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, March 3, 2015

NETANYAHU'S DIVISIVE VISIT, AN AFFRONT PETULANCE AND VERY PUERILE?

Icheoku says Benjamin Netanyahu's un-protocol-ed visit to Washington DC is both unnecessary and uncalled for; and  has only succeeded in further polarizing Israel and driving further wedge between his wing of the Jewish nation and the rest of the wider world. Why would someone in his position not give peace a chance and first wait to see if the current effort at  a negotiated settlement with Iran over its nuclear capabilities will work before making any further move to pressure a different outcome. 

Icheoku says his current crying of wolf is unneeded at this time; and regardless, America under no circumstances would never stand by and watch Israel suffer any attack talkless of a humiliating defeat from any country including Iran? Therefore why must the governor of that 51st America state chose now that a possibility exist that a peace deal could be reached, to disturb the peace of everybody with unfounded allegations, especially one not new or different from his previous allegations? That Netanyahu is successfully driving a wedge between Jewish support in America and the world at large is equally a fact lost in his busy mind. Icheoku says his antics would only succeed in galvanizing world's opinion against the Jewish state including those previously sympathetic to it. 

The only thing that possibly came out of the Washington DC roadshow of Bibi is that he successfully pitied an American congress against an American president; and in the battle for who to show their loyalty, the Congress of the United States of America choose a foreign leader over their own leader? Icheoku says whether this is a continuum of the disrespect publicly shown to the president because of the underling racism in America, Icheoku cannot say for sure. But it is a cause for serious concern, when the Congress takes side with a visiting foreign head of government over and against the objection of an American president, who was not duly intimated of the visit as required by protocol. So now that it has been established that Netanyahu can successfully ransom the Congress to throw the president under the bus, just because of campaign contributions of the Jewish lobby group APAC, who knows what else the Israeli government is capable of influencing in Washington DC? 

But Icheoku maintains that it does not present a good image when an American Congress takes side with a foreign leader against an American leader. If Bibi Netnayahu has something to say to Americans, he could have channeled it through diplomatic contacts or emailed it to the Congress or even stayed in his Tel Aviv headquarters and lip it. But instead, he choose to defy and snub the president and came to Washington DC in flagrant violation of established protocols. A matter made worse because the same people he wants America to attack, the Iranian people, also have millions of their citizens living in America and paying their taxes as well. Taxes with which the Congress is maintained and which also buys the weapons as well as equip the military that would be deployed to go whack those Iranians, were Netanyahu to have his way? Icheoku says it is absolutely wrong for Netanyahu to try and pitch Americans against each other - Iranian Americans against Jewish Americans, and such must not be condoned by any right thinking person in America. 

A negotiated peace agreement is a preferred way moving forward and America must not be blindly led by the nose again into waging another unnecessary war that will cost us arms and legs again; not when the other two similarly unnecessary wars are yet to be decisively ended. So what if the Iranians acquire the bomb since they will not be mad enough to use it, knowing the existential threat such action would impose on their own civilization. But America must stop yielding to the blackmail of Netanyahu, who like  a spoilt child, has continuously been throwing tantrums because he did not have his way and coarse America into starting another needless war in the Middle East. Just because his wish to have America go fighting another Israeli war against the Iranian is not coming through, due to a courageous rebuff by a president, who has stood firm and resolute against another needless war when a possible peaceful solution is in the offing, he is trying to stir disunity among the Congress and the president. 

Israel knows and so does Bibi Netanyahu that an attack on America's 51st state would not be un-responded to; and just like the 9/11 attack in New York elicited a massive "shock and awe" response, any attack on Israel, be it conventional or nuclear, will be massively reiterated against too. So with this knowledge in the background, why then the needless show that Bibi brought to Washington DC? Your guess is as good as Icheoku's, totally uncalled for and needlessly petulant. What did Netanyahu say in Washington this time that is new or even simply an update of what he has said and been saying before? What aspect of his speech could he not have emailed or even text to Washington as an update of what he has rehashed in the past? But to Washington he must come to dramatize himself and whatever his phobia is concerning  an agreement that is still currently being negotiated at Brussels and not one that has been reached just yet. 

Hopefully, President Barack Obama will have a place in his heart to forgive such affront both by the Congress and Netanyahu, otherwise he should place Bibi on a permanent do not see list for the duration of his remaining two years in office; admitted he will still be catering to the reasonable needs of the Israeli people's protection. What a rabble rouser, who merely came to Washington to beat the drums of war and this is the same man who went to the United Nations some years ago to present a chart of ticking time bomb ready to go off and several years later, Iran has not exploded any atom bomb anywhere, and you ask yourself, what happened to his credibility. Benjamin Netanyahu, please check in your excessive compulsiveness as it does not endear you to anyone with rational mind as the people of Israel deserves better than a divisive figure leading and championing their cause. What a show of disrespectful shame that Bibi Netanyahu brought to Washington DC and upon himself. 

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