Underhanded Provocations by GOP to Divert Minorities from Registering to Vote

Man! Dude! Session #319

(M)an: Dude! Retired Colonel Lawrence B. Wilkerson’s commentary was coherent but considerably flawed Tuesday afternoon on Ed Shultz’s MSNBC weekday television broadcast.                                                                                     

(D)ude: Man! I agree that Wilkerson was coherent yet incorrect. President Obama’s decision to order the airstrikes over ISIL targets in Syria Monday night without the authorization of the United States Congress was justifiable.  

M: Dude! The fourteen plus airstrikes over ISIL targets in Syria Monday night were successful according to the Pentagon joint staff’s operations chief Army Lt. Gen. William Mayville. The airstrikes are just the first step in building the partnership needed in the region to defeat militants.

D: Man! But I am more concerned about the Congressional Republicans who are already declaring themselves winners of the United States Midterm Elections that have yet to conclude statewide voter registration drives and provide accommodations for balloters at polling stations on or before Election Day Tuesday, November 4, 2014. American Voters must register and then vote for the Democratic Ticket on or before November 4, 2014, or risk losing the right to vote entirely. The only solution for world order right now is for American Voters to register and then vote out of office the Congressional Republicans under the leadership of Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky and Representative John Boehner of Ohio.

M: Dude! Any candidate is better than all the Republican options in this year’s midterms combined. The Republican Party is promoting austerity measures through complete inaction while aiming towards an all White representation in Congress and the Judiciary through legislating selective neoconservative intrusions upon American values and lifestyles in the name of so-termed righteousness and so-called Christian ideals that then will be imposed upon the Afro-Asiatic nations of the world in a wave of warfare, destruction, and death that will return US back to the days of massacre and enslavement of entire populations like the Native Americans and African-Americans.         

D: Man! It will be genocidal in scope. The Republican Party has constructed itself into a clannish network of concierges for America’s billionaires and lobbyists. The entire focus is on indulgent wealth for themselves through financial mishandlings of American Government Spending and the United States Treasury, but the billionaires and lobbyists will always keep their Congressional Republicans from attaining status above the rank of common sycophants. It is degrading and despicable but the Republican Party is an enormous conglomerate of enslaved scroungers representing the agendas of tacky White Supremacist personalities like the Koch Brothers and the Wal-Mart Inheritors that make me ashamed of my own Whiteness as these billionaires manipulate on a two-tier clannishness, one existing amongst the elite and the other existing amongst the poor.           

M: Dude! The middle and working classes are identified as threats to the worldviews of these elite who strive on the dispensable poor to reinforce their White Supremacist fears and methods of aggression including bloodshed amongst the general masses encumbered with inadequate resources as a result of the neoconservatives in the United States enforcing coal, oil, and natural gas dependency over building clean energy alternatives that would spark another unwanted industrial revolution and reestablishment of the working and middle classes not just here but in every society.

D: Man! There’s going to be only one society comprised of the poor and the elite! The neoconservative oligarchs and their Republican Party concierges have been countering President Obama’s initiatives to address the Ebola virus in Africa effectively and efficiently. Plutocrats around the world are focused on wiping out humanity in Africa and Asia and then repopulating the continents with a White Male majority and a considerable minority of sympathizers from non-White backgrounds and those who do not necessarily share their vision but are financially wealthy enough to be acceptable to pass into the next realm of that whitewashed dystopia that exists today because of the flexible campaign finance laws in place due to John Roberts’ SCOTUS.  

M: Dude! Flexible? The situation is far grimmer. In the absence of campaign finance reform, the United States Supreme Court’s conservative despots and the Congressional Republicans are unashamedly practicing what is outlined in the March 17, 2014 report entitled the Growth and Opportunity Project, which encourages loopholes in such unbelievably crafted artifice that I reread it in disbelief. There are paragraphs after paragraphs of treacherousness and lofty snippets like the following from page 97,

We take no position on whether a contest should be winner take all or proportionate. The fact is, both methods can delay or speed up the likelihood of a nominee being chosen. It all depends on who is running and by what margins in each primary or caucus election.       

