Greenwich, Connecticut real estate, politics, and more.
Greenwich, Connecticut real estate, politics, and more
Or maybe that should read WHO benefits? Besides the administration’s favorite pharmaguys, of course.
Biden’s handlers will have to move swiftly to get COVID-II dispersed and rampaging through the population in time for the election, but don’t worry, they’ve got it in hand: Bird Flu Engineered to Infect Humans Could Be Lab-Produced ‘in Months,’ Former CDC Director Says
That’s a common excuse for homeowners who have merely overpriced their house, but 295 Taconic Road really is unique, and will appeal only to a small number of buyers, so in this instance, yeah, the owners will just have to wait. I notice that they cut its price yesterday from $3.250 million, to $2.750 , and that doesn’t surprise me, although I think it’s the nature of house itself that’s making for a slow sale, rather than (solely) the price.
It’s a grand antique, which much renovation completed, but with more work still to be done. Houses that are “projects” narrow the buying pool considerably, “antiques” still more, and a location far from town eliminates still another demographic. I love the house and would be very happy in it, and I’d be glad to finish the renovations, but I’m not in the market. Someone will eventually come along who shares my taste and preferences but who, unlike myself, has disposable funds.
I wrote about it here when it came on the market in March, and you can get its details and read some enlightening readers’ comments at that link.
Back in summer of 2016 I attended a Trump rally in Portland, Maine, just to see what all the fuss was about. I’d been led to believe by media reports that his supporters were pretty much drooling, racist morons — “a basket of deplorables”, as one of our most deplorable politicians had put it. I waited in line for 90 minutes to get into the auditorium where he was to speak, and spent that time chatting with those next to me: a soldier on leave, a retired principal from northern Maine and her husband, and the chairman of the philosophy department at a major southern university, in Maine on his summer vacation. None of them were idiots.
When we did get in, Trump delivered an hour-and-a-half speech that was funny, biting, and right on target. I left thinking that the media were seriously underestimating the man and his supporters. So it didn’t surprise me that, on the morning after his election, I met with several acquaintances, liberals all, who were in a state of shock (two of the women were actually weeping) that he’d won, and had idea how he did it. The explanation for why they were so surprised was, I think, that their prefered media fed them stories they wanted to hear, not what was actually happening. Judging from the media’s coverage of Thursday’s Trump rally in the South Bronx, that underestimation is happening again.
Some examples:
Liberal media commentators, journalists and New York Democrats complained about the massive crowd that showed up for former President Trump's campaign rally in deep-blue New York City, calling the showing "fake" and full of out-of-towners.
Trump rallied a crowd of what his campaign estimated to be 25,000 supporters at Crotona Park in the Bronx on Thursday, far more than the initial 3,500 it said were expected to attend. The crowd size even surprised a CNN reporter on site at the event.
"Certainly a bigger crowd than I think Democrats would like to see, particularly given this is one of the bluest counties in the entire country," CNN correspondent Kristen Holmes said, noting that many attendees were from the Bronx.
Progressive Democrats and liberal commentators on MSNBC tried to discredit the rally before and after it occurred as a contrived stunt to win minority voters in the area.
"Well, I’ll tell you what won’t make a difference at all, Jake, and that’s for Donald Trump to be a ringleader and invite all his clowns to a place like the Bronx," New York Gov. Kathy Hochul told CNN's Jake Tapper as the former president's supporters were gathering. "New York will never, ever support Donald Trump for president."
"So if he wants to spend his time doing these made-up, fake rallies and pretending there’s support here, be my guest, because while you’re doing that, Donald Trump, Joe Biden’s out there on the other side making sure he’s delivering for all Americans," Hochul continued.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a fellow New York Democrat, dismissed the Trump rally as a stunt to pay his legal fees.
…. Ocasio-Cortez doubled down on Thursday, accusing Trump of sending in supporters from outside states to "trick" her constituents.
And from Salon’s summary of a report aired on ABC News:
“A local New York evening news report by Jim Dolan on ABC7 revealed just how many, or how few, were there. Not to mention the fact that there were plenty of protesters mixed in.”
According to Dolan's reporting, those who were in attendance didn’t amount to a lot, judging by the b-roll aired later that evening. What's more, most individuals in the crowd were not even from the Bronx.
“Donald Trump can now say he held a rally in the South Bronx, home to immigrants and minority communities, and that it was well attended,” Dolan said. “It’s just not clear that the people who attended were from the Bronx. The campaign controlled who got in, and the campaign, of course, picked only supporters.”
“Plenty of protestors” and “the campaign controlled who got in … and picked only supporters” would seem mutually contradictory to anyone who isn’t one of the flying monkeys of the press, but it’s an easy hurdle for those who are.
