• Two in Three Say Drill Baby Drill-44% Will Definitely Vote Against Obama
• Cal GOP Official Flubs Up
• FBI has released thousands of page of UFO files in Searchable Digital Format
• Scientist Think they Have a new Bead on Dark Matter
• Buttonwillow Center of Cal Pop.
• FAA = Falling Asleep Again
• Arctic Energy New Coldest War Faceoff
• Disgruntled Saudi’s Lower Oil Production Blast Obama.
• Standard and Poor Lowers USA Credit Rating- White House Calls It “Politics”
• Russia, China Take Aim at U. S. Over Arctic Oil and Gas
• “Good” Friday?

 

An April 16-18  Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey of Likely Voters shows that 59% now say deepwater drilling should be allowed. Twenty-two percent (22%) oppose deepwater drilling, while another 20% are undecided.

Support for deepwater drilling is up from 53% in September of last year. Support dropped to a low of 47% in July 2010.

Two-out-of-three voters (67%) now support offshore oil drilling, the highest level of support since the spill last April.  Seventy-six percent (76%) do not think the United States does enough to develop its own gas and oil resources which perhaps helps to explain why opposition to President Obama’s continuing ban on oil drilling off the Eastern seaboard and in the eastern portion of the Gulf of Mexico is up from early December when the policy was first announced.

Democrats are evenly divided on the issue, 81% of Republicans support deepwater drilling, as do 58% of voters not affiliated with either major political party.

Men favor deepwater drilling slightly more than women do. Voters under the age of 30 are less supportive of it than their elders are.

In a rare instance of solidarity, however, Political Class and Mainstream voters are equally supportive of deepwater drilling.

A huge bloc of voters won’t vote for the president no matter what.

A McClatchy-Marist poll found that 44 percent of registered voters said they definitely would vote against Obama in 2012, while only 37 percent said they definitely would vote for him, and 18 percent were undecided, the Miami Herald reported Wednesday.

The president is in a statistical tie with Romney, and just edges out Huckabee. Those polled sided with Obama over Romney 46 percent to 45 percent of the time. The president bested Huckabee with only 48 percent support to 43 percent.

Obama, et. al are borrowing $188,000,000 (million) an hour.

The defecation really hit the impeller after a 74-year-old Orange County, CA Republincan Central Committee member is in hot water for emailing a photograph depicting Obama as a chimpanzee with the caption, “Now you know why I don’t have a birth certificate.”

This is the second time in recent years that an Orange County political official has been in the news for Obama-themed emails.

In early 2009, Los Alamitos Mayor Dean Grose forwarded an email to a group of people from his personal account depicting a picture of the White House with a watermelon patch as its garden. Grose later resigned amid the backlash.

The New York Department of Health has reversed it proposed rule banning “dangerous” games like tag, red rover, kick ball, capture the flag, etc. from summer camps.

Another NYC school has forbidden its students from doing tug of war insisting it be renamed tug of peace and then it is OK.Absurd.

 The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) investigated hundreds of UFO sightings in the 1940s and ’50s, but the agency had a policy of destroying investigation records because they took up too much space.

Some of the papers related to these UFO sightings went online this weekend through the FBI’s newly revamped electronic reading room, dubbed The Vault. Previously known as the FBI Records/Freedom of Information and Privacy Act website, the site contains more than 2,000 FBI documents that were scanned from the original paper files. Many of these documents are available to the public for the first time.

 One section of the Vault is reserved for documents related to UFO sightings. Among the files, reports the Guardian, is a 1949 memo to FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover describes the policy of the Bureau’s San Antonio office to destroy files related to UFO investigations because they contained “nothing of interest to the FBI” and were too plentiful to store. “It is pointed out that the filing of these would result in the rapid accumulation of very bulky files,” the unsigned memo says.

 A memo from 1950 details an investigation of three “flying saucers” that a witness claimed crash-landed in New Mexico, an incident unrelated to the 1947 event in Roswell, N.M., that spawned conspiracy theories about an alien crash. In the 1950 memo, special agent Guy Hottel repeats an Air Force investigator’s report that three flying saucers crashed and were recovered, along with the bodies of nine alien crew members. According to the memo, each ship “was occupied by three bodies of human shape but only three feet tall, dressed in metallic cloth of a very fine texture. Each body was bandaged in a manner similar to the blackout suits used by speed flyers and test pilots.”

