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, August 31, 2019

MAD DOG MATTIS: THE OPED HE WROTE.

ICHEOKU says he would have continued to maintain his silence and not fallen to the pecuniary temptation to "straighten" out his time with the president as his Pentagon chief. Nobody in Team MAGA really cares to know nor gives a hoot damn about whatever ego tripping that forced him to quit his job or was he even fired by the president. 

His, would have been a case where silence was golden; but suddenly and by talking, General James Norman 'Mad Dog' Mattis has demystified himself and peeled off the veneer of a hardcore, hard charging Marine General who does not kiss and tell nor rat. By talking, he would evaporate the aura and myth of Mad Dog Mattis and will henceforth be treated as another hack partisan retired general; and one who qualified as a disgruntled former hire who is mad at his former boss and wants to rat him out. 

Team MAGA loves Mad Dog Mattis but will not allow him to denigrate the leader, no matter what. General Mattis was the defense secretary and not the commander in chief; and whatever account he wants to give about a reversal of roles which he sought and desired, where he commanded and the president obeyed, will not be tolerated or go unanswered or unresponded to. He should not forget that he was only an adviser to the president on military matters and not the formulator of government policies on military use and how the commander in chief deploys them. 

General Mattis should also know that the president was not bound to accept or agree to all his advises or kowtow to all the dictates he wanted or desired. Their respective functions were clearly defined enough to be understood without any fog of doubt or needless equivocation. That only one man won his elected position as president of the United States of America and Commander in Chief of its Armed Forces; and that man appointed General Mattis as his Defense Secretary. That General Mattis served at the president's pleasure and not the other round. Finally, that General Mattis did the right thing when he quit his job because he did not want to obey and carry out the president' and commander in chief's decisions. So, instead of a continuing insubordination, the General resigned. 

This much is what the American people understands and wants to know and the General should and is expected to rest his case there, period. But any attempt to grandstand or try to re-explain what people do not care a hoot about, will be demeaning his standing in the eyes of the American public and creating room for people to start dismissing him as a petulant. He came, he saw, but he failed to conquer the president's objectives at the Pentagon; and it was good that he left based on his principles. So, yes, that he couldn't or rather failed to do his job and resigned as a result is acceptable; but it is not acceptable for him to burden the American people with the reasons he couldn't do his job. It is also instructive to note that it was not the president's fault that General Mattis failed in his assignment at the Pentagon. 

Therefore, to continue to maintain his honor, dignity and respect, General James Norman 'Mad Dog' Mattis must not turn himself into a Trump hating barking Mad Dog; especially now with the current infestation in the land of the maniacally possessed anti Trump and Trump haters who are helplessly hollering and yapping without ceasing. To not heed to this advise will be branding himself one of them and like the many before him, he too will be similarly yoked in the desert of irrelevant noise makers, who are disturbing the peace of a duly elected American president and leader of Team MAGA. Nobody ever survives the wrath of Team MAGA and the odium of such stamp of dishonor. General Mattis have earned his right to have his honor in tact, as a well respected retired American Marine General and should not do violence to it. But we shall see.

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