Tom Faranda That’s right. Long before he was President, at which time the media discovered he was a racist! How could they have overlooked that back when he was being honored? Not mentioned – when Trump bought Mar A Lago in the 90’s he insisted on accepting Jews and blacks even though other clubs in Palm Beach … Read more
Yup the Saturday past. Out to the woods of Cold Spring and Mike and Karen. While there, Brigid chopped all this wood to help Rinerville through the winter. OK actually chopped by this guy. He’s a “Precious Petal.” Cute couple. No pictures of Karen or myself, but here is Karen’s Rock Garden/rock path which she … Read more
From the Guardian (UK). Of course this would never happen under the Sanders socialized medicine plan. Just wait until medical professionals and institutions are reimbursed at the medicare rates and not at the rates paid by those horrible insurance companies. Cancer Research UK estimates 115,000 people diagnosed at stage 3 or 4, hampered by chronic … Read more
An appointment to a committee. If this isn’t hate speech, nothing is. VA GOV. APPOINTS BIGOT August 26, 2019 Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments on Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam’s appointment of an anti-Catholic bigot to a state council on women’s issues: Gail Gordon Donegan is a local political activist. She is also a vicious … Read more
Biden strikes again. 12 seconds long.
Of course the blog has always been all about me – hence the name Tom Faranda’s Folly. Anyway I posted this Health Update: Knee surgery tomorrow on August 13th and did have the surgery – now nine days ago. Here’s why – look at the bow on my left leg. There was no cartilage padding … Read more
Polish Conventual Franciscan friar, volunteered to die in place of a stranger in the German death camp of Auschwitz, in August, 1941. Just hit the link. Unable to bear this, Fr. Kolbe stepped silently forward, took off his cap, and stood before the commandant and said, 'I am a Catholic priest. Let me take his … Read more
UPDATE: Surgery scheduled for 11:30AM tomorrow Yup. A partial left knee replacement – the medial compartment (the inner aspect of the knee). It’s been pending for a long time – had meniscus surgery in 2004 and been taking the hyaluronic acid shots for the last two and a half years. And it helped greatly – … Read more
One of the first documented converts, mentioned in the Acts of the Apostles, chapter 16. 13 On the Sabbath we went outside the city gate to the river, where we expected to find a place of prayer. We sat down and began to speak to the women who had gathered there. 14 One of those listening was … Read more
Mostly by Brigid, the comedienne – Here is the artist …