GOP.

D: Man! The respect and the commitment that President Obama and Vice President Biden have made to our sons and daughters in uniform is commendable and sustainable, if and only if the people exercise their right to vote every election cycle, especially these upcoming midterms.

M: Dude! You had suspended your affiliation with Roman Catholicism, but do you think since your return to the faith, that Pope Francis would take a prayer request?

D: Man! I’ll pray hard, but I think Elizabeth Colbert Busch would know the answer far better than either of us! Ora pro nobis, Sister Lulu!

Man! Dude! Session #133

(M)an: Dude! The private sector that Representative Paul Ryan’s budget proposal entrusts with our futures are a pack of tightwads that include personalities like the ones on display in author Craig 

Brown’s latest nonfiction work Hello Goodbye Hello.

(D)ude: Man! If Paul Ryan’s The Path To Posterity gets passed, the United States Congressional Republicans will have reduced this democracy into a televangelist timocracy.

M: Dude! The Televangelist Timocracy of the United States of America is what we are with this Republican-inflicted sequestration.

D: Man! I know! This elderly woman tried to convert me to whatever denomination of Christianity she was trying to promote. Wouldn’t public displays of holiness be considered panhandling and solicitation?

M: Dude! The elderly lady probably was just being customarily kind and the string of crucifixes around her wrist were entirely meant to provide her with the comfort and presence of faith.

D: Man! The only public display of holiness I offer on my time is prayer. Did you know I had temporarily suspended my Roman Catholic practices after Pope John Paul passed away in 2005?

M: Dude! Can you suspend faith? And if so, where and when did you return to Roman Catholicism?

D: Man! That’s just it! Within the Televangelist Timocracy of the United States, the biblical edict of not even being able to reveal to your other hand that which you give willingly with the other will end. House Majority Leader Eric Cantor makes a lot of televised proclamations about the people in Virginia who have benefitted from his limited collaborative endeavors as the Representative for District 7. He speaks with the characteristic countertenor frenzy of a Republican Party male.

M: Dude! The countertenor frenzy goes well with the fact that these guys really are desperate right now to keep their majority status in the House and their filibustering mechanics in the Senate via deliberate Republican redistricting efforts to marginalize the diversifying majority demographically and Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky.

D: Man! The Washington Post’s website is planning to charge people like US whenever we exceed perusing 20 articles. And the announcement comes just in time for the 2013/2014-midterm elections cycle. This is awful! It just makes US come nearer to the founding of the Televangelist Timocracy that the GOP wants!

M: Dude! Pat Robertson and Madonna Ciccone concern me. Both are flourishing in these times of uncertainties for the poor and working classers, yet their personal finances are tighter than the navy Boy Scouts uniform that Ciccone donned over the weekend at the GLAAD awards.

D: Man! Pat Robertson invited the author of Sex and God at Yale to discuss the book, yet Robertson knew more about the book’s subtitle, Porn, Political Correctness, and a Good Education Gone Bad, than the author!

M: Dude! Were you watching The 700 Club again? How many times do I have to tell you not to delve into Christian Broadcasting Network’s lineup of programming?

D: Man! I even sat through the next half hour just to see how Pat Robertson would maneuver himself out of the uncalled for delineation of inappropriate theatrics in seventies movies.

M: Dude! Talking about inappropriate theatrics, Madonna Ciccone always references the dance pioneer Martha Graham as a force of nature and one of her idols. Yet, Craig Brown’s book reveals how Ciccone reduced Graham to tears in 1991. It’s incredibly Tea Party-like behavior on Madonna’s end.

D: Man! And? What took place between the two dynamic powerhouses?

M: Dude! Madonna is recalled stating in a memoir about her brief first encounter with the celebrated 

dancer as being overwhelming yet wordless.

D: Man! Did Madonna attend the Martha Graham Dance School?

M: Dude! She took classes there, yes. However, ten years later, Ciccone having enough years of fame and success, her office receives a call for financial donations from the Martha Graham Dance School that is now facing bankruptcy. Madonna’s reply is curt and cold, “Give it one day.”

