Greenwich, Connecticut real estate, politics, and more.
Greenwich, Connecticut real estate, politics, and more
21 Norton Lane, (now) asking $2.499 million. Started in October @ $2.650, so not bad. Norton is a very nice, dead-end street and this one at the end should have decent views over the hills below it. My memory tells me it was on the market some years ago but the MLS says not; I probably toured the house next door, and just looked over at this one. Either way, the street and the house itself should easily support this price.
he shoots guns, or something
Biden tries to remember the name of his Secretary of Defense, and fails
“For the love of Jeezus”, White House spokeswoman Jen Psaki exploded when questioned by FWIW, “we gave him the names of the people to put into their proper slots: black general, female generals, even a frigin’ transvestite in the Health Department, he signs on, and that’s it. He hasn’t seen General Wahsshisname since — hasn’t even spoken with him. You expect him to remember his name?”
Whoops: Biden forgets the name of the Pentagon, as well as the name of his secretary of Defense, Lloyd Austin pic.twitter.com/ZtcgHLBIAO
— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) March 8, 2021
U.N. Says America is already cutting so much carbon it doesn’t need to join the Paris Climate Accord
Far more than any other country. This was pointed out throughout the Orange Man’s rule, but ignored by the media. Perhaps they’ll listen now. Natural gas — fracking — is good for the planet.
The teachers were urged to keep spring break pictures off social media because it could hurt the union's argument that it's currently unsafe to return to the classroom, according to a screenshot that appeared to be from a roughly 5,700 member Facebook group titled, "UTLA FB GROUP- Members Only."
"Friendly reminder: If you are planning any trips for Spring Break, please keep that off of Social Media. It is hard to argue that it is unsafe for in-person instruction, if parents and the public see vacation photos and international travel," a post from the group read, according to FOX 11 of Los Angeles reporter Bill Melugin.
It’s Ballot Harvesting Season in Baltimre
Biden’s Latest Executive order is his Most Frightening Yet
The Democrats who now control Washington, D.C. are determined to change America's election laws to ensure that they never lose another election. The first salvo in this battle was the House's vote passing H.R. 1, which opens federal elections to all types of fraud and manipulation. On Sunday, Joe Biden added his bit to the effort by signing yet another executive order, this one ostensibly to enhance "voting rights" on the anniversary of the Selma protests in 1965. However, the order is drafted to allow the federal government to control political speech.
As with most of Biden's initiatives, it frames the power-grab in terms of race (emphasis mine):
The right to vote is the foundation of American democracy. Free and fair elections that reflect the will of the American people must be protected and defended. But many Americans, especially people of color, confront significant obstacles to exercising that fundamental right. These obstacles include difficulties with voter registration, lack of election information, and barriers to access at polling places. For generations, Black voters and other voters of color have faced discriminatory policies and other obstacles that disproportionally affect their communities.
Once again, the leftist premise for increasing opportunities for election fraud is the theory that Blacks lack the mental capacity to navigate the American system without the Democrat party at their side, supporting them. It's an amazingly offensive position, but, sadly, Democrats have conditioned Blacks for decades to believe in their own helplessness.
Having established the premise — Blacks are helpless — the edict sets out the solutions: making it easy to register to vote, vote by mail, and cast ballots; making online access to information easier; distributing voter registration and vote-by-mail forms; and helping people fill out the forms. The more worrisome one requires "soliciting and facilitating approved, nonpartisan third-party organizations and State officials to provide voter registration services on agency premises."
Color me unduly cynical, but I have a feeling that all the "approved, nonpartisan third-party organizations" are going to look remarkably like ACORN or the Southern Poverty Law Center. I heartily encourage conservatives to create "nonpartisan third-party organizations" and to get in line for approval. I suspect, though, that the process will be as hard for them as it was for Tea Party groups in 2012 to get the IRS to approve of them as non-profits.
The scariest thing about the executive order is its emphasis on "information." Through the document, the order empowers the federal government to control information:
"Agencies shall consider ways to expand citizens' opportunities to register to vote and to obtain information about, and participate in, the electoral process."
The agency is to consider "ways to provide relevant information in the course of activities or services that directly engage with the public — including through ... social media platforms[.]"
For Native Americans, the order establishes a "Steering Group to facilitate the sharing of information and best practices, as appropriate and consistent with applicable law[.]"
That may sound innocuous, but it ceases to do so if you double back to the policy statement in Section 2 (emphasis added):
It is the responsibility of the Federal Government to expand access to, and education about, voter registration and election information, and to combat misinformation, in order to enable all eligible Americans to participate in our democracy.
There's the magic phrase that says what all this emphasis on information is really about: the federal government will use its reach and power "to combat misinformation."
And what is "misinformation" in the Democrats' new political lexicon? It's anything with which the Democrats disagree. The federal government, through Biden, has just announced that it will put its thumb on the scale in all future elections, combatting "misinformation" by presenting its version of "information."
What Biden is proposing is unconstitutional, as is the case with many of his executive orders. They are often straightforward announcements that he will no longer abide by American law, especially regarding our southern border. Biden and his handlers are confident that the Supreme Court is so cowed by the court-packing threat that it will do nothing to slow the Democrats as they slowly, but surely, run the Constitution through a shredder.
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Seeing that picture (over at PJ Media) reminds me of the years –maybe ‘64-69? — the Pearson family of Riverside, under the financial sponsorship of their church, the First Congregational, sponsored a monthly (?) teen dance at what was then Eckman Center and is now our Civic Center (the building was dilapidated even then, btw). We friends of Ridley Pearson would help out and got to see a lot of local bands, some of which were really good. One, "the Wild Weeds” really should have gone on to great things, but having heard nothing from them after that era, I suppose they didn’t.
But the real coup was booking a band from New Jersey in 1966, “The Young Rascals”, for six-hundred-bucks. They’d just begun getting some airplay, so we kind of, sort of, knew of them, but we feared the worse when they came out dressed in knickers and lace collars; uh oh. But they rocked the place — they were huge! A few months later their song “Good Lovin” hit the airwaves and went, I think, to number 1. They ditched the knickers, the collars, the “Young” from their name, and not least, $600 appearance fees for teen dances held in gyms.
Anyone else remember when the Doors played at the new GHS Student Center?
Fun times.
(UPDATE) Woxtra, woxtra, read all about it! The half-sister weighs in.
“She idolized Diana,’’ the sibling said, referring to Princess Di, Harry’s mother.
“In fact, Meghan went to great lengths to study Diana, to mimic her clothing, to mimic her body language and to wear Diana’s perfume on their first date! Don’t tell me my sister didn’t know who Harry was!”
(She also claims that her sister suffers from a “narcissistic personality disorder”, but we knew that.)
(Courtesy of Al Dente— saw it, couldn’t resist)
Wanna see our Duranty Pulitzer?
Reaction to this “speaking truth to power” investigative reporting was … not supportive.
Wanna be a furry? you’re a (female) furry
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