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.

Sunday, January 2, 2011

PRESIDENT JONATHAN, A JONATHAN WITHOUT A JONATHAN'S JUDGMENT?

A man who would have easily secured South-south's turn at the presidency when their turn comes and serve eight full years is completely risking everything just for an opportunistic four years and the risk of totally alienating the north forever. What a mere pot of porridge this Esau is willing to trade against the greater general good of his entire South-south region; and he is coveting what does not belong to him or his zone. 

And the people in unison hollered, 'behold at last a Jonathan has come to judgment.' The bible tells of 'a Jonathan which has come to judgment' to illustrate a sound, reasonable and sensible decision making; but Icheoku regrets that this particular Niger Deltan President Jonathan of Nigeria does not belong to the genre of the Jonathans contemplated in the bible. Were it otherwise, he would have since known that he is embarking the wrong horse as his current decision to usurp what was entrusted to him is rather of a very poor judgment. It will boomerang on the entire peoples of the South-south and possibly the entire Southern Nigeria region as power will eventually crawl itself back to the north and they might never relinquish it again and forever. 

A wise Jonathan would have respected the standing rule of his PDP on zoning and not run in 2011; thereafter in four years, he would have come back as a beloved and unopposed presidential candidate/president. Age is also still on his side, so the rush is explicable except to say he is being an irrational and intoxicated opportunist who has tasted power and finding it difficult to yield it. Icheoku calls on President Jonathan to think through his decision to run in 2011 including the ramifications; and advise himself accordingly. It is not too late to step-aside and having accomplished the Ibrahim Babangida push-aside, this is the most honorable thing to do. Once again, Icheoku calls on President Goodluck Jonathan to discontinue his divisive run for president in 2011 and let Nigeria's healing begin.


As for what Atiku said concerning those who make violent change in inevitable, Icheoku does not find anything treasonable in it. It is either those who are accusing him are ignorant or Atiku failed to properly context his quotation. He is not the originator of that statement which had been severally referenced by people all over the world including former American President Kennedy once, to buttress the need for orderly transfers of power from one elected official to another. Atiku only emphasised what every democracy loving person knows and prays for, that there be smooth transitions; he also used similar phraseology during the infamous Olusegun Obasanjo's third term debacle and no heavens fell then; so why now? Except of course a power-hungry Jonathan is looking for any reason to hang his opponent to dry and stop him from wrestling the seat of power from underneath his feet, Atiku made reference to an honest and harmless democracy-speak. Nigerians, President Jonathan has shown that he cannot be trusted with power, his conversion of north's turn at the presidency exemplifies this; and there is really nothing much to show for his one year in office to warrant the clamor and push in certain quarters to hand him yet another four years of unmerited term? President Goodluck Jonathan should therefore wait for his South-South's turn!

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