MEDIOCRITY IS KILLING NIGERIA - CHINUA ACHEBE

"What has consistently escaped most Nigerians in this entire travesty is the fact that mediocrity destroys the very fabric of a country as surely as a war – ushering in all sorts of banality, ineptitude, corruption and debauchery. Nations enshrine mediocrity as their modus operandi, and create the fertile ground for the rise of tyrants and other base elements of the society, by silently assenting to the dismantling of systems of excellence because they do not immediately benefit one specific ethnic, racial, political, or special-interest group. That, in my humble opinion, is precisely where Nigeria finds itself today." - Professor Chinua Achebe, an excerpt from his latest literary work "THERE WAS A COUNTRY." 

Icheoku agrees and says, just the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth! Anyone who does not like to hear the truth about the real and true situation on the ground in Nigeria should just jump off the bridge or like Zimbabwe's strongman Robert Mugabe would put it, go hang. Icheoku says thank you Prof for courageously walking tall where others failed to venture and in any other event tremble and quiver like jelly.

WOMEN, FINALLY FIGURED OUT?

Before you raise that stone to haul at a chauvinist pig, who refuses to understand or figure out what it is that women wants, wait a minute, I didn't build that? My bad. I mean I didn't illustrate that; Icheoku is merely a vehicle to convey it to a wider audience including you. It was culled from a Facebook page of a dear friend and being well on point, our decision to republish it. If you are a feminist and feels that the author got the facts screwed up, please kindly tell the world of men what women really want. Or rather tell us what you as a woman wants and repeat same listing after 24hours. But hell no, it is either men ought or should know it or they should try and figure it out; hence the turpsy-turvy that is a life shared by the two opposite sex with each pulling from different sides. It is man-o-war TUG OF WAR for crying out loud, period.

THANKSGIVING TURKEY JUST DELIVERED.

Icheoku says among all the things we are grateful for this year 2012, we are grateful that Mitt Romney did not get into the White House. We are grateful for the plentiful the On High blessed us with this year - in health, ways and means. We are grateful for the opportunity to help as many people as we helped this year and pray that 2013 would afford us additional leverage and leeway to be more generous both with our time and resources. We are grateful for our family and for you, our friends. For those of you who are closer, just know that you are a very special breed of humans as we are rather very picky in adding to that few select clique. We love you all and hope 2012 has been a joyful ride for you too.

Thanksgiving has become a tradition for us of sort over the many years of our sojourn in the land of Uncle Sam; as a day to be really thankful for what the year ending has brought forth and like Oliver Twist, we also always ask for some more in the forthcoming year. We religiously observe this tradition each year, having been lucky to make it through to this day since many have gone and were unable to share in this opportunity. So friends, be thankful for what you've got - all the things you were blessed with this 2012 and please join us chorus Amen to the prayer that it can only get better in 2013.  

FYI:- As for the "torotoro", it is a sixteen pounder, premium, naturally range grown; from Diestel Family ranch in the hills of Sonora, California. It is not your ordinary industrial raised but it is affordable. Salute!

OBAMA BRIBED VOTERS - MITT ROMNEY?

Exhibiting the trappings of a spoilt brat who cannot and would not take personal responsibility for his own shortcomings in the last election, Mitt Romney once again passed the buck on where or who to blame for his abysmal performance in the election.  The Mormon bishop from the states of Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Michigan, Utah and California claimed that President Barack Obama promised women, minorities including Hispanics as well as youngsters of America "STUFF" aka bribery as a quid pro quo for their votes; and because of this, these very important voting blocs deserted his own campaign and voted for "THAT ONE." 

Icheoku says give me a break Mitt as your own foibles including refusal to come clean with the American people on whether or not you paid your taxes as well as other anti-peoples' policies espoused by your campaign did you in. You chose gaunt-looking Paul Ryan for your veepee and his anti-socials credentials spoke volume and alienated so many Americans' voting blocs. Two of your close Republicans spoke about "legitimate rape" and "God intending a resulting rape baby who must therefore be kept by such a victim woman' and you failed to denounce or disavow them? May be another of Obama's bribes, right? When you said you will kill Big Bird was that another Obama's bribe? When you talked negatively about students loans and Pell grant, was was another Obama's bribe to young people? When you drummed up war against Iran was that part of the Obama bribery? When you said FEMA and Planned Parenthood will  be killed, was that the Obama's bribery you alluede to? At least you remembered those things you sais you were going to  kill unlike your primary challenger Rick Perry of Texas, who called you a "vulture capitalist" but otherwise couldn't remember the departments he want closed as president of the United States? 

