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(D)ude: Man! That was really hard on the eyes! I cannot take it anymore! Fast forward to Yevgeni Plushenko’s long program! That will certainly soothe our suffering from surfing through such blandness.   

(M)an: Dude! We’ve already watched Yevgeni Plushenko’s figure skating masterwork five times! How much of an elixir do you need anyways?

D: Man! Enough to be able to erase everything I’ve seen leading up to Plushenko’s introduction and performance! Please be merciful!

M: Dude! Okay! All right?

D: Man! Yeah! Of course! I cannot believe Plushenko withdrew from competition this past Thursday. There ought to be an allowance by which the eighteen-year-old Maksim Kovtun could have stepped in for Plushenko. But the problem with that could possibly be North Korea’s Kim Jong-un dividing the competition in half and instructing the stronger skater to complete the initial two arduous rounds in order to secure a team gold and the other athlete to secure the individual gold medal in the later rounds. A country could not possibly play that card for far too long without suspicion of fraud or communism?  

M: Dude! Come to think of it, I am baring quite a migraine myself since we watched the preceding men’s figure skating long programs.  

D: Man! Didn’t I tell you? Like the spectacular opening ceremony of the Olympics broadcast on Friday, February 7, 2014, Plushenko’s performance managed to make me forget the political atmosphere in the United States briefly.

M: Dude! What about the world? Just look at how the 4,600-year-old stepped pyramid Edfu is being rendered valueless in Southern Egypt due to pressures from the gas pipeline industry that wants to build underneath it despite the aesthetically compromised nature of the modern madness that parallels the push in the United States to complete the Keystone Pipeline XL as well as continuing fracking despite the plate tectonics basics the captains of the industry seem to want to overlook.  

D: Man! But isn’t the President of the United States and Secretary of State Kerry edging towards the completion of the construction of the Keystone Pipeline XL?

M: Dude! Why wouldn’t they? Just look at how the Republican Tea GOP has managed to mess up so much in four years since they took control of the House of Representatives. The Republican Tea GOP has delegated power to the individual state legislatures to decide independently about how much federal government regulations they are willing to allow state-by-state. But it is considerably disallowing the federal government to participate in the affairs of the states because it’s just looting the daylights out of state budgets.

D: Man! Do you think there should be a system of checks and balances restored that the Republican Tea GOP has basically annihilated since the midterms elections of 2010? I think so. And you know why? I believe the far right is beyond mediocrity, and well on the way to being just obnoxiously obsolete.

M: Dude! Yeah. I think their obstructionist agendas only prove the point that Pope Francis made in dialogue with Rabbi Abraham Skorka for the 2013 textual gem On Heaven and Earth. There is a passage in the book that goes along the lines of  what you just said. Quote unquote, “A very intelligent Jesuit told this joke: There was a person who came running asking for help. Who was pursuing him? Was it an assassin? A thief? No… a mediocre person with power.” I even remember the page number: One forty nine.    

D: Man! Going back to the 4,600-year-old stepped pyramid Edfu and the gas pipeline companies, I suspect California Representative Darrell Issa did not ever intend to investigate the Benghazi, Libya tragedy when he reportedly took his schlemiel Republican Tea GOP aides—just two guys as far as the reports from that time concur—for a tour last year through Italian landscapes and a final glimpse of the Great Pyramids of Giza before their demise that, I’m suspecting, the Republican Tea GOP appear to know something about but are not wanting to share. I think George Clooney ought to reprise his role from the film The Monuments Men and construct an investigative documentary about what Issa knew then and knows now about the questionable fate of such marvelous historical markers of human innovation like the Ancient Egyptian Pyramids.  

