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.

Monday, January 13, 2020

TRUMP MADE A GROWN MAN CRY: HUMILIATED AND TRAUMATIZED IRAN.

ICHEOKU says what an unmitigated disaster  it was for the hubris islamists of Tehran, who are delusional about their status in the world. They thought that they have become a first rate military power because they bought some missiles from Russia and have been freely roaming around in the region, fermenting trouble. As a result, they became emboldened and over extended themselves by wagging their little finger at the United States of America. 

Unfortunately for them, they misjudged the patience of President Donald John Trump, who passed on their shooting down of two American drones and their attack on Saudi Arabia oil installations. This time, it did not end well for them as they got their lips busted and their leader was humiliated into crying in public. It was their choosing to provoke the conflict when they killed an American military contractor and followed it up by invading American embassy in Baghdad, nearly destroying it. 

This is a country which could not defeat Saddam Hussein's army during their eight years protracted with Iraq and which has never victoriously prosecuted any military campaign since their days as Persian Empire. A country which relies heavily on their funded terrorists and militias to do their dirty deeds; but which suddenly thought itself a giant killer and made a play at the United States of America. They wanted and literary begged for a confrontation with America and were handed their booger and forced to eat them. In fact even crows were added to the menu and they willy nilly chowed everything down. 

First, their backbone and the will to carry on was instantly broken when their terror mastermind Qassem Soleimani was sliced up into body parts by a Hellfire blade bomb and ensuing conflagration consumed most of his remains. He was such an important and indispensable fixture of the Iranian power structure that the leader of Iran, Ayatollah Khamenei cried like a baby at his funeral. It was such a humiliating and pitiful sight to behold, of a bearded old man, the symbol of religious authority of a theocratic Iran, tearing up in public like a sissy, because of the pain and hurt feeling which the death of his chief enforcer caused his bosom. 

Then add the loss of 55 Iranians who perished, trampled to death during the funeral of the whacked Qassem Soleimani. Soon after, the Iranians mounted Operation Martyr Soleimani, an effort to avenge his death, with multiple Russian made and supplied SAM 15 ballistic missiles strikes into American military basis in Iraq. The Iranians acted with bad intention, they wanted to kill as many American soldiers as they could possible kill, the reason they launched over two dozen missiles in the dead of the night into military bases housing American soldiers; but they failed woefully. 

It was so disgracefully humiliating that they could not score even one hit on an American soldier despite the presence of thousands of them. None of their over two dozen missiles was able to score a bullseye, not even taking out one American soldier. An incontrovertible testament to their incompetence as a first rate military power. The same sophomoric ability made them commit the worst fumble during the intense short week; the shooting down of Ukrainian passenger plane Flight 752 with 176 passengers and crew on board, including  137 Iranians.  They initially denied culpability, but were later forced by overwhelming evidence to admit that their military mistakenly shot down the plane. 

ICHEOKU says as if all these were not enough already and indeed too much for just one country to bear, then came additional economic sanctions from President Donald John Trump to punish them further for attempting to kill American soldiers while they slept. What Iran sought to achieve when they overreached and crossed the president's red line is beyond ICHEOKU's comprehension. May be they were encouraged by their believe that the president will not do anything to them, having waved off their two other previous direct acts of confrontational behaviors. But bad for them, they went too far and were smacked. 

The pain, the anguish, the humiliation and the cutting down to size is enough for any reasonable and rational country to call a truce and even repair its relationship with America, pronto. Iran also lost face for lying about their shooting down of the Ukrainian passenger plane. It is also disappointing for a leader of a people to publicly cry like a baby and leaders don't cry. If they cry, what do they expect the people they lead, who look up to them for protection and safety to do, run to the hills? It showed weakness and hopelessness; and it took a toll on the psyche and psychology of every Iranian and with it, their will to fight disappeared. 

The week under review was a PR disaster for Iran. They also lied that they did not specifically target American soldiers to kill them, yet they fired over 20 missiles at night into American military bases housing thousands of American soldiers and contractors while they slept. Why that many missiles if there was no bad intention to draw blood? Iran could not have expended over 20 costly Russian made SAM 15 missiles in vain, without an expectation of maximum casualties of American soldiers. 

How could any reasonable person believe their story, a tall tale which evaporated by their heightened level of anxiety and jittery over possible American reprisals strikes, following their own strikes. If Iran did not intend to kill American soldiers with their missiles strikes and in fact believed that they succeeded, why did they panic after they struck. They were aware of the Trump Doctrine of "Respond only when an American life is involved" and they started firing their air defenses missiles at any light orb in their sky, resulting in the shooting down of the Ukrainian passenger plane. 

So, it was a week to remember for the Iranians; although they wished they had not  provoked it. It will forever live in their memory as a week in which they were humbled and humiliated beyond expectation; and put in their place as a third rate country with a third rate incompetent military which wasted over 20 missiles without taking even one American soldier's life to show for it. Their leader cried and leaders don't cry; which now places his leadership in quandary, with Iranians now asking whether it is not about time he is gone. 

ICHEOKU says may be it is about time, the bearded fellas in Tehran who are holding Iranians hostage, give way to make way for a new direction for Iran, different from the theocracy which has not yielded any fruit since 1979. But hey, Iranians will decide what works best for Iranians and hopefully they can muster the courage to decisively free themselves their mullah's clutches and become a country which indeed belongs in civilized modern times and which could well fit into comity of nations.

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