Living on the Edge because of the Republican Tea GOP in the United States of America

Ohio's "Opportunity Corridor" & Harris Parkway via "The Chisholm Trail"

Man! Dude! Session #328

(D)ude: Man! The Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Dr. Thomas Frieden and the Obama Administration are under fire by rightwing neoconservative conglomerates such as the United States Press Corps and the Republican Party stationed in the United States but wheeling and dealing in an underhanded counter government scheme that was utilized by the Republican Party abroad during the Kennedy Administration to label Martin Luther King, Jr. and The Civil Rights Movement as prideful militarists deserving the fatal end and violence that was orchestrated at them by the 1950s and 1960s mechanics of GOP leaders like Congressmen Joseph William Martin, Jr. of Massachusetts, Charles A. Halleck of Indiana, John J. Rhodes, Jr. of Arizona, and Leslie C. Arends of Illinois.     

(M)an: Dude! Senators John McCain and Lindsey Graham and Representatives Newt Gingrich of Georgia and John Boehner of Ohio had comparable predecessors who fouled  American Policy and were just as toxic to American Democracy as their coconspirators inside the United States Press Corps. And let’s remember that the late Andrew James Breitbart set into motion Arianna Huffington’s The Huffington Post online in 2005 before the 2007 online launch of his own publication conglomerate Breitbart DOT COM.  

D: Man! Breitbart was a self-identified liberal who became a Tea Partier conservative activist, while Arianna Huffington was the intransigent conservative who wrote the following 1973 criticism of feminism or the women’s movement,

Women’s Lib [Women’s Liberation Movement] claims that the achievement of total liberation would transform the lives of all women for the better; the truth is that it would transform only the lives of women with strong lesbian tendencies.    

M: Dude! I would relate Arianna Huffington with Henry Kissinger politically, but for her own history within Svengali bureaucracies as democratic a tutelage as her relationship with Bernard Levin and as fascist a surrendering as her marriage to Michael Huffington.     

D: Man! What ever became of that 1983 television movie starring Jodie Foster and Peter O’Toole? Svengali? I think it’s still available and the actor performances still higher up in caliber than the usual afterschool specials and made-for-television features. Remember those?

M: Dude! Goodness! If American Voters do not vote and the Republicans manage to attain majority party status in both houses of the United States Congress, our nieces and daughters will have to endure the same dynamics of compromise within their relationships with men as Arianna Huffington has proven through her lifetime of sacrifices within the status quo with both Levin and Huffington.

D: Man! We have to get up and register to vote and cast our ballots on or before Election Day Tuesday November 4, 2014 for the Democratic Ticket candidates across the United States regardless of our prior political affiliations or fallouts because if the Republican Party manages to lie, cheat, and steal through shredding voter registration applications like they’re doing in Georgia, or through Voter ID Laws like the ones in Texas not willing to accept Student IDs as valid forms of identification for the purpose of registering to vote and then actually following through with voting on or before November 4, 2014.   

D: Man! Georgia and Texas have predominantly Republican-led State Legislatures. What’s it like politically in Ohio? Are any of the hospitals dealing with Ebola over in Ohio a part of the Texas Health Resources and USMD Hospitals Network?   

M: Dude! Why are the state health officials at the Ohio Department of Health in Columbus, Ohio recommending instead of enforcing Ohio hospitals to train and prepare for the possibility of coming into contact with the Ebola virus?

D: Man! Can Ohioans trust the Republican Governor John Kasich to follow through on his commitments to low-income constituents? The Opportunity Corridor Project in Cleveland, Ohio is of particular concern to me as is The Chisholm Trail toll road in Fort Worth, Texas.

M: Dude! How so?

D: Man! Wake up and smell the gasoline! Gasoline is a fossil fuel?

M: Dude! Enlighten me! I’m totally listening! We’re dealing with an oil and natural gas economy being hammered into our lives and homes by corporations being run by women like Marillyn Hewson of the defense industry giant Lockheed Martin and a Press Corps totally committed and obligated to the Republican Party and being run by women like Arianna Huffington and Tina Brown. Tina Brown’s got a Svengali like tale of success as well and, again, I register and vote in these Midterm Elections in the United States on or before Election Day Tuesday November 4, 2014 because I do not wish our nieces and daughters to have to endure the wrath of such disrespect and degradation as the GOP Male has planned for all girls and women, mere chattels who will be told to find their own personal Christ and until then be delegated the humiliation and indignities of Mary Magdalene.

