"Bloodied, gushing gashes in milk white snow..."

Do not ask how zealously

I dug through the lonesome,

Tyrannical nights of life

To turn evening into morning

Is like the stonecutter Farhad digging, halfway, the forty-mile

Canal in the mountainside for his beloved, imperial Shirin

Bloodied, gushing gashes in milk white snow

Mirza Ghalib, translated from the Urdu by Alverston and Associates

(D)ude: Man! I’ll tell you what the good-for-nothing Republican Party in the United States is up to right now. They’re singing praises for the plight of the oppressed like a popular rock star with a serious attitude problem. It’s like that Jefferson Starship song from the eighties entitled It’s Not Enough.

(M)an: Dude! It’s not enough to tell me that you care. It’s not enough to tell me that you cried. Sounds like the plight of the oppressed right about right now.  

D: Man! What’s going on with the American Press? Ukraine needs to construct a sound constitution there, but our constitution here is riddled with selective interpretations about what comprises equal opportunity employment.

M: Dude! Even more reason to vote! No! Really! Listen! The United States Congress is in need of serious reformation.

D: Man! Republican Wisconsin Representative Paul Ryan is not budging from proposed tax cuts and spending cuts. Louis Woodhill even spells out the asininity of the Ryan Budget with a concise lesson in high school accounting involving the two sides of a balance sheet in an online op/ed for Forbes from last week.

M: Dude! Okay, let’s see. The left side of a balance sheet is for assets and the right side is for liabilities. However, assets are far more important and a sound company does not focus on paying its debt entirely. Paul Ryan’s Republican Budget only emphasizes the complete elimination of the deficit. Add to that Chris Christie’s parading around about how he balances New Jersey’s budget annually—something governors of all 50 states already must as a basic given in their job description.

D: Man! According to Louis Woodhill, jobs and economic growth constitute prosperity, financial markets lending US money against assets like the present value of future revenues, which are tied up to the future Gross Domestic Product and the taxation necessary to produce that GDP that is generated via taxation by the United States government.   

M: Dude! Did Louis Woodhill have much to say about the past thirteen years, beginning  with George Walker Bush’s Federal Reserve mishaps and concluding with the stalemate between President Obama’s Administration and the snickering United States Congressional Republicans under Speaker of the House John Boehner’s dastardly obnoxious Disney incantations?

D: Man! The United States Treasury Department has a website for kids at treasury direct dot gov that Paul Ryan and John Boehner would be advised to review and study. I wonder whether the Republican 

Party today is aware of the concept of national debt?    

M: Dude! No. The Republican Party today is creating a pseudoscientific rumpus because of its resistance to self-enlightenment and personal responsibility and accountability.

D: Man! Why? Are we in the next wave of hooded racialism with the Koch Klutz Klan?

M: Dude! The Republican Party today is toxic and wasteful. Jonathan Karl from ABC News excitedly delved mistakenly into the prospects of a World War III resulting from what’s going on in Ukraine. World War III is unfolding in the United States, specifically within the Republican Governors’ Association and in John Roberts’ SCOTUS. When the GOP chooses to adopt the attitude that we have already overcome and need to recalibrate to a tune that there is no longer the need to recompense for the generations of hardships and domination, it is time for US to organize and fight for the history that Paul Ryan and John Boehner and Clarence Thomas and Marsha Blackburn and Jeb Bush are attempting forcibly to rehash into resurrection.        

D: Man! Talking about resurrecting injustice, Florida’s State Attorney Angela B. Corey chose a very Chris Christie-like approach to dealing with conflict of interests in her newfound position as State Attorney for the Fourth Judicial Circuit, starting in 2009. Angela Corey oversaw the termination of over one-fifth of the office she won in a contentious race in which  her former employer, a Democrat, endorsed her competitor.      

