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, May 3, 2011

BIN LADEN KILLING, FINALLY IT TOOK AN OBAMA TO GET THE OSAMA!

Icheoku says the real news here and for which many people are and should be celebrating the world over is that it could be done - that America found a needle in a haystack and with a precision seen mostly in Hollywood movies penetrated another country's airspace, got to their target and took his lifeless body away as a trophy and left to safety of their ship all within a record short forty minutes. 

An operation which one commentator/observer described as being "so surreal as to merit a fantasy comparison and which reminded him of the game - 'Call of Duty: Modern Warfare'  which he plays on his Xbox." Icheoku says every American as well as decent people all over the world should be proud of what was accomplished; especially the secrecy surrounding the operation despite the notorious Washington DC leaky environment where people sometimes run their mouths of top government secrets? 

The execution of Osama Bin Laden as far as Icheoku is concerned, admitted it is the crown jewelry of the war against terror's crown; is but a side story as Bin Laden was dead the day he poked his terrorist fingers in the eyes of America. Since 9/11, Osama Bin Laden became a dead man walking with a big bulls-eye conspicuously placed on both his forehead and his back, culminating in his final take-out by the American finest - the Navy Seal. Icheoku says congratulations! Icheoku wonders the perplexity and fear that descended on Bin Laden's long narrow face when he was awoken from sleep by the thunderous boots heralding the entrance of the men sent to bring justice to him, still rubbing his eyes to make sure it was not a nightmare or some other bad dream?  But unfortunately for Bin Laden, the nightmare unfolding before his dazed eyes is one from which he will never fully woke up and never did, as he never lived to tell the story; and the rest of it the saying goes is now history. Osama Bin Laden is dead as a door knob and thrown away into the sea like a piece of garbage - the human garbage that he was. Icheoku says may his cold wicked soul now suffer in Hades, vainly longing for those elusive seventy-two virgins which supposedly awaits his despicable types. Hopefully, the huge gaping hole left in the hearts of Americans as well as other peoples of the world impacted by 9/11 will now begin to truly heal and before long the Freedom Towers will fill whatever is left of the physical hole left at World Trade Center, the situ of Bin Laden's wicked strike at the soul of American financial empire. Icheoku says the completion of the Freedom Towers coupled with the death of Osama Bin Laden will make whole the broken hearts and minds and the atmosphere which was fouled by Osama Bin Laden on 9/11. 

However there are some intriguing questions arising from the successful operation to eliminate the world's most notorious mass murderer:- did the Pakistani authorities provide a safe-heaven for Bin Laden and if not or did not know about the devil in their midst, what use then is their security apparatus that a man  so badly wanted would be hiding in plain sight in a neighborhood filled with many security outfits of the Pakistani state and not get noticed? If Pakistan is not a truly failed state and a banana Republic to have had this pulled underneath their nose then Icheoku does not know which other state appositely so qualifies for that acronym? The world's most wanted criminal Osama Bin Laden took up residency among them and was living in their midst for six long years; that the same Osama Bin Laden was take out and his lifeless body which can no longer cause any harm to anybody taken out to its watery grave, without the Pakistanis having a whiff of it? Yet they call themselves a "state" with nuclear weapons when they cannot provide ordinary security to ensure their country's territorial integrity  and safety of its residents including a fugitive from justice Osama Bin Laden?  Secondly, why was Osama not demobilized and taken alive; but this question appears to be now mute as the explanation that it would have resulted in a spectacle of great proportion is plausible. So a dead Osama is as good good as captured Osama as the objective of the whole war on terror was to get him and he was got, so case closed. 

The other issue that drew Icheoku's particular attention is the none release of Osama Bin Laden's dead photographs to serve as closure to his saga? This was the argument made when the two killed sons of Saddam Hussein, Uday and Qasay's bullet ridden bodies were shown both on television and on the pages of newspapers. Icheoku would like Osama's dead photographs to be released to finally shut-up all those conspiracy theorists who still doubt that Osama Bin Laden was finally got this time; despite repeated rumors of his demise in the past; some of which dated as far back as 2001? Please show us the evidence - OSAMA BIN LADEN"S DEAD PHOTOGRAPH! Further why the rush to bury him and in a watery grave? If according to the story, it is to honor his Islamic Muslim tradition, why in the water and not in the sandy earth of the Arabian desert? Again the explanation not to give his fanatical supporters a place of Mecca styled shrine is plausible and acceptable. Icheoku also hopes that his quick dispatch was not to prevent him from spilling the beans on 9/11 as some conspiracy theorists had it that the government might have something to do with 9/11 and just used Bin Laden as a handy-tool and now would not permit him to testify and implicate them? 

The killing of Osama Bin Laden shows that you do not necessarily have to invade a country to get at a terrorist hiding or living among them as Osama Bin Laden was killed and his body spirited out without invading the country which was providing him a place of abode, Pakistan. It is also instructive that several presidents have tried but failed to nail Osama Bin Laden including President Clinton and GW Bush throughout his eight years in office but President Obama finally did and within two and half years in office. But hey, it got done eventually and this is what is important and for which America should be very proud of her accomplishment. Icheoku also hopes that when the men sent to get the King's ransom met Osama Bin Laden, they borrowed a leaf from Godfather the movie and told him that "America sends her greeting"; before firing that shot that became his one way ticket to hell. Now that the snake's head has been finally cut off and the man who allegedly gave Islam a bad name dead, let us hope that militant Islam will come to an end and the world can once again enjoy the peace which eluded it since they were violated on 9/11 by Osama Bin Laden and his hateful Islamic thugs. 

Once again, let the gist of the celebration should not be lost on some people as America is not celebrating the death of a puppy dog terrorist but the feat of our boys that brought about that end - they successfully pulled off one of the biggest human-heist ever recorded in history and for this we all should walk ten feet taller and be proud of our heritage and the country we have grown to love and call home. President GW wanted him dead or alive; but President Obama got him both alive and dead but let us not find closure that the job was finally done and it was an America bullet, an American gun and America special forces that dispatched world terrorist numero uno to the world beyond. If there is ever a time when revenge is sweet, this time is that time and Icheoku joins the rest of Americans and decent people of the world in celebrating a feat that was accomplished by our special forces with our dear President Barack Obama presiding while his national security team provided all the support and cheer leading. Bravo America; this is what the real shock and awe looks and feels like. The dispatch of Osama Bin Laden is another fine feather just added to President Barack Obama's national security credentialed cap. It took an Obama to get the Osama, how about that for rhyme; their similar sounding names notwithstanding. Viva America! Long Live the Republic and may God continue to bless America!

FYI:- Osama Bin Laden was killed in a house where he lived in Thanda Chuha area of Bilal Town in the garrison town of Abbottabad and for the past six years; a house which was less than a kilometer away from Pakistan's Military Academy at Kakul some few miles from Islamabad Pakistan.

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