D: Man! How much did Madonna give to the Martha Graham School?

M: Dude! The next day the superstar’s office offered 150,000 dollars. Can you believe that? Can you imagine a world with people like Ciccone comprising the private sector that Paul Ryan hypes up?

D: Man! I agree! It’s incredibly Tea Party-like behavior on Madonna’s end!

M: Dude! Televangelist Timocracy reminds me of the news about Zimbabwe’s Robert Mugabe having arrived in Italy today for Pope Francis’ Official Installment tomorrow.

D: Man! Ora pro nobis!

M: Dude! Wow! Pray for us!

D: Man! So how did Martha Graham react to Madonna Ciccone’s effrontery?

M: Dude! Martha Graham was then ninety-four-years-old and reduced to tears of upset.

D: Man! Come to think of it, Madonna Ciccone is the kind to upset someone else’s pride deliberately for egoism. Therefore, hers was an affront to the ace choreographer.

M: Dude! What about the affront to the working class poor like US that Eric Cantor insists upon in the guise of so-termed spending cuts?

D: Man! Technological advancement makes everything cheaper and better overall. But technological advancement has brought an evolution to the way the United States fights wars. It is the way first world countries will be fighting from now on, with drones instead of sacrificing our sons and daughters in uniform. That also means that the Republican trend to deploy the military into high-risk areas, thus causing another crisis amongst military families and friends and communities that the GOP thrives upon, is not going to be trending on the Obama Administration’s watch.

M: Dude! The psychological warfare that the GOP is subjecting US to through sequestration is outrageous.

Man! Dude! Session #132

(D)ude: Man! The present is never a time to cut research and development, or R&D! Cut it retroactively and you can actually get a humble grasp of just what societies lose as a result of austere conservatism that the current Republican Party wants President Obama to surrender towards.

(M)an: Dude! Retroactive cuts? I think that’s a way of describing the process by which you attain a doctorate? If so, then I would give the Republican Party sweeping recommendations to the universities of their choice. John Boehner would be the first to receive my endorsement to West Virginia University.

D: Man! Huh? That would be an odd first choice for John Boehner! West Virginia University?

M: Dude! That would give him ample excuse to conspire or concert with House Majority Leader and 

Virginian Representative Eric Cantor.

D: Man! West Virginia and Virginia are two separate states! You’re beginning to attribute Eric Cantor with the wrong state, much like the Republicans purposely misplace Senator Rand Paul in Tennessee when he is clearly the junior senator from Kentucky, whenever the GOP wants to differentiate between him and senior senator Mitch McConnell.

M: Dude! The American people need to demand transparency in the state legislatures. The crookedness with which the Republican Party goes about its affairs is intentional. The confusion and the mishap created during elections is how the Republicans end up in power at the state and national levels of government.

D: Man! The Republican Party leadership is convinced that the private sector is just as efficient as the public sector if not more. But none of the companies in the Dow Jones Industrial Average have come forward with any indications of wanting to assist with Hurricane Sandy relief efforts to the extent that the federal government could if popularly elected President Obama were given the opportunity to govern.

M: Dude! The Republican Party is demanding spending cuts and military spending, which mixes as well as oil and water. And the drone technology that’s been utilized since the George W. Cheney presidency is turning out to be a big loss for Republican free market enthusiasts and government deregulators like Representative Paul Ryan because of the Obama Administration’s excellence in staving off that which the GOP anticipates with every election cycle…

D: Man! Warfare?

M: Dude! Remember the standardized tests administered in high school?

D: Man! Yeah. Why?

M: Dude! Remember how those tests were used to strain the academics from inside the student body?

D: Man! Yeah. Why?

M: Dude! The Republican Party membership consists of that sort of societal striation. You have CPAC 2013 speakers blathering foolishly on the podium before an audience that cheers aimlessly. And keep in mind that the huge corporations are lining these Republican leaders’ pockets with unlimited dollar bills.

D: Man! Are you saying that the GOP leadership got away with memorizing the vocabulary lists and junior high math and whatnot? That Republicans passed through the academics and the life challenges, only to abandon all the lessons and embrace stolidity and bankrolls?

