Greenwich, Connecticut real estate, politics, and more.
Greenwich, Connecticut real estate, politics, and more
38 Aiken Road, $11.5 million. I remember when this house sold for $6.9 million, and I was shocked. I wasn’t shocked, however, when it failed to resell at $6.995 in 2013, nor that it finally sold in 2020 for $3.2; that seemed like the right price for a tired old building on 4 acres in the north country.
Now it’s been completely reworked and redone, and at least it looks like something that could legitimately ask for so much money. We’ll see what happens.
An elderly elephant named "Kamala" with prolonged health issues was just euthanized at the Smithsonian National Zoo in Washington, D.C.
Kamala — estimated to be about 50 years old, an advantaged age for her species — was humanely put down Friday, the Smithsonian announced over the weekend, after her physical condition had "irreversibly declined."
…. Ultimately, her keepers believed that the pain medication could no longer keep Kamala comfortable and elected to euthanize her. She was put out of her misery in the elephant barn.
Kamala's death comes days away from the 2024 election when Vice President Kamala Harris could be voted out of office.
Photo Courtesy of Burning madoff
Guys posing as Kamala campaign workers went door-to-door trying to place illegal migrants in Democrats’ homes.
— I Meme Therefore I Am 🇺🇸 (@ImMeme0) November 4, 2024
The reactions?
Exactly what you’d expect. 😂😂😂 pic.twitter.com/PanBic1T7P
It helps when Gid’s charity subsidizes buyers, of course, but regardless, his listing at 7 Coachlamp Lane, priced at $2.195 million, has sold quickly for $2,402,000.
how could we possibly be replaced?
Funny if Times readers had to turn to Fox News for election coverage, no?
66 Laddins Rock Road, listed at $879,000, sold for $890,000. Another one of Gideon’s Give Back Program listings, where Gid dips into his own pocket to help another agent’s client afford a house. “It’s just something I have to do”, he explains modestly.
Pending in NoPo Riverside, new construction at 86 Mary Lane, $3.190 million, is reported pending after just nine days on market. No word at this time whether Brother Gideon is also helping to finance this one, but hey — you never know.
Well, alright, I lied. Going to the link, I saw this comment that’s pretty damn good in its own right:
John Hinderaker, no Trump fan he, but neither is he a Never-Trumper, writes in PowerLine:
…. The Democrats are trying to run on the issue of “democracy,” which polls tell us ranks around fourth in voters’ rating of issues. It has never been clear what Democrats mean by claiming that Our Democracy™️ is on the ballot. Ironically, though, in a very real sense it is.
…. We have not had a functioning president since early in Joe Biden’s term; perhaps we have never had a real president from the day he was inaugurated. And even when Biden’s senility was revealed beyond dispute in the presidential debate, no one except a handful of conservative pundits and politicians seriously thought he should be removed from office. We had gotten along without a president for years, why worry about it now?
Kamala Harris would be a worthy successor to Joe Biden. While not senile, she is so untalented and so uninterested in any matters of policy–the most she can do is mouth left-wing platitudes, from which she is happy to retreat if they become a hindrance–that she could not, in any real sense, function as the president. The government would be run, as it has been for nearly four years, by the Deep State, the permanent bureaucracy, Washington insiders, the White House staff, Democratic Party oligarchs–describe the group how you will. The transition from the senile Joe Biden to the clueless Kamala Harris would be seamless.
This is the subject of Glenn Reynolds’ current column in the New York Post:
Independent journalist Glenn Greenwald recently tweeted, “The US has no functional president and has not had one for months, and it’s barely noticeable and barely matters because there’s a permanent unelected machine that runs the government.”
***
And of course a whole collection of bureaucrats, interagency committees and even lobbyists (who often write federal legislation and agency regulations) may be basically steering the ship of state in the absence of an actual captain.What’s surprising, though, is how little anyone seems to care.
***If you read Glenn’s whole column, he is a little more sanguine than I am. I think that our democracy is rapidly circling the drain. There is progressively less relationship between policies that our government follows, especially at the national level, and wishes expressed by voters. We never voted for open borders, for DEI, for “trans” madness, for the destruction of reliable energy and our electrical grid. Most important decisions are made out of sight, and only nominally by those for whom we have voted.
Regardless of whom we elect, the permanent government will continue to press for ever more statist policies, the purpose of which is to expand the power of the state at the expense of the individual. It is notoriously difficult for Republican presidents to control the executive branch for which they are constitutionally responsible.
This year’s election is a critical point at which voters can try to stop the juggernaut of left-wing policies that they never chose. And in Donald Trump, we have a deeply flawed champion, but one who at least understands the problem and is committed to trying to solve it. It may be that 2024 is the people’s last, best hope to stop the tide of ever more powerful and intrusive unelected government.
And so, in a way completely different from what the Democrats propose, our democracy really is on the ballot this year.
dead zebra, or just resting?
Shot:
“It was a pleasure to work with Sotheby’s Concierge Auctions in our shared goal of selling Quaker Lane Farm,” [Sotheby’s Listing Agent Leslie] McElwreath said in a statement. * “We’re proud to have concluded the sale of such a unique offering and to help prove that auction can be a successful method of selling in our community.”
Chaser:
The buyer defaulted on the purchase which is “a rare occurrence,”according to a Sotheby's public relations representative.
(Listing is back up, here.)
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