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.

Tuesday, August 10, 2010

SENATOR TED STEVENS, THE OTHER 'UNCLE TED' FROM ALASKA IS DEAD!

Former Senator of Alaska and the longest ever served Republican Senator, Senator Ted Stevens is dead. The 86 year old Senator Stevens died in a plane crash, near Dillingham, Bristol Bay about 325 miles southwest of Anchorage, Alaska.
I
ronically as they say, twice is the charm and so it is that the senator was unable to survive his second plane crash; the first being a deadly 1978 plane crash at Anchorage International Airport that claimed the live of his wife, Ann, and several others. The tragic plane, a 1957 red-and-white float plane, named DeHavilland DHC-3T and which was registered to Anchorage-based General Communications Inc., a phone and Internet company; was taking the parties for a trip to a salmon fishing camp.
Senator Stevens was among the five persons that died in the plane crash which also produced four survivors; the disparity in outcome, according to one commentator, has no possible explanation. According to him, 'there was no rhyme or reason to how some survived the crash. The pilot was killed, but a passenger in the co-pilot's seat survived. The front of the aircraft was gone, he was just sitting strapped in the seat." Icheoku says, yes there is an explanation - it is called destiny; which the book of Ecclesiastics buttressed further with its 'A Time for everything, a time to die and a time to be born' - it was simply not there time yet to take their final bow and vice versa.
Senator Stevens long senate run started with his appointment in December 1968 and ended in 2008, after 40 years, following a corruption allegation charges which were later dismissed. The charge followed some house renovation gift he received from a contractor; his career was also tainted by the infamous "Bridge to Nowhere" which became a symbol of pork-barrel spending in Congress; and was targeted by taxpayer groups who challenged an appropriation for hundreds of millions of dollars for bridge construction in Ketchikan.Stevens was the longest-serving Republican Senator in the history of the Senate; and served even longer than the racist late Strom Thurmond, who lived and served until he turned a centurion.
It will be recalled that many prominent politicians have perished in plane crashes in America including the latest Senator Ted Stevens, the 1991 Pennsylvania Senator John Heinz whose widow Theresa is now married to Senator John Kerry of Massachusetts, 1993 South Dakota Gov. George Mickelson, 2000 Missouri Gov. Mel Carnahan and the 2002 Minnesota Senator Paul Wellstone. Icheoku says when you have a country as big and expansive as the United States of America with frequent criss-crossing of it to attend constituents business as well as others, accidents are bound to occur and a public official being a passenger in one of the numerous planes is always a possibility.
Anyway to the people of the vast wasteland state of Alaska, the state that gave America the beauty and no brain Sarah Palin, to the family and wife of Ted Stevens,
Icheoku extends our condolences. And to the 'Uncle Ted' of Northwest Alaska, as you join the previously deceased Uncle Ted Kennedy of Northeast Massachusetts; Icheoku says you had a great run for your people of Alaska as collaborated by one sympathiser, who said, "He did his job and he did it well. That's all I want to know about a politician: Do your job." Adieu Ted!

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