M: Dude! Their stolidity is feigned for the first decade of their careers, but they do become fatigued into surrendering all their common sense eventually to yielding profits and privately jetting their families and themselves everywhere.

D: Man! Wasn’t the Formica table where Jeb Bush and Mitt Romney conversed during the campaign trail last year any indication of the root miserliness of the GOP? I mean, come on! Having a Formica table on a private aircraft is as if Jeb Bush and Mitt Romney accidentally revealed a bit too much of their bungling frugality.

M: Dude! I have been trying to understand neoclassical economics and the model of austerity the Republican Party is embracing despite President Obama’s successes at applying Keynesian economic theory to distance US from the recession and possible depression that were inevitable if the Obama Administration had not been reelected this last election cycle.

D: Man! You know what?

M: Dude! What?

D: Man! Steve Kornacki could easily solve all the comprehension loopholes you are acknowledging as a tinkering thinker, a trait the Republican Party refuses to address amongst itself.

M: Dude! Isn’t Steve Kornacki the MSNBC contributor who talks about the presidential administrations of the past how many ever years since whenever like his soul has actually been there in those particular times?

D: Man! Steve Kornacki does have an aged soul! I think it is usually interpreted as wisdom and brilliance, but I get what you’re trying to say. The guy did a breathtaking take on the Richard Nixon years and actually continued through the presidents until landing on the policies of the Reagan Administration. It was sweeping genius.

M: Dude! He has breadth and depth, doesn’t he?

D: Man! I think Steve Kornacki can easily sweep the television market with his sharp and balanced sensibility. But I think his March 6, 2013 take on the 2013/2014 elections is a jaunting reminder for Democrats to build presidential election enthusiasm in order for the Democratic Party to resume power in the House of Representatives and maintain their hold in the Senate.

M: Dude! I remember how my mother used to shake out all the figurines and coins in my pockets before taking me home from a friend’s house. I think the Democratic Party is going to have to shake out the enthusiasm and commitment in our torn up pockets to get US to vote in the 2013 and 2014 elections for the Democratic Party that President Obama needs a majority of in Congress to govern.

Man! Dude! Session #131

(M)an: Dude! Do you seriously think Wisconsinite Representative and House Budget Chairman Paul Ryan actually read Ayn Rand?

(D)ude: Man! What? Have you found evidence to the contrary?

M: Dude! Yeah. Right here. Look.

D: Man! Tom Hopkins’ How To Master The Art Of Selling… Who’s Tom Hopkins?

M: Dude! Tom Hopkins is the preeminent sales guru and author of instant classics that delineate the basics as well as the specifics of selling just about anything and everything. Representative Paul Ryan even adopted the exact green cover of the paperback edition of the revised 2005 version published by Time Warner.

D: Man! So this is the book whose precepts and concepts Paul Ryan’s plagiarized into an unworkable budget proposal campaign?

M: Dude! Hopkins lays out the blueprints carefully aimed at those starting their journeying into sales. However, Paul Ryan believes that those exact same steps, which he could afford to take at the time he discovered Tom Hopkins’ brilliance and surefire ways to success at getting any point across to the toughest critics, can be embraced by those living in poverty in the United States.

D: Man! Paul Ryan’s taking the exact same shade of green as Tom Hopkins’ classic, which Representative Ryan took from exhaustively without any acknowledgement anywhere in the endless nonsense that is The Path To Posterity, is reflective of the current Republican Party. The Republican Party is erroneously focused on driving the debt down rapidly! Huh?

M: Dude! The Path To Posterity is for their own children’s futures, not our children’s day-to-day survival. Listen to this line from the Paul Ryan Budget page 37 on Repairing The Social Safety Net: The strains that many of these well-intentioned programs have placed on the nation have reached a breaking point. Of course, Paul Ryan is referring to Medicaid and Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program that is food stamps, which makes me think about Texas Governor Rick Perry’s insistence that he will not accept the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.

