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.

Monday, October 10, 2016

2ND PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE, TRUMP TRUMPS CLINTON.

Icheoku says Crooked Hillary Clinton will not be seen or heard anytime soon and this week gloating about a debate, not this time; not after the stellar performance put up by Donald John Trump, the next president of the United States of America. Boy, was the Donald good. Exactly what a come back really looks like as the comeback kid did in fact defiantly come back.  Donald Trump has reset his presidential campaign, having successfully put behind him the engineered controversy about some eleven year old private boys talk. 

Donald Trump was good; he was sharp and he was witty. He looked very presidential in every respect and his stage presence was overwhelming too. He did not look tired as was  in the first debate. He also stayed away from the glass of water or whatever it is they put in the glass that made took him out during the first debate. He dressed appropriately well too and looked very much aware. He was in command of the issues and he took it to Crooked Hillary Clinton in such a way that it actually ripped her heartless heart apart. Crooked Hillary Clinton did not see what hit her and she will not be anywhere seen or heard this week running her mouth about a debate because she was blown out of the waters, left high to dry out and wither out too. Donald Trump took her apart on the issues of ISIS, open borders, free trade, doing right for American people and for being around for such a long time without anything to show for it. According to Donald Trump, she is all talk and no action; and will simply be more of the same if the accident of her election happens, because she is devoid of fresh ideas and will bring nothing new to the table. 

Icheoku agrees that electing the Crooked One will be suicidal as America cannot survive four more years of this Barack Obama's knee jerk, redline crossing and no consequences, wish-washy style of governance. America needs to pivot to something entirely different and refreshingly new and Donald Trump is the right guy to lead this revolution. Icheoku says a Crooked Hillary Clinton whom Wikileaks caught championing OPEN BORDERS and FREE TRADE as well as BANKERS REGULATING THEMSELVES, but who in public exhibits an entirely different fraudulent persona, cannot champion American interests because she has sold herself to those globalists, special interests as well as Wall Street bankers. Crooked Hillary Clinton has mortgaged her soul to the devil and literally speaking, has morphed to a devil's incarnate and nothing will change nor improve under her watch. America must therefore run to the hills from her and deny her greedy quest for power by rejecting her candidacy for president. 

Icheoku agrees with Donald Trump that Crooked Hillary Clinton is a devil who should be in jail and not be seen running for the presidency of America, because of her series of infra digs and obviously law breaking acts. Instead of the White House, Crooked Hillary Clinton should be looking at spending a lengthy time in the Big House and in orange jumpsuit. Overall, Icheoku is very impressed with the performance of Donald Trump and agrees that the comeback kid did in fact come back. Now, let the election campaign start all over again as the kinks that reared their ugly heads have been laid to rest. The verdict, one debate win for her and one debate win for him and the nation now awaits and looks forward to the next and final debate on October 19. Icheoku says congratulations to Donald John Trump for successfully giving his campaign a rebirth and it is now all the way to the White House. A beautiful night it was and Americans are all agreed as to who won the debate and outperformed the other, his name Donald John Trump, the 45th POTUS. Team MAGA cannot be prouder of his captain-ship of the revolutionary movement.

2ND PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE AND DONALD TRUMP WON HANDS DOWN

Sunday, October 9, 2016

KIM KARDASHIAN ROBBERY HOAX, A RYAN LOCHTE MOMENT?

Icheoku says the story sounds like one of those tales by the moonlight, a story that will aptly qualify for a Hollywood movie, "The robbing of Kim-K"; except that anyone believing the version of truth so far made public would need the suspension of logic to so believe or to remain sane and of sound mind thereafter. Imagine her narrative, men dressed up like police officers badged into my flat and demanded my jewelry; they wore mask and you ask yourself do police officers wear mask? 

Query, why did she let the "police men" in when she did not call for one? Where were her body guards? Where were her personal assistants? Where was the concierge and how did the police men let themselves into the building that is supposedly well secured, being such a high premium residence? Why did the concierge or front desk not alert her of the presence of the police men asking about her prior to their rendezvousing with her in her apartment? Is it usual for her to stay alone by herself, especially in a foreign country without her personal assistants and body guards being so closely by in adjacent adjoining  rooms? Why did she not raise an alarm and why did she let them in without first clearing their identity and mission? She was bound, gagged and locked up in a bathroom; so how did she manage to extricate herself from her bondage and regain her freedom? Was any 911 call made to the police or SOS message sent to the police? Icheoku says there are a lot of holes begging to be filled in this story as Icheoku is not buying it as told; something is definitely fishy somewhere and only Kim-K knows what truly happened. 

Further, how did a Kanye West who was performing live on stage in New York suddenly drop the microphone and said the show is over due to a family emergency when no one approached him on stage to intimate him on the development? Suddenly she said some magic words "Please don't kill me; I have children" and the robbers developed sympathy and left her unharmed? The story: the robbers tied her hands together, pulled a tape across her mouth and then placed her inside a marble bath; then locked the bathroom door before helping themselves with the jewelry. The reality star asked the concierge "are we going to die?" No one heard a thing including the "screaming" of Kim K and no DNA was left by robbers who tied her up, gagged her, lifted her and placed her inside the bathtub; then ransacked the flat for jewelry? Interesting. Then her miraculous Houdini escape and the first thing she did was call her bodyguard instead of the police? Spectacular.

Icheoku says this could be her Ryan Lochte moment and hopefully the French police will approach the investigation with their national honor and pride at stake, and in a similar manner as those Brazillian police solved the hoax of Ryan Lochte robbery during the Olympics. Could the Kardashians do anything for publicity and money as well as business opportunities, you betcha. Did they pull this hoax for such, the jury is still out on that; but it looks like something not far beyond their play for a paycheck dealings. Robbers so easily breached such a highly priced luxurious apartment complex, Hotel de Pourtales, where rent cost 25,000 pounds a month; stole her 20 carat Lorraine Schwartz diamond engagement ring valued at 3.5 million pounds as well as a case of other jewelry valued at 5.24 million pounds? Icheoku says please give me a break this story is not a conjecture of her own imagination and manipulation. Icheoku says the French must get to the root of this matter as it is gives the French a very bad name that an American reality star could not be safe in such a high priced Paris rented flat. Solving this crime and speedily too,  will help restore their image as well as of that of greater France, particularly Paris, so that people can be reassured that they can be safe while visiting the city of lights. 

Saturday, October 8, 2016

WOMEN WILL LET YOU DO ANYTHING TO THEM - DONALD TRUMP

Icheoku says of course yes, they will let you have them for the asking once they are vested and believe in you or are smitten by you. Yes, hiphop artist and rapper, The Game, just had three Kardashians and they proudly lined up to share in the experience of sleeping with a guy reputed to be well hung and they are not ashamed to admit it. But who knows even whether Donald Trump was merely bragging and/or exaggerating as with many men who like to boost their ego by embellishing the number of women they have had their way with? Icheoku knows of somebody who once boasted of having had 400 female sexual encounters and you wonder was he really keeping a dossier or diary on each and every dalliance he had? Yes, Icheoku reiterates that men often exaggerates, especially in front of other men to make them feel good about themselves and to wow and hold their listeners in awe. 

