"Destitute's Plight"

“Destitute’s Plight”

If you eclipse taking to heart, transcend bearing in mind, and attend to the destitute instead, He will listen to you.

No matter how much you pray to God and the thousands of pilgrimages you will have sojourned before your commencement in the afterworld, if you have ever calcitrated an aching heart, then every one of your good deeds stands invalidated.

Listen to Destitute’s plight, He will be kind to you.

Even if you’re parceling a penny to the penniless but politely, He will recompense tens of millions.

Listen to the destitute!

In hunger, Destitute’s children have only their tears to gulp. Whatever the compulsions of poverty, these children must endure all!

These are the days of their childhood, the time to play! This is not the age to suffer hardships. Have mercy, forgo mercilessness, and lift them up! Theirs are ours!

Hold them near, shoulder them closely, and embrace them with ease, not upset! Don’t let these flowers become windswept by wrangling tempests. Listen to destitution!

This ill, old man stumbling upon every sanctuary step, still insists upon extending his hand for alms for the sake of Destitute’s children, rather than subject these innocent unfortunates to the brutalities of begging. He roams around with his hand outstretched for the sake of these children.

If perchance this accompaniment should fade as a result of the ill, old man’s cessation, where will they go, these ill-fated ones once overseen by the ill, old man?

These dimming lamps, these faintly twinkling stars, these homeless, helpless individuals whose fates rest in your hands, our hands!

Listen to the destitute’s plight! He will be kind to you!

Prem Dhawan (13 June 1923 – 7 May 2001)

Translated from the Hindi by M.S. Alverston, 12/30/14.

Nigel-Wright Intra-galactic Relations #5

Nigel-Wright Intra-galactic Relations #5

(K)ehkashan: Did you know that the Millions March in New York City on Saturday, December 13, 2014 had tens of thousands of participants and multicultural contingents as did the National Action Network’s Justice For All March in Washington, DC, also held that Saturday?  

(P)apa Harry: Is that so, my love?

(K)ehkashan: The organizers of the protest in New York City were unafraid to collaborate and place “Palestine Contingent” on their campaign posters, going as far as to print “NYC 2 Palestine” parallel to “Millions March NYC” with only an illustration, of a left-hand human fist swathed with the colors of the Palestinian flag, separating the two.         

(D)addy Anwar: There’s not much separating the plight of American civilians from the plight of civilians elsewhere. Democracy is on the line and police brutality is on the rise. Reminds me of a protest sign held up in front of the E. Barrett Prettyman US Courthouse in Washington, DC during the Justice For All March that read, “Ferguson = Ayotzinapa” as in there is an overwhelming concurrence about the destructiveness and devolvement involved with categorically delineating the human race in the new and globally connected millennium.      

(K)ehkashan: Ayotzinapa?   

(D)addy Anwar: The Raul Isidro Burgos Rural Teachers College of Ayotzinapa, the all-men’s school in Tixla, Guerrero, Mexico that had 43 of its students go missing in transit to Iguala, Guerrero, Mexico, where they had planned to interrupt a Sistema Nacional para el Desarrollo Integral de la Familia conference to protest the government’s  favoring urban colleges and their graduates over rural alternatives for the purposes of  financing and hiring.       

(P)apa Harry: Mexico is comprised of 32 states, one of which is Guerrero. Tixla and Iguala are towns in the state of Guerrero and the students of Ayotzinapa were focused on that particular conference because the wife of the Mayor of Iguala was chairing the  September 24, 2014 event and set to succeed her husband as mayor in 2015. Did you know the famous city and beachfront Acapulco is in Guerrero and also a seaport between Panama and San Francisco, California, USA? 

(K)ehkashan: Acapulco de Juarez, Guerrero, Mexico?      

(P)apa Harry: Yes, that’s the one.

(D)addy Anwar: The symposium where the Ayotzinapa student activists were planning to rally was arranged by that social welfare services organization whose name translates as The National System for Integral Family Development.        

(K)ehkashan: Sounds too familiar to The Foundation for the Defense of Democracies that formed in 2001 following the September 11 terrorist attacks. Can Americans still recall the specifics of that terrifying day? Do they remember the four planes crashing that traumatic day, two of which disintegrated the North and South Towers of the World Trade Center, the third partially disintegrating the Pentagon, and the fourth being deterred off-course in route to Washington, DC by the courageous United Airlines Flight 93 passengers aboard?      

(P)apa Harry: I don’t know, my love. Do you? Can you?

(K)ehkashan: I’m certain of certain certainties that I do know and can communicate. This sudden intrigue with James Franco and Seth Rogen’s latest film The Interview is the result of a very coordinated effort by the capitalist nationalist elites in the United States of America who have no regard for anybody but their own wealth and status, like the Tea Party Republican billionaire donors and their Republican and Democratic candidates turned legislators, like Presidents George Walker Bush and William Jefferson Clinton. Guess who wants to be a billionaire?      

