Barbara Buono & Milly Silva for New Jersey & US

(D)ude: Man! New Jersey Governor Chris Christie is actively badmouthing the federal government about the regulations it has placed into the dispersal of funding for Sandy Relief Efforts. The federal regulations in place right now are of concern to Chris Christie because, if reelected, he plans to remain Sheldon Adelson’s mouthpiece and promote reviving talks about turning North Jersey into a casino pub, an enterprise that Sheldon Adelson is an expert at building and starting up and profiting from heavily.

(M)an: Dude! Sheldon Adelson is the current casino king. And Chris Christie is deliberately expressing concern for Obamacare up front while encouraging entities like United Healthcare to severe contracts with doctors who align themselves with the Medicare Advantage plan of action.

D: Man! It is interesting to note that in 2009, right around the time Chris Christie won New Jersey governorship, the Democratic Party began losing significant fundraising campaigns and, of course, this is the time right before 2010 when the Tea Partiers took hold of the House of Representatives. If Chris Christie wins reelection, chances are that the Tea Partying Republicans will have figured out a way to maneuver African American constituents to vote against their own interests and maybe even have Corporate America invest in another television channel like Pivot and Fusion to attract African American millennials as well.

M: Dude! The American Media stems from the Oil Industry. And together they are promoting a Jeff Foxworthy mentality and even embracing crude stereotypes and generalizations to attract a multicultural audience that begins to basically accept the degradation of girls and women. In fact, in a Foxworthy fashion, you are a redneck if you… disrespect the female gender within your own family life.

D: Man! Isn’t that what the Richardson and Herbert Walker men in the Duck and Bush dynasties do? You’ve got the Richardson men calling out their women rudely and you’ve got the Bush men investing in only namesake males. And now there’s Chris Christie who is receiving exhaustive amounts of money and staffers from the Republican Governors Association and the Republican National Committee, both entities that support the likes of Bobby Jindal and Reince Preibus among their membership.

M: Dude! If reelected, Governor Chris Christie is scheduled to become the presiding officer of the Republican Governors Association and Reince Preibus will still be leader of the Republican National Committee. Do New Jersey residents really want to reelect and endorse a Republican Governors Association member like Chris Christie. And have African American millennials really forgotten the Civil Rights Movement and the fact that after Chris Christie won his first term in 2009, the Tea Partying Republicans had spread the same propaganda as this time around about the ineffectuality of President Obama just months into his first term?

D: Man! The Tea Partying Republicans are dependent on Chris Christie winning reelection and Shaquille O’Neal is just being taken for a ride in their clown car. We have to remember that Chris Christie is aligned with Israel such that if he comes into power and advances to the 2016 candidacy of GOP presidential contender, he will juke up the Jack in the Box and Sheldon Adelson will come out with all his tripe towards Iran, a place he would like demolished, specifically via an atomic attack on Tehran. And this is the same Sheldon Adelson who tried to buy his crooked way into Israeli politics through the purchase of one of Israel’s newspapers and lost the bid entirely but went on to get an Israeli Channel 10 team of reporters to resign amidst negative reports about Adelson’s businesses and political ties within the United States.

M: Dude! 2010’s Tea Party influx inside Congress and Citizens United ruling by the Supreme Court, both came on the heels of Chris Christie’s winning the New Jersey gubernatorial race in 2009.

D: Man! Arlington, Texas is going through something that has me concerned and seeing a dismal future for US. Have you noticed how much fracking sites there are all around the Metroplex? Fort Worth, Texas looks too ugly for me to want to stay here. I want to move to the California coast or something like it. Well, apparently East Arlington’s got an all-bills-paid housing complex that is being sought for demolition by the well to doers around it. According to Susan Schrock of the Star-Telegram [newspaper], the La Joya Apartments are being deemed irreparable in wake of the Tarrant [County] Appraisal District valuing the property to be worth $3.3 million dollars and in need of $1.9 million dollars worth of repair to bring them up to city health and safety codes standards.

M: Dude! What are they going to do? Create a fracking facility in East Arlington as well and slowly turn our entire county into inhabitable fields of awful and forever inaccessible areas of mass emptiness? With the exception of the tanks and other fracking equipment and wire fences with the possibility of sending earthquakes into the surrounding neighborhoods that were never made to endure something like seismic underground activity.

D: Man! The City Council in  East Arlington rather would spend $1.3 million dollars in asbestos removal and demolition than the $1.9 million needed to repair the La Joya Apartment Complex. I think this is just a way of stratifying society into the deservers and the non-deservers. Kind of like what is happening to the Sandy survivors who are awaiting funds for rebuilding their lives that haven’t been directed towards the most financially strapped like the majority of those who saw their dreams drown and/or demolish with Superstorm Sandy.       

M: Dude! Only 37% of the resettlement funds went to middle and lower income earners, according to Miranda Leitsinger of NBC News. And the associate director and lawyer of the Fair Housing Center summarized it best, “The amount of confusion and the lack of transparency and the inconsistent answers coming from the administration and its contractors would suggest that to the extent there is blame to around, much of it belongs to the state.”

D: Man! Barbara Buono listens and doesn’t turn her back against the working poor and the middle class, having developed already a dialogue and trust between herself and the unions that police officers and teachers of New Jersey depend upon, as well as small businesses that make up 95% of all businesses in the Garden State. Barbara Buono is transparent and traditional and ready to bolster everybody’s tomorrows, beginning with those still facing displacement due to last year’s storm cycles. Buono will do in six weeks what Chris Christie hasn’t carried out in six months.

Man! Dude! Session #229: "I've gone through a lot in my life to now become hostile to hostility."

(M)an: Dude! Are you going to early vote anytime soon? The last day to cast an early ballot is this Friday. The main issue for US in Tarrant County is the Fort Worth Independent School District’s Bond Election.  

(D)ude: Man! Where does State Senator Wendy Davis stand on the issue and what about US Representative Kay Granger?

M: Dude! I called Wendy Davis’s local and state office and Kay Granger’s local and national office, but I did not get but referrals from either one of their staffers. This concerns me because Wendy Davis’s staffers were not hesitant but just unknowing, while Kay Granger’s staffers were hesitant and not unknowing.

D: Man! So what exactly is this Bond Election of the Fort Worth ISD?

M: Dude! There are three propositions, all three agreeing to allocate an estimated $489.9 million to the upgrading of Fort Worth Public Schools. Proposition I consists of building  and expanding campuses throughout Tarrant County while bringing district-wide pre-K into the mainstream as well as Wi-Fi accessibility study rooms.

D: Man! How about Propositions II and III?

