And traffic soars!

Scratch a Pussy Hat and the yowling can be heard all the way from the kitchen. Music to my ears.

Indivisible Pussy Hat RTM candidates, by district

Oh, no, not our names!

District 1

Luis Reyna

Tony Lopez

, Elizabeth Sanders-Mills

 Melinda (Mindy) Smith

District 5

Jennie Baird

Stephanie D’Alton-Barrett

Joan Thakor. 

Susan Jaffe

District 7

Elizabeth Perry  

Miriam Kreuzer

Luis Reyna

(BTW - Kimberly Fiorello is NOT an Indivisible Greenwich/MarchOn/MoveOn Member)

District 8

Lura Kotin

District 10 (NW Greenwich):

Joanna Swomley

District 11

Karen Giannutri (co-founder of "March on Greenwich")

But four good guys:

Victoria Bostock

Lisa Stuart

Margaret (Peggy) Heppelmann and

Kimberly Salib

Send in the identities of other members of the Greenwich Indivisible Party and we'll post them here.

Thank you, Greenwich Free Press

Our Town Meeting will certainly be more colorful — and noisier. (though I'm guessing that these particular Greenwich party members' vaginas are safe from molestation)

Besides revealing the Greenwich Invisble party's goals and trashing various conservative candidates Democrat operative Leslie Yager despises, Greenwich Free Press has posted a link to the League of Lady Voter's list of RTM candidates, showing which are petition candidates. I don't remember whether the actual ballot indicates which are incumbents and which are petition, but just in case, you might want to print out your own district's slate and bring it along as a cheat-sheet on who not to vote for.

Check out the profile of Greenwich Indivisible's founder, Riverside resident (District 5) Jennie Bird, and see if you can count the number of lies and misrepresentations about herself and her intentions that she spews in just one paragraph:

Q: What are three important issues facing Greenwich voters today?
1) Partisanship is driving an ideological divide in organizations that should
be neutral and serve the interests of the community, not party politics. See, for example, the current debate over charter change and the Board of Education. 2) Communication. Too many people don’t even know what the RTM does or what issues it faces. It’s time to modernize and improve communication between local government and residents. 3) Budget: We need to nd smart, effective ways to invest in our community, while being scally responsible stewards of our town’s natural and nancial resources.

Current RTM committee assignment:
Number of terms served on RTM: 0 

You really want this person representing your interests? 

"How we recruited 50 (left wing pussyhat) candidates to run for office in Greenwich, Ct"

Greenwich Indivisible Pussy Hats are coming for your RTM

(Edited, corrected, now that I'm back on a real computer)

A friend sent along this article from an organizer of "Greenwich Indivisible" with the comment, "Disgusting; bringing national politics to the Greenwich RTM".

Couldn't say it better myself. Here's the woman, Miss Jennie Baird, in her own words:

I’m part of the Trump Resistance… unless it interferes with my tennis game.

— snip —

My little world was Greenwich. And while Greenwich is known as America’s hedge fund capital and as a bedroom community of the rich, the truth is more complicated. Greenwich is actually the most racially diverse town in Connecticut—a state whose demographic hews to the nation’s. Connecticut has the fourth-biggest education achievement gap in the country, and the second biggest income gap. Within Connecticut, Greenwich is near the top for both. The town’s backcountry estates and seaside mansions are a stone’s throw from elementary schools where nearly 60% of students receive free and reduced lunch.

Many well-to-do residents work global jobs and have a cosmopolitan outlook (they’re often referred to as “train people” by long-time townies). They’re politically moderate and are more versed in issues playing out on the national stage than in their own community. As one local politician chastised me, “You and your friends need to put down the New York Times and read the Greenwich Time!”

 So I did. And my friends did, too. And the more we read, the more we learned. Our municipal government is populated by many well-intentioned volunteers. But it’s also teeming with single-issue NIMBYs, specific local economic interests like realtors and contractors, and an activist partisan cohort whose views don’t necessarily reflect the views of the majority. It’s also a bastion of long-tenured local personalities who are deeply suspicious of newcomers. None of these groups have typically had to battle a contested election to retain power.

With all 230 seats on our town council (called RTM) up for grabs in the Nov. 7 election, my friends and I set about educating our friends about local issues and why we needed to get involved.

The initial response was enthusiastic. But I soon discovered that people who had a lot of energy for resistance after January’s Women’s March had less inclination to get involved in something specific and tangible as time marched on. They had sick children, new puppies, re-entries to the workforce, college applications, and yes—tennis games. Getting elected and serving on the RTM would require time, commitment, and some feather ruffling. It really was easier to call your Congressman and more fun to attend a protest rally.

But my fearless “comrades” hosted cocktail parties and coffee klatches for months. They met up for walks and drinks with any casual acquaintance who demonstrated an inkling of interest. We hosted a Facebook page and wrote letters to the editor. But basically, it went down the way the old commercial described: She told two friends who told two friends and so on and so on.

Still, as the September deadline to petition onto the ballot approached, many women were wavering. They had back-to-school stress, didn’t want to be seen as agitators in their community, and faced ridicule by conservative uncles. “I’m just not that political,” was a line we got tired of hearing but had to develop a response for.

