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.

Saturday, May 21, 2011

JOSH FERRIN, A BOUNTIFUL FIND AND A BOUNTIFUL ACT IN BOUNTIFUL UTAH!

In Bountiful Utah, a man, Josh Ferrin, found a bountiful - a $40,000-plus stash in an attic of a house he had just closed on, his first house ever; but decided not to keep it. According to the story, Mr Ferrin gave the money back to the previous owners children because the home's previous owner, Arnold Bangerter, who died last November and left the house to his children did not leave the money for him? In his own words, "I could imagine him (the previous owner) in his workshop. From time to time, he would carefully bundle up $100 with twine, climb up into his attic and put it into a box to save. And he didn't do that for me." Icheoku asks, how did this man know the intention of the previous owner which could have been to make a surprise anonymous bequeath to whoever takes possession of the house? How does this Mr. Ferrin know that the previous owner did not intend that the money should be used for the renovation of the run down house which he purchased probably in an auction; and for its upkeep? Lastly, how did Mr Ferrin known that the previous owner intended his children to inherit the money, otherwise why did he not disclose its existence to them before he died? 
What if the previous owner intended that the money be congruous to inheriting the house and that any of his children who takes possession of the house should automatically be the natural recipient of the money. Further that the money becomes a gift based on the happening of a condition subsequent of keeping the house in the family and that it should fail if his survivors decide to offload the family pride which he bought since 1966? Sometime it is just very difficult to impute intent on such deceased owner, who probably preferred a total stranger to inherit his stash than his biological children? Icheoku asks, does anyone even know whether the children were there for their old man when he needed them most to help him live out his natural life or were they the never-available children who never helped their mom and dad in their old age? But like Rumsfeld said, there are so many not knowns and so  many things we know that we don't know; so the very decisice intent of this previous owner regarding this money was interred with him when he died without disclosing its existence. Icheoku says, it was purely the magnanimity of Mr. Ferrin that these children got this stash.
Anyway, while Icheoku commends this saintly act of Mr. Ferrin; we are afraid that he will remain the artist he is and for a long time as he declined a fortune that smiled at him? Icheoku do not know about you; but many a person will jump for joy that mother-luck finally remembered to pay them a visit, since the house probably was sold and purchased "as is" including the right to all its contents? And funny enough, the son who received the cash from the finder (Icheoku thought that a finder keepth), never considered it conscionable enough on his part to give Mr Ferrin some of the money in appreciation of his good deed? May be he was not even close to his dad while he was alive and was glad that finally something dropped from that old man; and internally questioning the wisdom of Mr. Ferrin giving back what was ordinarily, rightfully his to keep. Icheoku hopes he also did not think Mr. Ferrin is an idiot for letting a fish in his hook go? Hopefully someday, this Mr Ferrin will win the lottery and Icheoku hopes he will not reject it or willingly, throw away the winning numbers' ticket. Just pulling your legs as this is what honesty really looks like - in the midst of less, a man barely getting by, gave up a bountiful; but only in Bountiful, Utah, United States of America! Way to go, Mr. Ferrin!

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