M: Dude! Prop II involves funding two distinct academies. First off there will be a Performing and Fine Arts Academy and next a Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math, or simply STEM Academy. Prop III will be directed towards non-construction items, which means periodic betterment via replacing or replenishing school buses, musical instruments, uniforms, and fixtures. You can read about all three props online and decide for yourself whether or not you’re willing to forfeit 2 Happy Meals a week at McDonald’s or if you desire to indulge in junk food that isn’t even good for the most part thereafter, because homeowners will be taxed $2.50 monthly. That is, if your home falls within the $115,000 and up range.

D: Man! Wow! Or you could forfeit two Big Macs at McDonald’s and choose to live on healthy alternatives packed into a brown bag every day by hand alongside a couple of bottled waters from Aldi. But, you know, there are a lot of folks who come to Aldi daily for lunch? Many just happened to not have time to prepare meals whenever and I did the same a few days back myself and bought some really affordable lunch meats and bread.

M: Dude! The Fort Worth ISD website has titled the link to the bond information as the Capital Improvement Program, or CIP.

D: Man! There are individually boxed single serving salads available at Aldi as well that are freshly packed and better tasting than any salad you will ever find at a fast food restaurant.

M: Dude! Where were you yesterday? I called at least twice around midday and your answering machine came on every time.

D: Man! I was at the Resale Shoppe on Cabaret Boulevard and witnessed yet another severe instance of prejudice towards a person of color. This time it was a Hispanic American woman trying to donate 

books to the Shoppe.

M: Dude! You went there even after what the employees and owners of that particular resale store did to that African American twenty-something woman?

D: Man! I overheard that the Resale Shoppe is expanding and was curious to see whether the prejudicial establishment of yesterday was still managing the store. And they are, did you know? Well, their next generation of whitewashed souls, that is. There was a mid twenties or early thirties White American male in a red apron who couldn’t resist intimidating the Hispanic American woman as she placed the finest literature on the shelf.

M: Dude! You should have stood up for her! What kind of a person are you?

D: Man! The kind of person who helped the woman by placing the books on the shelf, and then reassuring her that I could do the entire shopping cart full of impeccably placed masterworks. Charities in Fort Worth, Texas are cruel and insensitive towards those they say they are trying to help. I believe that resale shop establishment actually boxes up the good reads donated to them and then when the boxes are overflowing with books, they sell the boxes worth of books for profit to places specializing in half price or discounted sales  of books.  

M: Dude! That African American woman from earlier was accused wrongly of stealing and actually was told to empty the contents of her purse, which she did, and leave the store with the promise to never return again despite her innocence and those unforgettable tearful eyes. At that time, there was an auburn hair middle-aged woman who always loved to don some of the jewelry pieces donated to the resale store by actual Middle Easterners who believed their precious belongings would go to Middle Easterners who were struggling to make it in the United States.

D: Man! What about that Black Church matron who came in to donate her entire porcelain Black doll collection in hopes that an African American family would buy and enjoy them at the Resale Shoppe? Remember how White American upper class women took possession of every one of those dolls?

M: Dude! Are we White Americans really that cruel and inconsiderate?

D: Man! There is another, second, Resale Shoppe on Cabaret Boulevard that had designated a female employee to run one of the registers. She too hammered at not just African American women, but all minority women in fact. I overheard she got out one of those markers that highlights the strip necessary on a $5.00 bill to be deemed legitimate currency. Whenever she got Hispanic American women shoppers, she would get her marker out and deem every bill in their possession unredeemable. She would ask, “Where did you get these bills?” and the women, many times African Americans as well, would list out stores like local drug or grocery store chains.

D: Man! I know her! She’s always intimidating female minorities by taking out her highlighter and impeding the wait time in the line so that people begin to shuffle and tell whoever she has targeted at 

that time to move along and get going.

M: Dude! That second Resale Shoppe also has stopped placing every book that comes in onto shelves. I have been told they too hoard boxes worth of books, sometimes brand new editions of customary classics, in the back of their warehouse so that they can too sell the books meant for those facing hard times to the half price and discounted bookstores.

D: Man! That is tragic. But what’s the most tragic is how those who are down on their luck aren’t being treated to the buying opportunities that donors to stores like that first Resale Shoppe and that second Resale Shoppe believe they are making available.

M: Dude! These stores are now selling discards that they were not able to sell to their own underground patrons. It is sad. Imagine all the financially disadvantaged children and their parents not being able to fully enjoy the extent to which unknowing donors go to give them the best mint conditioned goods which are pretty much auctioned off in special sales to those who are wanting to make a profit and not give those sometimes priceless works to the general struggling public.

D: Man! That guy with the red apron was really very rude. He actually said to the highly dignified Hispanic book donor with indignation, “Whatever you can fit on the shelf we will take. However, you can take back the rest because we have more than we need in boxes in the backroom.”

M: Dude! What did she say?

D: Man! It’s something I’ll never forget. She looked at me and said, “I’ve gone through a lot in my life to now become hostile to hostility.”

Lee Thompson Young (February 1, 1984 - August 19, 2013)

(D)ude: Man! I am still mourning the loss of Lee Thompson Young. He was such a promising intellectual tour de force who was most certainly experiencing a lot of shakeups due to bipolar disorder while balancing a soaring television career. 

(M)an: Dude! He was a truly classy guy and never once displayed any irritation with the fans who loved reliving “The Famous Jett Jackson” moments from the Disney Channel Network, a part he landed at that pivotal age of 13 when things start to fall apart as we transition between our preteen and teenage years.

D: Man! He loved writing and graduated with honors from USC’s School of Cinematic Arts on a full academic scholarship. What do you think went wrong that he claimed his own life with a shotgun wound to the temple?

M: Dude! The high life is difficult, especially for successful minorities. I was at a book fair that lasted the entire weekend. You remember the one you also went to last year? Well, there were exclusively White American volunteers running the public library event for charity but there were a lot of presumptions and assumptions in the eyes of the organizers for every ethnicity that reminded me of the stereotypes embraced by charities right here in Fort Worth, Texas.

D: Man! What sort of stereotypes? Like the ones I overheard while looking for a downtown loft for your sister and brother-in-law?

M: Dude! Yeah. Stereotypes like you are what you drive or that you are where you’re from. Remember how you said that the proprietor of the property was dressed in Calvin Klein shifts both days and how her attitude came across as if she ordered them from an upscale department or online store?

D: Man! You know, one of the guys at work told me that his wife had found three Calvin Klein ensembles after the season was over, for about two years that is, at a resale shop? Apparently, the proprietor of the particular condos I toured acted like I was one of those guys who buy at reduced price retailers like the ones located behind the condos I was touring. And to make things even more uncomfortable, she offered to walk me to my fifteen-year-old make of an automobile.

