Greenwich, Connecticut real estate, politics, and more.
Greenwich, Connecticut real estate, politics, and more
151 Stanwich Road, $2.4 million, contract in 14 days which, assuming the normal lag time for inspections and contract negotiations between the lawyers, means the buyer showed up just about overnight. First-floor master bedroom, too, which often limits the buyer pool. The owners paid $2,386,815 in 2015
18 Crown Lane, which sold to these sellers for $4.7 million in 2008 (after starting off in 2006 at $6.2500, sold yesterday for $3.1. This was an April contract and the owners might have done better after the refugees began arriving in May, but who knew?
That’s Waaasist!
Nipping at the politically correct heels of the University of Florida’s announcement that it is banning the “Gator Chomp” because someone might somehow think that it refers to feeding negroes to alligators — it doesn’t; never has, never will — the city of Duluth has decided to remove the word “chief” from all job descriptions.
“City leaders are making a push to remove the word “chief” from job titles, calling the term offensive to indigenous people.
At a news conference Wednesday, Duluth Mayor Emily Larson implored City Council members to vote to approve the change next week “so that we have more inclusive leadership and less language that is rooted in hurt and offensive, intentional marginalization.”
If you didn’t know better, you might assume Duluth has employees like, say, a Heap Big Chief Alderman. That could arguably be “rooted in hurt and offensive, intentional marginalization.” But no: they are talking about the retitling the city’s chief administrative officer and chief financial officer. On the ground that those titles are offensive to Native Americans.
News flash for Duluth’s city fathers: the word “chief” has nothing to do with Indians. It comes from a Latin progenitor and descends through Old French, taking the form in which we know it in Middle English. When English colonists called Indian leaders chiefs, it was not a derogatory term, but rather a standard English word for a leader.”
A variant of same word is also used to describe the chief cook in a restaurant, as in “Chef de Cuisine”. Idiots. The country is drowning in a sea of idiots.
That’s Waaasist!
Not so very long ago, a president who defied his advisors and didn’t embroil us deeper into war would have been applauded by the Left; in fact, Bolton himself was prominent on their hate list, but … Orange Man.*
“I want to talk about this in terms of what John Bolton called the turning point for him with Mr. Trump, which Bolton said was ‘the most irrational thing I ever saw a president do,'” said [Bolton’s former chief of staff] Fleitz, responding to MacCallum’s question about why Bolton wrote and released the book. “And this was when President Trump decided last June not to bomb Iran at the advice of John Bolton and other national security advisors.”
Recalling when Trump decided not to attack Iran after a U.S. drone was shot down because “we would have killed 100-200 people,” Fleitz called it a “principled decision.”
“This was not to win votes,” he said. “This wasn’t to promote the president domestically. It reflected the presidents’s principle not to get America into additional wars. And it was an act of leadership, because he bucked all of his national security advisors, Pompeo, the Secretary of Defense, so when we hear that the president does not have principles, he’s not qualified to lead, this incident that Bolton puts forward as the turning point for his relationship with President Trump in my mind it disproves the whole book.”
Former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton, currently employed as a crank for hire by Fox News, who was all-in for George W. Bush’s 2003 invasion of Iraq for having weapons of mass destructionit didn’t, in fact, have, wants President Barack Obama to bomb Iraq and begin yet another Middle Eastern War.
…. Bolton was catastrophically wrong then, and you might remember Megyn Kelly, in one of her finer moments of 2014, lacerating him with, “You know that a lot of people are out there tonight saying, ‘Well, weren’t you one of the people who was in favor of going into Iraq in the first place. Is that why you don’t want to discuss the past ten years and whether they were worth it?'”
Yet Bolton wants us to trust him now. Writing in a New York Times op-ed today, he claims that “to stop Iran’s bomb [we] must bomb Iran.” Not only does this sound childish (“if you hit your brother again, I’m going to hit you!”) but its flat-out stupid.
The man who was dead wrong about Iraq wants us to believe that logic is on his side. He says we are facing a “nuclear-arms race if Iran ever acquire[s] weapons capability.”
“Who’s next, Thomas Jefferson?” (And @50 seconds in, the denunciation of Neo-Nazis the press always edits out of this clip)
Taliban cleans up history: Bu-bu-bye bye, Buddah
UPDATE: A just to prove Trump right in full, George Washington statute hits the dirt. My guess is that 80% of today’s high school students would see nothing wrong with that.
New today, 136 Field Point Circle, $20,000,000. 1966 construction, and although the appliances and baths are no longer avocado green and harvest gold, the design itself still retains that era’s exuberant spirit.
Nice land, and a premier address.
Liar, liar, pants on fire
So claimed Justice Roberts, he who caved on Obama Kare to avoid the political heat and whose colleague Ginsburg publicly denounced Trump as “an idiot”. Now he’s gone still further, ruling that Trump can’t rescind by executive order what Obama enacted by executive order.
Obama himself admitted he lacked the power to create DACA after Congress failed to act, but he went ahead and did it anyway. By overruling both Congress, which refused to extend DACA, and the president, who rescinded it, Roberts and his cronies have gone past even FDR’s court which, while it ran roughshod over Congress and the Constitution, at least had the excuse that they were bowing to a President’s power. Roberts has usurped that power for himself.
Well actually seen on Instapundit, but the Perfesser saw it on Facebook
Liz Smith’s (Raveis) listing at 1110 Lake Avenue, $2.050 and as close to Banksville as you can get without having to quarantine at the border, has a contract after 51 days. Not surprisingly these days, she tells me that the buyers are city refugees.
Two pending sales on Buckfield Lane, up in the hinterlands.
72 Buckfield Lane
Brother Gideon’s listing at 72 Buckfield, asking $3,698,500 (go figure) found a buyer in 6 days. The sellers did well here, having purchased it for $3.2 in 2009 from owners who’d paid $4.250 in 2006 and, after extensive improvements, tried for $5.2 before finally throwing in the towel and selling it to Gid’s people for the aforesaid $3.2.
Not so fortunate, the owners of 40 Buckfield bought it in $2.9 million in 2002 (from, coincidentally, clients of Gideon), added a pool and spa, replaced the mechanicals, including a/c and all windows, and put on a new roof, as well as making improvements to the interior. It too is pending now, but its current asking price is $1.750 million, which must hurt.
