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, January 8, 2017

MEGAN KELLY'S MOVE TO NBC, WILL FLOP NOT FLOURISH.

Icheoku says the one thing with some people, especially people in the limelight, is that sometimes they forget who made them; and being so full of it, begin to think that they are the reason for the season. Megan Kelly is now thinking in this way and sooner than later she will find out the hard way that she is not the big gun she thinks she is. Rather she is just a product of FoxNews watchers who adopted her as a female face of the Cable Network and accepted her as one of their own. Megan Kelly is not the it factor, admitted she somewhat contributed to it and was catapulted to the premier position because of her face off with then presidential nominee aspirant Donald Trump; when many people tuned in, including Icheoku, to see who exactly is this woman who is feuding with Donald Trump. 

FoxNews gave her the platform and FoxNews is the reason why Megan Kelly morphed into what she possibly is now. The unfortunate thing is that FoxNews viewers will not follow Megan Kelly to NBC and neither will the viewing audience of NBC triple because another blonde bimbo's face has suddenly appeared on the screen. Nope, it will not; as viewers are particularly attracted to a network because of the type of broadcast it carries and the viewpoint it expresses and not necessarily because of the face on television spouting what is on the teleprompter. 

Icheoku never heard of Megan Kelly until that debate of blood flowing from everywhere comment and the subsequent brouhaha that followed in its wake; and has periodically since then tuned in to see what beef she was having and who she was going up against, including her brief spat with Newt Gingrich. She is okay reading her teleprompter and she gets girlie sometimes with her facial expressions and funny girlie jokes; but short of that there is no originality about her which glues viewer to her that will make them want to follow her about to see what next she will say or do. She does not have the gravitas of someone like Rush Limbaugh whose followers and listeners will follow to the deepest sinkhole were he to migrate his broadcast there. Also she does not have the presence of someone like Bill O'Reilly whose audience would tag along assuming he decides to leave FoxNews to somewhere else. 

Megan Kelly is more or less ordinary, a feminine face on television and will not draw any FoxNews viewer over to NBC just because she went over there. She will probably bomb out like Greta Van Susteren whom nobody really knew her whereabout or whatever it was that she did afterwards following her departure from CNN a while ago. That she had a stint at FoxNews and is now rumored to be at MSNBC, notwithstanding, she lost her CNN audience and has never recovered nor grew another audience ever since that her plastic surgery. Whatever happens, FoxNews will survive and thrive and provided they retain their hard charging format and allow presenters to be themselves without much of minders, viewers will always tune in and whoever replaces Megan Kelly will still attract the audience which usually tunes in for her time slot. There is also rumor whirling around that she was fired for her drug addiction and that FoxNews was not going to renew her contract. But who would after her allegation of sexual harassment on the former executive of the Network, Roger Ailes. 

But whatever the true story, fans of the network will remain loyal to the Network and will tune in as always to watch whoever is filling the slot. Icheoku for instance stopped watching MSNBC when crazy Keith Olbermann left the station for Al Gore's Channel Television which later morphed into Al-Jazera which has also now gone defunct. Many FoxNews viewers will not follow Megan Kelly to NBC as she does not have the magnetic star-power to pull them over to her new gig at NBC. FoxNews viewers are loyal to FoxNews and the kind of broadcast it carries as well as viewpoint. NBC is not a like-item station and will have no boost whatsoever with the poaching of Megan Kelly over to their station. Possibly the networks took a gamble by offering Megan Kelly more than FoxNews or CNN was ready to pay her and being who she is she took the bait. Hopefully she will not later down the road claim another sexual harassment or forced attempt to kiss her by the NBC Network boss. Anyway, Icheoku wishes her all the best in her latest endeavor and says only time will tell whether NBC's gamble was worth it afterall. 

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