Are You Sure Easter Is Tomorrow?

No disrespect intended. It’s a serious question. I was so anxious for the Easter Bunny to arrive this year that I wrote an Easter piece a few weeks back and realized in the course of writing it just how divergent were the views on the process of the calculation. This year Christians in the West and the East celebrate it together on the same date, but that is not always the case. And each year’s date is different from the last, which is why it’s called a moveable feast, unlike Christmas…at least for most.

So, why is there such uncertainty over determining the date of this seminal holiday so significant to so much of the world?

First Council of Nicaea (325)

I understand that officially the First Ecumenical Synod ruled in 325 that Easter Sunday should fall on the Sunday that follows the first full moon after the vernal equinox (the point at which the ecliptic intersects the celestial equator, the sun having a northerly motion) and the invariable date of the vernal equinox is March 21. If the full moon happens to fall on a Sunday, Easter is observed the following Sunday.

Before the year 325 the determination of the date for Easter (or Pascha) seemed relatively easy. Just ask the Jews in your community when they celebrated Passover according to the lunar-based Hebrew Calendar (now into its 5771^st year), because the Jewish Holiday of Passover (or Pesach) was the occasion for the Last Supper. The only dispute appeared to be over whether Easter should be celebrated on the Hebrew calendar’s date of Nisan 14 or the following Sunday.

Original mural by Leonardo Da Vinci between 1495-1498

The First Ecumenical Synod changed all that by calculating the exact date of Easter from the more modern, cycles of the sun-based Julian calendar. And even though some in the Church did not agree with that determination, it became Christianity’s generally accepted method for calculating the date of Easter and continued to be so for more than five hundred years after the Great Schism of 1052 separated the Church of the West to Rome and the Church of the East to Constantinople (Istanbul).

Pope Gregory XIII (1502-1585)

But in 1582 Pope Gregory XIII introduced what is known as the Gregorian calendar for the express purpose of correctly calculating Easter, something the Julian calendar was not believed to have achieved. Today, the Gregorian calendar is the world’s officially accepted civil calendar (except in Greece’s 1500 year-old monastic community of Mount Athos—see Prey on Patmos), but there still is not agreement among the Christian world over whether it correctly fixes the date of Easter.

Indeed, as recently as 1997 the World Council of Churches proposed a method of using modern scientific knowledge for precisely calculating Easter and replacing divergent practices. It was not adopted.

All of which means that (based upon our everyday calendar), Easter for Western Christianity always falls on a Sunday between March 22 and April 25, and for most of Eastern Orthodoxy on a Sunday between April 4 and May 8—at least during the 21^st Century.

A White House Passover Seder

As for how Passover fits into all this, Julian calendar Easter always falls on a Sunday after the first day of the eight-day Passover holiday (and generally within those eight days), but Gregorian calendar observers who might think of tempting their Jewish friends with offers of treasured chocolate bunnies forbidden to their friends during that observant period should keep in mind that on the Gregorian calendar Passover will fall around a month after Easter three times in every nineteen year period. My buddies in the old neighborhood learned that lesson the hard way.

But no matter what calendar you follow, with all my heart I wish you Happy Easter, Kalo Paska, and Zissen Pesach. And a special message of love to my grandson, who turns four today.

Jeff—Saturday

Dear GOP: You don't get to put the 'Crazy Uncle' in the Basement now that he's been running the neighborhood for the past 2 years ---the Birther Issue

When you let the Crazy Uncle run roughshod in your house, don't be shocked if he doesn't want to go back into the basement.

First, it was the likes of Karl Rove, telling Donald Trump to tone down on the birtherism.

What did he say?

Karl Rove: I Tried To Offer Trump A Way Out Of The Birther Talk

Karl Rove, among the big name conservatives who are openly hostile to Donald Trump's birther-centric sort of-presidential campaign, apparently tried to give Trump a rhetorical way out of his talk about President Obama's birth certificate.

