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.

Thursday, January 14, 2010

HAITI IN RUINS, ANOTHER TALE OF AN UNENDING TRAGEDIES?

Icheoku says, many Haitians must now be wondering out aloud, 'where is their God' and pondering what manner of sin they commit specifically, far and beyond any other peoples of this world, to warrant the wrath of this destructive 7.3 magnitude earthquake? Haiti has become the butt of so many terrible and horrible things, both man-made and from mother-nature, that the people are asking, why just Haiti?
Three devastating hurricanes within the past two years alone, one tropical storm which caused a flooding of Noah's biblical proportion; and now, as a new year 'present' no Haitian wanted or would wish for, the mother of all calamitous occurrence, an earthquake measuring 7.3 on the Richter scale, which literally destroyed Haiti as we know it? 100,000 people estimated dead as a result of the earthquake? A cathedral destroyed and gutted by fire? The tax office destroyed? Hospitals, schools, main prison and thousands of peoples homes gone forever. The national palace, their presidential house destroyed as if an atom bomb had gone off, with its rumbles resembling an ancient Roman or Greek ruins? The house of legislature known as parliament in shambles?
So what is then left of this country one may ask; except to say that mother-nature appeared to have targeted the government of President Rene Preval and intended to wipe it away? Icheoku asks, could it be that the gods are mad at the new government and would rather have the deposed President Aristides still there as the peoples-choice and elected president? Of all the calamities which have visited Haiti recently, this 35 seconds lasting earthquake ranks topmost; being the mother of all Haitian calamities. Most earthquakes usually lasts for about 6 seconds, but for this one to have lasted for 35 seconds, qualifies it as an earthquake from hell.
To the people of Haiti, our hearts goes out to you and as the world helps you dig out from the hole which the earthquake has dug you into; we pray that your Christian faith will provide you the much needed succour at this time of great tribulation. Thankfully enough, President Barack Obama is in the White House and will do whatever it takes, to get you back on your foot. Were it otherwise, may be the likes of Pat Robertson, Rush Limbaugh and Fox News Network would have possibly influenced a different outcome and a somewhat New Orleans treatment would have been re-enacted? Imagine a supposed man of God saying that it was because of a "pact with the devil" that Haiti got hit by an earthquake? His type was the reason why Ghandi once said, 'I have read the bible, it is a nice book except that Christians do not practice what it contains'? So why a man of God cannot have a little empathy for the victims of what appears to be the world's worst earthquake defiles every logic except that of, "Haitians are of the wrong skin type; they are simply too dark-skinned for some few racists white men of America to consider such devastating earthquake a major disaster?
Rush Limbaugh went a step further to accuse President Obama of 'acting too fast on the earthquake and that he is pandering to his black-people?' Fox News Network would not even touch the earthquake in their coverage, as a major event; while every other network devoted their time covering the disaster, the racist-rascals at Fox were busy trash-talking some trivial and less important local political issues. In their jaundiced eyes, Haiti might as well be washed away from this earth, being "the other ones" and not worthy to live or their disaster not worthy of their air-time? But elections have consequences and luckily, Haitians have someone in the White House who understands that they are human beings too.
Icheoku would also like to call on Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez to now demonstrate his statesman and vaunted power in Latin America by coming to the aid of Haitians immediately and strongly. If he does not have an aircraft carrier to send with loads of aid supplies; may be he can underwrite some of the assistance going into Haiti. Otherwise he should seal off his loud mouth and remain where he belongs - a third world small player? The same message goes to Libya and Iran, both countries which are seeking some international relevance. China is already showing cause and we expect Russia to follow soon. Nigeria is also expected, as a giant among black peoples of this world, to rush off assistance to their black-brother Haitians; in the spirit of black fraternal brotherhood, may be a check for $500million dollars to assist in the recovery will be a good way to start?
Icheoku says, 100,000 and possibly 500,000 causalities in a country of just 9 million people is rather too many to loss in a day's calamity. Where were the gods of Haiti? Some confirmed report has it that the United Nations special envoy to Haiti, Hedi Annabi and the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Port-au-Prince, Joseph Serge Miot (here greeting the pope) were among known prominent people who have so far lost their lives in the disaster; both men were crushed to death by falling building debris. May their souls and the others departed now find rest in the Lord. What a world we live, which we do not have control of; and a life we have that can be snuffed away at any time; a rapture of some sort and yet the Rusk Limbaughs and Fox News managers are behaving as if their own life has some special insurance to protect them when the time comes? To the Haitians, help is on the way and recover you shall. Be strong!

PLEASE HELP HAITI TODAY, DONATE SOMETHING, ANYTHING; AS THEY LOST EVERYTHING AND COULD USE ANYTHING! CALL THE RED CROSS NOW!
FYI:- The earth-quake, reputed to be the strongest earthquake to hit Haiti since 1751, struck at around 4:53pm local time with an epicentre, located ten miles west of the capital of Port-au-Prince. Haiti is one of the three countries in the Caribbean that make up the Hispaniola Island. They are 95% blacks and 85% Roman Catholic Christians and French is their official language.

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