Man! Dude! Session #212

(D)ude: Man! Remember how in middle school students were oftentimes lump summed into a binary or tertiary breakdown of  being Hispanic, non-Hispanic White, or Black? The biracial and the Asian populations were placed in the categories of Black and non-Hispanic White since the teachers considered “Other” too derogatory?

(M)an: Dude! I don’t want to do that time warp again, but I think the Republican Party will be reinstituting overlooking the specifics in favor of trivializing the existence of any advancements for a society entrenched in hate and disenfranchisement. Look at how a federal appeals court decided to vote in favor of BP over claimants who sought and filed charges for claims after the Deepwater Horizon oil spill disaster of 2010.

D: Man! The BP spokesman Geoff Morrell reinstated by reiterating quote unquote Today’s [October 2, 2013] ruling reaffirms what BP has been saying since the beginning: claimants should not be paid for fictitious or wholly nonexistent losses. But I still think this is a case of corporate malfeasance.

M: Dude! This Republican-inflicted Shutdown of the United States government has me concerned for all fifty states. Starting with Alabama, where I have guesstimated from the state’s business journals that there are around 47,253 to 50,000 government employees being affected by the Republican-led Government Shutdown of 2013. 

D: Man! Employers like Redstone Arsenal, the Maxwell Air Force Base and the State of Alabama? Well, those are just a big portion of an even larger proportion of government-run services and centers. And, keep in mind, Alabama’s constitution was ratified in 1901 and has been accused for being purposefully convoluted in order to keep the state entrenched in a racist and segregationist systemization.   

M: Dude! There are 7 districts in the State of Alabama, therefore there are 7 House Members in the 

United States Congress who represent Alabaman constituencies. Six of those seven House Members are Republican. District 1’s Republican Representative Jo Bonner vacated the seat this past August, as the Tea Party Republican Governor of Alabama Robert J. Bentley appointed a new Secretary of State in Alabama, Jim Bennett on July 31, 2013 to replace Beth Chapman who resigned her post to accept private employment, also this past August.

D: Man! No wonder Alabama’s Secretary of State Jim Bennett permitted the Democratic Party eventually to place two candidates on the ballot, which is purposefully unruly like the 2012 Republican Presidential Nominations that saw Rick Perry and Ron Paul sharing the stage with similar stooges like themselves. 

M: Dude! Jim Bennett is just trying to win points with the public by stating the Democratic Party as being irresponsible for submitting the paperwork an hour late to get their Democratic candidates on the ballot to replace Jo Benner in the United States House of Representatives. Jim Bennett is, remember, one of the Tea Partiers, the people who don’t mind the fact that their mascot is a hissing snake in the grass!     

D: Man! I think it’s a hissing rattler, if I’m not mistaken. Do you think the Republican Tea Partiers are going to cheat out Burton LeFlore despite the fact he won the Special Election Primary by a huge margin?

M: Dude! So, we have got to get Burton R. LeFlore into office as the Representative from AL-01 this coming December 17, 2013, the second Tuesday of the month.

D: Man! Now let’s go over to Alabama’s Second District, AL-02, Republican Representative Martha Roby. She’s a fan of Grover Norquist and has signed the Taxpayer Protection Pledge and agreed with Eric Cantor’s attempt to cut approximately $40 billion from SNAP despite the fact that over 41,000 households in AL-02 relied on food stamps in 2011. She’s a warmonger, only wanting to cut nondefense spending programs and continue defense spending, including keeping our armed forces in Afghanistan as long as possible, a popular Republican stance that entails keeping our military not just equipped but actually investing in more defense equipment.       

M: Dude! AL-02 Republican Representative Martha Roby won by outspending all her opponents in the 2010 midterms. And her Tea Party roots are too obvious to ignore. She was endorsed by Newt Gingrich and Sarah Palin, and has been adamantly against conservation and the EPA, as well as the Affordable Care Act or Obamacare, being a ardent supporter of the Paul Ryan Budget Bill in which she agreed to reduce Medicare into a voucher program, and personally introduced pro-life legislation to defund Planned Parenthood, believing that taxpayer dollars were better spent elsewhere because otherwise women’s health advocates would be encouraging and promoting more abortion services.

D: Man! She’s got ties with the NRA lobbyists and defends the second amendment staunchly while she pronounces herself as a “faith and family” values Tea Partier. She looked the other way when the family members of the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre approached her to do something about gun reform in order to prevent such tragedies from recurring again. She blindly dismissed them as being an anti-second amendment rights group when in fact they wanted basic logical gun reform that would prevent a mentally ill person that ought to be a patient under the care of physicians and mental health professionals, not taking the monstrosity of AR-15 Bushmaster semi-automatic rifles to slaughter human lives.    

M: Dude! There are 15 counties in Alabama’s Second District out of which Martha Roby won 11 and lost 4, one of the ones she lost being Montgomery County, her home county. I think the reason behind it being that Montgomery is a diverse county and Martha Roby’s father, the chief judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, had enough diversified assets to keep her engaged in upper class society as a silver spoon kid.

D: Man! Look here! There’s a complex and tedious voter registration application in Montgomery County, Alabama as we speak. Look! It’s condescending, as it requires persons without street numbers in their address to draw a map of where their house is located! Osh Gosh! Osh Gosh! They’re being really mean! Ouch! I’m too scalded and scolded by what I am reading here.

M: Dude! They don’t even care to specify what one’s county Board of Registrars’ address is and, instead, insist on you reading through the seventy plus addresses at the bottom of the application and place the address and return address and a first class stamp on the envelope! That is discrimination through intimidation. What about our brothers and sisters who cannot read or write or afford even Ramen Noodles like US every night?

D: Man! What about the populations that are disabled and cannot afford neither prescription eyeglasses nor reading glasses as well?

M: Dude! This is to be continued and I suggest you take a breath before we start once again. We’ve just begun and there are 4 Republican Alabamans to get to in the United States House of Representatives before we turn to New Jersey.

D: Man! New Jersey? But I thought Alaska came alphabetically after Alabama!

M: Dude! Trust me! I’ll let you indulge alphabetically sometime soon! I promise!