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.

Tuesday, February 2, 2021

GOVERNING BY EXECUTIVE ORDERS: SHOULD WE JUST CANCEL CONGRESS.

ICHEOKU says when salt loses its taste it is no longer salt but sand and it is dumped, thrown away. By the same token, when an arm of the government tasked with legislation abdicates from its function, forcing the other arm, the executive, to legislate through issuance of orders, it questions the continuing relevance of that arm of government which abandoned its function. 

Democracy is about the battling of ideas where the superior one usually prevails but the current political environment in the United States of America has made it difficult for this trite democracy imperative to continue to thrive. There is no more healthy debates and agreements on issues in the Congress, hence reaching a bipartisan understanding on anything is often very difficult if not impossible. This impasse have led to stalled law making in the Congress to the extent that they are now nearly redundant and wasteful as an institution to warrant their continued existence.  

The two main political parties in America now see each other as foes with irreconcilable differences instead of the opposition parties which they are supposed to be and which fights to win the battle of superiority of ideas. This paralysis in legislation is not what American people want nor deserve or bargained from their legislative body. Also nature abhors of vacuum and this inadvertently created vacuum is what has been filled by presidential executive orders and you ask yourself what then is the use of having an arm of the government which function has been subsumed by another arm of the government. 

The most devastating effect of such making of law through executive orders is that the "law" fluctuates and varies every four years depending on who is in the White House, thus making a nonsense of everything which America stands for and represents, including viability and stability and a place where investments could be safely made without fear of it being rubbished overnight. But when every president uses executive orders to cancel out a previous president's executive orders, it makes law fluidly and dependent on the whims of the president in power. It does not bode well for continuity and does not encourage investments and treaties between countries.

This executive order anomaly is exploited by both parties, almost uniformly and equally, which leads to a president always wiping out every executive order which was issued by the president  it succeeded. The latest of this legislating by the executive have seen Joe Biden issue over 27 of such orders within a few weeks of taking power, which is targeted at canceling everything which President Donald John Trump brought about. It is also important to note that President Donald John Trump's executive orders similarly targeted former President Barack Obama's own executive orders and sought to wipe them out completely. ICHEOKU says for how long will this seesaw, back and forth cancelations of a former president's executive orders by a succeeding president continue in America. 

For how long will investors and other countries continue to live on the edge over what an incoming administration might do to their investments in America. Imagine what those who invested in the Keystone XL pipeline project as well as the Southern border wall will be thinking right now over what became the fate of their investments. Imagine what those Arab neighbors of Israel will be thinking now after signing peace treaties with Israel only to now have a new American administration in Washington DC which thinks differently. How about those companies which invested in fracking who are now left hanging in the balance regarding the business decisions which they made by investing in fracking just because an anti oil administration is now in the White House. 

All these turpsy turvy in governance would have been avoided had Congress lived up to its primary obligation and effectively legislated on these matters and made them law. But no, the the Congress is busy with members fighting each other while relegating their duty which brought about this executive orders and the whole country is suffering as a result. Why must American people's lives be run by executive orders on a four to four years basis. Why is Congress no longer doing their job of legislating?  Is there still any relevance for the continued existence of Congress if they won't do the job for which they exist as one of the three arms of government. It calls for a review of their relevance and to an extent, whether it is still wise and productive to keep the Congress or should it just be canceled. #CancelCongress.

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