M: Dude! Talking about political retribution and hooded racialism, Angela Corey is pursuing a 60-year imprisonment for Marissa Alexander, the African-American mother without a criminal record who tried a Stand Your Ground defense for firing a warning shot during a domestic dispute with her husband in the presence of their children in the spring of 2012. I believe Marissa Alexander has served enough time already in prison and under house arrest and that Angela Corey is feuding senselessly as a posturing peacock. Realistically, why not go after George Zimmerman a second time instead? The thug remains an armed and dangerous perpetrator of domestic disputes as well as a racial profiler of the vilest and sickest sort.

D: Man! Prosecutor Angela Corey needs time behind bars, specifically, a plea agreement with a three-year mandatory prison sentence, what Angela Corey offered not just Marissa Alexander in 2012, but to Ronald Thompson in 2009. Likewise, Ronald Thompson refused a plea deal and Angela Corey went after him with a minimum twenty-year sentencing as well. But Ronald Thompson agreed to do five years after being offered a deal in 2013 that included credit for time already served.

M: Dude! Angela Corey’s press conference following the conviction of Michael Dunn on three counts of second-degree murder for the loss of the lives of Jordan Davis’s friends, was suspect as it was unsettling. Angela Corey was visibly upset and arguably dismissive about the decision by the jury to convict Michael Dunn for the murders of Davis’s pals. She kept commenting on the need to pursue the first-degree murder charge that had locked the jury and made the judge declare a mistrial. There was a palpable bitterness in Angela Corey’s facial expressions.

D: Man! She sounded as if she was going to thoroughly investigate how in the case of Jordan Davis’s murder trial, the jurists had the intrepidness to charge Michael Dunn for even the three counts of second-degree murders and one count of firing at the teenagers’ vehicle. Michael Dunn should have been dismissed and released, not incarcerated by the jury, and so Angela Corey had presumed and assumed. I think Angela Corey is in great need of an RNC Chairman Reince Preibus afterthought, don’t you?

M: Dude! Paul Ryan wants to reform Medicare, but the hooded Koch Klutz Klansman within him cannot fathom providing chances for upward mobility for all men and women. And we have to remember that abolitionists and suffragists worked side-by-side and that the Civil War concluded in 1865 and the nineteenth amendment has yet to turn one hundred years old!

D: Man! President Abbas is aligning with Hamas, a cutthroat terrorist organization that brings me to another plausible solution for the conflict in the Middle East. Presently, there are outbreaks of the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome, or MERS as it is referred to in short, taking place across Saudi Arabia and causing fatalities due to an absence of a vaccine to treat the brutal respiratory infection that is commonly spread from bats and camels to humans.

M: Dude! If Saudi Arabia can negotiate with Palestine on behalf of peace in the Middle East, which begins to embrace all the cultures in the region, including the Jewish State of Israel, then the United States, China, and Hong Kong scientists who have published articles in leading international medical journals released this week can speed up the process of bringing the two antibodies, MERS-4 and MERS-27, into the next phase of developing treatments and interventions like vaccinations and preventative steps like keeping MERS from spreading globally through infected airline travelers.

D: Man! Chris Christie and the Republican Governors’ Association are responsible for the fallout in the Middle East peace negotiations. The GOP anticipates there to be disputed territories, and Sheldon Adelson purposefully instructed Chris Christie to check out the political temperature in the room at his Las Vegas retreat for key Republican players for the 2014 and 2016 election cycles by labeling the situation between Palestine and Israel being one of not occupied, but disputed territories.

M: Dude! American voters need to come out and cast their ballots for not just their own sake, but for the future of the United States and the world theatre that Jeb Bush and Hillary Rodham Clinton are shamelessly bashing and debasing with their crude supremacist characterizations of major world figures like President Putin. I wholeheartedly believe the two—Clinton and Bush—have an underground alliance that includes the likes of Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair.

D: Man! Oil is oil and it does not mix with water but I wonder about the properties of blood with regards to oil. I believe the looting of Iraqi oil infrastructures by the Bushes created the bloodbath that is the Mid East today. We cannot afford another Bush or another Clinton. We need someone who’s as passionate as Elizabeth Warren nationally, and as committed as the Democratic women running for statewide offices, not charlatans disguising themselves as Democratic candidates like the African-American, LaRouche Youth Movement political activist Kesha Rogers. Kesha Rogers degrades the Democratic brand. In fact, the Clintons too are a derogatory disgrace to American democracy and diplomacy. You can go though all the designer brands of schools and fashions and significant others and land all the top-notch positions and marriages in society, but it takes unparalleled courage to confront bigotry and hate inside yourself.