(P)apa Harry: The approaching United States Congress?

(K)ehkashan: That too! However! But! Former President Bill Clinton wants to be a billionaire and Former President George Walker Bush is already a billionaire a trillion times over and his brother Jeb Bush is positioned to surmount South Korea, China, and Russia with the same mythology the Bush Regime surmounted Iraq, Afghanistan, and Indo-Pak with the slow and intransigently fuddy-duddy American Media in this new millennium.  

(D)addy Anwar: The capitalist nationalist elites, the Bush Regime, and the American Media?

(K)ehkashan: These three entities corroborate toxic mythologies about ethnicities and cultures and economies globally and have perfected defrauding the American Electorate.

(D)addy Anwar: How do you figure television pundits into their formulaic disdain?

(K)ehkashan: Preconceived and prearranged financial pretenses, and then prewritten propaganda to be publicly performed by preposterously prepaid pinhead pundits and politicians.

(D)addy Anwar: What about Jeb Bush and George Prescott Bush?

(K)ehkashan: The totalitarian rigidity of the Bush presidencies 41 and 43 is worth studying in great detail but must be done so democratically, an endangered endeavor.

(P)apa Harry: How did democratic pedagogies become endangered?

(K)ehkashan: The United States Congress and the Supreme Court of the United States are centralized entities but only within this Bush Regime and Jeb Bush is carefully positioning himself for the 2016 Elections, knowing the Republican Majority in both the House of Representatives and United States Senate have methodically perfected redistricting the country to favor neoconservative candidates, and misdirecting voters if not entirely disenfranchising them by selectively shredding voter registration forms and enforcing stricter identification documentation requirements at the polling places.                 

  

(P)apa Harry: What is an unmistakable construct or consequence of the Bush Regime?

(K)ehkashan: The influx of editorial prescripts and the death of modern oratory due to the Republican Tea Party’s unconscionable rise. I know because I am currently enrolled in drama and scheduled to compete in modern oratory and editorial writing at a local UIL meet this spring.        

(D)addy Anwar: The University Interscholastic League! Wow! To become a successful speaker, you must achieve complete reconciliation with the past and learn to focus on the present and leave the charge of dreaming to when you slumber. I know because I competed in UIL in order to avoid schoolwork and the exhausting routine of reporting to classes from which competitors were legitimately exempt on days of competition.          

(K)ehkashan: Yes! The best incentives of all are the excused absences you’re allowed to accrue due to extracurricular activities. The 113^th Congress’s extended absences from Capitol Hill were inexcusable. Have you noticed how the news cycle changes directions according to a preprogrammed wind vane that points wherever the Bush Regime wants

chaos, suffering, destruction, and death?

(P)apa Harry: Chaos, suffering, destruction, and death are the only points on the Bush Regime’s weather vane?

(K)ehkashan: Yes. And James Franco and Seth Rogen are the current cockerels in the grand design of that wind vane preprogrammed for global unrest and miseries by the Bush Regime and President Bill Clinton’s own poultry pragmatism with which he cosponsors the mobilization of terrorism with those dynastic and flush Bushes.  

(D)addy Anwar: Cosponsoring the mobilization of terrorism? Or was President Bill Clinton just another cockerel in the Herbert Walker Ellis Prescott Bush weather vane?

(K)ehkashan: That weather vane must be dismounted from atop the world map. According to a December 13, 2014 New York Times article by Andrew Higgins, Denmark is choosing to rehabilitate jihadist fighters instead of imprisoning them, which makes me wonder about slave revolts and the underground railroad and American prison populations throughout history. The totalitarian toxicity of the Bushes is much worse than that of North Korea’s Kim Jong-un.

(P)apa Harry: I can picture The Foundation for the Defense of Democracies running parallel with the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.

(K)ehkashan: American oligarchs and their prepaid pundits, politicians, and press corps are wretchedly supremacist in their handling of world affairs and domestic issues. Isn’t the United States of America facing terrifying realities with these neoconservatives deliberating random acts of cyber warfare and gun violence due to this totalitarian toxicity that goes whitewashed and unnoticed because of generations of propaganda targeting minorities and women and the destitute? Otherwise, why wasn’t the latest James Bond movie to be released next year leaked to the public since it too is a Sony film? This hype surrounding the release of the James Franco and Seth Rogen film has been staggering for over a year! But not a clue has been disclosed regarding the James Bond franchise! Convenient inconveniences!

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Nigel-Wright Intra-galactic Relations #4

(K)ehkashan: It’s terribly difficult these days to differentiate who’s grand, old, and pusillanimous in politics and who is not!   

(D)addy Anwar: Grand, old, and pusillanimous? GOP?

(K)ehkashan: And the Democrats! There’s a new onslaught of Democrats that are aligned with the Tea Party Republicans who orchestrated the defeat of the Democratic Party and progressive candidates across the United States in the November 4, 2014 Midterm Elections.         

