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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Wednesday, November 18, 2009

OBAMA BOWS, ENOUGH OF THE CONDESCENSION!

Icheoku says, enough! These bows are becoming too condescending for an American president and must be stopped! President Barack Obama should understand that he is no longer a Mr. Barack Obama but President Barack Obama, the president of the United States of America. As a result his acts are synonymous and analogous with that of America and vice versa; hence he must always factor in this duality or rather infusion of two personalities or entities in him now.
For his youth and as an act of respect for his elders, being an African sire, it is ok to bow and even prostrate before elders, especially when such elders are people with authority or somewhat majestic divinity. The emperor of Japan and/or the King of Saudi Arabia are such men of authority with divinity and both men are old enough to be Barack Obama's grandfather. But that is not the gist here as Barack Obama transitioned from his 'ordinary' status to the apex of the world when he was sworn in as American 44th president last January 20, 2009. The implication being that a young king was crowned on that day and that he now sits atop every world leader by virtue of his office and hence must not stoop to bow before any of them or any other mortal on this earth; being conversely his 'subjects' strictly speaking!
President Barack Obama must realise that his actions reflects on the proud American people who do not want to be ever told what to do. Their history has been one of rebellion against constituted authorities and their freedom streak led to the founding of America as we know it today. It is American to be assertive; and we look people straight in their face to tell them how we really feel and this must be the basis of the presidency of Barack Obama - being a numero uno American! Therefore, bowing, genuflecting or prostrating and/or any other form of acknowledgment of a lower authority or class; and used to show allegiance and obeisances to the lord temporal who must be obeyed and not disrespected at the pain of unimaginable consequences must be avoided at all cost by any American president including President Barack Obama. America does not have a king who can do no wrong and sits on the highest pedestal, stool or throne in the palace, where he looks down on his subjects who kow-tow in line to pay their respect, bowing, prostrating and genuflecting in turn. Like the emperor of Japan or the Queen of England, an American president should not bow to anyone, not the Emperor and not to the King of Saudi Arabia! Their royal status is for their subjects' consumption and we are not their subjects, hence our own 'royalty', our president, should not submit himself to such a show of respect or subjugate gestured protocol to these men. Such sign of great respect and deference to 'superior-beings' should be showed by their subjects and Obama is not, not when he was an 'ordinary' citizen and not now when he is wearing the toga of American presidency. Call it arrogance if you want, but at least we have earned it as Americans.
President Barack Obama must shake off as fast as possible, some of his left-over African background vestiges, which is somewhat 'subservient' to men of power, authority and divinity, and assume the full toga of the office of the American presidency; which peradventure is still the presiding officer of the world including their leaders. Icheoku says at what point does enough really become enough? If he bows to King of Saudi Arabia and/or the Emperor of Japan, who knows if he will someday bow for the Queen of England or the Sultan of Sokoto or the King of Lesotho and the list of monarchs, kings and queens goes on. If he didn't or refuses to bow to other majesties of this world, including the self-acclaimed King of Africa Moumma Gaddafi, how will he explain his action? It would possibly start an antagonistic disposition towards him for being selective in his recognition of his lords temporal. This could in turn lead to the subjects of those lesser Majesties to start a revolt against their king or queen since their beloved Barack Obama does not recognise his/her legitimacy and supremacy otherwise why did he not bow for such king or queen? Admitted that some of us with some culture in our backgrounds, fully understand what Barack Obama did and why he did it; but majority of Americans, a bunch of un-apologetically republican people, cannot and do not fathom why their president should bow before another mortal in this world; and there lies the beef. President Barack Obama, Icheoku says, 'know ye that you are now the president of America and that what you do thence should reflect the norms of the majority of Americans and you should not be unmindful of their dos and don'ts.
It is a trite proposition that stooping down for a dwarf does not make one less taller; but not in this case where the whole world looks up to America for leadership and expect a manly-man at the helms of affairs! Therefore alongside majority of Americans, Icheoku says, we cannot continue to accept this your newly found act of bowing down before foreign royals and/or leaders. At worst, let your handlers discuss the issue of that aspect of protocol with the royals handlers ahead of any public engagement where cameras will probably record such gesture; and see how it could be privately and outside the camera's lenses be accommodated. Just like Nancy Reagan did when she bowed her head as she greeted Queen Elizabeth II behind closed doors, Icheoku says, just do it behind closed doors and away from camera lenses. If we don't see it it does not and will not bother us; but it disturbs our psyche so bad it hurts to publicly submit America to another country's leadership of royalty. Americans are not a subservient people, we do not play roles, not to anyone or to any authority. Our constitution is it, period!
Such public bow is very humiliating and offends Americans' sensibilities; hence should be shelved whenever in public. But at the privacy of whatever meeting you may be having with such royalty and outside camera lenses, if it pleases you to "lie down" before these royalties so be it; but the public spectacle of such subservient gesture as a bow is unacceptable to Americans. Others may bow, genuflect, curtsy or even prostrate as do the Yoruba of South West Nigeria, but Americans shake hands. In the words of one commentator, "If not to stand eye-to-eye with royalty, what else were 1776 and all that about?" Americans have purchased the right not to show these subjective gestures with their war of Independence in 1776 which freed them from the necessity of bending knees before certain 'special' human-beings of this world. Icheoku says, please President Barack Hussein Obama, no more bows!