D: Man! I have heard of the learning as you go approach in leadership and entrepreneurship, but that statement from page 97 is clearly a new chapter in wrecking havoc upon American Democracy and American Diplomacy via case-by-case crookedness. The Republican Party is promoting anarchy by way of micromanaging deception state-to-state via its partnership with the evermore destructively prejudiced United States Press Corps.   

M: Dude! Whenever whatever trends back the rise of the Republican Party, the United States Press Corps will promote that way of thinking and believing, regardless of the injustice inherent in the Republican Party’s leaders functioning as custodial workers for special interests and billionaire donors. On the high end of society, there are loopholes set in motion to produce wealth for the top two percent. On the bottom rungs of society, the two percent impose strict laws and regulations upon the disenfranchised in order to cease funding for all entitlement programs on such grounds as fiscal accountability in government.   

D: Man! Known as “Tract 910” in New York City, the Van Dyke housing complex consists of 22 brick residential buildings in which Brownsville, Brooklyn’s impoverished or otherwise homeless reside with their families. There were four shootings in the neighborhood Saturday and schoolchildren as young as twelve have accidentally been shot descending school bus steps while a fifty-six-year-old grandmother of three worries about their safety after witnessing horrors like unattended deceased bodies with multiple gunshot wounds.      

M: Dude! Such horrors are becoming mainstream with the Congressional Republicans refusing to participate in debate on Capitol Hill and pass legislation securing American jobs and strengthening infrastructure while addressing pressing matters such as our broken immigration system and terrorist threats that President Obama and Secretary Kerry are singlehandedly strategizing in partnership with nations surrounding the regions that are currently infected with ISIS militants. And what kind of Christian ideals does the Right Wing adhere to anyways? They desecrate the Virgin Mary with the exact vulgar contempt as ISIL desecrates the first Muslim convert and mother of Islam Khadijah. Look at the licentious lummoxes and Faux News anchormen Greg Gutfeld and Eric Bolling’s comments regarding our ally United Arab Emirates’ first female fighter pilot Major Mariam Al Mansouri leading an air strike against Syria last week.

D: Man! Saudi Arabia’s Prince Khalid bin Salman also piloted one of the jets that assisted American Military airpower last week to bomb ISIL targets over Syria.

M: Dude! The Gulf monarchies are onboard with US, but the Republican Party’s scripted focus on disrupting President Obama and Secretary Kerry’s multilateral partnerships with all nations globally has always been clear, present, and dangerous. Greg Gutfeld has not apologized as Eric Bolling has for those lewd sexist remarks. But Eric Bolling’s apology can be categorized as being as sincere as that of Ferguson Police Chief’s Tom Jackson’s to Michael Brown’s family on Thursday, September 25, 2014.

D: Man! Tom Jackson’s apology was meant to provoke violence in Ferguson, Missouri as Eric Bolling’s scripted apology and Greg Gutfeld’s scripted refusal to apologize were intended to provoke disarray amongst our allies in the  Middle East. Faux News Channel is infected with scripted discourse and the Gulf monarchies are completely aware of the underhanded dynamics of the Republican Party wanting to decimate all diversity on Earth with the help of such bootlickers as Narendra Modi in India and silent partners as Assad in Syria.

M: Dude! Tom Jackson’s underhanded provocation was unsuccessful thanks in great part to truly brilliant Christian leaders like Reverend Al Sharpton striving to unite communities torn by such awfulness as the burning of Michael Brown’s memorial site on Tuesday, September 23, 2014.

D: Man! Ferguson’s Police Department calculated the plotting of Police Chief Tom Jackson’s apology to follow the burning of Michael Brown’s memorial in order to spread fear and suspicion amongst Black Communities across Missouri and the United States. Tom Jackson’s apology tape was released Thursday, September 25, 2014 and voter registration drives and efforts are wrapping up and concluding right about now as well. The Republican Party is wishing for havoc and riots to divert minorities from registering to vote, including inciting a movement on part of Dreamers who are being falsely encouraged to speak against the President of the United States. The Democratic Party’s infiltrated by two-timing Republican operatives.

Charlotte Clinton Mezvinsky, September 26, 2014

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Man! Dude! Session #318

(D)ude: Man! The Democratic Party is exhibiting a terrible internal disconnect between its brilliant candidates running for office and the nil-wit field directors it designates as official spokespeople.    

(M)an: Dude! Case in point?

