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.

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Tuesday, October 13, 2015

SALEM AND SELMA, TWO AMERICAN CITIES UNITED IN UGLINESS?

Icheoku says never in the history of mankind have two cities, with nearly similar sounding names, spelt exactly with the same number of alphabets and of the same two syllables, co-existed in the same country. The cruel coupling irony of the two cities is that both shared the past ugly exhibition of man at his worst. Both cities represent the height of man's cruelty against fellow man, a situation somewhat comparable to Auschwitz and other Nazi death camps, admitted on a lower scale. For their infra-dignity,  Salem and Selma are permanently etched in infamy for the atrocities which they visited on a section of their very own populace and will forever be remembered for it. 

Salem is the notorious Massachusetts city, made infamous for its persecution of its citizens who were branded witches; and regardless, once the little girl calls one out as being a witch, the witch must then of course be put to death. So it became a trial by ordeal and sorcery where the accused 'witch' is thrown into a well and whether or not the accused sinks or floats, it does not matter as a witch deserves not to live. A Catch-22 sort of situation wherein if the suspect floats, he or she must be killed for being a witch because good non-witch people do not float in wells. Conversely, if the suspect drowns, then it was mission accomplished because he or she drowned because he or she was a witch. A sort of bloody cleansing to satisfy a naughty child's indulgence and people tolerated that and for too long, costing so many lives. 

Selma on the other hand is an Alabama City made notorious when Martin Luther King led protesters therefrom intending to march to Montgomery to protest the inhuman racists of the deep south America which denied blacks voting rights. but were stopped on the Edmund Pettus bridge. On that day in March 1965, they were met with brutality of the worst kind for merely demanding that they be recognized as full humans beings deserving of some dignity and with rights to vote and be voted for in a democracy.  But Governor George Wallace thought otherwise, unleashed his hound dogs with police dogs, mounted horses, water cannons, horse whips, tear gas, live bullets and all sort of unprintable repression gadgets. At the end of the day, many lay dead, dying and mortally wounded and the march was aborted. This is the only significant thing which any one remembers of Selma.


Icheoku says what is in a name one may ask, especially when that name contains six letters A, E, L, M, S and belong to two cities, both of which turned out to be reprehensible memories of America's not too distant past. But thankfully witchcraft and sorcery was outlawed and so also was racial servitude and superiority of one race over another; as well as the right to vote and be voted for which became instituted. This shows that every freedom of today was purchased with sorrow, tears and blood of men and women who once stood up in the past to say never again. But do today's beneficiaries of such selfless sacrifices appreciate and treasure these past sacrifices, you decide.