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.

Tuesday, September 2, 2008

CKD HUMAN BODY PARTS FOR SALE!

Completely Knocked Down Human Body Parts for Sale! It is not out of a Stephen King's novel or one of those horror movies out of the studios in Hollywood; no it is real life imitating art right in the city of brotherly love, Philadelphia! Two brothers Louis and Gerald Garzone, along with James McCafferty, who ran Garzone Funeral Home and crematorium admitted that they sold corpses to a company that trafficked in stolen body parts. They pleaded guilty to charges including conspiracy, theft, abusing corpses and welfare fraud.
The macabre scheme involves selling bodies deposited with them for cremation to a body parts harvesting company Fort Lee (a New Jersey based Biomedical Tissue Services "BTS"). This company in turn harvests necessary bone, skin, tendons, tissues and other body parts for re-sale to a tissue reprocessing company in Florida, sometimes for a whopping price tag of $11,000 per a body. The Florida company then put these processed human body parts in the stream of medical commerce - selling to hospitals and patients needing transplants and implants throughout the country. In all, the Garzone brothers sold a total of 244 corpses to BTS in the scheme netting them over two hundred thousand dollars at $1000 dollars per corpse; all without the consent or approval of the deceased's family. Such a single body could in turn yield bone and tissues parts worth more than $4,000! It is also noteworthy that some of these bodies died of very contagious disease such as cancer, aids or hepatitis C but their causes of death were usually disguised; and also some of corpses were too old or too
diseased to be harvested legally.
The master-mind of the scheme and owner of the body parts harvesting part in New Jersey, Michael Mastromarino (pictured here left) pleaded guilty to the charges in Philadelphia, which could net him life behind bars. Michael Mastromarino, a former Fifth Avenue, Manhattan New York oral surgeon/dentist had earlier pleaded guilty to 14 counts in a similar New York case that included enterprise corruption, body stealing and reckless endangerment in which he faces between 18 years and 54 years in prison and will forfeit $4.68 million for running the operation.
The investigation covered a period during which a total of 1,077 corpses were sold and bought and carved up by the New Jersey based company; which netted body parts worth between $6 million and $12 million between 2001 and 2005. According to two convicted body parts cutters, Lee Cruceta, 35 of Monreo New York and Chris Aldorasi (right) their job involves removing bones from the legs and replacing them with plastic piping in case an open-casket funeral was held. In their own words, “we put poles in the body, sewed up the holes and waited for Joe to prep the bodies". Bodies were sourced from several funeral homes in New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania among which were that of "Masterpiece Theatre" host Alistair Cooke (left) who died of lung cancer on March 30, 2004 at the age of 95 ; Lois Elder, 58, of Philadelphia who died of complications from a stroke in April 2005; 74-year-old James Thornton and 81 years old husband Joseph Folger. See generally Brooklyn Supreme Court Justice Albert Tomei for additional reading!

Capo Louis Garzone!

A DYING PRESIDENT?

The sickly weakling from Katsina State, Umaru Yar'Adua, who was imposed on Nigerians by the cabals led by disgraced Olusegun Obasanjo is dying! Will he be the first president to die in office in Nigeria? No, as the other munchkin, midget Sani Abacha also kicked the bucket while in office. But unlike the military succession that immediately produced Abdulsalm Abubarkar as successor to Sani Abacha, there will be crisis of no mean magnitude should Umaru Yar'Adua suddenly drops dead. First is that vice president Jonathan Goodluck will not be allowed by the north to succeed him, this ordinarily would have been the natural thing to do, but the Northerners will insist that they serve out their turn as president of Nigeria after Olusegun Obasanjo's Yoruba governance. Now the other problem will be whether Jonathan Goodluck will accept another pupillage under a new imposed president from the north?
And if a new president were to be produced, what will the process look like? Another imposition, an election or a national assembly-led intervention? But then what will the brand of Nigerian democracy be called for purposes of scholars and commentators? Will a power crisis between a down but not yet out Olusegun Obasanjo and the northern oligarchs ensue on who chaperons the succession and who will be at the receiving end of this fight of the titans - Nigerians of course!
Either way, there is no meaningful way out should the inevitability of Umaru Yar'Adua's demise happen now. This is what is wrong with Nigerians and the kind of leadership they have come to accept in that country. Were it to be a proper place where democracy is thriving, maybe a full disclosure-vetting of Umaru Yar'Adua's candidacy would have revealed that he is an unfit and improper person to even run for the presidency of Nigeria by reason of sickness. Better still Umaru Yar'Adua himself would have declined the offer to be appointed president of Nigeria and if appointed anyway, refused to serve! This shows the cross-roads of Nigeria and the reason there can never be any meaningful progression in that country. A mixed bag of very fickle and feeble leadership in a country with bountiful of men and women of gravitas who would have motivated and moved the country to greater heights. Olusegun Obasanjo mid-wived this imbroglio of Umaru Yar'Adua's failing health crisis and it was for a purpose; since he Obasanjo was fully aware of the debilitating health condition of Umaru and yet imposed him on Nigerians anyways.
Icheoku says, it shall not be well with you Olusegun Obasanjo and demands that Nigerians revisit and reconsider all the bonds yoking the different nationalities together with a view to granting some autonomies within the union and/or at least put in place a real working federation. This is in order to let the people who want to move be able to move forward to cart their destiny without undue encumbrance by an ailing man from far-away rustic Katsina State; who instead of marshaling out policies of state is busy fighting a battle for his life in various hospitals around the world, from Germany to Saudi Arabia! To Umaru Ya'Adua, Icheoku asks and demands that you come clean with a full disclosure of the nature of your ailment or quietly resign your office should you be too ashamed of Nigerians learning the nature of your sickness. There is nothing to hide about being sick because nobody inflicts sickness on himself. Finally whatever you do, you must not die in office as the ensuing crisis might destroy Nigeria as we know it!
For what other Nigerians are saying about their secretive dying imposed president Umaru Yar'Adua, click Disclose Your Ailment, Nigerians Tell Yar'Adua!