D: Man! Let’s practice The Purchase Path as laid out on page 29 of Tom Hopkins’ paperback. I’ll start. Greetings, Mister XY, how are you enjoying the weather outside.

M: Dude! Let’s see. Greetings, Mister YX, the weather is beautiful. What would you like to discuss with me?

D: Man! I’m supposedly to answer your question and then question you! Then you do the same. I then respond to the question. You then answer with an objection. Then I respond and question. Then… It gets really into the crux of the encounter with your objection to which I respond with an attempt at closing the deal.

M: Dude! You just listed the parts at play without a serious exemplary performance!

D: Man! You were the prospective buyer and I was the salesperson in the same mode Paul Ryan and Eric Cantor adopt whenever they are asked about their Tea Party motives.

M: Dude! The record high profits corporations are enjoying on the backs of the working and middle classers is evident on Wall Street, yet Paul Ryan persists on page 5 of his budget proposal that it will bring the size of government to twenty percent of economy by 2015, allowing the private sector to grow and create jobs.

D: Man! Paul Ryan announced with vigor how a new issue of The Path To Posterity would be made available this Tuesday, but all the pages of the proposal in your hands are marked March 20, 2012. Paul Ryan is making US mark the first anniversary of his entangled budget proposal. Huh? Didn’t Paul Ryan lose the vice presidency alongside Mitt Romney’s presidential undoing?

M: Dude! The private sector is the job creator in Paul Ryan’s bleak vision. It reminds me of Kim Jong-un in North Korea. Did you know that Jong-un attended private school in Switzerland? How convenient for Kim Jong-il to have placed his sons in Europe. A lot like the foreign bank accounts and the Cayman Island meetings of the world’s richest roosters, is it not? Are these cuckolds not the drivers of debt via pocketing national defense spending?

D: Man! This whole campaign of addressing the so-called drivers of debt by the Republican Party is not addressing the issue, only worsening the economy where it hurts the most Americans: tearing apart the social safety nets and totally bypassing any discussion about jobs. Did you know the Texas Republican Party is going after Texas State Senator Wendy Davis, an active Democrat?

M: Dude! The Texas GOP website is featuring a special giveaway of an AR-15 Rifle by one of its bloggers, an African-American male extremist by the name Kevin Jackson. And, get this, there is a lieutenant governor candidate named Jerry Patterson whose advertisement posters for 2014 have him firing a handgun while standing in front of an American flag with the subheading “Get Fired Up”… Is this not an attempt at provoking a response through provocation?

D: Man! Paul Ryan’s budget never budges with the changing times. Despite President Obama’s Administration outlining their policies on the official White House website, Texas Senators John Cornyn and Ted Cruz have a ticking clock indicating that it has been one thousand and sixteen days and nine hours and so and so minutes and seconds that there has been no budget from the Democrats. That is a false accusation.

M: Dude! Paul Ryan and the Republican Party want to add an additional $554 billion dollars to national defense spending in the next fiscal year. I would like to see where the over trillion dollar spending under the George W. Bush and Dick Cheney Administration for the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars was spread throughout the years that cost US our sons and daughters in uniform.

D: Man! Wouldn’t the Defense Contractors hired by the George W. and Cheney Administration be a part of that critical analysis? Let’s not forget then-Secretary Clinton and now-Secretary Kerry spelling out that we need to regroup and hire the best Defense Contractors after the Benghazi tragedy.

M: Dude! Government bureaucrats that Paul Ryan is so adamant about keeping out of the way of the United States private sector, the obvious job creators in the Republican mindset, were the hallmarks of the Eisenhower Administration. Essentially, the Paul Ryan Budget wants to eliminate the middle class phenomena in favor of elitists reigning above a fractured class of Americans who will have under twenty-first century Republicanism suffered parallel damages as the country’s economy.

D: Man! We voted for President Obama and Vice President Biden to lead this country forward. Why can’t the Republican Caucus allow them to govern as President Obama has expressed in wake of the start of the Conservative Political Action Conference yesterday?

