Greenwich, Connecticut real estate, politics, and more.
Greenwich, Connecticut real estate, politics, and more
Early voters (gentleman on the left only eligible to vote in Chicago)
Dictator, thug Danny Ortega endorses Bernie
Socialist Bernie Sanders has gained a new endorsement for his presidential run. His old friend Daniel Ortega, Nicaragua’s murderous socialist dictator who Bernie has enthusiastically supported and advised, has officially expressed his support for a Sanders presidency.
FWIW’s Latin American archives still hold this video from the good old days:
Swamp Monster against America
As I understand it, the intelligence officer in charge of election security, one Shelby Pierson, testified before the Congressional Intelligence Committee that Russia was interfering in our election to help Trump. She gave that testimony to Adam Schiff, whom she had to know would leak it — he did — yet failed to alert her boss, the National Security Advisor, of her conclusion. What could her motive be for keeping the President and the NSA in the dark about this supposed threat except to help the Russians in their plans to sow chaos and to hurt Trump? Anyone? Anyone? Bueller?
Venezuelans line up to vote for Democratic Socialist candidates
Should make for a fun Trump commercial come fall.
“I couldn’t have made it without John’s hat!”
Joe Biden claims he was arrested in South Africa while trying to visit Nelson Mandela
Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden is facing scrutiny over a dubious tale from the campaign trail, claiming that he was arrested in South Africa while trying to visit Nelson Mandela in prison.
Biden, 77, first told the story at a campaign event in Columbia, South Carolina on February 11, as he tried to shake off defeat in New Hampshire, and has repeated it twice more during outreach to black voters.
'This day, 30 years ago, Nelson Mandela walked out of prison and entered into discussions about apartheid,' Biden said in Columbia of the former South African president, who was imprisoned for 27 years by the apartheid government.
'I had the great honor of meeting him. I had the great honor of being arrested with our U.N. ambassador on the streets of Soweto trying to get to see him on Robben Island,' Biden went on.
No contemporaneous or other supporting evidence has emerged to support Biden's extraordinary claim, leading some to compare it to the so-called 'Mandela Effect', a phenomenon in which a person's vivid memory of a historical event or cultural touchstone turns out to be false.
“I’m a Democrat because I think”? Warning: there’s an ox and a moron in this room
Lack of volunteers at Nevada caucuses
At Rancho High School, a caucus location with 11 precincts just outside of Las Vegas, almost all of the volunteers were high school students, many of whom are unable to vote themselves because of their age. The only adult that NBC News spotted working at the site was the caucus lead — the school's social studies teacher. The students were only trained Friday night, and officials were actively looking for more adult volunteers to help coach the teens through the process.
Good luck using those kids.
CONFUSION AND CHAOS ON HOW THE HELL THE MATH WORKS pic.twitter.com/LgC2saEH7c
— Comfortably Smug (@ComfortablySmug) February 22, 2020
Coming to a yard near you
A full year after the Air Force grounded its fleet of Boeing 767 tankers because of foreign object debris (think tools, metal scraps, wire, etc.) found left behind by assembly line workers), Boeing’s workers are still leaving construction trash in 737 Maxs’ fuel tanks.
The embattled plane maker found everything from tools to rags inside the fuel tanks of about 35 aircraft, a company spokesman told Reuters.
Here’s what happened last year:
Boeing was forced to ground its 767-based KC-46 tankers for the past week after the Air Force expressed concern about loose tools and bits of debris found in various locations inside the completed airplanes, according to internal company memos.
“We have USAF pilots here for flight training and they will not fly due to the FOD (foreign object debris) issues and the current confidence they have in our product that has been discovered throughout the aircraft,” factory management wrote in a Feb. 21 memo to employees on the 767 assembly line.
“This is a big deal,” the memo emphasized.
Training flights resumed Thursday morning after approximately a week’s downtime, during which Boeing worked with the Air Force on how to resolve the production problems. Boeing spokesman Chick Ramey acknowledged the problem but characterized it asonly “a temporary pause” in flight operations.
The KC-46 is built as an empty 767 airframe on the main assembly line in Everett, then transferred to a facility at the south end of Paine Field called the Military Delivery Center (MDC), where the jet’s military systems, including the refueling and communications equipment, are installed and the airplanes are completed.
The internal company memo said the MDC “grounded our 767 tankers due to FOD and tool control.”
During the process of building aircraft, all airframes are supposed to be routinely swept for any kind of foreign object debris — especially anything metal. A loose object left, say, inside a wall cavity or under a floor, is potentially dangerous because over time it could damage equipment or cause an electrical short.
“The 767 program has been scrambling to get our employees down south … to the MDC to clean FOD from our delivered tankers to get our aircraft back in the air,” the memo states.