Icheoku says this your latest insult on American voters who decisively and intelligently voted for President Barack Obama is akin to your derisive and dismissive 47% 'takers' comment. Anyway you are no longer a stranger to American voters who rejected you in the last election based on the nothingness and emptiness of your campaign, so they understand that Mitt Romney does not care about American people. They understand that Mitt Romney is simply an out of touch multi-millionaire who palls around with his fellow millionaires and "takes" campaign financing (bribes) from his billionaire friends. Icheoku denounces this Mitt Romney who sees majority of Americans working men, women and children as either "takers" and/or now as "bribe receivers?" It is indeed quite unfortunate the new low into which Mitt Romney have descended since his ass-whopping in the last election and which is increasingly tasking his mental stability, such comments taken into advisement. 

Mitt Romney's latest toxicity led a columnist to posit:-  "Obama didn't win Janesville, Iowa or New Hampshire because of gifts to minorities. Those places are overwhelmingly white. Indeed,  Obama didn't somehow buy votes by showering Americans with free stuff. He convinced people he actually cared about the problems they were dealing with, which is something that Romney never seemed to be able to do."  Mitt Romney, Icheoku agrees with this conclusion  that therein lay your tomb and into which you have jumped in and in perpetuity. You failed miserably and woefully to convince American people that you had a mission other than being a puppet for the billionaire American raiders who wanted to loot the treasury with you looking the other way. Fortunately the God we serve was wide awake and took you out of contention before you could cause irreparable damage. Mitt Romney, what a phony and a fluke who is still dazed and did not know what hit him last November 6. 

SUSAN RICE, VINDICATED?

Icheoku says available records seems to exonerate the United States Ambassador to the United Nations, Dr Susan Rice, that she did not cook the story when she told the world that the Benghazi Libyan attack wherein armed militants stormed United States embassy in Benghazi and killed our ambassador alongside four other Americans was initially thought to be a protest gone awry. According to recently released unclassified CIA memo on the security assessment of the attack, it was believed then that protest as opposed to terrorist action led to the incident. 

The released memo states as follows:- "The currently available information suggests that the demonstrations in Benghazi were spontaneously inspired by the protests at the United States Embassy in Cairo and evolved into a direct assault against United States diplomatic posts in Benghazi and subsequently its annex. There are indications that extremists participated in the violent demonstrations. This assessment may change as additional information is collected and analyzed and as currently available information continues to be evaluated. The investigation is ongoing, and the United States government is working with Libyan authorities to bring justice to those responsible for the death of United States citizens." Icheoku says may be the old angry Senator John McCain and his South Carolina dancing partner Lindsay Graham should apologize to the ambassador for "besmirching her name." Failure for both men to do so by taking the high road would only reinforce the thinking that both of these "good ole white men" are doing what they are doing simply because the ambassador does not have the "right" skin color; and that they cannot stand the "unsightly" sight of having a "NIGGER" occupying "their" White House in addition to another "NIGGERLESS" as their Secretary of States? 

Icheoku says these racist white men must read the handwriting on the wall as evidenced in the last November 6 election and know that it is no longer 1950 America. Things have changed. Imagine the arrogance of the trigger-tempered John McCain, who cleaned the floor in his Navy class and had struggled through the Navy until he was shot down in Vietnam and who has never truly recovered from being an under-achieving son and grandson of two other McCains, both Rear Admirals, now suggesting that a Rhode Scholar, a PhD who was top of her class in Stanford University is "unqualified, not bright and not brilliant" for any other higher posting? This is coming from a man who chose the Alaskan beauty and no brain Sarah Palin as his vice presidential candidate and you wonder whether dumb and dumber is his idea of brilliance? Icheoku says thankfully the whole world is now beginning to see the phony White Americans' mentality and the reason why last presidential election was more of resentment than any other thing including immigration. Unfortunately, this Senator 'bomb, bomb Iran" John McCain is still reeling from his defeat by President Obama in 2008 and could still not explain to his White American folks why he lost "their" White House to the "THAT ONE" NIGGER.  Pitiful, pitiful; it is indeed pitiful of Senator John McCain to call a PhD Rhodes scholar "not bright?".

