December 15, 2025
She's Still Stayin' Alive
Timothy Birdnow
BTW when I got home from the hospital on Saturday (they had wanted to keep me in longer but I protested) my sister-in-law had some quiet, old music playing on Youtube on the television. I left it on for a long time but then couldn't take what they were playing anymore (which was becoming increasingly obscure stuff) and switched. There was a concert by the Bee Gees from decades ago and Cathy always liked that (even if it wasn't my cup of tea) so I put it on. She passed away to the disco sounds of the brothers Gibb - the music of her youth.
Cathy always loved music - all music. She no doubt was waiting for a song to die by and chose one from the Bee Gees. She was sixteen in '76, so it was truly the music of her time.
Cathy didn't get to dance much for the last few DECADES because of her health, but I can imagine her boogieing down as she danced off to Heaven to the groove of the kings of Disco...
BTW when I got home from the hospital on Saturday (they had wanted to keep me in longer but I protested) my sister-in-law had some quiet, old music playing on Youtube on the television. I left it on for a long time but then couldn't take what they were playing anymore (which was becoming increasingly obscure stuff) and switched. There was a concert by the Bee Gees from decades ago and Cathy always liked that (even if it wasn't my cup of tea) so I put it on. She passed away to the disco sounds of the brothers Gibb - the music of her youth.
Cathy always loved music - all music. She no doubt was waiting for a song to die by and chose one from the Bee Gees. She was sixteen in '76, so it was truly the music of her time.
Cathy didn't get to dance much for the last few DECADES because of her health, but I can imagine her boogieing down as she danced off to Heaven to the groove of the kings of Disco...
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D.C. Police Cooked the Books
Timothy Birdnow
Yes, Trump was right and D.C. was cooking the books on crime.
A Congressional investigation, with the help of some high level whistle blowers, revealed:
Increasingly the "conspiracy theories" are being proven right and vindicating claims made by President Trump.
Yes, Trump was right and D.C. was cooking the books on crime.
A Congressional investigation, with the help of some high level whistle blowers, revealed:
The interim report states in part:
The interim report, drawn from transcribed interviews with the commanders of all seven D.C. patrol districts, as well as one former commander currently placed on suspended leave, reveals that Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) Chief Pamela A. Smith pressured and at times directed commanders to manipulate crime data in order to maintain the appearance of low crime in the nation’s capital. The testimony from the commanders also describes an environment under Chief Smith marked by fear, intimidation, threats, and retaliation—conditions that contributed directly to declining morale and the loss of experienced officers and commanders.
In other words, Chief Smith pushed her subordinates to lie about how bad things in the District really were. No wonder she's resigning.
Increasingly the "conspiracy theories" are being proven right and vindicating claims made by President Trump.
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Proof of Fraud?
Timothy Birdnow
Time will tell.
Time will tell.
HUGE ‼️ Donald Trump says his administration is about to release "truckloads” of evidence PROVING the 2020 election was "RIGGED” by Democrats
— Wall Street Apes (@WallStreetApes) December 14, 2025
He says he has evidence Gavin Newsom is rigging California elections with mail in ballots
"They're professionals at cheating because we… pic.twitter.com/hKsbB51tEb
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December 14, 2025
Catherine (Dunsford) Birdnow RIP
Timothy Birdnow
My wife Cathy has passed away at the age of 64, at home with her husband.
Cathy was in her third bout of cancer and they had exhausted all treatment options for her, so she chose to accept hospice care. Once on hospice she deteriorated very quickly and passed last night (Saturday Dec. 13) at about 10:30 p.m.
I was sitting with her when she expired. She was no longer able to speak but was peaceful and comofortable. She passed with the gentlest of sighs and then breathed no more.
The fascinating thing was that I was in the hospital with congestive heart failure symptoms. I felt extremely bad the weekend ago last, and my brother in law - a physician, as well as the hospice nurse were horrified at my condition. They both insisted I go to the ER, where the doctors immediately admitted me and kept me for five straight days. I feared missing her passing but it would be a double funeral if I hadn't stayed for the course of my treatment. My sister-in-law kept telling me Cathy was sleeping and weak but fine, and I later came to find out she was telling me comforting tales. In fact Cathy was no longer drinking anything or eating and her urine was a horrible looking substance at this point, but she just kept going. The hospice nurse said she'd never seen anything like it.
So what was she waiting for? Me.
I got home about 3:30 Saturday afternoon and settled into a chair in her room for the night. Her breathing became faster and more shallow and I was concerned, but what could be done? I rather suspected where it was going. About ten o'clock I told Cathy I was going to bed in about an hour (being pretty wiped from the hospital) and she passed about half an hour later. It was like watching watching a leaf blow away in the breeze.