The good news is that Donald Trump only said what is obtainable in the camera, lights and action world, but never said he succeeded or did in fact actually rape or had any woman without her consent. Bill Clinton severally raped and molested women and Crooked Hillary Clinton covered for and defended him. This is of a more heinous nature than a guy simply engaged in a boastful locker room jiving-turkey kiss and tell banters. So what if he said this and that; which real man doesn't say stuff including things he is merely imagining in an entirely different reality world he created far from the real reality we all live in. It boosts their ego; it boosts their manliness and it boosts their sense of self as the ultimate ladies man who knows how to get them to say yes darling. But does it make them bad people, Icheoku says emphatically nope. Experience shows that many boastful people hardly did what they said they did; they are akin to the empty barrel that makes the most sound. Many a man who qualify as real player, hardly do rat or kiss and tell on their exploits; and are forever denying then whenever confronted and accused of hitting it too much. 

But that being said, yes, Ichoeku agrees that groupies, dick-chasers, gold diggers as well as women who are generally smitten by famous people would readily go to the ends of the earth to have them put their dicky on them, just to register that they scored him. Icheoku says once met this 67 year old lady who said that as a groupie, she slept with four out of the five rat-pack members including Samy Davies Jr, Frank Sinatra, Peter Lawford and Joey Bishop; that it was only Dean Martin that escaped her trap. Icheoku also encountered another 27 year old white girl who said that she is so infatuated with Kanye West that she would let him have her on the stage if only the opportunity could ever avail itself and Kanye would be willing to do her. According to her, she has attended over 37 Kanye West's concerts and follows him wherever he is performing throughout the globe just to get her groove on even though psychologically. So the pressure brought on famous men and guys under the klieg lights is enormous and anyone in doubt should just attend famous guys' parties or even watch their videos. Women flock to them and women are drawn, like moth to fame, to fame and fortune. 

Regardless of what Trump said, everyone knows this fact to be true; it is the fatal attraction that often times does not end up well or lead to somewhere nice. Just take a look at Hollywood or Bollywood and even Nollywood, it is always the same SAD - sex, alcohol and drug. Women don't care and provided they are so much into you and enough to want to throw every caution to the winds, they will do whatever to please you; some of them even abscond from their husbands or lovers arm to run away with their idol. Perhaps, the only thing different here with what Donald Trump said, is that he kissed and told; otherwise it is nothing new nor such a big story as he merely mouthed off the obvious or rather open secret, which everyone knows exists in the paparazzi world of the rich and the famous. That said, why should this matter, faced with the numerous problems needing urgent solution in America? Why should what was said occupy a position of preeminence in a country faced with so much teething problems desiring urgent solutions? In answer, Icheoku says it is a ploy; a definitive distractive operation mounted by the Crooked Hillary Clinton's campaign to deviate from the issues facing the country which she was partly responsible for. 

Crooked Hillary Clinton has nothing to run on, she cannot run on her records of her past experience, neither can she dwell on Obama's last eight years of knee jerky governance; hence the attempt to change the subject and foist a narrative of sentimental appeal to emotions about what was said or not said. Icheoku is emphatic that words never a person killed and hurt feelings is not and should not stand in the way of electing a man with a can do attitude and proven Midas touch, who is heavily committed and passionate enough to get the job of revamping America done. Icheoku appeals to voting Americans not to be swayed or made despondent by the latest attempt by the Crooked Hillary Clinton's camp and her media harlots to lift focus away from the real issues facing the country. Further, many a great men and women the world over, often have some weaknesses and many flaws, but it never diminished their prowess or ability to get the job done. Therefore, Icheoku urges Donald Trump supporters and other voting blocs to ignore the latest antic and assuredly stay behind Donald Trump and see him to victory come November 8. 

Query, if the Crooked Hillary Clinton's side are confident in their victory, why all this their desperation to run Donald Trump out of the race before the Election Day? Why raise all these distractions instead of campaigning on what they would do to move the ball forward and score touchdowns for America? Doesn't common sense presuppose that they should gladly wait for November 8 to demolish Donald Trump at the polls if they had something to offer and are confident in their victory. But no, they know that he has a date with destiny and will coast to victory, hence the throwing of all muds to rattle his cage and put the air out of his balloon. They want to slow his momentum down enough in order to sneak in the Crooked One into the White House to continue their same old same old government of and for the entrenched interests only. They possibly timed it too to take the wind out of the sail of Wikileaks released emails about the Clinton's machine. Good enough, Donald Trump has since apologized to all those females, including those who despite their boast of equality of the sexes still express their famine hurt feelings, who were offended by what he said,  Icheoku says may we now move on and may November 8 usher in a President Donald Trump. Lets Make America Great Again, lets vote for Donald Trump. Go Trump; Vote Trump and help America reposition itself again.

Thursday, October 6, 2016

HILLARY CLINTON'S BASKETS, CHOOSE THE BASKET WHERE YOU BELONG.

CHOOSE THE BASKET WHERE YOU BELONG.

Icheoku says according to Crooked Hillary Clinton, every sensible American desiring and voting for change in this election 2016, must belong to a particular basket otherwise they should be drunk on her Clinton coolaid. It is either you fall into the basket of irredeemable deplorables or the basket of basement dwellers or the basket of Super Predators. Icheoku says but unbeknownst to the Crooked One, majority of voting Americans in this election belong in these baskets. On November 8, the American people will vote according to their various baskets and will vote to reject more of the same politics as usual; of all talks and no action. They will vote for Donald Trump and they will vote to reject the branding and classifications of hardworking American people into various disparaging baskets.

Wednesday, October 5, 2016

OBAMACARE IS CRAZY - BILL CLINTON

Icheoku says when you think the Clintons and the Obamas have mended their rift and that it is now all kumbaya going forward, here comes Bill Clinton dumping on Obama; disparaging the president's fabled premier  legacy, which he pleaded with black Americans to please help him preserve by voting for Crooked Hillary Clinton. The former president whose disdain for President Barack Obama, steaming from his 2008 primaries rivalry with Hillary Clinton and who told Senator Ted Kennedy about the boy who is supposed to be carrying their bags and making and serving them tea but is dreaming of the White House, is still piling on Barack Obama. 

