Elvis has left the building
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Marianne Williamson has let go her entire campaign staff.
But she insists she’s still running, and presumably, you can still receive her messages telepathically.
Dang, she was the only fun part of the entire Democrat primary circus.
McCabe lied, media cried, "Hitler!"
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Can buyers demand a refund?
Thanks to a Judicial Watch FOI suit, the transcript of the FBI’s questioning of its own Acting Director Daniel McCabe has been released. The man lied, repeatedly, and was forced to admit it. He’s been rightfully referred for prosecution.
Former FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe apologized for lying to agents who spent weeks investigating the source of a leak to the Wall Street Journal that actually came from him, new documents reveal.
Shortly before the 2016 election, The Journal reported that an FBI investigation was underway involving then-candidate Hillary Clinton and the Clinton Foundation.
McCabe in May 2017 denied that he was the source of the leak — but later fessed up, angering bureau investigators who had been spinning their wheels trying to identify the source of the leak.
The documents, which the FBI released in response to a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit by the government watchdog group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, include transcripts of McCabe’s conversations with investigators, who were frustrated after wasting their time on the probe.
On Aug. 18, 2017, FBI officials grilled McCabe again to try to unravel what they said was “conflicting information” they had gathered about the possible leak to the Journal, The Daily Beast reported.
“I need to know from you, did you authorize this article? Were you aware of it? Did you authorize it?” an agent asked McCabe,
The agent then described his response: “And as nice as could be, he said, ‘Yep. Yep I did.’”
The investigator then said that “things had suddenly changed 180 degrees with this” after McCabe’s admission, which turned his initial denials into a potential crime.
“In our business, we stop and say, look, now we’re getting into an area for due process,” the agent said.
“I was very careful to say… with all due respect, this is what you told us. This has caused us some kind of, you know, sidetracking here now with some information other people have told us,” the agent said, growing increasingly frustrated.
“I remember saying to him, at, I said, ‘Sir, you understand that we’ve put a lot of work into this based on what you told us,’” the agent said.
“I mean, and I even said, long nights and weekends working on this, trying to find out who amongst your ranks of trusted people would, would do something like that.’ And he kind of just looked down, kind of nodded, and said ‘Yeah I’m sorry.’
CNN was just one of the Democratic Party operatives who declared Trump’s firing of McCabe the act of a dictator; so far, I’ve seen no reassessment of their accusation, nor am I expecting one.
Lawyers should be disbarred, plaintiffs sanctioned, for bringing suits like these
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Who knew?
Woman claims dog food maker’s product caused her dog to get fat.
Shannon Walton says she purchased Blue Wilderness Rocky Mountain Recipe for her 7-year-old pup Tucker, compelled by packaging claiming the chow was “inspired by the diet of wolves.”
Yet the food actually contains carbohydrates, “which are neither healthy for dogs nor a meaningful part of the diet of grey wolves,” the suit says.
The class action lawsuit claims Tucker, a Labrador-beagle mix, now has diabetes from wolfing down too much Blue Buffalo over the years, and “requires medical attention for canine obesity.”
I’m guessing that in all those seven years, not once did Tucker open the pantry himself and pour himself a heaping bowl of Blue Wilderness.
Earlier this week, the Ninth Circuit (!) dismissed a suit against the makers of Diet Dr. Pepper, brought by a woman who claimed that despite drinking the stuff for 13 years, she was still fat.
Lingering on Porchuck
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31 N. Porchuck Road has been knocked down to $4.795, and who knows where it will end up? (property link unavailable, but check back later today). I wrote about this property back in 2017, when I applauded its owners for taking a million dollars off the price in one fell swoop. That reduced its price from $8.9 to $7.9 (and down from its original price of $10 million, but I warned then that I wasn’t sure it would sell, even at its new price. It didn’t.
The owners paid $6.250 for it in 2009, but at least, so far, and ignoring whatever additional money they put into the place during their ownership, they haven’t duplicated the loss suffered by the original buyers, who bought it new in 2007 for $7.850. That $6.250 probably seemed like a pretty good deal, at the time.
UPDATE: A reader sends along this link: the property is being marketed by an auction company. I haven’t seen too many of these succeed in Greenwich, and the property usually ends up back on the MLS, but maybe this will prove an exception.
