WHITNEY HOUSTON'S DEATH, BOBBY BROWN'S CULPABILITY?

Just asking, is there under any circumstance burnt-out rapper Bobby Brown could be arrested and prosecuted for aiding and facilitating the death of singer Whitney Houston? This question becomes imperative because Whitney Houston killed herself, using the instrumentality of extensive use of illicit drugs, which to public knowledge was courtesy of her estranged husband, bad-boy Bobby Brown who introduced her to it. Icheoku wonders if aiding an emotionally unstable woman by providing her access to illicit drugs qualifies as a crime punishable by law under certain circumstances such as the tragedy that was Bobby Brown's meeting Whitney Houston in the first place? Anybody with superior knowledge should please let us know as this guy is or ought to be somehow partly held accountable for the fate which befell his ex-wife.

Look at the picture of a strung-out-on-some-substance couple, Whitney and Bobby, giggly as only "under the influence" would elicit; with Whitney's eyes practically shut down as consumed drugs overwhelms her? What a shame that a death which everybody literally saw coming eventually took away Whitney Houston, thereby making a rude joke of the saying that to before warned is to before harmed. Icheoku asks, where was the intervention, confinement and put in another way, the Britney Spear's treatment that turned around a once cliff-bound Britney Spears?

CRACK IS WHACK AND IT WHACKED HER!

Icheoku says that is the problem with hangers-on and posses as they never tell you the home-truth but whatever the heck you want to hear as long as you continue to lay their golden eggs. Their loyalty is just the greenbacks nothing more otherwise some trusted fellows like family members would not have watched Whitney disintegrate completely. Now she has drugged herself to death, who knows who their next victim will be. Simply put, Whitney Houston literally killed herself - suicide by crack and she saw it coming but strut headlong over the cliff anyway!

CRACK IS WHACK WHITNEY HOUSTON, NOW FINALLY DEAD!

Icheoku says the dead-woman walking, the songstress who reached an Olympian height of singing only to free-fall from grace to grass and whose addiction to drugs was of public knowledge, the American version of the also-overdosed to death late British singer Amy Winehouse, Madam Crack is Whack, the lady who Bobby Brown helped destroy and made into a crack-head, the woman otherwise formerly known as Whitney Houston is dead, as in gone to the world beyond. 

Any watcher of Whitney's dramatic destruction would agree that it was only a matter of time before her shrivelled body turned up somewhere in a fetal position, dead by overdose. Now the fear has turned into reality as the former song-bird turned up dead in Los Angeles, Saturday February 11, 2012, the eve of Music industry's Grammy Award. Whitney Houston was 48 and now joins the so many talents and celebrities who have fallen victim to their unbridled appetite and addiction to the white-snuff. 

What a pity for the black American community who have yet suffered another loss of one of their own stars, following last few weeks suicide by gun of Soul-Train encore Don Cornelius and Micheal Jackson who died of similar overdose the previous few years. May the crack is whack soul of Whitney Houston now rest and hopefully her demise will serve as a wake-up call to all other knuckle-heads out there who are strung out on the white substance as well as crack etc.

IRAN TO UNVEIL NUCLEAR MILESTONES?

Icheoku asks, is Iran deliberately goading the West to strike it and secretly praying they do so in order to consolidate its power base and rally the Mideast against their perceived enemy, the United States of America? Otherwise why all these taunting on their march to obtaining nuclear power, including this latest declaration by President Ahmadinejad that "within the next few days the world will witness the inauguration of several big new achievements in the nuclear field." 

Icheoku asks, could Tehran have a joker they would play in the event the West bites their bait of nearing acquisition of nuclear power and drop some bombs in Nantanz and Tehran? Icheoku really is lost at what forms Iranian "bravado" in this face-off with practically the world; but it would appear the eclipsing sanction is beginning to bite otherwise Ahmadinejad would not have said that "Iran is ready for talks within the framework of equality and justice" irrespective of his following bluster that Iran "will never enter talks if enemies behave arrogantly." Icheoku says whatever the outcome of the current fighting words, the only thing certain in the circumstance is that in the event of an outbreak of shooting hostilities, Iran will not and can never win a war against the West. They can only bring unto themselves a devastating destruction should push comes to shove as they are likely to get their wish to be attacked if their current confrontational stance does not yield to reason.

ROMNEY MORPHS INTO A SEVERE AND ACUTE CONSERVATIVE?