Right before petitions were due, I stood in front of a hall of women and paraphrased Louis XIV: “Sheetcaking, c’est nous!”

This November marks the first time in living memory Greenwich will see contested RTM elections, with over 110 new candidates standing for office, at least half recruited by my friends. Over 60% of these new petitioners are women.

That’s a victory itself. However, like women across America standing for office for the first time, we face enormous obstacles.

The establishment doesn’t like challenges to their authority. Despite a non-partisan rallying cry focused on civic engagement (we’ve recruited Democrats, Republicans and unaffiliateds who share our values), we’ve been branded as “pussy hat wearing radicals.” As one local blogger wrote, “Hold onto your pocketbooks! Mandatory transgender education is next!”

The same blogger’s community “outed” individual candidates, encouraging followers to call their employers and urge their firing. They also suggested no one vote for any new petitioner with a female name. [Except for any suggestion that readers call the Pussy Hats' employers and urge their firing, that would be me: thank you for noticing].

And some RTM incumbents who previously stated they would welcome contested elections, have now attacked the well-meaning efforts of one first-time candidate who volunteered to compile a comprehensive “Voter’s Guide.”

By her own admission, this lady and her friends not only didn't follow local news since they landed here, they didn't even know our town has an RTM or what its purpose is. Only when Trump showed up as her new president did the author bother to pick up a local paper and discover that there was a local political body that she could convert into a vehicle to protest national issues and, while she was at it, use that body to transform the town into a municipality that reflected her views on what "social justice" looks like.

These "Trump Resistance" members have falsely described themselves in the press and in their literature as non-partisan, and claim a diverse membership comprised of men and women, Democrats, Republicans and Independents: nothing could be further from the truth. They're a band of far-left women, mostly wealthy housewives with nothing much to do now that summer's ended and those handsome country club tennis pros have returned to college. And, given the author's emphasis on wealth disparity in town and her condescending references to "long-time townies", it's pretty obvious where she and her stealth group intend to take the town: nowhere good. (Another giveaway is her reference to "comrades" and the guillotine mob of the French Revolution, but never mind).

So we can expect to see up to 50 angry women, all suffering from Trump Derangement Syndrome, invading our local town meeting, demanding, what? A sanctuary city? Resolutions demanding the impeachment of Trump? Gun control? Rent control? The possibilities are endless. 

And that's just national issues. Locally, more pools in Byram, more efforts to spread the wealth of Greenwich earners to the non-earners? I'd say yes. What is just as disgusting as their attempt to convert the RTM into a forum for whackos to shriek their disapproval of conservatives is Greenwich Indivisible's pretense of being a non-political party and the refusal to identify their politics and intentions: hence my terming them "Greenwich Invisible".

Some readers have pointed out that many of these ladies will soon tire of the drudgery of attending RTM meetings and I agree, but they won't disappear entirely: count on them to show up for big, budget-busting proposals and anything else representing an effort to "redistribute" wealth. Danger, Will Robinson.

I repeat my original suggestion: don't vote for any female petition candidate: we may lose a number of very able (and stable) women who aren't members of this coven of shrieking banshees, but all 50 of the Indivisible candidates are petition candidates, so kill them all (that's an ironic reference to  famous quote, just to reassure these ladies that I mean no physical harm) and  let God sort out the innocent. I don't know whether she's a petition candidate or incumbent, but be sure to avoid casting a vote for Jennie Baird.

(Regular readers will know that I'm trolling here, but the beauty of women like Jennie and her "comrades" is that they'll read this and still email it to each other, howling. Such fun.)

One more day of mediation classes, then I'll be posting again

It's been an interesting course, and I'm enjoying it, but I've been disappointed to discover how today's generation of "woke" would-be mediators allow their political sensitivities to displace their supposed neutrality. I intend to bring the matter up today, when we're scheduled to discuss "ethics". I'll post about all this when I return, which may be sooner than the 5:30 quitting time, if I'm chased from the classroom by angry feminists and TDS sufferers. Until then, stay out of any courtrooms with modern jurors sitting in judgment.

Only the cruelest among us would suggest that Hillary's most recent stroke has caused her to slip into dementia

"I'm fine, dammit, I'm fine! But don't let go."

After all, she's been raving about 'vast, right wing conspiracies" for decades.

Clinton added that the GOP has been taken over by those with sinister interests.

“It is becoming a far-right, captive party to ideological religious and commercial interests,” she said.

“It is at the mercy of its financial backers and a cabal of leaders who are doing things like shrinking the electorate, gerrymandering, and taking every step they can to maintain power for themselves and those who are like-minded.”

Asked by FWIW whether she was in fact referring to the Democratic party and its friends on Wall Street and in Russia, Ms. Clinton appeared confused: "you'll have to ask Sandy about that", she finally stuttered. "He's my memory bank these days".

What did Sandy Livtack know, and when did he know it?

I'm 86-years-old, for Christ's sake — you expect me to remember the 90s?

