Quick sale off North

1 Lita Drive, asking $1.795 million, reports a contract after nine days. Allowing for the usual inspections and lawyer negotiations, it’s reasonable to infer that an accepted offer was hit on either the first or second day.

Lita’s that little dead-end at the foot of North Street. It’s convenient, and has some expensive houses on it, though I personally wouldn’t want to be cheek-by-jowl with North Street, as this one is.

The owners paid $1,328,800 for it in 20016, and I’m including their list of improvements, just to give readers an idea of what can help sell a house (even in non-Covid years, this is a “clean” and thus attractive listing).

1 Lita Drive Greenwich, CT

• Built in 1952

• Renovated from 2014-2020

• .32 acre

• $11,214 annual property tax

• 4 bedrooms

• 3 full baths, 1 half bath

• 1 wood-burning fireplace

• Attached two car garage

• Laundry room with Whirlpool Duet washer and dryer

  Improvements

• New custom kitchen with Royal Danby Marble Countertops

• Kitchen appliances include Liebherr Refrigerator/Freezer, GE Monogram Range, Bosch

  Dishwasher

• New basement flooring - 2014

• New roof, exterior paint, and gutters - 2017

• New basement full bathroom - 2017

• New HVAC and water heater - 2018

• Fully fenced yard

• Landscape and plantings - mixture of mature trees & shrubs (dogwoods, crab apple, maple,

  evergreens, lilacs, rose of Sharon and rhododendron) as well as new plantings from 2017-2020

  (deciduous trees, evergreens, shrubs, and perennials).

• Sprinkler and drip system - 2017

• Updated approach - entrance, door, custom pendant light - 2017

• Opened kitchen and living room walls - 2015

• Enclosed dining room - using as office

• New pendant lighting throughout

• Custom drapes by Restoration Hardware

Fortunately, there's quick fix, and it's on the way

Does it matter whether this rider gets to his destination? Isn’t he already there?

NYC vows to cut its subway service by half unless the nation’s taxpayers fork over $12 billion, immediately.

Mind you, that’s just for the coming year; bloated pensions, union work rules, and General Graft will ensure that the subways will be back, soon, and every year.

Biden promises this as his "first priority", a grateful nation rejoices

Hard-working plumber looks forward to paying his neighbor’s $89,000 gender studies degree.

Pumbing contractor Sam Caughorn , for one, is delighted.

"I didn't go to college, but I work hard and support my family. I don't know about all that high-falutin gender stuff they teach in college, but I'm sure it must be important since it's so expensive! Happy to help out another person in need."

According to studies, there are millions of white girls working at coffee shops across the country while struggling under the crushing student debt they acquired by irresponsibly obtaining college degrees that gave them no marketable job skills. Benevolent politicians have proposed transferring all the wealth from trade workers and minority business owners to help indebted white girls with their student loans so they can still afford their daily latte and cat food expenses.

Local gender studies major Amber White is looking forward to having all her debt forgiven, thanks in part to the contributions of plumbers like Sam Caughorn. "I'm so thankful for the generosity of our Democrat leaders!" she said. "They really look out for the little folx. Also, down with capitalism and white men!" 

Never mind the previous post; it turns out that the Republicans won't need the help of San Francisco's gay population to secure that Georgia senate seat

Memorial Day, Atlanta, GA 2020

Democrat candidate Warnock, preaching in the state with the fifth-largest active military community in the country. “You can’t serve God and the military”.

Fearing a Democrat loss in Georgia, California sends in the clowns

He doesn’t appear to be a Republican, he’s just working on their behalf.

I’m on runoff TikTok pic.twitter.com/tlhes7p3jz

— Washington Post TikTok Guy Comma Georgia (@davejorgenson) November 17, 2020

Conan, I hardly knew ye

“All praise to our new, beloved leaders, now goodnight”

Conan O’Connor signing off. I never caught his act in 28 years, so I doubt I’ll miss him now, but he’s probably smart to quit; with Trump seemingly gone, and all conventional topics of humor pushed beyond the pale by political correctness, where will late show fodder come from?

Four years of lickspittle “comedy” is bound to wear thin, no?

Biden: “Kampalla, I must say, your dedication to uplifting the impoverished and marginalized people of our racist nation is simply grand”.