D: Man! The Republican Party wants to close down hospitals in the United States accepting ObamaCare recipients in a last ditch effort before the Midterm Elections concluding on Tuesday, November 4, 2014 to distract voters from registering and voting on the basis of the GOP’s portrayals of President Obama and his Administration as adversarial and as ineffective as the Congressional Republicans.

M: Dude! Talk to me about the Opportunity Corridor in Ohio and the Chisholm Trail Toll Road. I haven’t driven on the toll road although it gets you from Harris Parkway in Fort Worth to Downtown Fort Worth in less than 13 minutes when traffic’s okay, not too congested. But is traffic ever going to be congested on that toll road if the Republicans demolish us like they did Detroit, Michigan?

D: Man! Speaking of Chisholm Trail toll road in Fort Worth, Texas makes my heart ache. Texas Health Resources is a non-profit health care deliverer operating since 1997, when Fort Worth’s Harris Methodist Health System and Dallas’s Presbyterian Healthcare Resources merged. There are twenty-four hospitals in North Texas that come under the Texas Health Resources umbrella and they are all situated along prominent highways, particularly Texas Health Harris Methodist Hospital Southwest Fort Worth that is located off Harris Parkway, the road that the Chisholm Trial toll road runs alongside.

M: Dude! Texas Health Resources is a nonprofit network of hospitals and affiliates therefore the Republican Party wants to demolish its infrastructures and construct fracking sites all along that toll road they have carefully constructed alongside Harris Methodist Hospital Southwest Fort Worth. Ora pro nobis!

D: Man! The Republican Party is masterminding ways to get the Ebola virus spread to the extent that the GOP can declare Texas Health Resources facilities contaminated, after which American voters will refuse to venture outside and, instead, remain self-quarantined in their homes until the Big Scare of 2014 concludes with the Republicans taking over the House and Senate in January 2015 due to another underhanded tactic of declaring runoffs in December 2014 because none of the listed candidates in any of the races managed to get a majority of the vote on Election TuesDay November 4, 2014.

M: Dude! What did you read up on the Opportunity Corridor in Cleveland, Ohio?

D: Man! Northeast Ohio’s The Plain Dealer’s Alison Grant wrote up an article titling Opportunity Corridor historic pact sets aside 20 percent of contract dollars for minority-owned firms. Although dating back to September 11, 2014, this necessary reading exposes the highest degree of treacheries defining the Republican Party agendas in the 21^st Century,

Black-owned companies are to get 8.5 percent, or $22.7 million of the total contract awards; Hispanic-owned companies are to get 1.5 percent or $4 million, as are Asian/Native American companies. All other companies certified as disadvantaged businesses, which can include female-owned businesses, are in line for an 8.5 percent, or $22.7 million share.

Though the percentages and amounts are expressed as "goals," Kasich said he would ride hard on his cabinet members to make sure that they are met. He noted government-funded construction projects in the state routinely miss their disadvantaged business enterprise (DBE) targets.

"I think it's fair to say that we are going to meet the set-aside numbers for the first time in Ohio history," he predicted.   

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Man! Dude! Session #327

(M)an: Dude! Joe Reynolds, one of the many former Maytag employees now working for TPI Composites Inc due to Maytag’s abruptly closing down its plant in Newton, Iowa and then outsourcing jobs to Mexico ten years to the day yesterday, is the face of American Democracy and Resilience. Mr. Reynolds is my reason for standing up and making the Decision to Vote for the Democratic Ticket in the 2014 Midterm Elections.      

(D)ude: Man! What about the Congressional Republicans’ outrageous declarations that the Democratic Ticket is entirely comprised of the Executive Branch and that the Obama Administration is, and this is what Speaker John Boehner claims in press releases posted on the website  www dot speaker dot gov: rewriting laws by executive decree and importing Guantanamo Bay prisoners into the United States? What does John Boehner want? For the Obama Administration to idle by as the Congressional Republicans have done for the last four years and do absolutely nothing? Clearly, President Obama and his administration are exploring ways to close GITMO, which President Walker Bush Cheney instituted in order to avoid scrutiny at home vis-à-vis international law.     

