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.

Saturday, July 4, 2009

SARAH PALIN, WHY DID SHE JUMP?

In adherence to the proverbial expression, 'if you cannot stand the heat, then get out of the kitchen', the all beauty and no brains Alaska Governor, Sarah 'Beauty-Queen' Palin bailed out on the people of Alaska, who elected her their governor in 2006?
By ditching Anchorage government house, effective July 26, 2009, Governor Palin has proved that she is not the stuff leaders are made of; especially when leadership is not a beauty contest but serious business. Her action has once again proved that she was just rattling her mouth oblivious of what the vice presidential office entails, admitted she confessed to not knowing what the duties of the office embodies.
Icheoku asks, what caused the mother of Bristol, who had a child out of wedlock, to abandon the ship of Alaska mid-stream; since she is just in the middles of her first term in office? What cataclysmic happenstance occurred to put out the wind on her sail of her political boat? She is not saying and neither is her husband Todd or Bristol, her over-sexed, unwed, teenage-mother daughter who is presently nursing Sarah's grandchild. All that we are left with are mere speculations as to what turned the tide of her political voyage; and until she opens up to let the world in, it shall remain a mystery wrapped inside the closeted space of her bosom! Icheoku asks, was she pushed or did she jump?
Governor Sarah Palin announced Friday July 3, 2009 that she is resigning from the office of governor of Alaska at the end of this month, sending an aftershock still reverberating throughout the political world especially her wing of the Republican party! Can a governor of remote state of Alaska who abandoned the state government house in Anchorage mid first-term, ever contemplate seeking the White House in 2012? Icheoku says, we do not think so; since if Alaska is a big fish for Sarah Palin to fry, then the White House is a whale incapable of being fried in Sarah's little skillet? In one commentator's note, "It's absolutely bizarre, and I think it eliminates her from serious consideration for the presidency in 2012"!
At 45, Sarah Palin still has a very promising future including the presidential bid, if wishes were horse? But the haste with which she made the announcement was suggestive of someone under pressure or duress? But until she opens up no one will know what pushed this American Amazon into such a political doldrums? At least she was getting free press and accompanying privileges as a governor which will all go away with her resignation so why would this beauty queen suddenly decide to take a back bench? The Lieutenant Governor Sean Parnell will step in to replace her as she steps down July 26, 2009. be inaugurated at the governor's picnic in Fairbanks.
Her resignation announcement was described by one commentator as 'a jittery, hyper-kinetic news conference that rambled between self-congratulation and bitter accusations at the foes she says are eager to destroy her'? One other commentator surmised it thus, "At the heart of these conflicting interpretations, is a woman who is herself deeply conflicted about her brief past in national politics and how to leverage her sudden fame for the future"? If she had announced that she was not going to run for a second term, that will be more understandable, but to so suddenly resign from office, without any prior whiff whatsoever, is the crux of the matter. Which prompted one school of thought to posit she was under somewhat pressure of either family or politics?
A source close to the soon to be ex-governor, confirmed that Sarah Palin confided that "the pressures of a job that had become consumed with freedom of information act (FOIA) requests and ethics investigations and the demands it taken on her family and national political prospects". Another intoned that “Things had piled up pretty steep on her?” One other commentator said, “There is just no good way to say quitting has made her more qualified to run for higher office”. Another observed, “I think Sarah Palin is on the verge of becoming the Miami Vice of American politics: Something a lot of people once thought was cool and then 20 years later look back, shake their heads and just kind of laugh”.
But whatever happens, Icheoku says Governor Sarah Palin should make haste to clear the fog surrounding her sudden departure from Anchorage and save the world of the rash of speculation trailing her exit. Until then, we are glad she quit because she is not grounded enough for the rigours and challenges of the chief executive, talk-less of a C`N`C! What a good riddance of an air-head!

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