Greenwich, Connecticut real estate, politics, and more.
Greenwich, Connecticut real estate, politics, and more
Why we hate the media, chapter 12,186. Before I recovered my senses and remembered that Thanksgiving was about gratitude and turkey, not politics, I engaged in a brief exchange on this topic with a family member. We both quickly realized that our love for each other was more important than winning points and so desisted, but I do find it frustrating that the left side of our national discussion has the attention span of a gerbil (is that too harsh?)
5 Parsonage Road has cut its price to $3.775 million — the sellers paid $4.456 in 2005. It’s a fine house, in great condition, and Parsonage is a great street, but 1962 construction is a dead issue so far as appreciation is concerned. A buyer looking for a decent rental alternative for, say, five years, could do well here.
20 Marks Road, Riverside, is pending at $4.195 million. A decent house, on a decent, if compromised lot on a busy street, it was sold, almost new by my favorite NFL player, former little league coachee, John Sullivan (you owe me, John! If I hadn’t been such a lousy baseball coach, you’d never have turned to football and discovered your true potential) for $3.325 million in 2015. The current owners added a pool and spent a large sum, apparently, on some high-powered interior decorating, but pools deteriorate and decorations fade, so I’m not sure where the value is here.
4,000 square feet, with more in the basement, on a 1/3-acre lot. Seems steep, but it went in just 23 days [brother Gideon corrects me: 23 hours for an accepted offer], so what do I know?
It’s somewhat alarming to realize that a grown adult was paid to draw these squiggles on a blackboard to simulate “children at play”
A great time with the family in Boulder Colorado; just the four of us, with one guest, so a quiet celebration, but a good one. I’m not sure whether I missed the 30-attendees dinners of the past, but it was certainly different. There’s probably room for both types of meals, alternated.
If it weren’t so expensive — Boulder prices make Greenwich real estate look cheap — I’d be tempted to stay there. Fifteen miles west of the city, the mountains were pelted with 15” of new snow, while the flats below were basking in 50-degree temperatures. That’s a nice combination, and the mountains that frame every view are spectacular, but alas, the Californians have taken over the area, bringing with them their politics and house pricing, so … pass.
96 club road
Upon returning, I see that brother Gideon has inked a contract for 96 Club Road, in Riverside, asking $5.5 million, now, down quite a bit from its 2017 price of $7.5, but that’s the market and, to my wallet, that’s still a chunk of change.
Case in point regarding price shifts, 2 Lauder Way, purchased for $6.2 million in 2013, renovated and placed back up for sale in 2017 at $7.295, has now dropped to $5.295. Nice house, excellent location; the times they are a changing.
2 lauder way
Training Day
Off with Pal Nancy to celebrate Thanksgiving in Colorado with the girls. We’ll have Internet access there, I think, so blogging should resume tomorrow. Otherwise, Saturday.
Happy Thanksgiving!
Chipotle fires manager for demanding to see money upfront from black teenager who was a notorious “dine and dash” criminal. And they’ve subjected the staff to re-education class.
… this is not how we treat our customers and as a result, the manager has been terminated and the restaurant is being retrained to ensure something like this doesn't happen again.'
However, not everyone is as convinced of the men's innocence. Previous tweets seemed to imply that he had eaten at establishments before without paying.
'Dine and dash is forever interesting,' Ali wrote in a since-deleted tweet from July 2015.
Another post from March 2015 read: 'if you a real ass n***a we [gonna go to] Applebees [sic] and eat as much a we can and tip the nice lady 20cents and walk the f**k out.'
Ali, who records show is on probation for theft, did not reply to a request from the Miami Herald.
Chipotle said it is aware of the old tweets and is currently investigating the incident.
Damn right they should investigate; and then apologize to their employee, and place her in charge of theft prevention.
