"THE BITCH HAD EMPTIED MY MOUTH" - MAREK OLSZEWSKI

Icheoku says this unthinking man should even count himself lucky that she did not dispatch him to the world beyond with excessive dose of anesthetics. Unfortunately too, the now toothless man was not privileged of having read William Shakespeare to know that hell has no fury like a woman scorned and should have made a better judgment call not to go to a dumped ex-girlfriend for a teeth-job. Now all he could blabber out is "The bitch had emptied my mouth." 

Marek Olszewski is now left with only gums as all his enamels are gone courtesy of his ex-girlfriend dentist who was so incensed of being dumped that she took the pincers to his teeth, taking them out one by one until the ex-boyfriend became completely toothless. According to the dentist "bitch" who emptied the mouth of her ex-boyfriend of all his choppers, Ann Mackowiak, "I tried to be professional about it and detach myself from my emotions; but when I saw him lying there I just thought 'what a bastard' and decided to take all his teeth out." Icheoku says once again, emotions could run riotous if unchecked and times and times again, it has proven to be a very big challenge to people especially some daughters of Eve. This dentist from Hell, Ann Mackowiak of Poland, has shown the damage scorned women are capable of wrecking - a disproportionate wrong to an ex-boyfriend who simply moved or tried to move on. But she would take none of that and ensnared the unsuspecting and unthinking joy-riding ex-boyfriend into her dental office of horror, where she wrought an excessive damage to his mandibles. 

Icheoku says what a life's lesson to you all out there to always be wary of an ex sudden appearance of warmth and affection towards you as this could be only to bait you close enough for a vengeance? So always protect yourself from your ex as you would from a viper especially when the break-up was not amicably reached. This now toothless ex-boyfriend must albeit thank his stars that it was only his dentition that was taken from him by the ex, as so many were no that fortunate as they have had their manhood cut off and shredded and minced in a blender or even fed to the family dog; and in some cases were sent to meet with their makers. But wait, before you tag Icheoku a biased male, we shall preempt you by stating that such unhinged rage goes both ways. 

JOHN EDWARDS TRIAL, THE MAFIA WAS RIGHT.

Icheoku says once again it would appear that the time-tested code of life, perfected by the Mafia, never to trust anyone as secrets can only be kept between two people when one of them is dead is a sure truism. The criminal trial of the baby-faced former Democratic vice presidential candidate and once wanna-be presidential candidate, former Senator John Edwards, has brought this saying back to the fore. His once trusted aide and former confidant, Andrew Young, has turned the proverbial "snitch" against his former boss and friend and has now crossed the aisle over to the side prosecuting the fallen from grace Edwards. Andrew Young, literally the best weapon in the prosecution's case against Edwards, has become John Edwards worst feared nightmare in his uphill task to avoid the slammer. 

Young in his testimony detailed the innermost and intricate secrets of his former friend Edwards, as he tried to cover up an affair and a resulting child with what the prosecution called campaign funds and lying about it, a criminal offence. Being John Edwards former consigliari, Icheoku says no one knew better what went down with the Rielle Hunter affair cover-up than Andrew Young who was baited with an immunity in exchange of helping the Federal prosecutors nail his former boss. According to Andrew Young, John Edwards solicited and secretly spent about $925,000 in a failed effort to cover up his affair with "the crazy slut," Rielle Hunter; with whom he had an affair resulting in a child outside wedlock. 

To save his own skin, Young readily turned into prosecution's best weapon against his former friend Edwards, who is facing the possibility of spending 30 years behind bars and a whopping 1.5million dollars in fines. Icheoku wonders what such supposed friendships are really worth if a person can so readily morph into a Judas Iscariot; especially when the going gets really tough as with John Edwards now. At the end of the day, it would appear that what anyone really has and what should matter most in our lives are our families as they will always be there for you, no matter what. Today all the hangers-on of John Edwards are gone, leaving only his parents and daughter to console and comfort him as he goes through what appears to be the end of the road trial for him in his mercurial rise to fame and now impending perdition. As succinctly encapsulated by lawyer Glenn Begernfield of New Jersey and friend of John Edwards, "Fame and infamy always shadow one another."

SHUTTLE DISCOVERY RETIRED, SYMBOL OF GREATNESS JUNKED.

 

What once proved the can-do attitude and spirit of America, NASA's Shuttle Discovery was mated into retirement to its Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum final resting place. Icheoku says what a day, April 17, 2012 that an iconic American symbol of great ingenuity was decommissioned permanently and you wonder why? But like every good thing in life, there is always time for an end and so was now the Discovery Shuttle. So long DS. Now many of us will head to the Smithsonian to have a chance of a closer proximity to the machine with millions of moving parts that we have come to admire from far distance as it rocketed into space with both its astronaut human passengers and tons of cargo that aided the building of the space station. What a day.