Icheoku says how President Barack Obama would be feeling now that he knows that his true enemies and the real threat to his legacy is not necessarily Donald Trump but the enemies within, the Clintons, is anybody's guess. It is also instructive that Colin Powell warned that the Clintons have no love for Barack Obama and this latest attack on Obamacare seems to now confirm the hatred as real. According to former President Bill Clinton, Obamacare is the craziest thing in the world; stating: “So you’ve got this crazy system where all of a sudden 25 million more people have healthcare, and then the people who are out there busting it sometimes 60 hours a week, wind up with their premiums doubled and their coverage cut in half. It’s the craziest thing in the world.” 

Icheoku says can't wait to see how the White House reacts to this latest insulting provocation and threat to his legacy; or the mean-faced Michelle Obama, bold-facedly lying to American people that Crooked Hillary Clinton is the most qualified person to be president"; and you ask yourself if so, why did they run against her in 2008. But hey, it is not only the Crooked One that can say and do anything for election, Michelle Obama and her husband seem to have now similarly act. Politicians, they are simply terrible.

Tuesday, October 4, 2016

TEAM MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN, VOTE.

TEAM MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN, VOTE.
Icheoku says whatever you do, understand what is at stake in this election, VOTE TRUMP-PENCE and help make America great again.

VICE PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE, PENCE COMES OUT FORMIDABLE.

Icheoku says the world just watched the two vice presidential candidates go at it and after the ninety minutes, the verdict is clear, Mike Pence did a great job marshaling out the MAGA agenda and making the case for change. America wants change; America desires change and America will get the change America deserves come November 8, 2016. America will say no to same old same old; as Crooked Hillary Clinton would only be an elongation of the sputtering last eight years of a wish-washy Obama administration and Americans will have none of that. In all and every department of the debate, Governor and Vice Presidential candidate Mike Pence came out tops, smelling like sweet autumn morning. He was exactly what the ticket needs, a cool, calm and steady good head in a leadership soon to be saddled with a tumultuous world needing new direction. 

Polish, finesse, suave, uber, urbane, sophistry, gentlemanly, mannerism, comportment, good demeanor, body language, just term it as you may please, they all described the quality of Donald Trump's vice presidential pick, Mike Pence. Again, proving the sound judgment call of the man who picked him, amidst so many other highly similarly qualified potential vice presidential candidates, to be his running mate. Icheoku says Mike Pence literally traded places with Hillary Clinton as he was in tonight's debate where Hillary Clinton was during the last debate. He owned the debate and he delivered on his mandate to reassure Americans that their presidency will be in safe hands in a Donald Trump and Mike Pence presidency. Like Hillary Clinton, Mike Pence did not reach nor touch the glass of water and remained magisterial throughout the debate. 

Tim Kaine on the other side, was tonight where Donald Trump was at during the last debate. He interrupted both Mike Pence and the moderator severally, somewhat coming across as obtuse and obstinate, despite repeated pleas by the female moderator to please wait for his turn and time to speak which fell on his deaf ears. Like Trump, he reached and sipped from his glass of water too many times, reflecting a man under pressure, conflicted between his conviction and the very difficult task to try and sell the snake oil and stale news that is Crooked Hillary. A very difficult sale for even the most sly salesman to pull off and his attempt to reinvent Crooked Hillary Clinton failed flat. Overall, it was a good debate and Mike Pence delivered much goods to the ticket. 

Monday, October 3, 2016

TRUMP - CLINTON PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE, OPTICS DID TRUMP IN.

Icheoku says had a discussion with a top heavy Democratic Party operative who said that listening to the last presidential debate on radio or without visuals, Donald Trump sounded like he won the debate. But  television is all about visuals and the result of the debate has since come out and the verdict is that the more relaxed, well dressed and more vivacious Crooked Hillary Clinton outperformed Donald Trump and won the debate. Icheoku agrees that Donald Trump was not present in the debate or at best, took an early departure from the lectern and stayed out until the 90 minutes flew by. Fortunately enough, Icheoku is proudly rooted inside the three baskets of deplorables, basement dwellers and super predators; and is fully committed to the MAGA project elect Donald John Trump the next 45th president of the United States of America. No amount of mistakes or lack of performance would deter nor force a change of loyalty as in Trump we trust and we are in it together until the last vote is counted. 

On November 8, 2016 the country will vote to go entirely in a different direction from the last eight years of knee jerk, lackluster, Obama administration; which a Hillary Clinton's victory will only continue. No sane American wants a continuation of the last rudderless and directionless wish-washy governance and on Election Day, will prove a truism. Icheoku's rejection of the Crooked One is driven primarily by the fact that the country has had enough of the Clintons, and like the Bushes who have been permanently retired from national politics with the rejection of Jeb Bush during the primaries, the Clintons should and would be similarly retired and consigned away from American political life come November 8. Further, Hillary Clinton has nothing new to offer which she could not have offered these many decades of sticking around in governance and politics. Lastly, her actions and lack of consequences thereto should not be rewarded with the presidency of the United States of America; which doing will greatly rubbish all the many things which the country has stood for these many years. 

However, the presidency of America must be fought and won and this is where Donald Trump might blow it if necessary adjustments are not made and his mistakes corrected in the next debate. He is an underdog and he must fight with feistiness and like he is absolutely hungry for the office which he seeks. To do this, he has to watch the video of his last debate performance and see the so many things he did wrong and then adjust accordingly. Icheoku says Donald Trump many errors in the last debate which he must avoid repeating and also work assiduously to correct and improve upon include slouching, sipping too many times from the glass cup, interrupting too often, breathing and sniffling too heavily and very loudly, squinting his eyes and trying to pick out faces of the audience, facial expression and overall shifty body language which tells a story of not being relaxed or rather anxiety and not comfortable standing on that stage. 

Icheoku says any unbiased observer who watched the last debate would agree that Donald Trump was not his best on that stage; he slouched most of the times, somewhat fidgety and was apparently not his usual confident self. Icheoku does not know if it was being on the same stage with Crooked Hillary Clinton that did it or that he was thrown off his game by the turn of questioning. But whatever may be the case, he must try and avoid similar posture during the next debate, as his resting on the lectern and not standing chest-out erect, mirrors a different image from the hard-charging Trump who is ready to go to work for the American people. The lectern is not for his weight support, it is to provide a framework and a place to place light materials like one's hands, papers and a glass of water; but not the entire human weight especially of someone who weighs about 250lbs and on about 6ft 4in frame. 

There is nothing majestic nor royal or even presidential, being so slouched and resting on the lectern and leaning so close to the microphone that his breathing and sniffling sounded so heavy and loud that the whole world took notice. Hillary Clinton posed better and this also counted in her favor too. Appearance and perception is everything visual but the Donald did not deliver to convince anyone that his spine is firm and strong enough for the weight of America and the world to rest on. The image he created on that debate stage was far different from the imperial image he shows in his campaigns and many people were lost for words as to what took him out of that stage. He must learn to stand erect and lean away from the microphone except when speaking into it.

