The point of the dog whistle metaphor is that, if you can hear it, you're the dog

Psst! Hear it, Fritz? Their master calls!

NBC “security consultants” explains that Trump keeping flags at half-mast until August 8 is a “silent dog whistle” for white racists. Eighth letter of alphabet is “H”, and that means Heil Hitler. 8/8 — get it? Get it?

This moron is actually paid and put on the air by NBC.

"The numbers 88 are very significant in neo-Nazi and white supremacy movement. Why? Because the letter ‘H’ is the eighth letter of the alphabet, and to them the numbers 8-8 together stand for ‘Heil Hitler.’ So we’re going to be raising the flag back up at dusk on 8/8."

"No one is thinking about this," he added. [No one else, anyway —ED]

[Brian] Williams was wowed by this analysis.

"I know you’re keeping your options open there, Frank, but as chilling as that is to hear, you’re saying it’s possible that someone who knows better is authoring or editing the words that show up and are read verbatim, or are supposed to be read verbatim, by the president," he said.

"I'm concerned about who is writing his script and his speeches and what would fascinate me is what he's rejecting," Figliuzzi said. "So it's possible that several iterations of this speech were given to him. Someone with expertise—and believe me, the expertise exists in our intelligence community and our law enforcement community and our civilian population in how to counter radicalization. Those folks could have advised him on writing an excellent speech that would have created an obstacle on this path to violence that we're on. But he either chose to not take that advice, or he's not even willing to solicit the advice."

Figliuzzi is a frequent guest on Deadline: White House, whose host, Nicolle Wallace, had to apologize this week after saying Trump was talking about "exterminating Latinos."

This seems like a decent deal for the buyer; for the sellers, not so much

110 Meadow Road in Riverside has sold for $2.750 million. Good house, great street, on a half-acre, what’s not to like? It was priced at $2.995 in late May and had a buyer in just 34 days.

So far, so good, but checking the tax card, it appears that these sellers paid $3.550 for it in 2007, ex-MLS. I suppose that seemed like a good buy at the time, but then, lots of things looked better in 2007 than they do today.

Proper pricing prevents piss-poor performance

150 Riverside Avenue, on the market since 2014, has finally sold, for $2.3 million. It’s a great old (1878) house, albeit with the kind of quirks you would expect in a house its age, but took five years to sell because the owner/agent initially mispriced it at $4.15. There were almost certainly a number of buyers for this property (I had one very interested client myself), but none at $4.1 or its various prices in the $3s. The town appraised this at $3,000,400 at the last valuation, which was probably too high, but I’m sure it would have fetched more than $2.3 had it been priced right to begin with. Hell, my clients were ready at $2.750, but the owner was still stuck in the high $3s at the time, and we didn’t tender an offer.

I’m sure they’re glad they didn’t, now.

For this particular owner I'm sure it's a mere rounding error, unnoticeable from his Palm Beach home, but still...

Things are looking down on Zaccheus Mead

78 Zaccheus Mead Lane, purchased for $13 million in 2006, has been reduced to $7.950 today.

With a pinch more to shrink on, I imagine.

Since everything bad starts in California, I expect this continued ruination of its schools to infect Connecticut in the near future

California politicians plan to impose yet another mandatory propaganda program on its students.

The California State Legislature is moving forward with a bill, AB 331, that will require all high school students to take a one-semester ethnic studies course as a condition of graduation. The bill would apply to charter schools in addition to public schools. Just how would the curriculum be generated? AB 331 states, “The model curriculum shall be developed with participation from faculty of ethnic studies programs at universities and colleges with ethnic studies programs and a group of representatives of local educational agencies.”

Here’s a sample from the first page of the Introduction:

At its core, the field of Ethnic Studies is the interdisciplinary study of race, ethnicity, and indigeneity with an emphasis on experiences of people of color in the United States. Further, it is the xdisciplinary, loving, and critical praxis of holistic humanity – as educational and racial justice. It is from communities of color and our intergenerational worldviews, memories, experiences, identities, narratives, and voices. It is the study of intersectional and ancestral roots, coloniality, hegemony, and a dignified world where many worlds fit, for present and future generations.

The field critically grapples with the various power structures and forms of oppression, including, but not limited to, white supremacy, race and racism, sexism, classism, homophobia, islamophobia, transphobia, and xenophobia, that continue to impact the social, emotional, cultural, economic, and political experiences of Native People/s and people of color.