Man! Dude! Session #130

(D)ude: Man! Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky speaks like he’s still a member of the secret society of Baylor University fraternity brothers only identifiable by their crude disguise of plastic glasses and mustaches and huge noses, all of which, as I said, are meant to disguise the membership. They go by the name “NoZe Brotherhood” and even entertain a foul website.  

(M)an: Dude! Let’s focus on someone far more lucid and together upstairs than the ranting Rand Paul! Willie Nelson’s bestseller’s a great read and I think he is the missing link between Washington Republicans and the Obama Administration. The country music legend made me aware of the catastrophic effects of corporate farms on the small family farmers that have dwindled from eight million to less than two million.

D: Man! Why are the small farmers not given the due respect they deserve?

M: Dude! Farm Aid concerts, which Willie Nelson takes part in actively in everyway, have been raising awareness of the dwindling small family farms in the United States. According to Nelson, the rich farmland is replaced by subdivisions and golf courses that over time prove to have been bad ideas.

D: Man! Then why don’t people like US replenish the land for small family farming after the corporate farms prove bad ideas?

M: Dude! There are other places in the world where the governments have tried to return the corporately confiscated small family farms back to the small family farmers but by then the small family farmers don’t want to have to start all over again in the tarring political schemes and scandals.

D: Man! That is terrible!

M: Dude! It is! And, get this, Willie Nelson advocates for gun control much the same way I would advocate for me going out for a run shortly because of the backwind ammo I’ve been releasing all day and just now.

D: Man! It was so pungent, I could have sworn it was mine! You should go out for a run. It was yours, after all! You are the doer!

M: Dude! I will! I will! But let me just reiterate how wonderful Willie Nelson’s latest read is! The book argues that we live in a different time, therefore Nelson himself confesses to what hunters only need in order to satisfy their fix, and I quote: A handgun, a shotgun and a deer rifle are all we need. Period. End of story. Close quote.

D: Man! Willie Nelson actually said that? Wow! The Republicans are having hang-ups about White House Tours being cancelled! I’d love to see Willie Nelson going into the White House to talk with President Obama and House Speaker John Boehner.

M: Dude! That would not be just a great photo op! It would be a rare moment where a common ground could be forged between President Obama and the GOP. I think all the senators who had the sensibleness to join President Obama for dinner this past week ought to get invites as well as John 

Boehner.

D: Man! Awesome! Willie Nelson at the White House! That’s an American moment for which I could 

actually go to the magazine rack at the corner drug store and purchase all or any magazine that had captured the moment on camera.

M: Dude! You’ll probably have to go to the White House and/or Willie Nelson official websites to download the historic images.

D: Man! I’d love to see Willie Nelson on Up With Chris Hayes! I’d also love to see Oscar Joyner and Ari Melber and Ezra Klein get a weekend gig too!

M: Dude! Oscar Joyner is brilliant! Ari Melber is too! And Ezra Klein is as well!

D: Man! They could be the solution to the terrible lineup of repetitive shows like Lockup on MSNBC over the weekends.

M: Dude! You know who else I would like to see get special airtime on the weekends? Joy Reid and Ruth Conniff would be an awesome pairing of brilliance and strength.

D: Man! And this new blend of weekenders could also include a permanent guest like Luke Russert.

M: Dude! That would be weekends to look forward to for sure! Are we ageists?

D: Man! No! We’re just getting done with talking about Willie Nelson!

M: Dude! The country crooner activist is turning 80 on April 30, 2013!

D: Man! Really? I wonder if Willie Nelson is scheduled to make an appearance at Billy Bob’s Texas?

M: Dude! Tickets are going on sale for Willie Nelson’s 4^th of July Picnic at Billie Bob’s Texas! Do you want to go?

D: Man! Is it going to be outdoors?

M: Dude! It’s not going to be at the sight of that Dwight Yoakam gig we saw a few seasons ago. We’ll have to head on out to the North Forty Field just East of the Honky Tonk.

D: Man! Let me think about it! If it is outdoors, that means there will be access to the Honky Tonk all day?