M: Dude! Did you decline her offer?

D: Man! Of course not! Although when I walked out of there the second time around I recommended 

that my sister hire a professional to do her condo hunting for her. Becoming intimidated by the superficial only begets more artificiality and actually is very unhealthy for the fate of the manufactured.

M: Dude! At that book event, there were these White American high school students who came in and tried intimidating the crowds with their literary jargon. Surprisingly, their choices were overwhelmingly whitewashed like my skin tone gets in the fall and winter months due to the lack of sun. I wondered if they would ever list a non-White literary figure, but no! They knew Ayn Rand like Representative Paul Ryan of Wisconsin and J.D. Salinger like Hillary Rodham Clinton. But there was one guy in the gang of six or eight that had soul enough to stump the others with a simple question about the significance of Giovanni’s Room and Marlon Brando and Robert F. Kennedy.

D: Man! James Baldwin wrote one, befriended the other, and met with the last?

M: Dude! Yeah! I saw a lot of political hardbacks and paperbacks but they did not resonate anything in me. You know, the United States is in a paradigm shift right this minute- the era before President Obama and the era during his second term as Commander-in-Chief. The Koch Brothers and the Republican Party are infiltrating the airwaves rattling the poor and working class White like us while Chris Christie continues crass comments regarding the nation’s chief executive embracing him when Christie was a grieving washout post-Superstorm Sandy, regardless of what he tooted to the Philadelphia Inquirer yesterday. 

D: Man! It was a handshake like you would shake hands with anyone. It was perfectly natural, casual, normal type of greeting between two people. And you know, it’s become legend. If he [President Obama] deserved to be trashed, I would have, as I had many times before that. But he didn’t deserve it.

M: Dude! Chris Christie said that because he is conducting an experiment for the 2014 midterms that the Republican Party intends to win through cheating and falsely advertising itself as what David Muir of ABC News has clearly stated the “new wave” of broadcasts via a new ABC Network venture to attract Hispanic millennials. It is a new cable channel collaboration with Univision and will go by the name “Fusion” and has me very concerned.    

D: Man! Why?   

M: Dude! The introduction to the “Fusion” channel, which debuted today, passionately promotes the new generations of Hispanic youth to embrace assimilation as a lot of Hispanic millennials have.

D: Man! Assimilation is one of the four types of ways people choose to acculturate to a host culture, like Mexican immigrants assimilating into the culture of the United States of America by encouraging the dominant language of English to be spoken over Spanish, the language of the culture of origin, which they attempt to suppress to the point of erasure.

M: Dude! There is a psychological cultural crisis facing immigrants to the United States from all over the world. And it is that the status quo purposefully throws those who have forgotten their language of origin and their cultural heritage into a loophole. Like, for example, remember how our Hispanic friends in grade school were divided into those who were bilingual and those who spoke English exclusively?

D: Man! Yeah! We have to embrace biculturalism and multiculturalism! But what is the point you’re trying to make? That the status quo brings on a feeling of inferiority upon those who are bicultural and multicultural?

M: Dude! Remember how a lot of teachers became exasperated by the bilingual and multilingual when we were in kindergarten and elementary school?

D: Man! Yeah! And then when the time came to pick a language to enroll in for the course of middle school and high school, the teachers expressed a slight offish attitude towards Hispanic students who did not know the language of their country of origin, primarily Spanish. Although I remember a lot more languages in our cohort than was recognized. What happens at the university level?

M: Dude! The students who either assimilated or whose families chose another painful acculturation experience simply known as marginalization— the process by which people chose to not take any sides at all, whether for the host or the original culture, and basically decide to reject both— are confronted by status quo professors and administrators who chide them about not embracing integration of all their different backgrounds and remind them of bleak facts and statistics about how languages are either dying or in peril.

D: Man! We need to embrace bilingual and multilingual children from the time of preschool. And children enrolled in ESL deserve respect and encouragement to integrate and love both or all parts of their heritage.

M: Dude! The experiment that Chris Christie is conducting right now as he campaigns is to find out how to basically get African-Americans to vote for the Republican Party.

D: Man! So, let me get this together. The channel referred to as Fusion is the ABC Network’s attempt to assimilate and encourage assimilation amongst Hispanic Americans. And Chris Christie is in the process of assessing African Americans and how to attract their votes?

M: Dude! Arianna Huffington has created ethnic-specific news websites in which she and the Republican Party had already begun the research that Chris Christie is wrapping up.

D: Man! The Republican Party is really into television channeling! Why?

M: Dude! Let’s see. There are currently two channels already on cable television that are focused on attracting specific millennials. There is the channel we have been talking about and that is Fusion. The other one is Pivot, and that is targeted towards White American millennials.

D: Man! How did they come to be?

M: Dude! In June 2004 eBay’s Jeffery Skoll founded Participant Productions for projects like the ones Michael Moore made back then, intended to promote social change while remaining commercially bankable. In March 2005 Ricky Strauss became the first president of Participant Productions and movies like George Clooney’s “Syriana” and others brought the company many Academy Award nominations and occasional wins from then until right now. The last cycle of Academy Award nominations having taken place in 2012, with Steven Spielberg’s “Lincoln” securing 12 nominations and Daniel Day-Lewis winning of course.

D: Man! Then what happened?

M: Dude! Well, in January 2012, Ricky Strauss left Participant Media conveniently for Walt Disney Pictures and Pivot launched in August 1, 2013. Keep in mind that the Walt Disney Company owns the American Broadcasting Company, or ABC. And Fusion launched today.

D: Man! That is convenient! Ricky Strauss probably got so flustered and angry after Barack Obama won the 2008 presidential election that he and his corporate ties wanted to present impeachment and “he’ll never be a two-term president” hype and the corresponding White supremacist campaign to halt such progress of the Civil Rights Movement. They probably did not anticipate that President Obama would take office at least two and a half decades before what Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. had estimated.

M: Dude! 2044?

D: Man! I think that’s the estimate that Reverend King gave. I distrust the Supreme Court males and actually am beginning to dislike them for having handed over so much control and power that was meant for a democracy to thrive to White Corporate America via their Citizens United ruling and the George W. Bush plus Dick Cheney presidencies before that.

M: Dude! David Muir and ABC Nightly News completed the circle of lies and cheating to be waged upon the lives of millennials now and tomorrow by referring to Sofia Vergara who is an actress on a record-breaking weekly sitcom on ABC and reported to be banking around nineteen million dollars to sell the assimilation and gradual marginalization to the millions of viewers who tune to peek inside a “Modern Family” and let US not forget Pivot’s attempt to do the same with its sitcom “Little Mosque on the Prairie” and the resulting growing number of viewership.