(P)apa Harry: The Tea Party Democrats? How so? Expound upon the mechanics, my love.

(K)ehkashan: Yes. I was listening to The Byrds and wanted to know more about their history and the lyrics to their songs. That inquisitiveness led me to the celebrated jazz prodigy and pioneer Miles Davis upon whose recommendation Columbia Records had signed The Byrds in 1964, by which time Davis was a confirmed legendary musician many times over.       

(P)apa Harry: Okay. Miles Davis got The Byrds a contract with Columbia Records in the mid-sixties.

(D)addy Anwar: And Miles Davis was an established and innovative artist himself at the time, having come onto the music scene in the 1940s.

(K)ehkashan: Whereas, despite having started in the 1960s and becoming renowned for their renditions of Bob Dylan’s “Mr. Tambourine Man” and Pete Seeger’s “Turn, Turn, Turn”, The Byrds were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame fifteen years before Miles Davis was given the honor posthumously. 

(D)addy Anwar: That’s unjust. However, what’s more unfair is the derogatory tonality of The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame’s biography of Miles Davis. Compare it to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame’s biography on The Byrds and you can sense the underlying reprehensible dismissal of Miles Davis’s genius and wisdom by the mainstream media then and today.  

(P)apa Harry: The same underlying reprehensible dismissal of black men’s lives as in the homicides of Akai Gurley, Eric Garner, Michael Brown, and Trayvon Martin at the hands of cold-blooded police officers like Darren Wilson and unfit neighborhood night watchmen like George Zimmerman.   

(K)ehkashan: Miles Davis died the year The Byrds were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, 1991. He was sixty-five-years-old and had created and been credited for an astonishing number of breakthroughs in sound across musical genres. John Lennon was too inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame posthumously like Miles Davis, and had also died of a gunshot wound like Gurley, Garner, Brown, and Martin. However, twelve-year-old Tamir Rice’s being shot by police officers while at play with a toy gun in the snow outside his home and the subsequent trauma his two sisters suffered in the hands of that same patrolling police force is horrifying.      

(D)addy Anwar: The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame stresses the insignificance of Miles Davis’s genius and wisdom with such unnecessary exhaustiveness throughout its biographical bit that I wished it had had the courage to edit that visceral bitterness all these years later. That same visceral bitterness with which the Tea Party Republicans and their Democratic counterparts in the United States Senate are stalling the trillion dollar spending bill.    

(K)ehkashan: The prelude to the stalling came after Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky left the Senate, at which time his Republican colleague Senator Ted Cruz of Texas approached the dais and proceeded to stall the legislation despite the House of Representatives having passed the measure and adjourned itself for the holidays.       

(D)addy Anwar: Senator Mitch McConnell should not have been permitted to leave the Senate as he did, with a presumptuous strut personally and absolute inaction publicly.  

(K)ehkashan: Speaking of pork barreling, what is it deemed when a politician’s constituents do not matter anymore either? And the Majority Party perched in the United States Congress got there by all means necessary except legitimately?   

(P)apa Harry: Why is what called pork barreling, my love? The matter of restitution for past injustices, slavery specifically, is where pork barreling originates. It is alleged that slaves were rationed off barrels of salt pork mercilessly, the task of dividing a barrel being left to the masses enslaved by generationally cruel masters.

(K)ehkashan: As one peaceful protestor inquired in print upon a poster board today, “Is breathing a white privilege too? Black lives matter.”

Nigel-Wright Intra-galactic Relations #3

(K)ehkashan: The United States of America is still the home of the brave. I’ll give it that. However, there is an underlying de-intellectualizing of my generation due to the terrible collaboration between the status quo elitists and the American media giants. Particularly this Republican Party conglomerate that misidentifies itself as belonging to the people when it is clearly setup for meeting special interests like, well, lobby groups that focus entirely on minimizing commercialization in certain fields of public interests like what Sheldon Adelson is doing on the East Coast by interfering in the business of government to keep his reign on the gambling industry.

(P)apa Harry: What exactly is Sheldon Adelson doing on the East Coast of the United States, my love?

(D)addy Anwar: What exactly hasn’t Sheldon Adelson been doing coast-to-coast?

(K)ehkashan: That’s absolutely my point, Daddy. Don’t you see, Papa? Sheldon Adelson’s got a lot of prominent public figures adorning his own organizational regalia—the Republican Jewish Coalition’s to be specific—like Andrew Cuomo, Chris Christie, and Jon Stewart of The Daily Show.   

(D)addy Anwar: What kind of regalia specifically?

(P)apa Harry: Wait a minute! Hold on! We are venturing on sacred ground and I will not tolerate anything less than seriousness as we speak of the Judeo-Christian and Muslim faiths, because no matter how cartoonish and deserving of derision the right wing financiers and their politicians may be, they are socioeconomic forces of nature that mustn’t be addressed dismissively and religion is never a laughing matter. You understand, my love?   

