Greenwich, Connecticut real estate, politics, and more.
Greenwich, Connecticut real estate, politics, and more
“Hey”, White House mouthpiece Jen Psaki told FWIW, “America’s a racist cesspool, founded and nurtured on the blood of slaves, so sure, we want U.S. athletes everywhere to display their contempt and hatred for the country. How else will we earn the respect of the world, and be liked again?
Boy Gary’s house in Hillcrest at 2 Old Farm Lane, $3.195 million, has a contract after 19 days. For some reason, the search function on my administrative page isn’t working, but we did discuss the house when it came on, trust me.
The general consensus of readers and this blogger was that it was a good price for a good house in a nice neighborhood. Sadly, the other consensus was that both Boy Gary and his wife are wonderful people, so their leaving will be a loss.
Asphalt, traffic, noise: bringing the City with them
54 Mallard Drive, asking $3.575 million, has a contract after 38 days. No huge surprise here; the sellers paid $3.3 for it when it was new in 2017 (the builder had started at $3.925), and there have been a few sales in this range on the street, so I guess that’s the market.
What does surprise me, though, is the rapid change in buyers’ tastes. Up to a decade ago — less, actually — people shied from heavily trafficked streets like Mallard, which is the main cut-through from central Greenwich to the high school and all points east on the Post Road. Houses sold there, but at a discount.
Now they don’t. One could duplicate this house at the same price on a quieter street, but buyers don’t care. Which I’m not condemning, but just pointing out a new phenomenon in our local market.
No, those are not her own daughters, who she left long ago
Greenwich’s former state senator Alex Kasser-Bergstein tells why she quit. She’s lying, of course.
Looking ahead, Kasser said, “I have to focus my time and energy on this divorce...There’s a trial scheduled for September.”
Kasser, who was in her second term as state senator representing all of Greenwich and parts of Stamford and New Canaan, said like many other women she was ultimately forced to choose between her career and her family.
Kasser’s children are ages 17, 21 and 23. “It is too painful to be in Greenwich now that I’ve been erased from their lives, just as their father promised would happen if I ever left him,” she said in personal statement released with her resignation.
In the interview, she added, “My children have always been my priority and they continue to be my priority...I need to be focused on this personal situation before I can resume my professional focus.”
Despite that, she rebuffed the notion that her need to focus on her children was a factor in her resignation. Asked during Thursday’s phone interview whether her children were proud of her for getting into politics, Kasser replied: “not at all.”
Interviews with her children over the past few years have revealed that her kids hate her; they want nothing to do with her, and she’s made clear she wants nothing to do with them — she’s off to her new life as a lesbian feminist, or so she says.
And so consumed by a divorce that she can’t work? I handled a number of divorces in my legal career and encountered a few deranged parties like Kasser* — we’re lucky she no longer represents Greenwich.
What did she accomplish, or try to accomplish in Hartford? She was “a vociferous proponent of tolls”, a passion that went nowhere, and did manage to get a bill passed that added “coercive control” to the definition of domestic violence. Kasser-Bergstein claims that her husband used her lesbianism to keep her in her unhappy marriage, and pushed this bill so that she’d have ammunition to use in her banshee attack on her husband. The bill has not been signed into law by Lamont, but you can be sure her lawyers will bring it up as evidence of abuse anyway.
Is it corrupt for a legislator to get a law passed for her personal benefit? It’s certainly business as usual, but that doesn’t make it ethical or legal.
*A friend reminded me, by sending along a transcript of a hearing on this matter, that the lady has a $19 million trust fund, a multi-million-dollar house in Nantucket, and a $5,000 per month apartment in Greenwich that her children refuse to visit. So, if it’s not money or children this woman is shrieking about, why does she persist?
Nuts.
Sauron’s army attacks
Grammar are racist, just like math, hard work and promptness. It’s obvious that the people pushing to leave black people in ignorant illiteracy and numeracy, black and white, aren’t so handicapped, and show no indication that they’ll let their children grow up that way — that’s why they put their kids in private, white-dominated schools. So what are these people really doing? Creating a population of ignorant orcs, ready to do pay mindless obedience to their masters, and do their bidding
Those whose destruction is cheered by politicians as legitimate acts of officially approved protest”
inventor of slavery, abraham Lincoln
And those honoring wife-beating, felonious crackheads, which must be protected
no, these pathetic fools are not the ones who will bring down the country — the real enemies are much more subtle
The National Archives goes after its own Rotunda and the Founding Fathers for “structural racism”
The National Archives’ task force on racism issued a report this month that claimed that the Archives Rotunda, which contains the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, among other documents, pictures, and statues, is itself an example of “structural racism.”
