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, June 8, 2011

PDP'S OBJECTION TO SPEAKER TAMBUWAL, VERY RUDE AND UNDEMOCRATIC!

Icheoku says it is regrettable that the Peoples Democratic Party is frowning at the election of Barrister Aminu Waziri Tambuwal as the speaker of Nigeria's House of Representatives and wonders what happened to the internal democracy being preached by the party? Or is the PDP's making a Pharisee-styled preaching which ensconces only "do what I say but not what I do?" So if the House of Representatives freely elected who they want to lead them, wherein did they get it wrong or in anyway had democracy trampled upon? Icheoku says for even entertaining this objection at all, the ruling party, PDP, has now metamorphosed into the Pharisees of our times,

The PDP high-ups are crying bloody murder that their purely internal affair and arrangement of zoning political offices among the various six zones in Nigeria has been messed up with the election of the North-western Tambuwal instead of their anointed South-Westerner. Icheoku queries since when has an internal private arrangement take precedent over a constitutional democracy which enshrined the right to choose? Icheoku asks, why didn't the same PDP top-shots cry with the same despair when President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan ran and was elected to the presidency, despite his action being anti-zoning arrangement of the PDP which pre-zoned the office to the North as the rightful zone to produce the president in 2011? All of a sudden, President Jonathan had crossed the bridge of no-zoning and here once again comes the road-block of zoning against all others? Icheoku says, somebody should drag the PDP and President Jonathan to court to explain to Nigerians how such could be possible? It is indeed very unfortunate the type of Yes-men and Yes-women Nigeria is saturated with; men and women who would sell their conscience just for a pot of porridge and cannot brave it to speak up when it mattered; but suddenly now it has once again become convenient for them to chorus zoning. 

Finally, Icheoku says Speaker Aminu Waziri Tambuwal is well qualified both in academic training and his experience as a long time incumbent legislator to lead the House and the House reserves the right to choose whomever it pleases to lead them. They have chosen Tambuwal and he is well qualified to do the job, so case closed PDP; so live with it. If you did not or could not stop Jonathan from going against the grain of zoning himself, why do you think Tambuwal will be an easy prey to chew and spit out. Icheoku says PDP should join Nigerians and say YES to real democracy; they should also support the House revolutionary vote for a speaker of their choice instead of towing the wishes of the PDP to rubber-stamp a supposed "rightful" candidate. Unfortunately, the PDP forgot that the House has other party's members therein and that it is not the place of the PDP to dictate to such diverse population as to who shall lead them. Congratulations Nigeria House of Representatives for being real democrats and showing the way forward on the art of separation of powers and that you will not be anybody's toy! Icheoku says if the presidency disturbs you one more time about your choice of your speaker Tambuwal, you may consider bringing articles of impeachment to keep them in check - it is your prerogative!

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