Further, Donald Trump sipped too many times and in one of his many sips, Icheoku observed that no liquid made it to his mouth, leaving many people wondering if it was nerves that got better hold of him. Donald Trump must avoid reaching for his glass of water and one cannot but notice that the more seasoned debater Hillary Clinton never for once reached nor touched her own glass of water. What if whatever took hold of him was from inside the glass of water or whatever it was that was contained inside that glass. Icheoku cannot second guess how thirsty Trump was during that debate to have reached for his glass that many several times but he must try and avoid its repeat next time. Also following each sip was his licking of his lips and such does not make a good picture on high definition television; especially from someone who once berated John Kasich for publicly eating and talking during the primaries. 

Donald Trump must also avoid interrupting and interjecting so often or at worst keep it within minimal. He must allow the moderator to finish his questioning first before answering and use that period to think out an answer or response or how to reconfigure it. The vibe from such a rush to answer does not speak well of his being calm under pressure; a quality expected of any president. He rushed off to answer and respond so many times that he did not help himself with the answers he gave. At best, it smacked of unpreparedness and anxiety and this must be avoided during the next debate. People want to be assured that during stormy weather, some steady hand will have the presence of mind to steer the ship of state to safety and regardless of the tempest, that the ship on which they are on-board will make it safely to shore. Icheoku says again Donald Trump lacked in this department and must take his calm pill the next debate. He should not only be rested and calm, but must also be seen and perceived by the watching public to be both rested and calm. American presidency is not for impulsive person; but one who is measured and calculated; and who will provide comfort when everyone is losing their minds, afraid of the worst. 

The other thing that rubbed keen watchers wrongly was Donald Trump's numerous squinting of his eyes and his attempt to make out the faces in the audience, trying to see if he can place those faces starring down at the stage. Icheoku says that was another unpardonable stage presence mistake; a bad mannerism, because when you are on a stage, you own it and you speak to everyone but no one, hence no need to even see any face despite looking at all of them. Eye contacts should be avoided but pretended; just waving at no one while pretending to be waving at someone. Donald Trump is the object of attention and not the audience; and he should not have cared a hoot whoever the heck was there in the audience. He is the one to be looked at and not the other way around. Short of looking aloof and not present, just look over their heads, slightly above their eyes. Donald Trump also touched his ear, face and mouth area several times; this is not good as it shows discomfort and anxiety. Lastly, Donald Trump's facial expression and overall body language did not impress anyone; he seemed labored and simply put, not desiring to be there like something that was forced upon him. 

Overall, the whole presidential debate is skewed against him and bigly. First he is debating a woman and the woman factor will certainly weigh in on the viewers, who will be comparing his performance against a woman who should be cut some slack for being a woman and already trying enough. Secondly, he is the underdog and going up against a "champion" requires a TKO in order to win, otherwise any draw will be ruled in favor of the champion. Then add the make-up, jewelry and charming smile of any lady and the odds weigh heavily against Donald Trump. So to win and win decisively, Trump must over-perform and out perform Hillary Clinton in every department; no half measures will be accepted nor is acceptable. That he is not in the best of physical shape to make some women wanna swoon and feel like a date is also something he has to compensate for with show of brilliance and fighting to the last spirit - strength. 

Icheoku does not know why Newt Gingrich is not part of his debate preparation as he could have tapped into Gingrich's debating prowess and dept. Even the absence of Carly Fiorina is noticeable, who could have been playing Hillary Clinton and challenging Donald Trump as "rudely" as it can get, to truly pass him through the furnace before meeting Hillary Clinton. Ted Cruz would have also been drafted to assist with the debate preparations  as Donald Trump would need the best toughening from his worst adversaries in order to be ready to face-down his worst nightmare, Hillary Clinton. Icheoku queries, is it possible that Donald Trump listens to no one and does not take any advise from anyone? Icheoku does not know the inside workings of the campaign to fathom an answer but reechoing Newt Gingrich, Donald Trump has to make the decision whether he wants to win the presidency and do the needful that is required or to remain obstinate and then forget a presidency that is so close within his grasp that it is his to lose. But win or lose, he will do it with Icheoku's vote as well as millions of fellow deplorables, basement dwellers as well as super predators. Best of luck Donald. Vote Trump and help make America great again. 

Sunday, October 2, 2016

ALICIA MACHADO AND TAX RETURNS, DIVERSIONARY DEPLOYS OF A FLOUNDERING CAMPAIGN.

Icheoku says a candidate who has nothing to run on and at best is running on empty and on the fumes of what was said or not said several decades ago is a campaign certainly clutching for any straw to hang on TO in order to stay life. Therefore Donald Trump must understand this needless diversionary ploy and stay laser-focused on what is important to the American people, the real issues in this campaign to make America great again. But unfortunately Donald Trump gave impetus to Hillary Clinton who has touted his very thin skin and how easy it is to get under it even with a little tweet. 

So Donald Trump must show his determination not to succumb to this his stereotyping of being easily provoked by moving and going away from this his perceived weakness and become more presidential and rise above petty little stuff. It is untoward and beneath his status to so readily engage in brawls with a little former beauty contestant and at worst, must leave such low level job for his surrogates and let them handle the Alicia Machados of America and her ilk. It will be bequeathing her an unmerited honor, to stay engaged with her and trade barbs with her. Icheoku says the ability to rise above rudimentary stuff, the kitchen stuff, despite the amount of provocation marks the difference between leaders and the lead. Alicia Machado therefore should not be honored with a response by the future president of the United States of America as it both undeserving and not worthy. 

Here is a washed up former beauty contestant whose veracity for truth is tenuous at best and who denied what was in print, yet the crooked media are not holding her up for her lack of credibility, but are kowtowing her story in their vain effort to bring the Donald down. But they will not succeed and come November 8, Donald Trump will be elected president of the United States of America. Icheoku calls on Donald Trump not to supply any further oxygen to this story and to completely ignore same and instruct his surrogates to answer any further question concerning that with is that the thing that will move America forward and make it great again. Why waste time on such frivolity of what was allegedly said twenty long years ago in the face of the many challenges facing America and the world that needs immediate solutions. Icheoku says henceforth, every talking point and answer should be economy, ISIS and national security - aka Make America Great Again and never a minute be spent on Alicia Machado or any of such distracting nibbler going forward.

On the tax returns, Team Make America Great Again and Donald Trump should shut this tax matter down immediately, categorically telling everyone that the tax returns will not be released, full stop. First it is not a mandatory requirement that a presidential candidate must release his tax returns and secondly, what has releasing or not releasing the tax returns got to do with the issues facing America. Icheoku says Crooked Hillary Clinton is simply trying to divert attention to her lack of new ideas and how to propel America forward. So instead of tabling what he will do for America to drive the narrative forward, she is busy baiting Donald Trump out of his game and out of his positively directed charge to take the White House and Make America Great Again. The fact here is that he filed his taxes and IRS attests to this, any and every other thing about his taxes is strictly his personal affairs, including releasing or not releasing it and if he decides not to do so, it is entirely okay and within his permissible personal act. 

