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.

Wednesday, January 23, 2019

OCASIO-CORTEZ ECLIPSING PELOSI: WHEN WILL THE CAT FIGHT BEGIN?

ICHEOKU says before too long it will happen, as women know how not to allow each other steal the shine off them or take them out of the spotlight. Old lady Madam Speaker will definitely not allow the newbie Ocasio-Cortez to eclipse her shine in the Congress, not as long as she remains Madam Speaker with power to do and undo. 

It will be only a matter of time and the continuing media interest in Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, before Nancy Pelosi shows her who is the boss, the real deal in the Congress. But until then, it will seem that the House of Representatives now has a new bride, the darling of everyone, regardless their reason, Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. 

The Congresswoman from the State of New York is the new chic on the bloc and everyone in Washington DC knows it; as every gaddam person in the media is now swooning to get a date with her. What a whirlwind of a media blitz it has been for her within the last few weeks. A gift that keeps on giving for any politician, such that so many of her colleagues are dying for a minuscule of the attention being showered on her and will soon start getting jealous of her and with it comes the Satanic envy. 

Every where you turn, every channel you change to and every newspaper and magazine you rifle through, as well as radio, it is the same refrain, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez; and you wonder when will the honeymoon be finally over, if ever. It is America and Americans are usually giddily excited with new things, novelties, especially such a storied tale of an American dream come through. A Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who went from her waitressing job in a bar, to becoming an elected member of the United States of American Congress; the youngest person ever elected to Congress that is, and within her very first time foray into politics as a candidate for any office. ICHEOKU says what a feat.

Like President Donald John Trump like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, as both non career politicians struck Americans like a thunderbolt and with it shook the establishment order of politics. They invited themselves to the power party and took the center table and are unapologetic about it too. They breached every protocol of climbing the ladder of political power structure and defied the otherwise known conventional reprimand of "wait for your turn" which is usually associated with politics and did the unthinkable, displaced career politicians. Both, now have the bulls-eye tattooed on their backs, as career politicians and the establishment politicians see their accomplishments as a slight to everything they hold sacred in politics and they will be angling to take their pound of flesh and bring both of them down in a banging flash. 

It will only get nastier and messier as both Trump and Ocasio-Cortez continue to get the publicity and attract the following which has made them the two most popular politicians in America, if not the entire planet earth. Thus begging the question, for how long will Madam Speaker tolerate having the spotlight taken away from her and put up with being displaced in the media by this newbie, her epicurean perch as the most powerful woman in politics in America, considered. ICHEOKU vouchsafes, not for too long and when she strikes, it is going to be venomously poisonous. 

But until that death bite, ICHEOKU is hopped on the ride, as Americans are staying tuned to the saga of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and hopefully will watch her redefine the Democratic Party and remake it in her own image. So far so good, as she is succeeding and her entertaining value is phenomenal too. She is definitely a breath of fresh air to the swampy old gang, some of who has been in Washington DC long before the 29 year old Alexandria was even born. She is a millennial original and her fellow Utopian dreamers are attached, attracted to both her message and her image. But Nancy Pelosi is definitely not finding it funny, both being displaced from the center page and having to share the spotlight with ACO. ICHEOKU says cannot wait for the showdown between Nancy Pelosi and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to begin, even right at this minute. It will be fun to watch them go at each other, clawing and hair-pulling, included. ICHEOKU says Nancy, please move over as Alexandria is here. 

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