(I note that, according to the ad copy, “This idyllic location on North Porchuck Rd is engulfed in nature” - Seems an odd claim, right along with another other bit of realtorese I saw once that boasted of a New Jersey mansion’s “intimidating entrance”. Of course, that house could have been the residence of Tony Soprano, but still ….)
Still falling out west
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15 Sherwood Farm Lane, now reduced to $2.695 million. Purchased new in 2003 for $3.450, these owners put in a pool and other improvements and re-listed it in 2012 for $4.550. It’s been on and off the sales/rental rolls ever since. People seem willing to rent it, but not buy.
It might appeal to sharecroppers, I suppose
Bottom story of the morning
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Sad, had we known
Julian Castro drops presidential campaign. Had anyone other than his mother noticed he was even running?
UPDATE: Here’s his tweet. What, exactly did he accomplish? Anyone? Buehler? As an aside, despite his dropping occasional Spanish pronunciations onto words during the few debates he was allowed to join, Mr. Castro does not speak Spanish. “Me llamo is Julian Bullshit”
Maybe 2020 will be its year
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55 Richmond Hill Drive, way up north, has dropped its price again, and is now marked down to $2.925 million. Purchased new in 2001 for $4.7, it’s been on the market since 2015, when it started at $4.995.
Tough sell.
Here's an interesting start to the new year
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4 Jones Park, Riverside, has sold for $3.250 million, on an asking price of $3.650. Sellers paid $4.2 for it in 2008, and started off last May at $3.995.
Banning acts of capitalism between consenting adults
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This from a man who eats his pizza with a fork
Photo: DNAinfo/Colby Hamilton
The man who idolizes Che Guevara and is busy ruining New York has blasted a Times Square pizza store for selling its pizzas at twice the normal price to New Year’s Eve celebrants. In De Blasio’s socialist utopias, pizza prices would be strictly regulated and sold at what a pizza commission determined was a ‘fair price”. Of course, in a socialist paradise, there would be no pizza, but better that than an entrepreneur address a demand.
An enterprising Midtown Domino’s pizza restaurant is cashing in on the Times Square ball drop — hawking pies to ravenous New Year’s Eve revelers and flipping them for a serious profit.
“I have a lot of orders. I’m very busy,” delivery guy Ratan Banik told The Post while juggling a large stack of pizzas on Tuesday afternoon, speculating he’d sold about 25 pies.
Banik was running the pizzas for the Domino’s franchise on 40th St. and 7th Ave., which has been doing this on New Year’s Eve for 15 years.
The man was hawking pepperoni, ham and cheese pizzas for $30 — nearly double what a regular $14.49 large cheese pie costs at Domino’s — and was still run off his feet. ….
Banik ran between the parlor and Times Square, balancing a stack of hot pies on his head while touting his cheesy wares — some hungry revelers tapping him on the shoulder to ask his price.
“Pepperoni, cheese, onion!” Banik called before being mobbed by starving tourists waiting in giant holding pens in Times Square, many having camped out overnight.
“He is our Santa,” said Amit Zanwar, 31, from New Jersey, who was with two friends for the spectacular and didn’t pack any food. “He came a little late [for Christmas], but we were happy.”
The man saw Banik and called him over before immediately forking over $33 for a cheese pie.
“It’s absolutely worth it. It was hot. It seems like it just came out of the oven,” he added. “If he comes back, I will buy some more.”
The tens of thousands of tourists who decided to ring in the new decade in Times Square arrived as early as Monday evening and were not allowed to leave once they were in holding pens — meaning many were employing rather degrading tactics to last the distance.
It’s no surprise, then, that the inflated prices didn’t bite.
The traveling salesman repeatedly sold out of fresh pies before running back to the nearby Domino’s for more stock.
“He probably sold about seven pizzas in less than two minutes,” said Francisco Patalano, who was in town for the first time from Fort Polk in Louisiana.
He also laid down $30 for the pie but said, “It was totally worth it.”
“I’m going to ration it out until midnight between me and my wife,” he added.
“That was awesome,” said his wife Maria Patalano. “We were getting hungry. We’ve been here since 12 p.m.”
“More people should do it,” Francisco added.