On Fox News on Monday, Rove described how Trump apparently took the advice to heart -- and then immediately ignored it.

It's the latest round of the war of words between Trump and Rove, which kicked off when Rove told Fox that Trump was "joke candidate."

Then there was Michele Bachmann on Good Morning America being cornered on the birther issue, trying to be too cute by half, and George S did his job and cornered her.

From TPM.com:

Bachmann Gets Cornered On Birtherism: 'Move On, End Of Story' (VIDEO)

In an interview with George Stephanopoulos on Good Morning America, Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) tried to hedge on the matter of birtherism -- using the line used by some Republicans who fall short of fully endorsing the conspiracy theory, while saying that Obama should just release his birth certificate (which he already did three years ago). To which George Stephanopoulos answered: Obama has released his birth certificate -- and here it is.

During the interview, Stephanopoulos asked Bachmann about how a prominent supporter of hers in Iowa has introduced a "birther bill" in the state legislature, which would require presidential candidates to supply their birth certificates to the state.

"Well, Governor Jan Brewer just vetoed that bill in Arizona," said Bachman, "because she felt that that was a bridge too far -- that it wouldn't be up to the authenticators in each state to do that, that that would be a federal issue. There is a federal piece of legislation that hasn't gone anywhere that would also require that candidates put forward their birth certificate. I have no problem giving my birth certificate, it wouldn't bother me at all. I've got one, its authenticated, take it."

"Well, but so does the president," Stephanopoulos replied.

"According to the bill a candidate for president or vice president shall attach to and file with the affidavit a copy of the candidate's birth certificate certified by the appropriate official in the candidate's state of birth.'

"That's right," said Bachmann.

"Well I have the president's certificate right here," Stephanopoulos replied. "It's certified, it's got a certification number, it's got the registrar of the state, signed. It's got a seal on it. And it says: 'This copy serves as prima facie evidence of the fact of birth in any court proceeding.'"

"Well, then that should settle it," said Bachmann. She added: "That's what should settle it. I take the president at his word and I think -- again I would have no problem and apparently the president wouldn't, either. Introduce that, we're done. Move on, end of story."

But, according to Lawrence O'Donnell, she was back to trying to be too cute by half about the Birther Issue, once she was on Fox Noise later on that day, as discussed in this video.

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So, why, if Bachmann is all big and bad, didn't she stick up for the Birthers on ' mainstream' tv?

Because, as the O'Donnell piece said....that birther mess doesn't play well, with the folks who consider themselves SANE in this country.

Simply put, it doesn't play well with INDEPENDENT VOTERS.

But, here's the thing...

After spending 2 years flaming the fans of this idiocy.

Of doing a ' wink wink, nudge nudge' to these folks..

Always doing to hairsplit, or the bullshyt ' I take the President at his word'...

NEVER being willing to call these lunatics out when given the chance in ' mainstream' press...

ALWAYS HEDGING around condemning them for what they are...

SUDDENLY, it's a Presidential Election Year, and you can't win elections with 'just the base'. You win elections with Independents....and they think this shyt is CRAZY.

But, NOW....they're tying to shove the Birthers into the basement...trying to say that it's just a 'fringe group'.

Not according to the polls.

From TPM.com:

Poll: Nearly Half Of Republicans Think Obama Wasn't Born In U.S.

The belief that President Obama was not born in America may seem like a fringe issue, but within the Republican party, the view is fairly mainstream.

In a New York Times/CBS poll released on Thursday, a 45% plurality of Republican adults said they believe Obama was not born in the U.S. Additionally, 33% said Obama was born in America, while 22% said they weren't sure.

That result is on par with a February PPP poll in which 51% of Republican voters thought Obama wasn't born in the U.S., while 28% said he was.

Since when is 45%, 51%...or the recent poll that showed 48% of Iowa Republicans were Births...

' SMALL NUMBERS'

45....48....51....

Out of 100?

Small numbers?

HELL NO.