America, we have a new word in the lexicography of Republican Party politics, it is called "severely conservative," whatever that means? According to the quisling politician from Massachusetts, the man who shows his face of Janus differently to different people, depending on which audience he is speaking to or standing before, conservatism could be severe. 

Icheoku says the last time we checked, when something like someone's party ideology is severe, it never bodes well for others outside the few protected and privileged class of party faithfuls. Usually, it requires some outside strong intervention to forcibly give it some compassionate human heart to treat others as sane enough to want differently. Such a position as "severely or acutely conservative" bothers on the fringes of a Taliban-styled extremism and fundamentalism, and should have no place in American politics where majority independents refused to be teleguided or herded in one ideological direction but would rather, solely rely on their individual well informed judgement.

Icheoku says, for lack of a better word, the latest claim or assertion by the "vulture capitalist" Mitt Romney smacks of desperation at best. Mitt Romney, now starring his chances at securing the Republican Party's presidential candidate nomination being shut down and foreclosed, following his trouncing in three states by conservative poster-candidate Rick Santorium, suddenly decided to play-up a trump card of his imaginary conservative credentials. The plastic man of Massachusetts, a poor peoples hater and an ordained bishop of the Mormon cult, the face of America's 1% Wall Street vulture capitalism, Mitt Romney of Massachusetts, touted his none existent and phantom "conservative" credential as being "a severely conservative Republican governor.” Who would begrudge a man who tells himself lies that he is not what his head tells him otherwise who would pride himself in being an extreme version or severe version of what is, but a man who has lied so much that lies are seeming sounding truth in his ears while thinking that America conservatives are brain-dead yo yo who could be easily swayed or forced to change their position or knowledge of the subject which Mitt Romney represent in this case.

Icheoku queries, does encouraging young girls to seek courts consent to procure abortion where their parents refuses sound like "severely conservatism?" Saying that gay people have right to marry does not sound "severely conservative" either and so is palling with The Donald, whose thrice married lifestyle is not a conservative characteristic except you ask Newt Gingrich? Icheoku would however concede to Mitt Romney that his hatred for the poor is a perfect-fit for conservatism; likewise driving wedges among the different mosaic of people that make up and inhabit the United States of America. But whether stashing millions of dollars in a foreign Swiss bank account, instead of investing it here to help create jobs for millions of jobless Americans is "severely conservative" is beyond my Economics 101 class knowledge. Further is Mitt Romney's voting for Democratic Party's candidates instead of his Republican candidates conservative? What about saying he will not send American troops into Pakistan if actionable intelligence exist that Osama bin Laden was hold up there, or is this what his warped "severely conservative" purports? Before Icheoku forgets, was deleting all his records as a governor from all computer files and hard-drives part of being a "severely conservative" Republican governor of Massachusetts? Icheoku like millions of Americans are still lost at sea on what this man was and still is hiding about himself or his records that made him to purchase all computers of the state of Massachusetts and destroyed them in order to hide his record as a "severely conservative Republican governor of Massachusetts?

Anyway, without belaboring the latest phraseology and new addition to the Republican Party politics, which already have GW's "compassionate conservatism," please let's welcome Mitt Romney's very own self-invented "severe conservatism." Icheoku however wonders whether this "fake" man, who seems to have a lot to hide and thus comes off as not being genuine or real, would have a place in his government for the "others" of America. The problem of this world is that so many people, such as Mitt Romney and his severely conservative wing of the Republican Party, are always strung out on their very myopic and bigoted positions on issues and politics; so what becomes the fate of all those others who do not share or agree with this their pigeonholed fanaticism and extremism. In Mitt Romney's own words, he said, "I know conservatism because I have lived conservatism; I was a severely conservative Republican governor of and from Massachusetts."

However, Professor Ezejiofor of University of Nigeria Law Faculty of the blessed memory used to say, "it does not lie in the mouth just to say that you are this and that; and saying so does not necessarily mean it is so." Therefore, the ever calculating Mormon bishop cannot and should not be allowed to pull a wool over our eyes as we already know him and the stuff he is made of. At this eleventh hour and so late into his political formative years, it would be totally ingenious of Mitt Romney to try to reinvent another Mitt Romney different from that Mitt Romney who America knows is not a conservative, talk-less of a "severe conservative." Also no amount of his saying so or the decibel of its utterance would make us suffer the amnesia of who Mitt Romney truly is.

