Greenwich, Connecticut real estate, politics, and more.
Greenwich, Connecticut real estate, politics, and more
65 Bote Road, $2.295 million, 27 days. No yard, but New Yorkers are used to that, I suppose. My initial thought was that this was a steep price for the neighborhood but checking the records, it isn’t: several sales on Bote and its neighbor Tomney were in the $2s, even one $2.8.
14 Dawn Harbor, Riverside, $6 million on a $6.1 asking price, 21 days. The seller did well here; he bought it from its desperate builder in 2017 for $5.250 on an asking price of $6.495, added a pool, and voila.
The house sold too quickly to bother with pictures, but here are some from the builder’s original listing.
6 Jofran Lane, priced at $3.985 in May 2018 is now down to $2.950. Like most houses on Jofran it’s built on a cliff and doesn’t have much of a backyard, and contemporaries are always a bit of a hard sell in Greenwich, but Jofran’s in a very convenient location and at the right price, anything can happen.
My guess is that the owners’ spectacular collection of hang ten artwork (or is it Han Tang?) is worth more than the house itself, but that’s not included.
22 Wooddale Road, off Lake, asking $3.495 million, 62 days on market. The house came on the market in 2016 at $4.350 and went nowhere. This price seemed closer to market value and, obviously, it was.
Bets on actual closing price taken here: $3.250?
Out of kindness, we’ll point out that this is almost certainly the stager’s furniture
Definitely the stager’s tipi; she drags the whole set along from house-to-house via travois
Mr. Dylan Shakespeare Robinson — transgender?
Social justice warrior who burned down Minneapolis police building arrested in Colorado
Breckenridge police told KSTP that Robinson was arrested at around 2 p.m. Sunday in the parking lot of a recreation center. The arrest was a joint operation between local police and the ATF.
Jail records show Robinson was being held without bond Tuesday morning in Denver. He was scheduled to appear in court Tuesday afternoon on charges of aiding and abetting the commission of arson.
The U.S. Attorney's Office said, according to a criminal complaint, Robinson was seen on surveillance video throwing Molotov cocktails into the 3rd Precinct building. The complaint also states Robinson's Snapchat account showed at least one person making a Molotov cocktail as he commented several times, including, "These guys have never made a Molotov ... Rookies," and "We need gasoline."
Another Snapchat video allegedly showed Robinson setting a fire in a stairwell inside the 3rd Precinct building.
Dylan’s dad summed it up perfectly, many years ago:
mais j'ai voté pour kerry!
In Olympia, Washington, the ANTIFA mob stormed the woke mayor’s neighborhood and vandalized her home. She describes the attack as “domestic terrorism”, a term that, when used by Orange Man last week was denounced as the racist, fascist mumblings of a hateful man.
The Girondists never seem to grasp that the sans-culottes, and the chopping block, await. “Who, us? Don’t you see our Black Lives Matter poster on the gate?”
In 1856, long before the revolution finally erupted, Alexis de Tocqueville reviewed the demands of the lower classes and made this observation:
When I came to gather all the individual wishes, with a sense of terror I realized that their demands were for the wholesale and systematic abolition of all the laws and all the current practices in the country. Straightaway I saw that the issue here was one of the most extensive and dangerous revolutions ever observed in the world.
The liberal readers of this blog (both of them) may cheer this on, but hard as it is to believe, against all odds, and despite all their right thinking, the vandals are coming for them, too. Quelle surprise.
And the friggin’ Greeks stole anti-semite Ice Cube’s dreadlocks
Tim Kane claims America invented slavery: roman Empire and Egyptian Pharos demand apology
Tim Kaine (D-Va.) gave a puzzling speech on the floor of Congress today where he claimed that Americans had invented slavery. “The United States didn’t inherit slavery from anybody. We created it,” he said, completely seriously.
This claim sent shockwaves of outrage through the recesses of Hell, where Egyptian pharaohs and the emperors of Rome reside. “How dare he take credit for slavery,” said King Tut. “Who the hell does he think built the pyramids? Aliens?”
