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.

Monday, February 9, 2015

NBC BRIAN WILLIAM LIED, SHOULD RESIGN OR BE FIRED!

Icheoku says stepping aside will not cut it. What was good for CBS Dan Rather should also be good for NBC Brian William. In Dan Rather's case, it could even be argued in his favor that he mistakenly told a lie based on a third party's account that George Bush never served in Texas Air National Guard; but unlike Brian William, who intentionally and purposely told a lie just for his personal egotistic aggrandizement. At least Dan Rather never claimed he was in Texas when George Bush failed to serve, but Brian William was rehashing a first person account, somewhat a percipient-witness's account, of his "valor" in a war front. Therefore he told a blatant lie aimed at misrepresenting of facts and misled so many people into believing he is one strong son of a gun who flew into heat of battle but made it out alive and well, albeit a little shaken up. 

Icheoku says Brian William "taking himself off the air for several days" is not enough deterrent or punishment; he should rather take himself off the air forever and permanently or the network should do that for him by firing him. Icheoku says Brian Williams has lost all credibility whatever and the network leaving him still on air would be a tacit approval by them that it is okay to lie. He should not be allowed to to taint news from the network going forward as anything he reels out henceforth would carry some degree of incredulity. The best thing is to let him go permanently and let the NBC begin to heal its image of having an anchorman who told a a blatant lie. Icheoku calls on Brian William to do the needful and RESIGN his office now as the anchorman of NBC nightly news and failing which NBC must let him go, FIRE HIM. 

The Washington Post fired its reporter Sari Horwitz for plagiarism; the AP fired its reporter Bob Lewis for lying about Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe; The Los Angeles Times fired its reporter Jason Filch for false reporting, CBS fired Dan Rather for a mistaken report, so why not NBC portion out the same treatment to Brian Williams? So if all these media outlets could uphold the honor of their reports and disciplined their offending correspondents, what is NBC waiting to tow the line and see the back of Brian Williams from their network? Icheoku says such self gloating and self promotion, without merit or any basis, by Brian William, should be seriously frowned at and never tolerated of an anchorman or any other person for that matter, especially one with an apparent authority or influence over the people. What Brian William claimed was an over exaggerated sense of self and of a bravely which he did not earn, nor merited and therefore should not be rewarded by leaving him to continue on that his seat. He should be punished or rather disciplined with a termination of appointment or deployed out of public sight on NBC network television. 

Icheoku says Brian Williams knowingly and intentionally did what he did - he lied and misled the American people  as well as the rest of the watching world into believing his concocted story of heroism and repeatedly too. He did not tell the lie once,  but on several other occasions including on David Letterman show. Brian Williams had enough time to pull back and recant the lies he told, but no; instead he was revering in his newly found fame of bravery. He choose to rather continuously mislead the American people as he surfed the wave of his sudden unearned fame and bravery as a reporter who went into the eye of the storm and made it back safe. 

Icheoku says Brian William is a liar, he is a cheat and he should therefore be dismissed pronto and without any further ado or delay. For repeatedly telling a story that he was shot down in a helicopter in Iraq when he was not, tend to minimize the seriousness of what those real combatants who suffer such fate, go through. It is despicable, it is condescending of him and it should not be condoned. Icheoku maintains that this is not a case of a "fog of memory" as he was not alone in the supposed helicopter and had several occasions to recant his tale but chose not to and did not, until veterans complained about his unfounded claims. Icheoku is emphatic that his was not a mistake but a purposeful misstatement of fact which he witnessed and thus a blatant lie. Brian Williams having lost all credibility and trust of the news watching public, SHOULD BE LET GO and never allowed to show his lying face on NBC or any other new network again.

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