May be by next week, the Mormon cult bishop would begin to claim that he is a Catholic by proxy of some distant relative in Mexico; assuming his membership of the Mormon cult begins to take a toll on his desperate bid to claim the Republican Party's nomination. What a FAKE this Mitt Romney of Massachusetts is; but gladly enough the conservative grass-root American Republicans are not biting his bait of poison this time, never again as this is not 2008 anymore. The real Americans, the grass root American conservatives, have soundly and unequivocally, rejected any such attempt by either the New York/Washington Republican establishment or their anointed surrogate, Mitt Romney of Massachusetts, to pull a fast-ball on them this time. In the year 2012, grass-root conservatives want and shall have a real conservative and not an Obama-lite fair-weather conservative like the ever somersaulting Mitt of Massachusetts, who have perfected the art of speaking from both sides of his mouth and mouthing off things his conviction is in conflict with just to fool some people.

ROMNEY THUMPED, SANTORIUM SWEEPS THREE STATES.

Icheoku says as a sign of things to come, the Mormon bishop and the man who does not care about the poor, plastic-man Mitt Romney of Massachusetts has been rejected by voters in Missouri, Minnesota and Colorado. With an overwhelming majority, the three states voted for Rick Santorium as the only authentic conservative Republican in the race for the party's presidential nomination; thereby sending a clear unequivocal message as well as the first warning salvo to say that Mitt Romney is unacceptable to the Republican base and will be demolished in the general election. Icheoku advises the man who speaks on both sides of his mouth to just save his energy and money and go away since he stands no chance in hell of winning in November, having been rejected by his own party's base and any attempt to still impose him anyway as the Republican presidential candidate will spell doom for the party.

Also the voters in these three states sent a strong message to the other wives-trader, Newt Gingrich, that American White House has been sanctified following the days of Lewinsky and has no place for a morally bankrupt adulterous grandfather; who was so mean as to divorce his cancer-stricken wife on her hospital bed while she was writhing in pain, taking chemotherapy and radiation, and ran off with a girlfriend. Icheoku queries, if Newt Gingrich could be this mean to his own wife and mother of his children, how much more would he kick the rest of us around as worthless dirt if given the opportunity. Icheoku asks, where lies Newt Gingrich's compassion? These bunch of republican presidential candidates wanna-be really suck and Fidel Castro might have been right when he described them as an assemblage of idiocy? Just an aside, this developing story out of these three states shows that both Alaskan Sarah Palin's endorsement of Newt as well as Donald Trump's endorsement of Mitt did not produce any traction; or it may be overt rejection of two candidates, palling around with the "dumbo" and the "too rich" respectively.

REPUBLICAN PRESIDENTIAL PRIMARIES, TURNS DOG EAT DOG?

"Mitt Romney loves firing workers but unlike Newt Gingrich, he did not fire a wife on her death bed" - Rush Limbaugh. Icheoku says this 2012 Republican party primaries, I'm lovin it like McDonald's. May there never be any truce nor surrender in this bare-knuckles fight to finish by these wanna-bees in their effort to clinch the presidential candidate nomination of their party. A bunch so far described as God's gift of a second term to President BO.

SUPER BOWL XLVI, IT IS NEW YORK GIANTS.

Icheoku congratulates the New York Giants for winning the XLVI Super Bowl 2012. The Giants defeated New England Patriots 21 - 17 to carry the Vince Lombardi trophy in a spectacular game in Indianapolis, Indiana. Icheoku says that will at least make San Francisco 49ners somewhat consolable that they lost to the eventual champions. Well played NY.

GENERAL IBRAHIM BABANGIDA'S DOCTRINE OF SETTLED ISSUES" - FEMI FANI-KAYODE

"There is a doctrine known as the ''Doctrine of Nigeria's Settled Issues'' and nobody should attempt to tamper with them.  Number one, I don't want any one of us to tamper with anything to do with Nigerian unity. Number two, the republican constitution is also a settled issue, more or less. Number three, the states are the federating units of this country and number four we are a capitalist country. Anybody that wants to talk about this country must make sure that he doesn't do anything that will disrupt these basic settled issues in our political life.'-  Ibrahim Babangida, The Daily Trust Annual Dialogue, Abuja, 26th January 2012.'  

