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.

Wednesday, April 1, 2020

CORONAVIRUS: 200,000 DEATHS?

ICHEOKU says admitted there is something reassuring, watching and listening to Dr Anthony Fauci go about his now almost daily analysis of the rampaging Chinese Wuhan disease aka Coronavirus, which has turned him into a rockstar contagion specialist. But ICHEOKU was taken aback when he came up with the 200,000 likely deaths of Americans during the course of this pandemic. Although it is an estimate, but it seems to be needlessly on the high side, too far fetched, an overkill of some sort; possibly meant to put the fear of God into Americans, especially those who are not taking the Presidential Coronavirus Taskforce guidelines seriously. 

Based on what if ICHEOKU may ask, the death rate in other afflicted countries considered, including China, the origination point of the virus. As with Italy, ICHEOKU can understand why America's projected death rate could be higher than theirs. America's population is nearly six times that of Italy and ordinary statistical ratio could easily collaborate such disparity. But how about China with a population nearly five times America, why is their death rate far much lower than America's; unless the communist Chinese authority purposely played down their own figures. Why is Russia not suffering the same amount of affliction from the Coronavirus as America is currently suffering or is their own turn yet to come? Why is America with such a shockingly high number of possible deaths from a virus which did not start in America and which gave America some heads up before arriving on its shores? Was anything missed and if, what was it? 

A matter made worse because America is somewhat the big brother of the world and if America catches cold, the rest of the world panics because there will be no one to come to their rescue should they get into trouble. Now, who will rescue the rescuer or is it a case of healer, heal thyself? The times are scary, especially the near hopelessness of the situation, with no feasible sense on when it can begin to ease off. The panic in the land is such that it is getting to a point where if the virus does not kill you, depression forced on people from isolation, joblessness and frustration will. A case of running from the devil and a deep blue sea is blocking your escape path. A Catch-22 of some sort, either way people will die, thus begging the question why suffer all these quarantines, isolation and loss of jobs if it will not make a weighted difference. Why die sad on empty stomach when one can die happy on a full stomach. Americans are not used to living this way and it might lead to increased suicide rate in addition.

Hopefully, it will not be a situation like the president said, where the cure for the disease becomes more devastating than the disease itself. Things are getting ugly. Why the world is facing this plague is beyond comprehension. The nation and the world in general should humble themselves, understanding that there is a higher power above all powers and sincerely seek for a divine help, in addition to all other medical sciences effort being directed at the problem. Anybody who says he or she is not scared about the coronavirus must be living in fool's paradise or oblivious of themselves. It is not a joke. It is a killing machine and very fast at what it does; and it has no respect for anybody. Like with Houston's we have a problem, it is now the entire mankind that is facing the real existential problem. May God help us all, his children, IJN.

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