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, October 24, 2016

DAME PATIENCE AND THE $15 MILLION BOOTY, TIME TO CUT THE CRAP.

Icheoku says one reason Icheoku detests Ms Nasty Crooked Hillary Clinton is that she is a liar and lies without shame. Like with every liar, liars lie because they feel they are too smart to be caught in their lies and they see the people they are lying to as being too dumb to know any better or even to understand that they are being taken for suckers. It is this disdain and look down on their victims that actually pisses many people off about liars. Now reconcile that to the crappy tales by moonlight, being told by Dame Patience Jonathan, the former Nigerian First Lady and wife of former President Goodluck Jonathan, regarding the source of the $15 million traced to her as part of the ongoing war against corruption in Nigeria. Millions of Nigerians feel very insulted by the former First Lady telling different versions of how she came about the money. First she tried to launder the money in various accounts belonging to stewards and servants; then it became gains from her sweat and toil; then followed by another tale that it was her late mother's money and now her latest befuddling story that it was her savings of the past fifteen years? 

Icheoku says a woman who was born into poverty and who was an ordinary restaurateur of a "mama-put' cadre, prior to her husband becoming deputy governor of Bayelsa and then rising to become Vice President and later president of Nigeria, cannot in all honesty claim to have either inherited or legitimately earned the whopping sum of fifteen million US dollars, short of it being proceeds of corrupt enrichment. Had she told the truth at the first instance and asked to be forgiven, Nigerians would understand that as a former First Lady, at least she deserves some little portion of the national cake. Had she come out clean initially and told Nigerians that the money were gifts from admirers and favor seekers from the government, Nigerians will equally understand too, that people make gifts either in anticipation or appreciation of favors. But to so impetuously and repeatedly lie to Nigerians as to the source of the money is to say the least very insulting to Nigerians' intelligence and sensibilities. This is where the rubber of indignation met the road of indignation and Nigerians are incensed and feeling so violated by Dame Patience repeated attempts to deceive them. Icheoku says even only this may be a good ground to make an example out of Dame Patience in order to discourage such blatancy in the future. 

The matter should therefore be fully investigated and if she is found complicit, she should be prosecuted to the full extent of the law; with a possible prison term as well as forfeiture of assets to the state. This will serve as a deterrent for all incoming future presidents and their quick-fingered spouses, that their corrupt practises while in office will not be tolerated and that their actions will attract punishing consequences. Icheoku says the corruption saga of Ms Nasty Crooked Hillary Clinton in the United States of America has incontrovertibly exposed a known fact that women love money so much and that they can take it and/or  accept it from whatever source that dangles it before their eyes. The Crooked One even took some money from the Devil itself as she pretends publicly to love women but privately takes corrupt dirty money from countries that treat women as dirt. So it is not surprising that Dame Patience also tried to stuff her pockets too using her special privileged position as the president's wife to attract people seeking favors from her husband's government, who most likely handed bundles and bundles of currencies to her in their effort to influence one thing or the other out of the government. 

This is a given; and under the circumstances, the most plausible manner by which Dame Patience came about the $15 million found in her possession. The only thing making people to want to blow their top gasket is her attempt to lie and deceive them about the source of the money. Her lies are very puerile and her effort to deceive very petulant; this is the beef she has with Nigerians, especially those of them that are still left with some modicum of moral scruples. Every right thinking Nigerian knows that the money is proceeds of corruption, probably from influence peddlers and/or favor seekers and Nigerians expected Dame Patience to have since owned that much up. But instead, she resorted to very cheap lies that succeeded in infuriating Nigerians more, including those who hitherto had expressed some understanding. Dame Patience could still go on national television or any other medium of her choosing and admit what is obvious and then ask for forgiveness. Nigerians, being the people they are, will understand and help plead with the present government to show mercy and let the former First Lady keep the $15 million as her parting gifts from friends and well wishers. Icheoku therefore calls on Dame Patience to do the needful; own up to the source of the money, apologize and stop fooling around with her so many useless tales of no explanation, explanations. Please Dame, cut off the crap and save your husband from further humiliation, seeing his wife being so dragged in the mud for corruption by the EFCC. 

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