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 16, 2009

THE DOWNES, NOT EVEN DEATH COULD DO THEM APART!

A British man in defiance to the time-tested adage 'till death do us apart', refused to part ways with his cancer-stricken, dying wife. Instead he chose to end his life alongside hers in an assisted suicide clinic in Zurich Switzerland? Icheoku says, what a show of love and affection that a healthy man, so enamoured with his wife, elected to be killed just to be with her as she lay dying? The only other time in recorded history, someone so loved another that he yielded a life, was the story of our Lord Jesus Christ, whose father gave up for our sake? Both stories are anchored on boundless love!
Married for 54 years, during which period their love became so ingrained in their body-gnome that the thought of one living without the other was a no brainier; simply put, they could not exist independent of each other that they decided to die together on July 10, 2009. Sir Edward Downes, 85 and Joan Downes, 74 died by drinking poison, at a Dignitas, Zurich assisted-suicide clinic! They drank some clear liquid and died holding each other with their two adult children watching and saying their goodbyes. Joan had been diagnosed with inoperable terminal cancer and Edward facing a future without his beloved wife, decided to end his own life, alongside. A tale of Romeo and Juliet, one would say but this R&J had been together for over one half of a century!
Edward was a renowned conductor, who had a long fruitful career, conducting almost 1,000 performances of 49 different operas over a period of more than 50 years with the Royal Opera House. He also had long years of association with the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, where he became principal conductor and later conductor emeritus. In the 1970s, he became music director of the Australian Opera, conducting the first performance at the iconic Sydney Opera House in 1973. Sir Edward received a CBE in 1986 and was knighted by the Queen in 1991. He recently became blind and deaf, relying on his wife for most of his support. Joan Downes, a former ballet dancer, choreographer and television producer, had devoted years working as Edward's assistant, and was recently diagnosed with cancer of the liver and pancreas, and given only weeks to live.
Established in 1998, Dignitas provides their clients a room and board where they serve them with a lethal drink of barbiturates. In just five minutes, they go to sleep from which they never wake up again and forever. Sounds like a lethal injection? It depends on who you ask?
Switzerland charges a miserly 10,000 Swiss Francs ($9000) for this death service? Icheoku asks, why waste such amount of money to end one's life, when a Colt.45 cost less than $300 and with a fifty cent bullet straight to the frontal cranium? Laws which permit people to kill themselves also exist in the Netherlands and Belgium, as well as the United States of America states of Oregon and Washington which permit the incurably sick to obtain help from a doctor to hasten their death.
Edward and Joan Downes are survived by their two children and grandchildren; who said the couple had no religious beliefs and there would be no funeral. According to their children, their parents died "peacefully and under circumstances of their own choosing. They wanted to be next to each other when they died. They held hands across the beds. It is a very civilized way to be able to end your life"!

1 comment:

  1. chuka

    are you supporting what happened?
    if so it is a shame because suicide is not accepted in the christian doctrine for whatsoever reason.
    he wasn't even sick for christ sake. please we should be careful about the kind of message we send.thanks

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