Greenwich, Connecticut real estate, politics, and more.
Greenwich, Connecticut real estate, politics, and more
Coronavirus is for infidels! Mosques stay open.
There was an article in the Sunday Times Magazine years ago, when I still read it, that, explaining how science is taught in madrasas, went something along the line of “you take two molecules of hydrogen, combine it with one molecule of oxygen and inshalla, there is water”.
As seen on TV! Shoot out at the Walmart shopping cart corral
Armed citizen shoots, kills woman shooting at strangers, stopping her before she kills her targets.
One paper, the Tulsa World, reports the facts:
A woman was shot and killed at a Tulsa, Oklahoma shopping center Friday night after she opened fire on customers. While police are still investigating a possible motive and haven’t released the woman’s identify, the Tulsa World reports that the woman’s rampage was apparently stopped by a concealed carry holder before she was able to inflict any injuries.
Video reportedly showed the woman was involved in an earlier altercation in the parking lot. The woman left the shopping center and returned about three minutes later, when she pulled a gun and opened fire, according to the news release.
The concealed carry permit holder reportedly returned fire and was later questioned and released at the department’s detective division.
But here’s how the local television reported it:
From KTUL-TV:
Tulsa police say a woman has died after a shooting in north Tulsa Friday evening.
According to investigators a man shot and killed the woman near East 54th Street North and North Peoria Avenue.
Police say it was all caught on security footage outside a local store in the area and that’s why they now have the suspect in custody.
Cam Edwards: “KTUL’s story makes it sound like this guy just walked up to the woman and shot her, and was then taken into custody. There’s no mention of the fact that the woman was shooting at customers, the man was a concealed carry holder, or that he was questioned and released by police with no expectation of an arrest.”
Darwin Award competition
Panicked dad locks-out son and his buddies returning from spring break
[After repeatedly demanding they return, demands that were ignored]
Finally, Peter told Matt and his buddies that they could not stay at the family home after the trip, as they’d planned. “His grandparents live here and there is no need to expose them to god knows what he had been exposed to!” Peter explained.
Four days into spring break, Texas was already becoming a bum trip.
“We were only allowed to go to the beach in small groups and couldn’t have speakers; by then, there was basically no one on the island,” said Matt, a senior majoring in sports management. “The police seemed like they were trying to ruin our good time.”
Last weekend, they packed up and made their plane to New York amid a raft of cancellations. “But the flight got rerouted to Tennessee because of a confirmed corona case at LaGuardia,” said Matt. “The passengers were freaking out and trying to stay away from each other. But we made it home.”
Peter refused to pick them up — “No chance!” he said — leaving the group to find a car service that would drive them to Nanuet.
Once they arrived, Dad met them at the door, and blocked them from coming in.
“I had filled the trunk of Matt’s car with groceries and left him an envelope containing $300 in cash,” Peter said. “All the guys’ keys were on the front seat. They got out of the car [from the airport] near our driveway and I said, ‘Stay right there! Do not go any further!’ The guys were tired and they had a two-and-a-half hour drive ahead of them. I love my son, but they were not sleeping here. I said, ‘If any of you have to pee, we have some bushes.’ Two of them took me up on it.”
As is the case at most American colleges, Springfield has canceled its in-person classes and closed the campus. But Matt — who had planned to move back to Nanuet after the semester — will have to stay with roommates in their off-campus house a while longer.
“Their lease ends in June and none of the parents want them home,” said Peter. “It’s too risky.”
A different time, different place, but …
Screw social-distancing
Empty Promises
The nation’s Paper of Record newsflash:
America’s toilet paper shortage solved as government prints trillions of fresh, soft, dollar bills.
Love in the time of cholera
(Photo credit, Angela Marie)
Priests are now offering drive-through confessions
That’s all well and good for those who are still allowed to go outside, but with Greenwich residents now threatened with a total quarantine lock-down, will it be sufficient? We think not, so in the spirit of “we’re all in this together”, FWIW is glad to offer an alternative forum, right here. Post your confession in the comments and a mob of FWIW’s untrained, but surely sympathetic readers will prescribe the proper penance and offer absolution and forgiveness.
