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 barack obama becomes a laureate. Show all posts
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Saturday, October 10, 2009

BARACK OBAMA, A NOBEL LAUREATE!

And the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize winner is, President Barack Hussein Obama! Surprised like many, but our congratulations to President Barack Obama for this remarkable achievement, an evidence of America's return to the heart of the world. Icheoku has always known that America is the most beloved nation on earth, the reason why everyone wants to get to 'God's own country' and by all and any means possible! But the antics of the fringed flag-draping loonies, who fan the embers of "the world hates America's exceptionalism", try often very hard to keep this truism hidden.
However, the symbolism of this award is great as BHO is now certified the authentic leader and spokesman of the world. The world through the Nobel Prize committee said, "YES WE CAN" make him our peace ambassador and the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize winner he became. With this latest accolade, President Barack Obama now joins the league of Nelson Mandela, Desmond Tutu, Jimmy Carter, Al Gore and select few other privileged laureates who the world has recognised for their efforts at improving the lot of humanity. President BHO also makes history as one of three other American Presidents Wilson Woodrow, Theodore Roosevelt and Jimmy Carter; as well as a Vice President Al Gore to win the award. Icheoku says, congratulations to President Barack Obama on this one of a kind honor. In fellow laureate, Desmond Tutu's own words, "It is an award that speaks to the promise of President Obama's message of hope"
It is about expectations; but some detractors in Afghanistan, represented by the Taliban said, it would have been more appropriate to call it a "Nobel Prize for Violence" given what they have to take every day with American drones and other weapons of war? One congressman from Florida said, 'those right-wing Americans dissing the award are agents of American military industrial complex which is smarting that 'if President Barack Obama is allowed to succeed in making and achieving world peace, it will remove a lot of pie from their table; as less wars will be fought which will spell drought for their weapons sales and killing business? In his assessment, it is just a crazed out crowd who can never be pleased with anything Obama does or did not do, or wins or losses? And if our memory is still right, it was just last week's Friday that the same deranged anti-Obama crowd were chiding him, for now being rejected by the world who refused to award him the Olympics? For them, everything is personal irrespective of whether it involves the American public's interest or city of Chicago; no, none of that is important - it is Obama land, Obama's America!
To those people who deride the award to Barack Obama as being too pre-mature, Icheoku says, remember during the Democratic primaries when some wanna-be presidents also chided him for being too ambitious and admonished him to wait for his turn? That it is not yet his time to run, but BHO defied them and today his defiance paid off big time as our 43rd President. Now his Nobel prize win is "too early"? Icheoku says, those detractors should just suck it and quit being HATERS! A man of destiny, BHO; his ilks are usually unstoppable and cannot be stopped until they rendezvous with their destiny! Like William Shakespeare once wrote, it is in their stars!
A confessional however, we initially called the award too patronizing, until we realized it could be awarded for efforts geared towards the direction of peace! Now we know and since it was awarded for his effort so far and to spur him on, we believe it is well earned and deserved. What an additional feather to such a young cap of our dear Nobel Peace Laureate! But one thing is assured, he now has his global work cut out for him, from trying to rid the world of its nuclear weapons, to forging an enduring, comprehensive Mideast peace, stabilizing Afghanistan and tackling climate change/global warming? Republican Senator John McCain correctly articulated the higher bar now set by the award when he opined, "He now has even more to live up to."
Our research revealed that contrary to popular believe that Nobel prize for peace is only awarded for bagged accomplishment/achievement, it is equally awarded to encourage and goad on a momentum for peace as was the case here with President Barack Obama. A former West German chancellor Willy Brandt became a recipient in the early stages of his policy of peaceful engagement with then communist East Germany. Yasser Arafat and Rabin were also once so encouraged regarding their effort at Mideast peace process? The Nobel committee chairman Thorbjoern Jagland, articulated it properly when he said, "I hope it will help him, Obama is the right man at the right time, and that's why we want to enhance his efforts." And as if taking a cue from the consternation of the watching world as to his deserving of the award judging his "meagre accomplishment", President Barack Obama, while accepting the award said, "I will accept this award as a call to action; this award must be shared with everyone who strives for justice and dignity." Icheoku implores you to note the two operative words here, "call" and "strives", which explains the humility of the man of the moment's full understanding of his call to action!

Icheoku says, as scant as President Obama's contribution to peace so far is, his very young administration taken under advisement, for him to be, in the words of the committee, "the person to contribute the most to peace in the last year" shows that the world was sitting on a keg of gunpowder, waiting to explode and within few precious minutes to destroying itself. According to the committee, 'his multilateral diplomacy reduced tension more than the last eight years of unilateral military actions;' therefore, "it was unavoidable to give the prize to the man who has improved the international climate and emphasized negotiations and dialogue.” In one other commendation, the committee said that "Obama has achieved a lot already" which begs the question, was he the present day "messiah" that saved the world from a complete annihilation; again judging the infancy of his administration? Maybe his "doing too much, all at the same time" as he was accused by right wing detractors, has paid off big time? But since 'a prophet is always without honor in his own country,' may be it took the intervention of the Nobel prize committee to tell Americans that they have the greatest president on earth in President Barack Hussein Obama. But would Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck and other far-right fringed lunatics change their ways; no, not until they recover their White House from that "nigger"!
But the sterling gist of the award is that the Nobel peace prize committee wanted to strengthen Obama’s hand and encourage him in the direction of peaceful dialogue and negotiations; which shows that President Barack Obama is headed in the right direction. We pray that Almighty God shall help him get to his destination. And on your prize money which you intend to donate to charity, Icheoku advises that you set up a charity of your own and make the donation to it if permissible. May be something akin to and which will complement Bill Gates malaria charity or Bill Clinton's food or Jimmy Carter Habitat of Humanity. Lets have a 'BHO Human Rights and Laws Reforms' charity with focus on Africa and other democracy-suppressing countries of this world. Once again, congratulations Mr. President Nobel Peace Maker!