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.

Sunday, November 23, 2014

ELECTION 2015, WILL BE FIRE FOR FIRE - OSHIOMHOLE

"Any attempt to misuse the armed forces to rig election in 2015, it will be fire for fire. Only a coward die several times before his death. We will stand as soldiers of democracy. We will fight for our fatherland and victory shall come." - Adams Oshiomhole. Icheoku says with the manner these APC chieftains are piling up on President Jonathan and calling for the destruction of Nigeria in the event they are not handed power in 2015 calls for many soul searching. 

Query: why must these guys in APC think that they alone know how to ferment trouble or do they think they are scarring anyone by their continual boastful braggadocio to rain down mayhem on Nigeria come 2015? Why must a people bereft of any convincing ideas or superior and better political messaging, now resort to threatening the same people and country they want to preside over? What happened to marshaling a more compelling argument why Nigerians should rather vote for the APC instead of continuously threatening to visit mayhem on the country should the inevitable of their not getting power happen? 

Icheoku says the days of operation "we tie, do or die, my way or the highway" politics of reclamation is since over and the APC needs to get this. What Nigerians need and are  now practicing is politics of ideas and how to move the process and country forward; so may the superior idea triumph in 2015 rather than destructive forces. 

From their biggest man Bola Tinubu who promised Nigerians  to "rig and roast", to a presidential candidate Muhammadu Buhari's threat to  soak the land with the blood of those "dogs and baboons", to Rivers State Governor Rotimi Amaechi who has now similarly threatened anarchy with the establishment of a parallel government, to yet another presidential candidate Abubakar Atiku who has called upon Nigerians to rise up in arms against the government under the guise of defending themselves against Boko Haram, as if Nigeria is already a lawless state without state apparatus to deal with such criminality. Now their Governor Adams Oshiomhole of Edo State has also thrown his feather-weight behind the call to violence and you wonder if fermenting violence in 2015 has now become part of the agenda of the APC. 

But like the Americans say, if it quacks and walks like a duck, it might be a duck; so the APC should be held responsible for any violence that erupts during the 2015 election. It is now increasingly apparent that only the APC have a reason to cause violence in 2015 because they, like the biblical two women before King Solomon, are prepared to destroy that which they cannot get? Like with every desperado, they are nearing desperateness in their hunger, quest and pursuit of power in Nigeria and they are beginning to see its elusiveness and are now resorting to intimidation by threat of violence to try and coarse Nigerians? Otherwise why would anyone wish to destroy something he truly loves and cares for except the professed love is not genuine. 

Icheoku asks for general restraint and hereby calls for any remaining voice of reason in the APC, to please caution their people against making such inciting boastful and arrant threats. Icheoku is emphatic that no one is going to rig the election of 2015 and the APC knows this, but are merely trying in vain, to cause apprehension in the country and scare away would be voters from the polls. Further, no Nigerian blood deserves to be shed because of an election or struggle for vain power and any body who shades Nigerians' blood in 2015 will leave to regret it. Enough of all these bomb-throwing rhetoric by the APC chieftains and you wonder if their chieftains are this unguarded, what would their unleashed underlings do to innocent Nigerians? Icheoku says what these APC honchos are vomiting and preparing to do is indeed very  pitiful and condemnable.

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