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.

Thursday, April 28, 2022

ORIN HATCH BIDS HIS FINAL GOODBYE: DEAD AT 88, ADIEU SENATOR.

ICHEOKU says watching the people running state affairs in Ukraine, from their President Volodymyr Zelensky, his advisers, foreign secretary, attorney general, defense minister as well as other members of the president's cabinet has revealed a shocking fact, that people running America are indeed too old. Why is that? Those Ukrainian leadership makes America want to adjust the ages of their leadership downwards. But no, as Methuselahs are firmly in grip of affairs in Washington DC, from a president who is nearly twice the age of Ukraine's president, to a Madam Speaker who is old enough to be a grandmother to Ukraine's president to members of the House of Representatives and the Senate who are approaching 90 years. 

It is sad that young Americans are not being allowed to man the tiller of state, admitted former President Barack Obama made an inroad.  Even France and neighboring Canada as well as the United Kingdom leaderships confirm that America's leadership is simply too old. When will they hand over the baton of leadership and make respectful exit or must they stay the course until the end or so close to the end. A story making rounds appears to suggest that California Senator Diane Feinstein is so full of age that she hardly recalls anything including inability to remember her senate colleagues names. Why does such a person have to remain a senator when there are more youthful partisans who can effectively man their position? 

Harry Reid, the late senator from Nevada who died in 2021 was in Washington DC for about thirty years before sickness forced him to retire in 2017 from his 1987 sojourn. There are four senators in Washington DC whose combined age is about 300 years and you ask yourself what utility is left in these aged politicians who have become so drunk on power that they refuse to quit when they can still have some life to live outside Washington DC. It calls for term limits just like California did where senators can only serve three terms maximum of 18 years and members of the House of Representatives are allowed to serve only four terms of 8 years. 

Whatever institutional memory the argument for open ended term may be, it fades in comparison to the need to make governance in America more vibrant and youth-centric. America cannot be championing democracy throughout the world but is technicality not a democracy itself. If the presidency is term limited, there is no reasonable argument why the legislative tier should not be equally term limited. Even the Supreme Court should be made malleable to term limits because the job which members of both tiers of government do, anyone with the right qualification and disposition can easily do it; the reason vacancies are easily filled. 

This is the only way America's sermon on representative democracy and abhorrence of sit-tight leaders worldwide would make any logical sense; otherwise how does anyone explain Orin Hatch being 42 years in the senate?  Was that not a sit tight in governance, irrespective of how anyone wants to spin it since he served until he could serve no more and died just a few years post bad health-induced reluctant retirement. The senator from Utah is not alone in this longevity craze in Washington DC as there have been such other sit tight leaders before him and there are still many more presently serving in Washington DC. Anyway, may his soul now rest. Adieu Mr longest serving Senator. 

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