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.

Tuesday, January 13, 2015

PARIS SEIGE, THE ENEMY IN OUR MIDST?

Explosions from the Kosher store in Paris
Icheoku says the worst type of enemy is that within the house - the proverbial green snake in a green grass, and you ask yourself how do you protect yourself from it or go about fighting such enemy? What the world just witnessed in France last week is giving everybody some chill because if it is France today, who knows where next they would strike, leaving everyone pondering how safe indeed are we after all?  First it was Charlie Hebdo that fell to their murderous rampage, then two police officers including one who was gunned down publicly as he lay down on the pavement writhing in pain and begging for his life; followed by another female police officer Clarissa Jean-Philippe who was  gunned down inside her patrol vehicle. Then a gas station was held up and robbed, followed by a printing shop showdown and then finally a grocery store where the last terror-exhibition took place. 

In all a total of twenty-two people lost their lives to the terror in Paris including the twelve at Charles Hebdo, the three terrorists, three police officers as well as four hostages, with so many others seriously injured and wounded. Icheoku says anybody who says he or she is not afraid and scared following the development in France is not only not telling the truth but is somehow deluded as to the implication and magnitude of the violence which these terrorists wrought on the general world psyche. But the world is very resilient and would, like many other terrifying experiences of the past, get over the terror of Paris. Lamentably though, no one knows what these Islamic thugs want nor what could be done to dissuade them from carrying out any future attacks. But as it stands now, only eternal vigilance is the key; and if only the neighbors of the two terrorist-brothers who had snooped into their weapons-filled apartment had said something by alerting the authorities. Vigilance and vigilance and more vigilance, please humanity!

Anyway, it is all now a Monday night quarter-backing as what happened has happened; and all the world can do is to pick itself up, pick the pieces and soldier on. If only someone somewhere has a solution to curb or stop this Islamic cancer fast metastasizing like a wild Harmattan-fire and threatening world peace and coexistence. How can just one religion or its adherents be causing this maximum havoc every time and everywhere; yet some people are employing political correctness by not naming the real culprit - a warped ideology that propagates this type of hatred and unverifiable redemption in an Utopia paradise? However, with this France terror, names like Said Kouachi, Cherif Kouachi, Amedy Coulibaly and Hayat Boumeddiene have become known throughout the world as the people who caused France to quake in fear, at least for the moment their terror lasted; also Charlie Hebdo has become a universally recognized name of a cartoon magazine. Anyway, life will and must go on and the Eiffel Tower lights would keep on shinning; and if only this Frenchy brush with Islamic terrorism would now make the West to have a change of mind and sell Nigeria some arms to enable them fight their own Islamic Boko Haram terror menace, Icheoku would be completely satisfied. 

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