RANDOM THOUGHTS

  A blog on a weekend is an exercise in futility. However, I must take advantage of what time I have between appointments, fatigue due to physical impairments, and simple laziness to post a few random disconnected thoughts.

  Yippee; after 150 years we are going to have an official city flag, one with colors that are meaningful to the Mayor. Yes, another milestone in Plainfield’s revitalization. Meanwhile our taxes go up as we lose another national store and a thriving restaurant row will be destroyed.

  In DC as the wake of the Barr rendition of the Mueller Report continues the White House and POTUS continue to obfuscate and the Democrats talk of impeachment.

 This is at best unadvisable since Pence would become President if successful but fortunately unlikely to take place. Impeachment, a House right, only becomes a “act” after Senate approval.

  Andrew Johnson and Bill Clinton are the only two PONTUS who were impeached but both were acquitted by the Senate and remained in office. Nixon resigned before the House could act since he had an unfavorable Senate which would uphold the impingement.

  FYI; the Constitution: “At the federal level, Article I, Section 2, Clause 5 of the Constitution grants to the House of Representatives "the sole power of impeachment", and Article I, Section 3, Clause 6 grants to the Senate "the sole Power to try all Impeachments". In considering articles of impeachment, the House is obligated to base any charges on the constitutional standards specified in Article II, Section 4: "The President, Vice President, and all civil Officers of the United States shall be removed from Office on Impeachment for, and conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other High Crimes and Misdemeanors.”

 

Biden has become the latest Democrat desiring to be  President. He would blow the others away were not being by far the oldest and did not have baggage from his years in Politics including his treatment of Anita Hill. Kissing babies may also be a “no-no” along with hugging which was once OK but not in today’s climate. He will not win an election even against Trump.

POTPOURRI

  A very "springish" Wednesday with the morning spent -4 hours- having a chemical stress test which I seemed to have survived.

 Meanwhile as Colbert would say- The Mueller report itself and the Barr’s rendition have created quite a storm in DC. The fallout has not ended. It did not exonerate the President from an attempt to obstruct. Unlike Nixon he was probably saved from a “Saturday Night Massacre by the refusal of his aids to implement his orders.   There will be some effort in the Democrat majority house   for impeachment but that will fail to be confirmed in the Senate.

  Two recent comments; one by CLamb about Easter and the other is from Wednesday’s blog “Doc Where is all the revenue from the explosion of development going? Bill Kruse”

 About Easter yes, I made a boo boo.  In my near century I know Easter is not a fixed date., but is a fixed day Sunday. On the other hand Passover is a  fixed date that varies as to day due to  the Hebrew lunar calendar.  Yes I gave Trump like misinformation.
 This is from @Wikipedia: “Easter and the holidays that are related to it are moveable feasts which do not fall on a fixed date in the Gregorian or Julian calendars which follow only the cycle of the Sun; rather, its date is offset from the date of Passover and is therefore calculated based on a lunisolar calendar similar to the Hebrew calendar. The First Council of Nicaea (325) established two rules, independence of the Jewish calendar and worldwide uniformity, which were the only rules for Easter explicitly laid down by the council. No details for the computation were specified; these were worked out in practice, a process that took centuries and generated a number of controversies. It has come to be the first Sunday after the ecclesiastical full moon that occurs on or soonest after 21 March, but calculations vary.
  "Passover commences on the 15th of the Hebrew month of Nisan"

  Finally, the measles epidemic is booming. Religious beliefs and misinformation should not be allowed to jeopardize public safety.

HOLY DAYS

  Today is too important for the two religions that are the basis of our Western culture to post a political oriented blog. There certainly is enough material locally and nationally to have done so, but that can wait.

  Because of differences in the Jewish lunar calendar and the Gregorian solar calendar the concurrence of Passover and holy Easter week does not always overlap. Easter is a fixed date; whereas Passover based on the lunar calendar with an added week every three years can take place late in April.

  Both represent redemption; Easter from sin, Passover from slavery. But consider that if the exodus from Egypt had not taken place there would never have been the monotheism that produced Jesus.

  A major difference between the two holidays is that the Easter holy week is church oriented but Pass over with its Seder is home family based.

 Enjoy whichever one you celebrate and Monday we can return to the turmoil of present-day life. However if one honestly follows the concepts of his/hers religion bigotry should not exist.