Nothing like a hearty guffaw to start your morning off right

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*Note from the Publisher: It has come to our attention that use of the term “totem pole” is an act of racist cultural appropriation, and must not be used by whites, Asians, or, presumably, eastern Indians. We apologize for this egregious sin, and have fired the editor for wandering so far off the reservation.

The FBI has always been a useless gang of thugs, so this doesn't surprise me

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Asked whether he had personally observed any cognitive decline in meetings with Biden prior to his decision to withdraw from the election, FBI Director Wray said that he had not witnessed any issues with the president's mental state.

Democrat congressmen, world leaders, and left-wing reporters (but I repeat myself) have now come out of the woodwork to admit that, for years, they’d witnessed what the rest of the world has been seeing all along: the old man’s gaga, and his mental condition has been rapidly deteriorating. The man in charge of the FBI didn’t notice anything? He’s either a pathetic liar, or an incompetent completely unsuitable for his position, or, of course, both.

Contract in Deer Park

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33 Midwood Road, currently asking $6.6 million after starting off in 2021 at $8.3, reports a contract, finally. Built in 1928 on 1.71 acres (RA-1 Zone) and renovated at some point: the original 2001 listing claimed 2006, the latest listing pushes that back to 2002, so perhaps the owner had second thoughts and undid some of her improvements?

In any event, it’s Deer Park, and that’s always a plus, regardless of the age of a house, or its style.

Video here — you’ll want to use the mute button.

A Harris Presidency: Biden writ large(r)

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I had a post that I was working on yesterday in my draft folder, but this video just surfaced that pretty much sums up who and what this dreadful creature it. So I’ll go with that, and I’m including my half-finished draft just in case you’d like some further links to her past. The video is sufficient, though.

Politico summarizes (some of) the Left’s new darling’s positions:

Harris would drastically alter the use of public lands, and her plan calls for “immediately halting all new fossil fuel leases on federal lands and waters” and aggressively protecting and restoring public lands so they are public net carbon sinks by 2030. She would also use existing authorities, such as the Antiquities Act, to protect 30 percent of the nation’s lands and oceans by 2030.

And the plan would amplify international climate leadership by rejoining the Paris climate accord and issuing a new ambitious emissions reduction pledge and strategy.

How much would it cost?

Harris’ campaign says the plan would provide “$10 trillion in public and private funding” over the next decade to stave off the worst impacts of climate change. But it does not say what portion of spending would come from public sources, nor does it offer a breakdown of its spending like some of her Democratic rivals’ plans do.

However, one clear spending priority is $250 billion over five years for upgrading drinking water infrastructure.

How would it work?

Many of Harris’ proposals would require Congress to pass new legislation and funding allocations. But the California Democrat says she’ll use executive authority wherever possible to begin implementing her plan on day one of her presidency. Among other priorities, Harris vows to “end federal support for the fossil fuel industry” through executive action where possible and says she’ll oppose new fossil fuel infrastructure projects.

Some of her plans, like reengaging on international climate negotiations and incorporating environmental justice principles into federal decision-making, could be accomplished through executive action.

As a senator, she was an original co-sponsor of the non-binding resolution defining the Green New Deal, a blueprint for a large-scale mobilization aimed at transitioning the U.S. to 100 percent clean energy within a decade while providing people with job guarantees and “high-quality health care.” She was joined by liberals such as Sen. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.).

Harris also said she was “prepared to get rid of the filibuster” to pass it in the face of GOP opposition to climate action. And she said in 2019 that there was “no question I’m in favor of banning fracking,” the technology that has fueled a U.S. oil and natural gas boom and enriched economies in places such as North Dakota, west Texas and Pennsylvania.

Complete ban on fracking, $10 trillion for “Green New Deal”

'Free college tuition for all two-year colleges, and free tuition at four-year colleges for “the poor and middle class”.


Well, look what's back on the market

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808 North Street has resurfaced, this time asking $9.995 million. We’ll hope this owner does better than the poor chump he bought it from in 2020 for $5.3 million (I say “chump” because that owner had paid Stanley Cheslock, of all people*, $11.35 million for the place in 2000, and then spent eleven years, 2009-2020, attempting to resell it, beginning at $11.750 and ending so ignominiously at the aforesaid $5.3).

*A brief recounting of Mr. Cheslock’s two-decade long series of misadventures at 309 Taconic Road can be found in this 2021 post