She waited for me to come home and then accelerated the time table so I could be with her when she passed from this veil of tears.
And tears there were many. She suffered terribly with her illnesses over the last few years, but especially over the last year where she was permanently bedridden. She had been handicapped before that, with a neurological disorder similar to Parkinson's (Fragile X Tremor Ataxia Syndrome) making walking difficult and causing tremors in her hands. She also had suffered from Oral Mandibular Dystonia, a horrible neurological disorder that forced her mouth open and led to a speech impediment (as well as a drool problem). The cherry on top of this particular excrement sundae was incontinence and anal leakage.
But the cancer was the real pain in the, well, it was right where she sat so it hurt terribly. Her oncologist told us it's perhaps the most painful cancer known. She was in her third bout of it.
She had been in a nursing facility where she was getting substandard care (at gold standard prices) and she fell out of her bed and broke her clavicle, giving her even more pain.
But she never complained and she never lashed out; she believed this was from God and she prayed for strength, not an easing. I truly believe she is a saint in the real sense of the word.
And I am also sure she stayed as long as she could to protect me. I once told her "I'll be o.k." and she immediately responded "no you won't". I suspect she believed that, which is why she made it her mission to watch over me as long as God allowed. And she wasn't wrong either; I wound up in the hospital with serious heart issues. I would add she had a nightmare while we were in the apartment and the caregiver woke me in the wee hours because she was panicking about me. She wouldn't tell me the details of the dream but she clearly feared the worst. I find it interesting that a few days later I would wind up in the hospital for almost a week after she had her nightmare.
At any rate I didn't want to talk about this but felt it incumbent upon me to write about it now. I owe all of you, dear readers, an explanation of what has been happening.
Over the next week we are going to have to pull a funeral together. Cathy's wish was to be cremated but she also wanted a Catholic burial, so that is what we are doing; cremating her and holding a formal funeral and burial service.
I just lost the love of my life, the woman I spent over half my lifetime with. I really find it hard to see how I'm going to carry on but soldier on we must. God doesn't give us a choice in the matter.
At any rate please pray for Cathy, who probably doesn't need any prayers, and for me and her family. We are all stricken with great grief at this moment.
It may be a bit before I can post again; my new, spiffy laptop is still not working and the old warhorse is in our old home, which I plan to return to after the funeral. But I'll be back to blogging in a week or two. Please be patient.
Eternal rest grant unto her, O Lord, and let the perpetual light shine upon her. May she rest in peace - Amen.
My wife Cathy has passed away at the age of 64, at home with her husband.
Cathy was in her third bout of cancer and they had exhausted all treatment options for her, so she chose to accept hospice care. Once on hospice she deteriorated very quickly and passed last night (Saturday Dec. 13) at about 10:30 p.m.
I was sitting with her when she expired. She was no longer able to speak but was peaceful and comofortable. She passed with the gentlest of sighs and then breathed no more.
The fascinating thing was that I was in the hospital with congestive heart failure symptoms. I felt extremely bad the weekend ago last, and my brother in law - a physician, as well as the hospice nurse were horrified at my condition. They both insisted I go to the ER, where the doctors immediately admitted me and kept me for five straight days. I feared missing her passing but it would be a double funeral if I hadn't stayed for the course of my treatment. My sister-in-law kept telling me Cathy was sleeping and weak but fine, and I later came to find out she was telling me comforting tales. In fact Cathy was no longer drinking anything or eating and her urine was a horrible looking substance at this point, but she just kept going. The hospice nurse said she'd never seen anything like it.
So what was she waiting for? Me.
I got home about 3:30 Saturday afternoon and settled into a chair in her room for the night. Her breathing became faster and more shallow and I was concerned, but what could be done? I rather suspected where it was going. About ten o'clock I told Cathy I was going to bed in about an hour (being pretty wiped from the hospital) and she passed about half an hour later. It was like watching watching a leaf blow away in the breeze.
She waited for me to come home and then accelerated the time table so I could be with her when she passed from this veil of tears.
And tears there were many. She suffered terribly with her illnesses over the last few years, but especially over the last year where she was permanently bedridden. She had been handicapped before that, with a neurological disorder similar to Parkinson's (Fragile X Tremor Ataxia Syndrome) making walking difficult and causing tremors in her hands. She also had suffered from Oral Mandibular Dystonia, a horrible neurological disorder that forced her mouth open and led to a speech impediment (as well as a drool problem). The cherry on top of this particular excrement sundae was incontinence and anal leakage.
But the cancer was the real pain in the, well, it was right where she sat so it hurt terribly. Her oncologist told us it's perhaps the most painful cancer known. She was in her third bout of it.