[Canned laughter here]

Kampalla” “Joe, while it is true that you once opposed busing and called slum- students ‘jungle bunnies’, you have obviously grown into office, and now you are an inspiration and an example to all your fellow white microaggressors”.

[Hysterical canned laughter].

There’s probably a mob of young adults out there who, stoked on legal meth, will find this hilarious, but is that an audience advertisers will pay for? They only leave their sofas to go shoplifting and maybe tear down a statue or two, but actually buy something (other than drugs)? Doubtful.

And so it begins

Bloomberg: Biden Fills Economic Posts With Experts on Systemic Racism

How does one go about becoming an expert on something that doesn’t exist? Asking for a friend.

When it comes to economic policy, President-elect Joe Biden is putting racial disparities high on the agenda as he assembles his administration.

The incoming president tapped Mehrsa Baradaran, whose book “The Color of Money” is a key reference on the racial wealth gap, to prepare the Treasury Department for the transition. She’s joined by Lisa Cook, an economist at Michigan State University, on the “landing team” for the Federal Reserve and banking and securities regulators. They are among more than 500 experts who will focus on race as they shape Biden’s policies on issues like housing, health and small-business lending. Baradaran declined to comment, and Cook referred questions to the Biden team.

Observers say they’ve never seen expertise about race figure so prominently in economic roles.

Madoff sale

Well, sort of. 21 Cherry Valley Road, once owned by Bernie Madoff’s son Mark, is pending at $2.095 million. Mark Madoff used $2.225 million of other people’s money to buy it in 2000 and subsequently hanged himself with his dog’s leash in his NYC apartment. His estate sold this house for $1,724,500 to the current owners in 2016 and they, in turn, made some improvements and put it back up for sale earlier this year.

Direct sale of 318 Taconic Road

1785 Hobby Peck house, asking $4.795 million, has sold direct (no agent) for $3.815. most of its 36 acres — all but 4 — are in Stamford, but that still gives it a Greenwich address and Greenwich schools, if that was important to the buyer.

(Greenwich portion in blue)

Well, this is just wrong; and a sign of what's to come

Black police chief fired for arresting BLM vandals for vandalism

Red State: “Back on June 10th in Portsmouth, Virginia, a large group of protesters decided to tear down and destroy a Confederate monument located in that city. An investigation was launched, led by Portsmouth Police Chief Angela Greene. After collecting video from the event and conducting interviews for two months, Greene announced in August that charges were being filed against 19 people who had been involved in the destruction. Police were seeking 13 more people who had yet to be identified. In the process, one of the protesters was severely injured when the statue was pulled down on top of them by his accomplices. That was also being investigated separately.

You might think that would be pretty much the end of the story, but it wasn’t. Among those arrested was State Sen. Louise Lucas, several leaders of the local Black Lives Matter movement, officials from the NAACP, and a member of the local school board. Since several crimes had obviously been committed, you might think that Chief Greene (who is Black, by the way) would be lauded for holding all citizens, regardless of their status accountable. You would be wrong, however. Howls of protest emerged not only from the community but from elected officials. Yesterday the situation came to a head and Chief Greene was unceremoniously fired. (NBC News)”:

Black Virginia police chief fired for charging prominent BLM vandals and public officials

The police chief of Portsmouth, Virginia, was fired Monday in what she suggested was a politically motivated move moments before criminal charges were dropped against a prominent state senator and several local Black leaders accused of conspiring to damage a Confederate statue during a protest this year.

The latest twist in the case involving state Sen. Louise Lucas, a high-ranking Democrat who is Virginia’s most senior Black legislator, drew praise from Democrats who condemned the charges…

The Portsmouth Police Department did not immediately return a request for comment, and a city spokeswoman declined to say whether Greene’s firing was a result of the initial charges.

“Greene had charged all of the people involved with felony injury to a monument in excess of $1,000 and conspiracy. She had the perpetrators on video using cans of spray paint and eventually toppling and destroying the statue. She had the social media records showing the state senator encouraging everyone to come down to the location and help them destroy the statue. There was even a video of the state senator telling police officers what they intended to do and saying that the police couldn’t arrest them for it.

In other words, Greene had the perpetrators dead to rights and it should have been an open and shut case. But she was attacked incessantly by Democratic leadership instead. After she was fired for this, those same Democratic leaders, including former Governor Terry McAuliffe celebrated her firing, describing her efforts to enforce the law as ‘despicable political persecution.’ “