M: Dude! Yeah! It’s going to be the fortieth anniversary of the event itself! That means Willie Nelson was 40-years-old when it began! Hey! I wonder what I’ll be able to accomplish in my middle age?

D: Man! It’s about time you addressed the matter with the backwind ammo! You’ve released too much and I am not going anywhere near a public place with you until you’ve cleared up your messy gastrointestinal mishaps.

M: Dude! Queen Elizabeth was in the hospital for gastrointestinal distress recently. Do you think she was the queen that Kentuckian Senator Rand Paul referred to throughout his filibustering rant?

D: Man! I think he was referring to the Duchess of Cambridge’s pregnancy. There was speculation earlier that the royal heir yet to be born may be a girl.

M: Dude! Rand Paul does have incredible foresight. He disclosed rubbish that could be interpreted as substantial evidence of what the Republicans had in mind if they had won the White House.

D: Man! He was prancing about for close to thirteen hours how he would have employed totalitarian tactics to American Democracy under a Republican president?

M: Dude! Even more reason for US to look forward to electing Democratic candidates to replace such sneaky politicians like Chris Christie and Mitch McConnell who act as if they’re really concerned for constituents when they are not. Governor Chris Christie’s New Jersey is still helpless. Senator Mitch McConnell’s Kentucky is helpless as long as McConnell deliberately stumps all the possible resolutions to the sequestration purposely due to a promise he made to obstruct the Obama Administration on January 20, 2009.

D: Man! Can’t Senator Lindsey Graham reallocate leadership roles in the GOP? Why must Mitch McConnell continue as Senate Minority Leader and Eric Cantor as House Majority Leader? The names of the attendees of that sneaky 2009 meet up can be reprimanded by the likes of Senator Lindsey Graham.

M: Dude! I’m going for a run! These unfathomable Civil Rights abominations are making my stomach churn!

Man! Dude! Session #129

(M)an: Dude! Kentuckian Senator Rand Paul is absolutely right to worry about Hitler’s National Socialist German Workers Party remerging in the twenty-first century. Unfortunately, his intended unending filibustering yesterday came to a halt due to the call of nature he addressed with prowess and his signature humor. 

(D)ude: Man! The Nazi Party reemerging? Where?

M: Dude! I don’t know, but apparently Senator Rand Paul is concerned enough to advise congress and the nation much the same way he ventured ahead of everyone in suggesting that Turkey be included in the United States’ scope of insight just days before the Ankara embassy bombing.

D: Man! I was unaware of Senator Rand Paul being a man of foresight!

M: Dude! Rand Paul is an extraordinary statesman! Unlike many Republican Party members, his is not a dispensation with execrative malison.

D: Man! Are you making reference to the fact that the GOP consists otherwise of cursing dipsomaniacs with reddened eyeballs, like John Boehner and Paul Ryan?

M: Dude! Speaker John Boehner and Majority Leader Eric Cantor are unable to decipher hard facts with hard liquor.

D: Man! Then they would be Independents teeter tottering to the right?

M: Dude! Senator Ron Wyden of Oregon concerns me. He does sound as if he is teeter tottering to the right.

D: Man! Eric Cantor and Paul Ryan in particular remind me of people who misread attitude as altitude on job applications and take out their protractors and calculators because of the sudden shock they experience as a result of their misreading.

M: Dude! Eric Cantor and Paul Ryan are the type to get really flustered with typos, despite the Paul Ryan Path To Prosperity budget proposal having been downed thrice already due to the overwhelming amount of caboodles in it.

D: Man! The Paul Ryan Path To Posterity For My Children & Their Children is flawed and needing a do-over, minus the pictures of the curiously stressed out middle-aged man trying to handle a colossal stack of papers.

M: Dude! The House Budget Committee, which Paul Ryan chairs, needs to incorporate the insights and the spirit of democracy that the 12 Republicans, who agreed to dinner and talks with the president Wednesday night about the issues needing to be readdressed and redressed, exemplify.

