Contract on North Street

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351 North Street, $8.750 million; originally started at $10.750 million in July, ‘24, pre-construction. The builder paid $1.650 for this lot in 2021, so there was plenty of room for a “price improvement”.

The design does nothing for me, but I’m not the target demographic.

i though bad marble and gold bath fixtures had gone out of style 15 years ago; are they back, or were these just warehouse leftovers from that period?

I’ll admit to a mind twisted toward the double entendre, but mayonnaise in a scene infamously about orgasm?

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well, i never!

No, I didn’t watch the Super Bowl, but reading this post this morning makes me wonder what else I missed.

And this would be different from current practice how? (Updated)

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Our native idiot and wannabe president Chris Murphy is at it again:

"The president wants to be able to decide how and where money is spent so that he can reward his political friends. He can punish his political enemies. That is the evisceration of democracy."

we gotta protect our phoney baloney jobs!

UPDATE:

David Strom: HOW BUREAUCRATS THINK ABOUT ACCOUNTABILITY: “Elon Musk and DOGE are doing what amounts to a comprehensive audit of the federal government, and it is driving the Democrats nuts. This is, of course, because the federal budget is their piggy bank that funds both the leftists themselves and all their evil plans.”

They've just begun to fight — screw 'em

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face of the enemy

Your Connecticut tax dollars at work:

What a difference a VP makes — and an IQ, for that matter

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OOF! That's Gonna Leave a Mark: J.D. Vance BURIES Ro Khanna in Heated Exchange About 'Racism'

Twenty-five-year-old Marko Elez had resigned from the DOGE team over his old posts, one of which saw him proclaim, 'I was racist before it was cool.' To any normal-thinking person, this was obviously a statement in defiance of the left and their cancel culture. They call EVERYONE racist. Naturally, many people responded the way Elez did, saying, in effect, 'Fine. Call me whatever you want. Your words have no power over me.'

For Democrats, however, who despise that DOGE is exposing so much corruption in Washington, they saw it as a chance to (pardon the expression) POUNCE on the young man. 

They clearly haven't gotten the memo that this doesn't work anymore. Vice President J.D. Vance addressed the issue on Twitter, noting that he might not agree with some of what Elez said, but that DOGE should bring him back.

Vance’s defense of the Elez triggered a response from a freshman congressman who thought he saw an opportunity to make his chops with the liberal Californians who put him in office; he should have resisted the temptation.

UPDATE: (Mr. Elez has been reinstated on the Musk team)

And now for a trip down Memory Road:

Ten minutes? The GOP could have run a five minute slice of this every day during the election campaign and Trump would have won by 90%

UPDATE:

DOGE takes another nibble at the leviathan, and that gives David Strom a happy — me too

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DOGE Cancels $180,000 Anthony Fauci Museum Exhibit

…. not a dime should be spent to celebrate the modern-day Mengele who terrorized Americans and people around the world and who, not coincidentally, spent our tax dollars on torturing puppies. 

Fauci was Director of the National Institutes for Allergy and Infectious Disease for nearly forty years--remaining there until he was 82 years old. 

82. From his 40s to his 80s he was one of the least known and most powerful people in the world. Until COVID, when the media made him a star and the Democrats wielded his supposed credibility to oust Trump from the White House. 

During his time there, he controlled untold billions of dollars, directed the medical research budget of the US, and funded biolabs around the world that have leaked an unknown number of diseases. 

And DOGE just killed his museum exhibit. 

Good. If only the Justice Department could prosecute his ass too, I would be happier still. 

First they came to enlist the girls, but I was not a girl, so I remained silent. Then they came for the gays, but ...

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Cishets formerly known as BSA scoutmasters celebrate the rebranding of therz organization’s rebirth and rebranding as The “neurodivergent multi-bigenderism phophoo dance club”

The organization adopted the new name, Scouting America, on its 115th anniversary, "marking a pivotal moment in the organization’s journey," according to a statement released Saturday.

The shift comes after a recent policy change in 2018, allowing girls to join the program. The organization began allowing gay youth in 2013 and ended a blanket ban on gay adult leaders in 2015. 

Looking at the timeline here, my headline is inaccurate so far as it refers to the order in which the BSA deteriorated: first, they came for the gays, in 2013; then in 2015 they brought in gay scoutmasters to minister to the needs of those gay boys (and any of their friends who were “looking for adventure of a new and different kind” — sooie!); and not until 2018 were perzons identifying as grlz and wimin brought in to replenish the scout’s mysteriously dwindling ranks and afford an opportunity for scouts and leaders of all genderish persuasions to explore different avenues of amusement. Regardless of who brought up the rear, however, the result was the same: no more Boy Scouts; it’s surprising they lasted as long as they did.