Tom Faranda's Folly

"Life must be protected and loved from conception to its natural end"

Thanks to Hallie for recommending Fahnestock Park instead of Sugarloaf. Our first hike since November when we did a short one up Turkey Hill. This was more than a mini; car door to car door it was 7.54 miles – a bit longer than I had anticipated. It was the Charcoal Burners/Cabot/Perkins/Fahnestock Trail Loop which … Read more

How many people today even know or understand what a catastrophic disaster his "thoughts" led to? Or what a sleazeball he was? Here's a good review. Below the link is the entire article – Under the Soviet Union, a Marxist state, 61 million people were killed; Stalin was responsible for 43 million of them. Under … Read more

We are buddies … And I think his new exhortation is the best thing he’s written since becoming Pope Gaudete Et Excultate (Rejoice and Be Glad

Here's how you get it. Yes some of the video is a little silly but it does show the hoops small businesses may have to go through. I'm not sure I qualify.

On NR Online. It’s a lovely story but the adoption to abortion ratio is very sad. Whatever your politics on abortion, it’s hard to look in the eyes of a ten-year-old boy, a birth mother, and an adoptive mother and see anything but courage and gratitude and love — and the life-and-death situation that Kelly … Read more

Wondering if his father is in heaven. Watch all 4 and a half minutes.

She's made a decision to forego additional hospitalizations and will be entering "comfort care" which is now another term for hospice. She mentions Robin, the daughter the Bush's lost to leukemia as a young child. This is from a 2013 C-span interview.  

"Devastated" when she lost.

Of course he will – he's from Bavaria. Evidently his body is frail and failing but his mind is still very sharp. Here he is on his last birthday. Pope Benedict celebrates his 90th birthday in fine fashion –