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.

Saturday, January 26, 2019

PRESIDENT TRUMP ENDS GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN: HE WAS MAGNANIMOUS.

ICHEOKU says the president rose above the fray and in fact came out tops for ending the government shutdown. For the president, it was not all about politics or the need to score some cheap brownie points about who won what or lost what or who caved in or did not cave in. He was also not too proud to yield, if only such gesture will help move the needle., as his objective remains the same, to solve an existing problem. He is a CEO who is rooted in problems solving and who sees the never ending illegal immigration crisis in the Southern border with Mexico, as a problem which needs to be solved and which actually in fact has a proven solution. Once it is fenced off, it will become a problem solved, case finished.

So, you wonder why the other side is not willing to have the problem solved or and the recurring crisis resolved. It does not make sense and it never made sense; nor will it ever in the future somewhat make sense; that there is an existing problem with an apparent proven solution, yet some people are against solving it. ICHEOKU says which side are these Democrats anyway, that want or rather prefer to sustain the recurring illegal immigration problem at the Southern border. Are these democrats real Americans or what, that they should be standing with the enemy instead of with the American people whose lives are constantly being threatened and endangered by this influx of illegal migrants from the Southern border. 

ICHEOKU commends President Donald John Trump for once again taking a courageous step to accommodate the Democrats' request to first agree to reopen the government before they can agree to negotiate the border security including a border Wall. For some shallow anarchists, by doing so, the president caved in to the Democrats as he got nothing in exchange before reopening the government. To this people, ICHEOKU says there is a story of two goats that met each other on a narrow country bridge over a river. None of them would yield the right of way for the other to first pass. They started fighting and butting heads for the right of first passage until they slipped and fell down from their perch, into the river and drowned. An end which could have been otherwise avoided if only one of them had played the proverbial fool and yielded way and allowed the other to first pass before passing itself. Such hidden wisdom would have saved both goats lives, after first successfully crossing the bridge as well. 

So, a time always comes in live when a bigger person had to show some magnanimity and concede a point to a smaller person, as stooping down to listen to a dwarf does not make a giant less taller. President Donald John Trump is the giant here because a dwarf cannot spring up to meet the ears of a giant, but a giant can stoop down to hear the dwarf out and that is exactly what happened here. The Democrats can go on singing and dancing their victory song; but if one thing came out of the government shutdown, it shows that the Democrats are a very mean lot; otherwise where was their hearts in watching their fellow country men and women go for three weeks without money in their pockets, to pay their bills and purchase groceries as well as put food on the table. They held out trying to project strength while their fellow citizens suffered. There is no real strength in such a heartless pose and American people acknowledges the president for being so touched and moved by their pains and suffering that he yielded some ground and reopened the government. 

ICHEOKU is emphatic that there is definitely a case to be made about having a border Wall in the Southern border with Mexico. If for nothing else, it will surely make the work of the border patrol agents much easier, as those illegal immigrants will be corralled to a lawful entry point where they can be legally processed;  instead of having to chase them down through a stretch of thousands of miles of a border. Like sheep and the shepherd in the plains, with shepherd dog helping to direct the flock into the pen, so shall the border Wall help funnel those illegal immigrants to the lawful entry points. A Wall will also encourage sensible migration and be more efficient in controlling migration; as resources which otherwise will be dissipated and stretched thin along the thousands of border miles, can now be more efficiently deployed as at need basis and that way result in an overall enhanced policing of the border. 

Even drones and spotters flying around and spotting the thousands of illegals will be concentrated in areas without border Walls and that way become much better utilized, with increased yield. There is no argument that border Wall works, as has been established and proved beyond doubt in numerous occasions, with reduced immigration in areas with border Walls or barriers. Also, many immigrants have been captured on video trying to scale through a barrier, but failed. Yes, border Wall will not stop all illegal immigrations, but at least it will drastically reduce them to tolerable numbers, which is the primary objective of every laws and regulations, including ones against homicides. Just get it down to acceptable numbers and it is problem solved. 

The president has shown and exhibited his big heart in honestly seeking a solution to an existing problem, by demonstrating that it was not about his ego or self interest and not afraid to take a beaten and blow back from his seeming u-turn.  But his sole interest is that the problem at the Southern border be solved and he has expressed his willingness to have it solved. The president, by agreeing to reopen the government has demonstrated that he is ready, willing and able to solve the problem and have it permanently resolved. To this end, he had made so many concessions in order to meet the Democrats demands and show good faith in the entire process. The president made concessions on DACA and other ancillary technological approach to border security; he also agreed not to give a State of the Union address to the nation while the government shutdown lasted; and now he has also agreed to first reopen the government to jumpstart the negotiation. 

Now, the ball is on the Democrats' court and hopefully they can now take steps to negotiate and let the president solve the Southern border problem by building the promised border WALL Meanwhile Madam Speaker Nancy Pelosi can start the goodwill building by reinventing the president to deliver the State of the Union address as earlier agreed on for the January 29th, 2019. ICHEOKU says well done Mr President for not being too proud to accommodate the Democrat's requests, seeing that American people are hurting by the government continued shutdown. It is a demonstrable willingness on the president's part to negotiate a settlement on building the border Wall. ICHEOKU is convinced that the president has satisfied every reasonable American that he meant well and he will eventually  get the funds to build that Wall. ICHEOKU says Nancy Pelosi, #FUNDTHATWALL.

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