ALAN writes:

Indeed I do remember when you wrote before about the bird who knocked at your door.  Enjoyed reading it so much I printed a copy and placed it in my “Best of T.T.H.” folder.

A dozen or more ducks and four geese live at one of the lakes in a public park in St. Louis.  Two older women walk through there often and bring feed for the ducks and geese, as does a young man who walks through there with his dog.

I had been feeding the squirrels, so one day I offered a few crackers to the four geese. They were delighted. Then I began to do that every week or so. There are two Chinese geese, a snow-white goose, and a Ross’s goose, the smallest of the four. The two Chinese geese are highly attentive to sound. If they hear or see a potential menace to them, they are quick to respond and head for the lake, where they know they will be safe.  They do not wear signs reading, “All creatures are equal.”  They practice extreme discrimination.  They do not celebrate “the joys of diversity” with cats, dogs, and obnoxious children. (more…)

IN OCTOBER of 1918, approximately 11,000 people died in Philadelphia of what is now known as the Spanish Flu. Just to make that clear: 11,000 people died of the flu in one month alone. More than 4,000 people died in one week. The Armistice ending World War I was declared on November 11.

A total of 1,945 people have allegedly died of Covid-19 in Philadelphia this entire year.

It is interesting to compare the responses.

Let’s take this year first: The government recently “ordered” all Thanksgiving gatherings (and other gatherings), public and private, canceled in the city. In addition, as of Friday, all restaurants, bars and gyms must close to indoor business until at least January 1. While real estate transactions, banks, day care centers are permitted to continue, churches will be limited to five percent occupancy.

Given the much higher death toll in 1918, was Thanksgiving canceled that year? Were restaurants, bars and churches closed?

Yes, businesses and churches were closed, but only in October.

In November, there were crowded celebrations throughout the city, including public gatherings in forty-four of the city’s parks. People were overjoyed, of course, at the war’s end, but still you would think they would have been afraid of the flu.

By the way, the presence of a contagious influenza has never been verified by medical science in either case.

Here is a newspaper clipping from The Philadelphia Inquirer of Friday, Nov. 29, 1918:

(more…)

YOU HAVE NO ENEMIES ---- by Charles Mackay YOU have no enemies, you say? Alas! my friend, the boast is poor; He who has mingled in the fray Of duty, that the brave endure, Must have made foes! If you have none, Small is the work that you have done. You've hit no traitor on the hip, You've dashed no cup from perjured lip, You've never turned the wrong to right, You've been a coward in the fight.  

MY ANNUAL fundraiser continues. Your contributions keep this website alive and kicking. Thank you from the bottom of my heart to those who have given. Please help so I don't have to apply for this job:    

  FROM St. Louis de Montfort’s little booklet, Letter to the Friends of the Cross: “Friends of the Cross, you are a group of crusaders united to fight against the world … like brave, intrepid warriors on the battlefront, refusing to retreat or even to yield an inch. Be brave! Fight with all your might! Bind yourselves together in that strong union of heart and mind―which is far superior, far more terrifying to the world and Hell than the armed forces of a well-organized kingdom are to its enemies. Demons are united for your destruction, but you, be united for their overthrow … be united to suffer … A Friend of the Cross is a mighty king, a hero who triumphs over the devil, the world and the flesh and their threefold concupiscence. He overthrows the pride of Satan by his love for humiliation, he triumphs over the world’s greed by his love for poverty and he restrains the sensuality of the flesh by his love for suffering … My dear Friends of the Cross … are you, with the grace of God, in the shadow of Calvary’s Cross and of Our Lady of Pity, really eager and truly striving to attain this goal? Is the way you follow the one that leads to this goal? Is it the true way of life, the narrow way, the thorn-strewn way to Calvary? Or are you unconsciously traveling the world’s broad road,…

MY ANNUAL fundraiser continues. Your contributions keep this website alive and kicking. Thank you to those who have given.  

JON RAPPOPORT deconstructs the hype about rising cases of coronavirus. Many others have said the same thing, over and over again. People refuse to listen. They want to believe the worst. Here are some interesting observations from a former radiographer and medical technician. This is worth studying. A Vodafone whistleblower says coronavirus is a cover for the effects of 5G rollout. (Ignore the warning. The link is not harmful.)  

HELPFUL tips from The Bangor Daily News.  

  DO birds spread the coronavirus? This is a crucial question and if there isn't a team of Harvard scientists working on it, I would be shocked and dismayed. I was thinking about this question yesterday after reading the touching comments of a reader who braved the New Normal to go birdwatching. Personally, I would say that chickadees, blue jays, wrens, cardinals and many others, as adorable as they can be, are definitely super-spreaders since they go about breathing the open air and some of that air, at least until Comrade Biden implements the national mask mandate enforceable with jail terms, must contain germs. Birds are not locked down. Not yet. Until they are confined to their nests, those of us foolishly willing to risk death from a virus with a greater than 99 percent survival rate should take advantage of this opportunity. Enjoy birds. They are everywhere. They are free for the watching. They can fill the days of Home Aloners -- those who no longer go to the office and are slowly losing their minds in between Zoom calls -- with the small, innocent pleasures. A dictatorial consensus exists among world leaders that small pleasures must be destroyed, the sooner the better. But they are going to have a hard time rounding up all the birds, not that I would for a minute put that past them either. Did I ever tell you about the time my younger…