One revolution around the sun takes about 365 days and 6 hours. An extra 24 hours accumulates every 4 years, so an extra day - Leap Day - is added to the calendar. It is a corrective measure, and a snapshot of events this 29th day of February, 2008, would seem to indicate nothing but required corrections. Here, for your amusement and edification, are quick takes on some of the more obvious ones.
Perhaps the most important event - met with almost complete indifference - is the rigged election we are about to experience again. From the obvious election fraud perpetrated in NH - just barely reported - to the upcoming primaries in Ohio and Texas, it’s business as usual.
Forget the programmed carnival surrounding every political event. The millions spent could be put to far better use. Just remember Stalin’s declaration about who counts the votes being more important than who actually votes. In the cases of Ohio and Texas, offering paperless electronic voting machines whose results can be manipulated at will, the election results in those and many other states, will be determined by the Diebold people.
Save your vote. In this enlightened age, it means nothing. Or ignore the obvious. Pretend you actually have governmental representation. Bow down to the fascist control your indifference invites and don’t complain when every last freedom is taken away from you.
In other news, the signs are rather ominous. The dollar is disappearing rapidly. Sometime this year, it won’t be worth much of anything at all.
Millions of Americans will lose their homes to foreclosure. You may have noticed our exalted leader’s pleasure in announcing that those sorry creatures can expect no relief whatsoever from their “elected” government.
His response in fact - not reported at all in the controlled media - was to sign an agreement with Canada for Canadian troops to patrol US cities during anticipated upcoming food riots.
Bush says we’re not heading into a recession. Actually, he’s right. We’re already in one and heading into a depression. And the mention of food riots is not a fantasy. Consider, for a moment, the fact of millions of Americans losing their homes, their jobs, unable to pay inflated prices for food, gas, or anything else.
Bush, of course, is amused, out of touch, or both. He expressed a dumbfounded amazement at a recent press conference when someone suggested $4 gas by summer.
The economy, of course, could be vastly improved by use of the 12 billion a month we are spending in the Mid East. But we’re not allowed to leave Afghanistan, Iraq or anywhere else - without permission from Tel Aviv.
Don’t hold your breath waiting for that. McCain’s prediction of our presence in Iraq for the next 100 years will happen first. And, just as a side note, I know you’re completely aware of and unconcerned about Bush’s recent give-away of another 30 billion dollars to Israel. That’s 30 billion, with a B, when our wounded, homeless veterans are living in the street.
In the meantime, this Leap Day 2008, life goes on. Home sales drop to the lowest level in 13 years. The government wants to give a deadly flu shot to all American children over 6 months old. Bush promises to veto legislation removing tax breaks from the oil giants - the most profitable institutions in the world.
On the world scene, prepare for a very possible war between Russia, the European Union and NATO, thanks to our interference in Kosovo.
The genocide in Gaza, one of the most horrible war crimes in history, goes on - with our government’s puppet-controlled approval - as the entire world watches and does nothing. Thanks to the American media news blackout, you know nothing about it.
Preparations for war in Lebanon, Syria and Iran are well underway. When Israel attacks Iran, you’ll know about it - when Russia and China retaliate - and your kids find themselves drafted to once again suffer and die for Israel.
But never fear. We have a new president coming, don’t we? We sure do. Did you catch the democrat’s “debate” the other night? One thing that came across loud and clear was the obvious pandering to Israel. (Doesn’t it make you sick to your stomach sometimes?) Our next president will be the one who promises the most for Israel. As usual, American interests will come in second. If at all.
I think this may be the last presidential election allowing our government, our media, and almost every aspect of our lives to be dictated by the wishes and demands of a foreign country. For the simple reason that what’s left of America, this one-time democracy, will no longer exist.
There’s a lot more going on - most of it bad - to include even a representative sample in this small attempt at a Leap Day snapshot.
The signs are obvious and ominous. We are heading into Orwell’s world of 1984 at breakneck speed. I think it’s beyond the point of stopping it.
I’ll have a few good suggestions for survival in future posts. Until then, keep a low profile and hope for the best. There might be an asteroid in our future after all - the one heading for Washington. Hope never dies.
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