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.

Sunday, February 9, 2020

DR LI WENILANG: THE FACE OF CORONAVIRUS, WHAT WILL IT TAKE?

ICHEOKU says what will it take for the Communist Party of China's leadership to admit that they are losing the war on Coronavirus and accept much needed help from countries with proven credentials in dealing with such killer biological outbreaks. Even Nigeria once successfully stopped Ebola virus from wrecking havoc in the most populous West African country. President Donald John Trump has successively offered the Chinese authorities help with American expertise, including  virus hunters as well as doctors and medications, but pride of a nation has made President Xi Jinping unable to accept it. 

ICHEOKU says what will it take or is President Xi Jinping waiting until thousands of his Chinese people perish and hundreds of thousands of then get infected and their economy taken down before belatedly accepting the help. Over 800 people have since succumbed to the virus attack, otherwise avoidable deaths which would have been prevented had the offered help been accepted. Nearly 40,000 people have now been infected by the virus and the Chinese economy is under heavy stress as a result of frightened citizens who are reluctant to return to work following the Chinese New Year, afraid of being infected. Many countries have placed a near embargo on travels between China and so many airlines have since pulled out of their Chinese routes. What is Chinese authorities waiting for to accept help, as their pride is beginning to turn into foolishness.

ICHEOKU says by continuing to refuse the offered help and watching her citizens perish, the Chinese authorities has proved that the welfare of their citizens is not their priority and that their over population can absorb thousands of Chinese dead, without making any impact; but should this be their only consideration. How about the message which they are sending to the rest of the world, that they don't care about their citizens and can afford to lose thousands of them to the Coronavirus without any contrition or recompense. Hundreds of people are dying and the only thing they worry about is the image which accepting help would create of them. ICHEOKU says it is not weakness to admit one's shortfall and accept help where it would prevent death and other serious threat to the one's general welfare and wellbeing. 

ICHEOKU says calls on the authorities in Beijing to immediately take all and every help they can get and resolve the killer Coronavirus now. The more it lingers on, the more the entire world is exposed to risk of contamination and infection. People are scared and many people have stopped entering Chinese restaurants or eating Chinese food, afraid that such could be vectors of Coronavirus. But a very secretive authoritarian Chinese Communist Party is not doing all that is possible to contain the viral attack. A matter they would have nipped in the bud if only they had not branded Dr Li Wenilang a rumor monger when he first alerted of the affliction. They would have followed it up with all they had and may be the Coronavirus would have since been contained by now. But no, they muscled him into signing a confession that he misspoke, terrorized his family into silence and now this is the result, a near pandemic global spread of the virus. May God help us all. 

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