Monday, September 1, 2008

HURRICANE GUSTAVE!

Despite all the hype about Hurricane Gustave, it failed to deliver! It did not live up to all the hullabaloos upon touch down in the southern coastal states of Louisiana, Texas, Mississippi and Florida. What happened? Was it the nay-sayer meteorologists at the weather institutes who never get it right or simply mother-nature once again fooling mankind's attempt at grasping its ways and means? Whatever it may be, one thing is certain - that Hurricane Gustav did not deliver the expected knock-out punch.

It was a weaker-than-expected hurricane which merely stoked New Orleans with just sending water sloshing harmlessly over its rebuilt levees/flood-walls. The storm that crashed ashore as a Category 2 hurricane had by late Monday been downgraded to a tropical storm with maximum sustained winds of 60 mph.

Gustav quickly marched inland reducing the prospect of heavy rain in southern Louisiana. The storm is expected to further slow down as it heads into Texas and possibly into Arkansas, and could bring 20 inches of rain to those areas. As Gustav passed, authorities turned their attention to Hurricane Hanna, which could come ashore in Georgia and South Carolina late in the week.

Until next time, Icheoku hopes southern American coastal states have dodged the bullet - Mr. GUSTAVE!

REPUBLICANS ARE HYPOCRITES!

They complained about Barack Obama's supposed "inexperience" and they chose a honky mom beauty pageant contestant from very remote Alaska for their vice president! Inexperienced? Tell Icheoku about that! Now it turns out that this bimbo cannot even raise a decent God-fearing family, her 17 year old daughter Bristol Palin is pregnant with a child outside wedlock! Her mother Sarah Palin was a "stripper" now her daughter is a "hooker" having sex and getting pregnant outside wedlock at just 17 years!
The over-sexed girl from Alaska daughter of Senator John McCain's vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin is here pictured right wearing a white inner blouse with her father and her inept beauty contestant mother. She is just 17 years old and heavily pregnant outside wedlock! Emerging yet to be confirmed story has it that she is being coerced into marrying the "tout" who got her pregnant, just to save face and possibly her mother's political career.
How dare the Republicans shift the goal-post each time with varying templates just to suit their very parochial and warped minds? This makes them unrepentant racist bigots! What moral family values are we talking about here? First their presidential candidate Grandpa Senator John McCain dumped his wife of several years to marry the lizardly-looking Cindy McCain; now their vice presidential candidate, Sarah Palin, a beauty contestant from Alaska has a daughter who is pregnant without being married. So much for moral values, the Republican Party's style!
Now you may read the developing scandal of the 17 year old daughter of a honky mom from tundra God-forsaken Alaska named Sarah Palin whom Republican Grandpa Senator John McCain chose as his vice presidential candidate:- Gov. Sarah Palin says 17-year-old daughter is pregnant

Sunday, August 31, 2008

THE METHUSELAH PICKS A "STRIPPER"?

Technically, that is! A beauty contestant second runner-up for Miss Alaska 1984 for vice president? How about that for politics? Grandpa Senator John McCain is evidently manifesting early stages of age-related infirmities of both the mind and the brains. Grandpa's recent actions and words are highly suggestive of his near senility! Where is the republican conservative values when a woman who had "stripped and walked the podium half naked, partly clad in bikini was selected to run for an office as high as the vice presidency? Tell Icheoku it is a joke! The very ancient Senator John McCain is a free-radical with this choice and we hope the Republican Party gets whacked for this atrocious choice. Or when was her conversion/repentance from the worldly to the Godly? When did this "Saul" of Palin become a Paul Palin? Why all of a sudden has the high holier than thou pedestal of the Republican Party been lowered just to accommodate Mrs Sarah Palin? All the shouts of inexperience hitherto fanned at Barack Obama has now been shown to be just an empty war-cry; meant to rally the racist bigoted base of right wing conservative fundamentalists. Grandpa Senator from Arizona John McCain has by this choice confirmed that his series of double-speak is ingrained in him and that he does not have the sound mind to be entrusted with the fate of over 300 million Americans including the most awesome fighting machine in the world - the United States Armed Forces. Grandpa near-centurion John McCain does not appear to be a person of a sound mind, coupled with his rabid temperament begs the question, are we going to entrust the nuclear ball briefcase in his hands? Americans please this time is too serious for such a folly and let every voting man and woman go behind the closed curtain with a clear head and not just a benumbed racists' ideologue. So all these rantings about longevity in Washington! means nothing to the Republican Party, otherwise why a honky mom from God-forsaken Alaska? And she kills animals for food? Where is PETA and all the animal rights groups?
At 72 plus years very old, the best John McCain could choose as his running mate is a former "stripper" turned evangelical governor of uninhabited former Russian territory of Alaska? Where lies her experience? Where is her economic expertise or who is going to manage the economy since McCain had admitted to his lack of economic knowledge? Where is her gravitas or is pretty face all that is now needed. Something is pathologically awry with the Republican Party and the gods are rallying around to finish them off? Sarah Who? Sarah no name! In 1984, Sarah Palin was second-place finisher in the Miss Alaska beauty pageant after winning the Miss Wasilla contest earlier that year. In the Wasilla pageant, she played the flute and also won Miss Congeniality. And now she's Grandpa John McCain's running mate? Is it possible that Grandpa is planning to dump wife No2 for Palin? After-all this is a man who dumped his first wife who faithfully waited for him and raising their kids while he was in prison in Vietnam only for him to return and rewarded her by marrying his current alien-looking wife, Cindy.