HYPERSONIC TECHNOLOGY VEHICLE, THE FUTURE IS HERE.

A time-travel into the future from science fiction to a near reality. That is what the latest aircraft, the Hypersonic Technology Vehicle (HTV-2), currently being tested by the United States promises to deliver. Imagine a commute from New York to Los Angeles which presently takes plus minus 6hours in just within 12minutes, go figure. If and when perfected, the aircraft will literally speaking, cancel out distances between places as we know it. Icheoku asks, is this the best time to be humans or what; and like Backman-Turner Overdrive (BTO) rock band sang, we ain't seen nothing yet.

TUKUR'S CONSENSUS ARGUMENT, BABANGIDA SUFFERS CREDIBILITY?

Icheoku says this is certainly an exception to the age-long trite aphorism that truth can sometimes come from an imbecile as a politically, foundationally damaged Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida cannot and should not be heard to preach the gospel of fair play in democratic party politics. This is a man who have participated in virtually every military coups in Nigeria since her independence from then Great Britain in 1960, playing major roles in about three of them, one of which he personally hugely benefited and enormously profited from as the junta's military head of state. Needless to add that many of these coups were against democratically elected governments and hear who is now reading the riot act to PDP for imposing Bamagar Tukur on the party as its chairman. This is a man who also annulled a duly conducted free and fair election of MKO Abiola just to satiate his personal ego and suddenly is now preaching the gospel of democracy against the consensus by fiat of Jonathan's imposition of Bamagar Tukur on the PDP as its party chairman? Icheoku queries when has this anti-democracy Saul turned into a pro-democracy-Paul or is Babangida merely sully because he has been effectively checkmated out of power in the PDP hierarchy through the deft machination of the Otta deity, Baba Iyabo and his protege Anthony Anenih? 

Anyway what Babangida said concerning the consensus manner by which Bamagar Tukur was imposed on the PDP as party chairman is truthful except that Babangida lacks the democracy-credentials to teach or preach any democratic process whatsoever or did he suddenly have an epiphany or amnesia of his own not too distant past and records of seeing red whenever the word democracy rears its wholesome head? Were Ibrahim Babangida any other more credible source, may be Nigerians will pay attention to his genuine observation that the consensus which threw up Bamagar Tukur is a travesty and totally undemocratic; but this evil genius of Minna Hills is not the right and proper person to mouth off such concerns. Simply put, Babangida is now crying foul because he is no longer welding much influence in the party echelons of the Peoples Democratic Party and is just striving for relevance; so Nigerians please don't mind the Evil genius jaare! 

Icheoku while agreeing with the toothy fairy prince of Minna that “a situation where some people would sit and select someone by consensus is undemocratic;" says that Babangida of all persons should not be the one sanctimoniously preaching this gospel, his anti-democracy tendencies considered. By the same breathe, Bamagar Tukur should not in any way try to justify his imposition on the PDP as its chairman because he “believes the worst consensus in any democratic arrangement is far better and more honourable than a military coup." Admitted that Babangida was "an architect of several military coups and a topmost beneficiary of one of them as military head of state; the rule that truth sometimes can come from imbeciles would have ordinarily exonerated him and confer on him the right to complain when none democratic process is used to select a party's chairman, but he is simply too damaged politically as an anti-democracy mean spirited military man to offer Nigerians his useless two cents thoughts on the consensus that imposed Bamanga Tukur on the PDP. Icheoku reiterates that Babangida's opinions are indeed worthless these days; more so when it has anything to do with the democratic process. 

However, the most damaged from the Bamagar Tukur anti-democracy consensus charade is the uninspiring president of Nigeria, Good(BAD)luck Jonathan; who is now synonymous with preaching one thing and doing an entirely different thing. Call him a Pharisee for crying out loud; but Icheoku concludes that the Nigerian president while preaching the merits of democracy goes about un-democratically imposing candidates of his choice, whether it is on his home state of Bayelsa as his preferred governor or now on the PDP as his preferred party chairman. It also did not matter to President Jonathan that Bamagar Tukur lost the primaries in his own Northeastern Nigeria. But with an Obasanjo precedent, where he lost in his local government presidential primaries in 1979 but was imposed on the party as the presidential candidate and served two terms respectively; history repeating itself with Bamagar Tukur's lackluster imposition was a no brainier for President Jonathan. The president himself being a beneficiary of the PDP's lack of internal democracy, it is a little surprise that people are even expressing surprise that he is towing the steps of his own benefactor - Olusegun Obasanjo. But hey, what does Icheoku know anyway on the workings of the "biggest and largest party in Africa" that will be in power until thy kingdom come? What a joke the PDP brand of democracy in Nigeria really is