I" have nothing but the deepest love, respect and affection for General Ibrahim Babangida and those that know me can attest to this. He is not only a great and profoundly good man that has sacrificed so much for our nation but he is also one of the very few truly detribalised leaders who genuinely and honestly loves Nigeria and who passionately believes that the interest of every Nigerian is better served if our country remains as one. I do not for one minute doubt his sincerity of purpose or his deep sense of patriotism. Anyone that can take a bullet to keep Nigeria one must always be given his due respect and honour. He, General Yakubu Gowon, President Shehu Shagari, President Olusegun Obasanjo, General Muhammadu Buhari, General T.Y. Danjuma and a handful of other past leaders and elder statesmen have done more to hold this country together by the sheer force of their will and their sense of patriotism than any other group of people since 1966 and for this every Nigerian owes them an enormous debt of gratitude. They have also consistently put their lives on the line for our country which is no mean thing. However whether we like it or not, this is the beginning of a new dawn and a new era for our country and Nigeria is once again at a major crossroads just as she was at the beginning of 1966. And despite the genuine affection that I have for General Babangida I am afraid that, from an intellectual and political perspective, I have to respectfully and humbly disagree with him on this issue. I do not believe that there is any such thing as a ''Doctrine of Settled Issues'' in our body politic and neither, in my view, is Nigeria as we know it today a sacrosanct, unbreakable or unchangeable union. It is trite that the only thing that is certain in the life of men and nations is change. Whether we like it or not change is like an irresistible tide and, when it's time comes, it is like a moving train and a raging wind which crushes or blows away anyone or anything that stands in it's way.

You either bend with it or you break. I am a student of history and it may interest those that subscribe to this rather arcane and anachronistic theory known as the ''Doctrine Of Settled Issues'' to know that Nigeria remains the only mega-nation and forced union of incompatibles and numerous nationalities that the British colonial masters cobbled together at the beginning of the 20th century that still remains together today. There were actually three in all and the other two, namely the Sudan and India, have broken into two and three pieces respectively over the years. Why should Nigeria be any different? More importantly why should we be told that Nigeria MUST be different? Would this have been so if there was oil in the north? Again when one considers the delightful and miraculous ''crumbling'' of the almighty Soviet Union (another forced artificial union) or the breaking up of the old Yugoslavia and the emancipation and creation of numerous new countries in the Balkans and eastern Europe which came as a consequence of that magnificent change, I ask again, why should Nigeria be any different? The words of the Iron Lady Margaret Thatcher are instructive here. In the September 2, 1991 edition of Newsweek she said, ''the lesson of this century is that countries put together artificially will fall apart. National identities will not be suppressed''. Twenty years after these famous words were spoken we are beginning to witness their relevance and veracity in Nigeria. The right to self-determination and to forcefully resist what many feel is an internal colonial system is a legitimate and inalienable right of all free men and women. You cannot hold me down and keep me in your house on your own terms and deny me the right to be free or to say or do as I please. If you do not treat me fairly and if you continue to make me feel worthless and full of fear of your terror and ability to inflict violence on me and mine, then eventually, whether you like it or not, I will leave. No one signed their life or their future away to bondage and none of us subscribed to the view that decisions about our country and our future can and have been made by our past leaders and heroes and that they can no longer be changed or altered. I say that they can if the circumstances determine that this must be so. And if you do not give us our rights eventually we will exercise them by force and regardless of how you feel. 

As much as I am amongst those that have criticised the Goodluck Jonathan administration forcefully, objectively and vigorously over some of their policies in the last few months let me make two things clear. Firstly my criticisms are borne out of my concern for our country and nothing else. I have nothing against Mr. President personally other than the fact that by not getting it right he is playing into the hands of the ''born to rule'' northern cabal who believe that he does not have a right to be President simply because he is an Ijaw man. Ironically General Babangida himself has been criticised by this same group over the years for being ''too liberal and accommodating of the south'' and they have often accused him of not towing their line. That is how racist, myopic and absurd some of these people can be. Thankfully the overwhelming majority of the Hausa-Fulani intelligentsia and northern elites do NOT belong to this cabal and are indeed decent, law-abiding, rational and patriotic Nigerians. However there is a small, powerful and strategically-placed cabal that do espouse this Hitlerite philosophy and do believe that no southerner should have the right to rule in peace without being told what to do and without being teleguided and controlled by them. This small group have sworn to make the country ungovernable for Jonathan and we are now seeing the results of that threat. For the record let us just warn these ethnic supremacists that they must not misconstrue the position that some of us have taken when it comes to this government and it's policies as an endorsement of their deeply conspiratorial and despicable ethnic agenda. I should also add that Jonathan must not die under any mysterious circumstances because if this were to happen there may be no Nigeria left afterwards. The new Nigeria has no place and no room for those that believe in the ''born to rule'' philosophy or those that subscribe to any form of Boko Harm or Taliban-style islamic fundamentalism. We will not tolerate it, we will not bow to it and we will resist it with every fibre of our being. 