D: Man! Sofia Vergara is the spokesperson and model for PepsiCo and Covergirl, right?

M: Dude! Yeah. And it just happens to be that ABC News’ senior executive producer Jon Banner left after twenty-five years in the industry to become the senior Vice President of global strategy and planning for PepsiCo.

D: Man! When was that?

M: Dude! The press releases indicate the date Augusr 21, 2013, conveniently placed exactly one week before the first day of the 2012 Republican National Convention where Chris Christie, the then-governor of New Jersey gave the keynote address.

D: Man! That was August 28, 2012! Very convenient indeed! And now the Republican Governors Association is pumping money into getting Chris Christie reelected as Governor of New Jersey, and then 2016 when they are predicting Christie will win and place the Republican Party in a place where Peter Baker and Chris Christie rewrite history to defend the actions taken by W. and Cheney, which they can given all the scripts floating about. I think Oliver Stone’s career will go into overdrive— if we don’t do anything, that is!

Man! Dude! Session #227: United States Supreme Court Locker Politics

(M)an: Dude! The JOBS Act provision of allowing crowdfunding is now in the final phase of discussions and awaiting public scrutiny and inquiries.

(D)ude: Man! President Obama signed the JOBS Act into law on April 5, 2012 and the letters in the acronym actually stand for “Jumpstart Our Businesses Startups” and allows for entities besides angel investors and venture capital firms, both considered accredited investors, to take part in a startup’s financial setup.

M: Dude! Unaccredited investors like us can contribute according to a general rule of income and numbers. Folks earning less than $100,000 a year are allowed to invest up to 5% of their income or $2,000.  

D: Man! There is a lot of freedom and transparency in the JOBS Act provision of crowdfunding. However, the voter identification laws in effect right now throughout the United States of America are insidious and make milestones like the allowance for crowdfunding in American business startups bittersweet.

M: Dude! The Supreme Court is artful and crooked. I still cannot comprehend how Justice Sonia Sotomayor went along with the majority in Fisher versus University of Texas, which was decided on June 24, 2013, just four months ago today. Did Justices Thomas and Scalia try to haggle and intimidate Justices Sotomayor and Breyer?

D: Man! Justices Sotomayor and Breyer have enough oomph to stand up to the haggling and intimidation tactics of Justices Thomas and Scalia. The real problem is that Sotomayor and Breyer are very pedagogic personalities. They are that brand of pedagogy that made grade school so sufferable that I cannot escape the bleached smell of  hallways.

M: Dude! Not all hallways are created equal! Well, actually, they are portrayed so similarly and exactly in teen films that I cannot but remember ever seeing anything differently than the standard red lockers and white and grey speckled- marble floors?

D: Man! With a matte finish, that is?

M: Dude! Perhaps. Returning to the Supreme Court of the United States, I’m convinced Justices Sotomayor and Breyer have an affirmative action case this year that could either hurt or help not just their place in history but the lives of millions of African American and Hispanic college applicants. Have you heard of Schutte v. Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action?

D: Man! That’s the one originating at the University of Michigan and having been implemented in all public universities in the state with the debilitating effects beginning immediately after what basically was the gutting of affirmative action through a 2006 state constitutional ban known as Proposal 2. Another reason why Democrats like Californian Representative Anna Eshoo better think not just twice but twice as hard before reprimanding Cheryl Campbell, vice president of CGI Federal, the lead contractor being found responsible for the online mishaps of Obamacare.

M: Dude! Representative Anna Eshoo must find out sooner than later that the Republicans and the Tea Partiers anticipate daily rifts among Democratic leaders. Anna Eshoo just fed the finest meat and potatoes to the far right and mustn’t fall right back  into the traps set out by the Republicans and the Tea Partiers. Surely, Representative Anna Eshoo knows better than to go along with such secretive, scurvy, White supremacists like the Congressional Republicans.   

D: Man! The Democratic Party membership on the House Energy and Commerce Committee overall did not fall for the Republican waylay as Representative Anna Eshoo mistakenly did. I think there must be at least three-fifths White Supremacist blood in Anna Eshoo’s constitution that crept to the surface today like the Republicans and the Tea Partiers shamelessly advertise and sport.

M: Dude! Dude! Dude! The Chair of the House Energy and Commerce Committee is Michigan Republican Representative Fred Upton, coincidentally. Whilst John Boehner and the Tea Partier Republicans forced US to surrender to shutdown as well as keep  enduring sequester, the State of Michigan has been undoing and derailing countless lives from within. And, have you noticed how the GOP leaders always accuse the Democratic Party leadership for something that they themselves are afraid to admit to doing- or having done- but want to flaunt in a parade-like posture?  

D: Man! Huh?

M: Dude! House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman and Republican Michigan Representative Fred Upton said quote unquote, “This is not about blame- this is about accountability, transparency, and fairness for the American public. The broken promises are many.”    

D: Man! Oh! That translates to, roughly, “This is about blame- this is not about accountability, nor transparency, nor fairness for the American public. The broken promises made by the Democratic Administration are few and/or none. The Republican Party will not back off from attacking the integrity of President Obama and his Administration.

M: Dude! That’s just it! The majority of the Democrats on the Committee said it best, “fix, not nix” what is the law of the land.  

D: Man! The last day to apply for voting via ballot by mail is tomorrow. However, there is a note in parenthesis on Texas Secretary of State John Steen’s website clearly stating that the application must be received by tomorrow, not postmarked!

M: Dude! Completed applications for ballot by mail must be sent to the Early Voting Clerk in the applicant’s county. But if the Texas Secretary of State John Steen’s office receives any applications, they will be rejected.

D: Man! That’s a convenient way of shredding ballots. Seriously, I think we should be able to see the ballot we cast somewhere online, like how Frost Bank and other businesses send copies of the checks we wrote from whatever specific account we utilized.

M: Dude! Alicia Pierce is Texas Secretary of State John Steen’s spokesperson and said something that sounded quite Republican, like Michigan Republican Representative Fred Upton’s statements.

D: Man! What did she say? Tell me and I will basically translate it out of its falsehood.

M: Dude! Alicia Pierce told Time’s Maya Rhodan quote unquote “We want to be very careful not to cause false alarms. We’ve worked very closely with poll workers to create the right forms and the right training to make sure this isn’t an issue at the polls.”

D: Man! Alicia Pierce is attempting to suppress and keep true alarms from sounding off from what the Republican Party and Tea Partiers have in mind for midterms this November 5^th and next year’s elections.

M: Dude! Voters are at the mercy of the poll workers. There is the provision that both identification card and voter registration card must be quote unquote “substantially similar” and, if the poll worker finds the name to be dissimilar, the voter can file a provisional ballot. But the catch is that it must be done within six days of the election.

