When can Chris Murphy attack a gay man? When the cameras are rolling and Trump's involved

Give me a minute — I'm working on an angle

From something called "The Advocate", by a lesbian reporter suffering from TDS.

If Richard Grenell, Donald Trump’s choice to become U.S. ambassador to Germany, were confirmed by the Senate, he’d become the administration’s first openly gay appointee to any post, but during confirmation hearings earlier this week Sen. Chris Murphy, (D-Conn.) took Grenell to task over a series of nasty tweets insulting women like Rachel Maddow’s and Hillary Clinton’s appearances. 

Grenell, a longtime Republican activist, was the longest-serving U.S. spokesman at the United Nations, serving from 2001 to 2008, under four U.N. ambassadors in the George W. Bush administration. He also had a two-week stint as national security spokesman for Republican Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign in 2012, but he has said he left because talk of his sexuality overshadowed his work with foreign policy. 

But like the man who nominated him for the post of Ambassador to Germany, Grenell has an ugly history on Twitter in which he’s used the platform to insult women. 

In questioning Grenell, Murphy called out the “litany of derogatory comments about women’s personal appearances” as “very inflammatory things” the nominee has said, according to The Washington Blade. And when Murphy asked Grenell if he had regrets about skewering women online, he said it was “never my intention to hurt anyone’s feelings.” He added that he was trying to be funny and that perhaps the humor didn't go over well. 

Murphy refrained from repeating the insults Grenell had hurled at women but according to The Washington Blade they consisted of a couple internalized homophobic/misogynist insults aimed at Rachel Maddow in which he wrote, she “needs to take a breath and put on a necklace.” He also said she looked like Justin Bieber in another tweet. Other women he insulted included Calista Gingrich, who he accused of having hair that she “snaps on.” Finally, he insulted two women with one tweet. 

“Hillary is starting to look like Madeleine Albright,” he once tweeted. 

It's no wonder that Murphy "refrained from repeating the insults Grinell has hurled at women". Anyone except this idiot reporter would be embarrassed to claim that poking fun at someone's hairdo could be interpreted as "internalized homophobic/misogynist insults" (ponder that phrase, for a moment), serous enough to disqualify him from serving as an ambassador.

Had he found a vacancy, at least we'd have been spared the Left's glee at the murder of innocent people

The Las Vegas madman tried, but failed, to book a room overlooking a rapper's concert the week before.

Ironic, given the randomness of the death that ensued, that the rapper is known as "Chance".

This one, way up north, may prove a harder sell

Those are a lot of expensive angles to re-roof, when their time has come.

39 Wilshire Road, back on at $4.650 million after failing to sell last year at $5.5.

Pretty fabulous house, but it's way out there in the sticks, and that's no longer an attractive neighborhood for what I'd guess is this one's natural market, the older corporate executive. Then again, not every such person wants to live in a downtown condominium, so maybe this price cut will lure someone 12 miles from the Avenue.

The orange? Yup.

And the zebra? you bet!

Whale, landed

116 Oneida Drive, $21,377 million.We discussed this when it was reported under contract a few months ago, Nothing wrong with Greenwichwich waterfront, yet.

George Soros funded Democrats to the tune of $26 million in 2016 alone; NRA donations since 1998, total, $3.555 million. Guess who the left claims controls Congress?

Aww, you peeked.

Haters gonna hate

The internet has exploded with various tweets and Facebook post cheering the deaths in Las Vegas. These days nothing the left does surprises me, but I take some consolation from learning that one of these evil persons has been fired, from CBS. 

Geftman-Gold wrote in a Facebook post comment how she didn't have any hope that Republicans, "Repugs," would "ever do the right thing," and that she isn't sympathetic to the shooting victims because country music fans are often "Republican gun toters." The Daily Caller was the first to report on her comments.