She had been in a nursing facility where she was getting substandard care (at gold standard prices) and she fell out of her bed and broke her clavicle, giving her even more pain.
But she never complained and she never lashed out; she believed this was from God and she prayed for strength, not an easing. I truly believe she is a saint in the real sense of the word.
And I am also sure she stayed as long as she could to protect me. I once told her "I'll be o.k." and she immediately responded "no you won't". I suspect she believed that, which is why she made it her mission to watch over me as long as God allowed. And she wasn't wrong either; I wound up in the hospital with serious heart issues. I would add she had a nightmare while we were in the apartment and the caregiver woke me in the wee hours because she was panicking about me. She wouldn't tell me the details of the dream but she clearly feared the worst. I find it interesting that a few days later I would wind up in the hospital for almost a week after she had her nightmare.
At any rate I didn't want to talk about this but felt it incumbent upon me to write about it now. I owe all of you, dear readers, an explanation of what has been happening.
Over the next week we are going to have to pull a funeral together. Cathy's wish was to be cremated but she also wanted a Catholic burial, so that is what we are doing; cremating her and holding a formal funeral and burial service.
I just lost the love of my life, the woman I spent over half my lifetime with. I really find it hard to see how I'm going to carry on but soldier on we must. God doesn't give us a choice in the matter.
At any rate please pray for Cathy, who probably doesn't need any prayers, and for me and her family. We are all stricken with great grief at this moment.
It may be a bit before I can post again; my new, spiffy laptop is still not working and the old warhorse is in our old home, which I plan to return to after the funeral. But I'll be back to blogging in a week or two. Please be patient.
Eternal rest grant unto her, O Lord, and let the perpetual light shine upon her. May she rest in peace - Amen.
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December 12, 2025
Latest Report On Timothy
Dana Mathewson
I received a phone call from Tim on Thursday, telling me that he's been in the hospital for a few days. It seems that all the heavy work he'd done getting the "new digs" set up to live in had put a heavy strain on his heart and as a result he got hauled off to the ER, and then to the actual hospital. He sounded pretty good when he talked to me and was hoping to get "sprung" to get back home to take care of Cathy (she was being cared for by relatives and, I believe, the hospice nurses).
Cathy is still "hanging in," miraculously, but he says it is only a matter of time. He says she's basically not eating, and we all know what that means.
I'll keep you as up-to-date as I can, and I hope the news about Tim will be good, but I fear the news about Cathy will not be so good from here on in. However, unlike the MSM, it's my job to report the truth and I will do it to the best of my ability.
Prayers for Tim and Cathy are much appreciated, of course.
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December 04, 2025
Unsafe at any Speed
Timothy Birdnow
Trump has overturned Biden's ridiculous CAFE standards in which American automakers had to produce fifty poiund vehicles to get the gas mileage required by the autopenidency.
Physics matters, and you cannot produce the kind of results Biden was demanding without making vehicles lighter, and hence less safe.
The inclusion of computers in cars had been a big leap forward in gas mileage and the left (at least the stupid left, not the plotting left) thought it proved gas mileage was just a matter of will. So, like the transgender movement, these lefties came to believe it was just a matter of telling automakers to do it and it would happen because it worked at one point, But the low-hanging fruit is all gone now and unless there is a major innovation that revolutionizes gas mileage as swith the precision coming from computerizing automobiles we have only the option of taking the weight off. Losing weight is good for fat Americans but not so good for fat Americans when it's the weight of their vehicles.
Biden was demanding 50 mpg - and that was doing nothing but driving up costs.
Bear in mind wha the automakers had to do was produce more electric vehicles and other vehicles people did not want. The CAFE standards are based on an average, not on individual models of cars. So if you build a gas guzzler you have to build a riceburner to balance it out. And lose money on them.
Thank GOD the autopen lost the last election!
Trump has overturned Biden's ridiculous CAFE standards in which American automakers had to produce fifty poiund vehicles to get the gas mileage required by the autopenidency.
Physics matters, and you cannot produce the kind of results Biden was demanding without making vehicles lighter, and hence less safe.
The inclusion of computers in cars had been a big leap forward in gas mileage and the left (at least the stupid left, not the plotting left) thought it proved gas mileage was just a matter of will. So, like the transgender movement, these lefties came to believe it was just a matter of telling automakers to do it and it would happen because it worked at one point, But the low-hanging fruit is all gone now and unless there is a major innovation that revolutionizes gas mileage as swith the precision coming from computerizing automobiles we have only the option of taking the weight off. Losing weight is good for fat Americans but not so good for fat Americans when it's the weight of their vehicles.
