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, June 2, 2010

MAVI MARMARA FREE GAZA FLOTILLA, ISRAEL TOOK A POISONED BAIT?

Icheoku says, Israel should not have taken the bait of the 'Mavi Marmara Free Gaza Flotilla' ship, as the organizers wanted to provoke an international incident and they succeeded. Their desired outcome was achieved, courtesy of a not so clearly thinking Israel command structure that authorized a lethal force under the circumstance? It is all about who the bad guy is, and in this situation, Palestines are looking more saintly than the Israelis? Hopefully the matter will be corralled before it turns into a major international crisis capable of plunging the entire Middle East into a large conflagration.
It was an over-reaction for the Israeli commandos to rappel down unto an unarmed civilian ship on the high-seas; instead of waiting for it to dock and then board it for necessary inspection and possible seizure if it is warranted? Also it was ill-advised to open fire on innocent activists no matter the provocation or any an alleged self-defense; they should have instead retreated? Their action now depicts the Israelis as blood-thirsty and agent-provocateurs in the conflict with Palestine. Simply put, no reasonable person gives his enemy a noose with which to hang him and Israel just did that by this avoidable bloody raid on Mavi Marmara activist ship wherein 19 people lost their lives?
In this latest skirmish, a continuum of the ongoing conflict with Palestine, Israel lost heavily in the department of public relations and propaganda within the international community? Israel must act fast to repair this self-inflicted damage, apology, pay compensation and lift the siege over Gaza immediately to help douse the tension which will definitely progressively get worse. Like many unbiased minds and student of the Middle East Israeli/Palestine conflict, who have been religiously following the conflict, this incident will be fully exploited by the Palestine and their Arab/Muslim brothers and drive all mileages therefrom to the end of the earth. Like Geobbels, propaganda minister of Adolf Hitler once said, 'publicity and propaganda are the two main instruments of warfare; and Geobbel was again right. But a decisive resolution must be reached; except that Rahm Emmanuel and David Axelrod necessarily have a dog in the fight and by extension, President Obama is sort of boxed in?
Anyway, quoting Rodney King, Icheoku says, why can't Israelis and Palestines all just get along together since it is more costly to wage war than to make peace? Enough of putting the rest of the world in such a difficult position where they are forced to take sides in a conflict between two brothers which has ranged on since Genesis. Let there be peace in the Middle East and let the blood of these innocent peace activists be the fertilizer that will nourish that peace. Our condolences to those lost activists in the Mavi Marmara Free Gaza Flotilla!

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