My advice, in the unlikely event you should ask, is to use this current hot market as an opportunity to sell your house, rather than raise its price

188 Round Hill Road, which expired unsold in October ‘19 while asking $8.750, is now back on the market at $9.5. Very nice 11-acre parcel, with a house on it that was last updated in 2012. The owners have tried to sell it many times over the years, beginning in 2008 when they started at $18 million. They obviously would like to be rid of it, so I think raising the price is a mistake; we’ll see.

If I were a buyer looking at this property I’d notice that the sellers were willing to sell for $8.750 before, and ask myself why I’d offer $750,000 more than that now. Unless, of course, this market has turned up multiple buyers interested in houses in this price range, in which case. maybe ai would; demand establishes price, not past history. But I’m going to guess that we won’t see this sell, whenever it does, at a price higher than that $8.750, and probably for less.

Two contracts in Old Stone Bridge

92 N. Old Stone Bridge

92 N. Old Stone Bridge, $1.325 million, and 51 Old Stone Bridge , $1.695 million. Both prices are in the range these houses have been selling for — the variance usually attributable to the quality of finish and date of upgrades, if any. If you check the interior shots of both houses here, you’ll see the difference.

The Chimblo Brothers held this entire property in inventory for a long time before developing it in 1978. The houses were constructed by different builders, so the quality depended in part on which builder worked on which house, but I don’t think there was a bad one out there.

Long time residents may remember when this was still raw land, when the Chimblos let local Boy Scout troops camp on it. Back in the mid-60s, when kids were still willing to join the Scouts and also willing to hike, my own Troop 2 from Riverside would march up there, with fully-loaded packs, from St. Paul’s Church and spend weekends practicing camping skills (as I recall, our parents would drive us home on Sunday, so we weren’t that tough).

The land itself comprises a lot of rock and ledges, so the yards are more rustic than manicured, but pretty nonetheless.

51 Old Stone Road

All lies, all the time

Politico: Trump blames his COVID infection on Gold Star families”. Except he didn’t. The reports must have read the transcript of the interview: she claims she did, anyway, and deliberately chose to deliberately fabricate a “quote”.

What he was doing was doing his job, just like grocery workers A (or, as Biden would have it, “black women stocking shelves) while “journalists” were cowering and complaining.

Here’s what happened. Trump had told Maria Bartiromo that he “figured there would be a chance”  he’d catch the virus because he’s often in close contact with people.

“Sometimes, I’d be in groups of, for instance, Gold Star families. I met with Gold Star families. I didn’t want to cancel that,” Trump explained. “But they all came in, and they all talk about their son and daughter and father. And, you know, they all came up to me, and they tell me a story.”

“I can’t say, ‘Back up, stand 10 feet,’ you know? I just can’t do it,” Trump added. “They want to hug me, and they want to kiss me. And they do. And, frankly, I’m not telling them to back up. I’m not doing it.”

Jenna Ellis, a senior legal adviser to the Trump campaign, is disgusted by this latest smear against Trump. “The story saying President Trump blames Gold Star families is false and a grotesque attack,” she told PJ Media. “Listen to the interview for yourself. He said he knew there was a chance he could at some point catch the virus because he is not at all times six feet away from people.”

In her debate performance the other night, Kamal Harris invented a quote by Lincoln on filling a vacant Supreme Court seat.

Harris said:

In 1864 — one of the, I think political heroes certainly of the President, I assume of you also, Mr. Vice President, is Abraham Lincoln. Abraham Lincoln was up for re-election, and it was 27 days before the election. And a seat became open on the United States Supreme Court. Abraham Lincoln’s party was in charge, not only of the White House, but the Senate. But Honest Abe said, “It’s not the right thing to do. The American people deserve to make the decision about who will be the next president of the United States. And then that person can select who will serve for a lifetime on the highest court of our land.” And so Joe and I are very clear: the American people are voting right now, and it should be their decision about who will serve on this most important body for a lifetime.

However, Harris misrepresented what “Honest Abe” did, and why. As Dan McLaughlin of National Review noted, President Abraham Lincoln never said anything like what Harris said he did. He delayed sending a nominee to the Senate because it was out of session. McLaughlin wrote:

Lincoln, of course, said no such thing. He sent no nominee to the Senate in October 1864 because the Senate was out of session until December. He sent a nominee the day after the session began, and Salmon P. Chase was confirmed the same day. And Lincoln wanted to dangle the nomination before Chase and several other potential candidates because he wanted them to campaign for him. Lincoln’s priority was winning the election, which was necessary to win the war — and he filled the vacancy at the first possible instant.

Kamala Harris is simply inventing history.

Both Harris and her partner lied about not banning fracking when in fact they have campaigned on exactly that promise to ban. Video proof at the link.

With the exception of the Washington Post, which labeled Harris’ phony Lincoln quote “mostly false”, the mainstream media has gone along with these lies. Nor have any stopped repeating the thoroughly debunked claim, repeated by Biden just yesterday, that Trump praised white supremacists in Charlottesville.

I’ll repeat: al all lies, all the time.

Has Granny Box Wine lost her mind?

We don’ need no stinkin’ constitution!

