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 4, 2009

LARRY KING, TIME TO HANG UP THOSE SUSPENDERS?

The irony of high definition television aka HDTV is that it hides no flaws; it lays bare any person or thing on it that not even the most layered of make-ups comes to the rescue. In other words, it is completely a denuding television format! No time has this been clearer than since the transition of CNN to HD broadcast, as the old age of Larry King has really come to LIVE! With his audience, now forced to endure a caricature, scarecrow looking, over-wrinkled and ghoulish-like piece of humanity interviewing guests on topical issues?
Icheoku
likes Larry King Live a lot and religiously keeps a date with it, but Ecclesiastes 3:1-15 tells us that the time has come for Larry King to hang up those suspenders! It is about time he went off the television to live out his golden years somewhere outside the peoples view; a viewership that is steadily declining because women are turned off and so are young ones, who are scared of the sight of the "apparition" in colorful suspenders, behind the microphone?

Admitted that Larry King is one of a kind, but what is the use of a show when no one watches? The alternatives are minimal as only his forced retirement is acceptable and good enough to woe back the audience which has become somewhat forlorn. The thing about television is that people have to behold what is on it and unsightly scenes are a great turn-off. If CNN cannot retire Larry King, they should put a screen to mask the contours on his face especially his forehead, or find a way to air-brush his face to make it more appealing. The cameras could be made to pan him away from the guests and use his earlier flips, superimposed as if live, to fill in the gaps; assuming CNN cannot do without him on the set? Better still he could be domiciled to CNN radio where only his still good baritone voice will be heard; but his face now does more harm to the sight?
As of today, CNN Larry King and CBS 60 Minutes Andy Rooney are two faces whose time have since come, to vacate the television. No matter how good somebody is, before his/her advent there was someone else doing the beat; and if they go there will always be a replacement to carry on the flag, so Icheoku is not ready to buy into the argument that this duo are so good that they are irreplaceable, otherwise what happens should they drop off the face of the earth? At 70 plus and 90 plus years, respectively, CNN Larry King and CBS 60 Minutes Andy Rooney are nearing the last laps of their earthly sojourn as we all human beings are obliged to travel. The audience should not be forced to witness an old age induced cardiac arrest someday on national television, before the management of this two networks wake up to their responsibilities both to the viewing audience and the parties concerned. Icheoku says, Larry King could take up this matter and remove his face on television by retiring if CNN cannot do so; but to continue to torture his audience with his ethereal looks is no longer what the doctor ordered. There is time for everything under the sun and Larry King's time on television has since gone into sunset.

Hopefully, the management of CNN is listening and crawling through blogspheres, and will find out that its audience are speaking loud and clear that some faces need to stay off the tube! Being good at a job is not a reason to continue to subject the viewing public with the image of a Larry King that is increasingly becoming unsightly and psyche numbing. Icheoku strongly believes that were Larry King a woman, so much pressure would have been mounted to have "her" taken off the screen; also were he a minority he would have since been forced off the air since he has doubly passed his retirement age! But being of the "acceptable do no wrong stock", he is still being "accommodated" under the guise of doing one heck of a good job? Be that as it may, Icheoku says, Larry King is now just too sight-unfriendly to continue being on nightly television network, especially so soon before one goes to bed to suffer a Larry King's induced nightmares?

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