From the Greenwich Democrats' First Selectman candidate's biography:

I started at Disney as the "Senior Vice President and General Counsel" on April 30, 1991. Shortly thereafter I became "Executive Vice President Law and Human Resources.” In 1994, I became "Senior Executive Vice President and Chief of Corporate Operations" with all Corporate Departments (except the CFO) reporting to me. In that position, I was responsible for a workforce of thousands of employees located throughout the United States and abroad. In 1995 I was elected to the Board of Directors of Disney and in 1999 I became Vice Chairman of the Board. 

Disney owned Miramax (a/k/a Weinstein Productions) at the height of Harvey's predations: did the chief counsel really know nothing about it?

Two weeks ago, Breitbart News was the first to report about the possible legal liability for those corporations that backed Harvey Weinstein over three decades. On top of the Weinstein Company, which was formed in 2005, there is the Walt Disney Company. From 1993 to 2005, Disney owned Miramax while Weinstein, along with his brother Bob, ran it. Breitbart’s Joel Pollak explained:

As more alleged victims come forward, it is possible that some could decide to sue Disney for failing to exercise its arguable duty, during its ownership of Weinstein’s Miramax for more than a decade, to protect employees from a sexually predatory boss — if, in fact, Disney knew or had reason to know of his behavior.

By failing to intervene early, those in a position to hold Weinstein accountable arguably allowed him to continue his abusive behavior and could now conceivably face legal liability from victims — at least from those who did not sign the settlement agreements that have been revealed.

The big question is whether or not Disney knew anything about Weinstein’s alleged behavior, which includes what the New York Times reported as a 1997 settlement with actress Rose McGowan (who says Weinstein raped her). Actress Asia Argento also claims Weinstein raped her in 1997 during the Disney era.

For its part, if true, reports of additional settlements and the Weinstein Company “allowing” for sexual harassment in Harvey Weinstein’s contract — meaning he could not be terminated for it — will make it extremely difficult for the company to continue to claim that nobody knew.

As far as Disney, if indeed there were sexual harassment settlements while Weinstein was at Miramax, did Disney know about them?

Look for Greenwich Free Press's Democrat operative Leslie Yager to publish a full interview with her candidate tomorrow, asking probing questions and demanding answers.

Or not.

Where's Dollar Bill when we want him? "Progressive" pizzeria pays staff huge salaries, serves mediocre, over-priced pies, goes out of business.

But your waitperson gets health benefits!

"In the Roxbury neighborhood of Boston back in 2015, the people at the nonprofit organization Haley House came up with a novel idea. They would open a pizza shop based on the principles of economic justice and fair wages to support the community. Named Dudley Dough, the shop would pay wages far above the minimum which many people in that industry earn, with added incentives for training and community development. It was an inspiring idea.

Unfortunately for them, only two years later the place is closing down. It turns out that operating a for-profit business on the principles of a nonprofit social justice operation results in an undesirable side-effect. They were literally not producing a profit. (Boston Globe)"

Yelp reviews are mixed, but if you weed out the social justice diners (who seem to have eaten there just once, to demonstrate their commitment to "social justice"), you find customers sorely disappointed by the store's $3.75-per-slice pricing, poor service, and lousy fare.

This despite their refusal to serve pork (that would mean pepperoni) so as not to upset their Muslim (non) customers. Allah inshallah.

I've never believed that hackable "smart homes" can overcome location

130 Old Church Road

533 days after entering the market at $3.995 million, and eventually marked down to $3.295, 130 Old Church Road reports a contract. The house itself was impeccably built by a fine, local contractor, but the lot was carved out of rock ledge, so there's no yard to speak of, and certainly not the "simply gorgeous property" the listing claims, and all the non-volatile paint, bamboo flooring, Nest thermostats and Crestron "home-automation systems" don't outweigh that.

Besides, Crestron packages add as little value as swimming pools, which is to say, nothing: those buyers who want the feature prefer to design their own, and the majority of buyers aren't interested at all, and won't pay a penny for it. Note to builders: save your money, and don't build pools, home theaters, wine cellars, or install Crestron.

Look, it has a stove in the kitchen!

Windows in the bedroom

As well as a window where a chimney might be

And a foot bath (excuse me: "water feature")  in the side yard.

Subject to confirmation, this appears to be a genuine cable tie!

Too delicious to pass up: NYPD cop loses it at Stamford Mall's Godiva chocolate shoppe

One on New York's Finest wants her chocolate creams, NOW!

"Don't tell me you're closed, the f***ing door was open!"

An off-duty NYPD officer went berserk in a Godiva store when she was told they were closing — even fighting police who responded to the call, cops said.

Officer Amanda Villafane went to the store at the Stamford Town Center with her mother and Christopher Salvadore, 32, around 6 p.m. Sunday, police said.

“They were told the store was closing,” Stamford Police Sgt. Brian Butler said. “They were not happy with that answer.”

That’s when Villafane took off her jacket and started yelling, video of the incident shows.

At one point, she can be heard threatening a clerk: “I will knock you the f–k out!”

Making matters worse, Villafane showed her NYPD identification and fought with a cop.

“When they went to arrest her she didn’t want to cooperate so they had to take her to the ground and cuff her,” Butler said.

He said the floor was covered with “blood and chocolate.”