Two things to see in Southern California...

For Christians, there's the jaw-dropping Pageant of Our Lord at the Rolling Hills Covenant Church in Rolling Hills Estates which I just saw for the first time last Sunday thanks to a shooting buddy of ours giving us some tickets (he's worked on the pageant for years).

It is truly amazing and runs from April 8th through April 23rd.

The concept of the Pageant of Our Lord finds its roots in the Pageant of the Masters, an annual favorite in Laguna Beach, which features "living art," re-creations of famous artwork with real people posing to look exactly like their counterparts in the original. In 1986 Dr. David Halverson, producer and music director, was inspired by the Pageant of the Masters and worked to create a similar production, yet focused on the life of Christ.

PLEASE LOOK AT THE PHOTO GALLERY here to see some pretty awesome before and after pictures!

PS - This is from Roy (our friend who invited us) since I was at a loss for words as how to adequately explain the magnificence of "The Last Supper" in the Pageant of Our Lord:

The way I explain it is that it looks like a movie set with people in it and in a blink of an eye it turns into a painting. I'm not sure that is adequate, but it is the best I can do. --Roy

Why the new ‘Atlas Shrugged’ movie could become a cult classic

The Daily Caller:

Not only is the film a winner for holding firm to Randian philosophy, it also brazenly and refreshingly brings a political perspective that is almost universally absent from the big screen; so much so in fact it could become a cult classic, especially among Tea Partiers and their admirers, not to mention hordes of libertarians.

Read the whole thing...

Hawaii suddenly stops issuing ANY long-form birth certificates!

The Post & Email:

Update: Breaking from Hawaii: No More Long-Form Birth Certificates!

Why now?

Cinderella Starbucks

Wow...I knew that things were NOT getting better -- I mean, can't you tell? There's all kinds of little signs around such as smaller portions in restaurants, cheaper quality ingredients and components (the lint roller's paper is cheaper now and tears easier), and so forth.

Think: GAS if you haven't happened to notice (what planet are you living on, btw)?

Anyway, I've no idea why I asked, but the cute young girl with the long blonde braid just answered my question about why she was pushing around such a big mop the other day on the floor of my local Starbucks while the other baristas were busy rushing around to serve customers...THEY'VE CUT BACK!!!

So, this big, lefty CORPORATION - Starbucks offers free coffee to those who join Obama volunteer corps - is getting rid of their high-powered (and obviously much more sanitary) power washing services because they have to "cut back"!

I can only imagine the utter betrayal coming to the Pressure Washing Institute Forum since they were used to bragging about their wonderful relationship to Starbucks...but, oh my, do ya think that Starbucks has learned their Obama lesson yet???

Probably not.

But I'm sure they felt that they could handle the tremendous burden Obama has placed upon businesses in the United States by making their baristas mop their floors. After all, jobs are hard to find in the U.S. these days.

UPDATE: Some friends from a Yahoo Group I belong to are chiding me with "are you kidding???" type comments about this post because they see signs EVERYWHERE that things are really bad economically in this country! First of all, I generally don't write very long posts...but secondly, I guess I'm just still under the (biased) media spell which definitely either ignores all of the obvious signs we are failing or simply just downplay it because they somehow still want this idiot piece of shit to continue to occupy (illegally) our White House.

OK, maybe now they'll be happy...although, I could have sworn I've been posting charts, reports, and all kinds of information about the economy...guess they just don't hang on every post I make here.

UPDATE #2: My husband just reminded me that he now hates the formerly wonderful "old fashioned" donuts he always loved from Starbucks--they've apparently CUT BACK ON THE FROSTING!!!

Confession of the Oklahoma City Bomber: John Doe 2 Exists

One seemingly innocuous statement in this recently declassified FBI memo effectively shatters the government myth that two angry white males singlehandedly pulled off the crime of the 20th century. To begin, Nichols clearly implied that he knew the identity of John Doe 2 when asserting that his co-conspirator's name "had not been mentioned" during the prodigious FBI investigation. Keep in mind, the bomber had direct access to sealed court files and classified discovery materials that federal prosecutors were legally required to disclose to his defense lawyers during the state and federal trials. As a result, Nichols was informed about every suspect that surfaced on law enforcement's radar screen.

Read the whole thing

The question now: When does the meltup switch into a full-fledged meltdown of the global economy?

In spite of all warning signs that the Fed has ignored over the past few months, the switchover is now transmitting at such a rapid pace that it could happen in either one great shock or in a series...

