In the clear sky, where to the east there is now a completely rosy zone, which is spreading out more and more widely, but where, however, there are no sunbeams as yet, a very bright meteor appears, coming from unknown depths, and it descends like a sphere which perhaps is nothing but the persistence of its brightness in our retinae.  It descends at a very high speed towards the Earth, shedding such an intense phantasmagoric light, frightful in its beauty, that the rosy light of dawn vanishes, outshone by such white incandescence.

With the light there comes a mighty, harmonious, solemn rumble that fills the whole of creation with its roar.  It comes from heavenly depths.  It is the alleluia, the angelical glory that follows the Spirit of the Christ, which is returning to His glorious Flesh.

The meteor clashes on the useless closure of the Sepulchre, tears it off, throws it on the ground and it strikes with terror and noise the guards placed as jailors of the Master of the Universe, producing with its return of the Earth a new earthquake, as it had caused one when this Spirit of the Lord fled from the Earth.  It enters the dark Sepulchre that becomes all bright with its indescribable light and while it remains suspended in the still air, the Spirit is infused again into the Body motionless under the funeral bandages.

The <I want> of the divine Spirit to its cold Body is noiseless.  It is uttered by the Essence to the immobile Matter.  But no word is perceived by the human ear.  The Flesh receives the order and obeys it with a deep sigh…..Nothing else for some minutes.

Under the Sudarium and the Shroud, the glorious Body is recomposed in eternal beauty; it awakes from the sleep of death, it comes back from the <nothing> in which it was, it lives after being dead.

Another moment and there is a sudden movement under the heavy Shroud.  It is so sudden that, from the moment He certainly moves His folded arms to the moment He appears standing, imposing, splendid in His garment of immaterial matter, supernaturally handsome and majestic with a gravity that changes and elevates Him, and yet leaves Him exactly Himself, the eye has hardly time to follow the development.  And now it admires Him; so different from what the mind remembers, tidied up, without wounds or blood, only blazing with the light that gushes from the five wounds and issues from every pore of His skin.

When He takes His first step – and in the movement the rays emanating from His Hands and Feet halo Him with beams of light; from His Head haloed with a garland, made with the countless little wounds of the crown, but they no longer bleed but only shine, to the hem of His tunic, when opening His arms, that were folded across His chest, he uncovers the zone of very bright luminosity that filters through his tunic inflaming it like a sun at the height of His Heart – then it is really the <Light> that has taken a body.  Not the poor light of the Earth, not the poor light of the stars, not the poor light of the sun.  But the light of God; all the heavenly brightness that gathers in one Being and grants Him it’s inconceivable azure as eyes, its golden fire as hair, its angelic whiteness as garment and complexion and all that exists, but cannot be described by human words, the super eminent ardour of the Most Holy Trinity, that outshines with its ardent power every fire in Paradise, absorbing Him in Itself to generate Him again at each moment of the eternal Time, Heart of Heaven that attracts and spreads His blood, the countless drops of His incorporeal blood; the blessed souls, the angels, everything there is the Paradise; the love of God, the love for God, all this in the Light that is, that forms the Risen Christ.

The Poem of the Man-God -- Maria Valtorta

It's a good thing...in fact, it's a great thing.

The fact of the talent "going Galt", and collectively sticking their middle fingers up at Obama, TATUS (Toxic Asset Geitner) and the rest of these leeches is the best possible outcome.

I hope they start up their old firms and kick the a**es of these dinosaur companies with their hands out for continued bail-outs.  Prove to the blood-suckers once and for all that there is no such thing as "too big to fail"....and it's non-sensical to prop up failure with taxpayer dollars.

Tea Parties >>>>> Tax Revolt.  Coming to a neighborhood near you.

I hope he fails, too.

When the rats desert the ship you know something is coming.   You don't just quit your job in a recession UNLESS you have been hired by another company OR you know the S%&T is going to hit the fan and you don't want to go through the sausage factory.  What are they seeing that we have not be informed of?

Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid, starving the poor one gallon of ethanol at a time. Fill your tank with E85 and cull a village.

 Forgive me for this bit of crass self promtion. Time is running out to vote on the poll on my blog "Who is the most dispicable person in broadcast media?" Right now Bathtub boy has 3 laps on his closet competitor, Bill Maher. The voting will end in the morning at 8:30. I'll leave the results up for several days.