(K)ehkashan: Papa! Yes! I know!

(P)apa Harry: I meant every word I said then, my love.  

(D)addy Anwar: But that mustn’t keep me from inquiring about the exact nature of this right wing organizational regalia that members of Sheldon Adelson’s Republican Jewish Coalition adorn?

(K)ehkashan: Daddy! Sheldon Adelson’s public mouthpieces, in particular Andrew Cuomo, Chris Christie, and Jon Stewart, all wear yarmulkes with Adelson’s monogram embossed upon the fabric.   

(P)apa Harry: Enough! The two of you! Really Anwar? Kehkashan! The kippah or kippot if plural are the prayer caps that Jewish males and females wear, as part of custom outlined in both Sephardic and Ashkenazi Judaism.    

(K)ehkashan: A custom is known in Judaism as a minhag and its plural is minhagim. Surprisingly, the practice of a minhag or a set of minhagim can vary from family to family as well as individual-to-individual. The Talmud or Shisha Sedarim, or Shas as it is abbreviated in Hebrew, has six componential parts or “six orders” according to Wikipedia. The Shas reminds me of the Pillars of Islam and the Hindi word sheesha, which means mirror or glass.       

(P)apa Harry: Doesn’t the Hindi word sundaram mean beautiful?

(K)ehkashan: If the Shisha Sedarim were alternatively viewed as Sheesha Sundaram, or beautiful mirror or glass, couldn’t the warring tensions between the Judeo and Christian and Muslim and Hindu and so on and so forth be rendered alterable? I mean, instead of criticizing and critiquing, can’t we all just get along and rise up against the status quo making it impossible for US to live with dignity and self-worth with such insufficient wages and equally unjust policing? And didn’t the Republican Tea GOP actually want to move part time work hours up from twenty or thirty to forty hours per week?     

(D)addy Anwar: You need to keep your facts checked, darling. Otherwise, you run the risk of treading in dangerous waters just like the Republican Tea GOP you mentioned just now. According to a USA Today March 26, 2014 article addressing the number of hours at minimum wage needed to afford rent, the least amount of hours to accumulate before being able to pay 30% of one’s income on rent would be 69 hours, the case if you’re living in Montana and Arkansas. How many hours does it take someone in Texas to afford rent on the state’s minimum wage?    

(K)ehkashan: Over 69?

(D)addy Anwar: Ninety-three! It would take someone in Texas at least 93 hours of minimum wage work to afford a two-bedroom apartment unit in the state. 

(K)ehkashan: I know the plight of Bruce Springsteen’s Outlaw Pete! At six months old he’d done six months in jail! Outlaw Pete is the plight of the unborn developing inside its disenfranchised and desperate mother’s womb! At 25 a Mustang pony he did steal And he rode her ‘round and ‘round on heaven’s wheel Father Jesus I’m an outlaw, killer, and a thief. Outlaw Pete’s mother is in her 25^th week of pregnancy, or the start of the third trimester, by which time she has slipped into total self-neglect.      

(P)apa Harry: Outlaw Pete’s father’s actions could also be taken into account?

(K)ehkashan: And I slow down only to sow my grief.

(D)addy Anwar: I think your Papa means to say that the fate of the unborn child rests in the circumstances faced by its father too. Reminds me of Donald Driver’s autobiography Driven. His emphasis on paying college athletes a living wage alongside their scholarships and tuitions and fees is explored with such honesty and compassion by Driver as are the issues of living in poverty with a single working mother and multiple siblings from different marriages and unsalvageable relationships but love for each and every one of your sisters and brothers nevertheless enduring such tidal waves.   

(P)apa Harry: Yes. A child’s tomorrows do arise from his or her parents’ present tensions. Richard Williams’ autobiography Black and White: The Way I See It explores the ups and downs and highs and lows of race relations and fatherhood, his own incredible development from street smart kid to savvy businessman to outstanding life coach to tennis greats Venus and Serena Williams. There are moments in the book where you hold your breath because Williams writes with such candor about almost not making it through a hurdle or obstacle placed before him.  

(K)ehkashan: Rob Lowe’s Love Life is an interesting read and filled with amazing revelations about Lowe’s persona on and off the camera. Despite being stereotyped otherwise on camera, Lowe’s a really loyal husband and brilliant father off camera since circa 1991. He coached his sons’ grade school basketball teams and managed to get them into the playoffs finally and win before being dismissed from his position by parents who did not want their children to lose sight of the point that basketball was just an extracurricular sport.

(D)addy Anwar: Do you think folkie parents personally resent cool guys like Coach Lowe? Folkie folks get foxy about folkways. Folkie folks get foxy about folkways.

(K)ehkashan: Daddy? Daddy! You’re dancing! Stop it! You’re too old for this! Please!