Icheoku urges Donald Trump not to waiver, nor deter and face down all the establishment and entrenched interests trying to bait and switch him out of his game. He should focus on the economy, security and defeating ISIS and the need to bring change to Washington as the candidate of change and not a candidate who has been there for more than twenty eight years and will not change anything. Once Donald Trump stays focused and tunnel-visioned on his message of Make America Great Again and ignore the current distractions and attempt to run him out of town and out of the presidential run, on November 8, he will be elected the forty fifth president of the United States of America. Go Trump; Vote Trump and help make America great again. No more distractions, forward march ever; no retreat, no surrender.

Saturday, October 1, 2016

TAKE THE MONEY, HER NEW MONIKER

TAKE THE MONEY, HER NEW MONIKER
Icheoku says she would do and say anything just to get an advantage. Ms Nasty Crooked Hillary Clinton is so full of it.

Friday, September 30, 2016

OBASEKI IS EDO CHOICE FOR GOVERNOR, WINS ELECTION.

Icheoku says congratulations to APC governorship candidate and now governor-elect of  Edo State Nigeria, Godwin Obaseki. As with every election, the loser always complains of irregularities including rigging, partiality of election officers, unfairness and cheating. So it is understandable, the current rejection of the election result by the defeated PDP candidate Osage Ize Iyamu. 

His protest does not however invalidate the election result or in any other way make it tainted beyond reproach because as with every election, someone will emerge victorious. The spread of the votes and its differential throughout the election areas shows that the collated result is more likely a genuinely contested and fairly won and lost election. There are also circumstances which would have and possibly did help the winner with the election: First the whole apparatus of the state which is APC controlled, backed his candidacy; including an incumbent state governor, a federal government with their police and other security agencies and of course the power of the purse. 


Godwin Obaseki won 13 out of the 18 Local Government Areas of the state with a total 319,483 votes against PDP's Ize Iyamu's 253,173 votes. Icheoku says possibly a precursor of what is to come in 2019, admitted that the APC is not so popular in Nigeria to produce the outcome. But hey, Icheoku says congratulations Godwin and let your campaign promises not go the way of every other APC campaign promises of all promises cancelled. Icheoku says remember to make or create the 100 millionaires within the first 100 days of your governorship as promised. Salute.

Wednesday, September 28, 2016

ALICIA MACHADO, A SCORNED ANGRY FAT WOMAN.

Icheoku says like the woman who hired her to do some dirty laundering on her behalf as a surrogate, the too fatty former Miss Universe Alicia Machado wants to be treated differently? She wants double standards - one for her and one for the rest of us. Like Crooked Hillary Clinton, she would rather have one set of rules governing her actions while the rest of humanity including Donald Trump have an entirely different one governing their own actions. Like Crooked Hillary Clinton who never admits to any fault and even when caught red-handed breaking the law, denies responsibility and would rather it is another's fault, this heartbroken loser is up to no good, faced with her so many apparent shortcomings. 

Alicia Machado said that she is not a Mother Theresa but would rather Donald Trump remain a "Father Timothy?" She said she has some not too complimentary past she is not proud of and which she would rather are not discussed nor brought up; but as for Donald Trump, his past must be dredged up? In her own exact words, she said "I have my past. Of course, everybody has a past. And I'm not a saint girl, But that is not the point now." Icheoku says if as by own very admission "everybody has a past", why is it then impossible for her to understand that just like her own wish that her past be not dusted up, that whatever she is now alleging happened in 1996 and similarly belong in the past too and should better be left there? Who is this woman to selectively decide what is the point now and what is not? But birds of the same feather flock together and like Crooked Hillary Clinton, she desires a completely different set of rule apply to her, while the rest of us, including Donald Trump, should be stung out to dry for our own past. Icheoku says really? 

An inveterate liar who denied her own recorded statement  which she made in 1997, wherein she admitted that she had a condition of anorexic bulimia prior to competing in the pageant; only to now switch the story to allege that Donald Trump caused her eating disorder? Icheoku says it is simply inexplicable that any media is giving this scumbag any media time after so shamelessly failing credibility test on national television? Where exactly did Hillary Clinton find this piece of human excrement who has no veracity nor candor? Where on earth did she find this obviously disgruntled angry fat woman, who is out to draw blood? Imagine involving the beautiful Melania and trying to drag her into a matter she is not involved in nor knew anything about? 

Icheoku says what brought about her comparing her "flawless" spoken English to that of Melania, who American people have severally heard speak and should be the judge of who speaks better English? In her words, she said "I think I speak more English than her. I don't see anything about this girl. She's a doll. She's a decoration." Icheoku says if this fat lady is not a living specimen of an angry, scorned woman, then no other living female so qualifies. So what if she speaks "more" English than Melania? So what if the beautiful Melania is a doll and so what if she is a decoration? Icheoku says what's wrong with having a beautiful lady around who is so soothing to sore tired eyes? So what if she is a decoration; at least only good things constitute decoration. Moreso, decorations and dolls do not produce babies, Melania gave birth to a wonderful male child and she is a doting mother and loving wife too. 

Icheoku says this woman possibly made a play for Donald Trump but was shunned and scorned, hence all these pitiful lamentations and unprovoked attack on the one who finally snatched Donald's heart. Icheoku says Alicia Machado does not need to see anything about another man's heart's delight or love interest. It is not her place nor business and she should learn to let men do the deciding about who constitutes a beautiful woman. If she is a lesbian, may be and then should go and find her own woman but must leave another man's choice out of her discuss. Icheoku says simply put, this fat lady is bitter, angry and very mean spirited indeed. 

If "this election has been a bad dream" to Alicia Machado, why is she still sleeping instead of waking up from her bad dream? If "watching this guy again do the stupid things and stupid comments so misogynous and so machista",  why does she not just tune out and stop watching? What took her so long, all these years, 20 long years, before coming out to run her fat wide mouth about an alleged hurt-feeling she had for being made to lose some pounds? She is not a walrus nor a pig and should not engage in binging as only gluttons do. Icheoku says any woman capable of being an accomplice to murder, who threatened to kill a sitting High Court judge, who has done some pornography as well as escort service is simply capable of doing anything just for money. Who knows how much she was paid for her dead on arrival hatchet job and you wonder did the Clinton team vet her before hiring her as their surrogate? 

Icheoku does not know if she got a check from the Clinton Slush Fund for her false witnessing, but promoting a book and some stinky flagrance alongside her fifteen minutes of fame and intrusion into American politics, speaks volume. Alicia Machado is cheap, envious, mean, dirty and desperate woman. A denigrate, who should be avoided like leprosy; she has nothing to lose and such people are more dangerous than a lethal dose of poison. Alicia Machado is a swine and likes fighting dirty in the mud and will not hesitate to drag anyone down the sewer with her. An innocuous and honest comment, made playfully in 1996 to help her, a beauty contestant, shape up is now suddenly horrific? "This is somebody who likes to eat' comment is now suddenly a mean, heartless, fighting, disparaging words? 

