PUTIN DEAD OR DYING OF A FAST-ACTING CANCER??

Reports are starting to trickle in from Egypt and other places.  I have been commenting on a Last Days discussion group on FB:

• I have to wonder if he is in the final throes of a fast-acting cancer (you know the kind that comes from Polonium 210 - what goes around comes around....) and will die tomorrow. He was the Czar (ceasar) of the czars in Russia. A modern Rome will attempt to wipe out Israel this last time around just as they in the days of Rome in 70AD. Some interesting correlation I found on the net: There was talk that Putin was the clone of Julius Caesar and Julius Caesar died on March 15th, 44 BC. The Ides of March are named as such because of the assassination of Julius Caesar. I don't know if Putin is a clone of Caesar, but he damn sure looks like him. I often find that there is some sort of mystery religion significance to these sorts of associations, so I fully expect something to be said about the death of Putin tomorrow, the 15th of March.

   

   

  Wow the uncanny resemblance between Putin and Julius Ceasar. 

  

   

   Both had mistress(es). I forgot that one of Julius' women was Cleopatra with whom he had a child: 

   

   http://ancienthistory.about.com/od/caesar1/a/Caesar_2.htm

  

  A Quick Summary on the Life and Times of Julius Ceasar

  Learn a dozen important facts about Julius Caesar.

  ancienthistory.about.com

   

   
• More on the Ides of March. As one of the production managers passed by my cube yesterday, I mentioned that Putin was missing. Without missing a beat, he said "Must be the ides of March....". I guess I never took a really close look at things: 

   

   

   Changing Significance of the Ides of March
  
  Before the historical assassination of Julius Caesar, the Ides of March was: A division of the calendar based on the phases of the moon. In some months, the Ides is on the 15th, and in others, it is the 13th. It's supposed to be on the day of the full moon. [See Roman Calendar.] March's Ides marked the beginning of the consular year: The two annually-elected Roman consuls took office on the Ides from c. 220 B.C. to 153. From 153 B.C. the consuls began to take office on the Kalends of January (what we call New Year's Day).
  
  Even immediately after the historical assassination of Julius Caesar, "the ides of March" could be understood to refer to the assassination. Cicero didn't have to say "the assassination of Caesar." He could assume he would be understood when he alluded to the assassination just by reference to "the Ides of March." Instead of saying something like the take-down of the dictator means there is hope for the Republic, he wrote -- with complete confidence that he would be understood:
  Idus Martiae consolantur.
  The Ides of March are encouraging.
  ~ Cicero Letters to Atticus.14.4 (url = homepage.usask.ca/~jrp638/DeptTransls/CicLetters.html April 19, 44 B.C.)
  *See In the Steps of Julius Caesar for why Senate met in the porticus attached to the theater of Pompey that day.

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