But amazingly, there was one legitimate report from the mainstreet press and it was actually aired on MSNBC — it will be ignored, I predict, by that channel’s viewers:
NBC News reporter Dasha Burns said that several Black and Latino Trump supporters shut her down when she attempted to confront them on the former president’s "racist" rhetoric on Thursday.
Burns appeared on MSNBC on Friday to talk about her coverage of Trump’s massive rally the previous day in deep-blue Bronx, New York. The reporter recalled that the Black and Latino Trump supporters she spoke to on the scene had completely bought into Trump’s anti-illegal immigration and economic policies, even if he had said "racist" and "bigoted" things in the past.
"They are just so focused on what their lives are like right now, what they can feel tangibly, that when I push back with those comments, they shut that down," Burns told MSNBC host Ana Cabrera, commenting that these voters don’t care about Trump’s rhetoric compared to his policies.
NBC News reporter Dasha Burns said that several Black and Latino Trump supporters shut her down when she attempted to confront them on the former president’s "racist" rhetoric on Thursday.
Burns appeared on MSNBC on Friday to talk about her coverage of Trump’s massive rally the previous day in deep-blue Bronx, New York. The reporter recalled that the Black and Latino Trump supporters she spoke to on the scene had completely bought into Trump’s anti-illegal immigration and economic policies, even if he had said "racist" and "bigoted" things in the past.
"They are just so focused on what their lives are like right now, what they can feel tangibly, that when I push back with those comments, they shut that down," Burns told MSNBC host Ana Cabrera, commenting that these voters don’t care about Trump’s rhetoric compared to his policies.
During the segment, Burns seemed surprised by the fact that many of the people she spoke to were immigrants who supported Trump's points on heavily restricting immigration and potentially calling for mass deportations.
"Well, this might sound a little counterintuitive, but I did talk to folks in that crowd who themselves were immigrants," she said. "A lot of people that I talked to were born and raised in the Bronx. For some of them, this was their first ever Trump event. And when you talk to immigrants that are going to these Trump rallies, they agree with his message on immigration."
She continued, "Their point is, ‘Look, I did it the right way. I came here legally.’ And especially those living in New York right now, the sentiment I heard from a lot of voters was, ‘We have these immigrants right now that the city is taking care in a way that I’ve never felt taken care of by this city.'"
Another indicated to the reporter he hadn’t forgotten Biden’s comments to podcast host Charlamagne Tha God in 2020 that anyone who votes for Trump instead of him “ain’t Black”.
Burns said that she tried to push back, to no avail.
"Multiple people actually mentioned that Charlamagne tha God interview. I did press back with some of those folks, mentioning some of Trump’s rhetoric that’s been seen as racist and bigoted," she added. "They said they don’t have a problem with that. They view his actions over his words in terms of what they feel he can do for their community."
Burns added that among the attendees were "Black and Latino voters that are sick of how much they’re paying for gas and groceries, that are frustrated with the situation at the border."
In footage of Burns speaking to various minority Trump supporters at the rally, one praised Trump and slammed Biden for having "disrespected the people of the city of New York."
It shouldn’t be that difficult to grasp the concept
A Turkish migrant, who told Fox News he paid around $10,000 to a cartel on his way to the United States, selling everything he owned, said Americans should be worried about the lack of security at the southern border.
The man told Fox News after crossing illegally into Jacumba, California, in San Diego County: "In fact, American people is right, completely true. Who comes into this country? They don’t know. OK, I’m good. But how if they’re not good? How if they’re killers, psychopath, else? No guarantee of that."
He added of crossing the border: "Like, no security, no security check, no background check."
The whole world is laughing at us, and deservedly so:
Illegal immigrants crossing into the United States at the southern border were spotted calling for rides from Lyft as they grew tired of waiting for Border Patrol agents to come pick them up.
Fox News was on the ground in Jacumba, California, observing migrants who had come in across the southern border, and were waiting for several hours to be picked up and processed by Border Patrol agents.
Some Colombians got sick of waiting for the feds to come pick them up, so they called a ride on the ride-sharing app and hopped in the car when it arrived.
No one knows where they went, but possibly they’re off to conduct another dry run terrorist attack on one of our military bases.
and where is my land acknowledgement? I want my land acknowledgement!
Shruthi Kumar, the Harvard senior selected to deliver the English address [meaning there are other speakers squawking at the crowd in Urdu and Tagalog? Sounds like a fun day in tghe sun — ED] Thursday, pulled out a piece of paper containing controversial remarks hidden up the sleeve of her gown and took aim at university leaders over the decision to deny more than a dozen students their diplomas.
“As I stand here today, I must take a moment to recognize my peers — the 13 undergraduates in the Class of 2024 that will not graduate today,” Kumar told the crowd, according to a video posted by Harvard.
“I am deeply disappointed by the intolerance for freedom of speech and their right to civil disobedience on campus,” she said of the protests, which famously replaced the American flag with a Palestinian one.
