Every story has an ending don't it

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Sixteen years after setting out on its voyage of price discovery in 2008, 25 Selden Lane, which began that year at $7.5 million, has sold for $3.375. It sank as low as $1.899 in 2019, before slowly rising again, but you could have still nabbed it at $2.9 in 2022. Your gain may be this buyer’s loss, but the wreck of a house does come with 7 acres comprising two lots, so it may all work out after all.

Battle won, the war heats up

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Bring on the tanks.

But amidst the gloom, here’s a harbinger of spring: We can hope that Rob’s just the first of many.

Former-actor Rob Reiner has voluntarily checked into the nut house after his post-election blues grew too much for the poor man.

I saw this headline and naively thought the complaints had come from health-conscious fanatics, but it happened in Minnesota, so of course ....

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poor little thing, we won’t let anyone hurt you

Minnesota hospital apologizes for handing out free Chick-fil-A

Essentia Health in Duluth, Minnesota, thought it would be nice to treat their staff at St. Mary's Medical Center with a free lunch last Tuesday.

There was only one problem with that free lunch: It was Chick-fil-A.

Essentia Health's VP for Regional Operations, Tammy Kritzer, hastily apologized after staff outrage erupted:

We have received feedback from some colleagues who were concerned or offended by this occurrence, and we value colleagues feeling comfortable expressing their reservations …

We would like to thank our colleagues who had the courage to speak up to widen our lens of inclusivity, and we appreciate all colleagues continuing to live our values of respect and justice.

Stories like these are so common that they’re no longer news, and there’s no point reposting them except for their humor. Then again, I suppose laughing at these morons was always the point.

Just sayin'

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Shot:

Fairfax County proudly doesn't cooperate with federal immigration officials. 

"The Board of Supervisors passed the Trust Policy in 2021 to codify Fairfax County’s commitment to the safety and security of all immigrant residents. The Trust Policy contains specific standards to ensure that employees do not voluntarily cooperate with enforcement of federal civil immigration laws," the County website states. "The county has received several inquiries about federal changes in policies or procedures regarding immigrants. We’ve heard the concerns about the federal government and planned U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raids in our area. Fairfax County does not and will not enforce civil federal immigration laws. The federal courts have determined that the enforcement of civil immigration laws is solely a federal responsibility under the exclusive authority of ICE."

Chaser:

Another Woman Has Been Raped on a Trail. An Illegal Alien Has Been Charged.

An illegal alien from Honduras has been charged with rape after attacking a woman in Fairfax County, Virginia on a popular running trail. The man has "no fixed address" and a long criminal record in the area dating back to 2022. The investigation is ongoing and police believe there are additional rape victims. 

"I am incredibly saddened and outraged that a crime like this could happen here in the town of Herndon. This is the only stranger rape we have had in the town in my more than 12 years as chief of police. This kind of case not only impacts the victim directly, but impacts our entire community, especially when it occurs in a very public area that we consider safe and that is used by all of our residents and visitors, and by our community on a daily basis. Our thoughts are with the victim as she copes with the events that happened," Herndon Police Chief Chief Maggie DeBoard said during a press conference Tuesday. 

"What is disturbing is the number of times this man has been arrested and released. He has continued to offend and his behavior has escalated to a rape in a very public area in our town," DeBoard continued. 

Lincoln Project's Dan Quisling still doesn't get it

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“What mandate? I don’t see no stinkin’ mandate!”

Since the election, the word “mandate” has been used by President-elect Trump and his supporters to describe his victory on November 5. In American political terms a mandate occurs when an election result reflects broad support for a candidate and his/her policy agenda.

With the exceptions of Maine and Nebraska, the electoral college votes in each state are winner take all. As a result, the country has experienced a number of elections where razor thin margins in the popular vote in a handful of battleground states have resulted in candidates winning those electoral votes, but not the overall popular vote. I would argue that, in a presidential election, a broad and decisive win in the popular vote should be the true measure of an election mandate.

The country decisively rejected the woke agenda Quisling and his confederates have been foisting on the public since 2008, but more important to the prospects of this poor has-been so desperate to regain a power position in the Greenwich Republican Party, the Old Guard GOP has been discarded into the dustbin of history. It’s not coming back, and its members will have slink back to their yacht clubs, order up their gin and tonics, and reflect on what was.

Good riddance.