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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Friday, January 8, 2016

OBAMA'S LATEST GUN CONTROL INITIATIVE REJECTED, NRA SAYS NO DEAL.

Icheoku says it is not for lack of trying that Americans have not seen a sensible and more responsible gun control laws, to help take away guns from demented loonies who should not have them in the first place and thus help reduce the needless and senseless recurring decimal that is mass murders in America. Nope, it is because the National Rifles Association says no and have taken Congress hostage and holding them in a stranglehold of do so at the peril of losing your congressional seat. Cowered and intimidated into a state of near paralysis, the Congress has remained aloof while Americans continue to lose their lives to gun violence.

So it would appear that in their deal with the devil in which they sold their souls for congressional seats, Congress has chosen to side with the NRA against the American people, who have continuously lost they lives as well as those of loved ones to gun violence in America. Once again, the president made his case to legislate out this wantonness in a White House briefing few days ago, which he followed up today with a CNN organized town-hall styled conversation which he had with the American people. The president once again restated the need to make good on the promise of keeping American people safe and secured from needless and avoidable or rather preventable gun violence. The president reiterated that his executive action on gun control is meant to take guns away from people who should have them; rather it was to prevent and bar those criminals who should not so do from obtaining guns. 

Icheoku agrees that 365 million guns in 65 million American homes/possession, with 30,000 gun-induced deaths just last year 2015 alone is one heck of a worrisome statistics to worry about what the hell is going on with Americans. Hopefully this latest initiative by President Barack Obama to use executive powers, where he can, to ameliorate reckless gun possession and ownership by people who should not have them, would succeed. Even if only one life is saved in doing so, it is still a welcome plus development.  

Watching the interview with Anderson Cooper, Icheoku cannot but wonder whether the minders of Nigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari similarly watched the session to understand why America is indeed the exceptional country it is. The host, an "ordinary" reporter, intermittently interrupting the president and holding his feet to the fire to answer asked questions. A president was put on the spot to explain his latest policy initiative, with repeated follow-up questions and literally made to sweat out answers to the questions. But the eyesore that was the referenced President Muhammadu Buhari's 'meet the press' gimmickry, a sullied caricature, was entirely different and drab with the no whoa moment. Even when President Muhammadu Buhari said what he said, which amounts to his ascendancy to despotism by trying to justify an unjustifiable and indefensible disobedience to valid courts orders, none of the interviewing journalists follow it up. 

Icheoku had expected any of the journalists to tell the  President Muhammadu Buhari that he has no choice in the matter and that Nigeria is now in a democratic dispensation where the rule of law reigns supreme. That once the  arbiter, the court, has made a pronouncement, it supersedes every other opinion including one based on the personal idiosyncrasies of a former despotic coup plotter; who flagrantly disobeys courts' orders simply because they did not suit his idea of vindictive justice. Icheoku says President Muhammadu Buhari does not believe that he owes Nigerians any responsibility whatsoever for putting him into office and therefore does not give a damn whether or not they are concerned about his acting unlawfully. Anyway, speak of a country of anything goes which found a cattle rearer, the best there is to be elected as their president. President Muhammadu Buhari, Icheoku says that you have no discretion in this matter, so you must obey court's orders and free Nnamdi Kanu and Sambo Dasuki immediately.