The investigation ended there, and the memo concludes with the statement “No further evaluation was attempted.” The informant’s name is redacted in the file.

But the memo doesn’t tell the whole story. According to the International Business Times, the “Hottel memo,” which was never classified, repeats a hoax first reported in a Kansas City newspaper. The two con men responsible were later convicted of fraud.

But speaking of Roswell, another document makes it clear that the 1947 crash was, indeed, a weather balloon, although its exact origin remains uncertain. ABC News cites a 1947 memo with the word “Roswell” handwritten on the top of the page detailing the discovery of a “flying disc” near the New Mexico town. “The disc is hexagonal in shape and was suspended from a balloon by cable. The object found resembles a high-altitude weather balloon with a radar reflector.”

The new version of the Vault has been heavily enhanced for online searching and viewing of documents on the Web. It also contains documents related to mobster Al Capone, actress Marilyn Monroe, rapper Notorious B.I.G. and the Sept. 11, 2001, hijackers. The FBI says additional documents will be added every month.

Year ago I met a USAF officer who was involved in the so-called Roswell Incident. He said it was a weather balloon and there were no bodies nor other evidence of anything extra terrestrial.

US, British, French, UAE and Qatari air forces on standby to attack Qaddafi’s forces. Qaddafi promises to exact bloody price on them through terror attacks.

Esoteric as it may be Dark matter, the mysterious substance that may account for nearly 25 percent of the universe, has so far evaded direct observation. But researchers from UCLA, Columbia University and other institutions participating in the international XENON collaboration say they are now closer than ever before.

Their new results, announced at the Gran Sasso National Laboratory in Italy, where the XENON experiment is housed deep beneath a mountain 70 miles west of Rome, represent the highest-sensitivity search for dark matter yet, with background noise 100 times lower than competing efforts.

Dark matter is widely thought to be a kind of massive elementary particle that interacts weakly with ordinary matter. Physicists refer to these particles as WIMPS, for weakly interacting massive particles. The XENON researchers used a dark-matter detector known as XENON100 - an instrumented vat filled with over 100 pounds of liquid xenon - as a target for these WIMPs, which are thought to be streaming constantly through the solar system and the Earth.

And while the XENON100 experiment found no dark matter signal in 100 days of testing, the researchers’ newly calculated upper limits on the mass of WIMPs and the probability of their interacting with other particles are the best in the world, said UCLA physics professor Katsushi Arisaka, a member of the international collaboration.

XENON100 looks for a primary flash of light that occurs when a particle bounces off a xenon atom inside the detector and a secondary flash when an electron knocked free from a xenon atom by a collision is accelerated toward the top of the device by an electric field, said UCLA physics researcher Hanguo Wang, who works closely with Arisaka.

With this configuration, a WIMP will generate a signal fundamentally different from that of cosmic radiation or emission from the equipment itself, making it possible to identify background readings that could be mistaken for a positive detection, he said.

Even though the experiment did not detect a WIMP, the progress sets the stage for an ambitious next-generation project called XENON1T, which will use a much larger, one-ton liquid xenon instrument with highly specialized light-detectors developed at UCLA that make it 100 times more sensitive than XENON100, said David Cline, a UCLA professor of physics and founder of UCLA’s dark matter group.

President Obama on Thursday hosted Emir Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani of Qatar, otherwise known as the Boss of Al-Jazeera, for a meeting in the Oval Office. Obama called him “Your Highness” and “His Highness,” even though the Emir dropped his robes of royalty for a business suit. Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al-Thani financially sponsors Al-Jazeera and its most famous personality, anti-American and anti-Semitic cleric Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi, who has just returned to Egypt from Qatar to supervise the transformation of that one-time U.S. ally into an Islamic state.

Sunday morning (U.S. Eastern time) the Saudi oil industry announced production has been cut 500,000 barrels per day.  Now that this policy has become official and no longer a rumor, the price for oil should easily soar past $110 per bbl. considering there is no valid indication that the Federal Reserve will act to strengthen the dollar after the hedonically tame C.P.I. report of last Friday. Monday a gallon of regular gasoline averaged $3.83 per gallon and is over $4 per gallon in numerous states.

The record nationwide average price was $4.11 a gallon in July, 2008. It has exceeded that in numerous  places and is over $5 per gallon in a couple places.