M: Dude! Specifically, there is this oil and gas conglomerate comprised of 23 companies that are identified as quote unquote “principals” or componential partners within it. It is the Pyramid Oilfield Supply Co. and goes by the acronym POSCO. The 23 companies  are as follows: Petrofac International and Wilson Supply of UK; Dresser-Rand and seven  others—Champion Technologies, Valerus, HMT, Enardo, Plidco, Wholesale Electric, Argo International—of the USA; Sulzer Chemtech of Switzerland; Helm AG and three others—Siem Offshore Contractors, Saint Gobain NorPro, BKG Water Solutions—of Germany; Groupe Genoyer Phoceenne of France; Rosemont Tank Gauging System (Saab) of Sweden; Officine Valle Seriana S.P.A. and three others—Cavicel, Industrial Packing, Nuova Giungas—of Italy; Nikkiso of Japan; and Borusan Mannesmann of Turkey.

D: Man! The UK, the USA, Switzerland, Germany, France, Sweden, Italy, Japan, and Turkey span three continents but I wonder if POSCO is dismantling epic monuments of human innovation in Africa because the international status quo was originally aligned with what essentially could be referenced as a premeditated murder of non-Judeo-Christian cultures around the world through destructive measures like wars and sanctions without fathoming alternatives.

M: Dude! I look at it like this. The fossil fuel industry does not want to be replaced by the breakthroughs in green energy innovations. Like the nineteen century Luddites in England who were essentially against the Industrial Revolution, the status quo worldwide is hesitant to accept that a new day has arrived where the people are beleaguered enough by the 2010 rewrite of the American Dream with the extreme conservatism that is Republican Tea GOP. The Republican Tea GOP has robbed the thriving middle classers and a dreamer generation of immigrants that want to become citizens of the USA due to situations in their countries of origin where, most likely, the historic Republican GOP had most probably caused political upheavals and social unrest through policies abroad as well as at home in the United States of America.

D: Man! Then the first order of business ought to be to restore the definition of tax-exempt social welfare groups in Section 501(c)(4) of the Internal Revenue Code to read as it did originally, “Civic leagues or organizations not organized for profit but operated exclusively for the promotion of social welfare.”

M: Dude! Borrowing from Lawrence O’Donnell again?

D: Man! I’m just reiterating with enthusiasm, that’s all.

M: Dude! That’s a great first step. Holding Eisenhower’s IRS accountable for the subsequent tax exempt status of obvious political groups who hold on to the notion that primarily and exclusively are the same in order to hold onto their nonprofit stature all these years later.

D: Man! If it weren’t for the BBC, we would never have known that China and Taiwan were considering talks with each other and that North Korea was considering talks with South Korea! Is the United States national press really stooped so low to the level of McCarthyism?

M: Dude! Yeah?

D: Man! Of course!

Obstructionist Ship of Fools

(M)an: Dude! Robert M. Gates memoirs, entitled Duty as in being called to serve one’s country, is more like a remnant of the Romney 2012 presidential campaign.

(D)ude: Man! Do you think that former defense secretary Robert M. Gates had anticipated a position in a Mitt Romney White House?

M: Dude! No. I think he was certain that the Bush Dynasty would take control of the presidential reigns once more in 2016, specifically Jeb Bush as the Republican front-runner and definite winner after Mitt Romney’s stint as a one-term president.

D: Man! Where have I heard that before?

M: Dude! This Week With George Stephanopoulos was anchored brilliantly by Martha Raddatz on Sunday and included Representative Adam Kinzinger of Illinois’s 16^th congressional district, a Republican Party member who extolled the perspectives taken by Robert M. Gates in the book but then insisted he had only read the excerpts pre-released by the book’s publisher.

D: Man! Representative Kinzinger has heroically served three tours in Iraq and has accepted  endorsements by Sarah Palin and sought his present position after redistricting efforts in 2009 resulted in the creation of the 16^th Congressional District in Illinois.

M: Dude! I think Illinois’s Congressional District 16 was reconstructed to throw off redistricting critics across the United States. Kinzinger’s opponent Don Manzullo had represented the 16^th since 1993 and lost the 2012 Republican Primary to Kinzinger after redistricting. And, keep in mind, Manzullo is a staunch Republican, tobacco backing, pro-lifer with ambitions to gut non-defense spending and secure the right for the populous to keep and bear arms.

