GUN VIOLENCE IN AMERICA: FOR WHO THE BELL TOLLS NEXT.

Just five people shy of Sandy Hook elementary school mass shooting incident that claimed 26 lives, the Uvalde Texas Robb elementary school mass shooting at 21 victims, now ranks among the highest grossing gun carnage in America. It is sad that such frequent blood spilling has tragically become part of our culture as a society. May the souls of the killed now rest.

25th AMENDMENT: ITS NOW ALL CRICKET.

Madam Speaker Nancy Pelosi once questioned former President Donald John Trump's fitness to remain in office due to what she claimed was his declining mental capacity. Does anyone know what Madam Speaker presently thinks about the incontrovertible case which America is now saddled with? Just curious!

WHO WILL REBUILD UKRAINE?

The West should convert frozen Russian assets, both state's and oligarchs' owned, into a full seizure and set them aside for the future rebuilding of Ukraine. Like the Marshal Plan, call it the Putin Plan.

A HERO IS BORN.

I am staying put. I will not run away and abandon my people. The fight is here in Ukraine. What I need are weapons and ammunitions, not a ride out of town like former Afghanistan President Ashraf Ghani - President Volodymyr Zelensky.

IT IS WHAT IT IS.

"There is too much hate in America because there is too much anger in America." - Trevor Noah.

WORD!

A life without challenges is not a life lived at all. A life lived is a life that has problems, confronts problems, solves problems and then learns from problems. - Tunde Fashola.

NOW, YOU KNOW.

When fishing for love, bait with your heart and not your brain, because you cannot rationalize love. - Mark Twain.

JUST THE FACT.

In our country, you can shoot and kill a nigger, but you better not hurt a gay person’s feelings - Dave Chappelle

DO YOU?.

“What you believe in can only be defined by what you’re willing to risk for it." - Stuart Scheller.

HEDGE YOUR CRISIS.

Never get in bed with a woman whose problems are worse than yours. - Chicago PD.

PROBLEM SOLVED.

'The best way to keep peace is to be ready to destroy evil. If you Pearl Harbor me, I Nagasaki you.' - Ted Nugent.

OUR SHARED HUMANITY.

Empathy is at the heart of who we are as human beings. - Cardinal Matthew Kukah.

WORDS ON MARBLE.

"Birth is agony. Life is hard. Death is cruel." - Japanese pithy.

REPENT OR PERISH - POPE.

Homosexuality is a sin. It is not ordained by God, therefore same sex marriage cannot be blessed by the church - Pope Francis.

CANCEL CULTURE IS CORROSIVE.


FOR SAKE OF COUNTRY.


MAGA LIVES ON: NO RETREAT, NO SURRENDER!

TWITTER IS BORING WITHOUT HIS TWEETS. #RestorePresidentTrump'sTwitterHandle.


WORD.

"If you cannot speak the truth when it matters, then nothing else you says matters.” - Tucker Carlson.

#MeToo MOVEMENT: A BAD NEWS GONE CRAZY.

"To all the women who testified, we may have different truth, but I have a great remorse for all of you. I have great remorse for all of the men and women going through this crisis right now in our country. You know, the movement started basically with me, and I think what happened, you know, I was the first example, and now there are thousands of men who are being accused and a regeneration of things that I think none of us understood. I’m not going to say these aren’t great people. I had wonderful times with these people. I’m just genuinely confused. Men are confused about this issue. We are going through this #MeToo movement crisis right now in this country." - Harvey Weinstein.


RON DELLUMS: UNAPOLOGETICALLY RADICAL.

"If it’s radical to oppose the insanity and cruelty of the Vietnam War, if it’s radical to oppose racism and sexism and all other forms of oppression, if it’s radical to want to alleviate poverty, hunger, disease, homelessness, and other forms of human misery, then I’m proud to be called a radical.” - Ron Vernie Dellums.


WHAT REALLY MATTERS IN LIFE - STEVE JOBS

“I reached the pinnacle of success in the business world. In others’ eyes, my life is an epitome of success. However, aside from work, I have little joy. Non-stop pursuing of wealth will only turn a person into a twisted being, just like me. God gave us the senses to let us feel the love in everyone’s heart, not the illusions brought about by wealth. Memories precipitated by love is the only true riches which will follow you, accompany you, giving you strength and light to go on. The most expensive bed in the world is the sick bed. You can employ someone to drive the car for you, make money for you but you cannot have someone to bear sickness for you. Material things lost can be found. But there is one thing that can never be found when it is lost – Life. Treasure Love for your family, love for your spouse, love for your friends. Treat yourself well. Cherish others.” - SJ

EVIL CANNOT BE TRULY DESTROYED.

"The threat of evil is ever present. We can contain it as long as we stay vigilant, but it can never truly be destroyed. - Lorraine Warren (Annabelle, the movie)


ONLY THE POOR WISH THEY HAD STUFF?

“I’m not that interested in material things. As long as I find a good bed that I can sleep in, that’s enough.” - Nicolas Berggruem, the homeless billionaire.

Tuesday, September 23, 2008

PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH SAYS "THE WHOLE WORLD IS WATCHING"!


Today, September 22, 2008, President George Walker Bush issued a statement at the White House saying that 'The whole world is watching" how the U.S. government addresses the business turmoil that has roiled markets here and abroad. The President was alluding to the need to quickly pass legislation stabilizing the country's troubled financial system with his governments proposed infusion into the economy of a $700Billion dollars rescue fund!

It was an irony of fate watching and hearing this very President George Bush's sudden change of heart with his invocation of the world to make or buttress a point. Icheoku asks President George W. Bush, at what point in his presidency did the President start to give a hoot about what the world's opinion is concerning acts, commissions and omissions of his government? At what point in his lapsing presidency did it begin to matter to President George Walker Bush that what the world thinks is important? At what point did President George Walker Bush start his repentance from a 'do it alone' philosophy to now newly minted mantra "the world is watching". Icheoku asks, is President George Bush tired of his near isolationist policies?
The crux of this discuss is to highlight some of the hypocrisies of President George Walker Bush administration and the Republican Party in general. Whenever it suits their convenience they will ride a world-wide acceptable wave otherwise they will dig in their entrenched right wing position. When President George Bush invaded Iraq under the pretext of an existent weapons of mass destruction (WMD), did he care about all the world opinion which were to the non-existence of such weapons? But what did Bush do? President George Walker Bush was not deterred and went ahead to break that "fine porcelain in a china-shop" which Colin Powell had warned against and today the debacle in Iraq is for history and posterity to find a common meeting ground to try to explain it. When the warrant-less wiretap on Americans were going on with his administration's approval and authorization, did President George Bush care about what the world opinion is? Was the world's opinion necessary when the atrocious Abu Gharib torture scandal erupted? What about Guantanamo prison which the entire world has been calling for its closure? Water boarding became an acceptable instrument of cohesion under his government but despite being condemned by the world opinion it never deterred President George Bush! Rendition became popular during his government yet President George Bush government tried to justify it. Eeh it is a no go area for world opinion or oversight! Suddenly having driven the American and perhaps the world's economic bus into the trench, President George Bush is now appealing to the better side of man in order to stampede members of Congress into authorising, without due diligence and deliberation, what his administration says is the only meaningful panacea to a avert a complete economic meltdown!

Icheoku only wishes that a person like George Walker Bush is never allowed again to run the affairs of this great nation of ours. Grandpa Senator John McCain is such a person and will be more of the same if not worse! Just do not do it America! Reject the candidacy of Senator John McCain. No Way! No How! No McCain! No Palin!

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