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, March 2, 2019

KIM JONG UN MISSTEPPED: WHAT A MISSED OPPORTUNITY IN VIETNAM.

ICHEOKU says the leader of North Korea missed his moment in the sun when he failed to reach a deal with President Donald John Trump of America. Such a golden opportunity might not come his way again, at least not in the distant future baring a quick move to plead his case again and very soon. It is not every time that an American president finds time to travel to such a great distance, only to come back dejected and without something tangible to show for his time and effort. 

Kim Jong Un made a mortal mistake by, in preference, holding unto a nuclear weaponry which he will never ever get to use or use at a grave detriment to both himself and his people of North Korea. A smart Kim would have said to Trump to please let him save face by agreeing to some United Nations nuclear inspections, as well as giving up some nuclear plants in return to some shifting of grounds by America. But unfortunately, he traveled on a train for 50 hours in vain, only to now return back to Pyongyang and possibly back in the cold of isolation and resumed war maneuvers in the Korean peninsular. 

But one thing is however certain, he can never get any better American president to deal with and negotiate better terms with, other than President Donald John Trump, who was ready and willing to both cajole, cuddle and work with him as he honorably surrenders his nuclear weaponry. No other American president, especially not a democrat, will sincerely seek a final resolution of the stalemate in the Korean peninsular. ICHEOKU had wished and prayed for a better outcome, but humans are who they are and possibly his ego got in the way and he was not as forthcoming as President Trump had expected, resulting in the walking away from the Hanoi Vietnam summit. 

It is painful and it is unfortunate that Kim Jong Un failed the president of the United States of America and he will be held accountable for his obstinacy. An American president is simply too powerful to be messed with and causing him such a great loss of face by traveling to Vietnam for a deal and not delivering is a costly and very expensive rudeness. Kim Jong Un only succeeded in cementing the stereotyping of North Korean leaders that they cannot be trusted to negotiate in good faith and are always up to no good. How dare this fella do what he did and did not even appreciate all the effusive outpouring of love by President Donald John Trump, who was thinking that he has finally cracked the code of respect needed to solve the Korean peninsular problem for good. 

What need does Kim Jong Un still have of nuclear weaponry, when the next step would have been formally ending the Korean War by signing off on the armistice, as steps are taken towards final reunification of the two Korea. Why exactly does he need a weapon, which he will never use, come in the way of transforming North Korea into a functioning modern economic power house, just like its sister South Korea, Japan, Vietnam and other surrounding Northeast and Southeast Asian countries. Why does he need to be isolated again and make himself hated again, after the recent thawing of the frosty relationship with the West? 

ICHEOKU says the lack of a deal in Vietnam was ill advised and not well taught through and at the end of the day, North Korea loses. It has no aces nor bargaining chips against America, having released American prisoners and some of America's Korean War dead. At worse, he will resume his firing of missiles over Japan and into the Korea sea; as well as testing his nuclear weapons. But ICHEOKU strongly believes that this time around that he will not just get away with it, not any more; and might receive a powerful beat down which he will regret, but which he would then deserve and have truly earned. At least, the whole world would have seen that America made every effort to avoid such a bloody nose smack-down, but that Kim Jong Un begged for it. 

Until then, one or two things will happen, either he reaches back to President Donald John Trump very soon or resumes his rocket firings, with its attendant grave consequences. Imagine the rock-star status which he would have attained had he made the deal and simultaneously use it to transform his youthful self into a beloved world leader, instead of the bloody despotic thug which he is. Anyway, posterity will not judge him kindly nor rightly, if his obstinacy forces North Korea back into the cold and into a more heightened pariah status or at worst, into real hostilities between American led allies and his army. ICHEOKU is staying tuned, to watch developments arising out of the botched opportunity to make a deal, the Vietnam impasse. 

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