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.

Monday, June 21, 2010

TURAI YAR'ADUA TRANSFORMED, FROM THE ELEGANT TO THE CREST-FALLEN?

Icheoku says, if only mankind will learn from history that life is as mercurial and dynamic as the quick silver, may be there will be less problems in this world. If anyone had told Hadjia Turai Yar'Adua two years ago that she will become a "normal citizen," descended from the Olympian epically heights of Aso Rock, within 24 months, she would not have believed her ears. But here in June 2010, four months since her late husband and then president of Nigeria Umaru Yar'Adua passed on, is Turai, the once powerful first lady looking despondent, dejected, hurting, unkempt, downcast and above all bloated?
Icheoku hopes it is all because she is still mourning her late husband and that nothing else is the matter; that the once very attractive and elegant Hadjia Turai Yar'Adua should now look so ordinary, like any other emasculated woman in purdah within the harems of Islamic Sharia Northern Nigeria?
The greatest irony of life is that most times, people who never knew that fortune will ever smile on them, when it eventually does, gets so carried away to ever remember where they were coming from. They simply forget or refuse to remember the hurtful past experience of hard life or what it feels like to go without; and most always tend to bear subsequent misfortune with complete destitution. Imagine our once all powerful and cocky dear Turai, now looking so dishevelled and forlorn since she moved out of Aso Rock and you ask yourself before Aso Rock, did her life not exist or had a life elsewhere; so why should it cease now that the sickly Umaru Yar'Adua has kicked the bucket forcing her out of the big expansive presidential mansion?
Turai, Icheoku says, life goes on and please don't let your loss of grip on power get the better part of you; afterall President Jonathan has given you a free pass by absolving you and heaping the blame on phantom overzealous security details, from the false imprisonment of your late husband which quickened his exit from this planet earth. It is instructive that President Jonathan has yet to take any action against these 'security hot-heads' who also denied the late president mother a commune with her dying son makes no sense; as only an insider and family member could be so audacious? But we gloss over the detail since President Jonathan was merely appealing to his populist tendencies by cutting you such broad slacks.
Get a life Turai and do not unnecessarily suffer yourself too much thinking that Nigerians care about you or your misfortune. No, they could care less if Turai evaporates today from the scorched desert wasteland of Katsina; memory of your crass indifference to a the survival of a then Nigeria on a precipice still hurts. It was all because of your selfish desire and plot to hold unto power forever that Nigeria suffered a near implosion when you refused a smooth transfer of power to the next in line constitutionally, so do not bemoan the cruel hand dealt you by fate, life goes on! As you must have by now realized, many Nigerians do not care a hue about your situation, having been forced to live in limbo without any knowledge of the where-about of their then sick president and for a very long time; because of you.
The memories are still too fresh and hurting; and Nigerians will need some time to get over the experience and then consider forgiving or forgetting you. It was one heck of a roller-coaster gone amok, which you forced Nigerians to ride on, nearly completely compromising their psyche in the process. How can a woman with milk of human kindness flowing in her, and who had suckled a child refuse another mother the right to see and be with her dying son? Icheoku was buying into the impossibility until recall was made to Lady Macbeth and Jezebel and you safely compete for this same pedestal with both of them. How dare you take Nigeria's president hostage, kept him out of reach and circulation, without his consent and we wonder why a charge of false imprisonment was not brought against you? Anyway, arios Amiga; start a workout today before you get too fat and very clumsy Turai!

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