M: Dude! Ed Schultz interviewed Joe Reynolds in Iowa for Tuesday, October 14, 2014’s  broadcast of The Ed Show and Mr. Reynolds spoke beautifully about leaving behind a legacy of innovation and progress for future generations. Mr. Reynolds elucidated as follows,

Family is first, like we’ve talked about. But I feel that when I was working at Maytag for 24 years, I was building washers and dryers. But wind energy is really what I’m proud of being now because of my grandkids. You know, as a family member or father, you always think about what you can do for your kids when they grow up. Now I’m building something that my kids can enjoy.     

D: Man! What’s the opposite of innovation and progress?  

M: Dude! Stagnation or old hat and failure or diminishment sound likely contenders or, simply stated, the Republican Party as the totalitarian imbecile of the new millennium that it is. Why?

D: Man! The Lockheed Martin Corporation announced its technological alternative research to green energy efforts today, a power source stemming in nuclear fusion rather than nuclear fission and referred to as the compact fusion reactor. But according to a Reuters’ article by Andrea Shalal today,

In recent years, Lockheed has gotten increasingly involved in a variety of alternate energy projects, including several ocean energy projects, as it looks to offset a decline in U.S. and European military spending.

M: Dude! Isn’t Lockheed’s Chief Executive Officer Marillyn Hewson?

D: Man! Yeah. She’s been with Lockheed since 1983. The defense business in the United States is big and Marillyn Hewson has been at the helm as CEO at Lockheed since 2013.

M: Dude! It’s been just over thirty years and now Marillyn Hewson’s CEO of the most successful defense contractor in the world?

D: Man! Defense contractors want worldwide theatres of warfare regardless of which sides win or lose! Lockheed Martin has placed Marillyn Hewson at its helm for the same purposes that General Motors decided on Mary Barra as its Chief Executive Officer in 2013 as well, to take the blame of past administrations’ deadly oversights.

M: Dude! Mary Barra was a Board Member for General Dynamics Corp, which sold to Lockheed in 1993 and then reemerged in 1999 with its Fort Worth Division entering back into aerospace defense by purchasing Gulfstream Aerospace.

D: Man! Do you think that the same folks manipulated Mary Barra to CEO status at GM as those folks who catapulted Marillyn Hewson to that exact position at Lockheed Martin? Could it be that GM has premeditated their treatment in federal court to be softer with Barra at the wheel than a male counterpart? Or could it be that the committee members in the congressional hearings that unfolded about the car accidents that took the lives of so many due to GM’s design carelessness are stockholders in the defense industry as Barra and Hewson may as well also have remained since their starts in the defense industry?

M: Dude! Could it be that Lockheed Martin premeditated something similar by manipulating Marillyn Hewson to CEO just in time for the umpteenth round of warfare in the Islamic World that the Republican Party in the United States shamelessly wants our sons and daughters in uniform to fight with their boots on the ground?

D: Man! If our sons and daughters in uniform have to put their boots on such treacherous grounds and be sacrificed, then I agree with Independent Senator from Vermont Bernie Sanders’ approach to the terrorism in the Islamic World and that is to have the neighboring nations over there unite and place their own boots on the ground so that ISIL does not massacre our sons and daughters in the highly uneducated and lame rhetoric of pure savagery that they claim is Islamic when the truth is ISIL militants don’t even know how to write or pronounce accurate Arabic script themselves.

M: Dude! The Republican Party is made up of tax-fearing concierges who want to keep their cavaliere servente contented always, just as severe as the jizya tax for non-Muslims and the zakat tax for Muslims in the Islamic World. The Congressional Republicans and the billionaires that they service fully must be flown over the ISIL targets and parachuted out onto those exact battlegrounds that they wish to deploy our beloved United States Military personnel.

D: Man! Amelia Earhart’s disappearance happened while she was flying a Lockheed  Model 10 Electra, after which the company just happened to have produced and profited multitudinously with the Model 12 Electra Junior and the Model 14 Super Electra.

Bigotry In Motion

Man! Dude! Session #326

(D)ude: Man! Speaker of the House and Representative from Ohio’s Eighth Congressional District John Boehner and Senate Minority Leader and Senator from Kentucky Mitch McConnell are continuing and will be reinstating their austerity measures and approach towards President Obama’s Administration by retreating to their individual states instead of convening the United State Congress on Capitol Hill or  preferring to attend Republican Billionaires’ retreats for compliant congressional concierges like themselves.