Why did she wait for 20 years before crying foul if indeed she felt so violated and humiliated? Luckily enough, she did not throw in groping, rape and/or propositioning accusations against Donald Trump too. Icheoku says how about her not contesting for the pageant or better still seal up the hole in her face, knowing fully well that her stomach is not a dump site where her gluttony forces everything her hands finds down there. How about instead of a Latina being as furious as hell for being called fat, not get fat at all or regulate her binging? The last time Icheoku checked, Jennifer Lopez, Christina Aguilera and Colombian queen Shakira are all Latinas and they are beautiful and sightly. If you don't want to be called fat, then don't get fat or better still enroll in a gym. 

In conclusion, Icheoku agrees with Frank Luntz that Donald Trump should concentrate his energy in hammering the Crooked One on important issues of security, national debt and Islamic State terrorism and not waste his much valuable presidential campaign time on a worthless, spiteful, washed up former beauty contest winner. What a  pitiful pity-party daughter of Eve out to do some mischief and she did not resign her Miss Universe office and offload the crown in protest. Simply put, this type of woman is no good and only gives women, especially Latinas, bad name. 

Tuesday, September 27, 2016

TRUMP V. CLINTON PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE, DID NOT LIVE UP TO THE HYPE.

Icheoku says the great debate of our time flustered and floundered, but never took flight, talkless of soaring to the stratosphere as advertised. It was okay at best but did not live up to other more memorable debates of the past with their notable zingers and one liners which still reverberates till today. There was no one liner or zinger, attributable to either Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton, which anyone would remember few years from now.  The nearest semblance to that was 'it takes one tweet to get under Trump's skin', which  Donald Trump rightly pointed out is so cliched now that it has since lost its weight in gold. Overall it was ordinary and one very short step short of mediocre, rated against other notable presidential debates of yore. There was no electricity nor fiery oratories that would find itself into any political historian's writings down the road. 

Icheoku says Donald Trump fumbled the ball when he decided to be so polite to Crooked Hillary; patronizingly asking her if it is okay to call her Senator Hillary Clinton. A more charging Trump would have rephrased the compliment by saying, hopefully, you will help convince me to drop the moniker Crooked Hillary by the end of this debate. Provided of course you convincingly tell American people why the name is not appropriate based on your known past records and continuing activities of connivances and contrivances as well as hiding stuff and deleting many things. My promise to you is that I will drop and cease to use the moniker if you do the following:- 

1. Explain to American public why you deleted those 33,000 emails and took further steps to prevent their being never raced by the FBI by bleach-washing them. 
2. Why you hid and refused to allow American people see those Wall Street beautiful speeches that you were paid over $600,000 to deliver. 
3. Why your staff took hammer to those thirteen communication gadgets which you used to engage your private servers hidden in your basement, which you lied and said was only one. 
4. Why you diverted your official communication to private servers hidden in your basement. 
5. Why you told the Benghazi lies that it was a video and not terrorists act that caused the mayhem that claimed four American lives including our Ambassador Stevens. 
6. Why the activities of the Clinton Foundation is shrouded in secrecy and why as Secretary of State you engaged in pay for play antics to the benefit of the foundation. Did you ever consider resigning and distancing yourself from the foundation while secretary or did you not see the conflict of interest. 
7. When you told the FBI that you had a memory lapse regarding security briefings, did you tell the whole truth? 
8. Is there any possibility that American people will ever get the opportunity to see you undelete those deleted 33,000 emails so that they could actually understand what it is you were trying to hide by taking those actions you took regarding them. 
9. And lastly, when you said that you did not understand the markings "C" on correspondences, did you tell the truth? Once you answer these questions to enable American people understand them, I pledge on my honor to never again call you Crooked Hillary Clinton or use that moniker Crooked Hillary Clinton in any other way. 

But none of these questions were thrust upon Crooked Hillary Clinton, rather, a trusting Donald Trump started with word of endearment and found himself bound and could not respond when the ever snaky Crooked Hillary Clinton unloaded on him - lying about his inheritance from his father, from a previous $2 million figure claim to now hyper-inflated $40 million; mentioning his disparagement of women; his shafting of his staffers and contractors etc. Icheoku says imagine a candidate who lives in the proverbial glass house throwing stones at Donald Trump and she was not stopped. She had the guts to question what Trump was hiding by not releasing his tax returns but forgot that she hid her Wall Street speeches, deleted and bleach washed 33,000 emails as well as hid her medical condition as well as records thereof. That she refused being taken to the hospital for fear that her condition would be made known to the American people saw her being transported to her daughter Chelsea's apartment in total disregard of known practice of rushing a medical emergency invalid to the ER. 

Hillary Clinton grilled Trump on his making money from possible questionable sources, while forgetting that she and her family has not told American people what product they are manufacturing or selling or what app they wrote from which they amassed a fortune which is in excess of $300 million dollars. How is it possible that a couple who left the White House broke few years ago are now this wealthy? Did they win the lottery or are they being paid delayed bribes and gratuities for favors done while in government? 


When Clinton said in celebration of her orchestrated murder of Muommar Gaddafi that "we came, we saw and he died," followed by a guffaw, did she think that killing a head of state of another country and living that country desolate of leadership and security was a laughing matter? Why treat the killing and death of a human being with such cavalier attitude? When Crooked Hillary Clinton said that voting for the Iraq war was a mistake, did she actually want the families of the war dead and mortally wounded to believe her that their loved ones perished due to a mistake? If the Iraq war was a mistake, was Libya and Gaddafi a mistake too; otherwise why the rush to take out a man who had already repented; who surrendered his nuclear weaponry program; paid compensation for the Lockerbie disaster; handed over accused masterminds who were tried and convicted? Her judgment and rash decisions is simply not good for America and should never be allowed to be the controlling authority in America's decision making process.

Icheoku says why Trump did not call Clinton out on her Super Predators comment and ask her to explain how she could be this racist and now pretend to be a champion for black people? Or her most recent branding of millions of Americans 'Irredeemable Deplorables' and still intend to be their president; and whether her 'Stronger Together' actually envisages or made provision for accommodation and inclusion of these American deplorables? Her claim to be a champion for women, when did it actually begin? Was it after those women who were being paid less than men in her foundation were outed or when? Those women she is a champion of and for, do they include the likes of Monica Lewinsky, Jennifer Flowers, Paula Jones and all those other women victims of Bill's philandering? If not, why not; and if yes, why did she not stand up and be their champion when it mattered most? Lastly, does the name Webster Hubbell ring a bell and whether she can confirm all the rumors associated with that name and her? 