When Will Fed-Created Melt-Up Turn Into a Meltdown?

As you can see, there could be strong motivation for keeping Obama’s passport information hidden or for “cauterizing” it...

CITIZEN WELLS:

Donald Trump Obama investigation, Passport requirements clarified, Some short abstract versions of birth certificates may not be acceptable...

Here is the point in time which changed the definition of “natural born Citizen.”

U.S. Supreme Court set a new precedent for the definition of “natural born Citizen in Rogers v. Bellei, 401 U.S. 815 (1971), Section IV.

OBAMA IS NOT A "NATURAL BORN CITIZEN" BY HIS OWN STATEMENT ON HIS CAMPAIGN WEBSITE:

When Barack Obama Jr. was born on Aug. 4,1961, in Honolulu, Kenya was a British colony, still part of the United Kingdom’s dwindling empire. As a Kenyan native, Barack Obama Sr. was a British subject whose citizenship status was governed by The British Nationality Act of 1948. That same act governed the status of Obama Sr.‘s children.

Since Sen. Obama has neither renounced his U.S. citizenship nor sworn an oath of allegiance to Kenya, his Kenyan citizenship automatically expired on Aug. 4,1982.

British Law declares Obama a British subject!

Trump investigates Obama's connection to Tony Rezko...

From CITIZEN WELLS via ORLY TAITZ

So many of us, throughout the last several years, have been keeping this flame alive knowing that the odds were against us and hoping that the light would shine, finally, upon it. Thank God for Donald Trump who is obviously rich and comfortable enough not to have to put himself in an uncomfortable position or into a position that is, at the very least, Sisyphean!

My God, maybe he actually loves this country!

“Welcome to the party, pal"

To those who are now beginning to pick up the topic because of the exposure by Donald Trump, I can only say “welcome to the party, pal.”

With all due respect to Donald Trump, he has not “legitimized” the eligibility issue, as the matter far exceeds the existence of the birth certificate and has adversely affected the lives of many patriotic Americans who have long fought for full disclosure of all of Obama’s records. Promising to be the “most transparent” president in history, Barack Hussein Obama is the most deliberately opaque president who has withheld many more records than his birth certificate. Not only has he withheld his records, he has fought to keep them hidden from public view, amassing legal fees that some claim to exceed a million dollars of his own money, and perhaps twice that amount if pro-bono and other legal work is counted.

Also as a result of his refusal to disclose his records, a respected military physician is presently serving time in Leavenworth for refusing to obey deployment orders until he was satisfied that the orders he was given were constitutionally legal...

The unraveling of Barry Soetoro, a/k/a Barack Hussein Obama II

In some precincts of the Left, it seems to be an article of faith that sharia is a figment of "Islamophobic" imaginations...

...But the howling mob in Jantho didn't consider the brutality of Islamic law to be imaginary: The jeering crowd recorded the brutal beating on their mobile phones and camcorders and shouted for more beatings in the strict Muslim city.

Sharia In Indonesia

US-backed fighters burning people alive!

The fighting continues in Ivory Coast. Last week hundreds were slaughtered in the western city of Duekoue. Now there are reports that fighters are burning people alive.

US-Backed Ouattara Rebels Blamed for Slaughtering Hundreds of Civilians in Ivory Coast – Victims Burned Alive

This will put Obama in prison for a very long time...

The evidence that I discovered, is the most incriminating to Obama. This evidence will not only remove him from office, but will put him in prison for a long time. With the matter of his birth certificate Obama can wiggle out, saying that he does not have first hand knowledge about his birth and short version BC, is what he got, however he cannot wiggle out of the issue of fraud in his Columbia records and social security, ah he was grown up, when he got his Social Security number and attended Columbia university.

More stonewalling and obstruction of justice on the most incriminating evidence that I produced: Obama’s use of a stolen CT SSN 0042-68-4425 and his fraudulent statements regarding his attendance in Columbia university

John Boehner: "He is, every day, looking more and more like the very thing the Tea Party rose up to oppose."

Say it ain't so...

Too many on the Right seem to be missing the entire point. This 1/2 of 1/3 nonsense is just a DC talking point and nothing more. The House is specifically empowered as the only branch of government responsible for spending. Boehner is Speaker because the Republicans control it, not the Democrats.

What Boehner has done to make it appear as though he has accomplished more than he has, is to pick up the ball precisely where it was left when the Democrats controlled the House, as well as the rest of government, prior to November 2010. Even worse, there is and was no budget. They never passed one. Consequently, Boehner's professed cuts are being measured against a myth that doesn't and never has existed.

