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.

Showing posts with label Tokyo 2020 Olympics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Tokyo 2020 Olympics. Show all posts

Saturday, July 24, 2021

TOKYO 2020 OLYMPICS: AN OLYMPICS LIKE NO OTHER, MIGHT AS WELL NEVER HELD.

ICHEOKU says that the Tokyo Olympics is holding is an indication of the misplaced value of the International Olympics Committee and the Japanese National Olympics Committee on financial gains over peoples lives and the original ideals of the Athenian gift to the world to bring the world's people together in celebration through sports. Having postponed it before, why not just postpone it again or even indefinitely until such a time that the Chinese coronavirus would have been effectively, fully controlled and to the point that it is no longer threatening civilization and not infecting people so much. 

The essence of the Olympics is to celebrate humanity through sports, so what is the point holding the Olympics when humanity cannot celebrate themselves, rejoicing, backslapping one another and mixing and mingling freely. The Tokyo Olympics is so weird and generally not Olympics like that some of the rules of engagement or rather non engagement mirrors an Olympics that is steadily looking like a sterilization camp rather than a gathering of the world's best athletes using sports to celebrate world's people. It is so bad that not even medals will be hung on the athletes by Olympics officials; rather they will pick the medals up themselves and then do with it whatever they please. 

Even Olympics condoms which are being distributed among the athletes are specifically "marked" to be used only when the Olympics games end and possibly in their own respective countries but definitely not in Tokyo. Then add the cardboard sleeping beds for the athletes which is to ensure any extra weight on it will lead to its collapse; and you wonder why persons bent on making out cannot simply lay sheets on the floor and get on with their thing, since sex is not bed exclusive. Then there is the fleeting seconds allowed for chatting up fellow athletes and the food which must be chowed down in seconds as well. There is also the empty stadiums and arenas where athletes will perform without spectators or fans cheering them on. 

They literary took the Olympics out of the event and it is not a case of where one half loaf is better than none; no, there is no loaf at all in this case as the supposed half loaf is biscuit and not bread. So, why still proceed with the Olympics if it must be held in such an austere and sterile condition; and not defer it to such a future time when it can be held the proper and right way which Olympics are know for. 

The Tokyo 2020 Olympics was supposed to have held last summer 2020 but never did because of the Chinese coronavirus pandemic. The coronavirus is still with us in 2021, so why hold it now? If it was postponed once, why not postponed it again and until when society is freed of the coronavirus scourge, however long that might be. Japan would have been given the right of first refusal to host it before it moves to any other host country. Such an outcome would have been much better than holding an Olympics which is a mere shadow or rather a ghostly apparition of a typical Olympics.  A Tokyo Olympics with no fans, no tourists, no spectators, no fun and no world's peoples from every part of the globe singing kumbaya in celebration of one another in peace, harmony and joyfulness is not an Olympics in the strict sense of it. 

But the show must go on as fat cats are eager to recover as much money as they possibly can from an investment which is already looking every inch bankrupt. The Tokyo Olympics is going to end up in near total complete loss for host country Japan, its National Olympics Organizing Committee as well as the International Olympics Committee. So, all these factors considered, why then still proceed with it as no prudent mind will make such a decision unless there is something which they have not disclosed yet that shows the merits outweigh the demerits of proceeding with the Olympics under the circumstances.

ICHEOKU says the Tokyo Olympics was marred even before it started in cost overruns, many scandals including the president Yoshiro Mori being forced out because of political correctness wokeness due to a statement that "talkative women tends to make meetings last too long." Then the president of International Olympics Committee Thomas Bach called Japanese people Chinese and dismissed such an egregious misconstruction without apologizing in Japanese; unlike John Cena who profusely apologized to China in Cantonese for mistakenly referring to Taiwan as an independent country. There was also the scandal with the music director and the comment about Nazi and of course Sha'Carri Richardson's was banned for inhaling marijuana which Kamala Harris also did, but which Bill Clinton only puffed on it but did not inhale. 

Anyway, fireworks does not make an Olympics; it is the interactions and records that are broken as well as other interplays among the athletes such as the one for which condoms are freely supplied. It also includes other extracurricular activities and the many pictures and videos taken with newly made friends and places traveled and explored outside the Olympics village quarantine zone. It also includes the food, drinks, parties and cultural experiences shared and taken in, none of which will be part of the Tokyo 2020 experience. So, what manner of Olympics will it be anyway without all the pomp and pageantry usually associated with Olympics games. Many people are tuned off and not watching as they have more life challenging issues in this days of COVID-19 and other overwhelming natural disasters plaguing the world. 

ICHEOKU is watching only the USWNT to see what happens next after their abysmal performance against Sweden. Hopefully they will extend the watching time or son of man will be signing off with their exit from Tokyo. The other person who would have deserved time spent on the couch is unfortunately not participating in the Olympics because of a foolish decision against inhaling marijuana which will cost the United States of America an Olympic gold medal in the women 100 meters race. Sha'Carri Robinson should not have been banned for inhaling marijuana smoke and if it was because of the rule and the rule is the rule, the rule should have been waived for her as the rule was waived for two Defense Secretaries, the present and another one in the past. But hey, the games have begun and may the medals count reward those countries who are better than the others.