(D)addy Anwar: Folkie folks get foxy about folkways! Folkie folks get foxy about folkways! Folkie folks get foxy about folkways! Folkie folks get foxy about folkways! Folkie folks get foxy about folkways! Folkie folks get foxy about folkways! Folkie folks get foxy about folkways! Folkie folks get foxy about folkways! Folkie folks get foxy about folkways!

(P)apa Harry: Well, as long as Daddy is lost in his present pestilent postures, let me ask you about Debbie Allen’s The Hot Chocolate Nutcracker broadcast on Black Entertainment Television, or BET, last night.

(K)ehkashan: Debbie Allen’s The Hot Chocolate Nutcracker deserves to be performed at President Vladimir Putin’s Fisht Olympic Stadium in Sochi, Russia and broadcast to a global audience because of its breathtakingly international rewrite of the Christmas classic. Plus, Debbie Allen and BET could use the technology utilized at the Sochi Olympic Games last February. Wow! That February seems so far away, doesn’t it?

(D)addy Anwar: Since circa 2014? There’s another to arrive in two months time as well, circa 2015!

(K)ehkashan: I’m too old for this!

Nigel-Wright Intra-galactic Relations #2

(K)ehkashan: The network ISIS is now ISIL, going from being the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria and now the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant and that is startling considering the movement from Syria to the Levant, or from the S to the L, implies terrorist activity as having spread out of Syria and onto Cyprus, Turkey, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Palestine as well.

(D)addy Anwar: Jeffery Goldberg writes in the upcoming December 1, 2014 issue of The Atlantic that he lived in a Taliban madrasa back in 2000 and goes onto to refer to it as a religious seminary while stressing how Muslims do not have issues with Christians as they do with Jews whom they staunchly hate. It is a bizarre article entitled Before the Beheadings and misinterprets the Muslim world with a shanty and violent existence. Instead of visiting the Muslim world with such preconceived notions, Jeffrey Goldberg would have been far better off searching on Wikipedia what an actual madrasa is and is not.  

(P)apa Harry: Jeffrey Goldberg would have found that the first university of its kind, a mosque as well as a madrasa, the University of Qarawiyyin was founded and funded by Fatima Muhammad Al-Fihri, the daughter of a wealthy merchant much like the Prophet Muhammad’s first wife Khadija al-Kubra.

(K)ehkashan: The Levant or the Land of Canaan suffered during the Late Bronze Age Collapse, when cultural achievements and literacy rates plummeted. According to Wikipedia, government went from being central and representative to isolationist and unrepresentative. Doesn’t it feel like the United States Republican Party and its Democratic coconspirators are leading us into decay and destruction by adamantly wanting to close our borders to multicultural influences and leaving our lands infertile due to the Keystone XL Pipeline?

(P)apa Harry: The Keystone XL Pipeline is not in the best interest of the United States of America but the Republican Party and its Democratic coconspirators are annihilating populations of people dependent upon, the latest and gravest example, the Ogallala Aquifer which provides High Plains residents with drinking water and their lands with irrigation ground water that can be pumped for agriculture.     

(D)addy Anwar: The American Farm Bureau Federation reports that families operate 97% of the farms in the United States. There are over 2 million farms spread across the United States and over 100 billion dollars worth of agricultural exports sold annually, far more than what we’re importing or bringing in by buying from abroad. It balances out beautifully economically and guarantees food safety for all of US.        

(K)ehkashan: Charles Bixler Heiser’s book Seed to Civilization explains hunting and gathering versus farming all rather concisely. Look here on the very first page of the 1990 paperback edition,

Certainly there could never have been much of an opportunity for large populations to build up, even among successful hunter-gatherers. People probably lived in small groups, for with few exceptions a given area would provide enough food for only a few. Disease and malnutrition probably contributed to keeping populations small, and it is likely that there were also some sorts of intentional population control, such as infanticide.      

(D)addy Anwar: Thanks darling. Is it the green highlighter or yellow? Yellow highlight? Hmm… Found it!

Then, about ten thousand years ago, food-procuring habits began to change, and in the course of time our ancestors became food producers rather than hunter-gatherers. At first they had to supplement the food they produced with food they obtained by hunting and gathering, but gradually they became less dependent on wild food sources as their domesticated plants and animals were increased in number and improved. The cultivation of plants and the keeping of animals probably required no less effort than did hunting and gathering, but in time they gave a more dependable source of food. Having a dependable food source made it possible for large numbers of people to live together.  

(P)apa Harry: This book is soaked with fluorescent colors! Harvard University Press, new edition, Charles B. Heiser. Oh, yes! Of course! Of course! Let’s see, page 2 and, wait a second, right here right?

More mouths to feed were no longer disastrous, but rather were advantageous, for with more bodies to till and reap, food could be produced more efficiently. Although some urban centers may have developed before agriculture, food production was probably the chief stimulus for the growth of villages and eventually of cities. And with the latter came civilization.

