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.

Wednesday, August 19, 2009

DON HEWITT, SUCCUMBS TO MORTALITY!

As yet another television personality waves the world goodbye, Icheoku says, the season of death appears to here; and it is harvesting bountifully men of the fifth estate, - journalism?
Less than 24hours after Bob Novak gave up the ghost and one month after fellow CBS heavy-hitter, Walter Crankite expired, another heavy-weight television personality has died. Don Hewitt, the man who created CBS' 60 Minutes,' died of pancreatic cancer at his Bridgehampton home in New York on Wednesday, August 19, 2009. He was 86 years old!
Don Hewitt, in September 24, 1968, created the popular one-hour broadcast of mixed hard news and feature stories known as "60 Minutes" news-magazine and produced same for 36 years! He was also credited with producing the first televised United States of America presidential debate in 1960 between Democratic John F. Kennedy and Republican Richard Nixon . It is to his astuteness that "60 Minutes" won 73 Emmys, 13 DuPont/Columbia University Awards and nine Peabody Awards during his years chaperoning the news-magazine, which ended in 2004. '60 Minutes' also finished among Nielsen's top 10 for 23 straight years and was television's top-rated show four times, most recently in 1992-93.
Don Hewitt was the central character in the 1999 movie "The Insider," in which he was portrayed as a whip who caved to pressure from CBS lawyers and as a result failed to air a whistle-blowing story about the tobacco industry.
Among his many firsts:- Hewitt directed the first network television newscast on May 3, 1948; he originated the use of cue cards for news readers which today is done by electronic machines; he was the first to "superimpose" words on the TV screen for a news show. According to one commentator, Don was such a colossal television personality that "There isn't a news show on television that doesn't have Don Hewitt's DNA in it." Icheoku says, what a resounding tribute for a man who did television so much good! His last known production was the 2007 televised version of the "Radio City Christmas Spectacular," for NBC.

Don Hewitt is survived by his third wife of 30 years, Marilyn Berger; two sons from his first marriage and two daughters from his second marriage. Icheoku says, death please go away as you have already killed enough within this past period. To the Hewitt family, your man's life should be celebrated for what it meant and accomplished! To the departed, so long Mr. Sixty-Minutes!

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