Separate But Equal 1964-2014

(M)an: Dude! New Jersey Governor Chris Christie and his Republican Governors Association operate like they are disconnected, as if the Republican Party and Tea Party and GOP are all separate entities.

(D)ude: Man! They are utilizing all the tactics of the colonial and post-colonial period.

M: Dude! Divide up the general population according to crude characterizations that continue to be rearranged with each successive legislature? Like the Germans siding with the minority Tutsis in Rwanda over the Hutus, and then Belgium coming in 1916 and cruelly distinguishing the Tutsis and Hutus based on physical features, the Tutsis owning more cattle and having lengthier noses than the Hutus, who had less cattle and broader noses.

D: Man! The Bharatiya Janata Party, or BJP, in India is attempting to do the same by placing the Chief Minister of Gujarat Narendra Modi in India’s general elections as a prime ministerial candidate. Like New Jersey Governor Chris Christie boasting balancing New Jersey’s budget despite the fact that every United States Governor has to do so as a given role in their job description, Narendra Modi’s supporters point to similar economic achievements while overlooking his public policy record and brute disregard for human lives, particularly choosing to ignite animosity and violence among differing religious groups.

M: Dude! Did you watch Norah O’Donnell on Face the Nation?

D: Man! No. Why?

M: Dude! Apparently, the Koch Brothers are attempting to make a legitimate case for their brand of percolating politics and policies through religion and have their eyes set on defrocking Pope Francis I through such crass embodiments of Christ like Cardinal Timothy Dolan, the Archbishop of New York who admitted to Norah O’Donnell this past Easter Sunday to being a major fan of Republican Jeb Bush and a supporter of the Green family from Hobby Lobby fame who do not want to provide their employees contraceptive care as part of the national healthcare mandate through the Affordable Care Act.  

D: Man! I don’t get why the Green family cannot keep their spirituality to themselves and allow others to practice as they wish. It reminds me of Saint Teresa de Avila’s Counter Reformation pursuits in sixteenth century Spain. Did you know Saint Teresa de Avila was responsible for the severe lifestyle adopted by nuns into the present day?  

M: Dude! I’ve overheard how people inflict themselves the severest blows in their pursuits for self-actualization. As far as the nunnery goes, I remember reading about the jewelry of the nun in The Canterbury Tales. If I am not mistaken, the nun in Chaucer’s masterpiece keeps a piece of gold near her clavicle as a reminder of the family life she surrendered in order to enter into a covenant with God. 

D: Man! The most coherent spokesperson for present day diplomacy and democracy is President Putin of Russia. He has adapted by adopting a rather dry sense of humor about the situation in Ukraine, I think. President Putin is uncomfortably aware of the United States of America’s volatile race and ethnic relations within and without, as are Secretary of State John Kerry and President Obama.

M: Dude! It’s interesting you bring that up, because I think you may be onto something here. The United States of America needs to differentiate between the micro, mezzo, and macro in terms of managing race and ethnic relations at home and abroad. The state of affairs at the University of Michigan admissions offices may not be seen as earth-rattling after the most recent affirmative action verdict by the John Roberts Supreme Court, but I think American publishing houses and the culture of celebrity are colliding up against each other and tearing apart the connective tissues between the joints of human decency and integrity.  

D: Man! A lot of people in the media world in the United States have written bestselling testimonials about their coming of age reasoning and heroics. Arianna Huffington is instructing women and girls to Thrive whilst Peggy Noonan is passionately spelling out the nitty-gritty about John Paul the Great and her own personal journeying through the spiritual realm. Can you actually have written for President Ronald Reagan without compromising principles and hackneyed the American intellect worldwide?

