Greenwich, Connecticut real estate, politics, and more.
Greenwich, Connecticut real estate, politics, and more
610 Lake Avenue, originally listed at $5.495 million in 2017 is now asking $3.5. To my eye, the house has always been compromised by bad land: wetlands and a pond, and a less-than-eye-pleasing design, but any house can be improved by a price cut. Question whether this is enough of an improvement.
201 Clapboard (in from the Round Hill terminus), asking $8.484 million. I like the place, and though my first reaction was that the builder would never get this kind of money for it, I remembered another contemporary-farmhousey-sort of building on the Lake Avenue end of Clapboard, 2 Wooddale Road, that sold for $11.750 in 2014, in just 45 days.
So I hope this builder enjoys the same success.
994 days after starting at $5.450 million 230 Round Hill Road, marked down to $2.950, is pending. The owners paid $4.1 for it in 2006 then gutted, renovated and expanded it, so their reluctance to take such a large hit is understandable, but ultimately reality set in. My guess on the final sale price? I dunno, maybe $2.450? Back in October 2017 when this place took its first price drop, “Formerly 06830” guessed that the ultimate sales price would be $3.250, “for now”. That might have done it, too, had the owners not hung on for another three years, but as it is, I’m guessing that reader James Bond’s prediction of $2.5 will get the zebra rug prize.
Loved this exchange between Madolf and Holden in 2019:
24 Meadow Lane, purchased for $4.250 million just this past August, was put back up for sale in January at $4.3350 and already has a pending contract; apparently even venture capitalists can change their mind.
Grand old 1940s house, modernized by the former owner, on two acres of great land just off Zaccheus Mead; it’s easy to see its appeal.
Nobody likes me, everybody hates me, I’m gonna go eat worms
7 Chieftans Road is new to the market today, priced at $3.395 million. This was/is a nice development over on our western side next to King Street, but it fell out of favor long ago and prices reflect it. This unit sold for $5.625 million in 2007, those buyers sold it to the current owners for $4.5 in ‘09 (after starting at $5.975 the year before), and now, a further $1.1 mark-down.
Even this discount may not be sufficient to produce a buyer, but credit to the owners and their agent for recognizing the reality of the market out there.
Let me show you how it’s done
Anti-Putin blogger found with slit throat
Leftists like Bill Mahr routinely refer to Trump as “literally Hitler”, and denounce him as a dictator. Yesterday, Maureen Dowd wailed to her followers that Trump was “Michael Corleone, wiping out his enemies”. And so on. Their hysteria was old long ago, and now it’s just boring.
Who, me?
FWIW’s crime buster correspondent Susie reports that Wopodchipper-killer Richard Kraft has been released from prison, 20 years early
“It’s a new lease on life”, Craft told Susie, “and right now, I’m feeling chipper”.
The 1987 murder was the first case in Connecticut to see a homicide conviction without a corpse. A trial of Fotus Dulos’s accomplices might see another.
He’s also my cousin — doesn’t that make it legal?
Ilhan Omar accused of appropriating Alabama culture by marrying her brother.
"Appropriating 👏 Alabama 👏 culture 👏 is 👏 not 👏 OK 👏!" wrote one social justice advocacy group on Twitter. "Not only do Southerners have to contend with non-Southerners saying 'y'all' and drinking sweet tea, but now their marital practices are being colonialized by cis POC women."
Omar was also spotted driving a 1969 Dodge Charger with a confederate flag on the top.
Sad.
Marxism lessons start early in our schools
American elementary schools have spent the past decade rapidly introducing leftist and socialist curricula into classrooms of little children. This type of leftist propagandization was previously reserved for older children in colleges and high schools. But the Obama era, followed by the shock of Trump's election, catalyzed a more emboldened approach for leftist pedagogy.
Enter the new era of socialist propagandization of children: "equity." Equity is taught as a type of superior fairness. It replaces the now archaic concept of equality. Equality is explained to our children as "generic" and "equal," apparently bad things, while equity is pedestaled as "fair." You see, equality means that everyone has the same, equal opportunities, but this leads to unequal results. Equity, on the other hand, ensures identical results and thus leads to "fair" outcomes. The idea that America should offer equality of opportunity, not equality of result, is now dead, and has been replaced with the reverse standard - that America should offer equality of result.
To teach the concept, children are shown an example of three kids trying to look over a fence: a short, medium, and tall child. In the first slide, each of them is given an equally-sized box to stand on. This results in the shortest kid not boosted up enough to be able to see over the fence, while the tallest kid is shown to be getting a boost that he doesn't really need. Next, a second slide is shown. The tallest boy's box is given to the shortest kid, with the shortest kid now standing on two boxes. The middle child keeps one, and the tallest gets none. The result is that everyone can now see over the fence, equally. The conclusion is taught as: "Fair isn't everybody getting the same thing ... fair is everybody getting what they need in order to be successful."
…. The pleasure of seeing over a fence is such a sweet way to slip candy-coated socialism into our children's study diets. How could anyone disagree with letting a little child see over a fence, after all? Children are not taught to worry about who takes the box from the larger child. Children are not taught to ask who paid for the boxes. Children are not taught to question individual choice in the matter. Children are not taught to brainstorm ways for the shorter child to figure out a way around the problem on his own. Children are not taught the consequence of the tallest kid electing to not give up his box. Children are taught to swallow sweet socialist pedagogy without thought or question, to wear Utopian horse blinders. If he needs it, it must be handed to him! To each according to his needs!
UPDATE: Barometer Soup has identified the kid in the purple shirt
Say no to Big Pharma!
The mother of a four-year-old boy in Southern Colorado who died of the flu Wednesday sought advice for “natural” remedies in an anti-vaccine Facebook group while he was ill, which included the use of elderberry, placing potatoes on the child’s forehead, and simply “eating lots of fruits and vegetables.”
In a Facebook group titled “Stop Mandatory Vaccination,” the mother initially posted about her other sons, one 10-month-old and one 5-year-old, who tested positive for the flu virus. She wrote in the group that doctors prescribed Tamiflu to the whole family to ensure the virus didn’t spread among them, but was urged by the anti-vax group members against using the drug.
The mother also noted that her 4-year-old son, the one who eventually died, had a 102-degree fever and had a febrile seizure.
“Yes it’s scary the doc told me to give my other two children and myself [Tamiflu] so we won’t get it,” the mother commented.
“You’re better off taking Vitamin D and C, Elderberry, Zinc, and eating lots of fruits and vegetables,” one commenter replied.
Another group member suggested putting sliced potatoes and cucumbers on the child’s forehead. Yet another suggested giving the child vitamin C until it caused diarrhea.
“Ok perfect I’ll try that,” the mother wrote back.
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