I have said it before and I will say it again- if Nigeria is not a place that every ethnic nationality is regarded as being equal and is treated as such then let there be no more Nigeria. There is nothing that is sacrosanct about a forced union of incompatibles. If you are in a bad marriage you get out of it before you kill each other. The Lugardian ''poor husband of the north'' cannot force the ''rich wife of the south'' to remain in this unholy and iniquitous union for much longer unless the terms are right and unless there is equity and justice for all. The mistake we made in 1967 by not standing on Aburi will not be repeated. The days of the master/servant relationship that we have witnessed between the north and the south for 51 years of our national existence are long over and they shall never return again. This country is moving forward and she is not going back and if President Goodluck Jonathan can just get his act together and vigorously resist the hegemonist giants in the land he would have my full support and that of millions of others. This is the time for a new vision for our country. It is the time for new leaders who are ready to stand up and speak the truth about our precarious state of affairs and about the direction in which our nation must go. It is the time to talk about the convening of a Sovereign National Conference and to answer the Nationality Question. It is the time for courage. Let us not take our unity for granted or treat it as ''a given''. Nigeria must change, she must be restructured, she must be reformed and she must make every single ''Nigerian'' believe that he or she can get to the top regardless of their nationality or faith.

On a final note permit me to point out the fact that it does not help when you have a northern Governor of Central Bank who seeks to create a subtle but clear intellectual justification for the existence and activities of Boko Haram by telling the Financial Times of London that ''there is clearly a direct link between the very uneven nature of distribution of resources and the rising level of violence. When you look at the figures and you look at the size of the population of the north you can see that there is a structural imbalance of enormous proportions. Those states simply do not have enough money to meet their basic needs whilst some states have too much money''. The subliminal message and signals are clear to the discerning. Yet it does not stop there. Thisday newspaper (28th Jan. 2012) reported that that same individual said that ''attempts to redress historic grievances in Nigeria's oil-rich south may inadvertently have helped create the conditions for the Islamic insurgency spreading from the impoverished north-eastern region of the country''. I am astounded by this contribution and having read it, it is now very clear to me that President Goodluck Jonathan was absolutely right when he told us that there were secret members and sympathisers of Boko Haram at the highest levels of his government. The Governor of Central Bank's rationalisation and attempted justification of the shameful and unacceptable activities of the murderous islamist sect Boko Haram are an eloquent testimony to that fact. Yet he is not alone. The northern Speaker of the Federal House added insult to injury by saying that Boko Haram should be ''forgiven'' for their sins and called to the table for ''dialogue and negotiations''. And this was just a day after the Kano bombings. Mr. President apparently took his advice because just a few days later he reached out to Boko Haram on CNN, BBC and Al Jazeera, asked them to identify themselves and attempted to open a dialogue with them.  In return, and predictably in my view, he was rebuked, spurned, treated with contempt and disdain and told to ''repent and become a muslim'' before any form of dialogue could begin. So much for the advice, counsel and rationalisations of the ''insiders'' and secret members of Boko Haram within our government. My advice to Mr. President is to identify these fifth columnists, name and shame them publicly and weed them out of his government  before it is too late. The longer he waits the more dangerous it will be for him and for a united Nigeria. Let us pray for our country

NDUME ALI OF NIGERIA, A SENATOR-SPONSOR OF TERRORISM?

Icheoku says his is a case of a senator gone rogue. A senator, supposedly elected to help with law making process in Nigeria, decided to cross the fence into law breaking? This is the story of the now arrested and detained Senator of the Federal Republic of Nigeria from Bornu State, who is standing trial for sponsoring and palling with Boko Haram terrorists of Islamic Northern Nigeria. Icheoku says unbelievable, unimaginable and unpalatable!

It is simply unacceptable for a Senator of the Federal Republic of Nigeria to be cavorting with Nigeria's enemy number one, Boko Haram. Icheoku says such a treasonous and despicable person as "Senator" Ndume Ali has no business being a senator in Nigeria or anywhere else for that matter. Since this rogue-senator had the temerity to take up arms against Nigeria vicariously through Boko Haram, Nigeria should in turn show no mercy but descend the full weight of its law on this law maker turned terror-sponsor. If that means giving him the death penalty so be it, but a real example must be set of this mallam to warn off all those others like him waiting in the wings to continue from where he was now forced to stop.

