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, February 23, 2011

"I AM LIBYA" - COL. MOUMMAR EL-GADDAFI

In a pattern reminiscent of all dictators, Libyan previously life-long leader, Colonel Moummar el-Gaddafi defiantly proclaimed that 'he is Libya and Libya is him' and that he is not going anywhere, not alive and not very soon! He promised to also visit the most hellish crackdown on his protesting country's people whom he described as rats, cockroaches and mercenaries. Icheoku says give it up to dictators, whenever they feel cornered and are on their last rung of life, they huff and puff, trying to superficially maintain an assumed relevance and reverence in a futile attempt to still appear strong and in control. Icheoku says we have heard and seen it before with the executed despot of Romania, Nikolai Ceausescu, who once proclaimed himself the spirit of the Danube River; boasting that without him the Danube would have no force to flow? And you call that sanity; yes of course, except in the jaundiced eyes of those ego-maniacal dictators strewn all over the Arab world.


They all brag and boast about their patriotism and how they will fight until the last man standing falls; creating a gory, bloody fight to finish scenario. But when the chips are down they turn tails, fleeing into exile except where they are unfortunate and extra-unlucky to be cornered by the same people who chased them out of office and are put to death - executed by hanging or through firing squads. As always, it never ends well with dictators and Icheoku would be surprised if Libyan Muammar Gaddafi's end will be any different. So far his response to the Libyan peoples revolt is to dig in; threatening thunder and brimstone and vowing to die in Libya as a martyr. Facing the greatest threat to his 41-year rule and having already lost the eastern part of his country Benghazi, Maommar Gaddafi said those protesting Libyans are "rats and mercenaries" who wanted to turn Libya into an Islamic state. Icheoku queries, when did Gaddafi become a Christian or such a secularist to now mind if Libya becomes an Islamic republic or not. It can only be a posturing to divide the already galvanized world opinion against his despotic antics. But who still listen to the ramblings of an unsound mind when despite all the evidence to the contrary, suggesting his lost of grip on power, he still pretends to be in charge of Libya.

In his own words, Gaddafi said "I am not going to leave this land. I will die here as a martyr ... I shall remain here defiant. Muammar Gaddafi is the leader of the revolution, I am not a president to step down ... This is my country. Muammar is not a president to leave his post, Muammar is leader of the revolution until the end of time. We shall cleanse Libya house by house of these protesters. From tomorrow, families collect your children, leave your homes, all of you who love Muammar Gaddafi, go out to the streets, secure the streets, don't be afraid of them. Chase them, arrest them, hand them over to the security forces. They are only a few, they are terrorists. You are millions while they are only 100. Peaceful protests is one thing, but armed rebellion is another. We have not used force yet, but if we need to use force we will use it."  From the assessment of the situation by Gaddafi it is clearly obvious how oblivious he is to the situation starring him on the face - he is urging Libyans to to go and secure the streets while his diplomats and army are deserting him in droves? He said those protesting are only 100 and you wonder if Arabs counts numerals differently? He said he not a president; which may be correct since he is the chairman of Libya with absolute executive authority. But lets hope that he commits the impending suicide as promised, but alone; in order for peace to reign in Libya. As the world awaits the eventual outcome of the ongoing peoples' rebellion in Libya, Icheoku says only time shall tell who the final victor and the vanquished shall be; but Libya and Gaddafi shall never remain the same post this revolution.

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