D: Man! Thirty-four percent of women do not have “substantially similar” identification and voter registration cards! Cannot startup businesses benefitting from the JOBS Act contribute to funding the enormous costs of procuring “substantially similar” identification, a setback that the Republican Party is depending on desperately, knowing that people like you and me are not rotten supremacists that their party is trying to sell off as the general White American public fearing minority status in the next twenty years.

Man! Dude! Session #226: American Dynasties

(D)ude: Man! All the House Republicans can agree on are hearings to waste time and taxpayer dollars on. The most recent hearing cycle imposed by the House Energy and Commerce Committee upon Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius.

(M)an: Dude! Secretary Sebelius is in talks with President Obama and insurance company chief executives to fix the technical glitches in Obamacare. Personally, I think Sebelius should even discuss the glitches in Detroit, Michigan’s city officials’ miscalculations regarding public pension plans that are not regulated by the federal government.

D: Man! I don’t get it. Clearly Michigan Republican Governor Rick Snyder and Emergency Manager Kevyn Orr have deliberately tried to get Detroit, Michigan forcibly to fit the requirements needed for a Chapter 9 protection this past July. Why don’t they just come clean and admit that federal government intervention is needed in Detroit?

M: Dude! Whether Snyder and Orr forced bankruptcy upon Detroit and did not engage in good-faith negotiations with creditors, is now left to Judge Steven Rhodes. Hopefully, Judge Rhodes is not like any one of the six male justices sitting on the current Supreme Court of the United States, especially not Scalia or Thomas or Alito.  

D: Man! What of Kennedy, Breyer, and Roberts?

M: Dude! That will be determined in the new season that began this month with all the justices returning after a momentary break. And do not forget that Justice Sotomayor, like Justice Breyer, decided with Roberts, Thomas, Scalia, Alito, and Kennedy that the Fifth Circuit panel of judges had favored UT’s position which they disliked while Justice Ginsburg dissented in favor of UT and the decision in its favor by the Fifth Circuit.

D: Man! What about all the madness that Ted Cruz is generating and the Koch Brothers are trying desperately to erase from their spreadsheets? The Koch Brothers are still financing the White Supremacists of the new millennium, yet Ted Cruz is a Hispanic Canadian?

M: Dude! Even White Supremacists are recruiting diversity with the likes of Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio and George Prescott Bush, all three quite fond of one another if you have the time to read their lines of convoluted support for each other’s Tea Party stances.

D: Man! White Supremacists are overtaking the airwaves of television and radio that the likes of the Koch Brothers originally funded and still do.

M: Dude! Kevyn Orr’s appearance on 60 Minutes was odd. Did you see the gold cuff links on his dress shirt?

D: Man! Those cuff links ought to be replaced with handcuffs! Kevyn Orr is a coconspirator alongside Michigan Governor Snyder. The Tea Party Express is footing the bill to keep African Americans like Kevyn Orr on their roster, just like George W. Cheney chose Condoleezza Rice to coordinate with them the return to Iraq under false claims and then top that war with another in Afghanistan.   

M: Dude! Richard Bruce Cheney is now coming out with a book about his heart troubles and history of cardiac woes. He must want US to totally forget the weapons of mass destruction claims that he just happened to push again and again and still refuses to reconsider, just like the smiling George W. Bush publically admitted to never think about setbacks like his decisions in the Iraq II and Afghanistan Wars.

D: Man! Why won’t the American media get the misery straight? Chris Christie campaigned hard for George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush. Ted Cruz was the chief executive cheater for the George W. Bush recounts that landed W. and Cheney in the White House twice for the full length of the terms. Jeb Bush became the governor of Florida right before the 1999 presidential campaign.

M: Dude! Probably because there are not as many photo-ops of Chris Christie with W. and Cheney as with now-Senator Cory Booker, and there are no concrete photographs connecting Ted Cruz with W. and Cheney.

D: Man! What about Governor Jeb Bush?

M: Dude! Governor Jeb Bush is vigilantly defending the Bush Dynasty. He wants US to overlook the brutality and the thoughtless loss of American lives lost in 9/11 and Iraq II and the Afghanistan War. Instead, he wants US to see his mother Barbara and father George Herbert Walker during their scripted tenderness while forgetting the Iraq War and their visible irritation towards their heir George Prescott Bush’s dual ethnicity.

D: Man! Jeb Bush also spoke crudely of the Hispanic race, stating that Hispanics were quote unquote more fertile.

M: Dude! Don’t forget that Herbert Walker Bush and wife Barbara referred to Jeb and Columba’s three children as quote unquote the little brown ones.

D: Man! It’s really not fair to place the Bush Dynasty of war profiteering since the age of Prescott Bush into a category of the American Dream. I would much rather read about the diversity and the dignity of a family like the de Blasios of New York.

M: Dude! Bill, Chirlane, Chiara, and Dante de Blasio are genuine and have an educated grace that is absent in the Bush Dynasty.

D: Man! You’re comparing the incomparable. The Bush Dynasty’s Jeb Bush is an intellectual equivalent to Jep Robertson from Duck Dynasty.

M: Dude! Phil Robertson actually was a star athlete and attended Louisiana Tech University before 

being invited to play for the Washington Redskins.

D: Man! Phil Robertson was a Washington Redskins footballer?

M: Dude! Could have been a quarterback, but opted out of the invite to play professionally in order to hunt. Although he did go on to get a master’s in education and teach students who found him to be quite an effectual intellectual and instructor. But, of course, Phil Robertson opted out of teaching for the woods, like Dick Cheney ought to have done as well as the Bush Dynasty.

Man! Dude! Session #225: Texas Land Commissioner & Keystone Pipeline

(M)an: Dude! Who am I? I believe in A. I believe in B. I believe in C. How dare s/he believe in B! I will not vote for he/r or him. They are out of line. But I will. I have.

(D)ude: Man! Senator John McCain!

M: Dude! Peter Baker, the chief White House correspondent for The New York Times, is paralleling George W. Bush and Dick Cheney as the Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger of the new millennium.

D: Man! I reached the monthly limit of 10 free articles from The New York Times this morning. But, don’t despair, I was able to decipher the gist by reading around the blue box barrier and found the article as blah blah as Peter Baker’s latest Washington, DC novella Days of Fire: Bush and Cheney in the White House. You know, I want a transcript of the entire George W. Bush presidential broadcasts. There ought to be an encyclopedia worth of absurdities that George W. Cheney spoke alongside the list of all the American civilians killed in the Twin Towers and American soldiers massacred in Iraq II and Afghanistan.