Pelosi claims she’s going to use the 25th Amendment to depose Trump

Leaving aside the fact that the election is three weeks away and the American voters can achieve that by themselves, Pelosi’s theatre discloses a deranged mind and complete ignorance of the constitution. The 25th Amendment, fourth article, provides a process for removing a sitting president: Here’s the process, outlined in The Hill:

Under this article, the vice president and cabinet officials would vote on the removal of the president. If the majority votes for removal, then a letter is sent to the president pro tempore of the Senate, now Sen. Hatch (R-Utah), and Speaker of the House, now Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.), informing them of their vote.

The president could send a counter-letter saying he is capable of performing his duties, allowing the president to continue work as usual, unless the vice president and cabinet send another letter within four days restating their case. Under such circumstances, the vice president would become the acting president while Congress votes.

Both houses of Congress would have to vote within 21 days in this case, and a two-thirds vote from each chamber is required to remove the president from office and fully institute the vice president as the replacement. If the vote in either chamber was to fall short, the president would resume his duties.

I so hope she tries this today, because she’ll just illustrate how desperate Democrats are, and demonstrate to undecided voters how and why the Russia hoax and the doomed-to-fail impeachment trial were initiated and prosecuted. If I were a Democrat, I’d wonder whether it wasn’t time to strip this lunatic of her position as Speaker of the House. And if I were an undecided voter, I’d ask if the country can afford the risk of a feeble-minded 80-year-old being second in line behind an equally-senile 78-year-old president, and vote accordingly.

UPDATE: I try not to write down to too-low a level of intelligence because the readers of this blog are almost exclusively bright, educated, and breathe with their mouths closed. But we have the occasional troll who shows up and, confronted by something beyond his understanding, chimes in with a comment displaying his rage at his incomprehension: Commenter “Harbor 7’, a/k/a “Short Bus Kid”, has just done that. Assuming his reading comprehension is as low as his IQ, and that he chaps his lips when he reads, I’ll use a picture to (try to) explain te concept of “second in line”, instead of using written words:

Now Governor Newson won't let counties reopen unless they prove "racial equity"

“Whoa, not so fast.”

Wanna reopen your store, your business, your life in California? Better hope that your county has established a new to measure the “racial equity” of COVID cases, and that whites and other races all have the same rates.

Which is in accord with what he said on a general basis just last week: Asked at a news conference whether he saw the COVID panic as an opportunity to push implementation of a “new progressive era”, forward a progressive agenda, Newsom replied, “Absolutely… the answer is yes”.

‘There is opportunity for reimagining a [more] progressive era as it [relates] to capitalism,’ Gov. Newsom said. ‘So yes, absolutely we see this as an opportunity to reshape the way we do business and how we govern.’”

Newsom is merely echoing House Majority Whip James Clyburn’s remark to fellow Democrats back in March, when the first Covid relief bill was being shaped: “This is a tremendous opportunity to restructure things to fit our vision”.

Anyone who imagines this is about, or has anything to do with stoping COVID is a chump

Another CNN scoop

The Trump time machine: oh, the gall of this thief!

Trump owned stock in Regeneron in 2017 before the COVID panic and sold it a year or more ago, also before the COVID panic, so he’s touting it now to get rich in the past because he has a secret time machine he’s not telling us about.

Or something. It’s depressing to think that not only does a handful of adults watch CNN, but they also rely on it for their opinions.

The Bee abandoned satire for straight news some time ago, which, of course, is why it's now the official American Paper of Record, but I do miss its humor

Truth vs reality — who can tell?

If a narrative-fail is buried by the media, has the narrative really failed at all?

Trump is not your friend

Anarchist who plotted against Whitmer considers Trump “a tyrant”.

Brandon Caserta is one of the ringleaders in the foiled plot to kidnap the governor and video reportedly of Caserta shows the suspect calling President Trump a "tyrant" and an "enemy." 

"Trump is not your friend, dude," Caserta says. "And it amazes me that people actually believe that when he's shown over and over and over again that he's a tyrant. Every single person that works for government is your enemy, dude." 

You’ll have to go to the link to view the video, because it’s on Twitter, and I can’t seem to be able to post those.

You can also search “Brandon Caserta trump is a tyrant”, and you’ll find exactly no mainstream media results.

Well, MNBC

Female commentator attacks Pence’s manhood: isn’t that sexist?

Pence appeared “flaccid” and “limp”. “Womansplaining”, perhaps.

Nike spokesman calls for abolition of police

Coin in his Nikes and pig socks

“In order to eradicate anti-blackness we must also abolish the police”

Kaepernick says based on his research [hahahaha! - Ed] ... he believes the "central intent" of cops is to "surveil, terrorize, capture, and kill marginalized populations, specifically Black folks."

And, Kaep says the only way to stop that is to tear down the entire system.

The 32-year-old says simpler solutions -- like police reforms -- just flat-out don't work.

"F**k reform," Kapernick said, adding, "reforms have done nothing to stop the actions that force us to #SayTheirNames."

Kaepernick is also urging the end of the country's prison system ... saying it, too, has roots based in racism.

"Abolition is the only way to secure a future beyond anti-Black institutions of social control, violence, and premature death.”

Colin says once the systems are dismantled ... he wants to see the funding "reinvested directly into communities to address mental health needs, homelessness and houselessness, access to education, and job creation as well as community-based methods of accountability."