Rather than engage debate from a conservative Republican, fiscally responsible position, he has engaged it entirely on Democrat terms based upon a hypothetical budget that never existed, because it was never even submitted, let alone passed.

What that means is, the only thing Boehner will ever be successful in delivering is the very thing Republicans have been criticized about for years - Democrat-lite. Were he serious about getting spending in line and reducing government, he wouldn't be waging these battles on mythical battlefields that don't exist; he would allow his progress to be measured from a fiscally responsible position.

Thomas Lifson At American Thinker Is Wrong On Boehner's Deal

Let's make a deal

EXCERPT: Who Won the Shutdown Showdown? It Wasn't Even Close...

Over the next decade the cuts are expected to save hundreds of billions of dollars.

The deal mandates a host of studies and audits of Obama administration policies. It also blocks additional funds for the IRS sought by the Obama administration and bans federal funding of abortion in Washington, D.C.

The history of offers on this bill goes something like this. Democrats first offered no cuts, then $4 billion, then $6.5 billion, then $33 billion, then settled at $38.5 billion.

Boehner made numerous adjustments to his offer in recent days too, but started at $32 billion, then with a Tea Party push went to $62 billion, then dropped to $40 billion, then $38.5 billion.

Democrats claimed they met Republicans halfway after the $10 billion in cuts that already passed this year were approved. They settled late Friday night at three and a half times more.

Boehner came in $8.5 billion higher than the halfway point between his high offer of $61 billion in cuts and the Democrats opening bid of zero cuts.

It was not a totally lopsided bargain. Dems have some silver linings. There were no votes on defunding the EPA or PBS and NPR. Democrats fought for and won a $2 billion cut from the Department of Defense, knocking the military appropriation for the rest of the year down to $513 billion.

But the GOP had to be able to see this as a win in the end, because it is puny compared to what they want to do next.

House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan's 2012 budget resolution proposes cuts of $5 TRILLION in the next 10 yrs...

For American families: There is a good chance you will lose your current insurance in 2014, and you will be forced to buy government-designed health insurance. Your new plan may not cover the doctor you like and it will certainly be more expensive.

THE DETROIT NEWS

U.S. Rep. Mike Rogers

Put yourself in the shoes of a small business owner.

You own a restaurant with 33 full-time employees and several dozen part-time workers. You offer health benefits to some because you feel that it's the right thing to do. However, under Obamacare, you will be required to provide expensive, government-designed health insurance beginning in 2014.

After crunching the numbers, you find that the mandate will increase your health costs by 200 percent, forcing you to lay off workers, increase food prices and not open a new restaurant.

This is an example of a real Michigan employer who testified before Congress that Obamacare's mandates will cripple his business.

Countless other employers are running the same math, and reaching the same conclusions: How can employers afford offering health benefits under the new law?

Catastrophe looming thanks to Obamacare

Really bad Obama news....

New York Times:

A longtime friend and golfing partner of President Obama’s, Robert Titcomb, was arrested on a charge of soliciting prostitution...Mr. Titcomb and Mr. Obama have been friends since childhood...

Friend of Obama Is Arrested in Prostitution Sting

Helping a friend keep the most important job in the world is great, but making sure her OWN network thrives is now her priority...

Oprah Winfrey Will Not Endorse Obama in 2012

Even black voters slip from prez...no wonder he's become such good pals with Al Sharpton!

Base in the hole

In 10 months, the Dollar Index has lost 14% because the world keeps accumulating dollars it doesn’t want and sells them...

Asian central banks are key.

Tea Party vs. Obama

With Ryan's budget, the battle lines have now been clearly drawn. It's the Tea Party versus President Obama and the Democrat party, who are resisting any significant spending cuts, and are committed to doubling the size of the federal government relative to the economy, ultimately spending America into bankruptcy.

Paul Ryan's Adult Conversation

Self-proclaimed birther Donald Trump is now so doubtful of President Obama's birthplace that he's sent a team of his own investigators to Hawaii in hopes of getting to the bottom of the issue...

Trump sends investigators to Hawaii to look into Obama

This country is going to Hell!

GREAT INTERVIEW!!!

Meredith Vieira:

He's certainly not a shrinking violet!

Hollywood Reporter: Meredith Vieira Under Fire After Donald Trump 'Steamrolled' Her During Interview