M: Dude! Random House is the publishing house that is releasing the book this Tuesday, October 22, 2013. The synopsis provided by Random House extols that quote unquote theirs was the most captivating American political partnership since Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger: a bold and untested president and his seasoned, relentless vice president. Confronted by one crisis after another, they struggled to protect the country, remake the world, and define their own relationship along the way.

D: Man! John Grisham is far more nonfiction and significant than the political nonfiction at Random House. And, isn’t it interesting how Jeb Bush and his son George Prescott Bush are making their way back into the limelight with the release of the Peter Baker sleight of hand?

M: Dude! Penguin Random House is the joint venture that occurred just this past summer. Actually, the merger happened on July 1, 2013.

D: Man! Talking about mergers, Jeb Bush is speaking against the recent tactics of Ted Cruz and the Tea Party, while his son George Prescott is an outspoken supporter of Cruz and his insistence on defunding Obamacare.

M: Dude! These three and their brand of Republicanism is all synonymous. Did you know that George Prescott Bush is running for the office of Texas land commissioner?

D: Man! I wonder whether people still remember the report about the former United States Senator Prescott Bush’s business alignments with financiers of Nazism?

M: Dude! The Bush Dynasty is a result of war profiteering back then and into today.  

D: Man! I don’t understand how the major news networks in the United States protect the Tea Partiers and the Republican GOP. Specifically, what was the purpose of Byron Pitts sitting down for ABC News with Tea Party supporters who were visibly angry at the current White House and so visibly pleased and proud of their imbecile Ted Cruz?

M: Dude! ABC News and Diane Sawyer are basically trying to garner an audience via a literally whitewashed broadcast every night. This evening Jeb Bush eclipsed the piece where Byron Pitts sat down with middle age White American Tea Party and Ted Cruz sympathizers. The material was more appropriate for the History Channel than nightly national news. 

D: Man! We’re White Americans too! And I know we did not vote for Senator Ted Cruz or Senator John Cornyn. The last person  I remember having voted for and see ascend to an office in Texas politics was Governor Ann Richards.

M: Dude! We’re the White America that deserves to be heard on nightly national news! We’re the White America that needs to be vigilant and contradict the extremists.

D: Man! You know what I think in the end? I think White America is staring at a metaphorical computer screen in tune with Microsoft Word and the American Mainstream Media is deliberately distracting their true intensions by creating such a mad mess out of the evening news and the minority of racialists that make up not just the far right fringe but the entire length of the conservative wing span.

M: Dude! So the American local and national news on basic television and Faux News are strange bedfellows?

D: Man! No, the American nightly news and Faux News are such jarring distractions from the Microsoft Word screen on which we try to complete our daily chores, that without knowing any better about just how much less ink we have remaining in our printer, we confuse our hands to maneuver the “Print” button instead of  the “Save” button that are both located so inconveniently next to each other. Why?

M: Dude! I guess otherwise we would not ever accidentally lead ourselves to the point of empty ink cartridges!

D: Man! What about the point of empty-headed nonsense?

M: Dude! As Jeb Bush is creeping closer and closer to the prospect of running for the presidency in 2016, his son George Prescott Bush filed necessary paperwork in November 2012 to run for a state office in Texas.  

D: Man! So is George Prescott Bush going to be running for Governorship of Texas in 2014? I think he’s going to be playing musical chairs with a whole lineup of possible positions in Texas Government.

M: Dude! George Prescott Bush is running for Texas Land Commissioner in 2014.

D: Man! Really?

M: Dude! His campaign for Texas Land Commissioner has over 750 online grassroots activists working in Texas to spread the message of conservatism that has me hoping for a Wendy Davis candidate to go against George Prescott Bush.

D: Man! Really? What is George Prescott’s stand in terms of energy and fracking in his own hometown of Fort Worth?

M: Dude! George Prescott Bush has this to say on his website, I believe in Texas energy. I believe that we can and should drill now and drill in Texas for oil and natural gas.  We need more Texas energy and less Middle East energy.  And the days of false choices over the environment or energy are over.  We can do both.  And yes, I will be a strong advocate for the Keystone pipeline that will deliver a sustainable source of crude oil to market and create Texas jobs.

D: Man! What about Obamacare?

M: Dude! George Prescott Bush says this quote unquote I believe in stopping Obamacare. Republicans failed to stop Obamacare legislatively and legally.  But we can stop it financially. This monstrosity of a law must be stopped now.  Every dollar should be de-funded; every word should be repealed.

D: Man! Ted Cruz and Chris Christie have deep ties to George W. Bush’s two presidential runs. And, obviously, Ted Cruz and Jeb Bush are promoting a non-transparency in United States politics by unifying over their differences only privately while publicly opposing one another. That’s a sneaky and snake-like maneuver, very much like the Tea Party flag.

Man! Dude! Session #224 "It was an omission that was inadvertent."

(D)ude: Man! The Republican Brand is very much intact, despite all the news indicating otherwise. At the state level of governance all is quiet on the right wing front. The Tea Party is still a part of the Republican GOP too. Look at how the Republican GOP Tea Partiers are holding onto their agendas as governors in states like Wisconsin, New Mexico, Ohio, and New Jersey to mention four.

(M)an: Dude! Ed Gillespie, chairman of the Republican State Leadership Committee, went too far in his assessment of the right wing righteousness of Ohio Gov. Kasich and New Jersey Gov. Christie and United States Rep. Paul Ryan as being genuinely concerned about helping and assisting those who have not. But, then again, what can you expect from an ex-counselor of George W. Cheney?

D: Man! Did he go on to corroborate the latest Dick Cheney has imparted to 60 Minutes? Apparently, Cheney remembered having the same issue arise in his medical care as one of the characters in a recent episode of Homeland.

M: Dude! What? Did Dick Cheney also have his implanted cardiac defibrillator, or ICD for short, hacked by terrorists as well?

D: Man! Almost, and like all the occurrences in the W.-Cheney White House, we will never quite be able to understand the evil and the paranoia that George W., Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, and Condoleezza Rice programmed into their circadian cycles in order to come across as convincing warlords.

M: Dude! That sounds like a potential future episode of either Homeland on HBO or the return of Sigourney Weaver in another installment of Aliens or Avatar.

D: Man! Avatar didn’t deserve the Oscar that Weaver thought it merited. And Aliens Resurrection was enough! You know, I think the same can be said of the George W. Cheney two-term cheats.

M: Dude! Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi of Italy is in a kind of similar trouble as Texas Republican Senator Ted Cruz. The Italian broadcasting media billionaire was convicted of tax fraud but if he doesn’t lose his seat in parliament then he will remain immune from arrest. Likewise, Ted Cruz apparently has been having problems with reporting his financial relationship with a company he cofounded with a college roommate from Princeton and Harvard.

