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.

Thursday, July 2, 2009

BAHIA BAKARI, THE MIRACLE OF COMOROS ISLAND!

Clinging unto a floating debris for about 13 hours, the word miracle manifested in the Comoros Island, after an Airbus 310 rendezvoused once again with the fishes. Unlike the other Air-France Airbus 310 from Brazil, which plunged into the Atlantic Ocean with 257 passengers, this time, it was the Indian Ocean off the Comoros Island that provided the watery graves for these 151 passengers of Yemeni airways!
Bahia Bakari,
14-years old, was a God's gift to mankind to show that nothing happens to a person whose time has not come? How and why she survived the crash and was able to hold unto a floating debris for such long hours as 13 hours could only be summed up as miraculous and wonderful. Icheoku sincerely believe that the 13 hours feat of suspended arms will make even the best of the best of the Navy Seal, jealous with envy? It is equally note-worthy that this girl, who barely swims, could have such a strong will to live that she went through a 13 hour cliff-hanger ordeal in the Indian Ocean, alone and lonely in a pitch-dark night.
Bahia held onto floating debris from the crashed airplane from the hour of 1:30 a.m to 3 p.m. before she was seen by a passing fishing boat, which rescued her. This is indeed a feat since others survived the initial impact but gave up the ghost before rescue could reach them? The passengers en-route to Comoros from Paris through Marseilles changed plane at Yemen and were on the final leg of their journey when their plane fell out of the sky into the ocean; killing all but one of the 151 passengers on board, all Comoros people and 66 French nationals.
According to government account, the Airbus 310 jetliner operated by Yemeni Airways was attempting to land in fierce winds in Moroni Comoros Island, before dawn Tuesday when it dived into the Indian Ocean. The plane was trying to negotiate a landing on the 9,558-feet long runway at Prince Said Ibrahim International Airport when it made the fatal plunge. Because of the nature of the terrain and the difficulty of landing planes in the airport, it is considered a 'daytime-only airport' where visual is imperative as opposed to landing instruments. The question then remains, why did the pilot try to bring the plane to land at such wee hours of Tuesday, knowing the nature of the challenging landing difficulties of the airport?
Bahia who was coming with her mother to vacation at Comoros Island before the accident, was treated at Moroni's El Maaruf Hospital before being flown to Paris late Wednesday aboard a chartered executive jet for further treatment. In the word of one sympathizer, Bahia 'really showed an absolutely incredible physical and moral strength"!
Because of the crashed plane's air unworthiness, it was banned from operating inside Europe, prompting an observer to whiff, 'we cannot accept that a plane which is banned from flying in Europe is still allowed to fly in Africa. It's the proof that our world isn't fair and that human beings don't weigh the same depending on which side of the Mediterranean they are"?
Icheoku sympathizes with the bereaved families and also felicitate with Bahia Bakari and her family for this miracle of Comoros!

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