Because her Tesla was busy virtue signaling at the train station's battery charger?
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Eco-warrioring at 8 mpg : “That’s tony turner’s car, and we’re all just sick about it!”
Red flag alert
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Fortunately, many towns’ police departments have been able to identify the perpetrators
Experts warn psychopaths may try to give your kids candy corn tomorrow night
U.S.—As many people in the nation prepare to celebrate Halloween, experts are cautioning the nation that some psychopaths may be handing out candy corn along with actual candy this year.
A report issued by government officials stated that many disturbed individuals may try to slip candy corn into your children's candy bags.
"It appears many mentally ill people are planning on putting small bags of candy corn in with the actual candy," said a CDC official. "Remember to check your kids' bags before they accidentally chew on the wax-flavored globs of disgustingness."
Warning signs that your kids may have inadvertently ingested candy corn include a look of revulsion on their faces, sudden vomiting, and yelling, "Hey, why does this candy taste like I'm chewing on a crayon?"
It's not the broker, it's the price
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Not even a deck on which to shuffle the chairs
11 Anthony Place, atop interstate 95 in Riverside, has switched brokers but retained its price, $1.995 million. Even if a buyer were tempted to pay $2 million for new, he’s faced with the prospect of reselling it down the road, so to speak, after time and depreciation have taken their toll. Hideous design, one-car garage, and, though admittedly convenient to transportation, a tad noisy.
Bad combination.
The Queen of Mean continues to extract her revenge
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Her Trouble is over; the buyers’ remains
Leona Helmsley never did forgive her neighbors for ratting her out to the tax authorities, and she’s still mad about it, a decade-plus after her death. Proof? Her former pile of stone at 521 Round Hill Road, on the market since 2014, when it started at $65 million, remains unsold, and today was marked down to $16.5.
The “investors” trying to unload this mistake paid $35 million for it in 2010, under the naive misunderstanding that paying so little for a property that David Ogilvy had originally listed at $125 million was effecting some kind of bargain. Ogilvy is probably still laughing up his sleeve over that one.
But there’s forty acres up on the hilltop, some of it with views, and even after subtracting the cost of razing all this brick, there’s some value here, surely. The fun comes in waiting and watching to see what that value is.
And lo, new construction is still selling
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248 Overlook Drive, in Milbrook, built by local builder Dave Van Hoesen is pending, current asking price $4.495 million. It started a year ago at $5.495, but that was probably a dreamed-for price, and $4.5 is still quite good. Van Hoesen’s other project here, 252 Overlook hasn’t sold yet and in fact was reduced today to $4.995, down from its original price of $6.4 but assuming it does go, he’ll have made out well on this project.
I can’t say I’m a huge fan of these two designs, and I don’t like the apartment buildings looming overhead, but there you have it: some people will pay a premium to live in Milbrook.
Foreclosure deal makes money!
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101 Dingletown Road was a dreadful 1966 house that an ambitious oriental developer tried, and failed, to turn into a silk purse. The bank got it and sold it for $2.050 million in 2018 to a builder and he, in turn, essentially rebuilt it. He put it back on the market 69 days ago at $3.495, and already has a contract. Well done; it isn’t often builders can pull this off, these days.
UPDATE: Per EOS’s request, here is the pre-renovation listing
I've taken down the Chris Murphy post
/After Holden supplied a pair of to-and-from texts betweennSenator Murphy and his colleague, it’s clear that Murphy was paling around with his friend, not actually telling tales on another senator. So, while I still detest everything our senator stands for, my original post was unfair.
Stopped clock: Kamala finally gets it right
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Staff development: Katie Hill grooms her intern for promotion
And indeed there is. Had a male politician been caught out having an affair with not one, but two subordinates, had he brought his lovers to Washington and placed them on the public’s payroll, and had his drinking and mental health issues been exposed, Kamal and the Democrat media crowd would be screaming from the Capitol dome, claiming #metoo! and demanding his immediate execution. Instead, they’re making this particular woman the heroine in a Harvey Weinstein movie. Poor, itsy bitsy, defenseless little girl, done in by mean, wicked males. No word how the young female staffer is part of that oppression, but never mind.
Between those transgender athletes whupping girls in competition, and now this display of feminine weakness, I’m beginning to wonder whether there is maybe a weaker sex after all; certainly the Left thinks so.
Caught! Crazed Greenwich police captain Kordick confesses to planting phony Camillo signs
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“There’s a whole nest of ‘em here” — Police Detective Mark Kordick points out the homes of political dissidents
Mark Kordick was caught and has now confessed to being responsible for the deceptive anti-Camillo posters that sprouted on our roadways and public spaces last week. He has once again been placed on administrative leave (third time? Fourth?) but remains unrepentant:
Kordick said he was mystified about why he was put on leave. He said the signs, as with all campaign election signs, represented his right as a citizen, taxpayer and resident of Greenwich to express his free speech.
