The disastrous effects of COVID lockdowns; DEI; open borders — if only someone had warned us!

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Who Could Have Guessed that the Nantucket Wind Farm Would Be a Disaster?

David Strom: “It's as if liberals see common sense and choose to do the opposite of what it tells them. No amount of sage advice will dissuade them because some "expert" with dollar signs in their eyes can talk them into anything as long as they whisper magic words like ‘renewable energy.’ ”

If they could go back in time, officials in Nantucket, Massachusetts, wouldn't sign the legal agreement that helped bring the nation's first large-scale offshore wind farm 15 miles from the island town's picturesque shoreline.

That was the common sentiment expressed during a Nantucket select board meeting this week about the August 2020 community benefit agreement the town entered into with developers of the Vineyard Wind project, which is currently under construction. "These wind turbines are bigger, brighter, and much more impactful than we ever thought—and not to mention the environmental hazards from failures," said Dawn Hill, the chairwoman of the select board, which serves as the town's executive body.

The agreement represented Nantucket's formal endorsement of the project and satisfied Vineyard Wind's legal responsibility to consult with the town. Because Nantucket is a federally designated national historic district, regulators and developers must consult with the town on new projects that may threaten its protected status.

"Hindsight is 20/20," added Greg Werkheiser, an attorney who represents Nantucket. "Every lawyer in the world wishes 5 or 10 years into a negotiated contract that they could take the knowledge they have, fly back in time, and renegotiate—but communities make the choices they have with the information they have at the time."

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Strom:

We told them so. But this is Nantucket, where all the beautiful people know so much more than we do. They are the good people who look down their noses at us, sure in the knowledge that they will do well by doing good. Wind power! It must be great! 

…. This is a pattern that, by now, we have all seen except the liberals who keep making the same mistakes over and over again. It's not just "clean energy"-it's everything. It's the homeless problem, defund the police, and every damn thing you can imagine. We warn them, but they know better. 

And then disaster strikes, and they claim they didn't have any way to know. 

(Update)

Oh, gee, such a surprise — don’t tell his media flunkies

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I’m not as optimistic as Ol’ Dendables, but I do hope he’s right: “Raising his voice, Biden said, ‘Folks, in all our lives, the life of our nation, there are moments so stark that they divide all that came before from everything that followed’.“

Former President Joe Biden looked lost and slurred through his remarks at a Chicago lawyers’ gala Thursday night — months after the 82-year-old revealed he was battling aggressive prostate cancer.

The white-haired, wide-eyed Biden received a standing ovation as he slowly stepped on stage at the 100th annual awards gala for the National Bar Association — the oldest and largest network of predominently black lawyers or judges in the US.

Flanked by two of his granddaughters, the former president gingerly crossed the stage and shook hands with the emcee before turning around and trying to locate his seat, video shows.

Biden was directed back to his place by others on the dais and slowly slouched into his chair before flashing a smile and pointing finger guns at the crowd.

The Blockhouse has found a buyer

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After 372 days on the market, 29 Lockwood Drive, Old Greenwich, is reported under contract. Priced at $4.995 million. I wrote about this back in September 2024 when, after 116 days on the market, it took a 2% price cut from $5.095 million, and wrote about again on February 18th of this year when it was brought back from the expired list and put back on active at the same $4.995 that had failed before. But the owner stuck to his price and someone’s finally bit. Did the bitee have to move from that $4.995? We’ll have to wait until it closes and the actual sales price to see.

(As an aside, there was quite a fight over the construction of this house back in 2013-2014, but as the picture above shows, the neighbors lost.)

While I was away ...

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16 Lia Fail, Cos Cob, listed at $4.625 million, sold for $4.3, to Jersey City (07302 Zip) buyers. A previous attempt to move it at $3.5-$3.25 million in 2020-2021 fizzled, which I’d attribute both to the COVID market back then and, unfortunately, the failure of that listing agent’s failure to appreciate the power of The Orange. The new broker corrected that oversight and incorporated the color in 15 of the listing’s 34 pictures. Well done, although she did miss two obvious additions that, had they been included, would probably have seen this property sell for full, even above ask.

To be fair, the first broker did try, but he just didn’t get it

Oh, just fly away, would you?

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Fortunately, there’s a way for Ford to atone for his sin of amassing a fortune during his climb from simple carpenter to superstar: sell his Wyoming ranch, his jets, helicopters and California mansion, and give it all back to the people he seems to think he stole it from:

NPR: This obscure program lets Americans donate to help pay off the national debt

…. 1961, the government set up another account, a special account for what it called gifts to reduce the public debt. And it meant that the money in that account could only be used for that purpose. It wouldn't get swallowed up by the general fund.

And as of this past Friday, it’s even easier to do!

Americans can now use Venmo to help pay off US debt

Method of payment a recent addition as US treasury gives kind-hearted citizens chance to help reduce $36.72tn debt