While Maxine Waters and Al Sharpton have fled to safety
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party on, dudes!
A conviction for sure, riots just as certainly.
UPDATE: Wow, guilty on all charges,
Given the inanity of most class action suits, this is barely satire
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DECATUR, AL—Meow Mix has always gone by the slogan, “The brand cats ask for by name.” And it does seem like cats are always crying for Meow Mix, as cats can often be heard wailing, “Meow!” late into the night. But a new scientific study has shown that the Meow Mix slogan is in fact false advertising, as the cats were never asking specifically for Meow Mix but were simply making a standard cat noise.
“I began to notice something was awry when I realized cats never said the full name of the product,” said Scientist Trevor Peterson. “They only said the first part -- ‘Meow’ -- but never the ‘Mix’ part that went after it.” This led Peterson to conduct a decade-long study on cats, communication, and eating habits. The results, just published Monday, show that cats say ‘Meow’ even when their preferred food is Purina, Friskies, or Fancy Feast.
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After the report was published, Meow Mix was immediately hit with a class-action lawsuit for its false advertising.
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The scandal has caused further scrutiny of other aspects of Meow Mix, such as whether cats were actually singing the Meow Mix theme, or if that was done with some sort of audio trickery.
The general rule of these so-called class action suits is that the lawyers bringing them get millions while the supposedly-harmed consumers get a handful of cents-off coupons. It’s all just legal blackmail.
Brother Anthony sent this our way with the observation that the structure truly is “a genuine McMansion"
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McDonalds renovates and preserves 1795 mansion.
A beautiful McDonald’s might sound like a paradox, but one in Nassau, Long Island, was deemed so magnificent that it actually became a historic landmark, Insider reported.
Oft-dubbed America’s “most beautiful” McDonald’s, these gorgeous golden arches are housed in a grand, white mansion complete with a portico, a “Gone With The Wind”-esque double staircase and even a dining veranda with glass dividers to keep out the noises and smells of the neighboring Jericho Turnpike.
When the site first opened, the owner said that he wanted “to put tablecloths and little battery-operated candles on the tables on Friday and Saturday nights” so young people could use it as a date spot. Newlyweds have even staged wedding pictures there.
What a difference a flu makes ...
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33 Wesskum Wood Road, Riverside sat on the market a full year, from May ‘19 to May ‘20, priced originally at $2.495 and eventually $2.395, with no takers. It was placed back on the market this month at that same $2.395 and has a contract after just 11 days. Again, I’ll remind readers that it can take 7-10 days (often longer) to move from accepted offer to fully-executed contracts, so this must have gone within a day or two of being listed.
It'll be interesting to see the average days on market statistics this year
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20 Limerick Place (off Cognewaugh) asking $1.895 million, has a contract after 13 days.
These short stays on the market are the norm this spring, but they still surprise me (although less and less). By comparison, here are the previous two sales for this house:
2013, 105 days, asked $1.895, sold for $1.630
2009, 91 days, asked $1.895, sold for $1.695.
Three months on the market used to be about average, I believe, and negotiations downward from the asking price were normal. I don’t know whether the current sale will be for less than ask, but I doubt it; there are so many buyers looking, and so little inventory, that the seller can say, with confidence, “we’ll just sell it to someone else”.
This is all great news for sellers; for buyers, not so much.
Land sale pending on Ridgeview
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71 Ridgeview Avenue, 2-acres in the 1-acre zone,12,000 sq..ft. FAR, $2.950 million. It sold as land in June, 2019 for $1.900. These sellers may have razed the exiting house — I don’t know, and they’ve drawn up plans and obtained approvals, etc.*, but that’s still a nice mark-up for a 2-year period of ownership.
*It’s been my experience that buyers usually want to design their own house, and so are unwilling to pay anything for the seller’s plan, but that’s not always the case.
Contract on Pinecroft
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11 Pinecroft Road, $2.850 million, 37 days. It’s a house and a street with real buyer appeal, as evidenced by it selling in just 10 days back in 2013. Back then it went for $2.495, but judging from the limited pictures of this version (more are promised on the 22nd) these owners did a nice job renovating it.
new kitchen
Huh — Freddie may be on to something.
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GREENWICH — The first selectman hopes to transform a downtown parking lot from a “concrete jungle” into an area with “more trees and grass and plantings,” views of Greenwich Harbor and perhaps even a commercial development.