Speaking about her foreign policy experience, how well was her Russia reset button working when Crimea was taken over? Who does she hold responsible for the mess that is present day Middle East including Syria, Libya, Iraq as well as the general Arab Spring experience? Does she still believe that Nigeria's Boko Haram is a "mere Northern Muslim youths protesting North's marginalization by a christian Southern president?' How does she plan to reconcile the security concerns of the State of Israel with the nuclear-arming of Iran deal that saw $1.7 being paid to Tehran which she helped midwife? Why does she want to now rush to visit North Carolina following the riot there but never cared much about visiting Milwaukee, following their own riot nor Baton Rougue following their flood or even honoring Mexican President Nieto Pena's invitation to talk about immigration concerns? 

Icheoku says there were so many spearing moments and opportunities in which Donald Trump would have had the kill shot but which he allowed to go to waste. May be  a function of it being his first ever one on one national political debate, being the outsider he is. Donald Trump's newness to politics did not equip him with bifurcated political grandstanding manner of speaking which the entrenched Hillary does not lack. This forestalled his rebutting adequately those lies piled on him by Crooked Hillary Clinton, who was busy questioning a private citizen about a comment he made on radio when his opinion has no weight whatsoever about the actions of the government. A matter compounded by an apparently partisan party of interest moderator, who was busily doing the hatchet job for Crooked Hillary, putting Trump on the spot but sparing Hillary. A moderator busily questioning a birther issue that was since foreclosed while maintaining silence on Hillary Clinton's own racist Super Predator comment. 

Anyway, Newt Gingrich was right that Donald Trump passed the test of not being scary, untrustworthy or unfit for the American presidency. He did no harm nor caused any damage to his rising poll numbers and remains a great contender with very few steps away from clinching the presidency. Newt Gingrich also declared Hillary Clinton a failure for not destroying Trump, her primary task; nor promised anything new to the American people after her very steeped longevity in politics. Simply put, Crooked Hilalry Clinton belong in the past and America wants to move forward with change candidate Donald Trump. Borrowing Donald Trump's words, if Crooked Hilalry Clinton did not or could not do all that she is now promising all these past 30 years of being in politics, how could she do it just now. In the final analysis, Donald Trump is right that Crooked Hillary Clinton is "all talk no action;" and will not do anything differently than the past eight years, if not worse. The only reason she appeared to have done well in the debate was because she looked nice and well recovered from her fabled moonwalk at 9/11 memorial in New York. She also holed herself in and robotically memorized her lines well too. But nothing will get done under her presidency should the tragedy of her election happen. Put point-blankly, Crooked Hillary Clinton  has nothing on Make American Great Again. Salute.  

Monday, September 26, 2016

BARACK OBAMA: THE LAST MINORITY PRESIDENT OF AMERICA.

Icheoku says delude yourself all you want but truth be told, no minority will smell the White House again; at least not in our lifetime nor any time soon following. The experiment with President Barack Obama did not work out well enough to so soon push another person forward; and no American, particularly white caucasian, would ever stray into that arena again. Anyone still in doubt about the resolve of white Americans not to ever dabble into allowing another minority presidency should take a good look at the presidential tickets of the four parties running in this election 2016, particularly the two dominant parties - Republicans and Democrats. 

All of them have both presidential and vice presidential candidates who are all white caucasians and you wonder why? Not even Democratic Party's Hillary Clinton picked a minority vice presidential candidate, especially coming so soon after a vacating of the White House by a black minority president? It is not as if there are no well qualified minority candidates who would have so easily, dutifully, filled that position, including Senator Cory Booker and HUD Secretary Julio Castro. But nope, the tacit understanding among white Americans is deep rooted and it is that no more minority will be allowed near or so close to the seat of the American presidency, their White House; hence their decision to field an all white candidates for all the parties such that head or tail, a white person will become the next president and vice president of the United States of America.  

Icheoku says the apprehension in the land is palpable, white people are afraid of the existential threat to their stranglehold on power, both political and economic, and they will no longer take chances with anyone else from outside their race toying with their power hold. Obama had his moment in the sun until he screwed it up with his queasiness and indecisiveness. Leaders do not show weakness or touchy-feely knee jerk approach to issues of great concern and Obama did not learn this lesson and it cost him and minorities in general dearly. With him gone, goes too, every other opportunity for another minority candidate to be ever allowed back in the White House, not in our life time. But did blacks and minorities even fare better under the minority president, one may ask? Your guess is as good as Icheoku's and apparently no; and anyone arguing otherwise might as well still be drunk on the first black president's coolaid, What a missed opportunity to really shake things up and improve the fortunes of black peoples of this world. But hey, life goes on.

Sunday, September 25, 2016

NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY AND CULTURE, ANCHORS.

Icheoku says what a magnificent work of art it is, crafted in the finest of steel, with bronze-hued exterior, which on one side looks like an ark (ship), possibly designed after the many ships in which millions of Africans were forcibly brought shackled down to the Americas. The museum indeed is quite splendid and makes a very powerful presence, standing majestically so close to the Mall of Washington in Washington DC. Icheoku says congratulations to the team that made it possible; who midwifed the project and who finally brought that aspect of American history this up close and in the face. 

They labored in order that people will not forget how long the journey traveled so far by African Americans is; a journey which still continues till today in various forms of roadblocking racist discrimination throughout the country. But in the old negro song, we shall all overcome and as long as we keep the hope alive and keep on marching on. The team did a very great job - from its choice location, design, architecture, construction and finishing; and including of course the many artifacts which were painstakingly collected and assembled therein. Indeed it is a very beautiful and statement-making edifice and hopefully it will become a major draw for tourists and students as well as people from all over the world interested in actually learning about the ugly history of slavery and slave trade which still haunts America till today. 

It is equally a good thing too that the museum which was authorized by a white president George Walker Bush in 2003 was completed and opened during the presidency of a black president Barack Hussein Obama in 2016; thus once again bringing the two races that constitute America historically,  crossing paths and making another history all together. In his remarks at the opening ceremony, President GW Bush called the  museum "fabulous" and said "It shows our commitment to truth. A great nation does not hide its history, It faces its flaws and corrects them."  Representative John Lewis who led the struggle to have the museum built, said "This place is more than a building; it is a dream come true." 

The museum choreographs a history steeped in rich struggle for freedom and equality, from slavery to civil rights to the latest Black Lives Matter movement and every other thing in between. Icheoku says it is a "clarion call to remember" the past and the journey so far, but whether this sordid past will continue to plague and hound present and future generation of black Americans, who will always feel intimidated by their story, is a possibility. 