REAL FEAR, ONE REASON WHY ROMNEY LOST.

Icheoku says people were genuinely scared and afraid of what a Romney presidency would do to them and what it portends for ordinary folks in America and as a result, they went into offense proactively with their votes to make sure it never happened. It was a case of the proverbial offense being the best defense and it worked so well that Mitt Romney did not know what hit him on election night last Tuesday. There was palpable fear in the land among minorities, women, Hispanics, the poor, the elderly, the infirm as well as some segment of the white population that Mitt Romney was coming after them with a pitch fork and sledge hammer, and would spare none of them from serious pain and much suffering. Mitt Romney was seen as the Grinch that stole their Christmas even before Christmas got here and no one wants to be left holding the bag at Christmas. And for those angry White men who are saying that Obama voters wanted stuff, Icheoku says no one wanted and still wants stuff more than these human excrement - from wanting and taking free Native American's land, to 400 years of wanting and taking free slave labors, to their skewered unfair tax advantaged deductions, to hiring cheap labor and paying people stipends they can hardly live on, to commandeering America's wealth only for themselves and the list goes on ad infinitum. Lets hope that the revolution of last Tuesday will only remain as it is, a mere ballot revolution; as people feel shafted everyday by this section of Americans. Now who is it that really want stuff America? One of them recently told me that it is about lifestyle, as they do not want to compromise what they are used to by not having enough money to sustain it through equitable taxation. To this guy, who admittedly makes high six figures and his ilks, Icheoku says, what about the millions of other Americans who cannot afford a hot meal?

Only a tree gets notice of its impending felling and still stands where it would be found and cut down. Reasonable humans make a run for it to spare their lives and so did the new America majority, the coalition of true representatives of America, who decided to nip the Romney "killing machine" in the bud. This is one reason people ecstatically celebrated President Obama's triumph at the polls as it ensured the Mitt anguish is further deferred if not completely starved off; as it is more likely than not that the Mitt is done and will never entertain the thought of running for the presidency of America, having been irreparably damaged in this campaign. 

The fear of what the oppressive angry white males of America, who have been seething in pain these past four years that a "NIGGER" was occupying "their" White house, would have unleashed on the oppressed people of color, women and children of America was simply too haranguing that people sprang to action and  stop it cold. American people knew better as they understood that a man who was so heartless as to tie his pet-dog on the roof of his car for a twelve hour vacation road trip to Canada, who voiced out that he does not care about 47% of Americans, that he will deny people with pre-existing conditions insurance by cancelling OBAMACARE, that there is a case to be made about "legitimate rape" or that "rape babies are gift from God" by proxy of his support of the chief proponents, that FEMA has no relevance, that more money should be spent on the military instead of on education, that Planned Parenthood should be outlawed, that conditions should be made so unbearable for Hispanics that they self-deport, that Medicare and Social Security should be voucher(alized), that Pell Grant should be abolished, whose actions and utterances forced even a five year old boy in California to tell his teacher, that "although his dad is voting for Romney, he and his mom and his four year old younger brother are voting for Obama in part to save 'Big Bird;" cannot and would not get their backs. It was a case of "we have no inheritance or protection in a Romney presidency, so to Obama we go" and they went.

Now please tell Icheoku if you are part of the millions of Americans any of these inhumane policies would have impacted negatively that you would stay on the sidelines while this man sneaked into office? A matter made worse when Mitt Romney confessed to being a heartless acute and severe conservative and to drive this message further home and to show he was not joking, picked an anti-peoples' poster boy Paul Ryan as his running mate? Two anti-Christ be your brother's keeper injunction candidates, Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan, running on one ticket gave no one hope or reason to vote for them? Indeed people were scared-stiff and genuinely afrid of the impending knifing to their underbellies that they voted to reject and stop the source of this enveloping fear. When added to his storied take no prisoner cut throat business ethics at Bain Capital and it became everybody run to the hills America. Icheoku says Team Obama read the feeling in the country right and tailored their messaging that Mitt Romney is not to be trusted. As is always the case, people need protection from what they fear and they saw a President Obama as their buffer wall and that friends, was what won the election for President Obama for most part; and who as president and commander in chief must work to protect Americans from Mitt Romney and his vile policies. Thankfully common sense reasonable approach won and Icheoku prays that Americans shall in the next four years and in the President's word, see better days. 