When food production became more efficient, there was time to develop the arts and sciences. Some hunter-gatherers, as was already pointed out, must have had considerable leisure, but they never made any notable advances toward civilization.

(K)ehkashan: The Republican Party and its Democratic coconspirators are wrecking American civilization by designing greedy personal wealth portfolios that will never be satisfactorily attainable due to their unending need to amass more and more assets. Forget about democracy and representative government! A significant number of local law enforcement officials are foolishly aligned with the Republican Party as are the Democratic coconspirators. These folks vote against their own self-interests because they are prejudiced and their fear is palpable and their pride manipulative in the hands of tricksters like this outgoing and incoming United States Congress and the Supreme Court of the United States. How can 435 Representatives and 100 Senators and 9 Justices decide the fate of 316.1 million people? And how do we go about getting the news on the Internet when the Press Corps is bought and biased as a result? The European Union is also insisting that Google is a monopoly and ought to be controlled, but what other business has given so much for free to its customers as Google? And if Google is a monopoly as the EU is insisting, then why doesn’t the EU fund public endeavors to create a viable competitor for Google?           

(D)addy Anwar: I agree that the EU must introduce a concrete competitor or competitors in order to go after Google. The Republican Party mentality has hit the European Union that there are some things that remain theoretical or hypothetical right now and deserve to be addressed at a later time. However, when an answer is sought at a later time, inquirers are tersely told that tomorrow is tomorrow and the right moment is still inconceivable. That I was addressing the future and not the present and that was in the past and no longer matters is a slippery slope.

(K)ehkashan: It’s a liar’s paradise and foolish Republican pomp! Always has been. Look at the African American males gunned and killed and the way their wrongful deaths are being dismissed and their protestors are being reduced too on national news networks and by local law enforcement. Talking about oligopolies like OPEC and the United States Press Corps, both are bona fide cartels as is the United States Congress and the Supreme Court. You agree, Daddy?

(D)addy Anwar: There weren’t Democratic candidates for an overwhelming majority of judgeships listed on the Tarrant County midterm election ballot. An oligopoly involves small number of sellers, hence reduced choices and reduced resources plus higher prices for consumers due to calculated restrictive production of whatever product is involved, like oil. When the small number of sellers, like the twelve nations comprising the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries or OPEC, enters into an agreement  amongst themselves to control prices and keep newcomers out of their particular market, then you’ve got a cartel.       

(K)ehkashan: You agree, Papa?

(P)apa Harry: There were Republican candidates for all the judgeships listed on the Tarrant County midterm election ballot. And going to the point you made earlier, my love, how can 435 Representatives and 100 Senators and 9 Justices decide the fate of 316.1 million people? Especially these uneducated educated classes of obstructionists who rather talk sheer nonsense than do the job that they cheated constituents and shred documentation in order to win.   

(K)ehkashan: The uneducated educated classes? Like Ted Cruz?

(P)apa Harry: The guy’s got a law degree but struts about and gobbles like a male turkey when filibustering. Reminds me of the lawyer character played by Jim Carrey in that classic comedy Liar Liar.  

(K)ehkashan: Papa!

(D)addy Anwar: Seriously Harry! Jim Carrey’s genius and Ted Cruz’s gutless gobbles are incomparable. 

(K)ehkashan: Daddy!

Nigel-Wright Intra-galactic Relations #1

(K)ehkashan: The motif for today’s mushairah will be the literary gems Nichols and May.   

(P)apa Harry: Brilliant minds, Mike Nichols and Elaine May. Wow! There is an element of improvisation in the mushairah, you know?

(D)addy Anwar: Nichols and May were side-splittingly hilarious in every one of their routines and comedy is very much embraced in its own category in the mushairah. How many will be participating in this mazahiya mushairah?   

(K)ehkashan: Like mazak kiya? Why can’t we resolve the world’s troubles, particularly in the Middle East, with compassionate poetry slams?

(D)addy Anwar: Yes, but in a different Urdu format. Yes, but with a different Republican Party formation in the United States.   

(P)apa Harry: You cannot run a person to the point of exhaustion and compromise and a scab wound on the knee and insist he or she continue running just because you’re finally by their side.

(K)ehkashan: Papa! Forget about being forced to run with a scabbed knee! We’ve got the Wounded Knee Massacre of 1890 in our history books and don’t think children are unable to read between the lines. Telling us to read To Kill a Mockingbird and then subjecting us to the ridiculousness of The Hunger Games presently with the equally nitwit Twilight trilogy of yesterday for our cinematic and extracurricular entertainment.

(P)apa Harry: Excellent points.

(D)addy Anwar: I’m in agreement too.

(K)ehkashan: Look at Michael Brown’s case and the riots that are sweeping the nation. Don’t you think children, my peers, are following the newscasts on television and irritated by how simple it is to visit the Fox News websites and articles but the tremendous difficulty by which to access any materials that have an unbiased and reasonably balanced approach? When’s Bill O’Reilly’s Killing Michael Brown going to be published and hitting the bestsellers list?   