Icheoku says nothing short of meting a very severe punishment on this man would be enough to serve as a deterrent to others and send a clear message that no one, including a senator, is above the law. He is not worthy of being called "Honorable Senator" any longer since he stepped into infamy by joining forces with Boko Haram against Nigeria. What an anti-Nigeria senator of Nigeria this Ndume Ali is who has shown by his action to be getting the back of Boko Haram thus qualifying him as Senator Boko Haram. What a jerk and a jackass, without any thinking brain on his shoulders this mallam is, otherwise what was his reason and/or rational for ganging up against Nigeria with Nigeria's most wanted and most hated group, Boko Haram? Icheoku therefore decrees Ndume Ali, the Senator Dumb and Dumber, Senator Terrorist, Senator Boko Haram and Senator Treason and therefore should no longer worthy to be addressed as  Senator of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. His seat let another take; just send him to the gallows upon conviction and his trial must be expedited too.

TRUMP FOR ROMNEY, THE ENDORSEMENT THAT WILL HURT.

Icheoku says with this endorsement, the battle-line has now been clearly drawn between "the them and the us" - America's 1% and the other 99%. The one per-centers are now ganging up against the majority ninety-nine per-centers in order to protect their nest and continue to profit on the back of the working poor that substantially constitute the 99%. 

When you think the Massachusetts plastic-man and perpetual presidential candidate wanna-be would have learnt some lessons in politics and told The Donald, thanks but no, thanks; he sheepishly accepted the fatal endorsement from the man who changes women like Newt Gingrich? Maybe Newt would have been the natural candidate for Trump to endorse since both share similar characteristics of high turn-over of wives or should Icheoku simply say, women? But when there is money to be made, the rich can pawn even their soul to the devil, so the 99 percent gets the gist of the endorsement.

Icheoku was however not surprised that the blabber-mouth birther apostle-in-chief and a reality television persona sided with the Mormon bishop from Massachusetts, Mitt Romney; as birds of the same feather flock together and both men are filthy rich. The two men possibly also share similar agenda to continue to profit off the back of the ordinary working poor of America and only a Mitt Romney's Utopia presidency will guarantee this continuous erosion of the middle class as well as the bottom dwellers of the American economic chain. So little surprise that The Donald is now backing his cohort one1 per-center as their class are pursuing a clandestine agenda against America's poor and must not be allowed to succeed.

However, Icheoku warns that this is an endorsement Mitt Romney would eventually and very soon, wish he never had nor accepted. His avowal that he does not care about the poor would now reverberate and resonate much stronger, with an attitudinal billionaire, Donald Trump, lining up behind him. Icheoku wonders if it is this Mitt Romney's admission of his disdain for the down-trodden that actually motivated Donald Trump to change his mind and endorsed him since it rumored previously that the thrice married Donald Trump was going to endorse the also thrice married Newt Gingrich? So The Donald suddenly changing his mind and endorsing a poor people-hating Mitt Romney; which by necessary implication paints Donald Trump as also not being comfortable around or sighting the poor of the society, raises some insinuation?


Anyway, whatever may be The Donald's real game-card here, Icheoku does not know; but suffice it to say that the gathering of the hawks is never a good sign for the chicks. The 99 per-centers of America have been sufficiently put on notice and must see this Donald Trump's endorsement of Mitt Romney as an ominous sign that Mitt Romney's presidency will spell doom for the have-nots of America. Therefore they, the 99 per-centers, must see this as a declaration of class-warfare against them and take up the challenge in defense of their right to be humans too. They must do the right thing  and STOP MITT right now before he forces them off the cliff of their precarious economic perch. 


Remember that a vote for Mitt is a vote for economic slavery of the 99%; so be a free man, reject Mitt Romney's candidacy. Also remember he does not like America that much otherwise why would he stash his millions in a Swiss bank account instead of investing it here to create jobs; except that he would rather be firing people instead of hiring them. America Mitt Romney is a phony and has been hiding a lot about himself; so do not trust a political conman to fix what is broken as a reliable hand is on the tiller and doing the best out of a very bad situation, none of which was his own making. Say no to Mitt and send him packing back to liberal New England Massachusetts.