According to presently available information to Icheoku.com, Sarah Palin won her governorship election with a gross total votes of just 114,000 and you begin to wonder, if all it takes to win the governorship of Alaska is fewer than a typical city block; is this bimbo then suited for a very tasking and challenging high office as the vice presidency? What if ancient John McCain were to suddenly go to sleep and decides to sleep on, can this Bambie doll effectively command the American Armed Forces? If all her management prowess has been just Alaska, how then will she begin to grasp a 300 million people in America with very extensive bureaucracy? In summation, as Icheoku continues to dig into this beauty contestant background especially our high-geared effort to secure some lacy pictures as we strongly suspect that some must exists somewhere, knowing what beauty pageants are like, we will keep you posted on the latest political suicide of Grandpa John McCain. Please whatever you do, do not vote for this duo as the top ticket is too old and the bottom of the ticket is just a bimbo beauty contestant who brings nothing to the ticket. This shows that John McCain is very unforgiving otherwise why did he not pick the economic "guru" Mitt Romney or the exorcist governor of Louisiana Bobby Jindal - may be because the latter is of Indian extraction amidst a bigoted racist Republican party! What about the pretty evangelist Tim Pawlenty of Minnesota or the American Taliban fundamentalist Mike Huckabee? Grandpa Senator John McCain owes America a more solid explanation for his choice of this pretty face!

If Grandpa Senator John McCain wanted a woman vice presidential candidate, Icheoku would expect him to choose a woman with gravitas and not just a feather weight beauty contestant from remote far away Alaska! If the Republican Party are not hypocrites and the embodiment of biblical Pharisees our lord Jesus warned us against, why did they not strong-arm Grandpa John McCain to pick from the pool of well qualified women of substance bountiful in America? Why did Grandpa John McCain pick a honky mom he barely knew, having met her only once before as his vice president? There are a lot that has not meet the eyes and the whole America awaits his candid explanation. Did John McCain seek counselling from his lizardly-wife Cindy McCain before choosing a bimbo as a vice presidential candidate? Icheoku hopes Grandpa John McCain will not elope with Miss Alaska runner-up?

Talk of women of substance, what about the likes of Senator Kay Bailey Hutchinson of Texas who could easily supply all the necessary experience for the administration?


Also since Grandpa Senator John McCain does not know anything about economics - this much he admitted on national television, why did he not pick a seasoned corporate feline like Carly Fiorina of the Hewlett Packard (HP) fame!

What about the other compatriot of Fiorian in the corporate world like the Margret Thatcher of E-bay woman CEO Meg Whitman?

There is such a trove of highly qualified eves from which Grandpa Senator John McCain would have picked a woman vice presidential candidate but instead he chose to once again manifest his fabled maverick streak. If this run-away train syndrome is what a Senator John McCain's administration is going to look like, please Dear God, spare America and the world this old man's dream. May he not win and if elected may he not be sworn in and if sworn in, may he not serve! Grandpa Senator John McCain is not what America needs now especially after the eight years of uninspiring Bush administration. America needs a breath of fresh air and the whole world is waiting to exhale with a fresh dynamic inspiring administration in Washington DC in January 2009. Away with McBush - it is toxic!
A thousand and one questions beg for answers but Grandpa Senator John McCain is too sleepy even to contemplate their answers. How can a 70 years plus old man who has been drawing on social security these past seven years be our president? Something is not right and please help put an end to htis madness - DO NOT VOTE FOR McCAIN or McBUSH or McPALIN or the REPUBLICAN ticket - it is suicidal!

THE HIT LIST - our incredible but true story series:- Serie 7

1. Awesome art of mother-nature:


Is there any artist like mother nature? Is it when it chooses to make the sky the canvass or the seas or some mountain side. In this story the object of adore of mother nature is a tree which it had sculptured into a very delicate piece of fine art. Can you imagine the intricate weaving that went into this and the beautiful thing about the art is that it was done with a living tree - so it is all organic! Were this piece of art to be in Soethbys', Icheoku bets it will be a collector's item ranging in the millions of dollars but unfortunately a tree grows where-ever it pleases or better still in the yard or farm of whoever plants it. Going back to the first allusion that a tree grows wherever it pleases, this blogger have witnessed a tree-grower who could not grow a tree in a particular location despite the desire to so do. Anyway this piece of art is not in any gallery or private collector's home, so enjoy the sight - Happy viewing!

2. A werewolf in London?


This time it is for real! All the musical and movie adaptions are now out the window with this 11-year-old Pruthviraj Patil of where else but the land of perplexities India. He was born in Sangli a sleepy town near Bambay now Mumbai. His very ape like hairy condition called hypertrichosis is also known as Werewolf Syndrome - all his body including face and back with the exception of the soles of his feet and palms of his hands is entirely carpeted by thick dark hair.



