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, May 12, 2014

'NO ONE UNDERSTANDS WOMEN' - THE STERLING (CNN) INTERVIEW.

Icheoku had written previously that Clippers' Donald Sterling was venting his anger specifically on Magic Johnson when he slipped leading to the current deluge that is threatening to sweep him away from his baby of over thirty five years - the LA Clippers. Icheoku asks who wouldn't be; which hot-blooded man would not be incensed that a girlfriend you are lavishing millions of dollars on, maintaining her, buying her whatever her heart delights including diamonds, designer clothes, louboutini shoes, choice exotic cars such as lamborghini, ferrari, etc was messing around with another man even if suspectedly? Added to that, that other man happens to be Magic Johnson, who is HIV positive and who according to Donald Sterling, has "AIDS?" So query, could it be that Donald Sterling was deathly afraid that his paramour Steviano, could contract HIV/AIDS from Magic Johnson and turn around and infect him? Is it possible that this multi billionaire owner of LA Clippers, although old, does not want to die yet and if, not through HIV/AIDS complications?  Icheoku is not holding water for Donald Sterling, but does that man or any other reasonable man in his circumstance reserve the right to be scared that his girlfriend is messing around with a known carrier of the virus? Your guess is as good as mine, admitted in the heat of passion, he went over-broad hence the resulting lynching. 

Now regarding the other issue he commented on - that blacks do not help blacks in America? Icheoku believes that Donald Sterling is not very far from the truth as many successful black people's first order of business is to move very far away from black neighborhoods, take a white bimbo for wife or girlfriend in their attempt to get validation and start hanging around in golf courses and some country clubs when their white connection facilitates it? Their thinking is that if they can make it, why not you. Icheoku once ran into Spike Lee and P Diddy's assistant respectively, and on broaching the idea of the need to push more black people into law through specific foundations/funding, to possibly find some replacement Johnnie Cochrans, the way they pivoted from the issue and took off was rather surprising. Icheoku also knows of Danny Glover's brother in San Francisco who is just merely "getting by" and you wonder why his rich movie mogul brother has not lifted him up? Also when Oprah Winfrey was asked why she did not consider Chicago inner city for her school which she established in South Africa, her answer was equally telling? Needless to add that so many inner cities in America has it worse than even Somalia for crying out loud; so you now know where the vibe of Donald Sterling is coming from? 

The fact of the matter is that there are things successful black Americans can do better if they are seriously desiring equalisation of the playing field for blacks in America - build and lift their COMMUNITY.  But instead, they hang around with white folks, their fellow successful blacks and most times turn their backs on the inner cities that produced them; except where there is camera, lights and actions and you see them smiling while handing out stuff to folks. Icheoku says this is not the way to do things right. Just listen to Donald Sterling tell the whole listening world how the Jews pull themselves up and out of poverty and uninformed people will turn around to complain that the Jews own everything in America. According to Donald Sterling, successful Jews pull funds together to give interest-free loans and grants to their fellow upcoming and starter Jews to enable them make something out of their lives and become somebody in the society. Icheoku once met a Jewish lawyer in Florida who went to law school free - tuition, room and board, courtesy of some Jewish trust fund. But folks, they would rather they are the only ones up there and you are down there, once the white man approves of them? Imagine the same Donald Sterling now being pummeled and called names was twice given an award by NAACP for his generosity towards African American inner cities and community in general; and suddenly, blacks cannot understand that a man can burn his top gasket out of jealousy? Admitted that Donald is now a somewhat pariah because of the face-value of what he said, but sometimes truth can come from imbeciles. Icheoku agrees that successful black Americans can do more to help other folks get up. 

Lastly Donald rehashed that the time worn out lamentations of many a man that "he thought he understood women, but not any more?" Icheoku admonishes that he should have asked himself what really made a thirty one year old Los Angeles gold digger find him interesting at eighty one years old - 50 years age differential? Simply put, she was doing all the licking and swallowing for the Benjamins ONLY and she got them in truckload-bundles. In short, Donald Sterling was the only job Ms Steviano had and she did very alright for crying out loud. Continuing, Icheoku says anyone who wants to understand women might as well first check himself into a lunatic asylum for trying to do that which is impossible. The way to go is, if you want to swim downstream, you don't first want to understand whether the water will change course or suddenly create rapids or curves and turns down the course, you just jump in and go with the flow. Also Jack Nicholson in "As Good as it Gets" surmised women thus, 'just take away reason and accountability" and you get a woman defined. If only Donald Sterling was a fan. Finally, as one uncle use to say, "any man who money or woman does not kill will live a long life". Icheoku says if only Donald Sterling had listened to his inner self or at least his old "disused" wife and not try to outdo Playboy Hugh Hefner, may be all these crocodile tears and 'Clintonisque' apology would not have been necessary. But boy was Anderson Cooper 360 good, making this man sing like a canary bird. Icheoku says this interview is by far the best Mr Cooper has gotten in recent times.

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