Fifteen days
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78 Long Meadow Road, NoPo Riverside, $2.4 million.
Things are crazy out there. Not the house, or even the price, but just the speed with which things are moving.
The trouble is, the people who read this already get it, while the people who won't, don't
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Instead of admitting error in jumping to conclusions — that this incident was somehow linked to Derek Chauvin being found guilty of the murder of George Floyd — Twitter activists, cable news hosts and even the White House doubled down on the tale of a racist police officer sticking his gun where it didn’t belong. Bree Newsome, the activist famous for scaling a flag pole and tearing down a Confederate flag tweeted, ‘Teenagers have been having fights including fights involving knives for eons. We do not need police to address these situations by showing up to the scene & using a weapon against one of the teenagers. Y’all need help. I mean that sincerely.’
Valerie Jarrett, a former Obama adviser, echoed this sentiment by tweeting, ‘A Black teenage girl named Ma’Khia Bryant was killed because a police officer immediately decided to shoot her multiple times in order to break up a knife fight. Demand accountability. Fight for justice.’ While appearing on CNN, former head of the NAACP Cornell Brooks declared it a schoolyard fight:
‘What if it were your daughter, what if it were your child, a member of your family, your neighbor in a — essentially in a teenage fight, a schoolyard fight?’
Attorney Ben Crump tweeted, ‘As we breathed a collective sigh of relief today, a community in Columbus felt the sting of another police shooting as @ColumbusPolice killed an unarmed 15yo Black girl named Makiyah Bryant. Another Child lost! Another hashtag.’
The New York Times later printed Mr Crump’s tweet, editing out his claim that the girl was unarmed. The Times has not explained why they edited a published tweet without editorial comment.
The incident made it all the way to the White House, where press secretary Jen Psaki insinuated that this was another police shooting driven by race, stating, ‘black women and girls, like black men and boys, experience higher rates of police violence.’ The footage and 911 call, wherein a woman begs for help because she is being attacked by someone with a knife, released by Columbus officials and the mayor have been deemed inconvenient to the left. The activists speaking out are sending a message that police had no business breaking up or stopping an armed altercation between two black teenagers. Most likely, had the police not been there to stop a girl from being stabbed to death, this incident would have been ignored by the media and the Biden White House. This would have been another faceless tragedy in a Democrat-controlled city among poor urban communities — and would have gone the way of gun violence in Chicago, which is never to be used as an example when it comes to gun or street violence. We are meant to look the other way because even bringing it up is allegedly structural racism at work.
Oh, and speaking of the Windy City, this is not a Babylon Bee headline: Chicago Mayor: Police should get permission before chasing anyone.
Thirteen Days
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11 Ben Court (off Benjamin, surprisingly enough), Old Greenwich, asking $1.695, is pending. MLS listing data is pulled when a house goes pending, but here’s its previous rental description.
Fifteen Days
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6 Sheldrake Road (behind Greenwich Hospital) $2.050 million. It sold for $1.950 in 2007, and wouldn’t sell in 2016-2017, so I guess we’re back to 2007’s peak. That didn’t work out so well, but I’m sure this time will be different
EOS suggested I try to monetize my writing by going on Substack and I was considering it, but maybe I'll just live on Gideon's grace and favor
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11 Lighthouse Lane, OG, pending at $7.9 million
Privileged Pampered White Children Protest ... Protecting Black children?
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gotta love it: fat white boy (?) goes totally woke and claims sympathy for black transvestites. Full-in, fella, that’s the way!
Oooh, they’re hopping mad, and aren’t going to take it anymore. Until they go home for the summer.
RELATED: Boston University Young Socialists demand “free” laundry services because… reasons. John Silber would have kicked their asses off campus, permanently. Today’s administration “promises to listen”.
I’m so glad I’m not charged with finding new hires today; the idea of sorting through thousands of resumes of new college graduates to find even one still capable of rational thought is bone-crushingly daunting.
And one more shot
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you sayin’ i be stupid?
(Found on another site:)
And isn't the girl in pink lucky that he is
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Ohio cop is a trained military marksman
Someone has relieved the identity of the policeman who shot that knife-wielding young woman two days ago (which is despicable), and it turns out that he’s an expert shot (and credit to Susie, who pointed out his exceptional skill just this morning). He dropped the attacker and didn’t hit the victim who was a foot away. Nice job.
I share Hanson’s despair
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rome burns
Reader CT Tempest urges us to read historian Victor Davis Hanson’s latest essay, “How Much Ruin Do We Have Left?” and I almost wish he hadn’t.
Friends and enemies abroad are becoming variously shocked, disheartened—and gleeful—as the United States cannibalizes itself.
Every institution: family, church, education, military, Congress, is being destroyed; in fact, even the concept of our republic itself is going, and I, at least, see no hope. Not every experiment succeeds, and even those that do can have a limited shelf-life. The Great American Experiment is ending, and much faster than even this pessimist had expected.
I’ve regretted that my girls weren't bringing me grandchildren; now, part of me is relieved that there won’t be another generation to suffer through the coming disaster, the other part wishes the Fountains would be around to fight in another revolution.
Circling back: it occurs to me that, at the pace things are proceeding, I might be around to honor my ancestors and extend the family tradition at least through my own generation.