Missy has a sad

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last refuge of a scoundrel

Fired Federal Worker Could Get a Private Sector Job Tomorrow, but She's a Patriot

This federal worker is confident that she could get a job in the private sector tomorrow, which is great. Still, she's tearful, because she was a patriot who loved her country, as we're sure all her colleagues were. Well, that is sad news, but the country has decided your services aren't needed right now. As a patriot, certainly she's happy to see some of the fat cut out of the bloated federal bureaucracy.

…. According to her, she'd make a whole lot more money, seeing as these government jobs "don't pay us." They're practically volunteers because of their patriotism. She could enlist in the military and keep her country safe that way

Her tragedy and tale of self-sacrifice was not universally met with sympathy.

I don't care, really — I'm not a fan of taxpayers subsidizing other people's homes, but at least stop pretending we're worried about the high cost of housing

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240 Greenwich Avenue

From 60 units, 18 of which would have been “affordable”, to 40, back up to 60, and now down to 12, all luxury units. Our P&Z sides with the opposing neighbors, again, and shrinks a housing project down to a size that inevitably drives prices higher and out of reach for the “ordinary poor” such as lawyers and dentists.

There’s nothing new here; in fact it’s the same old story repeated again and again. Here’s one from just last week concerning the thwarted Mason Street project:

Cut a project’s size from 92 units to 74, demand that 1/3 of those be “affordable”, while also demanding that they are built to the same size as the market rate units, and eliminate any ground-floor retail use that could help subsidize the project. That’s a recipe for making any such project too impractical to build, and I assume that’s the intention.

Developer sues Greenwich Planning & Zoning over limits put on Mason Street affordable housing project

GREENWICH — The Planning & Zoning Commission is being sued by developers over conditions it imposed on approvals for two large residential buildings on Mason Street that were authorized by the commission in December.

The lawsuit seeks to overturn the conditions and grant approval for the project with retail space and no restrictions on the size of the affordable units.

Mason Street Partners and developer Joshua Caspi say the conditions that the commission imposed went against state law 8-30g, which is designed to provide the community with affordable housing units. The law states projects offering affordable housing units, as the Mason Street development has been proposing, can only be denied or modified on "health and public safety" issues.

The lawsuit contends that the conditions imposed on the approvals — eliminating any retail space from the project and requiring that the affordable units be nearly identical in size as the market-rate units — ran counter to the state law and should be invalidated.

…. The long-running and controversial project was resubmitted to the Planning Commission in November, with a reduced number of total units in both buildings on Mason Street set at 75, down from 92 in an earlier draft. The 24 affordable units were evenly distributed in the two buildings. 

During review, the commission went into a lengthy discussion about "comparability," seeking to ensure that the affordable units did not carry any perception that they were of lesser value or quality. Commissioners said they wanted to avoid any perception of "a rich door, poor door," in the phrase that came up during discussions of the application. 

As part of its condition for approval, the commission required that the affordable units would have to be no less than 90% of the size of the market-rate units. The commission also said there could be no retail space in the buildings, which would have taken up around 4% of the total square footage of the new construction.

“The smallest affordable units in the Mason Street development would be larger than most of the condo units on the market in Greenwich at full price.”

The developers in their suit took issue with the requirement for "comparability."

According to the legal complaint filed last month, "Mason Street Partners responded to this concern by pointing out that comparability is not a health or safety concern," the lawsuit stated. In addition, the developers claimed, earlier court rulings held that "comparability was 'a matter of opinion' that cannot be a basis of denial.” Further, they stated, the smallest affordable units in the Mason Street development would be larger than most of the condo units on the market in Greenwich at full price. 

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The loss of retail, as well as the requirement to make the affordable units substantially larger relative to the size of the market-rate units, would cause a financial strain for the project, the developers argued.

“Affordable” new housing can’t be built without subsidies — the cost of construction is too high (you can’t even accomplish it in Maine, where land costs in most parts is negligible) — so either those seeking cheap housing will have to settle for older, less desirable units, or someone has to buy new ones for them. Why a handful of lucky people should be handed winning lottery tickets is a question best left to liberals to ponder in their Episcopalian Sunday coffee klatches, but, really, “we don’t want to stigmatise the poor by putting them in units smaller than their rich neighbors”? I call bullshit: it’s about preserving and even increasing property values, and if reducing the number of units makes a project unbuildable, great; and even if it just drives the prices of unsubsidized units higher, that’s acceptable too.

The miasma of hypocrisy oozing from these commission hearings is nauseating.

The phoney story about Indian children’s mass graves was debunked years ago, but it's continued to linger in media clown world. This might put the final nail in the coffins

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Canadian churches burned for the "mass graves" scandal. The search is now ending with over $200M spent and ZERO bodies found.

The funding has now been pulled after four years of searching. No remains have been found.

In 2021, the Canadian government allotted a reported $320 million for a Residential Schools Missing Children Community Support Fund, which was intended to investigate allegations that hundreds of children were killed and buried in "unmarked graves" by Catholics and other Christian groups.

From the Daily Wire:

The committee and organization's entire existence is based on the notion that hundreds of children were killed at residential schools and buried in unmarked graves - a narrative that has seemingly fallen apart. The initial claims in 2021 led to apologies, riots, and the vandalism or burning of 55 Canadian churches…

No bodies have ever been found. That's right — none. Not "fewer than expected," not "just a couple"... ZERO. But that didn't stop people from protesting, rioting, and burning dozens of churches to the ground.’The committee and organization's entire existence is based on the notion that hundreds of children were killed at residential schools and buried in unmarked graves - a narrative that has seemingly fallen apart. The initial claims in 2021 led to apologies, riots, and the vandalism or burning of 55 Canadian churches…

But wait — There’s More!

