Tom Faranda's Folly

UPDATE: The Wall Street Journal has a nice editorial on Carter today, which I will post tomorrow. Today is Carter's 100th birthday. He was a disappointing President, but a good ex-President.  

I lifted this posting from this website. -  Pope Francis (again) refers to abortionists as "hit men"   On his flight back to the Vatican from Belgium. The issue was the former King of Belgium resigning rather than sign a pro-abortion bill.

Yeah very politically incorrect. Excerpt from this column, which is by Phil Lawler in the online magazine Catholic culture, is below the link. “How wonderful that here in East Timor there are so many children,” Pope Francis said during a homily preached at an outdoor Mass on September 10. That sentence is not taken out … Read more

Not the whole England crowd since her nephew Tom, his wife Tamazin (sp?) and their three children aren’t there. Names are below the picture. Clockwise, the seemingly wild-eyed lady is Brigid’s saintly sister Libby. Next to Libby is her daughter (and Brigid’s niece) Rachel, Rachel’s son Richard, Brigid, Rachel’s husband Shadi, and their two daughters … Read more

With his Infowars website and unfortunately he had a following for his “ideas”. End of the line for him though – claiming the Sandy Hook school shooting massacre was a “false flag” or never happened.  For more of Alex Jones “thoughts” go here – other opinions Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones’ Infowars show is likely to … Read more

She sent me this –  Brigid actually missed her 6PM flight from JFK Tuesday, but they put her on a 9PM one and she made all her connections to her sister Libby’s house.

Amazing. I’ve excerpted come stuff below the link but if you are into big sports accomplishments hit the link for the whole story. One of the most grueling records in American endurance sports fell late Saturday night in northern Georgia. Tara Dower, a 31-year-old ultrarunner and long-distance hiker born in North Carolina and based in … Read more

So much for unity. There is a long tradition for both Presidential candidates to attend this NY Catholic Charities fundraiser. Hit the link to see Dolan speaking for one minute on the issue. He says they are still trying to get her to change her mind. The picture is from the 2016 dinner. Cardinal Timothy … Read more

Whew. Koonce had a knee injury just before the season began and it’s now been determined he will have surgery. This is his 4th season – end of his contract and he would be hoping to have a great year and then get a big contract from the Raiders or someone else. He had eight … Read more

In the Catskills. Hope I can manage to get lost and self-rescue overnight when I'm 83! They were out looking for her all night. At 12:55 a.m., Forest Ranger Franceschina and local police checked the hiker’s residence and confirmed she had not returned home. Franceschina and Stratton began linear searches over Big Indian and Fir … Read more