3. Count yourself lucky!

Meet Mr. No Face! What would you do if you are faceless or wakes up one
morning to see that your face is gone -
hidden behind an over-sized tumour without any immediate palliative cure by medical science. Would you jump the bridge or pull the trigger or drink an overdose prescription drugs? What would you do yet you cry everyday because of some economic hardship or love misfortune. My friends, please wake up and count your blessings if only Mr. Jose Mestre of Lisbon Portugal is one tenth lucky to have a face just like you.

4. What a paradise on earth!

When last did you spend a night in a hotel? Have you ever had the privilege
of indulging yourself just once? Will you ever get the opportunity to so do during your lifetime. Now get ready and get going to the middle east city of Dubai. There you will see the only 7 star rated hotel of unparalleled luxury in the world. Hotel Burj Al Arab is one of a kind both in design, height and pure luxury. It is one of the pecks of well healed men and women of this world who like to indulge themselves. At $2000 per night for junior suites, now you understand?


5. Do you have a WC?


Where do you do your privates? Do you have a toilet in your house or do you go the old fashioned way - take it to mother nature in a little shrub coverings or behind a tree? If you have a contraption for a toilet seat is it comfortable? Does it sing, warm up your behind or massage it while you do your business? DO you have a state of the art loo which you proudly show-off to your visitors at the slightest whiff? Now meet what Icheoku would consider the mother of all that sees our private parts unhindered. This is what Icheoku calls, state of the art and if you have one, advertise it!


FYI: Until next Sunday when we come your way again, always remember what you pray for? The notorious American Taliban Fundamentalist James Dobson's Focus on the Family group prayed to their "god" to send down rain to mar Barack Obama's open-air acceptance speech at Invesco Stadium in Denver. However their "god" was sleeping and could only wake up after the beautiful convention speech was long over. Now it is answering their prayers late with Hurricane Gustav to stop their own evil Republican Convention slated for Monday, September 1, 2008 at Minneapolis! Who says "gods" do not answer prayers? The way to go, James Dobson and crew!

Friday, August 29, 2008

MICHEAL JACKSON TURNS 50, HURRAY!



The young ABC song singer fame, Michael Jackson - a little boy of yesterday who turned a super star at age 9 has grown into a matured adult. Michael Jackson turned 50 years old on Friday, August 29th, 2008. What a presence in the world stage spanning over four decades. Icheoku says, Happy Birthday, King of Pop Jacko Wacko! Your melodies will live forever and will always be a party-shaker till the end of time! Congratulations on turning half a century, it is a wonderful milestone indeed!

BARACK OBAMA SAYS ....ENOUGH!

What a classic that is? The acceptance speech of the Democratic Party's Presidential Nominee Senator Barack Obama! It was as riveting as it was very hopeful and change-themed. Watched by over 30million Americans during prime-time television with a yet to be determined world wide audience, with over 80 thousand people in attendance at Invesco Stadium in Denver; the United States of America is now bonded over and anything short of a total and complete thumping of Senator John McCain in November can only be interpreted one way and one way only - CRASS RACISM!

Are we as Americans going to settle for mediocre this time again? GW's presidency has shown what happens when a country settles for a below-average Joe! George W. Bush eight years of failed governance typifies what happens when a quack is allowed to preside over the affairs of a nation as great as United States of America. The question now is, will America allow this once in a lifetime opportunity which the nomination of Senator Barack Obama teamed with Senator Joseph Biden presents just evaporate because of mere bigotry? Icheoku says not this time and America must reject mediocrity and shoot for the stars. Ancient Grandpa Senator John McCain is so yesterday and we must throw our hat in the ring with the future, Senator Barack Obama! Democratic Party's Presidential Nominee Barack Obama is the answer to the question, how does America move forward from GW's squandered eight years?. America, an opportunity calls for America to soar and is determinedly knocking on the door, so America, open the door and let us begin to hope again. Keep hope alive visit www.barackobama.com!

Senator Barack Obama as expected delivered a TKO and literally speaking extracted a bucketful of tears of joy from so many admirers including this blogger. It is only a nay-sayer, the pessimist and/or a racist bigot who would fault the stellar speech delivered in a venue which decor was heavenly with a perfect weather condition which could only have been approved by a higher being. This blogger now believes that there is a hand of the almighty behind the phenom called BARACK OBAMA!

Without any further introduction or ado please let yourself into the fabled speech of the century of which like there has never been any. Now the full text of Senator Barack Obama's acceptance speech titled “The American Promise” of the Democratic Party's Presidential Nomination in Invesco Field, Denver Colorado on Thursday, August 28th, 2008. Happy reading!

"To Chairman Dean and my great friend Dick Durbin; and to all my fellow citizens of this great nation; With profound gratitude and great humility, I accept your nomination for the presidency of the United States. Let me express my thanks to the historic slate of candidates who accompanied me on this journey, and especially the one who traveled the farthest — a champion for working Americans and an inspiration to my daughters and to yours — Hillary Rodham Clinton. To President Clinton, who last night made the case for change as only he can make it; to Ted Kennedy, who embodies the spirit of service; and to the next Vice President of the United States, Joe Biden, I thank you. I am grateful to finish this journey with one of the finest statesmen of our time, a man at ease with everyone from world leaders to the conductors on the Amtrak train he still takes home every night. To the love of my life, our next First Lady, Michelle Obama, and to Sasha and Malia — I love you so much, and I’m so proud of all of you.