I am not very good at blogging yet but as I go along I'll have some more off the wall polls.

Semper suprene nitens

Well we all know the hubbub over the Bush US attorney firings, I am wondering, has Obama fired any Bush appointees and is there ANY news about same?

D

P.S. I saw sarcasmo's posts in the link, brought a tear to my eye.

Keep the ILLEGALS out, join NumbersUSA to send free faxes to your reps.

I've seen a few news stories on local governments printing their own local money.  I wonder if there are Federal tax advantages to it?  Does it constitute a step towards barter?

And all that talent leaving the banks?  I think the jobs will get back-filled with MacDonalds clerks.  Imagine all these out of work bankers, just can't wait to do business with hamburger school graduates. 

LYDSEXICS UNTIE!

AP 4/12/2009

The first family has settled on a first pet — a 6-month-old Portuguese water dog that the Obama girls are naming Bo.

The dog is a gift from Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, D-Mass., who owns several Portuguese water dogs himself.

I guess Democrats really are OBLIVIOUS and irony-free. They don't see the hideous funny in Ted Kennedy breeding Water Dogs.

Hey, shame Ted never had them back in 68. Might have been useful having a pack in the back of his car.

And the name? Bo.

Well at least they didn't go for Mary-Bo.

Now that WOULD have been ironic.

“In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.” George Orwell
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Just noticed Google is showing how it really feel's about Easter. To them it doesn't exist. However, Ramadan does.

"You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy. We must be cautious. "

- Ben Kenobi on  Liberals, and the MSM.

" The Cake is a lie."   

When will Dear Leader tell us how he planed the entire rescue and apologize for the three dead pirates?

This just in; U.S. plans new aid package for un-employed Somali pirate families.

Hey anybody see the story about the congressman who wants Asian Americans to change their names to more easily pronounceable ones, to help out everyone else? 

Old Glory Flies Proudly today...

What a great glorious day for Captain Phillips and all involved..Seals, etc.

Prayers are answered on this Easter Sunday.

Doubling down on stupid is not a particularly good idea. ~Andrew Breitbart

Another article on the carefully staged appearance in Iraq by the Bamster: Cam Sham; Obama's Photo Op with Cheering, Camera Wielding Troops 100% Staged: http://www.redstate.com

Still not mainstream though. I'm sure Rush will hit it Monday, and maybe Hannity as well. That may help.

  The Vet gave some advice to teh President a few days ago - Put a hole in 'em.

   The Vet sees teh President heeded the advice.

   The Vet has one last comment.

   You missed one. 

First of all, I hope all my NB fiends had a wonderful Easter.

The final round of the Masters will go down as one of the more memorable ones.

And congrats to theUnited States Navy for rescuing Captain Phillips and for arranging for three of theMuslim pirate bastards to meet Allah.

Too bad the fourth one didn't go with them.

Let's hope the Navy will be turned loose to send as many of the remaining Muslim pirates straight to Hell as well, or we are going to be seeing these things happening even more.

Captain Phillips was fortunate. The next guy might not be.

-Dave

  Turns out one of the pirates did not get away. He had turned himself in. He used the ruse that he was going to negotiate and turned himself in.

 The other 3 had a hole put in 'em. Three pirates on a raft. 3 head shots!

 The Vet is most duly impressed.

  Three head shots on a raft bobbing around in the Indian Ocean. From a ship that itself was bobbing around not necessarily in sync with the raft.

Sincerely,

a Veteran of a 1000 psychic wars.

an Eternal Champion after many exhausting trials and tribulations in the endless war between Law and Chaos 

Seems that in general companies do the best when they're still at least guided by the original founder of the company...you know, the guy's whose dream the business was, their baby, their life's work, took the risks, poured in their blood sweat and tears, etc.

Then he retires or dies and his idiot son(s) take over and piss it all away.  Either/and they hire bean counters with MBAs who never built up any company (shout out to Rodney Dangerfield in Back To School).

It's at that point the clock starts ticking...faster for some companies than others.  This awe and reverence for old American companies are bull$hit because many are mere shadows of their former selves and their best years were decades ago.

Make room for the hungry young lions out there who have a talent for, or at least the drive and the smarts to learn from their mistakes, build up their own businesses to replace the dinosaurs.

One of the 34% who thinks George W. Bush was a great President. One of the 61% who wants to bring back the stock and pillory (yep...approval for Congress now at 39%...do you believe that!?).