ROMNEY TELLS THE POOR, YOU ARE ON YOUR OWN.

"I'm not concerned about the very poor, we have a safety net there, if it needs repair, I'll fix it. We will hear from the Democrat party the plight of the poor. You can choose where to focus, you can focus on the very poor, that's not my focus." - Mitt Romney.

Icheoku says finally the cunning Mormon bishop from Massachusetts have finally let slip his true closeted position, his rabid aversion of poverty and disdain for poor people. Accordingly, short of only "fixing their safety net when he considers it needing repair", Mitt Romney said he will do nothing else for the poor and will not in anyway help lift them out of their economic doldrums. This is Mitt for you and Americans, a vote for Mitt Romney is a vote for the 1% and the rest of us 99% can go live in Newt Gingrich's austere moon colony for all this Mormon bishop cares. Icheoku decries Mitt Romney's apathy for the poor American people as being un-American; living the poor to languish with their fate and not being compassionate enough for their life situation.

If Icheoku may ask, what happened to the Christian injunction of being ones' brothers keeper; except that the last time icheoku checked, Mormon is not a Christian sect but a CULT, so trying to help lift American poor out of poverty is not their strongest suit. Oh Mitt, where are thou compassion?

REPUBLICAN PRESIDENTIAL PRIMARIES, MITT BUYS FLORIDA?

In the battle for the Republican Party's presidential nomination primaries, it is now Romney - 2 states win, Gingrich - 1 state win and Santorium - 1 state win. Mitt has taken Florida in addition to his earlier New Hampshire victory, Newt's South Carolina as well as Rick's Iowa. 


Icheoku says no surprises at all that the Mormon Bishop came up tops in Florida, the over sixteen million dollars he sank into the state's primaries considered? Imagine an uneven matched spending power where the Mitt out commercialized the Newt by the ration of 65 to 1 campaign adverts and then go figure the eventual result.

Anyway, like Gingrich said there are forty-six more states to go and who knows when his implosion will occur, especially now that his Jews-hating anti-kosher meal decision while governor of Massachusetts is going to occupy the center-burner. Either way or either candidate or even both of them, it is simply no shaking for the incumbent who has rendered a good account of his first term and would easily coast to a second term thank you mandate come November. But who is afraid of the plastic Mitt; not Icheoku and not anyone on the other side of the aisle, so Republicans, bring him on!.

WILBUR AND TERESA FAISS, MARRIED FOR TOO LONG?

Icheoku says but for the none existence of a crime of "married for too long," this couple would have otherwise been guilty as charged. Married for 78 long years, America's longest married couple, Wilbur (100) and Teresa(96) Faiss have a piece of advise for the Kim Kardashians of this world. The secret of marital longevity is simply - "give and take and compromise." 

Icheoku, while wishing this exemplary couple many more happy anniversaries; regrets that times have since changed as both parties in a marriage now struggles over who wears the pants in the house; hence the topsy-turvy battle-field royale that is the hallmark of today's marital relationships. If only the parties knew their sphere of influence and responsibility, maybe the ship of marriage will have a distinct captain and co-captain to safely navigate the treacherous waters of having to share your life with another stranger? But it is the way of the new world as things have irretrievably changed and even Jennifer Lopez is now fast pursuing Liz Taylor's record on who would marry the most number of men and the most number of times; which begs the question why do it if you are not the marrying type?

MITT ROMNEY DEBASES JUDAISM, CUTS OFF KOSHER MEALS FOR JEWISH SENIORS?

Icheoku wonders why this line of attack or should we say truth telling never surfaced much earlier in the week that Mitt Romney does not care about other peoples religious beliefs but his Mormon cult? According to latest available information, Mitt Romney while governor of Massachusetts and bishop of the Mormon cult, took an ax to old Jewish peoples' kosher meal. Icheoku asks, were those elderly Massachusetts Jews Mormons, would the Mitt have cut their food ration and by necessary implication wished they starved to death?

The then Governor Romney, it said, "cut off kosher meals for Jewish senior citizens who were on Medicaid to save five dollars a day, thereby denying them their "religious prescription." Icheoku queries why this attack alone is not sufficient to earn the plastic-man Mitt Romney the anti-Semitic stigma in US politics as forcing the Jews off their age-long held religious belief and practice is a direct attack on their identity; needless to add that the same Mitt Romney had no qualms carving up an "unclean" pig before a world audience? What a phony and Jew-hater, this liberal from Massachusetts is.

