Two screenshots sum up tonight's debate
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The Babylon Bee drops satire in favor of straight news
New listing in Riverside
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11 Hidden Brook Road, $3.495 million. Custom-made in 2006, looks to be in great shape. I wish it had a larger yard, but those have pretty much gone from Riverside. Is this the right price? Well, I’ve seen lesser homes at greater prices, and the listing agent here is Ellen Mosher, who usually has a keen sense of the market, so I’m not going to be surprised if this sells quickly.
Fightin' Joe? Uh huh
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New Hampshire winters expose the weakest
Joe Biden has a debate tonight, and PJ Media’s Rick Moran has the fight card
Joe Biden sits in a New Hampshire hotel plotting his comeback. Or maybe writing his concession speech. Whatever he's doing he's not campaigning. Five days before the most important election of his life -- the New Hampshire primary -- and Joe Biden held no town halls, gave no speeches, made no appearances of any kind.
Another poor showing on Tuesday and the "electability" argument, that's really all he has going for him, will vanish. Word is that he's mapping out a strategy to help him survive until South Carolina -- his supposed "firewall." But realistically, New Hampshire is Biden's Alamo and anything less than a third-place finish there would be catastrophic.
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But it's a mirage. The Democratic Party -- the world itself -- has passed Biden by. His politics, his personality belong in another time, another political era.
…. It's too bad that "gut punch" didn't wake Biden up to the fact that he's not making history, he is history. Joe Biden was a congressman, a senator, and the vice president of the United States. But despite those lofty accomplishments, he has not been a consequential figure. He hasn't been a leading voice in any of the historic arguments in Congress. His name graces no monumental legislation.
He has largely been a non-entity over the last 40 years. It's why he generates no enthusiasm -- at least, on the scale of a Sanders or Warren. And his supporters are just beginning to see that … there's no "there, there" with Biden. His economic message -- such as it is -- is a wish list of organized labor legislation. He has bowed to the progressive majority and now makes noises that sound more friendly to the ears of radicals, but fall far short of the transformative rhetoric of Sanders or Warren.
To mount a comeback, Biden is going to have to take a page from the Book of Trump and start speaking truth to socialist power. He's going to have to savage Warren and Sanders as candidates who will drag the Democratic Party down to inglorious defeat. He's going to have to go after Pete Buttigieg as anti-black and too inexperienced.
I dunno. Seems to me that even if Joe threatens to punch Bolshevik Bernie in the nose or invites Chief Betsy to arm wrestle behind a New Hampshire barn, he’ll (a) probably lose and (b) incur the wrath of the Childrens’ Cruscade, and gain nothing. I think the man’s toast.
He just can't stop himself
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The Bidens do China
“No doubt about it, Iowa was a gut punch to our campaign”
But look, this isn’t the first time in my life I’ve been knocked down. Unlike Donald Trump and many of you here, I’ve never been given anything in my life except great parents with great values. None of you have been handed anything just on a silver platter.
This should provide an interesting apples-to-apples comparison
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487 Lake Avenue came on the market today at $3.685 million. The late owners paid $2.5 for it in 1998 and don’t appear to have made any significant changes since then. Market tastes have changed over the past 22 years — this particular style of home is no longer favored, for instance — but still, I’ll be curious to see what this house sells for, when it does.
(Nice piece of land, btw)
Willowmere Circle sale
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In Riverside, 33 Willowmere Circle has closed at $3.625 million. It started at $5.450 million in July 2017, but considering that the owners bought the property for $1,687,500 in 1998, that’s not bad. A lot of money was put into this 1933 house, but the town valued this waterfront land in 2015 at $3,856,00 and the structure at just $1,105,100. My guess is that this may prove to be a simple land sale.
I've been going with "Kung Flu", but experts aren't satisfied
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“No batwing soup for you”, he said with an infectious grin
Scientists search for catchy name for 2019-nCoV .
It must not contain geography, human names or cultural references, they said, to avoid abusive backlash or potential racism, and it should avoid animal or food names because they could be inaccurate.
The news of the approaching naming comes as the total number of people infected worldwide has risen to more than 28,000 and 565 are now dead.
I suppose that rules out “Yellow Peril”. Readers, the world of science awaits your assistance.
Mitch McConnell's not tired of winning; in fact, he's just getting going
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But, but…don’t you care how we feel about it?
Full acquittal, but the show will go on
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CREEP, Democrat version
Nadler just the latest Democrat to promise a never-ending pursuit of Trump
Regain the House, keep the Senate, both to unleash Trump and, as a bonus, the DOJ investigation can continue to conclusion. If the Democrats start right back up tomorrow and keep going through the next nine months, voter reaction may make it all possible.
New listing in Riverside
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275 Riverside Avenue, $5.4 million. The owners have done a remarkable job redoing this house that they paid $3.375 for in 2013, including adding a pool and, mercifully for their neighbors, digging out the dormers the previous owners had buried in the roofline and putting them where they belong.
A complete renovation, but will it support this aspirational price? I understand the logic: there has been a $5+ sale on Riverside Avenue before; once, 247 Riverside, which sold for $5.3 in 2015. That house, however, came back on the market this past June at $5.795 and expired unsold this December. Would it fetch $5.3? Will this fetch $5.4? The market has slowed, even in Riverside, and the street itself is not what I’d consider one of our premier bylanes (said as someone who lived on it for 29 years), so this may not be a quick sale.
Dormers as originally installed