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| Jump, jump, but when to jump? Take a leap. |
What is a "Leap Year"? It's just that a day isn't really 24 hours long, so after a while (four years) we have lost so much time that we need to jump a day. Just one day. But where to add it? We can extend Black History Month by a day? It's the least we can do until reparations set in and we achieve something like the beginning of parity or at least equal opportunity since it looks like we're not really interested in equality as a country. WHEN is Leap Year? That's easy. It's every year there's a presidential election, when we all finally sing with the WHO, "Meet the new boss same as the old boss." The more things change, the more they stay the same, right? Left, right, left, right, lockstep, onward we march into oblivion or world domination like the CIA and Pentagon salivate to finally do.
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| Archaic explanation for leap years (rd.com) |
(Brandon Spektor/rd.com) New Year’s is nice, but there’s an unofficial holiday, too: Leap Day (that occurs every Leap Year). Why? One "solar year" (i.e., the time it takes Tierra to rotate around Sol) is roughly 365 days, 5 hours, 48 minutes, and 46 seconds long. That extra time nobody talks about is precisely why we have leap years. The 366-day years occur every four years. The holiday includes encouraging women to propose to men. Sadie Hawkins anyone? It also makes celebrating birthdays very confusing for 1/1,461th of the population. Happy birthday, me.
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| Nazis Won WW II? (Stephen Quayle) |
The CIA, after all, was built by the German Nazis after the world because Americans in Washington, DC, envied their accomplishments so very much. Operation Paperclip allowed lots of Nazis to not only escape prison or the death penalty, but all was forgiven if they would do for us what they did for Hitler. Even Hitler was allowed to escape to Neu Schwabenland and neighboring Argentina.
Alternative history is a blast. These are not actually controversial statements. Historians know them. But the average American knows next to nothing, not even the standard fairytales we teach in school, how much less anything of what actually happened in the country's past to get us here at the precipice of putting a gun to every other country's head and forcing them to submit to our full spectrum dominance? Look it up.
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| We're not Shining City on the Hill we say we are? |
Or attend classes at West Point. Even that elitist war college was willing to teach Pres. Bush that we, the 13 colonies, were largely responsible for piracy in the Caribbean, plundering British ships to enrich ourselves and revolt. Yet, somehow, we hold the modern coast of Africa and the old Ottoman Empire to a higher standard, paint ourselves the victims and heroic overcomers of empire, colonial revolutionaries spreading a hypocritical version of Hillary Clinton-style "democracy." Overthehillary infamously lamented that before we forced a country to hold democratic elections, we should have rigged the results to best suit our plans.
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| Nah, Dude, it's beer and potatoes instead for me. |
"I started talking about Harvey the minute that it happened," Judd says in an interview with TIME.
Because it falls on Day One of Month One on the Chinese calendar, it is often celebrated in conjunction with Chinese New Year. Tet 2013 is a five-day celebration that begins on Feb. 9 and culminates with a massive festival on Feb. 14th (Valentine's Day). But the actual New Year begins on the 10th.
There are parades, featuring traditional lion and dragon dances and family feasts. Inviting ancestors who have passed on to join in the celebration is common; special ceremonies and rituals are involved.
Tet 2013 will celebrate the beginning of the Year of the Snake [like the Mesoamerican naga Quetzalcoatl], following the close of the Year of the Dragon and preceding the Year of the Horse. It is a traditional celebration full of joy remembering and showing respect to loved ones who have gone before.
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US-based Time Magazine (TIME.com) has recognized unprecedented change [on Wall Street, Zuccotti Park, and] in the Middle East and elsewhere around the world by naming "The Protester" as its Person of the Year.
In the Middle East, protests beginning in Tunisia and spreading to Egypt, Yemen, and Libya resulted in changes in government. In the United States and western Europe, protesters demonstrated against the dire economic situation and disparity of wealth between [the super] rich [1%] and poor [99%]. More
Millionaire's gift sparks Web curiosity
The student-led protests in the heart of the Chinese capital had gone on for weeks, an extraordinary call for political freedom and an end to gov-ernment corruption. Sparked by the April 15 death of a beloved Communist Party chief deposed by hard-liners, they were mostly peaceful, even after martial law was declared on May 20.
