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.

Wednesday, January 13, 2010

BILL CLINTON, THE FIRST BLACK PRESIDENT HAS A SNOW-WHITE SOUL?

He is not called slick Willy for no reason, he has the ability to chew you up and spit you whilst laughing with you. He is a living example of smooth, sleek and sleazy personified and had rode series of roughshod with people, friends and enemies alike; each of which were deceived as to their true relationship with the man who left his human gnome on a blue dress. And so it is, that former President William Jefferson Clinton is once again in the news, a remark he made to Late Senator Ted Kennedy, which has been brought to the fore courtesy of a just published book titled "GAME CHANGER", has again proved that the little boy from Hope Arkansas who grew up to become America's 42nd president, still has some 'good-ole-boy' blood running in his veins.
Like the popular saying goes, you can take a person out of the hood but you cannot take the hood out of the person; so will a good ole boy always remain a good ole boy? And it does not matter the fact that that one is a former president and married to a current Secretary of State? According to the published book, while trying to snag up Late Senator Ted Kennedy's endorsement for his wife's presidential candidacy, Bill Clinton was quoted as saying to Ted, 'few years ago, Obama would have been making and serving them coffee" and by necessary implication not qualified as a fit and proper person, being a person of color, to be president of the United States? Unbelievable one may say; but that is for only those who have allowed the magic of Bill to becloud their vision or sense of understanding of the man Bill, who has the tenacity to sell sand to desert dwellers, in their desert hell-holes. But for close understudies, including Icheoku, Bill Clinton's mesmerising charm beguiles the real man behind the facade and we have reasonable bases for our argument.
Former President Bill Clinton politically, cares and likes black people as long as they remained in "their place" and not try to disturb the locomotion. It is just like telling your domestic servant or guardsman that you love him as long as he remained in the guardhouse and not venture within the main building. It is akin to the love a farmer has for his prized oxen, as long as it tills his soil, it is all well and dandy but as soon as it is aged or wounded and cannot provide the labor of love, it is time to put it to sleep or down below? It is the unspoken 'moss-code' of getting along or being tolerated by the society, of black people in America; who must 'know their place' and not venture out of a pre-determined circle or in any way disturb the groove? But then of course, a black man named Senator Barack Obama would not take any of that and was determined to pull the rug underneath the good ole boys' feet and it was all systems go?
Initially none of the good ole boys led by Bill Clinton himself, gave him any fighting chance until the miracle of Iowa smacked them right on their lips and it became a run to the hills emergency alarm? Bill started prizing endorsements from old faithfuls' hands, people who owed him one favor or another; and he was bagging such endorsements easily until he arrived at the doors of the Senator from Massachusetts, Ted Kennedy. According to the narrative, Ted had then not made up his mind on who he was going to endorse and had elected to hear from both candidates pitch to him before he would finally make up his mind. Unfortunately for Hillary, Bill towed the line of the 'good ole boys,' and made allusion to the other candidate being good enough to make and serve them coffee just few years prior? The same good ole boy thinking which nearly derailed Ted's elder brother, JFK's candidacy in the 60's. Being Irish in those days did not fit the template of what an American president ought to be; but the family put up a good fight and eventually a Kennedy was sworn in as America's 35th president. So what Bill said was a shocking reminder of what 1950 America represented and Kennedy would have none of that. He immediately made up his mind and off he went to Washington and endorsed Barack Obama in one of his most memorable and very passionate speech of his political life. This took place despite a debilitating cancer which was mercilessly working over time on his brain. The rest is now history as his endorsement helped in no small way to propel, with the active and ever loyal Kennedy clan's political train, then Senator Barack Obama to the presidency.
That President Bill Clinton was dubbed a black president was rather surprising in itself, since there is really no basis for that, judging from what historians recorded of his presidency and his private life relationships with people of color. Which black-man or person served in his cabinet; after the alleged murder of Ron Brown, the former commerce secretary who died in a mysterious plane accident on the mountains of Bosnia Herzegovina? That Bill Clinton was captured on camera laughing prior to announcing the death of Ron Brown is also a fact; admitted he later realised that he was on camera and faked a sorrowful frown? Icheoku asks, which black-man was in the highest ranking position during his eight years presidency, none; since he considered blacks only good enough for under-Secretary positions as well as other junior positions. Even President GW Bush empowered two black people, Colin Powell and Condolezza Rice, and appointed them into very senior positions in his government.
Anyway, this piece is not to beat up on the blue-dress tainted, Monica-gate soiled Bill Clinton; no, it is just to point out that a leopard always will spot its trademark patterns. A good ole white boy he is, and that he will remain till the end of times; it runs in the body gnome and sometimes is acted out involuntarily. So, be that as it may, Icheoku says it does not matter how the sausage was made or the stumbling blocks put along the way; what is important is that the 'would be coffee maker' is today, seating in the White House as 44th American President. And for the next four years and most likely eight, President Barack Obama will remain the president of all Americans, including Bill and Hillary Clinton; and no amount of nostalgic feeling of the good ole days, when blacks had a separate drinking fountain will change the new day in America. Luckily enough those white folks who still have Bill Clinton's thinking are now greatly diminished, and the only choice they have is to either fall in tow or stay out in the cold. Only in America can the story be told of a "former would be coffee maker" who became president; and not as a folk-lore but a true life inspirational story and President Barack Obama is it. Our dear Bill Clinton, Icheoku wishes you a safe journey as you travel to Haiti, as United Nations ambassador extra-ordinary thereto, to assess the damage wrought by the 7.3 earthquake that just struck the Island! But always remember that it is a new day in America!

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