According to Peter Kovler, "How can you fail to see the links between current events - Charlotte, Tulsa, Black Lives Matter - and the brutal death of Emmet Till all those years ago. You have to be deliberately not looking at things to not see that there are things from that era that still applies to our era." Another woman said "it was dangerous then to be black in America and it is still dangerous to be black on America now." President Barack Obama bemoaned that blacks are not a burden to America and in his own words, said  "We are not a burden on America or a stain on America or an object of pity or charity for America. We are America." Icheoku says whether white Americans agree to this statement is an entirely different matter all together. Overall, a good structure and curation of stories history of black peoples struggle and contributions in America.

Saturday, September 24, 2016

TED CRUZ'S ENDORSEMENT, STILL A WELCOME ADDITION.

Icheoku says all deplorables of America as well as other non deplorables, who are collectively vested in the Make America Great Again agenda, heartily welcomes the endorsement of Senator Ted Cruz of our flag bearer and chief spokesman of the movement Donald John Trump, who by special grace of God, will be elected the next president of the United States of America. That Ted Cruz finally came around is commendable, admitted he took a little too long before arriving at this epiphany. 

There is nothing so joyful like being on board a winning team's train or boat; and luckily for Ted Cruz, he did not miss the cruise boat sailing to the White House. Thankfully, Ted Cruz was able to find the sportsman in him to come through with this needful act. He also brought out the gentleman in him by honoring a primaries commitment he made to endorse whoever finally emerged the nominee of the party. Icheoku says admitted the primaries was rather very contentious and albeit ultra competitive, but at the end of the day only one presidential candidate can emerge and one did in fact convincingly emerge; so why Ted Cruz strung out this far before coming through with his endorsement is a matter better left until post election victory deliberations. 

Hopefully the other 16 members of the Class 2016 Republican Party presidential primaries will similarly come through with their endorsements and honor their various primaries commitment to endorse the party's nominee, and when they can still honorably do so before the November election is won without their effort. Particularly of note are Ohio State Governor John Kasich whose state is very important in this election; JEB Bush of Florida despite his father's bizarre endorsement of Crooked Hillary Clinton; Ron Paul of Kentucky and Carl Fiorina; and hopefully she is no longer mad for  the "look at that face" comment. This four former contenders for the nomination are about the only ones still visibly missing inside the Team MAGA train and Icheoku will like to see them onboard immediately.  

Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ in Mark 9:40 rightly taught us that he who is not against us is with us; and on this note, Icheoku says welcome aboard Ted Cruz as ever vote counts. In as much as Donald Trump would have won both Texas and the national election without Ted Cruz's endorsement and/or support, but any endorsement is good endorsement as it only adds but does not remove from the movement's support. Icheoku says will not necessarily try to second-guess Ted Cruz's motive, but says his wife being allowed to return to her job at Goldman Sachs, seeing that Donald Trump will win, as well as revved up pressure by vice presidential candidate Mike Pence and other evangelicals of America possibly forced his capitulation. 

Icheoku says Ted Cruz would have given this endorsement when it would have weighted most, at Cleveland; but he lost his mojo and thereby blew away the golden opportunity to truly attain political greatness. His endorsement coming now and so very late into the campaign and so close to the election, it will be valued and treated for what it is, a reluctant gift made just for the heck of it. But regardless, it is still a welcome development as better late than never is always preferred. Moreover in politics, the more the merrier holds true as with many people comes many more votes.

In his own words of endorsement, Ted Cruz said:-
"This election is unlike any other in our nation’s history. Like many other voters, I have struggled to determine the right course of action in this general election. In Cleveland, I urged voters, “please, don’t stay home in November. Stand, and speak, and vote your conscience, vote for candidates up and down the ticket whom you trust to defend our freedom and to be faithful to the Constitution. 

After many months of careful consideration, of prayer and searching my own conscience, I have decided that on Election Day, I will vote for the Republican nominee, Donald Trump. I’ve made this decision for two reasons. First, last year, I promised to support the Republican nominee. And I intend to keep my word. Second, even though I have had areas of significant disagreement with our nominee, by any measure Hillary Clinton is wholly unacceptable — that’s why I have always been #NeverHillary

Six key policy differences inform my decision. First, and most important, the Supreme Court. 

For anyone concerned about the Bill of Rights — free speech, religious liberty, the Second Amendment — the Court hangs in the balance. I have spent my professional career fighting before the Court to defend the Constitution. We are only one justice away from losing our most basic rights, and the next president will appoint as many as four new justices. We know, without a doubt, that every Clinton appointee would be a left-wing ideologue. Trump, in contrast, has promised to appoint justices “in the mold of Scalia.” For some time, I have been seeking greater specificity on this issue, and today the Trump campaign provided that, releasing a very strong list of potential Supreme Court nominees — including Sen. Mike Lee, who would make an extraordinary justice — and making an explicit commitment to nominate only from that list. This commitment matters, and it provides a serious reason for voters to choose to support Trump. 

Second, Obamacare. The failed healthcare law is hurting millions of Americans. If Republicans hold Congress, leadership has committed to passing legislation repealing Obamacare. Clinton, we know beyond a shadow of doubt, would veto that legislation. Trump has said he would sign it. 

Third, energy. Clinton would continue the Oba ma administration’s war on coal and relentless efforts to crush the oil and gas industry. Trump has said he will reduce regulations and allow the blossoming American energy renaissance to create millions of new high-paying jobs. 

Fourth, immigration. Clinton would continue and even expand President Obama’s lawless executive amnesty. Trump has promised that he would revoke those illegal executive orders. 

Fifth, national security. Clinton would continue the Obama administration’s willful blindness to radical Islamic terrorism. She would continue importing Middle Eastern refugees whom the FBI cannot vet to make sure they are not terrorists. Trump has promised to stop the deluge of unvetted refugees. 

Sixth, Internet freedom. Clinton supports Obama’s plan to hand over control of the Internet to an international community of stakeholders, including Russia, China, and Iran. Just this week, Trump came out strongly against that plan, and in support of free speech online. 

These are six vital issues where the candidates’ positions present a clear choice for the American people. If Clinton wins, we know — with 100% certainty — that she would deliver on her left-wing promises, with devastating results for our country. My conscience tells me I must do whatever I can to stop that. We also have seen, over the past few weeks and months, a Trump campaign focusing more and more on freedom — including emphasizing school choice and the power of economic growth to lift African-Americans and Hispanics to prosperity. 

Finally, after eight years of a lawless Obama administration, targeting and persecuting those disfavored by the administration, fidelity to the rule of law has never been more important. The Supreme Court will be critical in preserving the rule of law. And, if the next administration fails to honor the Constitution and Bill of Rights, then I hope that Republicans and Democrats will stand united in protecting our fundamental liberties. Our country is in crisis. Hillary Clinton is manifestly unfit to be president, and her policies would harm millions of Americans. And Donald Trump is the only thing standing in her way. A year ago, I pledged to endorse the Republican nominee, and I am honoring that commitment. And if you don’t want to see a Hillary Clinton presidency, I encourage you to vote for him.