Certainly the Saudi decision  is a slap across America’s face at least in part to signal the consequence of Obama’s unreliability and illt reatment of Saudi Arabia and other allies..

President Obama is celebrating Passover with a Passover Seder. After hearing this, Sarah Palin said, “Ah, so he is a Muslim.” - Conan

The credit rating agency Standard & Poor’s lowered the outlook on the United States’ credit to “negative,” sending leading stock indexes down in early trading.

The report released Monday morning says that the United States has a large debt and deficit compared with other highly rated nations, and unlike with those other nations “the path to addressing [the debt and deficit] is not clear to us.”

The United States kept its AAA rating, but the downgrade means that S&P analysts believe there is at least a 33% chance that the agency will have to lower its credit rating on U.S. debt in the next two years.

“More than two years after the beginning of the recent crisis, U.S. policymakers have still not agreed on how to reverse recent fiscal deterioration or address longer-term fiscal pressures,” S&P analyst Nikola Swann said in a statement.

The United States debt is currently approaching the legally set debt ceiling of $14.3 trillion, though the White House and Republican congressional leaders have indicated they are likely to come to an agreement to raise the limit.

 Rasmussen poll of voters found Obama leads  Trump by 15 percentage points (49% to 34%) in a hypothetical 2012 match-up, but the president is unable to top the 50% level of support even against an opponent some are deriding as a joke.

 The theoretical population center of California is an alfalfa field at Buttonwillow near Sahfter in Kern County. That’s the point where the states 34.1 million people would balance the state. The point has shifted slowly and constantly toward Los Angeles county which now is called a state within a state.

In the past decade, Bakersfield grew by more than 100,000 people, accommodating more new residents than any other California city. The state’s fastest-growing city was Lincoln, an eastern suburb of Sacramento. Growth in the Bay Area and Los Angeles slowed.

Still on March 9, 2011 there were 9,818,605  people living in Los Angeles County.

Arizona Governor Brewer vetoed a new law that requires every presidential candidate to prove they are a native born American citizen to be listed on the ballot.

The FAA (Falling Sleep Again) nonsense is stupid. For five years I worked Miidniight to 8AM  at a Highway Patrol barracks five day a week and went to college from 8:50 to 3PM daily. I was shot at and had to wrestle drunks for $400.00 a month (I netted $168 every two week).

This whole thins is stupid. These people are paid $176,000 a year and can’t stay awake - fire them. There are millions to take those jobs.

A Kansas woman faces a charge of harboring a vicious animal after her pet 8 foot long python grabbed onto her neck and would not let go until a police officer intervened. Lucky for her those snakes do not have prominent teeth. She has been ordered to get rid of the snake lest it harm the small children in her family.

Up to 25 percent of the world’s remaining undiscovered oil and natural gas deposits could be under the Arctic ice cap, and Russia and China want it. The U.S. Northern Command has been given responsibility for protecting U.S. and allied territorial rights to the resource-rich Arctic from infringement.

The Arctic is estimated to have between 90 billion and 100 billion tons of oil and has been eyed by China’s military, which is increasingly being structured to be used by Beijing’s communist rulers to obtain energy resources and protect supply routes as part of China’s modernization program.

U.S. officials were alarmed by statements made by a Chinese admiral last year stating that the Arctic is unclaimed international territory. Months ago Russia staked its claim to the vast Arctic by placing a plaque in the ocean floor near the North pole.

Calls for the U. S. Senate ratification of the Law of the Sea Treaty that some say would “protect and advance U.S. interests in the Arctic by bolstering our national security, securing U.S. rights over extensive marine areas, and giving the United States a seat at the table when our vital interests are at stake without abdicating any sovereignty.”

China’s claim to the Arctic resources was outlined in a bold statement by Chinese Gen. Yin Zhuo who stated in 2010 that “the North Pole and areas nearby do not belong to any country, but are the common property of all the people in the world.”

“China has a population of 1 billion and several hundred million people, or one-fifth of the world’s population, so it cannot be left out of developing the North Pole,” he said.

Yin claimed some countries are claiming sovereignty over the North Pole, and suggested a possible future “war for control of the North Pole.”

In October 2010, Russian Navy commander-in-chief Adm. Vladimir Vysotskiy told state-run news media that “there are a lot of people who wish to get into the Arctic and Antarctic from an economic point of view.”