D: Man! I’m hoping the transcript to Ed Schultz’s MSNBC television broadcast Friday at 4 PM will be made available soon! You’ve got to see how the Fort Bend [Texas] Democratic Party’s spokesperson Sarah Slamen very calculatedly rerouted the Democratic Party’s urgent message for American Voters to realize how critical their registering to vote right now and then casting their ballots on or before November 4, 2014 is in this year’s crucial midterm elections.          

M: Dude! Sarah Slamen goes by the name “Victorian Prude” on her Twitter account and identifies herself as a public speaker and then reiterates that the opinions she shares are her own but that she is the field director for the Fort Bend Democrats nevertheless.        

D: Man! Exactly! Sarah Slamen speaks as if spewing into glasses of water that were originally half full. Clearly, she’s one of the sneaky serpents placed inside the Democratic Party by Republican operatives to degrade the level of intellectual fluidity that defines the Democrats and is in peril if the Republicans manage to win both houses of the United States Congress on Election Day Tuesday, November 4, 2014.   

M: Dude! American Voters must register to vote and then actually cast their ballots before or on Election Day Tuesday November 4, 2014!

D: Man! Here’s the transcript! Upon being asked to confirm Texas as a low voter turnout state by Ed Shultz, this is how Sarah Slamen responded,

“Yes sir, it is. We have the lowest turnout in the nation. We’re also very big.

It’s 26-million person state. The gerrymandering has not

helped for people as far as, you know, if they could feel

represented by whoever is running but yes, we definitely suffer from low turnout not low voter registration.”   

M: Dude! That’s how the Republican Party leadership prevaricates. Take Texas Republican Senator Ted Cruz’s latest calculated cockamamie burble in defense of Mitt Romney’s signature saucy return, “Corporations are people, my friend!”

D: Man! Yes! Standing before the Senate against the Democratic Party’s campaign finance amendment to restrict corporations from demanding free speech rights through John Roberts’s SCOTUS January 21, 2010 decision Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, Senator Ted Cruz squawked about television’s Lorne Michaels of Saturday Night Live fame being jailed for jesting politicians.            

M: Dude! That’s how the Republican Party leadership postulates pronouncements. What is just isn’t and what isn’t just is. Accordingly, Senator Ted Cruz disclosed the Republican Party’s next doodad for America’s elites and their corporate interests, that being the end of all political satire and freedom of expression.   

D: Man! With the same careful reasoning as Democratic House Leader Representative Nancy Pelosi’s about Ted Cruz’s burble, I don’t know if Sarah Slamen didn’t know what she was talking about, or if she intentionally wanted to downplay and detract from the criticalness of Americans registering to vote and then casting their ballots for the Democratic Ticket on or before Election Day Tuesday November 4, 2014.   

M: Dude! Likewise, the ad with the unidentified female speaking against Scottish Independence that Chris Matthews aired on his show Hardball Thursday, September 18, 2014 misfired in the exact same fashion as the foolish Sarah Slamen being placed by Republican operatives to sabotage the Democratic Party from within.     

D: Man! Sarah Slamen is just as contrived in her messaging as the unidentified woman in that commercial.      

M: Dude! They’re actresses! Both women are treacherously undermining the causes that they pretend to champion and espouse.

D: Man! Of course! Sarah Slamen does just as terrible a job at ideology as that unidentified woman’s offensive chitchat in front of the cameras,

“My Paul is worse than the telly these days. He will not leave off about the referendum. He started again first thing this morning. ‘Have you made a decision yet?’ I was like, it’s too early to be discussing politics; you eat your cereal.”

It’s not much time left for me to make a decision. But there`s only so many hours in the day. And one thing I do know, I will not be gambling with my children`s future. You know what? I`ve made up my mind. I`m going to do what`s best for Scotland. So, that will be a no from me.”

M: Dude! Gordon Brown’s advocating Scottish Independence was sincere as are Democrats encouraging transparency in United States Government alongside the backing of Republicans like the retired United States Army Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson and Independents such as Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont.

D: Man! It is duplicitous spokespeople inside the Democratic Party placed by Republican operatives like Sarah Slamen who are steadfastly maligning the Democratic Ticket by not directly addressing, for example, the Dream Action Coalition’s leadership that is demanding action by the President of the United States on immigration reform.

