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, May 4, 2021

BILL AND MELINDA GATES DIVORCE: WHAT HAS MICROSOFT GOT TO DO WITH IT?

ICHEOKU says what Microsoft joined together Microsoft apparently have pulled asunder, albeit technically; case closed. They met at Microsoft and they parted ways while still Microsoft made uber billionaires and philanthropists extraordinaire with net worth in excess of $120 billion. At least there will no need or fight for spousal support for either other as each person will make out like bandit following their marital property distribution. Like the other billionaire Amazon's Jeff Bezos and his former wife MacKenzie Scott with a net worth of over $130 billion, who similarly parted way in January 2019 after 25 years together and raising four children, Bill and Melinda Gates are parting ways after 27 years together and raising three children together. Both former couples similarly met and married at their various work places. While Jeff was 54 and MacKenzie was 48 when they divorced, Bill is 65 and Melinda is 56 as they called it quits. Who knows if it is now an open season for divorce for tech billionaires?

But why call it quits at this late stage, now that they are in their sunset years following retirement, at 65 years and 56 years respectively and after navigating life together for so long, more than a quarter of a century. What was it that they have endured for all these years which they can no longer manage to live with going forward or was it an entirely new shocking development that shockingly violated their trust and confidence in each other. Could one of them have found a new love just like Jeff Bezos and wanted out in order to go be with their new heart's delight? Did one of them cheat and was caught or they simply grew apart and cannot continue to live together as a couple. 

But whatever it was, they are not presently saying and are currently shielding the real reason for their divorce in a well crafted legalese: "We no longer believe we can grow together as a couple in the next phase of our lives. We ask for space and privacy for our family as we begin to navigate this new life."  What led to the sudden "disbelief" in their togetherness and what "next phase" of their lives are they talking about really? At old age when they should be reminiscing their lives together and enjoying things which every long married couple normally enjoy in retirement, they are looking forward to the "next phase" of their lives and ICHEOKU says doing what really? ICHEOKU says it will be good when eventually the trigger is revealed as the couple represented something bigger and huger than both of them and to just throw it all away at this stage is not encouraging. 

ICHEOKU says is not making a case that married couple should remain together in perpetuity no matter what; or that they should never ever divorce, afterall it is still legal. But that Bill and Melinda Gates have somewhat become iconoclastic couple who are role models to millions of people. For them to divorce now only helps propagate the pardon of those school of thought who maintain that marriage is hellish as they will now have another failed marriage to point at as another example of the impossibility of staying together of two previously strangers. As always, there are always exceptions to every rule just like with every other thing else and after 27 years of being together, "held in whatever marital yoke", one would expect that their worse fears are since behind them and that they have learnt how to successfully manage the challenges of two people being forced by society to stay together as one through matrimony. 

But what eventually triggered them, leading up to this development must have been one helluva big intolerable problem. However, ICHEOKU have always wondered how Melinda was able to successfully put up with Bill's weirdness all these years of their being together and yes, that fella Bill do look creepy. Even the way he darts his eyes, twitches and make body movements when making statements are sometimes very eerie. Then add his fanatic campaign for vaccines and vaccinations, especially since the Chinese coronavirus pandemic stuck the world. He appears to have the firm believe that there is vaccination for everything and that people can literally vaccinate themselves out of any problem; begging the question, why did he not inoculate his marriage from the virus of divorce which has now claimed it. 

ICHEOKU wishes the now erstwhile couple all the best, admitted ICHEOKU would rather they had toughened out whatever issue it was and remained together, even if it meant just faking it. It is one thing ICHEOKU appreciates about Queen Crooked Hillary Clinton, her powering on in her marriage with Bill Clinton despite the challenges of Monica Lewinsky scandal. Whether what she has with Bill can be called marriage in the strict sense of it, at least they did not divorce and are still together in the eyes of the watching world. That is the only thing that counts and which Bill and Melinda should have done, put up a facade and stay apart and in some case, don't even have to see themselves. ICHEOKU says the lockdown possibly forced the issue as with so many other couples who were compelled to see each other 24/7 and then discovering how much they loathe each other and cannot tolerate one another. But hey, stuff happens and Bill and Melinda Gates parting ways has just happened. Life goes on. 

In their public announcement disclosing their divorce, Bill and Melinda issued this statement: "After a great deal of thought and a lot of work on our relationship, we have made the decision to end our marriage. Over the last 27 years, we have raised three incredible children and built a foundation that works all over the world to enable all people to lead healthy, productive lives, We continue to share a belief in that mission and will continue our work together at the foundation but we no longer believe we can grow together as a couple in the next phase of our lives."

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