Biden was demanding 50 mpg - and that was doing nothing but driving up costs.
Bear in mind wha the automakers had to do was produce more electric vehicles and other vehicles people did not want. The CAFE standards are based on an average, not on individual models of cars. So if you build a gas guzzler you have to build a riceburner to balance it out. And lose money on them.
Thank GOD the autopen lost the last election!
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Update on Tim's Wife
Timothy Birdnow
Dear readers,
I see Dana has updated you on my situation. Things have improved with my wife, but she's starting to slip again and the end could come at any time. Still, she rallied and had been talkative for a while this last week (we didn't expect her to make Thanksgiving) but her situation is still deteriorating.
Her feeding tube popped completely out; nobody had ever seen anything like it, according to the hospice nurse. No point reinserting it; that will just prolongue her suffering and would require a hospitalization to do it. So her nutrition is too low and it's just a matter of time. We are starting to see the signs, like her fingernails turning blue and the like.
At any rate, please pray for my dear Cathy. She is loved by all the caregivers, not just by her family, and it's going to be hard on all of us (but hardest on me, I fear). I cannot imagine life without her.
My new computer doesn't work so I'm back to using the old warhorse. I'll keep you all posted when time permits.
Dear readers,
I see Dana has updated you on my situation. Things have improved with my wife, but she's starting to slip again and the end could come at any time. Still, she rallied and had been talkative for a while this last week (we didn't expect her to make Thanksgiving) but her situation is still deteriorating.
Her feeding tube popped completely out; nobody had ever seen anything like it, according to the hospice nurse. No point reinserting it; that will just prolongue her suffering and would require a hospitalization to do it. So her nutrition is too low and it's just a matter of time. We are starting to see the signs, like her fingernails turning blue and the like.
At any rate, please pray for my dear Cathy. She is loved by all the caregivers, not just by her family, and it's going to be hard on all of us (but hardest on me, I fear). I cannot imagine life without her.
My new computer doesn't work so I'm back to using the old warhorse. I'll keep you all posted when time permits.
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Benedict Warner
Timothy Birdnow
Isn't this essentially calling for a military coup against the Trump Administration?
”I think in many ways the uniformed military may help save us from this president and his lame people like Hegseth. Because I think that their commitment is to the constitution and obviously not to Trump.”
Virginia Democratic Senator Mark Warner
Uh, Senator, we have civilian control of the military for a reason. The Constitution is designed to put the People's choice for President in charge of our military precisely to avoid what you are popsing.
The President controls the military so it cannot become enslaved by Congress, which has the money to advance it's own interests with military power.
If Mark Warner fears Trump is becoming a tyrant (something he cannot prove but can merely make unsupportable allegations) it's HIS job, and the job of his fellows in Congress, to defund the Executive branch. But he knows he can't prove this and can't get enough Congressmen to support defunding the President, so he wants to convince the military to overthrow and disobey their commander in chief.
Warner would be the first one to call it treason if, say, Josh Hawley had called for a military coup against Joe the Autopen.
Isn't this essentially calling for a military coup against the Trump Administration?
”I think in many ways the uniformed military may help save us from this president and his lame people like Hegseth. Because I think that their commitment is to the constitution and obviously not to Trump.”
Virginia Democratic Senator Mark Warner
Uh, Senator, we have civilian control of the military for a reason. The Constitution is designed to put the People's choice for President in charge of our military precisely to avoid what you are popsing.
The President controls the military so it cannot become enslaved by Congress, which has the money to advance it's own interests with military power.
If Mark Warner fears Trump is becoming a tyrant (something he cannot prove but can merely make unsupportable allegations) it's HIS job, and the job of his fellows in Congress, to defund the Executive branch. But he knows he can't prove this and can't get enough Congressmen to support defunding the President, so he wants to convince the military to overthrow and disobey their commander in chief.
Warner would be the first one to call it treason if, say, Josh Hawley had called for a military coup against Joe the Autopen.
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December 01, 2025
Latest news from Timothy, for December First
Dana Mathewson
I was very pleased to receive an upbeat phone call from Tim this afternoon. He's been unable to post anything on the Aviary because his new computer is hors de combat, with an unresponsive charger and a cursor that is nowhere to be found. He's planning to return it to the store and replace it with the brand I told him he should have gotten in the first place (since I am one of those guys who knows everything even when I don't, which is at least 50% of the time).
He was very happy to tell me that his wife seems to be doing better than expected. I won't go into lots of detail here, but will say that she is able to eat some food on her own. Those of you who are praying for her can be assured that your prayers are working! Please don't stop!
I will continue to update you as Tim provides me with news.
Cheers to all of you.
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