"If they wouldn't do anything when children were murdered I have no hope that Repugs will ever do the right thing," Geftman-Gold wrote on Facebook. "I'm actually not even sympathetic bc country music fans often are Republican gun toters."

The woman, a graduate of Columbia Law School and current resident of Brooklyn, is clearly Jewish. I mention this not as some kind of anti-Semitic screed, but to point out how "fear of others" causes people to justify the most horrible things done to those others, just as ordinary Germans justified rounding up and slaughtering millions of their fellow Jewish neighbors. How ironic that the derangement should also strike a woman who likely lost family members to the very same phenomenon.

I can't vouch for what the Mainstream media's up to, but the sites I visit have begun profiling some of the victims shot Sunday night: a nurse who saved his orthopedic surgeon wife's life, a schoolteacher with "an incredible sense of humor", a minister's young wife who dreamed of starting her own business, a school bus driver described as "the ultimate give-forward guy", and so forth. In short, individuals. This CBS executive and her fellows on the left deny the individuality of the victims and cheer their destruction, all because of their fear and distaste for those they do not know. As history has shown, that's a dangerous place to go.

Can you find a picture without the orange? No? So why the price cut?

230 Rogues Hill Road has dropped to $4.950 million today, but I can't imagine why.

It sold for $4.1 in 2006 (in a bidding war, no less, though admittedly, it had started at $5.450 before eventually dropping to $3.995) and since then they've loaded up on citrus, so what gives?

You've got your orange giraffes

And the rug

And the cushions (with the cow)

And the shed

Pink: the new orange

Or you can just attend the October 17th P&Z hearing on their attempt to shut down Sam Bridge Nursery and watch them in action

Jr. League President Debra McLaughlin rides to protect the privacy of her backyard swimming pool (Photo credit: Leslie Yager, Greenwich Free Press)

Greenwich Junior League to hold open house to introduce itself to potential members and explain how the organization works to "improve Greenwich". 

UPDATE: I've edited the lede to reflect the change of date of the P&Z hearing.

Dear Friends,

We would like to thank everyone for your continued support. Our new meeting date is October, 17th, this will not change. We are hoping you will be able to attend; we are trying to gather as much support as possible. We are still working with the town to come up with an acceptable solution that would allow us to continue to operate a successful business and also protects our right to farm. The new code will be voted on by the P & Z Commission at the meeting on October, 17th. 

Please tell the town how you feel about this and that you would like them change to the municipal code for commercial nurseries. Please call, email, write or show up at town hall:

Richard Maitland
Chairman Planning and Zoning Commission
Town Hall
101 Field Point Rd.
Greenwich, CT 06830

Odd coincidence? Father of the Las Vegas shooter was described by the FBI as a "psychopathic" bank robber.

Like father, like son?

From PJ Media

Via the Sacramento Bee:

Paddock’s father, Patrick Benjamin Paddock, was a bank robber who landed on the FBI most-wanted list in 1969. The wanted notice described the elder Paddock as “psychopathic” with suicidal tendencies. He had used firearms to rob banks and was considered armed and dangerous.

I was puzzled to learn this morning that the shooter was 64,  because I'd have thought that someone so deranged would have cracked long before this. I too am 64, so I've been checking myself for symptoms but, so far as I can tell, I'm no late bloomer. Then again, I don't have a family history of mental disease. Readers may be assured to know that my gun collection consists entirely of single-shot and (five-shot) bolt-action rifles.

Paddock seems to have acquired illegal, fully-automatic weapons, which are already banned under current gun laws.

As is murder.

9 Mackenzie Glen continues to be a tough sale

Purchased new for $5.5 million in 2006, the unhappy buyers first tried unloading it in 2012, without success, and have had it actively listed for the past two years. Today's price cut to $4.750  might do it, but given buyers' resistance to its previous price of $4.950, that may not be enough.

It's a decent house, although a tad too close toNorth Street to be noise-free, but 2006 was a long time ago; mid country values haven't rebounded from the retreat of 2008.