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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Tuesday, August 11, 2009

EUNICE KENNEDY-SHRIVER, ANOTHER KENNEDY SAYS BYE-BYE!

Dead at 88 and she was a Kennedy; hurray! Gladly enough, it was good old-age related causes and not the fabled 'Curse of the Kennedy' that facilitated her exit.
The fifth among nine of the original Kennedy siblings born to Joseph P. Kennedy and Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy of Brookline, Massachusetts. A family clan of Massachusetts that produced an American President, John Fitzgerald Kennedy; two US Senators Robert F. Kennedy and Edward Kennedy; an in-law who is a governor of the State of California Arnold Schwarzenegger; several others including legislators, humanitarians and activists!
She was married to a former vice presidential candidate R. Sargent Shriver. She founded the Special Olympics in 1968 to demonstrate that the mentally challenged can be competitive as well; and have the capacity to lead rich and productive lives without necessarily being limited by the walls of their confining institutions? To her credit, mentally challenged people were made inclusive and America's view of them was forced to change from the institutionalized patients, to families, friends, neighbors and athletes? Her name was Eunice Kennedy Shriver and she died today at a Cape Cod hospital, surrounded by her husband, five children and 19 grandchildren to cheer her on to eternity? What a fruitful life on the limelight, Eunice lived!
A third generation Irish-American Kennedy, her grandparents were Patrick J. Kennedy(1858) and Mary Augusta Hickey; her parents were businessman and American Ambassador to the United Kingdom Joseph P. Kennedy Sr. (1888) and Rose Fitzgerald (1890); her brothers and sisters include, in order of seniority:- Joseph Patrick Kennedy, Jr. (1915), President John Fitzgerald Kennedy (1917), Rosemary Kennedy (1918), Kathleen Agnes Kennedy (1920), Patricia Kennedy (1924), Senator Robert Francis Kennedy (1925), Jean Ann Kennedy (1928) and Senator Edward Moore Kennedy (1932)!
With her death, sister Jean Kennedy Smith and brother Edward Kennedy are now all that is left of the original Kennedy Mahicans? Eunice is survived directly by her husband, Sargent, a daughter Maria Shriver-Schwarzenegger, sons Robert, Timothy; Mark and Anthony. Brother Edward Kennedy and sister Jean Kennedy-Smith, 19 grandchildren as well as several nieces and nephews with Kennedy blood running in their veins. Icheoku says, as you now join other gone Kennedys in heaven, so long Madam Special Olympics!