But this champion of free speech was previously suspended from duty for harassing and intimidating a fellow citizen, Carl Wrotnowski, when that gentleman placed flyers advertising a public meeting to be held at Town Hall. Wrotnowski posted his broadsheets, and you won’t believe what happened next!
Greenwich Time’s Bob Horton has the story:
In an email sent over his signature as Captain of Detectives, Kordick told [school superintendent] McKersie about Wrotnowski’s plan to hold a public forum in Town Hall “in the event your office wanted to send an official (or off the record) representative to attend the public event.” He attached a scan of the flyer and identified Wrotnowski as “among other things, (he is) apparently both an anti-Common Core activist and participant in the anti-President Obama “birther” movement.
McKersie replied that he and his staff knew of Wrotnowski’s opposition, but would not be sending a representative to the event, off the record or otherwise.
The head of detectives sent a second email to McKersie, after the anti-Common Core confab, with this report: “I’ve been informed that the meeting was sparsely attended. Other than Mr. Wrotnowski only two persons appeared to be in attendance at around 7:30 p.m. That headcount is exclusive of an amateur videographer who was recording an impassioned PowerPoint presentation being given by Mr. Wrotnowksi.”
The subject of Kordick’s harassment was upset, naturally:
“It’s outrageous,” Wrotnowski said when I [Horton] spoke to him earlier this week. He had received copies of the emails in mid-September. “I am puzzled why they would have a problem with someone talking about public education in a public setting. Frankly, I still am under the foolish impression that this is America and it’s still your right to speak freely. (The police) feel perfectly free to skulk around in the shadows.”
Though Kordick defended the police department’s actions back then as a form of “community service” performed to protect citizens from political views that Kordick disproved of, he now purports to see his false flag campaign of last week as the exercise of his own right of free speech. This is more than just an example of gross hypocrisy: It’s obvious that Kordick is still under the delusion that it is his duty to perform the community service of guarding the rest of us from objectionable political thought. Coming from this man, that’s dangerous.
In addition to harassing and (trying to) intimidate Carl Wrotnowski, Kordick has a long, sordid complainant record against him, including, but not limited to, sexual harassment and disruptive behavior in town government meetings. He has been placed on administrative leave numerous times, and the town has paid well over $100,000 in civil suit settlements to atone for his abusive behavior. A recital of just a few of this crypto-Nazi’s actions can be found in this Greenwich Time article, including a reference to Kordick’s “service” as head of the Parking Divison during the period when inadequate record keeping and thievery were rampant. Kordick, a detective and a captain, was shuffled off to collect parking tickets by his superiors as a way to get him off the street and keep him out of trouble, but his gross mismangement of that simple job led to the disbandment of the division, and now he’s back among us, armed and bullying.
Time for this man to be eased into retirement.
A reminder from Sandy Litvack's wife and Greenwich Invisible
/Excerpt of a mailing from the “non-partisan” Joanna Swomley, wife of a candidate for public office in Greenwich:
C. RTM. The RTM is supposed to be non-partisan. Beware the Tea Party.
1. There are Republican "slates" running on an anti-tax, anti-debt (long term financing) platform in D2 and D10. Many are also anti-regulation. Running as a slate and running on a political agenda run counter to the spirit of the RTM and we recommend not voting for them.
I made exactly this point about Greenwich Invisible candidtes before the last election, and was attacked as a woman-hating Nazi. I’m delighted that Swomley and her fellow Democrats and George Soros-funded, national Invisible Movement have used the past two years to reflect on the issue and now join me in my call for voting against each and every one of them. Of course, these people have made that hard to do. To quote from another paragraph of her email:
People have asked about recommendations. Two years ago we published a list. We are not going to do so this year because the anti-regulation, anti-spending advocates are targeting certain districts and RTM members for defeat. If you would like a list for your district, please contact us and we will forward your email to members who are "in the know" and have volunteered to provide their personal lists.
An interesting admission here: If Swomley is worried about “anti-regulation, anti-spending advocates” targeting her party’s candidates, she is presumably touting her husband’s position for more regulation and more spending. We already knew that, of course, but it’s nice to see her admit it.
And, finally, It’s cute that Joanna is using the long since defunct “Tea Party” (it was never an actual political party, just a collection of fed-up taxpayers, but never mind) as some kind of boogey man to scare young voters. “Ooooh, watch put, children, or the monster under the bed will take you!” She and her audience bring the same sort of juvenile mental capacity to adult political matters. Like I said, cute.
But we can all take reassurance that there’s nothing partisan about this lady attacking her husband’s opponent: “She’s doing that?” Litvack told FWIW. “I had no idea!”