Mathew Shepard was a Wyoming teenager horribly murdered in Wyoming back in 1998, and became a poster child for hate crime, homophobia, and so forth. It was eventually revealed that he was the victim of meth-dealing gone bad, and was in fact murdered by a bi-sexual meth dealer cheesed off by Matthew’s refusal to pay for his drugs, and his death had nothing to do with his “gayness”, but that has never deterred the narrative of a homosexual boy tortured and killed because of his sexual orientation.
Greenwich Free Press today reports approvingly of a King School production of a play based on the false narrative, and because the owner of that blog has turned off her comments section, I thought I’d just point out her lies and falsehoods here. Parents who are paying for their children to attend The King School, a private school located just over the Stamford border, might want to investigate what other indoctrination they’re subjecting their children to, at great expense (hint: ask to see the social studies/history texts being used).
If I had it to do over, I’d home school my children. There’s no other escape from these propagandists.
University instructs professors not to use capital letters lest they terrify snowflakes
University bosses have banned lecturers from using capital letters when assigning work to their students out of fear it might upset them.
The memo sent out to staff at Leed's Trinity journalism department suggested that using uppercase letters may 'scare them into failure', reports the Express.
It also included some tips on how they should address their students from now on, such as writing in a friendly tone, steering clear of overbearing language and negative instructions.
It suggested that writing a word in caps could highlight the 'difficulty' of the assignment and therefore worry the students.
At fifteen, George Washington was surveying the wilderness of (what would become) West Virginia, surrounded by hostile savages. At seventeen, my great grandfather John Caldwell arrived on these shores, alone, fought for four years in the Civil War and went on to make himself a multi-millionaire in Pittsburgh, PA. On a far, far lesser scale, at fifteen I myself was exploring Puerto Rico, unescorted, and at sixteen hitchhiked across America three times (unlike John Caldwell, and as testament to the watering-down of the gene pool, I never figured out how to make millions, alas). Now, students are terrified by UPPER CASE LETTERS.
Point is, we’ve not just delayed adulthood for these infants, we’ve completely destroyed their capacity to grow up at all, with the result that they now demand a government that protects them from all hardship and difficulty: “free” healthcare, “free” education”, and an insulated bubble that shields them from anything unpleasant, be it contradictory opinions or unsettling ideas. There are people perfectly willing to take command of these cowed sheeple and offer them what they so desperately seek, and they’re poised to do just that.
Keep your powder dry.
Last Tuesday, over 60 percent of Washington voters approved a sweeping new gun control initiative that raises the age limit for semiautomatic rifle purchases, imposes a 10-day waiting period, and enhances background checks. The National Rifle Association, among other groups, was highly critical of the law. A local police chief has responded.
I expect theACLU to express its full-throated support for the chief, any day now.
I’ve talked with quite a few concerned citizens today so let me clear something up.
I’ve taken 3 public oaths, one in the US Army and Two as a police officer. All of them included upholding and defending the Constitution of the United States of America.
The second amendment says the right to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.
As long as I am Chief of Police, no Republic Police Officer will infringe on a citizens right to keep and Bear Arms, PERIOD! – Chief Culp
I once worried that permitting cities, politicians and judges to decide for themselves which laws they would choose to obey would lead to civil war, but since that now seems inevitable, locations that shield gun owners seem sensible and appealing.
GENE SHEPHERD WEEPS
High school senior who, at the request of his drama teacher, brought a disabled BB gun to school to use as a prop suspended by school for violating its “anti-gun” rule. The school board has now reversed the suspension but will keep the suspencion, as well as a note that he was “guilty of bringing a gun to school” on his record until graduation effectively keeping him from applying to colleges, his parents point out.
They’re suing, naturally, so both they and the school board will be incurring needless attorney fees over what should have been a non-incident. Certainly schools should be cautious, perhaps even paranoid about weapons on campus, especially after Columbine, Sandy Hook, etc., but there’s no reason an investigation into this incident shouldn’t have cleared up the matter in just a few minutes.
The teacher who originally asked the student to bring in the “gun” is still teaching, by the way: maybe students should be represented by unions, too.
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