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.

Tuesday, August 30, 2011

OBASANJO, CUNNING BUT CERTAINLY NOT FOOLISH.

Icheoku makes the final rejoinder to the now seemingly rested or truce-weighted war of the generals between Aremu Olusegun Obasanjo and the denuded Maradona Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida by stating that to call Obasanjo foolish or rather "more foolish" is a stretch of a dumb imagination or the product of an unthinking rustic mind. Icheoku says the deity of Otta Olusegun Obasanjo may be every other thing and any other thing including the most abhorable of all things, but to include "foolish" in that epithet is exaggeratedly overreaching. 

Icheoku takes strong exception and umbrage at those paid hacks and hired hands, minions of Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida, who moronishly ascribed "foolishness" to Aremu Baba Iyabo's resume` because any person who had ruled Nigeria three times on his own terms and survived is definitely not foolish. The record is unbroken and Icheoku stands challenged on the assertion that it takes a fox to navigate a jackal infested terrain and make it safely back to its hole. The treachery, the political horse-trading, the banana peels, the fifth estate, the daggers and sabres and all those vultures who masquerade as friends at the banquet waiting to take that Brutus stab as well as the intrigues involved in running a state, especially one as complex as Nigeria, is not a job for either the faint-hearted or the foolish. It is akin to an upstream swim in a crocodile and shark infested waters where just one unthinking foolish move will find one either in the belly of the beast or in the jaws of death at best and therefore demands pin-drop alertness and every cunning tricks in the books just to stay alive and well. 

Icheoku therefore states that if any of the fighting generals could be equated with foolishness, that general is definitely not Olusegun Obasanjo. By the same token Icheoku will not dismissively call Babangida foolish either, since he had successfully navigated the minefield of running Nigeria; admitted that Icheoku had amplified that description of his by Obasanjo. But if Icheoku must, it is safer to say that if anyone in the mix is foolish, it is that man who did not have a water-tight contract of his perversion to get a country back after first pawning it off to that other? It is that man who did not have a plan B of a king's ransom or breaking of knee-cap to enforce an illegal contract like the mafia would, when he imposed the other man on Nigeria in 1999 expecting that other to be "honorable" enough to respect their illegality by giving him back "his country" in 2007. Icheoku says that is what "foolishness" really looks like; it is foolishness defined. When one cannot protect his behind from being badgered when dealing with a man whose penchant for disrespecting everything including contracts and gentleman's agreement is of general knowledge, that is what qualifies as foolishness for Icheoku. Therefore Icheoku emphatically maintains that the toothy fairy prince of Minna is the "foolish" one for trusting too carelessly and in a cavalier manner but certainly not the foxy Deity of Otta. Dishonorable, disrespectful, conceited, deceitful, rabid, clever by half etc; just name it but please exclude "foolishness" in describing the deity of Otta because it is not part of his attributes. Olusegun Obasanjo is simply stated, cunning as a fox.

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