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, January 4, 2011

SALMAN TASEER, ASSASSINATED PUNJAB-PAKISTAN GOVERNOR IS A HERO!


Loyalty in that part of the world must be suspect; first it was the late Indira Gandhi of India that was killed by the man assigned to protect her, a Sikh bodyguard, worried-sick over the Amritsa Temple raid in 1984. Twenty-seven years later, another high ranking government official, the governor of Punjabi Province in Pakistan was similarly assassinated by his Muslim bodyguard, concerned over his stand against Pakistani blasphemy law. Icheoku asks, what is wrong with these fanatics inhabiting that region of the world. 


One thing certain however is that an idea is immortal, death-defying and murderers can kill a messenger but never the message once it has gotten out. Our Lord and Master Jesus Christ was similarly killed (Judas Iscariot is his inside man) to silence him; but he became greater in death which was climaxed by his resurrection. Martin Luther King was killed for his ideas that every man deserves some dignity irrespective of the color of his skin and today, he has grown larger than life and is celebrated around the world; especially his speeches. Icheoku therefore says, the coward of the country, the Pakistani dog that pulled the trigger that snuffed the life out of the governor of Punjabi for speaking out against an unjust law of blasphemy, a very subjective and selectively applied law against Christians by their Muslim overlords does not deserve the air of 'infamous fame' he is currently receiving in Pakistan. He deserves to be thrown to the jackals or a pack of hyenas, to properly  mete out to him an appropriate punishment, for his sins of the mind and for betraying the trust of a man who entrusted his life to his hands. 

The killing of Governor Taseer in a Kohsar public shopping center Islamabad now becomes the second high profile public assassination in Pakistan following the 2007 Benazir Bhutto assassination in her vehicle at a political campaign rally. A gentleman and a scholar whose liberal views is ofter times in dagger-drawn conflict with conservative Islamists, Governor Taseer was opposed to the Pakistani blasphemy law which zealots have wrongfully exploited over the years for vendetta. A blasphemy law which sprang back to the center stage last November when a court sentenced a Christian mother of four, Asia Bibi, to death by stoning; following a community dispute wherein her traducers accused her of uttering words considered unedifying and blasphemous of their Prophet Mohammed. It is instructive that a Christian is here being accused by Muslims of blaspheming their Islamic prophet Mohammed and you wonder why the law should be applied to a none-believer? Icheoku says this law was unreasonably applied to a Christian not minding what her believes were and whether or not she recognized her words to mean much as to be blasphemous of Prophet Mohammed. Icheoku asks, when shall Christians all over the world stop turning the other cheek for a 70 by 70 slap by these Muslims? When are Christians going to honor their manhood by standing up and defending what they too believe in, instead of the current turning of tail, whenever faced with Muslim extremism? When shall enough really become enough or must there be a war of religions in this world first, before these extremists learn to co-habit with people of other faith or different mindsets? 


Icheoku hopes that the late governor's prophesy of being 'the last man standing over the blasphemous law' shall not come to pass and that other brave men and women of Pakistan shall stand up and be counted as they face down these cowards who terrorize them. They must not let the animal, Malik Mumtaz Hussain Qadri, succeed as his ranting seem to suggest that "Salman Taseer is a blasphemer and this is the punishment for a blasphemer". The people of Pakistan must let Qadri and his co-extremists know that they do not represent the popular views in Pakistan and that they do not have the right or power to dictate who is what in Pakistan. This assassination has added to the political instability and volatility that has become part of life in Pakistan as well as the general Himalayan neighborhood; but life must go on. Governor Salman Taseer must not be allowed to die in vain; his idea for a more liberal Muslim Pakistan must endure which he has now paid for and purchased with his blood. Icheoku says, Governor Taseer is a hero and did not die in vain;  he lives on in the minds of all men and women of good intentions; men and women who would rather see a just and fair world enthroned; and who would always speak up and out against evil in order to engineer it. Adieu Taseer!

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