Florida Jews, know who will get your back and vote right. Just for the asking, if John Kennedy's presidency was initially resisted because of his affiliation to the Catholic church and the fear that he will possibly be taking dictations from Vatican, why is America not raging that a bishop of a sect - the Mormon Cult covets the presidency? What he did to the Jews is a tip of the iceberg on what awaits every other religious denomination in America as this man is certainly on a revenge mission to avenge the travails of the early Mormons in the hands of Christians including his grand-father's forced exile to Mexico. America, Mitt is the foretold real anti-Christ and a vote for him will be so damaging, it will hurt every person who is not of the Mormon Cult. Do right by and for America's secularism, do not vote for a BISHOP of the Mormon sect. Mitt Romney is not good for America

MOHAMMAD SHAFIA, AFGHAN SHAMEFUL DIS(HONOR) KILLER IN CANADA.

Icheoku says it must be a very stupid culture, steeped in fanaticism, to kill one's children simply because they have become  too liberal to be controlled? This was the sordid case of one migrant Afghanistan family in Canada, whose patriarch conspired with his wife and son to kill his three daughters, just to redeem the family's honor? Icheoku queries what type of honor worth redeeming is left in a man, so callous and so wicked, he would kill his own biological children who once called him dad? 

A case as this makes Icheoku wish it were in Texas United States of America that these horrible and atrocious criminality were committed, as these murderers arses would have been strung like a hamster on a gurney and executed laying face-up. But it was in liberal Canada and all these murderers got is a mere twenty-five years imprisonment for cruelly killing by drowning, their three innocent daughters and sister to the son? It is as condemnable as it is unimaginable, that a family, supposedly now meshed in Western values having lived in Canada for some years, would still hold tenaciously to a stupid tradition where a father believes that he has inalienable right to control his daughters lives and who they meet and mingle with? A father, irked particularly because his daughters wanted boyfriends and wears legs-revealing clothes, which runs counter to "his twisted notion of honor" according to the presiding judge or better still put, his archaic polygamous Islamic values, one would imagine; now decided to take the laws into his own hands and snuff lives out of them? Mohammad Shafia called his daughters horrible names including whores and prostitutes and also called on the devil, whom he apparently worships, to defecate on the murdered girls graves; and this is a fit dad and not one deserving of a place in a cuckoo nest? 

To Mohammad Shafia's protestations that they are not criminals, not murderers and did not commit the murders; Icheoku says you people are worse than criminals and murderers. You had no qualm taking the lives of your own very biological children on the flimsy, most stupid and very irrational reason that they were coming of age and wanted what every other teenager like them wants, just boyfriends to hang out with. To see and treat this simple act of human sociology as a dishonor to your most irascible family honor-code and describing same as being "betrayed immensely" makes you a sociopath unworthy of cohabiting this part of the civilized world? May be you have no business leaving Taliban Afghanistan in the first place as the caves of Tora-Bora is where you naturally belonged but definitely not the Western hemisphere, you dog. You people should have been given the death-penalty and let your asses rot fast in hell, killers. Imagine a mother, a father and a son/brother having the stomach to kill their daughters and sisters on such absurdity of an excuse? 

HERMAN CAIN ENDORSES NEWT GINGRICH?

Icheoku says it takes one adulterer to endorse another adulterer as suddenly all the pretensions of morality and high family value no longer matters, otherwise why Newt? A man with his catalog of marital infidelities as well as several divorces, which supposedly are contrary to family values, should not be rewarded with "Christians' support or the Tea Party's which Herman Cain seem to project?

But hey Jesus Christ was right when he admonished about the Pharisees who preach one thing and do another; as is the case with the current deluge of "Christian" evangelicals and fundamentalists who are lining up behind Newt Gingrich's candidacy despite his horrific records and known character-flaws. Anyway the American people will have the final say come November and it does not matter what all the fanatical Sarah Palins, Herman Cains, Michael Reagans etc of the Republican Party say at this time or who they irrationally chose to support or would like to secure the party's nomination.

Icheoku however warns, that a vote for Newt Gingrich is a vote to continually divide Americans and drag our country in the mud of this and that ones; while taking the country back to the last century and no reasonable American should stand for this or ignorantly bite the bait of a Newt Gingrich's presidency. Icheoku says, reject retrogressive politics, say no to Newt. Say to Herman Cain and cohorts, thanks but no thanks!