"That Dawn Indeed" by Sahir Ludhianvi (1921-1980).

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Sahir Ludhianvi (1921-1980). Translated from the Hindi-Urdu by Alverston & Associates.

Pages 342-343

“That Dawn Will Soon Be Here”

That dawn will be arriving soon

When the veil will be lifted finally,

Loosened from the tenebrous folds of centuries-long oppression

When the clouds of suffering will dissolve

And the ocean of happiness will pour forth generously

When the sky shall gather up the clouds of solace and start dancing

And the earth shall too be singing songs

That dawn will be arriving soon

For which we live to die for gallantly

For that ambrosial dawn we persevere to quaff,

Even if mere cups of poison to antidote afterwards

Bestow your graciousness over these hungry, thirsty souls someday

That dawn will be coming soon

I do believe that until then, it is of no value

To you whatsoever to long for our desires, which are worth their weight in gold

Despite that even dirt contains some priceless valuation, whilst humanity’s value is zilch.

That dawn will be arriving soon

When the dignity of human beings will not be weighed by counterfeit money.

When in exchange for money, a female’s chastity or honor will not be advertised or grounds for 

aversion!

When this world becomes ashamed for these misdeeds, that dawn will have arrived.

These days of hunger and unemployment ultimately shall pass.

These idols of reigning wealth will shatter in the end.

When the foundations of an extraordinary world are raised, then that dawn will have arrived.

When the helplessness of old age does not have to heave dust upon the desolate pathway

When the innocence of childhood does not have to beg upon the filthy streets

That day when the ones asking for their rights won’t be condemned to death

That dawn will be arriving soon

That day when humanity will no longer burn over the pyre of starvation

When in the hellish pit of the palpitating heart, yearning cannot be burnt

When these obscenities of the world, worse than hell, halt

Heaven shall return to earth

That dawn will soon be here!

Part Two:

That dawn indeed! That dawn will come about by our efforts!

Indeed, we will bring upon that dawn

When these lands will adopt a new course

When the captive will be discharged from captivity

When houses of evil come into view and break open

When bondage of oppression has collapsed

Indeed, we will make that dawn a universal reality by our efforts!

When through an abominably skeletal congress, society manages to maneuver support

When that oppression is no longer nourished

When hands cannot be bound

When dignity cannot be tossed about

When governments all over the world will be able to serve without the imprisonment of societies

Indeed, that dawn will come by measurable outcomes!

When the world’s entire hardworking labor force shall be granted collective bargaining before they set off to work the mills and fields

Homeless people shall be no longer without means for food and shelter and efficacy

Helpless people will emerge from out of their burrowed boroughs

World will be adorned in peace and prosperity

Indeed, that dawn shall become reality by our undivided efforts!

Sahir Ludhianvi (1921-1980). Translated from the Hindi-Urdu by Alverston & Associates.

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Man! Dude! Session #317

(M)an: Dude! Nate Silver of the United States and his FiveThirtyEight website are approaching the 2014 Midterm Elections here like Kiran Bedi extols the present Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi, and as Malala Yousafzai continues to identify the assassinated ex-Prime Minster of Pakistan Benazir Bhutto-Zardari as her hero and role model.

(D)ude: Man! Nate Silver, Kiran Bedi, and Malala Yousafzai are like the Republican Party’s Growth and Opportunity Project that the perpetually percolating Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus referred to as an, quote unquote, autopsy. No wonder Wisconsin Representative Paul Ryan chose to rework President Obama’s campaign messages from the past into book format right before the 2014 Midterm Elections! The Republican Party is incapable of envisioning democratic principles because its members choose to relinquish their own professional sovereignty to campaign financiers they wait on hand and foot.            

M: Dude! You’re referring to Paul Ryan’s latest attempt to erase the markings left behind of the false pretenses on which he operates as Mitt Romney’s concierge in that hackneyed offprint entitled The Way Forward: Renewing The American Idea!   

D: Man! False pretenses? He’ll have to do a much better job then at concealing the deliberate misrepresentation of the facts in order to move up in socioeconomic status like New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, whose children’s education is guaranteed as long as Christie remains a dedicated custodian to billionaire Sheldon G. Adelson.     