“In particular, China has already signed agreements with Norway to explore the Arctic zone,” he said.

Few believe the U. S. has the spine or resources to effectively confront either Russia or China.

It’s a whole new meaning for going postal. A letter carrier has been suspended without pay after being photographed defecating in a patrons yard. Hopefully this will not start a new postal movement.

Adm. Robert Willard, the Pacom commander, said Chinese maritime activities in and around the East China Sea and South China Sea, Yellow Sea regions have not run up against U.S. Navy ships as occurred in 2009 when there were several confrontations.

“The Chinese do continue to shadow some of our ships as they conduct their missions in international waters that are proximate to China,” Willard said.

Willard said there were problems last year with China’s naval and security ships confronting Japan and “confrontations continue to persist in the South China Sea, most recently with a Philippine ship that was operating there.”

Citing the drug’s potential to damage the liver, pancreas, and kidneys, the watchdog group Public Citizen has ask the FDA to remove marketing approval orlistat (Xencial, Alli) — the only remaining FDA-approved weight loss drug.

China cowed Obama to the detriment of Taiwan and  praised the U.S. State Department’s delay of a multi-billion arms package to Taiwan.

The Online, daily newspaper of the Communist Youth League of the Chinese Communist Party Central Committee, reported April 8 that Deputy Secretary of State James Steinberg was among the key officials holding up an arms sale to upgrade Taiwan’s fleet of 145 F-16 jets.

The report noted a debate over the arms package but stated that “postponing the arms sale was still of positive significance in a certain sense.”

The propaganda outlet, which reflects Beijing’s effort to force the United States to end all arms sales to Taiwan, stated that “another round of arms sales would once again set back bilateral relations.”

“This time, with consideration being given to the more important interest of avoid causing a rift to relations with China, the United States postpone arms sales to Taiwan,” the report said.

“The Chinese government has twice suspended military relations with the Pentagon because of the U.S. arms sales to Taiwan,” it stated.

“If the United States does not stop its arms sales to Taiwan and continue to do things that hurt the feelings of the Chinese people, then it is possible that Sino-U.S. relations may be set back once again. That will not only cause ill feelings between the two peoples, but may also cause diplomatic hostility and stagnation in military cooperation, and even affect economic and trading relations between the two countries, thus causing losses to the U.S. economic interest.”

Almost at the same time the Chinese Navy appeared to have pulled back from its previously very aggressive shadowing of U. S. Naval forces in the western Pacific. But, clearly Obama tucked tail - again and the U. S. is turning its back on yet another longtime U. S. ally.

A 12-year old Middle School student was handcuffed by school police after he refused to clean up milk he spilled at the Valparaso, Indiana school cafeteria. Thank gawd he didn’t spill green beans that’s the death penalty.

Just days after US Defense Secretary Robert Gates and Saudi King Abdullah ended a stormy meeting which failed to bridge the widening gap between Washington and Riyadh.comes news the Sauds have recently paid a secret visit to China and clinched terms for CSS-3 DF-3 ballistic missiles capable of delivering nuclear warheads
to replace the hardware Saudi Arabia bought from China in the 1980s.

US intelligence discovered the first transaction in 1988 when those
Chinese missiles were installed outside Riyadh and positioned to face
Tehran.

The Saud’s have become increasingly anxious about Obama and especially about his refusal to act to ensure a non-nuclear Iran and its concern that Obama would not defend it against Iran, and the general malaise in U. S. foreign policy.

The DF-21 is capable of delivering a 500kT nuclear warhead over a distance of 1,800 km. (1,118 miles) Its purchase underlines the Saudi royal family’s determination to have its own nuclear arms and missiles ready for launch in the face of an approaching nuclear-armed Iran.

The second missile, the DongFeng 15 (Export name M-9; NATO-designation
CSS-6) is a solid-fuel, short-range ballistic (SRBM) system developed
by CASC China Academy of Rocket Motor Technology ARMT, the 4th Space
Academy.

According to the UK Guardian Pakistan is reported to havepromised to provide 5-6 nuclear warhead to  sold two nuclear warhead to the Saudis but it is unknown if they have been delivered. The Guardian also reported the Saudis financed 60% of Pakistan’s nuclear weapon development

Calliopean (kuh-ly-uh-PEE-uhn) adjective: Piercingly loud.  Etymologyafter calliope, a musical instrument having a series of steam whistles played by a keyboard. The instrument was named after Kalliope, the Muse of heroic poetry in Greek mythology, from Greek kalli- (beautiful) + ops (voice). Earliest documented use: 1855.