It goes without saying that all submissions will be held in confidence, with IP addresses released only for the most salacious and fun confessions.
![God and Wokeness at Yale“The mayor [also] said he considered asking Yale if the city could use some dorm space to house homeless individuals, as New Haven is trying to reduce the numbers in shelters that are too crowded to allow for social distancin…](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57e27ffdff7c5014aeff47a4/1585420974945-ONQ802NGXWG9KHK6TMOM/Screen+Shot+2020-03-28+at+2.41.55+PM.png)
God and Wokeness at Yale
“The mayor [also] said he considered asking Yale if the city could use some dorm space to house homeless individuals, as New Haven is trying to reduce the numbers in shelters that are too crowded to allow for social distancing. He said he had not made that request to Yale.”
(Snicker)
An angry Mayor Justin Elicker said he asked Yale University President Peter Salovey whether police officers and firefighters who are asymptomatic, but who have a family member exposed to COVID-19, or who are not symptomatic, but have been exposed to the virus, or are waiting for test results, if they could use a dormitory at the university.
The mayor said the dormitory request was to provide a place where firefighters and police officers with symptoms could self-isolate so they didn’t have to go home and potentially infect their family or be infected by another family member.
The healthy members could continue to go to work, while those with symptoms would not expose others on the force or in the firehouses, if they had a place to stay.
The answer was no.
He said he then called UNH President Steve Kaplan, “who in the first 5 minutes of the conversation, said ‘yes. We will make this happen. This is important for the community.’”
Karen Peart, spokeswoman for Yale, issued a long statement in response to the mayor’s criticism, explaining that the students’ rooms won’t be ready for new occupants for weeks.
“Our student rooms still contain their belongings, but we have teams planning the feasibility of packing and storing all the student belongings so that the rooms could be utilized,” she said.
“We are pursuing schemes that involve professional movers and packers, and using temporary storage. The process will take weeks, as all of the residence hall rooms on campus are filled with student belongings. As soon as we have been able to clear any space, we have informed the mayor that we will let him know,” Peart said.
“Well really, dear”, Ms. Pert told FWIW, “it simply wouldn’t do. Our students will be back in the fall, and they would be horrified to learn that some … some, policeman had been sleeping in their room. And besides, the school has already done what we always do in these sorts of unfortunate situations: we’ve sent them a nice, fat check. So much cleaner, as I’m sure you can see.”
The coronavirus pandemic is driving up the price of heroin, methamphetamine, and fentanyl as Mexican cartels scramble to get their hands on Chinese-manufactured chemicals now in short supply.
“The cartels are having a lot of difficulty producing drugs right now, and when the supply is low the price always goes up,” a US federal law enforcement source told The Post. “China has pretty much stopped production on the chemicals they need to do business.”
The pandemic has led to a shortage of workers at labs in China which produces more than 80 percent of precursor chemicals such as benzylfentanyl, norfentanyl and 4-anilinopiperidine used by the cartels to manufacture synthetic opioids such as black market heroin made in clandestine labs and fentanyl.
A year ago those free traders at Daily Kos were fulminating over Trump’s tariffs hurting consumers. Just wait til their readers discover this latest attack on their lifestyle.
Get ‘em while they’re hot!
Riverside’s own, Jackie Mendive, is still operating and offering her delicious, hand-made empanadas. Empanadas On the Go. They’re open today, and offer free delivery (on orders > $60, but these freeze beautifully) throughout town and neighboring areas.
Highly recommended.
On, Wisconsin!
Over at InstaPundit Glenn Reynolds records this latest example:
MARCH 28, 2020
THEY’LL STAND BY WHILE STUDENTS AND FACULTY ACCUSE AMERICA OF GENOCIDE, BUT THEY DO HAVE THEIR LIMITS: UW-Madison publicly denounces ‘anti-China’ chalkings amid deadly pandemic.. One of the chalkings referred to the coronavirus as the “Chinese Virus.” Another stated, “Fuck the Chinese Government.”
Why is the University of Wisconsin parroting Chinese government propaganda?
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