M: Dude! Talking about education, my coworkers held a weekend barbeque at a nearby city park and I realized where the problem of academic standardization fell short.    

D: Man! You figured out a reason why Texas insists upon writing its own college and career-ready standards instead of adopting the Common Core State Standards Initiative?

M: Dude! Yes. As I was speaking with the children, they showed me their technologically advanced tablets and collection of books in their backpacks filled with juice boxes and dietary refreshments. They seemed to have it all. Except that their parents had deluded themselves into believing the tablets and books could take the place of parental interaction and encouragement. We live in a society, well at least in Republicans Rick Perry and Gregg Abbott and George Prescott Bush’s Texas, where parents seriously remain convinced that tablets and books can sustain their children alone. That is a terrible misperception.  

D: Man! When I oversee my nieces and nephews, I actually sit down and instruct them playfully in fundamentals like phonics and counting lunch monies. It’s really incredible how they become attached and actually anticipate my next visit. I get the older children to listen to me read classics like Nancy Drew and the Hardy Boys and Agatha Christie. They have become so accustomed to the books’ formats that they insist upon hearing the final chapter of whatever Agatha Christie mystery I’m performing at the moment because they know that the sleuths, whether Hercule Poirot or Miss Jane Marple, will dissect every detail as it actually happened in that last chapter.

M: Dude! That’s how I teach Sunday school. I read aloud one of Aesop’s fables to figure out the level of comprehension of the classroom and then proceed with reading my students passages from Pearl S. Buck’s 1971 nonfiction masterwork The Story Bible and 1962 fiction classic Satan Never Sleeps.

D: Man! Yes! No! No?

M: Dude! Overall, children deserve to become an intellectual summons for their guardians, especially with the presence of children’s librarians and books at public libraries across the United States. I still remember how surprised I was when I saw a poster of the rock star Sting promoting that Reading is fundamental from the eighties on the wall at the Fort Worth Public Library sometime in the nineties. The poster was situated near the nonfiction sciences section and the preteen magazines and comics and I interpreted the poster as a sign from above to try my shot at being able to read and comprehend botany to zoology alongside aeronautics and astrophysics.     

D: Man! The literary prizewinners were my favorite. I still remember finding out about Caldecott author-illustrators Marcia Brown and Chris Van Allsburg and Uri Shulevitz. What surprised me most was how the celebrated gold medalists in every category had received silver medals and tertiary honors before and after their respective wins. The same with the Newberry authors as well like Katherine Paterson and Russell Freedman and Betsy Byars. I still cannot forget the lessons on forgiveness and loss that I learned from those young adult novels and historical nonfiction. Betsy Byars’ The Pinballs still haunts me, the novel where one of the characters is accidentally run over by his father’s car in their suburban driveway and paralyzed as a result and then placed in foster care.     

M: Dude! The Caldecott Books and the Newberry Books were invitations to learn more about the lives of the authors that these awards celebrated and honored as well as the writers who shared shelf space beside them.    

D: Man! Every adult must be able to read the literature children are bringing home because these books are truly breathtaking in their magnitude.

M: Dude! And excellent icebreakers or conversation starters to just about any concern or topic you may have even as an adult trying to learn how to read and write yourself or process your own pain and suffering.

D: Man! Oppression takes many forms and this current media trend to reduce intellectual rigor in American society through excising individuals like David Letterman and Jay Leno from hosting late night talk shows and installing nil-wit small fries as their replacements is only one such example of lowering of public standards overall to accommodate the privileged plutocrats and their subordinate lackey politicians who are constructing a subservient idiocracy with their Republican Party and American Press Corps converts.

M: Dude! Small fries? I could use a Big Mac and Super Size Fries in Moscow right about now!

Intellectual Thresholds

(D)ude: Man! As I watch David Letterman night after night, I cannot believe CBS and NBC are lowering their intellectual thresholds by forcing Dave and Jay Leno out and bringing in small fries as replacements. Why?

(M)an: Dude! American television executives are enraptured by the simplistic swagger of Mitt Romney, a guaranteed pathway back to President George Walker Bush’s reign of dynastic deceit, destruction, death, and Dick Cheney.    

D: Man! Talking about agent provocateurs, what about the news specifically concerning Double-O-Zero and Zero-Four-Seven? I overheard these are the latest designations for a particular brand of intelligence.    

