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.

Thursday, June 20, 2019

A DRONE: NOT A REASON TO GO TO WAR.

ICHEOKU says the fact of the matter is that countries have been shooting down each other's drones for ages and as soon as they are sighted within their territorial airspace. So, short of the Global Hawk drone that was shot down by Iran being on international airspace when it was shot down, there is no reason to take the bait of Iran and flare up the current hostilities between Iran and America in the Strait of Hormuz and the wider Persian Gulf. American military severally shot down Iranian drones in Syria and Israel have been doing the same too; ditto Russia which have shot down America's U-2 spy planes before. 

The real question here is rather, why Iran is goading the United States of America into a military confrontation, a fight which outcome is readily known as the difference between day and night. Iran which could not defeat Saddam Hussein's Iraq in an eight years long running battle in the eighties, but suddenly now thinks that it can successfully take on the American awesome fearsome military. This is the crux of the matter, why the apparent Iranian threatening of an assured suicide by these incidences of provocation: first were the two oil tankers which they nearly destroyed, followed by another two oil tankers which their mines set on fire, to now this drone which they shot down from the sky. 

ICHEOKU says it is also baffling why those who were operating the drone did not see the Iranian missile approaching the drone and try to maneuver it out of harms way. Could it be that they are part of those who are itching to go to war with Iran and purposely steered the drone into harm's way, in order to achieve the present outcome, in their mad quest to midwife a shooting war with Iran? There are a lot of unanswered questions which if answered will help clear the fog of confusion over what indeed really happened. But if Iran has deliberately chosen to provoke America into a retaliatory response, may be they will soon have their wishes commanded and they should not blame anyone but themselves by the amount of destruction which will be parceled out to them.

ICHEOKU says hopefully the answers to these questions will eventually effervesces to the top, but nothing is beyond the conceit of those war mongering profiteers in Washington DC, as they could use any ruse and trickery to engineer an outcome that will enable them make money from wars. Therefore, the president was right with his measured calm words so far and should continue to show restraint. Like President Ronald Reagan once said, trust but first verify is the key; so the president must ensure that he is not being led into another Middle East region war by his National Security team as some of them are members of the establishment swamp and might not mean well for his presidency and its legacy. 

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