The core of the Republican Party chooses to believe in the farce that the President wasn't born in the United States.

Now, you know I don't believe that these folks actually believe this nonsense.

They want to say....
I can't believe this NIGGER was elected President of the United States..

But, if they do, they will be seen in the same light as the woman who sent the monkey email this week.

That's what they want to say...

So, they hide behind the FRAUD that is the Birther issue. And, the 'ESTABLISHMENT' GOP, which had done nothing to discourage it from November 5, 20008 until now....sees that they look like they are being run by lunatics...and want to put a polite face on it, by trying to shove it under the carpet. You had the likes of Ann Coulter talking about ' of course, the President was born here'. They're trying to deflect what they have fomented, and I say HELL NO to them being able to disentangle themselves from the Birthers..

BIRTHERS=REPUBLICAN PARTY

to the CORE.

What worries the GOP in this election year?

Independents like this that I found on another site:

You were writing of how insidious the birther problem is for the Republicans, crawling and taking root across their membership like kudzu, in their attempts to deny legitimacy to Barack Obama. And all it's done for me (and I'd venture a good percentage of all Independents) is to deny legitimacy to the Republican party.

They played with this. They indulged it. They poured resources into the tawdry pols who would smile upon it, or insinuate it when they weren't downright trumpeting it from their podiums and microphones. They chose to do this and then realized that they might have a little problem with this parasitic thing that they seeded.

And it's their problem. To vote for them would make it mine. No thank you.

There is no policy idea or politician they can shine up that would appeal to me at this point, because they have taken their party right into the dirt with this birther business. Those who didn't participate also didn't make efforts to put a stop to it. Those would divest themselves of responsibility now are the worst culprits of all. If you dabble with racism - then you are a racist.

And last time I checked? You don't win elections without Independents. This Independent is done with them. You might as well ask me to vote for the Klan.

The GOP must live with the Crazy Uncle.

Top Illuminati Celebrities Exposed

The Illuminati are generally powerful and rich people, not a lot of celebrities are members of the Illuminati. Just because the Illuminati controls the music and film industries, does not mean that all celebrities are members. Celebrities do not sell their souls to become famous, the Illuminati believe in God, they just fear God. The Illuminati will kill anyone, anywhere at anytime to get what they need. The people that are “Anti-New World Order” and speak out against the Illuminati will be murdered like 2Pac, and most recently, Michael Jackson. 2Pac and Michael Jackson were going to warn the entire world about what the Illuminati are planning. If you look at the title of 2Pac’s album “The Don Killuminati” for example; 2Pac was referring to the Illuminati in this title, Kill + Illuminati. The Illuminati have killed 2Pac, Michael Jackson, Marilyn Monroe, Jon Lennon, Jimi Hendrix, John F. Kennedy, Abe Lincoln, Princess Diana, Martin Luther King, the list goes on.

Tyra Banks

Tom Cruise

Kanye west And Tom Cruise

Tila

Selena Gomez

Rihanna

Paris Hilton

Nicki Minaj

Miley Cyrus

Megan Fox And Marilyn

Marilyn monroe

Medonna Frozen

Madonna And Britney Spear kiss

Lionel Richie

Lindsay Lohan

Lil Wayne

Lady Gaga

Lady Gaga And Elton John

Kylie Minogue Wearing Illuminati Dress

Kim Kardashian

Khloe Kardashian
Khloe Kardashian’s new “racy” photo shoot for YRB contains themes regular readers will surely recognize. Khloe’s right eye is hidden in every single shot, hinting, through repetition, to the symbolic importance of this “stylistic choice”. As we have seen in previous articles, hiding one-eye represents a celebrity’s status of being owned and used by the Illuminati system. Furthermore, the entire “bondage” theme is always a preferred way to represent a celebrity’s “slave status”. Here are some of the
Underneath Khloe’s head in a bondage-type “mind-control” mask is written “I now have the power”…clear example of cognitive dissonance where being portrayed as a slave equals power.