Four years ago, I stood before you and told you my story — of the brief union between a young man from Kenya and a young woman from Kansas who weren’t well-off or well-known, but shared a belief that in America, their son could achieve whatever he put his mind to. It is that promise that has always set this country apart — that through hard work and sacrifice, each of us can pursue our individual dreams but still come together as one American family, to ensure that the next generation can pursue their dreams as well. That’s why I stand here tonight. Because for two hundred and thirty two years, at each moment when that promise was in jeopardy, ordinary men and women — students and soldiers, farmers and teachers, nurses and janitors — found the courage to keep it alive. We meet at one of those defining moments — a moment when our nation is at war, our economy is in turmoil, and the American promise has been threatened once more. Tonight, more Americans are out of work and more are working harder for less. More of you have lost your homes and even more are watching your home values plummet. More of you have cars you can’t afford to drive, credit card bills you can’t afford to pay, and tuition that’s beyond your reach.

These challenges are not all of government’s making. But the failure to respond is a direct result of a broken politics in Washington and the failed policies of George W. Bush. America, we are better than these last eight years. We are a better country than this. This country is more decent than one where a woman in Ohio, on the brink of retirement, finds herself one illness away from disaster after a lifetime of hard work. This country is more generous than one where a man in Indiana has to pack up the equipment he’s worked on for twenty years and watch it shipped off to China, and then chokes up as he explains how he felt like a failure when he went home to tell his family the news. We are more compassionate than a government that lets veterans sleep on our streets and families slide into poverty; that sits on its hands while a major American city drowns before our eyes.

Tonight, I say to the American people, to Democrats and Republicans and Independents across this great land — enough! This moment — this election — is our chance to keep, in the 21st century, the American promise alive. Because next week, in Minnesota, the same party that brought you two terms of George Bush and Dick Cheney will ask this country for a third. And we are here because we love this country too much to let the next four years look like the last eight. On November 4th, we must stand up and say: “Eight is enough.”
Now let there be no doubt. The Republican nominee, John McCain, has worn the uniform of our country with bravery and distinction, and for that we owe him our gratitude and respect. And next week, we’ll also hear about those occasions when he’s broken with his party as evidence that he can deliver the change that we need. But the record’s clear: John McCain has voted with George Bush ninety percent of the time. Senator McCain likes to talk about judgment, but really, what does it say about your judgment when you think George Bush has been right more than ninety percent of the time? I don’t know about you, but I’m not ready to take a ten percent chance on change. The truth is, on issue after issue that would make a difference in your lives — on health care and education and the economy — Senator McCain has been anything but independent. He said that our economy has made “great progress” under this President. He said that the fundamentals of the economy are strong. And when one of his chief advisors — the man who wrote his economic plan — was talking about the anxiety Americans are feeling, he said that we were just suffering from a “mental recession,” and that we’ve become, and I quote, “a nation of whiners.” A nation of whiners? Tell that to the proud auto workers at a Michigan plant who, after they found out it was closing, kept showing up every day and working as hard as ever, because they knew there were people who counted on the brakes that they made. Tell that to the military families who shoulder their burdens silently as they watch their loved ones leave for their third or fourth or fifth tour of duty. These are not whiners. They work hard and give back and keep going without complaint. These are the Americans that I know.

Now, I don’t believe that Senator McCain doesn’t care what’s going on in the lives of Americans. I just think he doesn’t know. Why else would he define middle-class as someone making under five million dollars a year? How else could he propose hundreds of billions in tax breaks for big corporations and oil companies but not one penny of tax relief to more than one hundred million Americans? How else could he offer a health care plan that would actually tax people’s benefits, or an education plan that would do nothing to help families pay for college, or a plan that would privatize Social Security and gamble your retirement? It’s not because John McCain doesn’t care. It’s because John McCain doesn’t get it. For over two decades, he’s subscribed to that old, discredited Republican philosophy — give more and more to those with the most and hope that prosperity trickles down to everyone else. In Washington, they call this the Ownership Society, but what it really means is — you’re on your own. Out of work? Tough luck. No health care? The market will fix it. Born into poverty? Pull yourself up by your own bootstraps — even if you don’t have boots. You’re on your own. Well it’s time for them to own their failure. It’s time for us to change America. You see, we Democrats have a very different measure of what constitutes progress in this country. We measure progress by how many people can find a job that pays the mortgage; whether you can put a little extra money away at the end of each month so you can someday watch your child receive her college diploma. We measure progress in the 23 million new jobs that were created when Bill Clinton was President — when the average American family saw its income go up $7,500 instead of down $2,000 like it has under George Bush.

We measure the strength of our economy not by the number of billionaires we have or the profits of the Fortune 500, but by whether someone with a good idea can take a risk and start a new business, or whether the waitress who lives on tips can take a day off to look after a sick kid without losing her job — an economy that honors the dignity of work. The fundamentals we use to measure economic strength are whether we are living up to that fundamental promise that has made this country great — a promise that is the only reason I am standing here tonight. Because in the faces of those young veterans who come back from Iraq and Afghanistan, I see my grandfather, who signed up after Pearl Harbor, marched in Patton’s Army, and was rewarded by a grateful nation with the chance to go to college on the GI Bill. In the face of that young student who sleeps just three hours before working the night shift, I think about my mom, who raised my sister and me on her own while she worked and earned her degree; who once turned to food stamps but was still able to send us to the best schools in the country with the help of student loans and scholarships. When I listen to another worker tell me that his factory has shut down, I remember all those men and women on the South Side of Chicago who I stood by and fought for two decades ago after the local steel plant closed. And when I hear a woman talk about the difficulties of starting her own business, I think about my grandmother, who worked her way up from the secretarial pool to middle-management, despite years of being passed over for promotions because she was a woman. She’s the one who taught me about hard work. She’s the one who put off buying a new car or a new dress for herself so that I could have a better life. She poured everything she had into me. And although she can no longer travel, I know that she’s watching tonight, and that tonight is her night as well.