M: Dude! Those would be Republican strategist Steve Schmidt and Republican candidate Mitt Romney.

D: Man! Which one of these is which?

M: Dude! That’s a tough one to call. However, I am certain Agent Double-O-Zero is Steve Schmidt and Agent Zero-Four-Seven is Mitt Romney, the reason for the latter being given a numeric designation above zilch is due in part to his privately chiding the disenfranchised—at the closed-door fundraiser the United States Press Corps has since forgotten and forgiven Romney for entertaining—as follows,

There are 47 percent of the people who will vote for the President no matter what. All right, there are 47 percent who are with him, who are dependent upon government, who believe that they are victims, who believe that government has a responsibility to care for them, who believe that they are entitled to health care, to food, to housing, to you name it. That- that's an entitlement. And the government should give it to them. And they will vote for this President no matter what. And I mean, the President starts off with 48, 49- 48- he starts off with a huge number.

These are people who pay no income tax. Forty-seven percent of Americans pay no income tax. So our message of low taxes doesn't connect. And he'll be out there talking about tax cuts for the rich. I mean that's what they sell every four years. And so my job is not to worry about those people— I'll never convince them that they should take personal responsibility and care for their lives. What I have to do is convince the 5 to 10 percent in the center that are independents that are thoughtful, that look at voting one way or the other depending upon in some cases emotion, whether they like the guy or not, what it looks like.  

D: Man! These people who pay no income tax and comprise of 47 percent of the population in the United States of America are helpless, disenfranchised and deserve far better representation in government than what the Republican Party is offering up in this year’s midterm elections. The Congressional Republicans and their brownnosing captive American Press Corps have deliberately drafted plans of action that are rigorous and scream exclusivity and privilege and power in the direction opposite of democracy and more like what’s been set up in theocracies like Saudi Arabia and regimes like Syria.   

M: Dude! American Voters need only look at the policy dynamics in Saudi Arabia and Syria and Iraq and the Republican Party’s “Growth and Opportunity Project” for reasons to register to vote immediately and then actually cast their ballots on or before Election Day Tuesday, November 4, 2014 for the Democratic Ticket.   

D: Man! Yes, let’s begin with Saudi Arabia, Syria, and Iraq. President Obama and Secretary Kerry are promoting inclusive governance in and between the Middle Eastern nations, but the Republican Party insists it’s too late and dangerous for US now and that the Commander in Chief and Secretary of State are a day late and a dollar short.   

M: Dude! The United States Government under the Congressional Republicans and the John Roberts SCOTUS is years late and billions of dollars short! If Senators John McCain and Lindsey Graham and Representative Marsha Blackburn want a plan of action from the President of the United States that involves combat boots on the ground, what about economic compensation for veterans who return home and are waitlisted for services that ought to be rendered promptly? Don’t the Republicans understand that counterterrorism is an astute plan of action in a region as volatile as the Middle East?      

D: Man! The Republican Party knows and didn’t care enough to agree to pass the campaign finance amendment that it unanimously blocked in the United States Senate yesterday.  

M: Dude! The Republican Party then must be clueless clucks and beaker brains like Agents Double-O-Zero Steve Schmidt and Zero-Four-Seven Mitt Romney because there will come a time in the near tomorrow, if and only if Americans decide not to register to vote and cast their ballots on or before Election Tuesday, November 4, 2014 for the Democratic ticket, that the billionaire donors will attempt to buy the United States Military and reduce the United States of America to the same volatility as is present in the Middle East.     

D: Man! When did the United States Military go on sale according to the Republican Party’s beaker brains that cook up such menace?

M: Dude! Republican Party members are already catering to the despicableness of their billionaire patrons by insisting fallaciously that the United States Military cannot defeat ISIL. The biggest criminal offense by the Republican Party and its affiliates is their insistence that the United States Armed Forces cannot defeat ISIL and then likening Muslims and Islam to gangs of serial killers that such terrorist assemblages represent.

D: Man! The Republican Party ought to be ashamed for countless reasons but especially for questioning the integrity and training of our sons and daughters in uniform.

M: Dude! The Republican Party’s billionaire donors do not understand that if they manage to buy the United States Armed Forces, they will be targeted with a particular price for themselves and their loved ones.  

