I'm with the seven

Seven out of ten polled believe America is nearing the edge of civil war

Partisan political division and the resulting incivility has reached a low in America, with 67% believing that the nation is nearing civil war, according to a new national survey.

“The majority of Americans believe that we are two-thirds of the way to being on the edge of civil war. That to me is a very pessimistic place,” said Mo Elleithee, the executive director of Georgetown University’s Institute of Politics and Public Service.

And worse, he said in announcing the results of the institute’s Battleground Poll, the political division is likely to make the upcoming 2020 presidential race the nastiest in modern history.

“Two-thirds of the way to being on the edge of civil war” is not the same as being on the cusp of such disaster, thank heavens, but I have an uneasy feeling that something wicked this way comes. And if Trump wins reelection, keep your powder dry.

Dearfield sale

11 Dearfield Lane, sold for $2.475, on an original asking price of $3.3 million. The sellers paid $2.9 for it in 2006, so that’s not too bad a hit. I’m guessing that its next sale will be still lower but, for now, decent price for a charming house in a close-to-town location.

Everyone's favorite Realtor, Sally Maloney, has been released from her Ukrainian prison and is back in the United States

All of her friends have been worried about Sally since she disappeared on a secret mission to Ukraine on behalf of Donald Trump, so we were all relieved when her boss, David Huffinpuffer, posted this picture of her in the Hooligan and Lawyers basement holding pen.

“We ordinarily use the space to confine agents who haven’t completed their continuing-ed requirements”, Huffinpuffer told FWIW, “but thanks to the intervention of Congressman Schiff and the beneficence of President Zelensky, we were able to move Sally out of the country and back home, on the condition that she remain down there until she’s honored Schiff’s subpoena and testified in D.C. She’ll soon be free to resume her storied career, thank goodness.”

She sure looks healthy and happy after her ordeal — David, thank you for bringing her home.

I'd thought she'd been scared off by Michelle O's own pending announcement, but no, Hillary is serious about running again

One source has the story here, but the clincher can be found at the Babylon Bee:

Hillary Clinton accidentally posts condolences for Tulsi Gabbard’s suicide a day early

U.S.—Oops! A social media scheduling error apparently caused Hillary Clinton to post her condolences for Tulsi Gabbard's suicide one day early.

This morning, Clinton posted that she felt "great sadness" at hearing that Gabbard had killed herself. In subsequent tweets, she detailed how "tragic" it was that Gabbard had broken her own kneecaps, stuck her feet in concrete, then tossed herself off the docks near a seedy warehouse.

"It's just terrible what happened, and though we disagreed, I hope we can all take a few minutes to send thoughts and prayers to the family," Clinton concluded.

The post was deleted several hours later after the Clinton team realized it was scheduled for October 23, not October 24 as originally intended.

At publishing time, Clinton had accidentally posted early condolences for the unfortunate suicide of the social media manager who had OK'd the post and subsequently posted more condolences for the new social media manager, etc.

Vince Foster was unavailable for comment.

Downsizer near town

10 Parsonage Lane (near the North Street end of Parsonage) is new on the market today and priced at $3.5 million. It’s a wonderful lot, but the house itself looks tired and dated. Back when we had a back country market, this would have been perfect for someone looking to unload his $10 million mansion and move closer to town, but now that “someone” can’t sell his mansion, and is stuck up in the hinterlands, lonely and cold.

So who’s the market for this house? These owners paid $3.280 million for it 15 years ago, but today, I’m not sure it will bring more than land value: maybe $2.5?

P&G REMOVES VENUS SYMBOL FROM ITS TAMPON PACKAGING, BUT THAT'S NOT THE WHOLE STORY

Of more interest is that Snopes, used as a fact checker by many social media websites, denies that the transgender lobby and its batshit-crazy supporters were responsible.

After several paragraphs of facts showing that P&G did remove the symbol as concession to transgenders’ demands, Snopes concludes:

Procter & Gamble’s decision to introduce the Venus symbol certainly prompted a concerned response among trans activists (especially trans men) in 2019, and some of those activists expressed those concerns and requests to the company in no uncertain terms. However, the proverbial “angry backlash,” including online calls for a boycott of Always — an inherently coercive form of opposition — only came in October, when news emerged that the company would be removing the symbol.

Companies make marketing and public relations decisions for various reasons, and such choices are typically arrived at after careful consideration of multiple strategic, commercial, financial, ethical, and legal factors. Requests and appeals such as those made by Saunders and other trans activists certainly appear to have played a role in Procter & Gamble’s decision, based on the company’s own statement.

However, it is a gross distortion of the actual sequence of events to claim that those activists, or an ill-defined “transgender lobby,” somehow forced the company into its U-turn on the Venus symbol. They did not.

You can go to the Snopes whitewash and read the actual emails from P&G to one of the trans activists, as well as its press releases on the matter, but Snopes has longt since lost all credibility as some sort of objective fact checker. That role has been assumed by the nation’s new paper of record, the Babylon Bee, which sums up this kerfuffel best:

Always Appeals To Men With Pads Featuring Pictures Of Monster Trucks, Pro Wrestlers

CINCINNATI, OH—Always is appealing to the company's male customers with its new "Always Macho" series of menstrual products.

The pads and tampons' packaging will feature pictures of monster trucks crushing each other, AR-15s, and John Cena dropkicking people.

"We want to welcome all people who menstruate, whether you are a cisgender woman, a transgender man, or a dude who really likes monster trucks," said a Procter & Gamble representative. "And you can't go wrong with monster trucks. Monster trucks are big. Monster trucks are cool. Monster trucks go boom."

Various pictures on the products include the following:

• A nuclear weapon decimating a city

• Bacon

• A 1978 Trans Am with fire coming out of the pipes

• Aragorn chopping off an Orc's head

• A T-rex with Gatling guns for arms

• Batman

How do you make small fortune in Greenwich real estate?

Start with a big one. And, preferably, start with a “French Style” (per MLS) home. 2 Dewart Road has closed at $2.3 million. Purchased for $3.190 in 2000, the sellers had high hopes for the place when they listed it at $4.750 in February, 2018, but by last April they’d conceded to reality and relisted it as land, at $2.995 and, in July, dropped to $2.5. That helped.

Former rocket silo?

Brace yourself, Riverside

Basketball court on Sunshine Avenue for sale by bank

Dundee might want it as an adjunct to its current gym

8 Sunshine Avenue, $1.699 million. That’s not what I’d pay for this house or this street, but perhaps you’re 6’7” and need a place to play indoors.

Of note: this foreclosure began in November, 2008. The owner enjoyed ten years of rent-free living and still had to be removed by the sheriff when his time was up this past July. Sympathy for borrowers notwithstanding, there’s something wrong with Connecticut’s court system if it takes this long for a lender to regain its property.

Custom Lowe’s cabinetry, just waiting for your TLC

And a morning mini-nightmare for any remaining Jets fans, after that 33-0 drubbing Monday night

Horror story of the evening

Jury permits mother to chemically castrate her 7-year-old son

I have no idea how or why Texas allows juries to make this kind of decision, but it does, and woe for the nation if even Texas has gone full woke.