Ethnic Studies is xdisciplinary, in that it variously takes the forms of being interdisciplinary, multidisciplinary, transdisciplinary, undisciplinary, and intradisciplinary. As such, it can grow its original language to serve these needs with purposeful respellings of terms, including history as herstory and women as womxn, connecting with a gender and sexuality lens, along with a socioeconomic class lens at three of its intersections.

California’s educational system has gone from the nation’s best in the 1950s to either the very worst to 10th worst, depending on how these things are measured. Regardless, that decades-long decline can be easily duplicated and accelerated in today’s political climate, and I expect it will be.

Democrat scum

Congressman Joaquin Castro, brother and campaign manager of Julian Castro doxxes TSan Antonio Trump supporters in his district. Go get ‘em!

In an effort to publicly shame the president's supporters, Castro -- who is the campaign chairman of his brother Julián Castro's failing Democratic presidential campaign -- doxxed 44 private citizens in the San Antonio area who donated to Trump’s re-election campaign.

“Sad to see so many San Antonians as 2019 maximum donors to Donald Trump — the owner of @BillMillerBarBQ, owner of the Historic Pearl, realtor Phyllis Browning, etc.,” Castro tweeted from his campaign account Monday night. “Their contributions are fueling a campaign of hate that labels Hispanic immigrants as ‘invaders.’”

Mind you, the people being outed by Castro gave the maximum individual contribution allowed which is $2,800. As the Federalist points out, these aren’t billionaires being targeted, merely ordinary citizens who support a candidate Castro doesn’t like.

The information is public record and accessible online, but most people don't spend their time searching for the political donations of private citizens, unless spurred to action. So why do it? Ask Maxine Waters.

Fix up a house for your pleasure and enjoyment, not for profit

66 Perkins Road, asking $1.990, is pending. The owners bought this 1961 house in 2006, when it was tired and worn, paying $2.2 for it, and completely redid it. They tried reselling it for $3.6 million in 2007-08 but gave that effort up and have lived in it since.

It’s a nice house and one I’m sure the owners have derived great satisfaction from, but the days of fixing up Greenwich houses for fun and profit have gone, perhaps never to return — not soon, anyway.

Circ 2006

ORIGINAL KITCHEN

Truth to power; not

This morning the NY Times reported on Trump’s speech in a factual, neutral fashion; that’s what newspapers were once supposed to do, eh? But not in today’s climate of hysterical hate, so the Times, responding to reader outrage, quickly came out with a new, improved version of its headline.

Original effort above, redo below.

And here I'd thought Greenwich matrons reserved their affections solely for the club tennis pro

The Devil finds work for idle hands

By making them busy hands

Greenwich personal trainer sues former client after she has him arrested

BRIDGEPORT - A Florida personal trainer claims in a lawsuit that he was falsely accused of kidnapping by Greenwich police and held for more than a week in prison.

[So] states a lawsuit filed Monday in U.S. District Court in Bridgeport by Darnell Davis of Miami Beach, Fla., against Greenwich Police Officer Ryan Carino and Greenwich residents David and Zhanna Zervos.

The 43-year-old Davis was charged in December 2018 with strangulation, third-degree assault and unlawful restraint in Greenwich — all of which were later dismissed.

However, Davis’ lawyer, Robert Berke, said that his client in the meantime spent eight days in a North Carolina jail and 27 hours in prison here until he was released.

According to a press release at the time, Davis was accused of kidnapping and assaulting Zhanna Zervos in her home on Orchard Hill Lane in Greenwich on Aug. 15, 2018. But the lawsuit states that, in fact, on that day Davis was traveling around Europe with Zhanna Zervos and having a sexual affair with her.

Her husband, David Zervos, later discovered the affair after seeing photographs of the couple on Instagram, the lawsuit said, and threatened divorce.

The couple made up the criminal allegations against Davis with Officer Carino, who “drafted his arrest warrant affidavit with reckless disregard for the truth,” the lawsuit states.

Davis was arrested by warrant on Nov.15, 2018 in Mecklenburg County, N.C.

Allegations in a civil lawsuit are, of course, just that: unproved claims. Still, there’s the matter of all charges being dropped, and one of the defendants’ Instagram page does indicate a personal familiarity with Europe.

Bernie Sanders: "Open borders is a Koch brothers plot"

“It may make the world richer, but it will make Americans poorer”. I guess he’s worried that all that free stuff he’s promising will have to be paid for by his fellow citizens.

Full tape here: