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.

Friday, February 11, 2011

MUBARAK ACCEPTS GHONIM'S INFANTILE CHALLENGE, NOT GOING ANYWHERE!

President Hosni Mubarak did not mince words as he told thousands of protesting Egyptians and their Wael Said Abbas Ghonim who wants his immediate departure from office, that he is going no where. That whether they like it or not a man steeped and seasoned in warfare cannot be easily intimidated out of the Egyptian presidential mansion and not by ordinary Egyptian boys, many of whom were still pipe dreams when he ascended the seat of power in Cairo; first in 1975 as vice president and later in 1981 as president which office he has occupied till date.


Icheoku once again reiterates that the six months Mubarak is asking for is reasonable and that Mubarak should be accommodated with it instead of the long-drawn rough road those protesters are clamoring to travel. In our oped of day before, we called out Wael Ghonim as overreaching himself when he invited the Mubarak regime to kill him while insisting that Mubarak must  go and go NOW! Icheoku asks, now that Ghonim has not been killed by the regime and Mubarak is still in office or has rejected his call, what recourse for redress is then left for Ghonim and the rest of the Egyptian protest world? And how do they plan to pay their bills if they are not paid their wages as result of a long-drawn out society in disarray or don't those Egyptians pay bills?

In legal parlance what Mubarak did with his address to the Egyptian nation indicating his intention to 'adamantly remain in office is tantamount to calling their bluff and has now formally joined issues with those protesters calling for his immediate departure. According to him, 'I have said it before and in a plain unequivocal language that I am not going anywhere; Egypt is the land of my birth and in it shall I die and in its grounds shall my body be buried!' Icheoku says never has a bluff been called this blatantly, since the January 25th uprising begun than this frontal and direct challenge to the  protesting Egyptians main demand that Mubarak goes? Their demand in chief is that President Hosni Mubarak leaves office forthwith and Mubarak in turn just told them to stuff it; that he shall serve out his term of office. Now how would the protesting people of Egypt react now that someone strong and brave enough to call their bluff is the same person they want gone? Your guess is as goof as mine; but the end sure does not look good but very ominous. What happens thence is anybody's guess but Icheoku says the party with greater leverage shall force the issue to the fore, hoping for an opportunity to take a revenge.


Icheoku says what a clever speech delivered by Grandpa Mubarak, which was meant "to meet all the peoples demand" as earlier promised by the Egyptian military Chief. Meanwhile Icheoku likes and admires men of  great courage and President Hosni Mubarak is one of such men, a man who have severally put his life on the line for these protesting young pharaohs to have a place they can proudly call a home. The parties seem to be totally entrenched in their un-shifting positions and only the destruction of one by the other will sort the situation out at this point. Icheoku admonishes President Hosni Mubarak that the protest has lasted for too long and now is time to end it; either he cracks-down on it or he should meet the protesters demand and quit.  But to apparently remain powerless in a situation where exhibition of some power may be very productive shows a man whose regime is on life-support. Mubarak has no choice at this point but to decisively crackdown on the protesters if he wants to retain power and remain in office; and the other guys need to come up with something better to support their call for the early exit of the grandpa of the River Nile. But Egypt cannot remain in a state of anomie or a standing still position forever; something gonna give way and NOW!.

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