D: Man! Senator Mitch McConnell and Representative Eric Cantor are really trying hard to rewrite government by the people and for the people to something resembling plutocratic authoritarianism even more obstructionist than Republican strategist Frank Luntz planned out in that nontransparent January 20, 2009 meeting with Newt Gingrich and a dozen Republican senators and representatives.

M: Dude! I am concerned for the people of Cambodia, many of who have suffered the horror of losing their loved ones and their own limbs if not lives to the anti-personnel landmines that riddle Cambodia’s landscape and whose exact locations have been forgotten by even the folks who placed them primarily in rural areas in the seventies because of Civil War.

D: Man! So, technically, the United States drone program is saving not just our sons and daughters in uniform, but quite possibly will bring a plausible end to the fact that the USA hasn’t even signed the Ottawa Mine Ban Treaty, which became available for signature in December 1997.

M: Dude! Canada was one of the first to sign the Ottawa Mine Ban Treaty, but look how Canadians as well as Americans are maneuvering the Keystone XL Pipeline into the United States! It is such hypocrisy! For BP to not have been able to come up with a strategy to completely cleanup after its disasters, one of which is being litigated on right now in US courts, and having President Obama’s State Department relent to the GOP heat in the time of sequestration, when Paul Ryan is still in the process of rewriting another draft of his Path To Prosperity, we need to holler for the scholar that President Obama is to come out in disfavor of this environmentally unsound affair that is the Keystone Pipeline!

D: Man! That would be an excellent crux to come out against the Keystone Pipeline Project and erroneously funding American defense when the GOP is clearly deadest on sacrificing the lives of disenfranchised Americans whose lives depend on governmental safety nets. If Senator John McCain seriously wants there to remain a labor force to supply his family with the illegal immigrants who “care for our babies”, then he had better reconsider his position against the Obama and Biden Gun Control measures to ban assault weapons. The absence of the social safety nets and the expanding fears of those who are disenfranchised further due to sequestration, working immigrant women will not be able to address the needs of other people’s children if their own are abandoned by program cuts to WIC and TEFAP.

M: Dude! The USDA titled FY 2013 Funding for TEFAP addressed the Emergency Food Assistance Program’s future in a January 22, 2013 memo to regional directors. The TEFAP State Agencies were confident in that their administrative costs and food funds would not perish since they had the insight to set aside ten percent of the food funds every year since their inception to administrative costs.

D: Man! How will the Food and Nutrition Service division of the USDA treat the approximately 26.5 million dollars of total funds appropriated to every state TEFAP director?

M: Dude! I’m not sure, but the GOP deciding to cut the 26.5 million dollars by even a slight percentage is misery for the people!

D: Man! Misery by the “Republican Party” people is noxious and shameful! I cannot believe that people will be led to the streets as a result of their social safety nets being ripped! John Boehner is acting like a “Jack The Ripper” of sorts financially with the most vulnerable and desperate women and children of this nation and others around the world!

M: Dude! John McCain’s refusal, to support the mother of the Aurora victim shot and killed in the Arizona movie theatre massacre who remained in the town hall meeting despite the senator’s heartless response to her statement, made my eyes hurt as if I had looked directly into the noon sun!

Man! Dude! Session #128

(D)ude: Man! I stopped by the Dollar Store and came upon the Bill O’Reilly library of bestsellers coauthored with and without Martin Dugard.

(M)an: Dude! Seriously? You can actually pre-order his next bragging mea culpa for his  equally bumptious conservative followers… It is entitled Killing Jesus.   

D: Man! He couldn’t let go of Killing Lincoln and Killing Kennedy and now Killing Jesus? As Bill O’Reilly’s psychotherapist and/or physician, I would diagnose him with the compulsion to revert to the notion that the Republican Party won the White House.

M: Dude! I don’t get this either! It appears the periwig rash has taken over any rationality amongst the GOP!

D: Man! Donald Trump is headed out to the CPAC 2013 three-day convention of rallying and considerable miasmal ruckus.

M: Dude! You got the current stock market that is way out of the ballpark of crashing as Wall Street insisted last year. Yet the House Republicans continue to insist on taking apart that which is not even relatable to decreasing the debt, draconian entitlement cuts.