Diocletian wasn’t any more complimentary. “The Roman methods of torturing slaves are so renowned around the world that millions of people wear the instrument of our torture around their necks as a reminder of the sheer brutality we wrought on the world’s underprivileged. Americans tried hard, but until you feed people to wild animals in front of cheering crowds you haven’t even begun to realize your potential in crimes against humanity.”
Julius Ceasar told reporters, “Those were the days. One time I sold 53,000 citizens of Gaul to traders on the same day. Man, what a windfall that was.”
Satan had to get his two cents in there too and declared, “I am the true creator of slavery. Duh. My specialty is putting people in bondage. It’s like, my whole gig.” Mohammed then piped up, “Not so fast, Beezelbub, my contributions to the history of enslaving people continues to this day,” he grinned. “Boko Haram is kidnapping African children right now!”
Even some citizens of the heavenly realms got annoyed. Moses sent a strongly worded letter to the majority leader that stated, “Tim Kaine has a lot of nerve to blame America for slavery. Has he never picked up a Bible? I literally had to climb a mountain and get those tablets twice because of people like him who can’t pay attention in Sunday school.” He continued, eyes blazing, “Hasn’t he ever seen that movie with Charlton Heston playing me? I’m probably the most famous slave of all time!” Moses then threw his arms up in disgust and spat out, “I wish I could send locusts to Congress. Where’s my staff? Aaron!”
Defaced memorial: “The famed 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Regiment, the first all African-American military unit 1863
Nihilism in an Emblematic City
Hinderaker’s essay should be read in full, but hert’s the conclusion:
“No doubt [Lincoln’s] greatest speech will be rephrased in Newspeak for future generations by the Ministry of Truth:
Twelve-score and four years ago a small elite of white, male, hetero-normative, cis-gendered property owners among the 1% brought forth on this continent, stolen from the Indigenous Peoples who lived here for millennia, a new Nation, conceived in African slavery and dedicated to the proposition of white, male, hetero-normative, cisgender supremacy. We are now engaged in a great civil war struggle testing whether that Nation, or any Nation so conceived, should continue to endure.
“These events may seem, individually, simply extreme manifestations of left-wing lunacy with no real or permanent significance. To believe that is a mistake. Because the objective, completely undisguised and forthrightly embraced, is the erasure of the United States into New Transformed America™ directed by the radicals in the MSM, the academic-industrial complex and activist Democrats–“whether you like it not.” “2, 4, 6, 8, America was never great,” they proclaim and Andrew Cuomo, among others has publicly stated his agreement.
The now thoroughly unreadable New York Times proclaims the New Transformed America™ ideology at every turn starting with the reprehensible 1619 Project soon to be mandatory everywhere. But the real goal, and the disgrace in Boston, is a harbinger of the Cultural Revolution to come: their strategic end state, is not just 1619. They’re really going after 1776.”
Greenwich Avenue: Bumpkin Trump supporters violate lock-down order to pray for Pelosi
Outdoor gatherings of up to 100 people will be legal as of tomorrow, and 250 beginning July 2nd. Reached poolside at the Belle Haven Club Greenwich Invisible head and Bureau of Land Management protest chieftainess Joanna Swomley told FWIW she was “ecstatic”. “We so very much wanted to show our solidarity with our colored people; after all, they work so hard, bless their hearts, serving us such yummy cocktails and buffets here at the Club, and without their help at our fundraisers, I just don’t know what we’d do — hire Mexicans, I suppose, but they’re not quite the same, are they?
“We couldn’t do anything except send checks until now”, she continued. “Now we can, and thank you, Ned Lamont. We’ll start organizing our first parade right away — invitation-only, naturally, and limited to 100 Buffies and Biffs, but in July we’ll expand that to 250, and if most of us are on the islands by then well, we’ll just send our domestics. After all, it’s the show of support that counts, and I’m sure the coloreds will be ever so grateful either way.”