D: Man! Does Ted Cruz have any idea of his involvement in the election and reelection of George W. Bush? Has he forgotten that his wife served in W’s Treasury Department circa 2003?

M: Dude! You know, he’s so intellectually challenged from having to keep up with his complex rubric of lies that he runs around in pursuit of everything green. I think he is so ensconced in telling untruths that his wife left him for Goldman Sachs.

D: Man! Really?

M: Dude! His wife is now an executive at Goldman Sachs. But they remain married.

D: Man! If I were married to Ted Cruz, I would have become a workaholic executive myself. Imagine having to come home to a pathological liar. I am a habitual liar myself, but to advance onto a pathology of deceit and distrust is just too much! Is there anywhere I can go online or at the library to get a complete transcript of what Ted Cruz said during that 22 hour effort to lay some green eggs?

M: Dude! I don’t know. I think he misused Dr. Seuss. Ted Cruz is abusive. But so is Sheldon Adelson.  

D: Man! What about Sheldon Adelson has you bringing him up in the same breath as Ted Cruz?

M: Dude! Ted Cruz and his roommate from Princeton and Harvard, David Paton, had $100 million worth of investments in a firm misnamed deliberately by Cruz in his papers to the Ethics Committee of the United States Senate to avoid, I believe, being kicked out of office. You see, in a October 1, 2013, according to Time’s Massimo Calabresi and Alex Altman, Cruz misinformed the Ethics Committee for the second time by misdirecting their attention to a company name that was not registered in Kingston, Jamaica as he had claimed.

D: Man! What about the first time he tried to cheat the Ethics Committee?

M: Dude! Ted Cruz has a bellowing belly and the capacity to sail ships with the hot air that exits his mouth at the speed of sound.

D: Man! Ted Cruz sails ships from the rear. That’s why his eyebrows are strained to the sides of his face as babies in their nappies do.

M: Dude! Like Sheldon Adelson, the Cruz and Paton private equity firm Caribbean Equity Partners Limited has a six million dollar stake in the Atlantis Resort and Casino brand of vacation destinations.

D: Man! That’s Paradise Island in the Bahamas! Atlantis? Yeah! Could only be the one and only one! Right? Osh gosh! Talking about Sheldon Adelson, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie administers gag orders upon himself as a rule of governance. And he has a favorite spokesperson that dodges and directs questions that are too tough for even Chris Christie to face. Have you heard of Michael Drewniak?

M: Dude! No. Is he the spokesperson that Christie has employed?

D: Man! Yeah! Apparently, Governor Christie’s Admin decided to go with the East Rutherford firm MWW for an additional $2.2 million because the cheaper but equally reputable firm, Sigma Group, did not include Christie and his family in its campaign to promote New Jersey and the surrounding areas devastated by Superstorm Sandy last year.

M: Dude! What about the 2014 and 2015 seasons? Are they going to cost just as much, or is this investment in the post-Sandy tourism campaign suddenly an antic of the Republican and Sheldon Adelson candidate Chris Christie?

D: Man! There’s a state contract that now stipulates things like the future of the remainder of that $25 million.

M: Dude! Allotted for tourism campaigns in New Jersey by the federal government via disaster aid following Superstorm Sandy, but now subjected to a state contract? Sounds to me like Chris Christie couldn’t care any less for New Jersey and is basically maneuvering everything behind closed doors.

D: Man! New Jersey and Israel have an imports exchange that brings New Jersey over $10 billion in revenue. Why must Chris Christie go after unions and workers and their pensions and rights in order to balance the state’s budget? How about going after those businesses that are bringing in $10 billion from trade with Israel?

M: Dude! Their baloney has a first name and it’s C-O-R-R-U-P-T-I-O-N.

D: Man! Their baloney has a last name and it’s P-O-W-E-R. 

Man! Dude! Session #223: Billionaire Snake Charmer's Biting Bait

(M)an: Dude! Texas State Representative Lon Burnam is from Fort Worth and is in the pursuit of countering Texas Governor Rick Perry’s attempts these past two weeks to get the Texas Department of Insurance to enforce regulations upon Obamacare navigators. Otherwise, Governor Perry is totally against any kind of government regulation, being the kind of conservative he is, swinging from the Tea Party branches to the GOP Republican branches.

(D)ude: Man! Thank goodness State Senator Wendy Davis is running for the Texas governorship in 2014. Governor Rick Perry, like New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, is a Sheldon G. Adelson politician through and through. Dirty money and dirtier politicians, which reminds me of Texas Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst’s attempts to rally up crowds by calling for the impeachment of the President of the United States for the Benghazi tragedy that the Republican Party still hasn’t sought answers from George W. Bush’s choice of government contractors in place at the time and former CIA Director, General David Petraeus.

M: Dude! State Representative Lon Burnam has put together four Obamacare Enrollment Workshops scheduled for the third and fourth weeks of October. The first is scheduled at the Como Community Center on Tuesday, October 22, 2013 and you can call 817-924-1997, State Rep. Burnam’s district office for additional information like the exact time and duration of the workshop as well as the other three workshops that will together be kicking off the first round of events to educate and assist folks in enrolling in Obamacare with the nonsense hurdles being placed as obstacles because of Gov. Perry’s political squabble with the White House.

D: Man! Or is it Sheldon G. Adelson’s political squabble with American Democracy that makes Chris Christie spat with constituents and Rick Perry so furious to actually implement regulations to obstruct the disenfranchised from the opportunity to mobilize themselves into the fabric of society through nondiscriminatory healthcare coverage?

M: Dude! My parents’ medical bills come out to about $1100.00 every month. They pay around $460.00 while their health insurance takes care of the difference. But my mother had to stay in the hospital three nights for arterial plaque complications and subsequent medical tests and my parents ended up having to pay a total of six thousand dollars!

D: Man! Six thousand dollars for a three-night hospital stay?

M: Dude! My mother was so incensed that she actually made sure to note the meals she was served and returned home and resolved to cook what she had essentially ate those days and nights in the hospital. And the food actually is tasty. Extremely fresh, but very tasty nevertheless. There is an Aldi supermarket in their neighborhood and my mother shops there exclusively.

D: Man! You’re mother ought to construct a Hospital Food 101 Guideline Cookbook! In fact, I’ll be honored to taste test every recipe, minus the lime gelatin of course!

M: Dude! What’s the matter with lime gelatin?

D: Man! It was all I ate when I had my tonsils extracted in the fourth grade. That and lukewarm chocolate milk.

M: Dude! I broke my nose and had to have it realigned after high school. I couldn’t really taste anything, except cheese puffs and raisin trail mixes.