(M)an: Dude! Speaker John Boehner insists on the United States Congress stalling outside Capitol Hill and not reconvening until January 15, 2014 when the Congressional Republicans hope to convene with Republican majorities in both the United States House of Representatives and the United States Senate. But when it comes to Temporary Assistance to Needy Families or TANF, John Boehner and the Congressional Republicans falsely insist that their passing H.R. 890 or “Preserving Work Requirements for Welfare Programs Act of 2013” was unfairly blocked by the Democrats in the United States Senate under the leadership of Senate Majority Leader and Senator from Nevada Harry Reid and that there are over 46 such jobs bills just as worthy of passage as H.R. 890.       

D: Man! How are the Congressional Republicans falsely insisting theirs was a productive four years for which they should now be reelected back into office so that they can pass legislation that’s been historically hurtful to women and minorities much the same way that the Republican Party is toxic to American Democracy and Diplomacy presently?    

M: Dude! The “Preserving Work Requirements for Welfare Programs Act of 2013” or H.R. 890 from the 113^th Congress’s first session states that it is,

AN ACT to prohibit waivers relating to compliance with the work requirements for the program of block grants to States for temporary assistance for needy families, and for other purposes.

D: Man! What’s a waiver?

M: Dude! The American Heritage Dictionary’s Third Edition states a waiver as being such,

1. An intentional relinquishment of a right, claim, or privilege. 2. The document that waives a right or claim.

D: Man! The Congressional Republicans of the 113^th Congress only passed H.R. 890 to limit what the Secretary of Health and Human Services at the time, Kathleen Sebelius, could do in terms of the requests coming in to the Department of Health and Human Services from both Democratic and Republican Governors across the United States of America pleading for what Liz Schott and LaDonna Pavetti described in their February 26, 2013 article entitled Changes in TANF Work Requirements Could Make Them More Effective in Promoting Employment as much needed

…greater flexibility than the work participation rate (WPR) afforded them [the states] in designing work programs. 

M: Dude! The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities published that article a month before the Congressional Republicans passed H.R. 890 in the House of Representatives. Unfortunately, Schott and Pavetti did not follow up on the implications of H.R. 890 once it passed the House and landed in the United States Senate only to be deferred due to the severity with which it restricted the operations of the Department of Health and Human Services and Kathleen Sebelius who was facing another turmoil concocted by the neoconservative counter government’s pledge to impair if not repeal the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.     

D: Man! You really think the neoconservative counter government was responsible for the technical glitches and the two failed launches of the ObamaCare website portal?

M: Dude! The Patient Protection and Affordability Care Act’s web portal was hacked with the same rightwing intolerance towards President Obama as displayed by Jon Stewart on Monday night’s episode of The Daily Show on Comedy Central [October 13, 2014]. Jon Stewart is the drudge that swore to ingest 100 onions in order to avoid 100 lashings as punishment at the hands of a bloodcurdling bloodthirsty enslaver who agreed to the enslaved workhorse’s challenge knowing that by the end of such stunt the enslaved would only have achieved ingesting at most 99 onions and, therefore, still be subjected to the awaiting 100 lashings.         

D: Man! That’s cruel! Bigotry is cruel! Jon Stewart’s a bigoted captive of the neoconservative rightwing television executives! Wait! Jon Stewart is a neoconservative rightwing television executive!

M: Dude! What’s really cruel is that there are no alternatives afforded to any of the fifty states by the Congressional Republicans’ H.R. 890 so that every state may implement individualized improvements in the  outcomes for needy families on TANF state-by-state.    

D: Man! According to Schott and Pavetti,

The 1996 welfare law established the TANF block grant and requirements that states must meet, including rules related to work requirements, time limits, child support, and immigrants’ eligibility. Under the work provisions of the law, states must require recipients to engage in work, impose sanctions (by reducing or terminating benefits) if an individual refuses to participate in required work activities, and achieve a work participation rate measured in accordance with detailed provisions of the law.

M: Dude! How about work requirements for the lax Congressional Republicans?

D: Man! Vote for the Democratic Ticket on or before November 4, 2014 or suffer the government shutdown planned by the GOP fifty-nine days from tonight.

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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