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, May 11, 2009

BOB MARLEY, A TRIBUTE TO THE SUPERSTAR REGGAE AMBASSADOR!

On this 28th anniversary of the death of world-famous reggae maestro, Robert Nesta Marley aka Bob Marley, Icheoku remembers the legend who engraved reggae into world conscientiousness? Bob Marley was born on February 6, 1945 in Nine Mile, Saint Ann Parish, Jamaica to father Norval Sinclair Marley and mother Cedella Booker. He lived long enough to become the greatest reggae artist ever known to the world; he died of cancer on May 11, 1981 in Miami Florida United States of America! Officially he was married to one wife, Rita Marley but was reputed to be a great womanizer and had several children outside wedlock! Bob Marley was survived by his 13 children: three with his wife Rita Marley, two adopted from Rita's previous relationships, and the remaining eight with separate women.
Bob Marley had a stellar musical career culminating in the release of over 100 songs and more than twenty albums before he was diagnosed with cancer in July 1977. Following an ulcerating wound he sustained on his right hallux or big toe, while playing soccer (football), Bob Marley was found to have a malignant melanoma. His big toe was to be amputated to save his life but being a Rastafarian, Bob Marley refused because Rastafarians belief that the body must be "whole" to see Jah! He also cited worries that the operation would affect his dancing? In his own words, "Rastafarian, I don't allow a man to be dismantled". The cancer later metastasized to his brain, lungs, liver and stomach.
Bob Marley played his final concert at the Stanley Theater Pittsburgh Pennsylvania on September 23, 1980 and immediately flew to Germany to seek treatment from a cancer specialist, Josef Issels. It was however too late as the cancer had already progressed to the terminal stage; and he was en-route Jamaica to be with his family for his final moments on earth, when his medical condition forced an emergency landing of the plane carrying him in Miami Florida, USA. Bob Marley subsequently died at Cedars of Lebanon Hospital in Miami Florida on the morning of May 11, 1981 at the age of 36. His body was flown back to Jamaica and after a state funeral, was laid in a crypt near his birthplace with his Gibson Les Paul guitar, a soccer ball, a Cannabis bud, a ring that he wore every day that was given to him by the Prince Asfa Wossen of Ethiopia and a Bible. According to sources close to his bedside, his final words to his son Ziggy were "Money can't buy life." Icheoku says, if only the men and women of power of this world know, especially the rat-pack Nigerian leaders, so called, who do not care a whiff about the ordinary Joe-Nigerians they are supposedly leading, while crazily looting the treasury dry? Midget Sani Abacha readily comes to mind!
Among some of his world recognitions were the City of New York renamed portion of Church Avenue from Remsen Avenue to East 98th Street in the East Flatbush Section of Brooklyn to Bob Marley Boulevard. Bob Marley also received a star at Hollywood Walk of Fame, where stars receive stars on the sidewalks at the intersection of Hollywood Boulevard and Vine Street in Los Angeles California, USA!
Icheoku says, our all time Bob Marley's favorite song is "Could you be loved", so what is yours? To Bob Marley, Icheoku says, your fans are steadily growing both in numbers and regions; and as a reggae enthusiast myself, "Irie say, sleep on Marley until dat day when Jah shall call up all his children, home for rendering of account". Icheoku hopes King Selassie is ok and that heavens, at least allows medical marijuana use? Bob, is there ganja up in the skies, man? Smoke on Bob! What a legend you were that took reggae to olympian heights! We miss you much!

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