jelun

Hope everyone is enjoying the day...

mwdegutis Loc: Illinois

Why don't you go back under the rock you slithered out from.

jelun

What is the problem? You have an issue with the homeowners' association?

moldyoldy

Let's celebrate our infernal period of vernal equinox.

When Julius Caesar established the Julian calendar in 45 BC, he set 25 March as the date of the spring equinox. Because the Julian year (365.25 days) is slightly longer than the tropical year, the calendar "drifted" with respect to the two equinoxes — such that in 300 AD the spring equinox occurred about 21 March. By 1500 AD, it had drifted backwards to 11 March.

This drift induced Pope Gregory XIII to create a modern Gregorian calendar. The Pope wanted to continue to conform with the edicts concerning the date of Easter of the Council of Nicaea of AD 325, which means he wanted to move the vernal equinox to 21 March, which is the day allocated to it in the Easter table of the Julian calendar. However, the leap year intervals in his calendar were not smooth (400 is not an exact multiple of 97). This causes the equinox to oscillate by about 53 hours around its mean position. This in turn raised the possibility that it could fall on 22 March, and thus Easter Day might theoretically commence before the equinox. The astronomers chose the appropriate number of days to omit so that the equinox would swing from 19 to 21 March but never fall on the 22nd (although it can in a handful of years fall early in the morning of that day in the Far East).

archie bunker Loc: Texas

You celebrate as you wish. I will celebrate the resurrection of Jesus Christ!

jelun

I am so pleased to hear that. It seems that Christians are having a very difficult time acknowledging all the respect for Easter. So many closed retail outlets, isn't it wonderful?
Or do folks miss the chance to whine about being persecuted?
I was thinking maybe a nice note to Bill O'Really to thank him for saving Easter.

mwdegutis Loc: Illinois

Like I said, why don't you slither back under that rock you came out from. Trust me, you weren't missed.

moldyoldy

Exactly what day was it?

jelun

Really? Cuz, Scuzball? It didn't take long for you jump right in as soon as I posted.
1 minute and 10 seconds.

archie bunker Loc: Texas

I won't even bother to ask what you are talking about, because you make no sense.

mwdegutis Loc: Illinois

Shear coincidence. But your smell got putrid REAL fast.

alabuck Loc: Tennessee

Some of you folks need to take a chill-pill. jelun's OP is a sign from a "Homeowners Association," NOT a church sign! As such, the religious connotation is ZERO.

Also, moldy is only saying WHY we celebrate Easter on varying dates. In fact, this is the earliest Easter we'll have in several more years.

Archie, have you taken a new pix of yourself? It's much more realistic and captures your "true self-radiance" than your previous one. LOL!! ;-). Sorry Archie, I couldn't help myself. The "opening" was too big to ignore LOL!! ;-). Wink-Wink!! LOL!!

archie bunker Loc: Texas

I get ya Alabuck! :lol: :lol: I'm glad you like my new avitar! :lol:
How is your son doing? I hope he is healed up, and doing well. I also hope your left wing, grumpy self is doing well too!! :mrgreen: :lol:

jelun

It isn't surprising that you would not have the wherewithal too figure the implications out.

alabuck Loc: Tennessee

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When last we left my son's shoulder saga.....
After a MONTH, he was finally able to get an MRI of his shoulder. Two weeks after that, he as able to see an orthopedic doctor. The doc took another set of X-rays and said his shoulder was healing fine, on its own, but to come back in another month for another look-see. My son still can't raise his arm above his shoulder without a lot of pain, but, being the good soldier he is, he goes to work every day and cracks the whip over his subordinates, only using his right arm.

Tennessee's workmans comp is a joke, and now, he knows it. He said if he had it to do over, he'd just go to a regular doc and use his medical insurance. The ONLY bright part of this is that he's not had to pay any out-of-pocket monies.

As to me, I'm to see my back doctor on Wednesday. My hips are doing fine, except that I've developed a big knot in my left hip. He put some injection medicine in it a couple of months ago, but it didn't do anything. I think I have a cyst over the replacement hip.

Last month, my back started hurting more than usual. Went to the doctor and had an MRI done. Appears that the disc between L2 &L-3 has totally disappeared. It's literally bone-on-bone. And, it's pinching the nerve root exiting the right side. I had another doctor put an injection between the two vertebrae, but that only lasted for about two weeks. I return to the back doctor on Wednesday to determine another course of action.
In spite of all of this "stuff," we're very blessed. :thumbup:

What I am enjoying is the clown show you guys are calling the Republican Presidential Nomination. It seems that no matter what your GOPTP establishment does or says, it can't stop der Furher, Hrump. I swear, his tactics come right out of Hitler's and Mussolini's play books. He even "hints" that his people will riot if he looses. The burning of the Reichstag, all over again, only this time it'll be the Cleveland Convention Center. And, the 25,000 people who've signed a petition to be allowed to carry their guns into the convention; SURE, let's just pour some gasoline onto the fire.

Say someone gets mad and shoots another. With 25,000 guns, who will the LEO's recognize as the "bad guys?" I imagine they'd just shoot anyone who had a gun in their hand, who wasn't wearing a police uniform. Yea, let's just see how safe the NRA would say we are, now, with everyone armed. I'd really like to hear the "positive spin" that the NRA would put on all the deaths that occurred IF a fire-fight were to break out. It's truly amazing how utterly stupid the NRA's logic is.

Even if there were a terrorist(s), they don't care how many guns there are. All they want is to take out as many people as possible as they detonate the bombs strapped to their chests. They're going to die anyway. One gun or 25,000 guns, it matters not to them. Plus, they'll be dressed just like everyone else. It's not like they'll be wearing a shirt that reads, "I'm a terrorist!" They could be standing right beside you and you'd never know the difference. If anything, they would be dressed in a LEO's uniform. That would allow them to not only shoot at civilians, but to shoot at the real LEO's.

Listening to the GOPTP candidate expound their hateful and very ignorant rhetoric makes me wonder just how stupid we've become; when 2 loud-mouth, empty-headed, know-nothing's are the two front runners for a major US political party. IF, and I mean, IF I voted GOPTP, it would be for Kasich. He the ONLY GOPTP candidate that knows how to at least, "act" presidential. Plus, he has more political experience than the other two, combined.

Even with all her baggage, HRC, to me, has what it takes to be president.

I'm sorry, Archie. I got onto a rant. My apologies. I apologize to jelun, too, for hijacking your post. :XD: :thumbdown: