Greenwich, Connecticut real estate, politics, and more.
Greenwich, Connecticut real estate, politics, and more
(And by the way, this latest massacre occurred in an official “gun-free zone”, and was so posted. Maybe we should reimpose literacy tests on our new citizens.)
Mind you, some people did jump to the predictable conclusion, before the shooter’s identity was revealed:
12 Dorchester, $1.999 million, 18 DOM. It tried for $2.095, dropping to this same $1.999 between March and August 2019, without success. Different market.
But note that these owners paid $2.095 for the house in 2006, so, while we’re in a strong market, don’t go nuts with your pricing.
As an aside, I’m curious whether this is one of the houses moved out of the way of I-95 when that highway was being constructed in the mid-50s. A number of houses on Breezemont and Dorchester were relocated back then, though I don’t know about this one.
UPDATE: Too late to renegotiate the contract upwards? Al Dente has schooled the listing agent and her stager;
i have the kraken, it’s right here in my pocket! I do have it, I do!
Sidney Powell: “no reasonable person would have believed my lies”
Donald Trump's former lawyer Sidney Powell has claimed that 'no reasonable person' would believe her allegations about voting fraud were 'statements of fact', as she sought to dismiss a $1.3 billion defamation suit against her.
Powell, 65, was sued by Dominion Voting Systems in January for her assertions that the election was stolen from Trump, via rigged ballot machinery provided by the company.
She and Rudy Giuliani, another of the former president's lawyers, claimed that the late Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez had concocted a plot that would enable Dominion's machines to switch votes, and that this system was used against Trump.
On Monday, Powell's attorneys attempted to get the charges [sic — it’s a civil, not a criminal action] against her dismissed by a judge in Washington DC.
Her attorneys argued that 'reasonable people would not accept such statements as fact but view them only as claims that await testing by the courts through the adversary process.'
We’re all familiar with the lawyer who, walking out of police headquarters with his just-bonded client who’d been caught in a bedroom, pants around his ankles and in the company of a six-year-old girl, telling reporters that “my client looks forward to his day in court, where he’ll be fully vindicated”. Hell, that’s what lawyers do — I remember once when Gideon … oh, never mind — it’s just what lawyers are expected to say when defending the indefensible.
But Powell went way beyond that, asserting as fact that she had irrefutable evidence that would prove election fraud, and repeatedly promised to produce it. I believed her the first time because she was a high-powered D.C. lawyer with a stellar reputation. I lost that faith when her revelation dates came and went, with no proof. And when she declined Tucker Carlson’s invitation to produce her “proof” that the ballot machines had been manipulated, I was done with her.
Which is too bad; I still have no doubt that the election was stolen, but Powell’s false promises to prove that were disastrously harmful to the cause; as damaging as the 600 rioters who invaded the Capitol. Both gave the media the opening to cover-over the fraud and the illegitimacy of what their masters had pulled off.
SO EVERYBODY’S TALKING ABOUT WILLIAM SHATNER’S UPCOMING 90TH BIRTHDAY, and mostly about Captain Kirk. But, you know, he owned the role of Denny Crane in Boston Legal.
It’s a small step from an “official source” like the NYT labeling a rival publication a far-right misinformation platform to the social media oligarchy banning it. See, eg, victims of the Southern Poverty Legal Center’s designating them “hate groups”.
The encouraging thing about this is that the Times and its fellow travelers are running scared.
I doubt that the mainstream media still employs editors and fact-checkers, but if they do, they’re surely 20-somethings who nod by labels like “far-right” and “misinformation” because they know what those mean. “It’s obvious, bro, like, look at that story the Bee ran about a bike race — I mean, totally untrue!”
Michael Jordan’s Chicago home won’t sell, and he won’t budge.
7-acres, 56,000 sq. ft., he put it on the market for $29 million in 2012, reduced it to $14.855 in 2015, and has stood pat since.
He can afford to hold out, obviously, but I feel for the listing agent.
Sir Maejor Page a/k/a Tyree Conyers rallies the faithful
With crushed hearts, aliens turn back and return home
Asked how peasants in mud hovels were expected to log onto the Internet to receive the message that they are temporarily unwelcome, Psaki was happy to explain. “That’s why we’re using comic books as our first line of defense”, she explained to FWIW, “while President Harris’s incredibly generous plan to expand broadband access to all of Central and South America can be implemented. And of course, by the time our new visitors are all safely here and enrolled as voters in 2022, even that effort will be unnecessary.”
549 North Street, priced at $12.5 million in 2005 and at diminishing prices since, is now under contract. Current ask $7.250. Shame they missed that 2005 peak market.
1 Harbor Drive, Belle Haven, priced (now) at $10.950 million, is under contract. The late, and truly great realtor David Ogilvy had this place on the market since 2010, when he started it off at $20 million and kept it there, forever, until his demise. There’s probably no other realtor in town who could command such loyalty from his customers (though Joe Barbieri’s got some pretty slodgy old dogs in his portfolio). But David’s gone, and so is that price, and now, it seems, so is the house.
A grand old 1893 home, completely redone by Hobbs in 2000, it’d be a fine house to live in, and at this price, a decent buy. But the hard truth is that $10 million is about what a 2-acre lot in Belle Haven sells for, so I’m guessing that its neighbors will soon see something new going up here, a building that more suitably reflects the new owner’s importance and taste.
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