M: Dude! No. The American Press needs to see the world through President Putin’s eyes. It is the same perspective with which Syria and Iran are nervously pacing the floor awaiting something from US. And the world is crying as a result of these bogus literary endeavors by the folks at ABC News and George Will and Peggy Noonan at the Wall Street Journal. There is a collective convoluted state of oppression upon US as a society. And Chelsea Clinton is having a baby.

D: Man! Huh?

M: Dude! Hillary Rodham Clinton’s also coming out with a book this year and Chelsea Clinton is pregnant with her first child.

D: Man! Chelsea Clinton’s perspective is unforgivably redneck. I don’t care how many advanced 

studies and Clinton Global Initiatives she pursues. Once a redneck, always a redneck, as Jeff Foxworthy commented generations ago.

M: Dude! Chelsea Clinton’s redneck ways only make me more uncomfortable with John Roberts’ Supreme Court. And let’s keep in mind that it was the backwoods nonsense scripted by Peggy Noonan for then-President Reagan that shook affirmative action up really bad. Remember reverse discrimination?

D: Man! It’s interesting that you bring up the eighties because I was thinking about de facto discrimination the other day when I was reading up on President Clinton and Hillary Rodham Clinton. The way Chelsea Clinton behaved by not welcoming the sitting First Family to her wedding was unforgivably classless.

M: Dude! That’s just it! Chelsea Clinton’s not inviting the sitting First Family to her wedding was the officiating end to her mother’s presidential aspirations.

D: Man! I agree. Hillary Rodham Clinton choosing to dip her fried chicken nugget in the honey mustard sauce was very commendable, but not forward enough.

M: Dude! I’m tired of having to acknowledge the cultural considerations being made by the dominant culture all the time. What ever happened to respecting cultural differences and being sensitive towards minorities?

D: Man! President Reagan made it hip to be square, plain, and bland. Peggy Noonan wrote dipping fried chicken nuggets into honey mustard sauce trendy once again.

M: Dude! How did Peggy Noonan get away with it?

D: Man! We’re headed in that direction once again. Chelsea Clinton hired the Asian American designer Vera Wang to design her wedding dress, but could not bring herself to invite the first African American President and First Lady to her wedding.

M: Dude! Stay off my lawn! Stay out of my neighborhood!

D: Man! You know you’re a redneck if you want to dip fried chicken nuggets into honey mustard sauce!

Man! Dude! Session #274

(D)ude: Man! What happened at the Supreme Court yesterday?  

(M)an: Dude! Calculated injustice, specifically lifting the total limit on how many candidates a financial contributor can back with his or her money. There were limits set twice in history on the amount of direct donations a person could contribute, through the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971, its amended version in 1974 that set up what is known as the aggregate limit, or the total amount overall that one can donate annually to a national political party, and the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002, which divided the calendar year into two and took into consideration inflation in order to construct an aggregate limit.

D: Man! What was the difference between what John Roberts, Antonin Scalia, Anthony Kennedy, and Samuel Alito decreed and what Clarence Thomas concurred? What’s the concurrence?

M: Dude! Clarence Thomas wanted to go a step further and erase all the limits on financial contributions, including erasing the aggregate limit altogether, including a rule of the campaign finance reform still in effect that basically says that a person cannot give more than $2,600 dollars per election cycle to the candidates they want to endorse.   

D: Man! So, I still cannot give aimless amounts of money to all the candidates I would like to endorse?

M: Dude! Yeah, you can only give $2,600 dollars per candidate every election cycle, but Clarence Thomas wanted that aggregate limit tossed out as well.

D: Man! What does this Supreme Court decision mean for the nation? What about US?

M: Dude! The U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia upheld the aggregate limits that the John Roberts Supreme Court struck down yesterday. The plaintiffs in the District Court case became the appellants in the Supreme Court case, which goes by the title McCutcheon v. Federal Election Commission 2014.

D: Man! What about the Supreme Court case Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission 2010?

M: Dude! Well, the District Court sided with the Federal Election Commission and President Obama’s Administration’s concerns concerning what the three District Court judges spelled out in their written decision as needing federal regulating, as a means of preventing corruption or the appearance of corruption.