D: Man! I think the Republican Study Committee was constructed in 1973 to rid all transparency and moderation within the House Republicans. And whatever tactics they utilized and wanted to keep hidden from the American people and the United States press corps worked in their favor in 1995, when the Republicans became the majority party in the House of Representatives with then-Speaker Newt Gingrich’s wiping their slate clean by dissolving the RSC and other groups like it temporarily.

M: Dude! Robert M. Gates’ stances in the book match Kinzinger’s sound bites during the roundtable discussion on This Week moderated by Martha Raddatz. Keep in mind that Gates’ book was released worldwide yesterday, Tuesday, January 14, 2014. Kinzinger said,

“You know, it may chip away at that a little bit [Gates undermining President Obama as Commander in Chief], but to be -- I might have to take a different view than the panel. I mean, I think it's important for some of this to come out. I mean, the reality is nobody's been critical of this administration's foreign policy, both in Iraq and Afghanistan, by and large. We haven't heard a lot of it.

For Gates to come out and say, look, here behind the scenes, this is the truth, the President and Hillary Clinton opposed the surge for political reasons. By the way, using politics on foreign policy is absolutely terrible and a leader should never do that.

And in terms of Afghanistan, when was the last time you've -- and I'm a believer in the war in Afghanistan, that we can and should win. When was the last time you have heard the president of the United States tell the American people why we're there and what our interest is? He hasn't talked about it; he's avoided it.

And in fact, in the bilateral security agreement, we're hearing that they're floating a number of 9,000 or 10,000 American troops, when General Allen and generals on the ground recommended at least 15,000 to accomplish the mission. This is important today because America is paying for this, and it's our men and women over there.”

D: Man! That’s a four-part answer by Congressman Kinzinger and I have an analysis, using Robert 

M. Gates’ own words in the memoirs released yesterday. First, regarding foreign policy abroad, Iraq and Afghanistan specifically, I am reminded of the revelations Gates makes early on in his book, unwittingly coming across as a diehard Bush Dynasty fan and fellow warmonger, apparently all constructive social reform recommendations, made on behalf of the Iraqi people by U.S. Military Generals, conveniently overlooked and deliberately pushed aside by Robert Gates as sentimentality.

Page 13: They [Democratic Senators, Fall/Winter 2006] professed to be enormously pleased with my nomination and offered their support, I think mainly because they thought that I, as a member of the Iraq Study Group, would embrace their desire to being withdrawing from Iraq.

Page 26: On February 15, 1991, Bush [41]  had ad-libbed at a press conference that one way for the bloodshed in Iraq to end was, “to have the Iraqi people and military put aside Saddam.” The entire Bush team was convinced that the magnitude of their defeat would prompt the Iraqi military leaders to overthrow Saddam.

(page 26 continued ) To our dismay, almost immediately after our military offensive ended, both the Shia in the south and the Kurds in the north spontaneously rose up against Saddam. They had interpreted the president’s words- aimed at the Iraqi military- as encouragement of a popular uprising. Neither the Kurds nor the Shia- especially the latter- would forgive us for not coming to their assistance after they thought we had encouraged them to take up arms. 

Page 29: Forming a coalition government composed of several Shia parties, the Kurds, and politically acceptable Sunnis after the December election, however, the, was a major challenge. As those negotiations were dragging on, the bombing of a historic Shia mosque, the Askariya Shrine at the Golden Mosque of Samarra, on February 22, 2006, ignited horrific sectarian violence that escalated around the country. By October some three thousand Iraqi civilians were being killed every month. Attacks against U.S. troops increased from an average of 70 per day in January 2006 to an average of 180 per day in October.

