Well, at least they didn't describe the dead maniac as an "austere, religious scholar"

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New York Times Manages Worst Daniel Penny Headline Yet

Perhaps the Times should ask its readers for alternative headlines to describe the death of the Elvis impersonator who was promising to “kill you all”, as the Washington Post did in 2019 after the U.S. caught up with Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, notorious terrorist and head of IS, and sent him packing to meet his awaiting virgins. The WaPo’s editors’ own attempt at a headline, “austere religious scholar dies at 48” was applauded by conservatives, who contributed proposed headlines for other public figures:

"Adolf Hitler, dedicated art enthusiast, animal rights activist, and talented orator, dies at 56," read one.

"Ted Bundy, meticulous researcher, charismatic figure, and Polaroid enthusiast, dead at 42", read another, in reference to the infamous serial killer.

More on (moron?) our native assassin

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The Left's Manhunt Is On

Beege, HotAir

These people are creepy af and twice as deadly.

The whole time they smile, chatter away and assure you that their intentions are nothing but benign. The words coming out of their mouths are only the truth, and everyone knows it.

So what's our problem with them?

Well...WHAT words ARE coming out of their mouths is what's problematic. Their words flow as easily as if they were discussing the weather, which is how they act. Breezy, chirpy, and shoulder-shrugging, nonchalant attitudes.

The problem is that the words want people dead.

Along with the people you're trying to influence to do your dirty work. 

It's a pretty organized little group of sickos, too, spreading their peculiar brand of intimidation and terrorism, all with a schmear of "But they brought this on themselves" virtue signaling.

Bingley sent me these wanted posters this morning. He found them on his way into the office, plastered on the scaffolding plywood they've got around Federal Hall on Wall Street.

Their populist street cred of 'eating the rich' falls apart as so much larping from children of elites. Those privileged monsters like Lorenz do the gloating and goading while other children of privilege - this assassin was from an enormously wealthy Maryland family - execute people who have risen from humble origins to a position they now deserve to die for, determined, of course, by progressive eyes.

...Thompson was a Hawkeye State success story. He grew up in Jewell, Iowa, a small heartland farming town of 1,200 people about a three-hour drive south from Minneapolis. 

His father worked in a rural grain elevator for 40 years, helping farmers unload and store truckloads of grain, according to his father’s obituary. But his father’s happiest times were spent fishing, especially at a gravel pit with Brian and his older brother Mark. 

...Thompson was the valedictorian and homecoming king of the class of 1993 at South Hamilton High School, which is surrounded by cornfields and has a student population of roughly 300 in grades 7 through 12.

...He went on to the University of Iowa, where he was the Delta Sigma Pi Scholarship Key recipient for having the highest grade-point average in his class, according to his LinkedIn bio and the archives of the Daily Iowan student newspaper. Thompson grew up in a family of die-hard Iowa State Cyclone fans, but his father shifted his loyalty to the Hawkeyes, a reflection of his pride in his son, according to a remembrance by the longtime family pastor.

Beege: “This vicious murder is the perfect illustration of everything that is unrecoverably twisted and deranged inside the black holes of progressive psyches.”

The thing is, this obviously mentally ill Riverside/Old Greenwich native is considered quite sane in her liberal circles

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Ex-WaPo reporter Taylor Lorenz tells Piers Morgan she felt ‘joy’ over assassination of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson: ‘Feels like justice’

The tech reporter appeared on “Piers Morgan Uncensored” on Monday to defend her controversial social media posts celebrating Thompson’s killing.

“Why would you be in such a celebratory mood about the execution of another human being?” Morgan asks the journalist. “Aren’t you supposed to be on the caring, sharing left where, you know, you believe in the sanctity of life?”

Lorenz responds that she does “believe in the sanctity of life” but that is ultimately why “I felt, along with so many other Americans, joy, unfortunately.”

Morgan’s jaw drops at the unexpected response, before he hits back: “Joy!? Serious? Joy at a man’s execution?”

Lorenz then attempts to backtrack, telling Morgan, “Maybe not joy, but certainly not empathy.”

However, the television host continued to grill Lorenz, asking, “How can this make you joyful? This guy is a husband, he’s a father, and he’s been gunned down in the middle of Manhattan. Why does that make you joyful?”

Lorenz, seeming to become more worked up again over her stance, tells Morgan, “So are the tens of thousands of Americans that he murdered!”

“So are the tens of thousands of Americans, innocent Americans, who died because greedy health insurance executives like this one push a policy of denying care to the most vulnerable people, and I am a part of the many millions of Americans that have watched people that I care about suffer and in some cases die because of lack of health care,” she argues.

Morgan then asks if all the health care executives should be killed, wondering if that would make Lorenz “even more joyful.”

Lorenz breaks into laughter, telling Morgan, “Uh, no.” He then shoots back, “Well, why not? Why are you laughing? You seem to find the whole thing hilarious. A bloke’s been murdered in the street. I don’t find it funny at all.”

“I don’t find it funny that tens of thousands of Americans die every year because they are denied life-saving health care from people like the CEO,” Lorenz says, later noting that while she does not think vigilante justice is the way to solve the issue, it’s a “good thing” the murder has highlighted persistent problems with health care in America.