D: Man! That’s why we’ve got to register and then vote! War, wreckage, wealth like the George Walker Bush and Republican Party way or peace building international partnerships like the Barack Obama and the Democratic Party direction forward.

M: Dude! The Republican Party is a genocidal grenade that goes off and blasts millions of lives around the world and leaves behind no traces because of the small price that people in the trenches of societies agree to in exchange for becoming self-sacrificial operatives of violence.

D: Man! There is always a price to pay with underhanded business dealings. And the rich dispose of the disenfranchised in such seamless and callous fashion that it appears like the disenfranchised died or suffered excruciating circumstances by turning on their own demographic.

M: Dude! French philosopher Denis Diderot said it best in the eighteenth-century,

Power acquired by violence is only usurpation, and lasts only as long as the force of him who commands prevails over that of those who obey.

D: Man! All of Earth’s continents have been conquered and controlled and then comprehended and eventually celebrated in some delusive fabrication.

M: Dude! The Republican Party’s “Growth and Opportunity Project” outlines the upcoming patterns of misbehavior that the neoconservative billionaire donors have in mind to conflict with American Democracy in 2016. They plan to reduce the number of debates while being able to select the moderators and the topics to be discussed.

D: Man! Staging and then eliminating debates altogether with the delineation of details about one’s political intents remaining undisclosed, the Republican Party’s really regimented like Syria.

M: Dude! And theocratic like Saudi Arabia in the way the Republican Party’s billionaire donors dishonor the Virgin Mary with their degradation of women’s rights and  autonomy. Likewise, their conservative billionaire counterparts in the Middle East dishonor Khadijah, the first Muslim convert and wife of the Prophet Mohammed, with the degradation of women’s rights and autonomy over there as well. The harem mentality evident amongst the elite needs to be reassessed in all cultures for the sake of all our daughters being able to reach an intellectual potential besides becoming dependent wives via entering into the lifestyles and upon the whims of their husbands. Why not have husbands entering into the lifestyles and upon the whims of their wives? The Prophet Mohammed did just so when he married Khadijah!

Oppressive and Offensive Republican Party

Man! Dude! Session #315

(M)an: Dude! I’m really concerned for India’s ancient ruins now that Wal-Mart asphalt is scheduled to be placed there because of the new wave of development Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the Bharatiya Janata Party or BJP have coordinated with White American oligarchs like Sam Walton’s children and Charles and David Koch via the United States Republican Party and its affiliates in the United States Congress who are currently spreading misinformation about President Barack Obama’s priorities and agendas while outlining their own plans to do absolutely nothing at all for at least the next two years that President Obama remains in office if the Republican Party wins majority status in the Senate and the House of Representatives on Tuesday, November 4, 2014, Election Day. 

(D)ude: Man! The American Press is aligned in favor with the United States Republican Party and refuses to report the hard facts that the Republican Party under Representative John Boehner and Senator Mitch McConnell will take no action and actually stall American government until there is a terrorist attack on Americans like 9/11/01 and Benghazi, Libya. The Republican Party is transfixed on placing tremendous blame on the shoulders of President Obama and the hard truth is that the Congressional Republicans  are trying to escalate the erasure of President Obama from the pages of history. Little does the Republican Party membership know that it will be written into history as the purveyors of institutional racism.    

M: Dude! The Congressional Democrats are purveyors of institutional racism too through their silence. The Congressional Democrats must fight for voter registration drives and oversee polling place policies reflect sensitivity and fairness. The Republican Party is playing politics of immigration inaction on part of President Obama, but what about the Republican Party’s own terrible record of oppressive and offensive legislation in the House that has either been rightfully rejected by the United States Senate under Democratic Majority Leader Harry Reid or rightfully vetoed after thorough review by the Chief Executive Officer who is functioning with a belligerently and dangerously inept and unresponsive House of Representatives and a Supreme Court whose majority is also aligned with the Republican Party?

D: Man! What about the Republican Party’s death wish? I mean, the Republican Party cannot not already know about the obvious trend coming out of the Middle East right now. The trend being that as the rich get richer and the poor become poorer, the countries practicing austerity—like the Congressional Republicans in the United States—are only driving the unemployed and helpless into the arms of terrorist organizations.     

