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.

Friday, February 5, 2021

MAJORIE GREENE'S REMOVAL: DEMOCRATS HAVE OPENED ANOTHER PANDORA'S BOX.

ICHEOKU says Democrats have opened another front in their attempt to diminish standards in America and make everything now subject to the whims and caprices of which ever party is in power as opposed to the preservation of what makes America, America. The bad news is that the things which they are doing now will someday come back to haunt them when the Republican Party takes back power. As everyone knows, power shift in Washington DC is encircle, so Democrats must not be deluded that they have finally seized power for good. It will someday shift and there will be a payback.

It happened before when former Democratic Party leader Harry Reid bent the filibuster rule requiring 60 senators' votes for confirmation of judges and justices simply because he can as the then party in power. When Republicans eventually took back power, they also used Harry Reid's precedent to have their way with confirming many judges and justices. It is bad to set a bad precedent because unintended consequences usually follows it. Now, it is removing of a fellow duly elected member of Congress from the House committees for views which she held and expressed when she was not an elected official that the Democrats have introduced as their latest ploy in the United States House of Representatives. It will bite them in due course. 

Just like Joe Biden is currently on a demolition derby course against President Donald John Trump's legacy in retaliation for President Trump doing same to Barack Obama's own legacy, so shall another president bulldoze whatever Joe Biden is currently doing with his executive order pen. To issue and sign over 47 such orders just within two weeks of his moving into the White House is unprecedented and he is acting as if executive orders will soon go out of fashion. The victim is the American people whose lives are now dependent on the feeling of whosoever is in the White House or who is leading the House of Representatives and no longer what is in the overall general best interest and benefit of the American people. 

Such a toying with the general destiny of the American people is anathema to the growth, health and unity of the country and should be condemned totally and without reservation. How can you punish somebody for holding  past opinions which were not illegal and when she was not a member of the Congress, assuming her opinion offends some members of Congress. So what if she is cuckoo in the eye of some people but does that now make her not a full member of Congress by denying her legitimate membership of House committees to which she is entitled to as a member of Congress representing her district in Georgia. She is not the first person to ever hold opinions considered not too kosher by some people but that does not make her ineligible to serve her people. Moreso, nobody should dictate to American people who to send to Washington DC from their district to represent them.

Our Lord and Master Jesus Christ said he who is without sin should cast the first stone but Democrats are acting the holier than thou script by not heeding this time tested admonition that all have sinned and fallen short of glory with their current attack against a fellow member of Congress. Is there anybody who has never said something which they later regretted and wished they never said. Who among all those people currently haranguing the brash Congresswomen from Georgia that can beat their chest and say they without blemish. So, why single out the Congresswoman for some intrusive examination of what she said in the past before she became a member of Congress. Such selective righteous indignation based punishment is not fair nor just and is the stuff despotism is made of. 

It is not fair and absent a general across the board condemnation of everyone who ever expressed an opinion considered by some others to be unacceptable speak or a stipulation of acceptable opinions for ordinary American citizen,  then she should not and does not deserve to be specifically scapegoated. How can she be held to account for things which she said when she was an ordinary citizen and not a member of Congress nor dreaming of ever joining the body. Does that mean that any American citizen who has ever held an opinion considered unacceptable will be sanctioned any time they ever get elected to Congress? Such looks too intrusive a punishment and should not be tolerated or allowed in a supposedly free country where the only speech code presently available is the First Amendment which guarantees every American citizen the freedom of expression. It would have been a different thing if she made those statements as a member of Congress and provided there is an existing speech code guiding members of Congress against such statements and she violated them, then any move against her would have been germane. 

But such an overreach as questions every speech and statement ever uttered by an American citizen, particularly one who never knew or dreamt of ever being elected to Congress is rather too broad an overkill and indeed an overreach. Which law did Congresswoman Majorie Taylor Greene break which Congresswoman Ilhan Omar have not when judged before some American people who find some of her utterances very unpatriotic. Ditto Alexandria Ocasio Cortez, Thalib, Maxine Watters, Kamala Harris and even Madam Speaker Nancy Pelosi, depending on who is making the subjective determination. But none of them was called out or punished for saying what they said but now it is Georgia's Congresswoman Majorie Taylor Greene that is being specifically called out, tried and convicted as an escape goat, really? America has certainly stepped on a slippery slope which will not do anyone any good with people now being judged and punished for mere opinions which they expressed in the past and which were not criminal, either then or presently. It is a sad precedent. #BadPrecedent. 

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