The memo notes that eight tools were found in aircraft delivered to the MDC and two more in tankers delivered to the U.S. Air Force.
Another memo said repeated finding of FOD by the Air Force was “a chronic issue” that has “resulted in a program level impact.”
Air Force spokeswoman Capt. Hope Cronin said the military is “aware of the concerns over FOD in KC-46 production aircraft” and takes such contamination “very seriously.”
“The combined Air Force, Defense Contract Management Agency, and Boeing team is working together to resolve these concerns as safely and quickly as possible,” Cronin said via email.
Making sure that no foreign object debris makes its way onto a finished airplane is the responsibility of every mechanic who works on the plane but also of the quality inspectors, whose job is to do a final check on any area of an airplane before it is closed up.
What seems to be a serious lapse in FOD control comes as Boeing says it intends to cut almost 1,000 quality inspectors jobs over the next two years.
The company fired its chairman last December, and might want to do that again, while also looking for workers who’ll take pride in and responsibility for their work. It occurs to me that marijuana is legal in Washington; perhaps it shouldn’t be.
Buy one, get two free!
Her plan to peddle luggage under the “Sussex Royal” name derailed, Meghan Markle takes solace in the notion of “Royal Blood”, “Regardless of the name, Harry and Archie have royal blood and no one can take that away. As a family, they will always be considered royalty.”
The lady’s a pathetic, B-list television actress, claiming a sense of worth by clinging to a myth of a superiority somehow magically transferred by blood. But there’s a market for Markel and her illusions, comprised of other hopeless losers who find their identity in worshiping movie stars, royalty (English royalty; few in this country seem to claim a relationship to, say, the King of Bulgaria), and sports teams. Poor sods.
But the lady sells herself short by hitching her quest for identity to her husband’s inherited title because in fact, Meghan herself can claim “royal blood” through Henry VIII: her 12th great grandmother was second cousin to Henry’s third wife, Jane Seymour. Henry is considered one of England’s worst monarchs, rivaled perhaps, only by his predecessors, John I and Edward II, but does that matter? Can Kevin Costner act?
Wikipedia sums it up nicely: From a genetic, scientific perspective, it is theoretically true that "statistically, most of the inhabitants of Western Europe are probably descended from William the Conqueror; they are equally likely to be descended from the man who groomed his charger."[5]
Horse turds.
There’s always the Royal Seal; no one’s saying they can’t use that
11 Red Coat Lane. That roof looks a little sketchy, but otherwise ….
11 Red Coat Lane is currently priced at $2.175 and has been on the market since 2014, when it started at $2.895 million. I thought it was a nice house when I last visited it, maybe five years ago, and it’s had a decent sale history until now, selling pretty quickly for $2.6 million in 2005 and then to these owners in 2008 for $2.830. It’s nothing spectacular, and the pond on the property, while appealing to me, apparently is off-putting to parents of young children, but that doesn’t fully explain the mystery of why no one’s wanted it all this time.
However, the listing now carries this addendum: “MOTIVATED SELLERS — ALL OFFERS WILL BE CONSIDERED”. I’d be tempted to take them at their word and toss an offer of, say, $1.575 at it, and see what happens.
Waaassist! Because, er, because ….
SUNY Albany administration is investigating racist “Corona virus” beer party
The students, who attend the State University of New York at Albany, reportedly held a simple party, video of which was posted to the Barstool Albany Instagram account. The post has since been deleted. The video allegedly showed a bucket of Corona beers in ice and someone wearing a surgical mask. The caption for the video read, “Corona virus isn’t gonna stop anyone from partying.”
That was apparently enough to offend the Asian American Alliance, a student organization at the university, who called the party insensitive and racist, ABC7 reported. The Alliance posted a statement on its own Instagram account claiming the coronavirus “has led to not only mass stereotyping of Asian people, but also hundreds of deaths across the world.” The Alliance requested the university take several actions to address the alleged grievances:
The Dean of Student Office shall investigate this illegal student group and related UAlbany students, requiring them to delete this video and to apologize on their Instagram homepage
The Office of President shall inform all UAlbany students to stop racism and disrespectful slogans in any situation, especially coronavirus hate crime[s] against Asian students and scholars based on groundless suspicion of virus hosts. Your precaution will be essential to prevent this crime from reoccurring in New York state.
International Student and Scholar Office and Student Health Services shall take necessary actions to protect Asian students’ and scholars’ physical health and mental health.
Further, the Alliance said that diseases “that affect non-white populations are radicalized in a way that stems from the innate xenophobia of American society” and “serves to dehumanize the affected population.”
Sorry to see that the snowflake virus has infected Asian-American college students. There goes our next generation of engineers and physicians.
UPDATE, courtesy of Holden:
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