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, March 19, 2018

VLADIMIR PUTIN RETAINS POWER: RE-ELECTED FOR A SIXTH TERM.

ICHEOKU says even Saddam Hussein once won so many re-elections in his hey days as the strong man of Baghdad until fate met him and dealt him a cruel blow. Like with every despot the world over, their day of reckoning is usually shadowing them and before too long Tsar Vladimir Putin will also similarly meet the fate of his peer-dictators. It might take longer than the others because of the peculiar powers of the Russian State which somehow shields it from any external invasion, but surely his reign will also come to an end someday, as well. 

A man who ascended to power in 1999 is today in 2018 shamelessly claiming victory and proclaiming that he was "re-elected" again by his Russian people and you wonder what manner of a man is he indeed. When all is said and done, he will find out that his actions only ruined Russia more than it helped it; because when his ultimate end finally comes or he decides to relinquish power, there will be no apparent successor to mount the saddle of leadership in Russia  Then it will down on him that there is no one groomed for a leadership position in his Russia, who could easily succeed him, resulting in descent into chaos and anarchy; which might not bode well for the greater welfare and political integrity of the Russian Federation. Whether Vladimir Putin knows it or not, or wants to admit it or not, his actions have inadvertently, negatively impacted Russia. Instead of midwifing Russia into a functioning federation where institutions are healthy and strong, Russia is now revolving around Vladimir Putin and gradually turning into a third world country under the thumb of one petty dictator. 

ICHEOKU refuses to congratulate Vladimir Putin nor his Russian people for the charade of an election that is tantamount to giving their seal of approval and blessing on the foist dictatorship on Mother Russia. It is bad and it is condemnable and it is hereby condemned by ICHEOKU into to as unbecoming of any supposedly civilized society, especially an European society for that matter. Regardless of whatever achievements his 18 long years in power might have brought to Mother Russia and the Russian people, it is not enough reason to institute dictatorship over Russia, because someday Russian will be forced to move on without Vladimir Putin. He is a mortal and all mortals have an assured date with death and when the day eventually comes, Russia will rudely find out that they did not prepare themselves for a Russia without Vladimir Putin; and then will the unravelling of their country begin. 

Most good leaders use their opportunity in power to groom their successors and they make way for them to learn on the job while they watch and give necessary helping instruction and advise on the sideline as retired statesmen. But when a power hungry and power obsessed little man refuses to see the big picture and places his personal interest above that of his country, then there is certainly something wrong with such a despot. Vladimir Putin is not doing his country any good by refusing to surrender the presidency; rather he is selfishly, albeit unwittingly running Russia down the tunnel of ruinous disaster. What would a post Putin's Russia look like and be like. This is the sixty four thousand dollar question which any Russia loving person should be worried himself or herself sick with.  

Vladimir Putin, ICHEOKU says, please think about the greater good of Russia and what will become of Russia the day after you ceases to exist; and use this opportunity to help groom a successor who could easily step in and fill the shoes which is gradually becoming too big for any single Russian to fill. Vladimir Putin, enough of the suffocating sit tight dictatorship,  embellished as re-elections and please learn to let Russia exhale. What a charade, another six years of despotism whitewashed as a re-election. It is a SAD day in Russia as there is nothing to celebrate with an assured election outcome.

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