The proposed changes are intended for the Island Beach parking lot, which is located just off Interstate 95 along Arch Street and allows permit and daily parking. Commuters park there, as do visitors heading to Roger Sherman Baldwin Park or taking the ferry to Grass Island during the summer. [pretty sure the reporter means Island Beach, not Grass Island — few visitors tour our sewage plant, and I don’t believe the ferry goes there anyway]
“I want to see more green space,” said First Selectman Fred Camillo, saying it’s all part of his vision for enhancing the waterfront. “I want more trees and grass and plantings. We can do that and increase parking by pushing it forthe back by building it into the grade” of the nearby Interstate 95 on ramp.
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This would allow the town to offer more parking in a critical area while also increasing the green space “so it’s not all asphalt,” Camillo said. If possible, he said he would also like to see ways to “extend Greenwich Avenue” into the lot, making it possible to build restaurants or businesses there.
“We could take care of the parking component by building something into the grade,” Camillo said. “This would not be a standalone garage. It would be something into the grade, worked into the on-ramp of I-95, and it could accommodate more spaces than we have now with a second or third level.”
This structure would be hidden and not blocking the water views, he said. “Now you’ve opened up most of the parking lot for greenspace and possible commerce. We’ve talked about this for two years and we think it would be beautiful,” Camillo said.
The proposal is in the concept phase, he said, but the town’s Request for Proposals is looking for a firm that can turn it into a reality.
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“The first step of creating a waterfront district is to reclaim the park and give the people views of the water they haven’t had in 70 years,” he said. “The second part of this figuring out what we can do with this parking lot.”
Camillo also pledged to seek public input on the initiative, saying “There’s still some ideas we haven’t thought of.” But one idea that is off the table, Camillo said, is a standalone parking structure, which he said he would “never, ever be in favor of.”
In his budget plan for 2021-22, Camillo had proposed spending $1.25 million for continued design work on the park improvements, with a planned $11.2 allocation in 2022-23 to do the work. The Board of Estimate and Taxation removed the design money from the budget, but Camillo said he is pushing forward with his plan, calling it “long overdue.”
The RFP cites the town’s 2019 Plan of Conservation and Development, which calls for a strengthened connection “between upper and lower downtown.” It points out that the downtown area is bifurcated by the railroad tracks and Interstate 95, separating Greenwich Avenue from the Bruce Museum, Greenwich Harbor and the park.
The RFP “reflects First Selectman Camillo’s vision for this area,” Town Director of Planning and Zoning Katie DeLuca said Monday. It was issued without the knowledge or involvement of the Planning and Zoning Department, she said. [Does that sound like she’s pissed off? ]
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“The community has many gems south of the I-95 bridge, including the Bruce Museum, public spaces offering spectacular views of Greenwich Harbor, the historic teen center building, and the park and event space at Roger Sherman,” DeLuca said. “So having a more inviting pedestrian travelway from the bustle of Greenwich Avenue to these amenities was viewed very favorably in the 2019 discussions that led to that language” in the POCD.
Over the fifty years or so that I’ve been aware of town politics I’ve seen a number of proposals to increase parking at the Island Beach lot, but they all involved merely building a multi-tiered structure, and all were, appropriately, in my opinion, turned down. This idea is different, and, depending on cost, could get rid of what’s been an eyesore since it was built. In any event, good for Camillo for looking “outside the box”, to use that horribly cliched term.
Credit where credit's due? Screw it
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POS thanked Holden for discovering this video, while I have a foggy memory of finding it myself, but who cares? I don’t know why I, or Holden, first posted it, [update: well of course it was Holden — who else comes up with these crazy videos? I apologize for my faulty memory, Holden] but it’s as grand today as it was back then, whenever “then” was. So thanks, POS, for bringing it back. Holden, do you have any idea what the hell this was about?
Gee, you mean all this was just theater?
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Off to write fund-raising emails
Capitol policeman Brian Sicknick died of natural causes, medical examiner discloses
Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick, whose death was initially believed to be caused by rioters during the Jan. 6 insurrection, succumbed to natural causes stemming from a stroke the day after the violence, according to the top medical examiner in the nation's capital.
Francisco Diaz, the chief medical examiner for Washington, D.C., told the Washington Post that Sicknick died on Jan. 7 after suffering two strokes and that he did not suffer an allergic reaction to any chemical irritants.
Not to diminish his death in any way, or the sorrow suffered by his loved ones, but the casket in the Rotunda, the mock-serious mien on the faces of Pelosi et al as they paid homage to this poor victim of Orange Man, was all bullshit. They knew it, the media knew it, now we know it.
Circling Back: Instapundit’s now on the story. Discussion there, but Glenn Greenwald sums it up nicely:
