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, June 4, 2011

JOHN EDWARDS STANDS ACCUSED, COVERING UP AFFAIR WITH BABY-MAMA!

A successful lawyer, Senator, Vice presidential candidate and also a presidential candidate nomination contender; but suddenly his life is fast evaporating like a morning dew and please let someone tell Icheoku that the bible and William Shakespeare were wrong on the jest life makes of man. John Edwards, whose ex-wife Elizabeth Edward died of cancer, accelerated by a broken heart caused by the infidelity of a cheating husband now stands accused - indicted on a six counts criminal charge, of illegally using political donations to cover up an affair with a former aide to his 2008 presidential campaign. John Edwards' indictment include one count of conspiracy, one count of making false statement and four counts of illegal campaign contributions. If convicted, the pretty face girlie-man, who regularly gets a $400 hair-cut, will be spending the next five years in prison in addition to paying a $250,000 fine on each of the six counts, totaling $1,500,000 in criminal penalties.

Icheoku says that John Edwards is no longer loved in America is akin to preaching to the choir - hated by his native South Carolinas for whatever the beef the two have, by the republicans for being a too girlie liberal, by the democrats for being camelionic, by insurance companies for being a mass-tort lawyer, by the poor for spending $400 a piece on his haircuts, by vulnerable single girls for taking advantage of his aide Rielle Hunter and knocking her up like the Bristol Palins of America and for lying initially about the existence of his baby-mama and finally by the women folk for cheating on his cancer-stricken and dying wife. Now Icheoku asks, where would John Edwards lawyer find the jury of his peers who will judge him fairly and not with some bias or prejudiced minds? May be somewhere else but definitely not in the Carolinas as second only to Al Gore who lost election in his native Tennessee, John Edwards might be the only other home-boy who is so much hated by his hommies - the Carolinas. As a defense lawyer, the first move should be to remove the case from both North and South Carolina and move it to some place else, otherwise John Edwards fate is determined and soon he will have to add convict to his resume.

The case involves his use of about $900,000 allegedly campaign funds to cover up the existence of his baby mama and her pregnancy then. While the prosecution maintains that the money falls under the ambit of campaign funds as it was solicited during his 2008 presidential campaign; John Edwards camp claims the opposite, that the money is personal "gifts"? Icheoku asks who ordinarily gives a millionaire presidential contender a gift of $900,000 and during a  presidential campaign period if not intended as a contribution to the presidential campaign? John Edwards team should better come up with a more plausible explanation or better still plea-bargain as no one juror will buy this fable that anyone intended to make such a gift under the circumstance. Icheoku wholly agrees with the prosecution that John Edwards misled the American public during his 2008 presidential campaign when he presented a face of a dutiful and loving family man before them while in his closet, he had hidden, an expectant baby-mama; knowing fully well that such disclosure of the affair and the resultant pregnancy would destroy his candidacy. Icheoku says, for such a double-life alone, this John Edwards should be found guilty as charged; at least do it for the dead Elizabeth. 


The controlling factor in virtually every crime is the intent of the accused and it would appear that John Edwards has a guilty aforethought in this matter. According to one testifying former aide, "Edwards told the aide that this was a huge issue and that for 'legal and practical reasons' it should not be mentioned in the statement they were preparing." Icheoku says herein lies the hammer that will nail John Edwards guilty-coffin as he actively sought to cover up a crime when he said that "for legal and practical reasons it should not be mentioned in the statement being prepared;' so what more can a prosecution ask for. This also buttresses the  rule of the thumb that whenever a grand-jury brings an indictment, it is always for a real cause; so John Edwards being charged at all, presupposes the existence of some criminal wrong doing otherwise they will not vote to charge him. 
In a statement following his formal indictment and plea of not guilty, John Edwards said, "There is no question I did wrong, and I take full responsibility for having done wrong. I will regret for the rest of my life the pain and harm that I have caused others. But I did not break the law, and I never ever thought I was breaking the law." Icheoku retorts that this man is lying again when he denied the aforethought since his "for legal and practical reasons.." bears witness as to his state of mind at the material time of commission of the alleged crimes. John Edwards would have used the occasion rather to apologize directly to his dead wife, Elizabeth by name, for her pain and suffering while he cheated and impregnated his mistress; instead of generically saying "the pain and harm that I have caused the others?"  Icheoku asks, who are the others but principally Elizabeth; admitted children, family, mistress, the little love-child, friends and the American people were similarly wronged by John Edwards' lies, denial of paternity, denial of the baby-mama and the attempted cover up of an affair outside his matrimonial home. What a liar this man is! 
Finally, Icheoku says if the dead can take their revenge, now is the time for the departed Elizabeth Edwards to take her pound of flesh from her cheating ex-husband and make sure that he is convicted on all the six counts charge. If only John Edwards had kept his zipper up or better still walked away from his prior marriage to the dead Elizabeth before dipping his whinny into another pit, may be his transgressions would not have been this many. But while he lived a lie, he was trying to market himself to the American public as that boy from South Carolina who had nothing but made himself into something and now wanted to be our president. Icheoku says, William Shakespeare might as well be a prophet as he foretold that there is no way of knowing the mind's construction by looking at the face and John Edwards face was a pretty one indeed which never betrayed its recesses but successfully deceived us into nearing buying his presidential candidacy. Anyway, give it up for men especially those politicians amongst them who think they are gods and can get away with anything. Luckily enough for Arnold Schwarzenegger, he can now take a breather as John Edwards' indictment now takes over the center stage. But just wondering, how would the pretty-face John Edwards cope with a jail-time; boy, would he make a beautiful bride to the so many guys needing some in the big house, should he be convicted and sent to prison. What a tragedy, the life for John Edwards is - his rise was poetic and the stuff the proverbial American dream is made of but his downfall now is rather earth-shattering!

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