(P)apa Harry: I’m listening, my love.

(K)ehkashan: Don’t you see, Daddy! The outgoing and incoming Congressional Republicans and their evenly treacherous Democratic counterparts have carefully strategized the riots. A lot of choreography was needed, considering there were originally only 400 people gathered gracefully in Ferguson, Missouri before the prearranged rioters were assembled.  

(P)apa Harry: Daddy is listening, too.

(K)ehkashan: Doesn’t the predictability of everything terrorize you? We knew the GOP was going to bail out for the ten days they are away from Washington, DC for the Thanksgiving Holidays. Obviously, David and Charles Koch are busily bustling about getting their scriptwriters to craft and draft the talking points that the Congressional Republicans will be yelping and to which the Congressional Democrats will be throwing their hands up in absolutely bogus helplessness.    

(D)addy Anwar: We knew the jury verdict in Ferguson, Missouri beforehand. We knew the GOP had retreated from Capitol Hill to their hometowns because the Republican Party was needing another round of prewritten scripts, talking points as you said.  

(K)ehkashan: The United States Elections were decided before the ballots were filled. Now the creative idea of the Republican Party and their helpless Democratic Minority in the United States Congress is to insist that the American people voted for the dumb dimwits when in fact we the people had thousands of our voter registration forms shredded whilst the Supreme Court males under Justice John Roberts refused to repeal the voter suppression tactics and present day poll tax substitutions in states like our Texas. 

(D)addy Anwar: The public library portal won’t allow the download of Wendy Davis’s memoir, even three weeks after the United States Midterm Elections. Civil unrest is the solution of empowered incompetents. The decline and fall of an empire, Roman or American, is plausible when the empowered incompetents, like the Republicans and their coconspirator Democrats, underestimate the integrity of the disenfranchised and innocent.  

(K)ehkashan: The 2016 Election Results are already perfectly known! The GOP has perfected its cheating techniques. So what if they decided to take ten days of vacation in order to study and memorize the nonsense that they will be spewing forth once they return and shutdown government. Preplanned riots and prescribed dialogue from the GOP’s billionaire donors.    

(P)apa Harry: You’re upset and we’re here for you, my love.

(K)ehkashan: I am of a very happy disposition, generally. Now I am miserable! You think we’re children! No! We are the brilliant future of this country! We are hurting too! We know about the four agonizing hours Michael Brown’s mother was unable to hold him as he died in the blazing light of day. And now you’ve got Jennifer Lawrence practicing archery in an age of advanced weaponry and fighter jets in that film franchise of hers! Why cannot humanity be the way of the bow without its piercing arrows? Why do bows have to be contracted back towards the arrow rest? Moving and curving ahead instead in a rainbow would be how I would envision my future!  

(D)addy Anwar: The lower and upper draw weight adjustment bolts of the bow give it its curvature actually. However, the rainbow future you’re envisioning reminds me of your Uncle Inder Dhanush!

(P)apa Harry: Anwar! The two of you certainly are in a poetry slam suddenly! I need to fix dinner! But I will say, poetry would be the route to peace and we need a Maya Angelou in Ferguson, Missouri right now.

(K)ehkashan: We need Uncle Inder Dhanush, or Saul Williams!

Heartstrings or Pursestrings? Decide & Vote Tuesday, November 4, 2014!

Man! Dude! Session #330

(D)ude: Man! Who’s going to be calling the Republican Party’s bluff? Clearly, there is no way to be so sure of having won something that won’t officially be underway and conclude until next Tuesday Election Day November 4, 2014!

(M)an: Dude! The Republican Party today is a model for how not to conduct business. They are equivalent to the conglomerate of literary agencies that have sustained the elitism of publishing houses in the United States. The role of government, therefore and accordingly, is to tear down the walls of tyranny that come up regularly in the cycles of business. It’s like giving everybody a fighting chance as Elizabeth Warren has stated repeatedly throughout her campaign on behalf of her Democratic colleagues and we the American people, particularly those of US in chronic debt, a vehicular move in the Republican policy playbook that keeps those of us on the bottom rungs in society to remain there until death.              

D: Man! Do your debts die with you?

M: Dude! Yes and no. Voter Turnout on Election Day Tuesday November 4, 2014 will be determining the fate of our nation and particularly women and minority populations who are going to be facing challenges in physical autonomy and daily sustenance. We’ve got to be able to stand up and take action on behalf of our sisters and brothers by voting for the Democratic Ticket on Election Day Tuesday November 4, 2014. Healthcare and living wages are nonnegotiable rights that we must stand up and protect. The Republican Party is against raising the minimum wage and is adamant about repealing the Affordable Care Act every chance it gets.    