"My personal feeling is that, as a young kid that was beat on by a bully, that was pretty much singled out—the guy [Zimmerman] stalked him, didn't follow instructions from a superior officer, when they said, 'Stop following the kid.' That tells you everything right there. But my all-around perspective, I wasn't there, I don't know what happened. But it's just so widespread and overt what happened. Even though this is the best country in the world, certain laws in this country are a disgrace to a nation of savages. It's a majority versus a minority. That's the way God planned it. He didn't want to do something about it, He wanted us to do something about it. And if we don't, it's gonna stay this way. We have to continue tweeting, we have to continue marching, we have to continue fighting for Trayvon Martin. If that's not the case, he was killed in vain, and we're just waiting for it to happen to our children. He'll have gotten away with impunity. It's a disgrace that man hasn't been dragged out of his house and tied to a car and taken away. That's the only kind of retribution that people like that understand. It's a disgrace that man hasn't been shot yet. Forget about him being arrested--the fact that he hasn't been shot yet is a disgrace. That's how I feel personally about it."

Icheoku agrees with Iron Mike that certain circumstances as this makes vigilantism sound like a civilized behavior. Otherwise how could any reasonable human-being rationalize the fact that the police in Florida did not arrest and charge this murderer George Zimmerman based on what transpired prelude to the murder of Trayvon Martin. Yet we are in Afghanistan, Iraq and soon Iran and other hot spots of the world trying to teach them how to be justice-themed societies? Now they read such stories as this Florida absurdity and they cringe that such a thing could happen in America? It is simply mind-boggling indeed. But let us hope that the about-turn mea culpa of a belated arrest will throw the needed balm on the explosive situation. It could have been any person's life that was taken away in this cavalier manner and was almost swept under the carpet as if it was a dog; so do not tell Icheoku that any expression of disgust is overboard

GEORGE ZIMMERMAN CHARGED, FINALLY AT LAST?

Icheoku is not salivating nor celebrating the belated filing of charges against the murderer George Zimmerman by the state of Florida, which like pulling a tooth, they reluctantly did due to overwhelming pressure. It is the right thing to do under the circumstances of an unwarranted taking of the life of another by an overzealous and armed thug, who despite being told to back off proceeded to kill an unarmed black boy anyway.  Now the nation and the world await to see the reasonableness or lack of it of the Florida jury which shall sit over this case. 

Icheoku says but for the protests, marching and crying out loud, may be Trayvon Martin would have remained just another statistic of murdered inconsequential black American young man; afterall his body was already tagged as 'John Doe' despite being clearly identifiable. Unfortunately it took all the uproar to provoke the conscience or lack of it of those fellas in Florida to understand that this slaughter is one too many and like Al Sharpton said, "we used to accept as fate-given certain things, but we choose not to accept them any more."  Thankfully the current filing of charges against George Zimmerman proves that marching and shouting until justice is done is very effective; but that is not to say that there are no other several thousands of Trayvon Martins of America whose death were swept under the carpet as if they were none issue; afterall they were just ordinarily black young men of America? 

Icheoku says with the charges now filed, here comes the heavy lifting of trying to find a jury of his peers that will dispassionately render justice to both the murderer George Zimmerman and the victim Trayvon Martin. But whatever the jurors of Florida decide, they should remember that injustice to one is injustice to all and that the lid gingerly atop the keg of gunpowder in Florida could be easily blown off depending on how they applied their justice in this case. The evidence is so overwhelming that short of the murderer being exculpated by the Florida infamous "Stand your ground Law", this case does not need much forensic work to establish his guilt and responsibility for the crime of murder. Icheoku hopes that the jury would return a verdict of guilty as charged against the murderer George Zimmerman and in that way find justice for both parties and ensure peace reigns in Florida. 

