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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Thursday, June 25, 2009

GOVERNOR SANFORD, HIS EVITA?

With head bowed in shame of being caught cheating on his wife, the governor of South Carolina sang, 'Don't cry for me South Carolina'! Icheoku says, the governor should have advised himself appropriately before jetting away to snuggle in the bosom of his Evita in South America!
So it turned out that the missing governor was not missing after-all; rather he was smooching his Evita in far away Argentina? Icheoku asks what is wrong with our politicians that they do not necessarily learn from the history of other similarly situated misjudgement of the past? Do they think they are somewhat different and so special that their foibles will be a different kind of experience, with no prying eyes watching or inquisitive curious mind finding out? May be they do not use their brains or their brains has been corrupted by the power of politics that the feeling of invincibility sets in to eventually bring them down from their Olympian height? How many times is really enough for these cheating politicians or is the case of the second kick of the mull which teaches no lesson, at all?
Governor Mark Sanford, 49, decided to simply vanish into the thin air, Houdini style, thinking that his wife, four boys, friends, family and other South Carolinas are too blind to notice his absence? But unbeknownst to the philandering governor, he is not just any ordinary Citizen-Joe who could even die without a smidgen of sorrow; but a governor of the State of South Carolina with responsibility for its people? Also the governor was married to a wife with who he has four young children, all boys; yet failed to understand the enormity of his responsibility to them as well, and owed to them some explanation on his where-about?
As if the governor was not already in enough deep molaise, he chose the weekend of Father's day of all days, to embark on this his love-struck transcontinental journey to the land of the Argentines? Was he not aware that as a father and a husband, that his family will be there to celebrate the day with him as well as present him with some gifts for fathers day? His family called the governor's office to inquire on the where-about of their bread-winner with the office responding that they thought the governor took the day off and was spending it with his family; and thus was the cat let out of the bag and the governor was declared "missing"? Governor Mark Sanford, a former three-term congressman, was elected governor of the state of South Carolina in 2002 and is in his second cum final term as governor.

After seven days of dalliance in far away Argentina, he magically reappeared at Atlanta international airport, a passenger returning from Buenos Aires. But surprise, surprise; laying in wait at the airport for him was a journalist from the state's 'State Newspaper' who had driven three hours to the airport following a tip-off. She prodded the governor for explanation on his where-about following his disappearance from South Carolina over the father's day weekend. He rambled through a somewhat explanation at the airport; and subsequently followed it up with a press-conference; wherein he addressed his infidelity! Icheoku says, no matter what happens, lying to his staffers about hiking in the Appalachian mountain trails while in Argentina is unbecoming of a chief executive of a state! Also leaving his four boys and his wife longing for their family head on a father's day is equally unthoughtful and selfish!

That governor Sanford was indifferent to his wife's feeling is a fact. That governor Sanford took some risk, travelling overseas without security clearance is a fact. That the governor was reckless in not handing over to the next in line is a fact. That the governor was irrational in not thinking that he will be caught is a fact. That the governor disappointed his family by cheating on his wife and not being there for his four boys on father's day is also a fact. The four young boys possibly questioned their mommy if they really have a daddy? Otherwise, Icheoku says, what the governor did is no other person's business but that of his wife's primarily, and his four boys; if she and the boys chose to forgive him, so be it, case closed!
Also the people of South Carolina who were deprived of their chief executive and left with no shoulder to cry on in case of an emergency have a stake in the matter. Every other person should butt out and let these parties sort out their internal affair privately, with the philandering governor/father. Should he resign his office? May be, if precedents of New Jersey is called into play; but the call is for the people of South Carolina, but none other, to make. This is because his leaving the country without formally transferring his executive power, exposed the state to an unreasonable degree of risk, were there to be an emergency?
Icheoku says, crying a river now is too late, Mr. Romeo-Governor as you would have spared yourself the present agony by realising that as a public figure, your actions matter. Further, it is very selfish of the governor to just say that the affair is now over, just because he had been caught; after-all the affair began about eight years ago and he did not consult with his 'Evita' before trying now to back out of a love situation? Was it a desperate move to save his political career or what? Was it lust or love that pushed Governor Sanford into a plane to Argentina; which helps to understand the current, 'it is over now' disposition? May be he is just being the politician he is, scoundrels of the earth which most most people do not take seriously anyway! And he is of the republican brand?
True to type of these arch-hypocritical Republicans, while a congressman, he had voted in favor of three of four articles of impeachment against President Bill Clinton during the Monica(gate) Lewinsky scandal, citing the need for "moral legitimacy." Icheoku asks, which 'moral legitimacy' now protects this inter-continental love-forlorn Pharisee governor of South Carolina from his international love export? None, we know of? We do not however mind people's intermittent foibles and mistakes in life, but if that person is a republican with their holier than thou attitude, then our fifth sense triggers on; hence this umbrage. At least Bill Clinton did not leave the confines of the Oval office but this governor took an international flight to far away Argentina, not minding associated risks both of accident, kidnapping, armed robbery and even death just to satisfy his amorous thirst? What if something terrible had happened and no one could trace the governor? What a humongous embarrassment it would have been for a state's governor to just disappear into the thin air without a trace?

Governor Mark Sanford threw caution to the winds and unmindful of his safety, jetted out to Buenos Aires to be with his love interest, leaving his four boys and the mother of the boys, his wife of 20 years, Jenny Sanford, alone and lonely on a father's day weekend? Icheoku asks what manner of man would live his family so stranded, just for a piece of funky Bermuda-triangle in far away Argentina?
His wife is pretty, rich, tall, slender, intelligent, active and had given him four handsome healthy boys; so what else does this horny-dog want in another woman? Could it be her 'magnificent gentle kisses', 'tan lines', 'curved hips', 'the erotic beauty of holding herself or two of her boobs in the faded glow of the night's light? If Jenny was not up to par or has relaxed too much, couldn't the governor have re-oriented the mother of his four boys to reinvent herself into a sexier Sarah Palin hootchie-mama type personality; instead of cheating on her and spending the family's money to indulge himself in an overseas love-triangle? What a cheating scoundrel, this governor Romeo Mark Sanford is?
Finally, Icheoku says, Governor Mark Sanford's rather lunatic-like action, throws light on the anguish of so many married men who are not really happy being married? What was he thinking, one would like to ask? Icheoku says, his brain is empty and incapable of formulating any thoughts! His present action shows that majority of married men feel trapped in their marriage and would rather be playing the field; otherwise how do you explain a flight of over 10,000 miles just to be with the other woman? Is it possible that many a married men want out but feel compelled by societal etiquette to remain yoked in a marriage which light has since gone out? Whatever was the underlying fuel for this love-trip, Icheoku says, if you are an exception to the rule that many married men are; and that you are so happily married that you cannot appreciate what overcame this governor, or do not feel any empathy for this governor or lacks understanding of his action, please drop us a line and let us know! But until then, Icheoku wants you to know that about 99.9% of all married men are not so happily ever after!