It also claimed that the Founding Fathers were depicted too positively in the records.
Additionally, the report categorized the National Archives’ Rotunda as another example of “structural racism” as it “lauds wealthy White men in the nation’s founding while marginalizing BIPOC [Black, Indigenous and other People of Color], women, and other communities.”
The task force suggests ways to “reimagine the Rotunda,” including staging “dance or performance art in the space that invites dialogue about the ways that the United States has mythologized the founding era.”
The report also called for “trigger warnings” to be put in place with historical content to “forewarn audiences of content that may cause intense physiological and psychological symptoms.”
"OurDocuments.gov features transcripts and historical context of ‘100 milestone documents of American history’ but often uses adulatory and excessive language to document the historical contributions of White, wealthy men," the report reads before taking aim at Jefferson.
"For example, a search of Thomas Jefferson in OurDocuments.gov brings up 24 results. He is described in this sample lesson plan as a ‘visionary’ who took ‘vigorous action’ to strengthen the ‘will of the nation to expand westward,’" the report continues.
"The plan does not mention that his policy of westward expansion forced Native Americans off their ancestral land, encouraged ongoing colonial violence, and laid the groundwork for further atrocities like the Trail of Tears," it added.
Additionally, the report calls for "the creation of safe spaces in every NARA facility" and says NARA has "a responsibility to eliminate racist language in archival descriptions and revise the policies and practices that led to it."
The task force said that "racist language" includes "not only explicitly harmful terms, such as racial slurs, but also information that implies and reinforces damaging stereotypes of BIPOC individuals and communities while valorizing and protecting White people," the report reads. "Descriptive terminology cannot be divorced from its context."
The military’s top officer class is in on this and already screening for troops who disagree. Not to be outdone by mere generals,
Friday evening, when no one was watching, Biden ordered all federal agencies to immediately begin race training classes for their employees.
These termites have bored deep into the military, the federal bureaucracy, the schools, the entertainment industry, and the media — cable, publishing and broadcasting. When they’ve convinced a majority of Americans that our country is not worth fighting to preserve, the fun will begin.
YouTube/Google shuts down videos exposing genocide in Xinjiang
YouTube claimed the videos promoted violent criminal organizations, echoing the Chinese Communist Party’s attacks on dissenters.
Neighbors cut tree in half over bird poop dispute
When words fail, sometimes you just have to cut down half a tree – at least, that’s what one couple did.
The couple, in Sheffield, U.K., called in an arborist to cut down half of the branches of a 16-foot-tall fir tree that were hanging over their driveway, according to reports. The rest of the tree is in their neighbor’s yard.
Their neighbor, Bharat Mistry, told SWNS that the tree has been in his front yard for 25 years. However, during the coronavirus pandemic lockdown last March, Mistry’s neighbors reportedly asked to have the tree removed, BBC reported.
More recently, the neighbors complained about birds in the tree making too much noise and pooping on their driveway, so Mistry told SWNS that he tried to work on a solution.
"We had asked if we could get it trimmed back and put a net in it so it would stop birds getting in, but there was no compromise with them," Mistry told SWNS.
"Last weekend he said he was going to get a tree surgeon to cut it down and we asked him not to but they came on Friday and did it," Mistry added.
"We were absolutely distraught," Mistry told SWNS. "We pleaded and pleaded with them not to do it, but their mind was made up. That tree was coming down."
Mistry told SWNS he hasn’t spoken to his neighbors since they cut the tree down, but before the pandemic, the two families got along.
"We have never had any issues with them before this, we got on fine," Mistry said. "Our children would play with their grandchildren when they were younger, we've always got on."
"He used to bring the bins in for us," Mistry added. "It's such a shame it has come to this."
I was somewhat unsettled when I read that the angry neighbor is old enough to have grandchildren and that his intemperate outburst seems a recent phenomenon: do we know of any other old men who are losing their minds, prone to lashing out, and who are in a position to do something about it?
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