Now comes the many what ifs of this case which are rather so numerous that they may never be completely answered in full. What if there was no media blitz on this case or the ever partial and biased White-controlled American media decided to black out the story as usual? What if there were no galvanizing  of wounded souls who lead and participated in all the outpouring of grieve, marching and protesting this unjustifiable homicide with calls to render justice to Trayvon Martin? What if Trayvon Martins case did not touch the raw emotions of righteous Americans who trooped out to demand justice? What if there is no black American president and a black American Attorney General to push the case? What if there were no high profile Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson to lend their face and voice to this injustice; an injustice so touchy that even Uncle Tom Bill Cosby saw for the first time that things are not right between White majority and  black minority of America? What if the investigating prosecutor came up short of filing charges in this case and so many other what ifs? But finally, what if the soon to be convened jury finds George Zimmerman not guilty and decides he walks a free man? Icheoku does not want to contemplate how America will react to such possible verdict but will volunteers that Rodney King's Los Angeles 1982 melee might be a child's play. 

There is simply something that rubs humanity wrongly when apparent injustice is done to whoever irrespective of the color of the skin or the depth of the pocket as in this Trayvon Martin's case whose circumstance is so touchy and so captivating that humans were moved. Tryavon Martin's brutal execution or rather lynching by gun by the barbarian murderer George Zimmerman, especially after being told by the police to back off and the cry for help of the unarmed helpless boy who was shot in the back, would make even a jury composed of KKK people return a verdict of guilty except they also do not have a beating heart inside of them. Anyway, the nation as well as the world is glued to this story and shall not rest until it is concluded one way or the other; but whatever happens, at least the formerly pampered murderer George Zimmerman has been arrested and would be charged for the murder of Trayvon Martin? However this development was based on what we were told as no sighting of George Zimmerman's mugshot has been made anywhere yet or may be he is still enjoying that personal cozy relationship with the police down there in Florida which made them let him walk in the first place. Also boycotting Florida over this obscene "Stand your Ground" law should be considered as an option no one wants to be killed just for straying into a wrong neighborhood of Whites Only? 

HOPE THE RISEN JESUS FINDS YOU IN A GOOD STATE, HAPPY EASTER.

Icheoku extends our felicitation of the season to you, our friends and visitors alike; and pray that the soon to rise Jesus Christ will also facilitate the rise in your lives, all that means something to you. Our Easter flower, in full bloom, is sure looking more easterly now and we pray that your life blessings imitate it in coming to you in full and entire. As you celebrate the victory over death of Lord and Master Jesus Christ this Easter, please remember to share some of your blessings with those who have not. Please know that you don't have to wait to literally meet Jesus face to face before telling him how much you love him as you can express this love vicariously via the people around you, who all are ambassadors of Christ as was instructed by Jesus himself in the Bible.

Those homeless people under the bridge who you look over every day are Jesus. Those hungry people foraging for food and feeding off garbage bins are Jesus. Those beggars begging for quarters and cents or Naira and kobos depending on the location are Jesus. Those with little or no clothes on their shriveled bodies to fight off the elements are Jesus. Those widows who have lost their source of livelihood are Jesus and so are the helpless innocent children and other similarly situated adults alike. So as you selfishly savor that which you believe you have earned and supposedly entitled to as of right, please be wary that needy Jesus is everywhere asking for your help.

Therefore do not tally to meet Jesus first or dither until you visit a church of prosperity before showing your love for Jesus via a tithe or ten percent or whatever donation you prefer to make to a fat-cat minister or pastor, who already lives in a mind-boggling anti-Jesus luxury; with some owing fleets of jet planes. Icheoku says with some degree of certainty that some of these pastors and ministers over-indulged earthly lifestyles cannot be in any way pleasing in the eyes of Jesus, who himself declined a worldly gift of paradise on earth from Lucifer. So this Easter, before lavishing your gifts on these "men of earthly materials" parading themselves as "Men of God; and falsely thinking that you are giving to Jesus through them, please ask yourself, what would a risen Jesus do. Happily you do not have to wait for an answer as it is already in the bible - his response to a tempting Lucifer on the mountain is all instructive. Happy Easter celebrants.

AMERICA, THE SAFEST UNSAFE PLACE ON PLANET EARTH?

11,000 people were killed by gunshots in 2011 alone in America yet no one hears the urgency of now to do something about firearms. Instead the airwaves are rented daily by clarion calls to do something about sex, pornography, contraceptives and marijuana. Icheoku wonders who sex or nudity or preventing unwanted pregnancy or even inhaling and exhaling something has recently killed? Bottom line, it is those lobbyists who lobby for the gun and funeral industries who have successfully swayed the public's attention away from the real tragedy that is readily available weapons in America; which sometimes one can buy with the same ease as if buying a candy. 