I don’t know what kind of lives John McCain thinks that celebrities lead, but this has been mine. These are my heroes. Theirs are the stories that shaped me. And it is on their behalf that I intend to win this election and keep our promise alive as President of the United States.
What is that promise? It’s a promise that says each of us has the freedom to make of our own lives what we will, but that we also have the obligation to treat each other with dignity and respect. It’s a promise that says the market should reward drive and innovation and generate growth, but that businesses should live up to their responsibilities to create American jobs, look out for American workers, and play by the rules of the road. Ours is a promise that says government cannot solve all our problems, but what it should do is that which we cannot do for ourselves — protect us from harm and provide every child a decent education; keep our water clean and our toys safe; invest in new schools and new roads and new science and technology.
Our government should work for us, not against us. It should help us, not hurt us. It should ensure opportunity not just for those with the most money and influence, but for every American who’s willing to work. That’s the promise of America — the idea that we are responsible for ourselves, but that we also rise or fall as one nation; the fundamental belief that I am my brother’s keeper; I am my sister’s keeper. That’s the promise we need to keep. That’s the change we need right now. So let me spell out exactly what that change would mean if I am President.

Change means a tax code that doesn’t reward the lobbyists who wrote it, but the American workers and small businesses who deserve it. Unlike John McCain, I will stop giving tax breaks to corporations that ship jobs overseas, and I will start giving them to companies that create good jobs right here in America. I will eliminate capital gains taxes for the small businesses and the start-ups that will create the high-wage, high-tech jobs of tomorrow. I will cut taxes — cut taxes — for 95% of all working families. Because in an economy like this, the last thing we should do is raise taxes on the middle-class. And for the sake of our economy, our security, and the future of our planet, I will set a clear goal as President: in ten years, we will finally end our dependence on oil from the Middle East. Washington’s been talking about our oil addiction for the last thirty years, and John McCain has been there for twenty-six of them. In that time, he’s said no to higher fuel-efficiency standards for cars, no to investments in renewable energy, no to renewable fuels. And today, we import triple the amount of oil as the day that Senator McCain took office. Now is the time to end this addiction, and to understand that drilling is a stop-gap measure, not a long-term solution. Not even close. As President, I will tap our natural gas reserves, invest in clean coal technology, and find ways to safely harness nuclear power. I’ll help our auto companies re-tool, so that the fuel-efficient cars of the future are built right here in America. I’ll make it easier for the American people to afford these new cars. And I’ll invest 150 billion dollars over the next decade in affordable, renewable sources of energy — wind power and solar power and the next generation of biofuels; an investment that will lead to new industries and five million new jobs that pay well and can’t ever be outsourced.

America, now is not the time for small plans. Now is the time to finally meet our moral obligation to provide every child a world-class education, because it will take nothing less to compete in the global economy. Michelle and I are only here tonight because we were given a chance at an education. And I will not settle for an America where some kids don’t have that chance. I’ll invest in early childhood education. I’ll recruit an army of new teachers, and pay them higher salaries and give them more support. And in exchange, I’ll ask for higher standards and more accountability. And we will keep our promise to every young American — if you commit to serving your community or your country, we will make sure you can afford a college education.
Now is the time to finally keep the promise of affordable, accessible health care for every single American. If you have health care, my plan will lower your premiums. If you don’t, you’ll be able to get the same kind of coverage that members of Congress give themselves. And as someone who watched my mother argue with insurance companies while she lay in bed dying of cancer, I will make certain those companies stop discriminating against those who are sick and need care the most. Now is the time to help families with paid sick days and better family leave, because nobody in America should have to choose between keeping their jobs and caring for a sick child or ailing parent. Now is the time to change our bankruptcy laws, so that your pensions are protected ahead of CEO bonuses; and the time to protect Social Security for future generations.
And now is the time to keep the promise of equal pay for an equal day’s work, because I want my daughters to have exactly the same opportunities as your sons. Now, many of these plans will cost money, which is why I’ve laid out how I’ll pay for every dime — by closing corporate loopholes and tax havens that don’t help America grow. But I will also go through the federal budget, line by line, eliminating programs that no longer work and making the ones we do need work better and cost less — because we cannot meet twenty-first century challenges with a twentieth century bureaucracy.

