Old Greenwich sale

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28 Lockwood Drive (not to be confused with Lockwood Road, or Lockwood Avenue), listed at $2.495 million, sold for $2.928. 1920 home, 2,200 sq.ft., 0.15 of an acre — lot is 50’ wide, 129’ long — and the street, but not the structure itself, is in the AE flood zone.

In other words, pretty typical sale for this market.

got the bleached zebra

the orange

and the ocelot, because why not?

That would leave her with, what ... two?

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Kathy Griffin Says She Lost a Third of Her Fans Over Trump Severed Head Photo

The Hill reported Saturday that Griffin says she has suffered tremendously for standing valiantly against Bad Orange Man: “One thing that breaks my heart,” the sensitive little shrinking violet and budding professional victim lamented, “is why I would say I’ve lost, probably permanently, about a third of my audience because of the Trump thing.”

Political polemics are not comedy, or didn’t used to be.

And the lawfare continues unabated

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general j. kaul addresses the subjects of wisconsin

After waiting four years, and just in time to (try to) intimidate Trump supporters and those who dare to work for him:

Wisconsin attorney general files felony charges against attorneys, aide who worked for Trump in 2020

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin Attorney General Josh Kaul filed felony forgery charges Tuesday against two attorneys and an aide who helped submit paperwork falsely saying that former President Donald Trump had won the battleground state in 2020.

The state charges are the first to come in Wisconsin and follow separate charges brought in Arizona, Michigan, Nevada and Georgia related to the fake electors scheme.

The Wisconsin charges were filed against Trump's attorney in the state, Jim Troupis, 62, attorney Kenneth Chesebro, 62, who was advising the campaign and Mike Roman, 51, who was Trump’s director of Election Day operations. Roman allegedly delivered Wisconsin’s fake elector paperwork to a Pennsylvania congressman’s staffer in order to get them to then-Vice President Mike Pence on Jan. 6, 2021.

All three are due in Dane County Circuit Court on Sept. 19, according to court records. They each face one felony count punishable by up to six years in prison and fines of up to $10,000.

Troupis and Chesebro did not return voicemail messages left Tuesday. Roman's attorney, Kurt Altman, said he just learned of the charges Tuesday morning and was in the process of reviewing them.

Kaul, a Democrat, didn't rule out filing more charges, including against the 10 fake electors, saying that the investigation is ongoing.

“Our approach has been focused on following the facts where they lead,” he said at a news conference.

Wisconsin Republican U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson called the charges “outrageous.”

“Now Democrats are weaponizing Wisconsin’s judiciary,” Johnson posted on X. “Apparently conservative lawyers advising clients is illegal under Democrat tyranny. Democrats are turning America into a banana republic.”

Democratic Gov. Tony Evers offered a one-word response to news of the charges being filed: “Good.”

The alleged crime was to prepare an alternative slate of electors, labelled as such, and to present that slate to a congressman for preservation in the event that Trump’s challenge to Wisconsin’s election was upheld. Next up, according to this thug, is to prosecute those individuals who’d agreed to stand as alternative electors.

This would be embarrassing if they were capable of embarrasment, but they aren't, so ... (UPDATED)

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Trump moved to enforce existing immigration law, biden has broken it with impunity — who’s the felon?

After letting 11 million illegal aliens into the country during his three years in office, Biden to issue executive order limiting the number to 912,500 annually, plus the gotaways pouring across the unguarded border. The highest number ever admitted during the Trump administration was 300,000; on his first day in office, Biden stopped all border wall construction, ordered the removal of those portions that had already been constructed, and began rescinding the executive orders Trump had issued restricting immigration. How many were rescinded? “Too many to count”.

The details of his new “plan” are now out, and at least some people are unimpressed.

Biden Announces Executive Action on Border, Which Has 'Exceptions Broad Enough to Drive a Truck Through'

In no way can Biden’s executive order be described as “shutting down” the border.

It bans asylum to some illegal crossers, with some exceptions.

It does *not* stop or slow the up to 1,500 migrants per day released into the U.S. via CBP One app at ports of entry, and does not stop or slow the up to 30,000 migrants per month flying directly into the U.S. and being released into the country via Biden’s controversial mass parole program for Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans, and Venezuelans.

Unaccompanied children/minors are exempt from the order - which will lead to concerns about child trafficking, and migrants can still claim fear in an attempt to avoid deportation.

Also, asylum has already been banned for most migrants who cross illegally since the end of Title 42 last year - and that hasn’t stopped them from coming. Highest numbers in recorded history end of 2023. 

The order may speed up removals to countries we can deport easily to, (Mexico, northern triangle countries, etc), but there has been no explanation as to how the administration will be able to begin mass removals of migrants coming from another hemisphere with governments that don’t cooperate with the U.S.

Fortunately, Kampallawalla Ding Dong was available to explain things:

New construction in Riverside is coming onto the market the next day or so

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97 Lockwood Road, $5.495 million (link goes to Zillow, rather than listing brokers Hooligans & Lawyers because the Hooligans will post no listing before its time, and often past it). I wouldn’t live on Lockwood on a bet, but others will, and new construction’s been selling in this price range and above, so there you have it.

The owner/builder Lino Marcal builds a very fine house, so this does have quality going for it.

Pending in Riverside

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68 Willowmere Circle, $3.895 million. It took just 10 days to go from first listing to pending status, so it’s probably safe to assume that there were multiple buyers interested, and probably bidding on the property, in which case, we can expect to see final closing price higher than this.

The owners paid $2.450 million in 2016 and don’t appear to have done much if anything in the way of improvements, so there’s your Riverside market, illustrated.

Willowmere Circle is a great micro-neighborhood, so this result isn’t at all surprising.

"No one is above the law"

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So say our betters. Yet Biden has defied the Supreme Court’s ruling that his plan to foist student debt onto the backs of taxpayers and boasted about it. Here are some of the “students” you’re paying to attend college:

From this morning’s InstaPundit:

INSURRECTION: UC Santa Barbara pro-Hamas encampment now an ‘autonomous society:’ Demanded free food at its ‘Dining Hall Liberation’ demonstration.

THE ENEMY WITHIN: U.S. Media and Students Do Precisely What Hamas Leader Urged.

INSURRECTION: Anti-Israel protesters burn UC Berkeley police vehicle with ‘incendiary device’ in ‘retaliation’ for arrests. Have you noticed that MAGA people don’t “retaliate” for arrests?

Related: Yale students call for ‘open intifada,’ say activists should ‘escalate disruption’ and ‘paralyze all aspects of normal life.’

Price cut on Stag Lane

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55 Stag Lane, now down to $2.695 from its original March price of $3.250 (it previously took a cut to $2.995 in April). The owners tried unsuccessfully for $1.495 back in 2020, took it of the market and renovated it in 2021, and now they’re back. are those improvements worth an additional $1.2 million? Maybe not, but the 2020 Fauci Lockdown market has certainly improved, so, maybe.

It’s a nice house on a good, 4-acre lot, and a buyer could do worse for more.