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.

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Saturday, September 26, 2009

EHUD OLMERT, CHARGED!

He was a former mayor of Jerusalem and later succeeded ailing Ariel Sharon as Prime Minister of Israel. His name is Ehud Olmert and now, he stands accused of putting a "for sale sign on his large forehead," which said that anybody willing to pay can play in his then government in Jerusalem? Ehud Olmert is accused of corrupt enrichment while in office and taking bribes?
He is now on trial for corruption, arraigned before a Jerusalem district court. If he is convicted, it will make him the second former head of government to be sent to some cooling-off big house somewhere, and very recently. Taiwan, few weeks ago, sent away her former president to the big house, for life, because of official corruption?
Icheoku asks, are Nigerian authorities at Aso Rock listening, or are they the only people on this planet earth to cherish and incubate corruption? Further, how long shall Aremu Olusegun Obasanjo continue to walk the streets of Nigeria a free-man, when the dossier on his atrocities in office, including far-reaching, economic-melting and grand-scale corruption has since filled up and cascading down? Does it mean that Nigerians see nothing wrong in corruption or that all have sinned and fallen short of glory; and so could not throw the first stone? It is our position that if Olusegun Obasanjo is not prosecuted for his crimes against the state of Nigeria, then all current outbursts about fighting corruption is meaningless; it equally means that the word has lost its very meaning in jusy Nigeria's peculiar dictionary as the leaders are not shamed by the stench of it? Icheoku once again, call on the authorities in Nigeria to, on behalf of the Nigerian people, arrest, charge, prosecute and/or imprison or even hang the former despot of Nigeria, Matthew Okikiolakan Aremu Olusegun Obasanjo for his crimes against the Nigerian humanity, including economic brigandage! Taiwan set the precedent and Israel is now in tow; so why not Nigeria? Nigeria, where are you with your supposed war against corruption? Arrest Obasanjo NOW!
It will be recalled that Mr Olmert, 64, is the first prime minister of Israel to face criminal charges in court for anything including corruption. What this tells Nigerians is that there is always a 'first' and Olusegun Obasanjo is a fit guinea-pig for this experimentation on real war against corruption. Now is the time to put their mouth where their words are and convince a sceptical world that they really mean it, when they said, that they are fighting a war against corruption? So arrest Olusegun Obasanjo NOW!
Mr. Ehud Olmert did not enter formal plea due to some hitch, but will probably do so when the trial commences on February 2010; a trial that may last as long as four years? If convicted, he faces up to five years in prison on each of the charges. The 61-page indictment includes fraud, breach of trust, registering false documents and concealing fraudulent earnings. About 280 witnesses are equally assembled, geared up and ready to go in what is being touted as Israelis biggest criminal political-drama of the century?
The three charges against Mr. Ehud Olmert relate to three separate events preceding his 2006 prime minister-ship; which took place when he was mayor of Jerusalem and trade minister!, and before he became prime minister in 2006. They include:- 'The Rishontours Affair' in which Mr Olmert is suspected of double and/or triple-billing government ministries and various Jewish charities for trips abroad? During such trips he conducted both official and private business making speeches which was suspected to have brought him personal income of about 100,000 USD dollars? In 'The Talansky Affair," Ehud Olmert is suspected of receiving hundreds of thousands of USD dollars, about $700,000 dollars, in bribes, some of it in cash-stuffed envelopes, from American-Jewish businessman Morris Talansky and in return, helped his business ventures. Icheoku wants to reiterate that unlike Nigerian Abubarkar Atiku's friend, Louisiana Congressman William Jefferson, no cold cash was found in Mr Olmert's deep freezer! The last one, 'The Investment Centre Affair,' Mr Olmert allegedly granted favours to a former law partner while he was trade minister.
If convicted, Mr. Ehud Olmert will join two other former Israeli ministers in prison, who were jailed last June; while the world awaits the outcome of the trial of former president Moshe Katsav for rape and sexual harassment? Icheoku says, thank God for civilized societies, as Nigeria's Olusegun Obasanjo "raped" without any consequence whatsoever, his daughter in-law, his son Gbenga Obasanjo's wife, Mojisola Gbenga Obasanjo! In their chauvinistic mindset, they pretended it was no big deal, their usual Nigerian style? If only Nigerians can wake up, jolted; to understand how their lacklustre attitude to corruption has so severely damaged the country's reputation that it stinks; may be they will be up in arms with such decrepitude leaders such as Olusegun Obasanajo. Icheoku says, kudos to Israel for attempting this first and making it very loud that nobody including a former prime minister is above the law!