Democratic Socialists of America’s tattoos reveal all

(This is the party of Bernie Sanders and our new congress lady bartender)

(And very much) related:

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: CLIMATE CHANGE DEMNDS A CHANGE OF LIFESTYLE

Mainers and other consumers will have to make sacrifices. We simply must reduce our production of air- and water-warming gases immediately, if not sooner.

To accomplish this goal, we all must limit our travel to necessities. No more cross-country or international vacation trips. We will have to suspend our purchasing powers and buy only necessities. And, finally, we must stop eating animal foods. There are many other actions that we can take, but these are the most important.

So, back to the pre-industrial age? A comment to the original letter goes further: destruction of the human race.

Humans are a virus that have spread across the host-planet consuming, destroying and populating as they go. The only way to kill a virus is to starve it and make the host inhospitable. We have made our own host unlivable for our species as we continue to consume and procreate. We are the only virus that can control its own living area and we instead destroyed it.

Not that long ago, people demanding we impose Soviet rule, destroy the modern world and wipe out all hominoids would have been dismissed as harmless kooks and morons. Now they’re mainstream.

Lower Round Hill pending sale

85 Round Hill Road, asking $5.295 million. It’s been kicking around, on-and-off, since 2008, when it began at $7.495. 1958 construction, 9,000 sq.ft., with some improvements since, but a convenient location, for this road (I suppose that’s like saying, “for a fat girl, she doesn’t sweat much”, but what’s an opinion for, if not to voice it?)

Finally, a bit of real estate activity to report

23 Laurel Lane, asking $2.295, under contract. Owners paid $2.080 in 2014, added central air and a new kitchen, spruced up the rest, and it found a buyer quickly (98 days). This price range is active, and doing well.

And, sheeple that they are, their readers will believe this

Other sources suggest a motive:

The 29-year-old who shot and killed at least two people and injured 13 others at a Christmas market in Strasbourg, northeastern France last night, was well known to police and security services in no less than three countries. 

Cherif Chekatt, who shouted 'Allahu Akbar' - meaning 'God is Great' in Arabic - as he opened fire on the crowds, is known to be part of Islamist networks in Strasbourg and has a lengthy criminal record which includes 27 convictions as well as lengthy prison sentences in Germany, France and Switzerland.

The French secret service had been warned that he had become radicalised in prison, and placed him on a designated 'threat to the state' watchlist in 2015 - but this had not been communicated to German authorities who jailed him for burglary in 2016.

Yesterday morning, police searched his flat in connection with a different crime, and found an arsenal of weapons including a grenade, but Chekatt was not at home at the time of the raid, and would later go on to kill and maim more than a dozen people.  

Google: First principle, do more evil

Google’s new app enables Muslims to report blasphemy to the proper authorities, easy peasey. Will we soon see a similar app tied to the DNC and FBI?

On December 7, 2018, the Google Play Store approved the latest version of "Smart Pakem," an app that allows Muslims in Jakarta, the capital of the largest Muslim country on earth, to report violations of Sharia law such as blasphemy and even heresy. The app allows users to report people who practice unrecognized religions or unorthodox interpretations of Indonesia's six officially recognized faiths: Buddhism, Confucianism, Hinduism, Islam, Protestant Christianity, and Roman Catholic Christianity.

I've never seen such virulent hatred towards any politician

Incoming NY State Attorney states that her “first priority” will be to pursue Trump.

From NBC News:

New York Attorney Gen.-elect Letitia James says she plans to launch sweeping investigations into President Donald Trump, his family and “anyone” in his circle who may have violated the law once she settles into her new job next month.

“We will use every area of the law to investigate President Trump and his business transactions and that of his family as well,” James, a Democrat, told NBC News in her first extensive interview since she was elected last month.

James outlined some of the probes she intends to pursue with regard to the president, his businesses and his family members.

Her first order of business, however, will be to pass a bill to change New York’s double jeopardy laws so that she can pursue state charges even if President Trump pardons someone for their federal crimes:

James campaigned on passing a bill to change New York’s double jeopardy laws with an eye on possible pardons coming out of the White House. James told NBC News she wants to be able to pursue state charges against anyone the president were to pardon over federal charges or convictions and whose alleged crimes took place in the state. Under current New York law, she might not be unable to do that.

“I think within the first 100 days this bill will be passed,” she said, adding, “It is a priority because I have concerns with respect to the possibility that this administration might pardon some individuals who might face some criminal charges, but I do not want them to be immune from state charges.”

(UPDATE) She shows no interest in investigating her “best friend” Al Sharpton, who, besides dodging IRS liens amounting to millions of dollars and still-outstanding libel/slander judgment from the Tawana Brawley circus under the claim that he’s broke, just had his self-owned charity “National Action Network” pay him $500,000 + for his life story. Quelle surprise. (It’s probably time to resurrect that riddle from the past: “What’s five inches wide, 9 inches long, and dangles in front of a black a**hole?” Answer: Al Sharpton’s necktie.

Terrorist attack in France near European Parliament

The chap (English? Frenchman living in England?0 seems a bit oblivious, and forgetful of similar attacks in britain, and even somewhat callous, but apparently this is the new PC position over there.

4 dead, gunman, “known to the police”, on the run.

BREAKING: Fatal Shooting Near Christmas Market in Strasbourg, Suspect on the Run.

UPDATE (From Ed): As always with shooting incidents, early reports can be chaotic and contradictory. However, Andrew Neil of the London Spectator tweets that “This is becoming a scandal. French media reporting gunman escaped this morning from a search carried out at his home in the district of Neudorf south of Strasbourg by gendarmes. Grenades were found on site by the gendarmes.”

The London Telegraph is currently reporting that “at least four people” have been killed, and that the gunman is still at large. “The authorities are treating the attack as a terrorist act. Anti-terrorist prosecutors have opened an investigation.”

[From a separate source]:

A statement by local French police says the [French national, Moroccan decent] shooter is from the notorious Neuhof neighborhood, a hub of Islamist radicalization and a known "no-go" zone.

It also states that he was categorized on their terror watch list as "fiche-S," meaning known to be a radicalized militant.

And yet, another huge contract announced, this one on John Street

I could do without the pillars, but otherwise, nice house

So, word of the death of the back country seems to have been exaggerated (by me). 33 John Street, $15.5 million. There’s a mixed bag of results up here, with most of the older mansions taking huge hits but newer ones like this one, built in 2011, are still finding buyers. This makes two large sales announced just today. Bonus time on Wall Street.

The house is relatively modest for homes up here: 9,000 sq.ft., and its interior is modern and light, which does set it apart from many of its older peers.

On the other hand, here's another back country price cut

62 Sterling Road, built in 2007 and finally sold by its builder in 2013 for $3.850 million, has been on the market since May, beginning at $3.8, reduced its price today to $3.140.

Nothing wrong with the house itself: good design, top-quality construction and it sits on a nice piece of land, but if you fell off the end of Sterling you’d land in Bedford. That’s a long way out of town, and the current market doesn’t reward these locations.

Where's that reader who complained that I never write positive news?

230 Byram Shore Road has sold for $3.6 million, on its initial April price of $3.9.

If you don’t need the local public schools, this is a very nice, low-trafficked section of town and this house, redone in 2006, looks to be in immaculate condition.