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, December 10, 2010

BILL CLINTON'S TAKE-OVER OF PODIUM, OBAMA'S ABDICATION OF OFFICE OR WHAT?

Icheoku says irrespective of the reason or the political mileage to be mined from the Bill Clinton's take-over of the White House podium today, President Barack Obama shouldn't have conceded that bully-pulpit to the former president. It appears to show that President Obama is no longer totally in charge and is no longer confidence enough that he deservedly earned the right to own that pulpit to himself and should not in any way seem to be uncomfortable owning it. The president is in addition to being the commander in chief also the communicator in chief of America and should not only do this job effectively and authoritatively, but also be seen to be doing it; so the weird idea that former President Bill Clinton should be brought to the high pedestal to help President Obama sell or attempt to sell a tax-break deal, considered to be an anti-thesis to all that he stood for through-out his presidential campaign as well as during the last November 2 midterm election, makes no sense at all. The derivative imperative is that President Obama could not communicate his position across to the American people and the master communicator former President Bill Clinton has to be called in to do the job. It portrays weakness, incompetence, inability, lack of confidence and above all it is uninspiring; and should never happen again.

Moreso, many Democrats who lost their mid term elections last November 2, 2010 possibly may not have lost their re-elections had this tax-break matter been brought up and rested prior to that election. Instead they were pigeon-holed into a "no tax-cut for the rich" position and mantra of the administration during their campaigns, which in a way cost them the election. Now less than one month after the disastrous mid-term elections, the Obama administration seem to have made a complete 180 degree somersault in its position with the infamous deal he struck with the republicans; which matter was not helped by the administrations exclusion of key Democrats as he negotiated his deal with those hostage-taking Republicans. Icheoku says it is impetous of the administration to expect Democrats to just swallow his deal with the Republicans hook, line and sinker without question or protestation; and accept same as the deal made in heaven. Icheoku wants President Barack Obama to remember who elected him into office and peradventure wherein lies his primary constituency and the people he should try to placate with his policy initiatives and decisions and not the Republicans who are bent on making him a one-term president.

So for the administration to so so soon after the disastrous mid-term election to simply cave in with its about-turn on the tax-cut question shows a White House that is deaf-toned and not apace with the political trajectory of Americans, especially the progressive left. Icheoku asks, why now President Obama? Why should you because of few hundred dollars to be saved in taxes by the middle class give away hundreds of thousands of dollars to the urbane-rich? The proper and correct thing to do is to let the entire tax-cut plan to expire if the Republicans will not go with the fair tax-cut plans alternative which would have seen the super-rich pay their fair-share; thereafter you can then use your executive powers to instruct the IRS on a huge tax-returns to middle-class American taxpayers who need the money most. If your executive powers does not extend to such disbursal, then some programs could be instituted geared towards putting some dollars back in the pockets of the middle class; instead of this peanuts for champaign deal reached with the Republicans.

Icheoku also rejects the Clintonistic argument that "there's never a perfect bipartisan bill in the eyes of a partisan, and that he really believe this will be a significant net-plus for the country" as not assuring enough. You correctly pointed out that the Republicans are hostage-takers and that was enough for the American people to figure out who their nemesis is and then device a plan of action to extricate themselves from their clutches. A few hundreds of dollars in lost revenue for the American people would have hurt but not unbearably so much, the long term income derivable from correctly and adequately taxing the rich considered. Icheoku is convinced that all the options were not exhausted before the throwing of the towel of your administration accepting the Republicans on their terms; and it is not giving us, your supporters the necessary confidence to continue to march in lockstep with you as you fight your political battles. Anyway, Icheoku have strong reservation that not all those people you surrounded yourself with actually have the best interest of your governing at heart, hence some anti-progressive left policy-initiatives coming out of your supposed White House.

Now back to your seeming abdication of office today; please dear President Obama, next time do not do it as that podium belongs to you exclusively for the remainder of your term of office. If there is something Bill Clinton or any other person wants to say to the American people on behalf of your administration, let them use other forums including press conferences, interviews, press releases as well as other available communicative apparatus but certainly not the White House press conference podium. Any appearance of weakness or not being fully in charge or in complete control of the government should be avoided by you at all times and by al and every means necessary. You know what the perception had always been - that you are a knee-jerk 'man-child' president who cannot stand-up to certain heavy issues on your own. A president of America should not be running to a daddy-figure each time he is at a cross-road with some difficult policy issues; not even the last President W ran to H each time he reached a fork on the road; and the last time Icheoku checked, Bill Clinton is not your daddy!

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