D: Man! There’s a far greater chance of Paul Ryan’s previous proposal drafts being found at Parisian marches aux puces than anywhere online or within the continental United States.

M: Dude! The most significant swap meet of the millennium is coming up in 2014. House Republicans up for reelection must be met with Democratic contenders who are authentic and robust. If Senator Harry Reid’s sequester remedies are being outright filibustered by Senator Mitch McConnell, this could only mean that Senator McConnell is too confident about his being reelected this November.

D: Man! It means that Mitch McConnell and Rand Paul are collaboratively trying to create an image of themselves as the conservative crusaders who are in actuality obstructing justice. McConnell and Paul want the poor to subsist exclusively on Ramen Noodles and tap water. Home heating is gong to be cut due to the Republican Party’s efforts at preserving the sequestration budget cuts.

M: Dude! I believe the Republican Party is going after the home heating to override Hillary Clinton’s request that all homes in Africa be equipped with stovetops.

D: Man! Hillary Clinton’s recommendation came during the Benghazi hearing! I remember that because Senator Rand Paul addressed Hillary Clinton quite gratingly, like a Mother Goose villain who by a fable’s end gets proven a huffing duffer.

M: Dude! Mitch McConnell and Rand Paul speak through blowholes, not mouths. I bet they would perish at sea if they were killer whales because their reprehensible and repeating fate is that of destruction and disaster.

D: Man! The House of Representatives has such high density of collective bad karma that John Boehner and Eric Cantor recess often and reconvene rarely.

M: Dude! Boehner and Cantor and Paul Ryan convene often, away from Capitol Hill but often nonetheless.

D: Man! I bet they take their lunch breaks not in restaurants, but at organic grocery stores where they load up on healthy yet tasteless cuisine and frozen yogurt.

M: Dude! I am not going to the Sunflower Shoppe! The customer service at the frozen yogurt station is as appalling as the GOP caucus. And, besides, McDonald’s  down the same boulevard has far more hygienic practices concerning their ice cream machines.

D: Man! Corporations are making record-breaking profits, yet Bill O’Reilly and the GOP want to snatch every morsel of integrity and self-efficacy from America’s disenfranchised.

M: Dude! So Bill O’Reilly’s bestsellers are perched on the shelves of the Dollar Store?

D: Man! There’s an eight-cent tax included if you buy one book. But I had a twenty-dollar bill.  Hence buying the Bill O’Reilly collection of books, I dropped them off at a Goodwill Donation Center nearby.

M: Dude! I thought you were upset over Ron Paul and the Texas GOP ending the third Wednesday storewide fifty-percent discounts that Goodwill Superstores offered every month.

D: Man! I couldn’t keep myself from donating the dollar worth Bill O’Reilly bogus books to Goodwill Industries! I’ve seen a lot of Tea Party Republicans’ books on the shelves at the dollar store, but the Sarah Palin, Donald Trump, Donald Rumsfeld, George W. Bush, Condoleezza Rice, and Jeb Bush collection of chick lit cannot rival with the chick lit of O’Reilly and Dugard.

M: Dude! Chick lit? Are you meaning whether the chicken came before the egg or after, or are you referencing the kind of lit that Jacqueline Susann invented in the sixties and Candace Bushnell commercialized on in the nineties?

D: Man! That’s it!

M: Dude! The chicken came before the egg?

D: Man! You’re beginning to sound like Oklahoman Senator Jim Inhofe and Arizonan Senator John McCain, who sit on committees like the Armed Services for example and demand yes and no answers as if the they are unaware of any other means of existence besides black and white.

M: Dude! Maybe Inhofe and McCain need to berate each other by alternating positions between the questioning and the questioned.

D: Man! Now you’re really making sense! About time! See? Didn’t I tell you how wonderful the absurdity is?

M: Dude! Bill O’Reilly’s previous works without Dugard were not as popular or well received. Clearly, Martin Dugard is the one with the pants on. O’Reilly? Probably just running around in circles at Faux News trying to get the latest on yesterday’s latest!