D: Man! If the Republican Party really cared about US, it would not have so adamantly refused Medicaid Expansion in the states where it has control over the state legislature, like Texas and Wisconsin. If Greg Abbott and Scott Walker really cared about US, Texas and Wisconsin would be facing a surplus upon accepting Medicaid Expansion and not the abysmal numbers mess in deficits and the plummeting credit rating that Chris Christie’s imposed upon New Jersey year after year. Greg Abbott might claim to be in a separate sphere of existence than Rick Perry, but let’s not demarcate so hastily, after all the Republican Party today loves to all-out erase its stances like a wolf remains an unpredictable predator regardless of the length of time you invest in observation and interaction with such an animal.  

M: Dude! The Republican Party today is comprised of predatory legislators, indeed! They even want to practice law and order on a strictly despotic business model that discourages diversification and competition in the making of capital. That’s absolutely totalitarian talk from the Republican Party’s end plan for muting the agonizing cries for justice from the American populace that leads me to a critical concern for Jordan Davis’s mother and father. Did you watch the Thursday, October 2, 2014 episode of The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell?     

D: Man! Jordan Davis’s mother Lucia McBath’s affect was off balance. She described feeling complete jubilation after the verdict was rendered that the defendant was guilty of first-degree murder. However, the smile that accompanied Lucia’s elucidation of that sigh of relief she released upon hearing the verdict was clearly masking the truth of the extent of the tremendous perpetual pain of having outstayed her own child’s violent end.     

M: Dude! I’m reminded of Viktor E. Frankl’s book Man’s Search For Meaning, specifically the first part of the book entitled Experiences in a Concentration Camp where he clarifies in the beginning,

On the average, only those prisoners could keep alive who, after years of trekking from camp to camp, had lost all scruples in their fight for existence; they were prepared to use every means, honest and otherwise, even brutal force, theft, and betrayal of their friends, in order to save themselves. We who have come back, by the aid of many lucky chances or miracles—whatever one may choose to call them—we know: the best of us did not return.   

D: Man! Viktor Frankl accepted all the schools of psychology and embraced Freud and Adler and Jung with an intellectual interrelated easygoingness that could only come forth from such tremendous perpetual pain. Clearly, when you’ve been through such unimaginable horror and kept awaiting reprieve at any moment in such brutal conditions Viktor Frankl analyzes as the medical doctor and specifically the psychiatrist he was training to become when the world collapsed and his loved ones and he were sent to  concentration camps. And let’s not forget, the trains that transported Jews and their righteous gentile protectors ran through bustling European cities of the time while government officials in the United States and the Red Cross International Committee exchanged correspondence acknowledging disrespectfully the Jewish Problem as soon as 1942.               

M: Dude! The fact that government officials inside the United States and the Red Cross chose to use such a derogatory term applied to the Jews collectively by the Nazis is just as obscene as the flawed words of the male justices perched on the United States Supreme Court. John Roberts’s flighty defrauder insisting

The way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race.

And, of course, Clarence Thomas’s abstruse anarchist configuring

This case represents yet another missed opportunity to right the course of our campaign finance jurisprudence by restoring a standard that is faithful to the First Amendment. Until we undertake that reexamination, we remain in a ‘halfway house’ of our own design.

D: Man! Setting limits on financial contributions violate whose First Amendment Rights?

M: Dude! According to the syllabus prepared for McCutcheon et al v. FEC

The right to participate in democracy through political contributions is protected by the First Amendment, but that right is not absolute. Congress may regulate campaign contributions to protect against corruption or the appearance of corruption.

It may not, however, regulate contributions simply to reduce the amount of money in politics, or to restrict the political participation of some in order to enhance the relative influence of others.

Justice Thomas agreed that the aggregate limits are invalid under the First Amendment, but would overrule Buckley v. Valeo and subject BCRA’s [Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002] aggregate limits to strict scrutiny, which they would surely fail.

D: Man! What makes Clarence Thomas so self-assured about his ability to argue anything into oblivion anyways?

M: Dude! Viktor Frankl describes the dynamics of suffering severe malnourishment at Auschwitz in Poland. The soup that was served to the imprisoned thinned out over time as did their deteriorating bodies. The SS foremen would pour the watered down nothingness with a ladle into the prisoners’ bowls and the prisoners deliriously prayed the ladle to descend as far into the cauldron of soup for the chance of being served a few peas as well.

D: Man! The Republican Party obstructionists are all for austerity measures for the economically disadvantaged while the number of billionaires has doubled since the financial crisis that President George Walker Bush’s two-terms worth of policies at home and abroad propelled us into. The number of billionaires in 2009 totaled 793 and today there are 1,645.

M: Dude! Poverty is manufactured and voting for the Democratic Ticket on Election Day Tuesday November 4, 2014 will turnaround the gridlock and terrible House Bills that the Congressional Republicans have been passing onto the United States Senate. It’s mindboggling how anyone could vote for such sloths as the Congressional Republicans, who have only convened Congress on Capitol Hill for a total of 98 days in 2014.