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, November 6, 2015

DICK CHENEY IS A BAD ASS - BUSH SR.

Icheoku says who would know Dick Cheney better than the man who as made him his Defense Secretary and watched as the same man nominated himself as his son's vice presidential candidate and then led him into the worst catastrophic presidency America ever witnessed. But why did he wait only to just talk now when he was present and silently watched as the two men run rings around his son GW and him a very detestable president? Icheoku says the Bush patriarch should have spoken earlier and forced his soon to fire those two men; but to wait until now, after their damage have been done is to say the least disingenuous. Query if the senior Bush knew that both Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld were anathema to his son's administration and that they were going to bring great disrepute to his presidency, why did he not intervene to have them both removed when it would have mattered most?  

Icheoku does not buy into this Monday night quarter-backing as the old George is not telling Americans what they did not already know. Reaffirming it now would not bring back those thousands of Americans war killed, who were sent to an unjustifiable war foisted by lies and innuendos. Icheoku says the current dust being stirred with this comment is but an attempt to cause controversy which is necessary to create curiosity which will force many people to read the book and in turn generate sales which will be good for the bottom-line. Whether Dick Cheney is an "iron-ass" or Donald Rumsfeld is "arrogant" is irrelevant, because the final decision rested with his son Gorge W Jr, who according to himself, is the decider-in-chief of America while his presidency lasted. To now turn around and blame Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld for the deficiencies of George W is simply buck passing and no one is buying it, not at this so late in the day with untold blood and treasure having already been lost in the unnecessary war of expedition and adventure that was Iraqi WMD invasion. 

Icheoku asks why would any good, caring father stand idly by and watch as two of his son's confidantes detrimentally hijack his presidency, wielding an unprecedented level of authority therein? Further if the Papa Bush was taken aback by the hawkish stance of Dick Cheney whom he knew and worked with, why did he not say or do something to alert his son or call Dick Cheney to order when it mattered most and when it would have made the most impact? Icheoku says how would this very Bush Snr look into the eyes of all those Americans bereaved, whose sons, daughters, fathers and mothers perished in the battle of Iraq? What will he say to all those American taxpayers whose treasure was sunk into the needless Iraqi war? Both losses were otherwise preventable and would have been prevented, if only Bush Senior had said something or did something to awaken the consciousness of his son and that of Americans when the 'kick ass' Dick Cheney and the 'arrogant' Donald Rumsfeld were running circles around his son, President GW. 

If George Herbert Walker Bush knew that his son "knuckled under to the real hard-charging guys who want to fight about everything and use force to get their way in the Middle East', at what point did he acquire this knowledge and what use did he put it to and was it when it would have mattered most? Icheoku says why choose to now disclose this fact of consequence which was capable of stopping going to the war and could have even stopped the war? Of what use is the information anyway? when it will not bring back all those thousands of lost lives as well as billions of dollars sank into the effort to date. If the elder Bush has "never been close to Rumsfeld, and there is lack of humility, lack of seeing what the other guy thinks, more kick ass and take names and take numbers guy,' why did Bush Senior not say something or do something when it would have been beneficial to Americans? Why did he allow the actions of just two men to damage the reputation of the United States of America under his son's watch? If Bush Senior do not like what Rumsfeld did which hurt his son, why did he not say something and do something when it would have mattered most and in order not for his son to be hurt? 

Icheoku says will neither buy nor read the biography, "Destiny and Power: The America Odyssey of George Herbert Walker Bush"; but suffice it to say that the elder Bush owes America a huge apology for seeing something and not saying something nor doing something about it. George Bush Senior is guilty of omission to prevent and forestall the costly wanton damage that was the war of Iraq. Until then, Icheoku says America and the world including Icheoku holds his son George W Bush, wholly and entirely, responsible for taking American into a needless war in Iraq.  Further, for the continuing havoc and mayhem which are arising from that misguided adventure into masochism, Bush senior is partly responsible for not preventing it when he could have easily so done and/or spoken publicly against the two men and their engineered war. Icheoku wonders if Dick Cheney would, in the manner he mouthed off Senate Patrick Leahey, similarly  tell the senior Bush to go f**k himself? As for Rumsfeld, he has pled the 5th and ain't saying nothing, too afraid to confront the old spy chief and his sleuth of loyal lieutenants. Icheoku says is this a great time or what, Americans?

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