D: Man! For a minute there I was certain we were sitting in hospital beds comparing one anther’s dietary restrictions and permissible indulgences. And I was getting quite jealous like the fourth grader I had been then. Thank goodness for that mirror over there, or I would have returned to my former juvenile self and spoken quite battered lines of contempt.

M: Dude! Governor Chris Christie has retracted to Sheldon G. Adelson’s kilts once again. The New Jersey Supreme Court ruled today that, beginning Monday, October 21, 2013, same-sex marriages will be recognized and weddings can resume. However, Governor Chris Christie, usually an active vocalist otherwise, chose to have his press secretary release a statement instead of coming forward and sharing his outlook despite agreeing to comply with the ruling.

D: Man! Sheldon G. Adelson is the Governor of New Jersey and Chris Christie is the billionaire snake charmer’s biting bait.

M: Dude! You’re confusing fishing and snake charming. Or, is the snake that is Chris Christie, the bait in the battle within the GOP to wash their hands of that 16-day Government Shutdown?

D: Man! The GOP only contributed to the deficit and their Sequestration is still in effect and needing to be brought down. That is the way forward for all the GOP Republican Tea Partiers. If they can end the Sequester and comply with the American people and actually begin to respect and cooperate with their popularly reelected President, there is hope for reformation and restoration. Call it what they want, but the GOP’s klutzy tactics have proven destructive and hellishly discriminatory.

M: Dude! The John Boehner Congressional Republicans are going to be written into the history books as the most dangerous racialists in the new millennium. Their effects have been klutzy from the beginning. As their President has made the federal government more and more transparent, the Congressional Republicans are secretively plotting and planning what results in only another blow to the American working classers and the poor. Raising the ladder of opportunity for every American is not socialist or communist. It is American Democracy at work and winning by leading the way.

D: Man! Don’t you think the obstructionist ways of the GOP are very mush like socialism and communism?

M: Dude! You’re onto something here. The GOP Republican Tea Partiers are very socialist and communist in their obstructionism and will be written about as madmen and madwomen of the new millennium.

D: Man! What a slap on the face of the Republican Party! And the Republican Party is essentially slapping itself in the face, isn’t it?

M: Dude! Yes. Indeed!

Man! Dude! Session #222: Chris Christie's Jersey to Jerusalem Trade Mission

(D)ude: Man! Knock, knock.

(M)an: Dude! Who’s there?

D: Man! Darrel-cula.

M: Dude! Darrel-cula who?

D: Man! Darrel-cula Issan’t there a hearing to be had?

M: Dude! Darrel-cula Issan’t ashamed for being part of the Congressional Republicans?

D: Man! Caucus! Absolutely pure caucus! Knock, knock.

M: Dude! Are you going to keep that Transylvanian accent throughout? Who’s there?

D: Man! Chris.

M: Dude! Chris who?

D: Man! I’m Chris Christie and you better shut up and reelect me to the governorship of New Jersey this November 5, 2013!

M: Dude! You’re being quite abrasive, Chris Christie! And do not tell me to shut up!

D: Man! You poor yea-yeah-yeah! What’s the matter? Huh? You have to go home and put on some cracked heel cream on your feet and find yourself a soft pair of socks to place your feet in afterwards? Sissy puss has puss feet!

M: Dude! Hold on a second, Chris Christie! What were you doing with the State of New Jersey’s funds when you suddenly felt compelled to take a business trip to Israel and visit with Jordan’s King Abdullah II?

D: Man! America should stand by its friends and its democratic allies, even, and sometimes especially, when it’s unpopular to do so. It may not be fashionable in some of the chancelleries, the foreign ministries, and salons around the world to talk about why America stands with Israel — but that’s no excuse not to be saying, and saying it loudly, I admire Israel for the enemies it has made.

M: Dude! Wait a minute, Chris Christie! You admire Israel for the enemies it has made?

D: Man! Man! Man! Did you know that Chris Christie’s trip to Israel was laced with controversy because he deliberately chose not to visit Palestine with his delegation of business and religious leaders and, of course, his family?

M: Dude! The Republican Jewish Coalition, or RJC, co-sponsored Chris Christie’s trip, which was signed off as an official overseas trip, hence paid in part by New Jersey taxpayers, billed quote unquote Jersey to Jerusalem Trade Mission. Did you know that Sheldon G. Adelson is Chairman of the Board of Directors at the Republican Jewish Coalition?

D: Man! A lot of trouble and mayhem could descend upon Israel and especially Palestine if billionaires such as Sheldon G. Adelson are backing folks like Chris Christie and have Rick Perry’s photograph displayed on their website link for the Republican Jewish Coalition’s National Women’s Committee.

M: Dude! There are not too many degrees of separation between Chris Christie and other major GOP players like Texas Governor Rick Perry and Senator Pat Roberts of Kansas, both states having altogether disenfranchised women, minorities, and the working and middle classes. And look at the horrendous effects of the GOP’s horrifying agenda and brutal playbook on the most vulnerable, the poor and their children.  

D: Man! Representative Paul Ryan is still pushing the horrendous Paul Ryan Budget as are both Texas Senators Cornyn and Cruz, the later two having voted against the joint congressional resolution last night by the way. What does the GOP want and when exactly did the light go out behind the eyes of the status quo?

M: Dude! Ronald Reagan’s eyes never reflected light, only a selfishness that has gradually gotten US into tremendously tough times of chaos. Have you heard of the drug krokodil?

D: Man! What?

M: Dude! Krokodil is a flesh-eating drug whose side effects have surfaced on the streets in the United States. Most likely imported by a carrier from the Russian and/or Eastern European regions, it is an addictive drug that is basically a derivative of and ten times more powerful than morphine.

D: Man! Even more reason to implement Obamacare! At least 30 million presently uninsured Americans will finally be able to have their addictions addressed thoroughly and properly without the fear of being dropped due to limits on the length of treatment and therapy. Do you think the Tea Partiers and the GOP Republicans encouraged and brought over the drug krokodil just in time to cause yet another havoc on the streets of the United States and in the country’s hospitals?

M: Dude! That is unfathomable evil if that be the case that is.

D: Man! If that be the case that is.

M: Dude! Talking about the GOP Republican Tea Partiers, there is beginning to surface some unbelievable untruths about that which could save an overwhelming number of lives and that is Obamacare.

D: Man! What do you think the Ted Cruz and SarahPAC will be vandalizing next? The online registration mechanics involved in signing up for Obamacare? Do you think that there will be talk about protecting Americans from buying twice the coverage that they need? That’s ridiculous overreaching, 

but Palin and Cruz are capable of such bunk.

M: Dude! Yes. We must debunk the bunk!

D: Man! That is unfathomable evil if that be the case that is.

M: Dude! If that be the case that is.