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.

Saturday, November 27, 2021

AVENUE OF SPHINXES: CAIRO IS UNDULY BOGGED DOWN WITH ANCIENT EGYPT.

ICHEOKU says when will the leaders of Egypt wake up to take their own destiny with their both hands and start thinking about their own legacy instead of the excessive time and resources being wasted on digging up Egypt's ancient civilization. All the ruse about tourism and providing work for archaeologists to do notwithstanding, how about leaving the ancient ruins alone where they are and moving to establish things for the present and future Egyptians to enjoy and treasure. Why the never ending digging up of ancient remains and civilizations built by the old Egypt? 

Why this misplaced priorities that instead of building a new Egypt, putting in place legacy structures for the coming generations to inherit, does the government in Cairo obsess itself with such distraction which does not really add anything of value to the average Joe Egyptian's life; other than the distant possibility of a trickle down income from ogling tourists whenever Islamist terrorism permits them to visit. It is just too much of a distraction that the government seems to have lost focus on what present and future Egypt need most, an Egypt that is competitive in a world where only the best survives and thrives.

ICHEOKU is not writing this piece because of any antagonism against archeology or what archeologists do; but so much resources are being wasted digging up Egypt and disturbing the peace of the past Egyptians. Such skewed effort takes the government focus off what is more important for the lives and happiness of the present Egyptians as well as building things for the future Egyptians to inherit and treasure. Instead of figuring out how to keep the train rolling to the next station, they are busy fiddling with how ancient Egyptians moved about before there were trains. Why disturb the peace of ancient ruins and resting places?

It is only in Africa that such abuse of ancestral resting places are on overdrive, showing no respect to the forebears and devastating what made them who they are. A native America will kill you if you dare disturb their ancestral burial grounds. There are some road construction and pipelines laying that were forced to stop because they were to pass through such sacred sites; and in some cases, large amounts were paid first relocate these cemeteries before construction could continue. So, why is Africa and in this particular case, Egypt, so violative of its ancestral places in the name of feeding tourism. So, a few tourists will come and they will spend some money and then what? 

A case made even worse because majority of the tourists, Europeans and British, do not have their own burial places being dug up in similar fashion. Who has excavated the British Stone Henge pr dug up William Shakespeare or any of the warring kings of Britain and Europe. So why Africa? Is it laziness that is fostering this practice of an easy way out, such that instead of being creative and inventive, Africa has become so inseparably entwined with their past that it spends valuable time digging up and disturbing such solemn places. If Egyptians spend all their time enamored with their past, when will they find time to prosecute their present and pursue their future? 

Drooling on or relieving their glorious storied past is definitely anathema to creating legacies for their future generations to treasure and enjoy. What does the present crop of leaders in Egypt want posterity to remember them for, as those who dug up ancient Egypt but did nothing to ingrain their own time around on earth? If those past Egyptians did not work hard living their life and creating these legacies then, what will these crop of loafers be unearthing today? But if they must dig, at least let it not be their ancestors and their burial grounds. Other countries, when they dig, only dig for skeletal remains of extinct animals such as dinosaurs, but never their ancestors or their sacred burial grounds. 

What is happening in Egypt is of serious concern and in this days of three dimensional printing, computer generated images and other scientific empowered abilities, most of these Egyptological stories could be easily recreated and replicated without digging up and disturbing the peace of people of ancient Egypt. They should be allowed to rest undisturbed and unbothered having completed their sojourn on earth. They did their time and have gone and should be left to enjoy their earned crossover in peace. Enough of the avenues of this and that everywhere in Egypt as the world is changing too fast and before too long, nobody will be interested in seeing all these ancient things and if they must, they can do so virtually. 

But whatever might end up being the case, Africa needs to wake up and start looking forward and stop dawdling in their past. Other nations have established stations in space and making serious effort to visit and colonize Mars. They are also inventing and manufacturing things for the future, including electric vehicles that will finally someday dispense with gasoline; but Africa is still busily moored in its past. It is definitely not progressive and retrogressive thinking has never bettered anybody's lot. If what Egypt is doing is a good thing, why are other countries and nations not similarly digging up their own past; or is Egypt the only country that has a past? It is sad. 

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