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, October 7, 2011

APPLE FOUNDER STEVE JOBS, SUCCUMBS!

Steve JobsIcheoku says the man who put some powerful tools of modern technology in the hands of millions world-wide has finally succumbed to his debilitating, terminal illness; which saw a fully grown adult man depreciate in weight to less than seventy pounds.


He was 56 years old and if to live is to live your footprint in the sand of time, then Apple's departed alter-ego, Steve Jobs, left one heck of a giant's footprint and by doing so, has forever transformed himself into legend. He lived. He underwent surgery for killer pancreatic cancer in 2004, he received a liver transplant in 2009 and survived for seven years against his doctors' odds. 
Steve Jobs helped develop so many products which has become both iconic and status symbols; and heavens owe it to him to welcome him with trumpets for putting smiles on so many faces and making humanity connect with one another more conveniently. He put unquantifiable catalogue of music, libraries and the Internet in hand-held devices and/or in our pockets, among his numerous accomplishments. According to one obituary, "Rarely has a major company and industry been so dominated by a single individual, and so successful. His influence went far beyond the iconic personal computers that were Apple’s principal product for its first 20 years. In the last decade, Apple has redefined the music business through the iPod, the cellphone business through the iPhone and the entertainment and media world through the iPad. Again and again, Mr. Jobs gambled that he knew what the customer would want, and again and again he was right." Icheoku says thankfully for men of letters, no better eulogy so succinctly spoke of the genius for whom the world mourns. Steve Jobs was indeed very effectual and his life very effective. 

Admitted his exit will initially shake Apple group but Icheoku strongly believes that just like Ford, Edison, Alexander Graham Bell and other great inventors and innovators of the past, whose inventions and products became better with time following their exits, Apple would only become better; as capable hands and visionary egg-heads abound therein to take it to the next level. Even Christianity became stronger with the passing of Jesus Christ as the Apostles, now bereft of their mother-hen, became more brave to do whatever it took both to survive and thrive following the visit of the Holy spirit during Pentecost according to the Bible. The Apple group and its products will not be an exception as Steve was to a large extent just the alter-ego and necessarily the only tinkerer therein; so they will be fine in his absence and will continue to innovate and churn out products that are both eye poppers and head-turners. 

His was the story of another college dropout like Bill Gates, who succeeded in life. Steve was a Buddhist and an adopted son of an American father and a Syrian mother. Although he died at quite an early age of 56 but like most trailblazers in history, he was old - Jesus died at 33, Martin Luther King died at 38, etc; but he entered immortality with his products and will now live forever. And as Google Chairman Eric Schmidt said and Icheoku agrees, Steve 'uniquely combined an artists touch and an engineers vision to build an extraordinary company' which made products that are both art and functional known as I-this, I-that; admitted no one really knows what those "I" stands for? Adieu Steve!


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