D: Man! What needed federal regulating specifically? And how are the decisions in Citizens United and McCutcheon related?

M: Dude! Campaign finance needs regulating by the federal government, according to the U.S. 

District Court for the District of Columbia. But the Supreme Court basically axed that provision of campaign finance reform in yesterday’s decision.

D: Man! What about Citizens United?

M: Dude! Apparently, there are two terms that were distinguishable prior to Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission.

D: Man! Did the Supreme Court of the United States basically side with the Republican appellants there as well?

M: Dude! The Supreme Court of the United States decided that there would be no limits on independent expenditures, but there would be a cap on contributions.

D: Man! Huh? Independent expenditures and contributions? What’s the difference?

M: Dude! The Koch Bothers and Sheldon Adelson can basically make all the commercials they want supporting and promoting their Republican Tea GOP candidates and calling for the defeat of their Democratic challengers. The Koch Brothers and Sheldon Adelson just can’t support and promote their candidates by consulting and corroborating one-to-one with the actual candidates and political parties that court their interests.

D: Man! Who is the appellant McCutcheon anyways?

M: Dude! Shaun McCutcheon is a Birmingham, Alabama CEO and Republican Party Executive 

Committee member in Jefferson County, Alabama since the 1990’s and could possibly have played a major hand in the sewerage rates and water rates increasing 329% on his watch in Jefferson County and leading residents in its poorest districts to rely on unsanitary conditions like portable toilets that private sanitation companies charge to empty out on a monthly basis and the actual utilization of outhouses while bathing in bottled water from the local gas station.   

D: Man! Who covered the story? The New York Times? That’s certainly front page news for the United States, isn’t it?

M: Dude! Of course not! Brian Wheeler covered the story brilliantly for BBC News on December 14, 2011.  

D: Man! December 14, 2011? Don’t say it! The Jefferson County Republican Party Executive Committee most likely placed the blame on President Obama’s watch?

M: Dude! President Clinton’s! The local politicians oversaw the rapid degradation of Jefferson County’s sewerage facilities before the federal government came in and demanded that Jefferson County replace its tattered infrastructure in 1996, but that too was forgot when the first unelected president of the United States assumed office in 2001.

D: Man! President George Walker Bush?

M: Dude! Yes! The financial crisis on Bush #43’s watch hiked the price from $300M in 1996 to over $3B in 2008 due to construction mishaps and shady financial dealings concerning bonds and other derivatives.

D: Man! That’s despicable! Bonds and mortgages comprise one category of derivatives?

M: Dude! Yeah! Wikipedia gives excellent lessons on what exactly is involved in the contracts made between two entities, giving the example of the wheat farmer and the miller agreeing to a future contract involving a specific amount of wheat for a certain prearranged pricing.

D: Man! What about the possibility of drought or other unforeseeable results due to climate change?

M: Dude! The United States House of Representatives’ Energy and Commerce Committee comprising of Republican Tea GOP Chairman Fred Upton of Michigan and Republican Tea GOP Vice Chairwoman Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee make it inevitable that the Environmental Protection Agency’s budget and agenda will be devastated, if not ravaged.

D: Man! Somebody outside of the Republican Tea GOP needs to construct their House Energy and Commerce Committee’s website!

M: Dude! The House of Representatives and the Supreme Court in the United States have obscured the system of checks and balances in our democracy.

D: Man! We need to evolve as a democracy and embrace a system that moves beyond Montesquieu 

and John Calvin!

M: Dude! We need to get the citizens of the United States reengaged in the political process enough to register and come out to vote on November 4, 2014. And the Democratic Senate Majority needs to demand that candidates like Kesha Rogers in Texas not be able to run as members of their political party.

D: Man! If the Democratic Party cannot call out pretenders like Kesha Rogers—who, by the way, is running for the United States Senate position in Texas and trying to dissolve David Alameel’s chances of representing Texas Democrats during Tuesday, May 27, 2014 Democratic runoff election—then the Democratic Party can only be labeled unprepared for Election Day Tuesday, November 4, 2014!

M: Dude! Amen!

D: Man! Alameel!