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.

Friday, July 17, 2015

PRESIDENT BUHARI GOES TO WASHINGTON, NO GAY NIGERIAN IN HIS DELEGATION?

Icheoku says with cap in hand and a lengthy wish list in tow, Nigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari jets out to Washington DC at the invitation of American President Barack Obama on Monday July 20, 2015 for a three day summit with the American government. After listening through President Muhammadu Buhari's lengthy beggarly sermons of what he would like the Americans to help him achieve for Nigerians, atypical Americans will then like to know what is in it for them? What are they getting for all the things they will do for PMB and his Nigeria? What is the bargain for consideration? 

Oil is becoming an unwanted polluting thing of yesterday which nobody, including the Americans, wants any longer? There is no regional conflict affecting America's interest within the West African sub-Saharan region to ask for Nigeria's help? Sending Nigerian soldiers to help out with ISIS in Middle East is not an option either since Nigeria is inundated with their own fight against Boko Haram? So Icheoku asks what would be the bargain or consideration to induce the Americans to act on what PMB brings along to Washington DC? That then leaves only one possible thing, one thing only that the Americans most probably would ask of the Muhammadu Buhari's government as a quid pro quo for any help and assistance they will render to Nigeria. It is a king's ransom and it is going to be like the Greece bailout term - take it or leave it. It is the reversal of Nigeria's anti-gay marriage law. Icheoku says this is the billion dollar trade America will ask of President Muhammadu Buhari in exchange of their assistance. Icheoku is emphatic that the successful outcome of this trip to Washington will be literally SOLELY predicated on his acceptance of gays right to freely  mix and mingle and of course marry in Nigeria without more, period.

Unfortunately it will be a near impossible undertaking for PMB to accept to take, judging by the near universal cultural rejection of sodomy throughout Nigeria diverse ethnic groupings. But a proactively thinking PMB should have seen this request or rather demand coming and adequately prepared for it. At least have a response that will give the Americans some assurance that all their hope of pushing a gay agenda in Nigeria are not entirely lost. PMB would do this convincingly by at least adding a gay Nigerian as a member of his delegation to Washington DC, even if it means finding someone acting gay to fill the role and present the image that gays are not yet extinct in Nigeria. A person who would assure the Americans that things are being done to reverse the anti-gay law in Nigeria, using himself being in the delegation as a testament that PMB is not entirely personally conflicted with the idea of men doing men etc.  A role which the Senate President Saraki would have been well suited to play if the rumor is true that he likes little boys; except that the president is still keeping him in the cold? Thereafter, PMB will personally give his words that where the law could not be reversed because of cultural peculiarities of Nigerians, his government will not enforce the law in the same manner the Obama administration refused to enforce the DOMA (Defense of Marriage Act) but did not expressly reverse it. 

This is the name of the game and this is how it is played played in international wheeling and dealing as every nation wants to mile every relationship exchanges. It is diplomacy 101 and nations earn their peeps through tough bargains as there is no sympathy in the juggle of world economy; only respectfully earned and  deserved returns are permitted. So if PMB is seriously desirous and in need of assistance from the Americans, he must be prepared to show the Americans the proverbial money. Like the American will say, 'show me the money;' only that in this instant it will be 'show me the reversed anti-gay marriage law in Nigeria.  Anyway, Icheoku wishes the Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari's delegation to Washington DC a safe and successful trip. May their lips not quiver faced with the Americans and may they only say what the Americans want to hear and in return bring back all the goodies from Washington DC as Nigeria could use quite a lot of them. God's speed. Salute.

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