And Democrats, we must also admit that fulfilling America’s promise will require more than just money. It will require a renewed sense of responsibility from each of us to recover what John F. Kennedy called our “intellectual and moral strength.” Yes, government must lead on energy independence, but each of us must do our part to make our homes and businesses more efficient. Yes, we must provide more ladders to success for young men who fall into lives of crime and despair. But we must also admit that programs alone can’t replace parents; that government can’t turn off the television and make a child do her homework; that fathers must take more responsibility for providing the love and guidance their children need. Individual responsibility and mutual responsibility — that’s the essence of America’s promise. And just as we keep our keep our promise to the next generation here at home, so must we keep America’s promise abroad. If John McCain wants to have a debate about who has the temperament, and judgment, to serve as the next Commander-in-Chief, that’s a debate I’m ready to have.
For while Senator McCain was turning his sights to Iraq just days after 9/11, I stood up and opposed this war, knowing that it would distract us from the real threats we face. When John McCain said we could just “muddle through” in Afghanistan, I argued for more resources and more troops to finish the fight against the terrorists who actually attacked us on 9/11, and made clear that we must take out Osama bin Laden and his lieutenants if we have them in our sights. John McCain likes to say that he’ll follow bin Laden to the Gates of Hell — but he won’t even go to the cave where he lives.
And today, as my call for a time frame to remove our troops from Iraq has been echoed by the Iraqi government and even the Bush Administration, even after we learned that Iraq has a $79 billion surplus while we’re wallowing in deficits, John McCain stands alone in his stubborn refusal to end a misguided war. That’s not the judgment we need. That won’t keep America safe. We need a President who can face the threats of the future, not keep grasping at the ideas of the past. You don’t defeat a terrorist network that operates in eighty countries by occupying Iraq. You don’t protect Israel and deter Iran just by talking tough in Washington. You can’t truly stand up for Georgia when you’ve strained our oldest alliances. If John McCain wants to follow George Bush with more tough talk and bad strategy, that is his choice — but it is not the change we need.

We are the party of Roosevelt. We are the party of Kennedy. So don’t tell me that Democrats won’t defend this country. Don’t tell me that Democrats won’t keep us safe. The Bush-McCain foreign policy has squandered the legacy that generations of Americans — Democrats and Republicans — have built, and we are here to restore that legacy. As Commander-in-Chief, I will never hesitate to defend this nation, but I will only send our troops into harm’s way with a clear mission and a sacred commitment to give them the equipment they need in battle and the care and benefits they deserve when they come home. I will end this war in Iraq responsibly, and finish the fight against al Qaeda and the Taliban in Afghanistan. I will rebuild our military to meet future conflicts. But I will also renew the tough, direct diplomacy that can prevent Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons and curb Russian aggression. I will build new partnerships to defeat the threats of the 21st century: terrorism and nuclear proliferation; poverty and genocide; climate change and disease. And I will restore our moral standing, so that America is once again that last, best hope for all who are called to the cause of freedom, who long for lives of peace, and who yearn for a better future.


These are the policies I will pursue. And in the weeks ahead, I look forward to debating them with John McCain. But what I will not do is suggest that the Senator takes his positions for political purposes. Because one of the things that we have to change in our politics is the idea that people cannot disagree without challenging each other’s character and patriotism. The times are too serious, the stakes are too high for this same partisan playbook. So let us agree that patriotism has no party. I love this country, and so do you, and so does John McCain. The men and women who serve in our battlefields may be Democrats and Republicans and Independents, but they have fought together and bled together and some died together under the same proud flag. They have not served a Red America or a Blue America — they have served the United States of America. So I’ve got news for you, John McCain. We all put our country first. America, our work will not be easy. The challenges we face require tough choices, and Democrats as well as Republicans will need to cast off the worn-out ideas and politics of the past. For part of what has been lost these past eight years can’t just be measured by lost wages or bigger trade deficits. What has also been lost is our sense of common purpose — our sense of higher purpose. And that’s what we have to restore.
We may not agree on abortion, but surely we can agree on reducing the number of unwanted pregnancies in this country. The reality of gun ownership may be different for hunters in rural Ohio than for those plagued by gang-violence in Cleveland, but don’t tell me we can’t uphold the Second Amendment while keeping AK-47s out of the hands of criminals. I know there are differences on same-sex marriage, but surely we can agree that our gay and lesbian brothers and sisters deserve to visit the person they love in the hospital and to live lives free of discrimination. Passions fly on immigration, but I don’t know anyone who benefits when a mother is separated from her infant child or an employer undercuts American wages by hiring illegal workers. This too is part of America’s promise — the promise of a democracy where we can find the strength and grace to bridge divides and unite in common effort. I know there are those who dismiss such beliefs as happy talk. They claim that our insistence on something larger, something firmer and more honest in our public life is just a Trojan Horse for higher taxes and the abandonment of traditional values. And that’s to be expected. Because if you don’t have any fresh ideas, then you use stale tactics to scare the voters. If you don’t have a record to run on, then you paint your opponent as someone people should run from. You make a big election about small things. And you know what — it’s worked before. Because it feeds into the cynicism we all have about government. When Washington doesn’t work, all its promises seem empty. If your hopes have been dashed again and again, then it’s best to stop hoping, and settle for what you already know.