DONALD TRUMP CROSSES OVER TO CUCKOO LAND?

Donald Trump has gone from being an ignoble birther in chief to college transcript enforcer and now is taking potshots at anyone who dares to cross his path or try pointing him out of the woods in which he seemingly is lost and wandering in currently. This overripe tomato of a pig, Donald Trump, without first caring to know whether his infamous endorsement of Mitt Romney contributed in the abysmal defeat of last Tuesday because it added to the stereotype of Mitt  being an out of touch millionaire who doesn't care about ordinary folks, is seeing red and apparently losing his mind about the election result. Icheoku warns that if the Donald does not immediately get the psychotic help he honestly needs at this time, may be the next America hears of him, he would be an inmate at a mental hospital being treated for misfiring neurons. 

Donald Trump's apparent mental breakdown has gotten so worse that NBC news anchorman Brian Williams took notice and was forced to observe last Tuesday night that "“Donald Trump, who has driven well past the last exit to relevance and peered into something closer to irresponsible here, is tweeting tonight.” 

Icheoku retorts that passing the last exit of relevance is a lesser evil and would be far more acceptable outcome as the red pig may have already walked off the reservation of sane people enroute to a lunatic asylum. Icheoku wonders the kind of racist hatred that is driving this cockroach to such an end that he will so hate someone who did nothing to him just because he is BLACK and occupying "their" White House. Icheoku adds, election matters Donald Trump and if it were easy, you would not have dropped out of your intended Republican primaries  run when you did and your minion Mitt Romney would not have been so trounced last Tuesday. However, icheoku wants you to throw more fits of anger as that makes you more imbecilic, idiotic and pedantic; and like McDonald's ad, Icheoku is lovin it - your pain at seeing "your" White House still being occupied by a "NIGGER" and his "NIGGERED" family. Go jump Donald and the nation will not shed a tear for your sorry ass. What a scumbag racist straggly haired guinea pig this Donald Trump is.

HE'S ONLY HUMAN, A GRATEFUL PRESIDENT GETS EMOTIONAL

Icheoku says those of us who are indeed deeply truly appreciative of people and their goodwill gestures towards us, understand that eye-fluids quickly rushes out in appreciation, whenever someone does something that touches our inner being in some particular special way. So it is easy to relate or trade places with President Barack Hussein Obama tearing up while thanking the miracle-workers that was his campaign team. They made what we are celebrating today possible - they delivered to "THAT ONE" four more years tenancy in the White House against all odds, especially against crass racism that still pervades today's America and which provides fodder for his haters till this day. BO, Icheoku tears up with you and congratulations for REALLY now, convincingly winning a presidential election and for a second term. Admitted you defeated Senator McCain handily in 2008 but they did not see it so as according to sources, they were not expecting you to even secure the nomination hence their lack of preparation to stop you then; unlike this time around when they moved their "earth and heaven" to get you out of "their" White House but still failed woefully. What a deserved dish you served them with your triumph over their idea of a "perfect candidate?" Your victory means so much to so many and Icheoku celebrates it among many other reasons, particularly as no one knows when again we shall be blessed with a soothing sight in the White House of a black couple not doing the chores therein but living there rightly as occupants in chief. Anyway, Icheoku intend to enjoy it while it lasts and like McDonald's ad, Icheoku is lovin it. Congratulations Commander in Chief.

THIS TUESDAY VOTE, VOTE FOR OBAMA.

Madonna said that she 'does not care about who you vote for as long as you vote for President Obama.' President Bill Clinton said “I gave my voice in the service of my president” and he wants you to vote your interest by voting for President Obama. Icheoku asks what would you give in service of your president? At least, YOUR VOTE. Mitt Romney is not a desirable alternative, hence we should stick with a tested and tried compassionate man who is for both the 99% as well as the 47% Americans. This Tuesday November 6, vote sensibly, vote Obama; vote FORWARD, vote Obama.