I wonder if Tay-tay’s parents will be as “shocked and dismayed” at her ultimate arrest as Luigi Mangione’s were.

That must have been some bidding war

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52 Shore Road, originally a one-room school house built in 1800, hit the market in late October at $3.395 million, attracted numerous offers, and has been reported sold this morning for $5.550 million. On 0.41 of an acre in the R-12 zone, its present 1,916 sq. ft. could theoretically be replaced by a new home of 5,625 sq. ft. My guess is that that’s what’s going to happen, because nobody pays this kind of money to squeeze into < 2,000 sq. ft.

tomac cove

Numbers Game

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December 5, 2024 (Greenwich, CT) - The Greenwich Association of REALTORS® announces the statistics for home sales for the month of November 2024 according to figures provided by the Greenwich Multiple Listing Service, Inc. The Greenwich MLS and greenwich.realestate is the most accurate and comprehensive resource of active inventory and property listing data across all five zip codes of the Town of Greenwich.   

Single-Family Home Sales

There were 39 single-family residential closings reported across all areas of Greenwich during the month of November 2024. This was a decrease, compared to November 2023 when there were 40 closings. 

The Median Sale Price for a single-family home increased 13.03% to $2,255,000 from the median sales price in November 2023, which was $1,995,000.

The average Days On Market (DOM) for residential homes was 65 days; which was a 17.72% decrease from 79 days in November 2023.

There were 14 new single-family listings brought to the market in November 2024, which is a 48.15% decrease in New Listings when compared to November 2023 when there were 27. At month-end, Active single-family inventory totaled 131 units, which is a 12.7% decrease from November 2023 when there were 150 units available. [bolding added]

 

It's this kind of thing that must drive the Bee's editors crazy — how can they possibly keep up?

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Saw the headline below, and assumed it was a story from the Babylon Bee. Nope; just ol’ Popie driving home the final nails into the dying corpse of Catholic Christianity

Vatican Unveils Palestinian Nativity with Jesus on Keffiyeh

The Times of Israel reported on Dec. 8:

Pope Francis on Saturday attended the inauguration of a seasonal nativity scene, presented by Palestinian officials, that featured a baby Jesus lying on a keffiyeh, the traditional scarf used by Palestinians as a national symbol.

Speaking at the event, a wheelchair-bound Francis called on believers to “remember the brothers and sisters, who, right there [in Bethlehem] and in other parts of the world, are suffering from the tragedy of war,” adding, “enough war, enough violence!” and lamenting the existence of the commercial arms trade.

The keffiyeh-draped cradle, which will be displayed in the Paul VI Hall, is one of a series of nativity scenes collectively titled “Nativity of Bethlehem 2024,” designed by artists Johny Andonia and Faten Nastas Mitwasi, both Palestinians from Bethlehem, according to Vatican News.

Good: now put Alvin Bragg on trial (Updated)

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There was certainly criminal activity here, but it was all on the prosecutor’s bench.

It’s interesting that last week the jury deadlocked on the more serious manslaughter charge, then today voted to acquit him on the lesser count; maybe the hypercritical collusion between the prosecutor and the judge in dismissing the top charge Friday opened the eyes of the juror/jurors who’d wanted to convict him.

UPDATE:

It's true, you know: people are dying to get into it

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There’s a listing new to the market Friday, 11 Roberta Lane, asking $2.250 million. I’m sure it’s a fine house, but I was struck by the listing agent’s description:

“Great opportunity to own this 5-bedroom, 4-bath home on 1 acre located in one of the most sought-after neighborhoods in Greenwich.”

It’s a quiet neighborhood, give her that.

St. Mary’s Cemetary, Greenwich, ct

This comes as no surprise here, although perhaps it does to its builder

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Back in May I wrote about 3 Finney Knoll in Riverside as follows:

3 Finney Knoll, “new” construction, from $3.999 million to $3.795. This was a 1840 house in deplorable condition when a local builder purchased it for $800,000 in 2006. He proceeded, verrry slowly, to add on a modern house attached to the original, but by 2023 that project was still unfinished — I believe the builder was living and bathing in the kitchen, for example, and there were numerous code violations in the work that had been done. A years-long effort to complete a short sale failed and the title was eventually turned over to the lender.

That bank put it on the market in January 2023 at $750,000, a low price designed to attract higher bids, and it did. Two of my clients looked at it separately and passed; they were each of the opinion, as was I, that the property was fairly priced at $750,000, especial;y given the unknown of how much of the original builder’s work would need to be replaced and redone (almost al of it) and neither wanted to play a part in a greater fool adventure.

But many did, and this owner was the lucky winner [who paid $1.125 million that March]. He might get this price — it’s a frenzied market, and the ability to hop over the fence and shop at Balducci’s may prove a strong draw — but I’m guessing somewhere closer to $3.2’s going to take it, eventually.

I revisited the subject in April, when it took its first price cut:

New broker, new price: all is proceeding as foretold

3 Finney Knoll Lane, Riverside NoPo, has now dropped from $3,999,000 to $3.397 million. I’ll stand by my prediction made back in May, “somewhere in the $3.2 range”. Of course, it’s now been hanging around on the market so long that it may have to drop even lower than that, if it’s to overcome the stench of staleness.

This past Friday it dropped to $3.295 million.

(As sold in 2023)