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.

Friday, April 17, 2009

CATHOLIC BISHOP FATHERS A CHILD, WEARING ROBE?

As if they already do not have enough scandals to contend with, the Roman Catholic church is once again reeling in a scandal? One of their Bishops, Fernando Lugo of San Pedro, Paraguay has finally admitted to fathering a 2-year old love-child with his mistress, Viviana Carrillo; after denying for a long time until a treat of a paternity test forced his confession.
Bishop Lugo acknowledged that he has not been truthful with the people of Paraguay and/or the Roman Catholic church; as he has been a deceitful philanderer, while adorning the cassock and other paraphernalia of a Bishop and pretending to live a life of chastity and celibacy? Icheoku says, the simple solution for these lecherous men in cassock having sex with alter boys and/or making babies while wearing the priestly collar, is for the Vatican to change its rule and allow these guys to just marry! They are human and human wants and needs are equally theirs, including sex!
The 26-year-old paramour, Viviana Carrillo said she began having sexual relations with the 57 year old bishop since the past ten years when she was just a 16 year old innocent child? Icheoku says, were this bishop to be in the United States of America, he will be serving a prison term for statutory rape of a minor? According to the mistress, she first met Bishop Lugo when she was studying in preparation for the sacrament of Confirmation in his church at San Pedro, and that their intimate personal relationship began one night thereafter. Continuing, Ms. Carrillo said the Bishop began to pursue her "until, because of my youth and inexperience, I was seduced by the way he talked, his pretty words, his beautiful expressions and by his promises that he would resign his position for me, that he would spend his life with me, that we would have many children together and form a household" Concluding, she said Bishop Lugo had been "my first and only man."
Pictured left is the Delilah, Viviana Carrillo who was seduced by the man of God, Bishop of San Pedro and now president of Paraguay? What is her place now that her then Bishop boy-friend is the president of Paraguay? What future awaits this young woman now that it has become public knowledge that she made her body available to an ordained bishop of God? Icheoku would encourage the two love-birds to formalize their relationship in the spirit of forming a household?
Fernando Lugo served as the bishop in Carrillo home town of San Pedro for ten years, until his resignation in December 2006, to campaign for president; which he won in April 2008. In July 2008, Pope Benedict XVI relieved Bishop Lugo of his chastity vows when he formally accepted his resignation from the Roman Catholic church? It is note-worthy that the Vatican had previously rejected his petition for a layman's status, citing that his ordination was a lifelong sacrament? However, it changed its position after Lugo won the election, when the pope granted an unprecedented waiver to allow him to serve as president without violating church rules.
Icheoku says, the Vatican is known for its equivocation once it fits their template; from allowing some catholic divorcees to re-marry, to doing business with rogue oppressive governments around the world, to gun-running in Rwanda, to supporting porous border advocacy in the United States just to feed and augment their depleting flock of parishioners with new arrivals from down south across the fence. But the same catholic church keeps mum when other immigrants from the other side of the union are interceded in Florida and deported back to Haiti and Jamaica etc?
In his "I did have sex with that woman" moment, Bishop Lugo conceded, "Here and now, before my people and my conscience, I declare with absolute honesty and a sense of duty and transparency in relation to the controversy provoked by the paternity suit, that there was a relationship with Viviana Carrillo. I assume all responsibilities . . . and recognize the paternity of the child." Icheoku says, like the usual line with cheating people, Bishop Lugo claimed that his initial stone-walling was simply to protect the privacy of his son, Guillermo Armindo Carrillo, who was born on May 4, 2007.
It will be recalled that Bishop President Fernando Lugo took over as president of Paraguay, from an institutionalized ruling party, the Colorado Party, the first time an outsider achieved that feat in Paraguay's 197-year history; with the ruling party willingly ceding power to an elected opposition.
However the present scandal ends, the catholic church has lost a lot of grounds with her faithfuls who are continuously questioning everything they have ever heard or learnt from the church somewhat due to conflicting character flaws of her ministers? Whether in the United States of America or now in Paraguay it has been 'do what I say but not what I do'? Anyway, the race for heaven is an individual effort and Icheoku encourages you not to put your salvation in the hands of such ministers of the church but in God who will reward each according to his/her deeds!

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  1. Sex row Paraguay leader to stay

    Three women claim to have sons fathered by the former Catholic bishop
    Paraguayan President Fernando Lugo says he will not resign over claims by three women that he fathered children with them while he was a Catholic priest.

    Mr Lugo said in a televised address that he would see his mandate through to 2013 regardless of "rumours of instability and conspiracy".

    He asked for forgiveness from anyone who was offended by the revelations.

    Opposition politicians have seized on the controversy to undermine Mr Lugo, who ran on a campaign of honesty.

    Released from vows

    "It was not my intention to offend anyone," Mr Lugo said in his televised news conference, after cancelling what was regarded as an important trip to Washington due to start on Friday.


    With endless ridicule being heaped upon him, the president faces a certain credibility problem

    Claims harm Paraguay leader
    "I don't hesitate to ask for forgiveness in recognising that I failed the church, the country, the citizens, those who put their trust in me," he said.

    Mr Lugo came to power last August, ousting the right-wing Colorado party that had governed Paraguay for six decades.

    The Pope only released him from his vows of chastity last July, two years after Mr Lugo renounced the priesthood.

    This month, three women have come forward claiming that the former Roman Catholic bishop is the father of their children.

    Mr Lugo, 57, acknowledges a two-year-old boy born to a former parishioner as his own, but has not commented on the paternity of the others, a 14-month-old boy and a 6-year-old boy.

    'Lost credibility'

    Mr Lugo admits having a son with Viviana Carrilllo while he was a bishop
    Calling the cases "private" during the news conference, he told journalists he could not keep answering questions without neglecting his duties as president.

    He said he would leave the matter in the hands of the justice system.

    A Paraguayan bishop, Rogelio Livieres, had called for Mr Lugo to resign.

    On Friday, a senator from a party currently aligned with Mr Lugo's also urged him to step down.

    "Your current personal situation has made you lose all credibility," Alfredo Jaeggli said in a letter to the presidency and congress. "I beg you to resign."

    Sitting alongside the president were a number of ministers who celebrated achievements from the government's first year in office, but critics claim the scandal continues to paralyse his administration, the BBC's Gary Duffy reports from Asuncion.

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