Page 33: We [Iraq Study Group] also spent some time talking with the Lt. General Pete Chiarelli, commander of the Multinational Corps-Iraq, who was the direct commander of our troops in the fight. Chiarelli impressed us all with his thoughtful analysis about why we needed to protect the population and get the Iraqis services and jobs- to get young Iraqi men to pick up a shovel instead of a rifle. He spoke of the need for more U.S. civilian aid workers and development experts as well as military efforts, and he observed that something like restoring sewer service to an entire neighborhood could have a far more beneficial effort than a successful military engagement. Chiarelli, echoing Speckhard, spoke at length about the need to improve security in Baghdad as the prerequisite for success.  

M: Dude! Republican Representative Kinzinger’s promoting warfare in Afghanistan and sanctions on Iran is just an overview of what’s at stake in the 2014 United States Midterm Elections. And Bob Gates’ book has been released right in time for the American public to read yet another attempt by the Republican Party leadership to rewrite George W. Bush’s criminality as intellectual prowess and All-American candor. And judging by the reviews, I think Robert Gates almost got away with the objective of the book: To rebrand George W. Bush’s Administration as effective and far-reaching.  

D: Man! I don’t agree! I think Robert Gates purposefully released his memoir prematurely, right at the beginning of the latest attempt by the Bush Dynasty to ascend and overthrow all the achievements made thus far in the peace accords that John Kerry is negotiating and overseeing on behalf of freedom to finally get a chance. Tyranny is always the easier route and this push for sanctions on Iran by the status quo in the United States only reveals how threatened the status quo gets whenever the issue of universal human rights and opportunities expands to include places like the Middle East and Eurasia and Africa.  

M: Dude! The status quo in the United States is the same regarding domestic policy! Look at how Jeb Bush’s son George Prescott Bush has begun a bus tour across the state, running for Texas Land Commissioner, but holding political rallies aligning  gubernatorial Democratic candidate Wendy Davis with President Obama and getting the crowds all riled up against the Democratic Party collectively!

D: Man! George Prescott Bush has adopted the same strategies utilized by Republican Christ Christie in his 2013 gubernatorial race against Democrat Barbara Buono. Like Buono, Wendy Davis cannot be labeled an Obama Democrat or a Clinton Democrat. Wendy Davis is a brilliant candidate for the Texas governorship.

M: Dude! That’s just it! The GOP is always labeling itself Tea Party and each other RINO, but in the end, they are all in the same obstructionist ship of fools together. Thanks to the Supreme Court and gerrymandering, the GOP ship of fools believes it is unsinkable. And it just may be right, if the people don’t cast their ballots on Tuesday, November 4, 2014.

Treachery In Motion

(D)ude: Man! Chris Christie is Governor of New Jersey and Chair of the Republican Governors Association, which leads me to suspect that the George Washington Bridge traffic mess lasting 4 days last September, was actually the strategizing of the Republican Party because of their sincere efforts to import the corruption mechanisms put into place by Republican businessmen such as Mitt Romney, the Koch Brothers, and Sheldon Adelson abroad through their companies and conferences.

(M)an: Dude! Are Mitt Romney and the Koch Brothers the Mao and Stalin that Stephen Hawking forewarns about in terms of particle theorems playfully in his lighthearted and brilliant 2013 autobiography?

D: Man! Seriously! Hawking’s latest masterpiece, My Brief History, has me concerned about quantum fields just as much as the furthering of soul deterioration within the United States status quo political clubs of the GOP since the confirmation of Clarence Thomas to the Supreme Court in  1991 and the voter fraud campaigns that have been put into place for the 2014 Midterms by Republican state legislators and the Congressional Republicans that have retired to spas across the DC area to tend to their nails and tans in the guise of obstructionism.      

M: Dude! The Republican Party is purposefully coming across as bemused and laid back leaders who are protecting the American people from additional taxes via gutting the attempts of the President of the United States to help the working poor and the middle class. Do you think that the fracking and chemical spill chaos unfolding across the United States, just today in West Virginia where the situation has been declared a national emergency, affects the upper classers and wealthy?

