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, May 17, 2015

ADAMS OSHIOMHOLE AND HIS RELUCTANT UNHAPPY BRIDE?

Icheoku does not know why women do this, but the marriage of Ms Lara Fortes of Cape Verdes to Nigeria's Edo State's Governor Adams Oshiomhole is yet another example of a very highly suspicious marriage of convenience and not one founded on love? Query, if Adams Oshiomhole is not a governor, would Ms Lara Fortes ever have taken a second look at him, talkless of agreeing to marry him? Icheoku asks when looking at Adams Oshiomhole does Ms Lara Fortes see a governor and its attendant pecks and comfort or does she indeed actually see Adams Oshiomhole her husband or rather just look through him? 

Icheoku asks who in this case is the trophy spouse and would she have said yes to a marriage proposal from such not so photogenic, height-challenged man and who is old enough to be her daddy, were Admans Oshiomhole not fully loaded? Could this lady honestly and sincerely say she fell for Adams Oshiomhole's charms and is indeed truly in love with him and not that she targeted the pecks that comes with his office including becoming the first lady of Edo State. A closer look at the lady and her body language shows one laboring under the weight of her decision and one who is not comfortable settling for such man as a husband but who circumstances has otherwise conspired against. The hope now going forward is that they will find something about each other that will enable them to stay married and learn to like and love each other; but Icheoku will not be surprised if the union's boat hits the rock as soon as the governor's term ends, if not sooner. 

On the other hand, is it not surprising that a sitting governor who should be leading by example, abandoned all the many marriageable ladies in his home state of Edo and traveled to Cape Verdes, a former Portuguese colony, to marry a Portuguese descendant? Icheoku wonders why the governor did not choose for a wife, a Bini girl or an Edo State girl or even a Nigerian girl, instead of a foreigner? What type of example was the governor showing with his choice of a wife and how will the ladies in his Edo State now view him going forward; - a governor who did not see anything good in his state's women and opted for a foreign Portuguese trophy wife? Anyway what is done is done and all everyone including Icheoku can do now is to wish the couple a happily married life; but emphasizes that Governor Adams Oshiomhole, as a sitting governor, did not choose right by marrying a foreign lady; especially when there are so many unmarried ladies in Edo State and Nigeria that would have held the forte very well. To the newly married couple of Edo State, Governor Adams Oshiomhole and Mrs Lara Fortes Oshiomhole, Icheoku says all the best.

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