According to a poll conducted by the Harvard Crimson, 82.46% of Harvard faculty identify themselves as liberal or very liberal, 16.08% as “moderate”, and 1.46% as conservative. The incoming class comprises 7% who describe themselves as conservative. So if you were to put a newly-minted Harvard graduate on your payroll, there’s a 93% chance that you’d be hiring someone who came out of high school incapable of independent thought and then spent another four years undergoing further indoctrination. Add in the propensity of these students to disrupt and interfere with the normal operations of an organization while emitting an unremitting stream of whining objections to the unfairness of life, and I’ll ask again: why?
BTW, and just to prove my point about why you don’t want one of these on your worksites or in your office, here’s what Miss “From the River to the Sea” was complaining about in 2022 to keep busy between the 20-21 BLM riots and the 23-24 Palestinian war du jure: “menstrual Equity”.
What will she find to complain about if she clambers aboard your ship? Hire her, and let her surprise you.
12 Lindsay Drive, $6.150 million, 8 days from listing to pending, so assume multiple offers.
514 Round Hill Road, asked $4.950 million, sold for $4.650.
The sellers paid $3,633,000 for the house in 2020 and didn’t do much to it, yet still made (gross) $1,017,000, so that’s not bad for such a short visit.
from his lips to God’s ear
“We cannot win this election … we can only reelect Donald Trump”
"We cannot win this reelection.. we can only reelect Donald Trump!" -Joe Biden pic.twitter.com/MimO44sKZy
— 🔥🇺🇸 KC 🇺🇸🔥 (@KCPayTreeIt) May 22, 2024
So, I had a meeting at 6:45 this evening, a twenty minute drive from my home. I left 30 minutes before because I knew I was low on gas and would need to fill up. I stopped at a local station and, just for kicks, decided to time the procedure. Getting out of the car, doing the debit card thing, pumping 16 gallons, driving out of the station and resuming my trip took exactly three minutes and thirty seconds. And I was good to go a further 450 miles.
If I had an electric car that needed charging, I’d have had to go out much earlier in the day, find a public charger, and wait anywhere from 25 minutes, to 4 hours, to 12 hours, depending on what charger I found. Or, if I had my own trickle charger at home, I could have stayed there all day while the magic, solar-generated electricity did its thing. A tad inconvenient, but I don’t think my green betters care about my schedule, so what?
Millions of Americans who park their cars on the street or in their apartment building’s outdoor lot (or indoor — not many landlords are going to install individual chargers for their tenants’ cars) and so can’t charge their cars at home don’t realize what’s coming down the road to smash into them in a few years; it should be fun when they do.
But what this year’s voters will notice is the price of Biden gas. On January 20, 2021 (I remember the date because it was Inauguration Day) I paid $1.69 per gallon to fill my tank: The 15.976 gallons I purchased today would have cost $27.14 back then; I paid $3.39 gal. today, for $54.16. That’s a $27.02 difference — double — and I think that difference will be a real attention-getter come November.
A New York corrections officer has been accused of racism after posting a joke about the guards of a Georgia jail on social media.
The post shared by Sergeant Michael Bourhill of Westchester County displayed an image of the Georgia Department of Corrections members and the caption 'They must serve some good biscuits and gravy at the Georgia Department of Correction'.
Bourhill shared the photo and commented 'Damn!!'
“Posting or reposting inappropriate images is a violation of Westchester County employee policy,” Cioffi said. “Employees who violate this policy will be subject to formal disciplinary charges.”
A Westchester County black corrections officer group took even more umbrage, calling the post racist.
“The Westchester Correction Association strongly condemns the racist and offensive social media post shared by a Westchester Correction Sergeant,” the group said on Facebook.
“Sharing this post is not only unprofessional and inappropriate for any law enforcement supervisor as well as deeply racist and demeaning,” the group said. “To merely share such a post is offensive to this supervisor’s colleagues and co-workers.”
According to the WCA's statement, it seems the primary reason they called the post racist and demanded disciplinary action for Bourhill is because the officers in the photo are 'predominantly Black'.
Umm … that's not racism.
They went on to say:
Regardless if the post implies that Black people eat a lot of biscuits or references the weight of some of the officers in the photo, such posts have no place in our society, let alone within the ranks of law enforcement.
Hold up now. When did biscuits and gravy become a stereotypical food for black folks?
Have they never been to a Cracker Barrel? That place is full of biscuits and gravy … and crackers.
Doesn't everybody love biscuits and gravy?
The WCA statement also said:
As a supervisor, it is important to exercise judgment and sensitivity in order to maintain a respectful and inclusive work environment.
All the words after 'exercise' were unnecessary.
Officer Bourhill is currently under investigation for the post, highlighting just how ridiculous progressives have become.
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