 “The FEC is conducting a routine review of Obama’s financial records began two years ago. It was not required by law, since the Obama campaign did not accept federal matching funds and funded itself entirely with private donations. But allegations of improper contributions, coupled with the FEC’s suspicions of certain transactions, led to the probe - as is true with the McCain campaign, the Romney campaign and many others - to determine if they have any questions with the information reported Barack Obama raised a record-shattering $750 million on his way to winning the 2008 presidential election. But that stunning flood of cash has triggered an investigation by the Federal Election Commission, which is taking a detailed look at the campaign’s records and transactions.

Obama recently officially launched his 2012 campaign effort, and a representative there admitted to Roll Call that a review was under way.

According to Roll Call, the audit,” Katie Hogan, deputy press secretary for Obama’s re-election campaign, told Roll Call. “Given that there was an historic number of contributors and contributions - nearly 4 million and over 9 million, respectively - this takes time.”

Trump, who continues to lead some presidential polls, dismissed the likelihood that he’d run as an independent, as that would split the Republican vote and all but guarantee President Barack Obama’s re-election.

Three-time Emmy Award-winner Simcha Jacobovici says he has found two Roman nails that could have been used in the crucifixion of Jesus Christ. The journalist’s story of finding the nails is documented in The Nails of the Cross, a film that aired on April 20 on the History Channel. The program includes an investigation of what was found in the ancient tomb of the Jewish high priest known as Caiaphas.

Joseph, son of Caiaphas, Hebrew יוסף בַּר קַיָּפָא or Yosef Bar Kayafa, commonly known simply as Caiaphas (Greek Καϊάφας) in the New Testament, was the Roman-appointed Jewish high priest who is said to have organized the plot to kill Jesus. Caiaphas is also said to have been involved in the trial of Jesus.

“My jaw dropped reading that they found two Roman nails in the tomb of the man whose works [included]…sending Jesus to the cross, and they didn’t mention it to anybody,” the journalist accounts.

The nails, which have been missing for the past 20 years, are now in the hands of Jacobovici. His film chronicles three years of research and includes a presentation of his assertions, some of which are based on empirical data, while others stem from his own conclusions.

“The tips were curved. That’s very important because if they weren’t curved, this is grisly, but you could pull your hands off the wooden beam,” he explains. “If they’re curled, you couldn’t pull your hands off.” That claim is counter intuititve since the nails would have been driven through Chirst’s hands into the wooden beam and the nail heads would prevent that.

Meanwhile, the Israel Antiquities Authority, which oversaw the excavation, contends that nails are commonly found in tombs and that no solid proof exists that the tomb was actually the burial place of Caiaphas.

At minimum the airing the film during Easter week is grand showmanship whether the two nails are those used in the crucifixion of Jesus Christ or not.

Tomorrow is the ONETHOUSANTH NINE HUNDRED AND SEVENTY SEVENTH or perhaps EIGHTH Holy Friday.

Today is Maundy Thursday, also known as Holy Thursday, Covenant Thursday, Great & Holy Thursday, and Thursday of Mysteries, it is the Christian feast or holy day falling on the Thursday before Easter that commemorates the Last Supper of Jesus Christ with the Apostles.

The word “Maundy” is derived from the Latin mandatum meaning “command” - the same Latin root as mandatory and mandate. This is a reference to Christ’s commandment to love one another, made at the Last Supper (the day before the crucifixion) when Jesus washed His disciples’ feet.

Twopence - A small coin, and money of account, in England, equivalent to two pennies, minted to a fixed annual amount, for almsgiving by the sovereign on Maundy Thursday.

According to the accounts in the Gospels, the Temple Guards, guided by Jesus’ disciple Judas Iscariot, arrested Jesus in the Garden of Gethsemane. Judas received money (30 pieces of silver) (Matthew 26:14-16) for betraying Jesus and told the guards that whomever he kisses is the one they are to arrest. Following his arrest, Jesus is brought to the house of Annas, who is the father-in-law of the high priest, Caiaphas. There he is interrogated with little result and sent bound to Caiaphas the high priest where the Sanhedrin had assembled (John 18:1-24).

