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, April 6, 2015

DAILY SHOW'S NEW HIRE TREVOR NOAH, WILL THEY LET HIM SUCCEED?

Icheoku is very skeptical that the American television viewing audience would let him succeed or thrive, as they are not usually very well disposed to foreign-born media personalities playing a lead role on their televisions and sometimes even in movies. A one-time CNN anchor-man Pierce Morgan tried in vain to woe the American television audience but hurriedly returned back to the United Kingdom when he could not take the heat of rejection anymore; admitted some critics had it that he was summarily fired by the Cable News Network. Icheoku is particularly aware of his challenges then, especially when he descended into the turf with the NRA over weapons control in America, a fight everyone knows he was not going to win. Eventually Nancy Grace of the same CNN's Headline-news led the final putsch that saw his gig come to an abrupt end when the said anchorite championed that the British Pierce Morgan cannot come here in America to preach to us, Americans, about guns control or our right under the constitution to bear arms; alleging that it was Pierce Morgan's people, the British, thievery that first forced Americans into arming themselves to protect their properties from those Brits? 

So who knows the next line of war-cry for freedom from 'these foreigners coming here to tell Americans how to live their lives' that will herald and trail Trevor Noah, in his newly acquired gig at the Comedy Central hosting the Daily Show? South African born Trevor Noah, hired by Comedy Central as a replacement to Jon Stewart, to host the Daily Show, will have many challenges to overcome in order to succeed. Icheoku says it has already began with talking heads of the conservative right-wing including Rush Limbaugh questioning if Trevor Noah lives America enough or hates America or rather if he is an anti-American mole like the other black African in hostile occupation of "their" White House? Peradventure his sojourn as the successor of John Stewart might even end sooner than it started, as pressure is already mounting from both the Jewish community as well as the women feminist wing of the American polity, many of who are dredging up past tweets and posts made by Trevor Noah as evidence of his politics which they surmised may be anti-Semitic, anti-women and anti-America? 

One commentator quipped "it does seem that Trevor Noah believes that Israel is an inherently belligerent country?" Another wrote "we hope he will not cross the line from legitimate satire into offensiveness with jokes calling up anti-Semitic stereotypes and misogyny. And we hope that he and Comedy Central will make a conscious effort to ensure that 'The Daily Show' remains funny and irreverent without trafficking in bigoted jokes at the expense of Jews, other minorities and women." Another commentator put it this way, "Mr Noah's tweets poses a challenge for Comedy Central and its prestige show, The Daily Show; and raises the question of why his Twitter account was not more carefully vetted before he was named as host of "The Daily Show', a program with a world-wide audience of fans as well as detractors." While another talking-head even out-rightly accused him of comparing America to Apartheid South Africa, stating that it shows he does not love America and should therefore not host such an American darling show? Icheoku says it is instructive to note that when Jon Stewart was hired to host the same show, none of these do not cross boundaries were proffered or suggested, and that Jon Stewart is himself a Jew did help smooth matters a lot. But now a black nigger is coming to sit on a revered seat of host of a major American television event, and low and behold, a litany of 'dos and don'ts' are popping up and filling the air. But hey, it is our grand America and we all know how things roll therein, as some people can never do right by any standard imaginable and must always walk the fine-thin line, regardless. 

Whatever happens, Icheoku will keep a close eye on this guy and follow every step of his in his ascendancy to the throne of a major America broadcast media. Icheoku prays that he will succeed where many other foreigners have failed or were not allowed to succeed; admitted that if the pressure continues to mount the honchos at Comedy Central might consider him too-hot a potato to have around and would readily drop him. The possibility of his marriage to 'The Daily Show' coming to an abrupt end even before the honey moon is over, is a high probability, judging by what drives everything media here in America - ratings and revenue. So if the ratings take a dive or advertisers pull the plug, he will become toast asap. Icheoku will be fixated on this union, an unusual marriage of some sort,  to see how it eventually pans out. The fact that he looks so gay might be a help for him in a Los Angeles California, American Log Cabin controlled media market. So if in the event the conservative far right wing decides to go into a tizzy, the moment he is confirmed and out of the closet, they will not successfully persuade his removal, provided the gay community says yes and signs off on his hosting the Daily Show. Until then, Icheoku says all the best to Trevor Noah and uses this opportunity to say welcome to the American media market.

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