D: Man! Sheldon Adelson and the Koch Brothers are the new cocky klutzes alongside the followers they recruit and train to overturn the system of democratic justice and fairness in the United States that protects people from total anarchical messes, Adelson and Koch recruits like Chris Christie, Edward Snowden and Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker.

M: Dude! I initially believed that there existed a socioeconomic exploitation of the communities where the fracking sites are setup, presuming that the neighborhoods were lower income and working class, but I was wrong. The golf course neighborhood in West Fort Worth where Martina Navratilova once resided is less than a mile away from one fracking site. And there have been reports of minor earthquakes in the Southwest side of Fort Worth. Remember the party with the sudden fireworks-like effects?  

D: Man! I swear that the earth moves under my bed every night I spend the evening with my parents. And the fossil fuel companies are perpetrating fairly respectable communities because of the lack of government regulations and personal accountability. Reminds me of the way Chris Christie presided over his exhaustively bogus apology staged before the New Jersey Press yesterday. Did you notice how conveniently dulled and inaudible the inquiries were and how loud and circumvent Christie’s responses got throughout the 105 minutes worth of jibber jabber?  

M: Dude! Chris Christie is the precursor to the planned treachery being scheduled in those DC nail and tan spas by the gerrymandering and voter fraud scammers that constitute the GOP right now. Chris Christie, Bridgette Kelly, and David Goldstein are the Edward Snowdens of New Jersey, backed by heavy money from underground financiers like Adelson and the Koch Brothers, et al.  

D: Man! Have their financiers too guaranteed them bright futures? Is that the reason behind David Wildstein’s lawyer’s smiling demeanor before the New Jersey Transportation Committee Assembly yesterday? Reminded me of Grover Norquist’s cocky klutzy eyes with which he attempts to seduce cameras and audiences. It’s like he cannot help but showoff that his parents contributed two recessive alleles in order to produce the gray eyes that he accents with salacious eyebrow maneuvers.      

M: Dude! The George Washington Bridge closures of 2013 was an attempt by the Republican Party of both Bush Administrations to make the city of New York vulnerable to a possible attack like nine-eleven-o-one upon the shoulders of the federal government. Likewise, I believe Rudy Giuliani’s bragging to Oprah Winfrey about his record as the United States attorney and mayor of New York City is a breakthrough ah-ha moment that must be delved into by federal prosecutors because Rudy Giuliani is a shady character when considering what he revealed to Winfrey about his run ins with the Sicilian mafia.

D: Man! I remember that interview! And wasn’t Rudy Giuliani on Chris Christie’s campaign bus tour right up to the very last minute?   

M: Dude! These are Rudy Giuliani’s own words: I don't think anybody prosecuted more mafia members than I did. Certainly, no one sent them to prison for the lengthy periods of time than I did. A contract was put out on me the first year that I was the mayor by the Sicilian mafia," Giuliani says. "They offered $800,000 to kill me. Then, toward the end of the time I was the mayor, a particular mafia guy who we convicted and put in jail for 100 years, put out a contract to kill me for $400,000. I kind of felt bad that I went down in value -- I started at 800, I went down to 400. I didn't worry as much about the organized criminals. Now, when we start talking about Islamic extremist terrorism -- that worries me more, because they are suicidal. Part of why I didn't worry about the mafia was because there was a certain rationality to their kind of violence. This other kind of violence is completely irrational violence.

D: Man! Is there an auditor in the federal government that can be assigned to investigate what exactly happened to the Sandy Relief funds under Chris Christie and the “more than $230 million” worth of gold and silver bars from the Bank of Nova Scotia’s vault recovery that Rudy Giuliani had overseen and after which Giuliani insisted on halting the efforts of the New York City Fire Department to recover bodies of their fallen comrades and others who perished on that haunting and tragic day: Nine eleven o one?

M: Dude! I don’t know! I just don’t know. Chris Christie and Ted Cruz were parts of the Bush dynasty. That’s where they got their start and training. And is violence ever rational?