This year 2012 will not be an exception as the toll is already mounting including the back to back double massacres in the two bay area cities of San Francisco last week in which five family members were slaughtered and now across the bay in Oakland where a lunatic South Korean named One Goh (mug-photo) has taken the life of young Nigerian mother of three alongside six others. People are killed in the streets, in their bedrooms by stray bullets meant for some other person, in their offices, in their cars, in parking lots, in the classrooms, even in churches while sitting in the pews as well as at funerals where an already dead is being seen off? Something is definitely not right when no place is safe or sacred anymore; but where is the outcry? The solution, let America talk less about sex, pornography, contraceptives and ganja; and refocus its attention to the greatest malady of our time - GUNS THAT ARE EVERYWHERE. 

It is about time gun laws become more stringent. Imagine 11,000 people dead, killed by guns within just 365 days? Not even the combined American war-dead in Iraq and Afghanistan the past ten plus years came any close to that and someone is not worried? When it touches closer to home, it indeed becomes very personal as no one knows for whom the bell tolls next in the safest unsafe place on planet earth. Not even the White House is completely safe, as some lunatic sprayed bullets there the other time; but fortunately enough he was caught. Icheoku must however give kudos to the security agencies as they are always up to the task in solving most of these senseless killings; but is there any way they could possibly do more preventive intervention instead? It is indeed very frightening and any pretense to the contrary is simply a bullshitting braggadocio.

JUDAS ISCARIOT GLORIFIED, A PENNY FOR YOUR THOUGHT AT EASTER.

Just put up my Easter Lily (Lilium longiflorum), and it is beginning to bloom; assented with some eucalyptus and some other greens for the season. As we celebrate our salvation through the death and resurrection of Lord Jesus Christ, let us not forget to acknowledge the place of Judas Iscariot who facilitated it all, as without his betrayal, who knows? But religiosity has demonized him since ages, forgetting that he merely played his role in the whole script. Icheoku believes that it was preordained, otherwise our Omnipotent all powerful and all knowing God would not have allowed it to take place. Judas was just a vehicle that was used to convey our Lord on his journey towards our deliverance in fulfillment of the testament. Judas couldn't have done that except it was signed off by the Almighty, so? 

Just a penny for your thoughts. So as we celebrate this 2012th anniversary of Christ's triumph over death and by extension sin, that purchased for mankind our salvation, let us realize that there is a reason for everything and that nothing ever happens for nothing. That in whatever position we find ourselves, let just know that we are but actors playing out a predestined role in the greater script called life. So let us be the best we can be and strive to put up a standing ovation performance as if it were our last. Finally let us remember that Christ was selfless in giving up a priceless possession called life for our sake; so may we imitate and use this example as a daily parameter or benchmark for all our benevolences to fellow mankind. Salute

TRAYVON MARTIN, WE ARE ALL TM AT THIS MOMENT.

Icheoku says an injustice for one is injustice for all as who knows who the next Trayvon Martin shall be otherwise how else can anyone explain that an unarmed boy Trayvon Martin, was shot and killed by a blood-thirsty mongrel call George Zimmerman and the killer has not been arrested to face prosecution for the homicide. This is 21st century America for crying out loud or was the civil rights act a mere lip service done to assuage the political temperament at that time. Icheoku says arrest George Zimmerman now and let the jury of his peers declared him "innocent".

TRAYVON MARTIN, FOR WHO THE BELL TOLLS NEXT?

Icheoku does not know neither does George Zimmerman or the Sanford Florida police department that is trying to sweep under the rug, the murder of an unarmed innocent black boy by a vigilante thug named George Zimmerman. The good news is that everyone shall die and it does not necessarily matter how or where; but that we all die but once. Trayvon Martin has paid his debt and is now being remembered by hundreds of thousands of people; who knows the fate that will befall his killer or those police people at Sanford trying to smother investigation into his murder. What a police department!

MEGAN MCCAIN, STRICTLY DICKLY?

Senator John McCain's daughter, Megan, while debunking the rumor that she is a lesbian, declared "I love sex and I love men; I'm strictly dickly." Icheoku says Megan McCain's love for sex with men shows that contraception is an issue of general application amongst American women, irrespective of their political affiliation or spectrum. It is not solely an exclusive preserve for "wild-eyed liberal" democratic women as some far right fundamentalists would want us to believe; otherwise Megan would have since become another knocked-up Bristol Palin of the McCain family. Also she intimated that had her father won the 2008 presidential election, America would have had the unfortunate case of dealing or rather coping with the "craziest first daughter ever seen or known in the White House?" Icheoku says thankfully, God saw this coming when he made Obama the president instead of Senator John McCain and America was spared the storm of a first daughter in Megan McCain. Bimbo-ly cute though.