Conflicting testimony against Jesus is brought forth by many witnesses, to which Jesus answers nothing. Finally the high priest adjures Jesus to respond under solemn oath, saying “I adjure you, by the Living God, to tell us, are you the Anointed One, the Son of God?” Jesus testifies in the affirmative, “You have said it, and in time you will see the Son of Man seated at the right hand of the Almighty, coming on the clouds of Heaven.” The high priest condemns Jesus for blasphemy, and the Sanhedrin Trial of Jesus concurs with a sentence of death (Matthew 26:57-66). Peter, waiting in the courtyard, also denies Jesus three times to bystanders while the interrogations were proceeding just as Jesus had predicted.

In the morning, the whole assembly brings Jesus to the Roman governor Pontius Pilate under charges of subverting the nation, opposing taxes to Caesar, and making himself a king. Pilate authorizes the Jewish leaders to judge Jesus according to their own law and execute sentencing; however, the Jewish leaders reply that they are not allowed by the Romans to carry out a sentence of death.

Pilate questions Jesus and tells the assembly that there is no basis for sentencing. Upon learning that Jesus is from Galilee, Pilate refers the case to the ruler of Galilee, King Herod, who was in Jerusalem for the Passover Feast. Herod questions Jesus but receives no answer; Herod sends Jesus back to Pilate. Pilate tells the assembly that neither he nor Herod have found guilt in Jesus; Pilate resolves to have Jesus whipped and released (Luke 23:3-16). Under the guidance of the chief priests, the crowd asks for Barabbas, who had been imprisoned for committing murder during an insurrection. Pilate asks what they would have him do with Jesus, and they demand, “Crucify him” (Mark 15:6-14). Pilate’s wife had seen Jesus in a dream earlier that day, and she forewarns Pilate to “have nothing to do with this righteous man” (Matthew 27:19). Pilate has Jesus flogged and then brings him out to the crowd to release him. The chief priests inform Pilate of a new charge, demanding Jesus be sentenced to death “because he claimed to be God’s son.” This possibility filled Pilate with fear, and he brought Jesus back inside the palace and demanded to know from where he came.

Coming before the crowd one last time, Pilate declares Jesus innocent and washed his own hands in water to show he has no part in this condemnation. Nevertheless, Pilate hands Jesus over to be crucified in order to forestall a riot (Matthew 27:24-26) and ultimately to keep his job.

The sentence written is “Jesus of Nazareth, King of the Jews.” Jesus carries his cross to the site of execution (assisted by Simon of Cyrene), called the place of the Skull, or “Golgotha” in Hebrew and in Latin “Calvary”. There he is crucified along with two criminals (John 19:17-22).

Jesus agonizes on the cross for six hours. During his last 3 hours on the cross, from noon to 3 p.m., darkness falls over the whole land. With a loud cry, Jesus gives up his spirit. There is an earthquake, tombs break open, and the curtain in the Temple is torn from top to bottom. The centurion on guard at the site of crucifixion declares, “Truly this was God’s Son!”

Joseph of Arimathea, a member of the Sanhedrin and secret follower of Jesus, who had not consented to his condemnation, goes to Pilate to request the body of Jesus (Luke 23:50-52). Another secret follower of Jesus and member of the Sanhedrin named Nicodemus brought about a hundred pound weight mixture of spices and helped wrap the body of Christ (John 19:39-40). Pilate asks confirmation from the centurion whether Jesus is dead (Mark 15:44). A soldier pierced the side of Jesus with a lance causing blood and water to flow out (John 19:34), and the centurion informs Pilate that Jesus is dead (Mark 15:45).

Joseph of Arimathea took Jesus’ body, wrapped it in a clean linen shroud, and placed it in his own new tomb that had been carved in the rock (Matthew 27:59-60) in a garden near the site of crucifixion. Nicodemus (John 3:1) also brought 75 pounds of myrrh and aloes, and placed them in the linen with the body, in keeping with Jewish burial customs (John 19:39-40). They rolled a large rock over the entrance of the tomb (Matthew 27:60). Then they returned home and rested, because Shabbat had begun at sunset (Luke 23:54-56). On the third day, Sunday, which is now known as Easter Sunday (or Pascha), Jesus rose from the dead.