I am NOT questioning the right, or, perhaps, even the desirability of increasing home prices, just observing that the character of the town has been transformed

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2017: 1,680 sq.ft., $1.325 million

2024: 4,866 sq. ft., $3.795 million.

19 Mallard Drive is new to the market today, priced at $3.795, and the sellers will probably get something close to that. Greenwich hasn’t comprised a mixture of homes in middle-to-high prices, but we’ve now moved from a town of rich people, to a population of the uber-rich. The days of, say, the Chairman of the Dime Savings Bank living directly across Riverside Avenue from the local drunk who, when reasonably sober, fixed screens and storm windows are long gone. Of course, gone, too is the Dime Savings Bank, so there you have it.

I personally enjoyed attending Riverside School with a peer group that included the children of major corporations as well as the scions of the Greenwich sewer inspector and the guy who emptied parking meters for the town; now, the demographic is all children of multi-millionaires, r soon will be.

For what that’s worth.

All is going in accordance with the South Park Plan

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Female Olympian Forfeits After Being Forced to Fight a Biological Man, Global Outrage Ensues

By Bonchie | 10:02 AM on August 01, 2024

“Shocking video showed Italy's Angela Carini being pummelled by Imane Khelif of Algeria (who now claims to be "intersex" but has XY chromosomes). Less than a minute into the fight, Carini called time. Upon re-entering, she immediately took another punch and withdrew. Preliminary reports are that her nose was broken.”

“After the fight was called, Khelif lifted his hand to celebrate and then appeared to stare down Carini before mocking her with a pat on the back as she cried. He then rushed over to fist-bump his trainers.”

Afterward, a still-tearful Carini said she quit because of intense pain in her nose after the opening punches. Carini, who had a spot of blood on her trunks, said she wasn’t making a political statement and was not refusing to fight Khelif.

“I felt a severe pain in my nose, and with the maturity of a boxer, I said ‘enough,’ because I didn’t want to, I didn’t want to, I couldn’t finish the match,” Carini said.

Carini further said she is not qualified to decide whether Khelif should be allowed to compete, but she had no problem fighting her.

I think “Bonchie” hits the target square on the nose with this observation:

“On the one hand, I feel extremely sorry for Carini that she was put through that. The IOC making her fight a man who had already been disqualified from the 2023 world championships due to failing a gender test is inexcusable. On the other hand, it is simply a fact that if female athletes keep refusing to defend themselves, none of this will change. It begins with them. [bolding added] If they aren't willing to call this out for what it is, which is deeply unfair and dangerous, then the outrage of others will fall on deaf ears.”

“Still, the outrage flowed, and rightfully so. Some even pointed out that the comedy show "South Park" actually predicted this in astonishing fashion.”

Market timing

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900 Lake Avenue

900 Lake Avenue has sold for $3,652,300 million, after a bidding war that began at $3.550,000. What a difference a few years make. This 1790 house was purchased by a previous owner in 1994, who then beautifully restored and expanded it and put it back up for sale in 2010 for $4.125; seven long years later, in 2017, he finally sold it for $2.8.

And that buyer did even worse when he went to resell it in 2019: he asked for $2.850, couldn’t get it, and was forced to accept $2.2 million in 2020 from the current (until yesterday) owners.

You may (okay, must) now address me as Miss Kunta Kinte Running Cloud Shere Khan

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That was then, on her way to becoming America’s first border czar, and before the Democrats needed a black place holder

Until now, I’ve been reluctant to reveal my true identity: a black/female/Indian/Tiger, for fear of offending one or all of those identity groups (especially tigers — you do not want to offend tigers), but KPP has just given me official governmental approval to do so, so hooray! Free at last, free at last, thank god almighty, I’m free at last.

Is there any reason behind this strategy other than to bring down the country, and usher in the Cloward-Piven era of socialism?

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Nation-wide hkusing shortage? Welfare overload? State budgets crashng under the weight of social spending, while Federal deficit spending soars? The Democrats love it, and are piling on more fuel. Why?

Biden/Harris administration 'super-charged' migration from Latin America: report

Over 20,000 migrants have already been approved for resettlement in the US

The Biden/Harris administration has "super-charged" a "Lawful Pathways" program that has helped admit tens of thousands of people from Latin America.

The Safe Mobility Office Initiative, launched in May 2023 and given expanded capacity this spring, has worked to fly tens of thousands of people to the U.S. through the refugee resettlement process, despite those people being of nationalities that have rarely qualified for refugee status, according to a Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) analysis.

According to the report, the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) personnel and United Nations have set up offices in Ecuador, Colombia, Costa Rica and Guatemala that have granted refugee status to 21,000 people from seven different Latin American countries in the first year of the program, with half of those having already arrived in the country as of May.

The refugees are being flown to the U.S. from Haiti, Venezuela, Nicaragua, Cuba, Guatemala, Ecuador and Colombia, the report notes, though even greater numbers may have been flown in through June and July after the administration expanded the program to allow for migrants from Honduras and El Salvador.

“The expansion of the program comes despite the U.S. traditionally only granting refugee status to individuals who can credibly claim that they cannot return to their home country out of a "well-founded fear" of persecution on the basis of race, religion, nationality, political opinion or membership in a particular social group, but the CIS analysis argued that many of those coming to the U.S. would more normally be classified as economic migrants.”

The report cites a 2024 Mixed Migration Centre survey of program participants that found 90% indicated they wanted to travel to the U.S. for economic opportunities and higher living standards, not to flee potential persecution.

“The administration has also raised the allotted slots to admit refugees from Latin America, from less than 5,000 when President Biden took office to 50,000 in 2024.”

… [Heritage Foundation’s Loro Ries] also argued …. that the speed of processing applications raises questions about how well the migrants are vetted.

"If you just set high numbers and then quickly adjudicate, grant, process, and resettle, then they’re not getting fully vetted," Ries said. "It used to take about a year or a year and a half to get through the entire refugee process."

But the CIS analysis indicates that the process for some migrants can be completed in a matter of days, something Ries called "ridiculous."

"That means no vetting is happening," Ries said. "So they have no idea who they’re letting in."

Source material here.

The Latest Biden/Harris ‘Lawful Pathways’ Scheme: Declare Latin American Migrants to Be ‘Refugees’

Thousands flying in who would not have qualified as refugees in the past