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.

Thursday, January 8, 2015

'ORDINARY MOTOR PARK TOUT' COMMENT, NOT NEEDFUL AND NOT DIGNIFYING?

Icheoku says it is only a foolish person that challenges his God to a fight - "nwanza rijue afor ochele CHI ya aka ngba", says the well known Igbo adage. This is now a given truism in the matter of President Jonathan fight with his godfather, the man who made him president, Olusegun Obasanjo. Icheoku says what President Jonathan keeps on forgetting is that Obasanjo is not on the ballot for anything this 2015 or any other future time; and that the bleeding resulting from their continuing and un-abating face-off, can only hurt one person and one person only and that is the President himself and his 2015 second term ambition.  So Icheoku asks  President Jonathan why join issues with a man who is not afraid to fight tough and dirty and who indeed has nothing to lose and is therefore salivating at the opportunity to throw more dirt on the president. 

But unfortunately the president may not be as wise as is befitting of the office which he is occupying to know; and short of calling him foolish, Icheoku says his current desire and drive to go to the mattress with the Ota Deity is ill-advised and ill-timed, especially coming too close to the 2015 election. A wise President Jonathan, would have continued to maintain his dignified silence and let his underlings do the rumble and tumble tug of war with Obasanjo on his behalf. Nigerians already know the mischief-maker called Obasanjo and does not need the president reminding them once again about the man who did so many bad things including having sexual relations with his son's wife Mojisola Gbenga Obasanjo. What the president did by calling Obasanjo name in return is akin to a man taking his shower when a naked mad man came and took his hanging clothes. The man then came out of the shower and started chasing the mad man down the street to recover his clothes. As far as onlookers are concerned, they are two mad men running down the street naked.

Icheoku maintains that President Jonathan lost every right to attack Baba Iyabo the day he accepted the gift of Nigeria's presidency from the Deity of Ota. A more forward thinking President Jonathan would have either declined the offer or accepted same with its attached lurid conditions. The presidency of any country is neither cheap nor easy and many the world over have died trying to gain it. Many are also equally in prison lamenting their unsuccessful attempt at the presidency.  But here is President Jonathan, who got it the easy way - FREE. He had it literally bequeathed on him by the magnanimity of just one man, a mentor with whom he has now fallen apart and currently engaged in a market-women styled brickbats of rapid and vapid words exchanges, sort of artillery/mortar fire exchange. Icheoku says what even led other countries into a civil war, President Jonathan got practically for free and on a platter of platinum; or is it possible power got into his head too soon as to forget how he was reared to become Nigeria's president? 

Icheoku says all said and done, at the end of the day, President Jonathan will likely eke out a victory in the February 2015 presidential election; but it will not be without first being bloodied and rendered battle weary. The  president's anticipated victory is hedged on the fact that  Bola Tinubu offered Nigerians a counterfeit candidate who is not good for the current democratic dispensation in the  country, an anathema called Muhammadu Buhari, otherwise the current hydroplaning of Project Jonathan 2015 would have been a non salvageable crash. Imagine what a battle royal, a contested election between APC candidate Rotimi Amaechi and Goodluck Jonathan would have been? But for the APC fatal mistake, the fate of 'Jonathan-OUT 2015' would have been a fait accompli - signed, sealed and delivered, in an election lost and lost woefully come Valentines day 2015. But it will not be so anymore as President Jonathan will win a second term, no matter how narrowly, and tens of Olusegun Obasanjos notwithstanding. 

However the 2015 election would go down in history of Nigeria as the first time an incumbent president would be going into an election without carrying a resounding controlling lead in any of the regions in the country. Also neither could he be said to be enjoying a full 100% control of any of the six political regions including his Southsouth zone.  Icheoku laments that even his home state of Bayelsa State, is now apparently in play because of the alleged power tussle between the State Governor Dickson and the president's wife Dame Patience. Then add Rivers State and Edo State which are both in the hands of opposition party governors. 

The president is also not in solid control of the Southeast region either as the people are gradually becoming disaffected with the Jonathan experiment because of too many promises not fulfilled. Ditto the Southwest where his enraged godfather is from and which is also the opposition's strong base. When Icheoku adds the North Central region which the president no longer fully controls as was the case in the past; and his irredeemable very low rating in both the Northeast and Northwest regions, then Icheoku wonders why he is further adding gasoline to the fire with him on the skewer by further drawing Obasanjo and his acerbic mouth further out? 

But still, a fledgling weakling Jonathan is a far better and more preferred option than the Nigerians' nemesis numero uno, called  Muhammadu Buhari.  Nigerians therefore would vote under advisement of this consequential fact, as a change from democracy to a dictatorship is not a good change and not the type of change already free Nigerians would take or accept at this time.  Nigerians are too far gone into enjoying their democracy-bred freedom and liberty, to now willfully submit themselves to a slavish chains and shackles under the other guy. Icheoku agrees that Nigerians would rather live free than live like rats in dark tunnels, hiding for fear of being run-over as roadkill by a government out to prove it is tough enough. Nigerians have travelled through the road to perdition before and would not gladly jump up at the offer of a repeat experience. 

Finally, with a 2015 Buhari's defeat, Nigerian would have forever sealed the faith of the last man standing, of the three retired trouble making army generals, who think and see Nigeria as their private fiefdom with which they can do as they please. Obasanjo is forever gone and now wandering in confusion into his sunset; Babangida is permanently retired by June 12 from any and every national political participation in Nigeria and with only Buhari now left, he deserves to be similarly permanently retired too. So February 14, 2015 will be a good time to 'mission accomplish' this objective so that Nigerians can thereafter truly live free and independent of these men's machination. Icheoku says President Jonathan, no more verbal attacks or exchange of words with Obasanjo; just leave the old man alone!

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