I get it. I realize that I am not the likeliest candidate for this office. I don’t fit the typical pedigree, and I haven’t spent my career in the halls of Washington. But I stand before you tonight because all across America something is stirring. What the nay-sayers don’t understand is that this election has never been about me. It’s been about you. For eighteen long months, you have stood up, one by one, and said enough to the politics of the past. You understand that in this election, the greatest risk we can take is to try the same old politics with the same old players and expect a different result. You have shown what history teaches us — that at defining moments like this one, the change we need doesn’t come from Washington. Change comes to Washington. Change happens because the American people demand it — because they rise up and insist on new ideas and new leadership, a new politics for a new time.
America, this is one of those moments. I believe that as hard as it will be, the change we need is coming. Because I’ve seen it. Because I’ve lived it. I’ve seen it in Illinois, when we provided health care to more children and moved more families from welfare to work. I’ve seen it in Washington, when we worked across party lines to open up government and hold lobbyists more accountable, to give better care for our veterans and keep nuclear weapons out of terrorist hands. And I’ve seen it in this campaign. In the young people who voted for the first time, and in those who got involved again after a very long time. In the Republicans who never thought they’d pick up a Democratic ballot, but did. I’ve seen it in the workers who would rather cut their hours back a day than see their friends lose their jobs, in the soldiers who re-enlist after losing a limb, in the good neighbors who take a stranger in when a hurricane strikes and the floodwaters rise.
This country of ours has more wealth than any nation, but that’s not what makes us rich. We have the most powerful military on Earth, but that’s not what makes us strong. Our universities and our culture are the envy of the world, but that’s not what keeps the world coming to our shores. Instead, it is that American spirit — that American promise — that pushes us forward even when the path is uncertain; that binds us together in spite of our differences; that makes us fix our eye not on what is seen, but what is unseen, that better place around the bend. That promise is our greatest inheritance. It’s a promise I make to my daughters when I tuck them in at night, and a promise that you make to yours — a promise that has led immigrants to cross oceans and pioneers to travel west; a promise that led workers to picket lines, and women to reach for the ballot. And it is that promise that forty five years ago today, brought Americans from every corner of this land to stand together on a Mall in Washington, before Lincoln’s Memorial, and hear a young preacher from Georgia speak of his dream. The men and women who gathered there could’ve heard many things. They could’ve heard words of anger and discord. They could’ve been told to succumb to the fear and frustration of so many dreams deferred. But what the people heard instead — people of every creed and color, from every walk of life — is that in America, our destiny is inextricably linked. That together, our dreams can be one. “We cannot walk alone,” the preacher cried. “And as we walk, we must make the pledge that we shall always march ahead. We cannot turn back.” America, we cannot turn back. Not with so much work to be done. Not with so many children to educate, and so many veterans to care for. Not with an economy to fix and cities to rebuild and farms to save. Not with so many families to protect and so many lives to mend. America, we cannot turn back. We cannot walk alone. At this moment, in this election, we must pledge once more to march into the future. Let us keep that promise — that American promise — and in the words of Scripture hold firmly, without wavering, to the hope that we confess.
Thank you, God Bless you, and God Bless the United States of America".

Thursday, August 28, 2008

ICHEOKU'S OTHER VOICES OF THE CONVENTION!

1. Senator Ted Kennedy:
This American adorable teddy bear Senator from Massachusetts braved it to the convention to reassure America that Barack Obama is the one and told America that they don't have to have John McCain and the Republican Party again. Ted Kennedy spoke for this blogger as well as million other Americans. If you feel shortchanged with GW's eight years of abysmal performance, then do something about it - do not vote for Senator John McCain as he is the twin of George Bush and you will fare worse under his administration. It does not make sense to just vote out of your hatred but ask yourself, is your hatred enough reason to suffer four more years of sloppy governance? Listen to the wise counselling of Senator Ted Kennedy that you don't have to have Senator John McCain! Vote for Barack Obama in November 2008 for president - he is what the doctor ordered! For a complete read of what Uncle Ted said to the American people click this link Full Text: Senator Ted Kennedy Remarks to Democratic National Convention
2. President Bill Clinton: The "boy" from Hope Arkansas declared unequivocally that Barack Obama is ready to be president and who else is more qualified to give such testimony than a former president himself. America you must listen to a man of authority who has been there and done that. President Bill Clinton has spoken and so shall it be. Barack Obama is the preferred candidate for the presidency in November 2008! Now you may read the full text of Bill Clinton's Speech at Denver
3. Vice president Al Gore:


The face of global warming, former vice president Al Gore said that he believes in recycling but another Bush/Cheney recycled as John McCain is ludicrous! Let all that have ear listen as this great American Nobel Laureate has foresight and is a recycling authority so when he says do not recycle, please do not recycle! For additional reading of Al Gore's speech at Denver's Democratic Party's convention, click Full text of Al Gore's speech

4. Monica Early from Ohio: this "ordinary" American made a case for Americans not to allow themselves to be seen as a country of lunatics. According to this insurance agent from Cuyahoga Ohio, doing the same thing over and over again expecting different results is the classical definition of lunacy. Americans elected George Bush once, then again and if they should elect John McCain in November then it will be a testament to their lunacy as both men are two sides of the same coin and nothing different can come out of John McCain's governance but the same pain and suffering. She said that Americans will be held responsible it they elect John McCain as insane people. Her remarks now click 2008 Democratic National Convention Remarks by Monica Early
5. Vice presidential candidate, Senator Joseph Biden:


Quoting Abraham Lincoln this affable Scranton-Pennsylvania born lawyer and Delaware senator extolled Americans to be sure to put their feet in the right place and then stand firm. America there is no greater time for this call than the present. OBAMADEN (Obama+Biden) is the right place, so cast your lot with the duo and stand firm despite all the republicans unfounded besmirching campaigns of calumny. The Obama+Biden team is the only way and true way if you want to emerge out of the sink-hole where GW has sunk America! So in November 2008, vote for ObamaBiden ticket! Visit www.barackobama.com to and help make this effort a success! Here now is the full text of Joe Biden's speech:- Full text of Joe Biden's speech in Denver