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, January 27, 2011

RAHM EMANUEL MEETS THE ONE YEAR RESIDENCY RULE, HE IS BONA FIDE!

Icheoku says the politics of the proverbial windy city never ceases to amaze its numerous fans and watchers. The latest being the attempt by Illinois Appellate court to suggest that the erstwhile chief of staff to President Barack Obama is not a 'sufficient' Chicago resident and does not meet the one year residential requirement for any prospective mayoral candidate of the city of Chicago; hence is not qualified and cannot run for the office.

Icheoku says never in the history of global legalism has an opinion been so weird; reached without adjudicating the intent of such a person as to his residential allegiance. This is a man who answered a national call by the president of the country to serve the government and the country as the chief of staff of the president. In accordance with the dictates of the office he moved on the national assignment to Washington DC from his primary place of residence, Chicago. Icheoku says only a demented human will interpret this temporary relocation to Washington DC to be an abandonment of  the primary Chicago residence. We are also convinced that were the two cities easily commutable, Rahm Emanuel would rather have commuted than uproot and dislocate his wife and children from their place of work and school as well as from family, friends and relatives including a familiar neighborhood.

The people of Chicago would have, instead of this pettiness of trying to bar Mr. Emanuel from the Chicago mayoral race through the back-door, ushered him with fanfare into the mayor's office for meritoriously representing Chicago in Washington, helping another Chicagoan, the president. But politics always gets in the way and humans start taking inexplicable positions which no rational mind can fathom or explain. The only explanation that could possibly try unraveling the appellate court's position is that its membership is constituted by anti-Emanuel judicial activists who are so petty and jealous of his success in getting all the pies that their chagrin turned to irrationality? The matter was even made worse by the fact that two of the opinionated members are registered democrats and you wonder where cometh the beef? Good enough, his appeal of the matter to the states Supreme Court is in good hands and the wise men and women of the higher court will see through the phoniness of the appellate decision.

The controlling and dispositive legal guiding principle in cases like Rahm Emanuel's, is to determine the intent of the party - whether he  want to permanently divorce himself from his primary residence or still regards it as home and plans to return thereto at the end of his call for service. Icheoku says Rahm Emanuel is the later and his case is akin to our servicemen and women who go on call of duty tours in Afghanistan and Iraq or even NASA astronauts who are at the Space station hovering over two hundred miles above the earth. So will it not be ridiculous to suggest or in anyway infer that these people have lost their primary residence in the country just because duty-called and they answered, 'here I am send me?' Icheoku agrees with Emanuel erudite lawyers that he never lost his residency by answering the call of the president to serve the country as his chief of staff. Therefore let Rahm Emanuel run for the mayoral seat as he will definitely win and is the only candidate among the contestants with a feet big enough to fill the vacating Mayor Richard M. Daley colossal shoes. Other contestants Miguel del Valle, Carol Moseley Braun, Patricia Van Pelt-Watkins, Gery Chico and William Walls do not possess the gravitas of Rahm Emanuel and are no match or good enough for Chicago. Chicago does not deserve any less a mayor than a man who has been a White House aide, a Congressman and a Chief of Staff!

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