M: Dude! It’s really simple. President Clinton’s “It’s the Economy, Stupid” slogan is ringing true is it not? And where is President Clinton anyways?  

D: Man! President Clinton will be erased out of history books too. His grandchild will inherit a world where the glass ceilings will be bullet proof and just a mark of showmanship and hoopla when broken from time to time, what the Republican Party wants to label the Obama Administration right now. Why? Because President Clinton chose to not speak out about the civil rights violations inherent in the United States Press’s style of coverage and the Republican Party’s “We have already won the midterm elections and will do nothing as long as President Obama is in office” attitudinal propaganda campaign.  

M: Dude! The DRM Action Coalition and it leading spokesperson Erika Andiola need to get eligible Latino voters registered and casting their ballots for the Democratic Party on or before November 4, 2014. They need to understand that their tactic of getting President Obama to take action on their behalf right around the Midterm Elections through rallying outcries is miscalculated. Instead, their tactic will only assist in getting the Congressional Republicans more seats in the United States Senate and House of Representatives. And the minute the Congressional Republicans can, they will deport the lives of all illegal immigrants without any consideration whatsoever.    

D: Man! The Congressional Republicans aren’t even being reported in the media to being against taking any kind of action during the remainder of the Obama Administration. Is this not the premise upon which the Democratic Party needs to run and secure themselves as the Majority Party in both houses of the United States Congress come January 2015?

M: Dude! What about the millionaires and the billionaires that identify as progressives? Where are they? Don’t they realize they will too be factored into American and World History as the purveyors of pain and prejudice?

D: Man! There’s a new state of the art airport being built in Mumbai, India right now and Narendra Modi and the BJP are favored by the United States Republican Party and the American oligarchs that are placing businesses there and therefore need a state of the art system of transportation in order to facilitate business ventures and looting of one of the world’s wealthiest nations that is India today.

M: Dude! Narendra Modi and the American oligarchs and the Republican Party are trying to accommodate unrest between the Hindu, Muslim, Sikh, and Christian populations in India, so that they can tear the landscape to smithereens while the locals are fighting and basically leave South Asia as barren and desecrated as Iraq is today. 

D: Man! There are no plans to address the slums surrounding that state of the art Mumbai Airport. That is unfortunate because slums in the new millennium are terrorism breeding grounds. When an impoverished male or female youth is guaranteed 2,00,000 or 200,000 rupees for their service inside a terrorist organization in South Asia, the false promise of martyrdom is also embraced by these poorer than the poorest in the hopes of at least providing a lifetime of relief to their surviving family members who they leave with their one sum income.

M: Dude! Al Qaeda is rising in India through recruiting efforts that are being overlooked by Narendra Modi in the hopes of unrest between the Muslims and the Hindus. Why? Because with the unrest will come an excuse to slaughter innocent Muslims and Hindus in a contrived fashion that the Republican Party is trying to establish in the United States through gridlock and questionable actions by law enforcement officials and state prosecutors who claim self-defense and the ability to reason impartiality despite strong evidence indicating otherwise.

Calling the fragrance back... Joan Rivers (June 8, 1933 - September 4, 2014).

“An Epistle”

(Referencing to when Zaid taunted Bakr that Bakr’s mother was more famous than Bakr’s father.)

My Child,

You have to bear this arrow.

This world recognizes a child’s identity

By his father’s name,

But, after all, being known by your mother’s name,

One day you will have to pay a big price

Although the color of your eyes,

The shape of your forehead,

And all the angles of your lips,

Are exactly like that of the individual who is

My partner in your creation

Your recognition in the eyes of society!

But the one whose blood nourished you

For 3 seasons,

That solitary tree has her

Own weather:

With blood harvesting the sifting stars,

The thoughts that go into the creation of fragrance,

And the act of creating poetry,

Its reigns are no longer in the hands of your ancestors.

To call the fragrance back was impossible for Sappho,

Nor was Mira able to do it.

Now, around your peers, your now-and-then embarrassment,

In front of your acquaintances, your father’s forced humiliation

Is considered the fate of this family.

Whatever nameplate is placed on the front gate,

The reference will be the same:

Who you are

Or

Who you are not!

Parveen Shakir (24 November 1952 - 26 December 1994)

Translated from the Urdu by M.S. Alverston, 03/01/11.