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 17, 2010

RUSH LIMBAUGH, THE MAN WHO RUNS AMERICA, IS DESTROYING OBAMA'S PRESIDENCY?

Icheoku says the time is now for all those pretensions to be over and a rapprochement move made by the Obama administration to woo Rush Limbaugh. Destroying the destroyer is also an option should the former not work out fine; but not to do either is too costly a nonchalance that will bite big time later. Enough should be enough and let the truth be spoken that Rush Limbaugh has a listening audience that is steadily growing in every leaps and bounds; and these people listen to his radio show as a divine instruction to which they are beholden to, being "real Americans?"


As a result, all the diatribe he lobs against President Barack Obama and the Democrats is getting across to millions of his listening Americans, who are rapidly taking in his message and incensed that the president is destroying their America. The presidency should either take Rush Limbaugh frontally head-on or send an emissary of peace to broker a truce between both parties; and former President H. Bush Sr or even the junior 'W' will suffice as an affective go-between to at least reach out to the mega-phone and let him tone down his rhetoric or at least be a little fair with his attacks on the president. Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger of California did it once, he reached out to Rush over a cigar and Rush took him out of his cross-hairs. President Barack Obama should therefore invite Rush to the White House over cigars and implore him to tone down his anti-Obama message.


The current posture and attempt to pretend or act as if Rush Limbaugh is just an ordinary distraction or nuisance is foolery as millions are listening to this man's message and millions more are enlisting daily and being swayed. A man who commands the air-waves and delivers his punches where and when it matters most should not be taken lightly by any of his opponents including the opponent-in-chief, President Barack Obama. Icheoku tunes in periodically to the Rush Limbaugh's 'Excellence-In-Broadcasting (EIB) show out of curiosity and somewhat interest; and could easily have been persuaded to jump on the bandwagon but we have some independent head on our shoulders. To say that Rush Limbaugh is effective in delivering his punches is least gratuitous and simplistic; the man is a talker extra-ordinary and very effective in effortlessly swaying opinions; admitted some of his positions are somewhat ultra-right winged.


But the problem with President Obama and the bashing of his administration by Rush Limbaugh is that so many of Rush listeners have no time or the mental acuity to do some independent research on some of his positions to either validate or thump them. These Dido-heads, millions of them, are simply satisfied with any position of their idol; all that they require is that Rush said so. So once Rush Limbaugh says anything on any issue or about a person, so it is and shall remain with these lock-step adherents; and the loser are those people not in Rush Limbaugh's good books including President Barack Obama. The irony of the gamesmanship is that even the Tea Party Republicans, RINO Republicans as well as Conservative Republicans are all afraid and scared-stiff of the acerbic mouth of Rush Limbaugh and easily fall in tow rather than attract his ire. The result is that even members of the Congress are easily intimidated by Rush Limbaugh as they tread softly in order not to make Rush mad at them as well as millions of his followers; who form most of their voting bloc in their various constituencies.


This in essence makes it utterly difficult for bipartisanship or for anything to go on amidst such polarizing figure as Rush Limbaugh and the debate over the Tax-cut bill is of great significance. But unlike so many other Americans who think that by just tuning off Rush the problem will go away, Icheoku says all that is required is for the president or one of his minders to sacrifice three hours in one week-day and listen through Rush Limbaugh's show and they will be convinced on the great damage he is doing to their boss, President Barack Obama. One day, Icheoku counted thirty times Rush negatively mentioned President Obama within the first 60 minutes of his 180 minutes show; and they were all tailored to deride the president or accuse him of destroying "their" America or in someway, belittle or diminish his presidency with such words as "man-child president" or "Obama does not love America" etc. Icheoku wonders how someone who does not love America will be toiling day and night and all other times in between, trying to solve the numerous problems Americans are facing including an itinerant unemployment situation which has so far defied the stimulus package and every thing thrown at it.


Perception is everything and regardless of what the president is doing to fix what is broken, once Americans feel or are convinced that he is not doing enough or everything that could be done to help them; that is what usually sticks. This is the fork on the road for President Barack Hussein Obama and his administration as all their efforts to solve problems are being portrayed by Rush Limbaugh as their attempt at destroying America and this is the message getting across the news cycle. Third Reich's Goebbels was right when he intoned that propaganda and publicity are the best instruments of warfare; and unfortunately Rush Limbaugh is so far winning this particular battle as Americans are increasingly becoming despondent about the president and his presidency.


The worst situation anyone can find himself/herself in life is to have people who could careless about him/her or what the person stands for; and the last November midterm election showed that the President have seemingly lost his power of conviction; chiefly due to Rush Limbaugh's saturating the airwaves with his anti-Obama message. A word is enough for the wise and there should be no shame or ego interference in this matter. If the president wants to succeed and be seen to succeed, he must reach out and make peace with the man who runs America with half his brains tied to his back, Rush Limbaugh, before it is too late with Obama becoming a one-term president. The drubbing of Democrats last November really put the fear of Rush Limbaugh into some people's minds - that Democrats lost with such a wide margin despite their best efforts to wrench the country back from its near abyss. Rush Limbaugh is vile and his message so petulant and vitriolic that only the victim who feels the sting can explain its pain; and this time they are chiefly directed at the person of President Barack Obama who must do something to turn the tide or stand to pay a hefty prize if he chose to ignore it and do nothing. Concluding, Icheoku says the proposition is admittedly a tough one but still doable; and Obama should make a move now or have his presidency destroyed by Rush Limbaugh!

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