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, September 20, 2016

BRANGELINA GONE WITH THE WIND TO SPLITSVILLE?

Icheoku says is there anyone out there who convincingly believes that marriage works or is it a mere societal imposition on people to keep them in bondage of misery and always struggling to be freed? What exactly is the demon afflicting marriage or is the demon itself hiding in plain sight in marriage itself? It is always one story after another, especially of couples who seemingly have a perfect marriage only to later surprise people with their announcement of gone their separate ways? 

Icheoku like every other commentator can only second guess the root causes of the trouble with marriage, as no one can with specificity and assured certainty zero them down to exactitudes. To say that the latest travel to the land of Splitsville by the Hollywood power couple Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt was surprising is indeed not true. What is rather surprising is that they lasted as long as they did, nearly, twelve years together. Icheoku says either parties could readily score anyone of the opposite sex they desired, both are good looking, famous and rich, the right resume for any single and available. So short of a burning love for each other, nothing else would explain their longevity in matrimony thus far, all things considered and their very high profile life taken into view too. 

Icheoku says irrespective of which party pulled the out-lever, the fact of the matter is that Angelina and Brad loved or tolerated each other long enough for anyone to conclude that they tried. So whatever it is that finally did them in was one such of a helluva issue that had neither a remedy nor an alternative. Many a man would not accept an Angelina Jolie with so many weird interests and a lifestyle steeped in near mythology, both as a wife and mother of his children, her feminine beauty notwithstanding. It takes a really good loving man to marry a woman who once had a veal of blood pendant of a love; who tattoos her body like it is going out of fashion; whose love for strangeness is indeed unnerving; who adopts children left, right and center from everywhere and who not too long ago had health scare leading to double mastectomy; flies airplanes and is busily engaged 24/7. 

What time does she actually have for Brad Pitt, working full time, both as an A-List actress, United Nations ambassador and mother to so many children from diverse backgrounds. Icheoku admits that Angelina Jolie is one of the most beautiful women in Hollywood, but there is more expectations in a wife other than just how pleasant to the eyes she may be. However, the fault might not just be solely Angelina's as Brad, like every other human being, is not infallible. So far they are not telling what exactly finally broke the camel's back and until then, Icheoku is not in a position to say with certainty who did what resulting in the divorce; but the above observations are merely what their name say - observations. Between them, they have gone through some marriages before: Brad was previously married to Jennifer Aniston and Angelina to two men prior, Jonny Lee Miller and Billy Bob Thornton. 

Icheoku says like with every other failed marriage of the past, ego and selfishness likely played their usual pivotal roles in the Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt divorce. The feeling and acting out like "am better than the other party; am the reason for the season of the marriage and without me the other guy amounts to nothing attitude" is usually the bummer, marriage killer. The "me, me and more me, take it or leave it, my way or the hit the road Jack highway," attitude, that spells doom and seals the fate of marriage and many other relationships possibly played a role here too. As always, the victim-party, would stoically take all that are being shoved down the throat until he or she cannot take it anymore. Like one woman once explained, a working marriage is one lived like a dog and dog owner, where party A dictates everything and party B merely says 'Yes Honey"; begging the question for how long would anyone party continue to robotically answer this "Yes Honey?" 

Most times, many parties are left wondering why 'did I get married;' which one woman explains is the reason why some people cry on their wedding day, rehearsing what awaits them going forward - a life lived in agony, sorrow and tears and sometimes even blood. Icheoku does not hold anything against anyone who cannot take the heat anymore and decides to bolt away. A divorce is still a far better option than a homicide; and spousal homicides are increasingly becoming a way out of many bad marriages. But is it worth it? Life will go on and just like both parties moved on from their previous marriages, they will similarly survive this current divorce and will move on to some other person, if they so desire. Until then, Icheoku says what Mr & Mrs Smith put together, something terrible has put asunder; and the only one possibly now laughing must be Jennifer Aniston, the other woman who was once left by Brad for Angelina. Icheoku wishes Angelina and Brad best of luck in their future dealings. 

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