3 Years Later, Canadian ‘Mass Graves’ Claims Remain Unproven

Despite the lack of supporting evidence, a bill was introduced in Canada’s federal parliament last month that would criminalize statements that deviate from the prevailing narrative on residential schools.

Register StaffNewsOctober 18, 2024

Three years after controversy erupted across Canada and internationally over “mass graves” allegedly located near the residential schools for Indigenous children that once operated in Canada, evidence continues to accumulate that these claims lack any factual foundation.

This comprehensive absence of substantiation was highlighted in an Oct. 14 article by Wall Street Journal columnist Mary Anastasia O’Grady, titled “Canada’s Unproven Mass-Grave Scandal.” The article referenced a bill that was introduced last month in the House of Commons of Canada that would criminalize “condoning, denying, downplaying or justifying the Indian residential school system in Canada through statements communicated other than in private conversation.”

The initial allegation regarding the discovery of unmarked graves was made in May 2021 in Kamloops, British Columbia. Based on the findings of a ground-penetrating radar survey of an orchard located beside the former Kamloops Indian Residential School, Rosanne Casimir, chief of the Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc First Nation, issued a press release stating the survey had provided “confirmation of the remains of 215 children” who had been students at the school and whose deaths there had been undocumented.

But in late May of this year, Canadian journalist Terry Glavin reported in the National Post that Casimir has now dropped the central element of her claim regarding the ground-penetrating radar survey’s findings. In a press release commemorating the third anniversary of her 2021 statement, Casimir omitted her previous reference to dead children, stating only there had been “confirmation of 215 anomalies.”

In fact, the ground-penetrating radar had merely identified “anomalies” under the surface of the Kamloops site. Such anomalies indicate only that some kind of soil disturbance has occurred, not the definite presence of any human bodies. Despite this uncertainty, until this year the Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc First Nation declined to acknowledge that the existence of children’s graves was unproven.

Glavin’s National Post article noted that the First Nation’s leadership has been aware of the flaws associated with its ground-radar survey since at least 2022, when they received an independent site analysis of historical activity that took place at the site since the residential school was founded in 1890. And according to a June 2023 article in The Dorchester Review, a Canadian journal that has published a number of articles challenging the prevailing narrative regarding the government-funded residential schools that were operated by the Catholic Church and other Christian denominations, it should have been evident even before they were released that the Kamloops findings were highly questionable. That’s because readily accessible archival records documented that trenches, lined with clay tiles, had been dug at the site as a septic field in 1924, and it’s known that such trenches can’t be distinguished from graves by ground-penetrating radar.

No Proof Elsewhere

In the weeks following the May 2021 statement regarding the Kamloops school’s graves, similar claims were made in connection with other former residential schools in British Columbia and in other Canadian provinces. By July of that year, it was alleged that a total of more than 1,300 unmarked graves had been discovered via ground-penetrating radar surveys.

Because the Catholic Church oversaw the majority of Canada’s government-funded residential schools, which operated from the late 1800s until the last one closed in 1996, these allegations triggered a wave of anti-Catholic violence. In the summer of 2021 more than 60 churches, most of them Catholic, were burned to the ground or vandalized, and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau called for Pope Francis to apologize personally. The controversy impelled the Pope to make a “pilgrimage of reconciliation” to Canada the following year, during which he apologized, without specifically referencing the mass graves claims, for any harm the schools had caused to the nation’s Indigenous peoples.

“An important part of this process will be to conduct a serious investigation into the facts of what took place in the past and to assist the survivors of the residential schools to experience healing from the traumas they suffered,” Francis said at that time.

The only completed excavation to date was conducted in 2023 at Pine Creek, Manitoba, where a ground-radar survey had identified anomalies in the basement of Our Lady of Seven Sorrows Catholic Church, located close to the former Pine Creek Residential School. No human remains were found during that excavation.

People came from around the world to apologize for the White Man’s sins and get a little publicity while they were there.

July, 2022:

Who’s wearing the prettiest Dress?

Well, Xer's bound to be better than that Joy Reid

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Note: both this picture and the one in the previous post are actual photos, not AI generated. Just in case you were wondering how deranged the Left has become)

 MNSBC’s Newest Anchor Eugene Daniels Is a ‘Kamala Harris Expert’ and ‘Walking Beyoncé Encyclopedia’ Who Has Revolutionized the DC Fashion Scene.

Eugene Daniels, the Politico White House correspondent who was supposed to be the “breakout star” of the 2024 election but ended up being one of the biggest losers, is leaving the mid-tier news website to join MSNBC. Daniels, an alleged “expert in all things Kamala Harris” with a “fashion sense that mirrors his bold style of reporting,” will cohost a weekend roundtable show as part of the left-wing network’s ongoing reorganization efforts. It is unclear whether the self-described “walking Beyoncé encyclopedia” will face any wardrobe restrictions at MSNBC, but a Washington Free Beacon photographic analysis confirmed that Daniels has a bold sense of fashion, and certainly appears to admire Beyoncé, the former Destiny’s Child singer best known for being married to Jay-Z.

I’ve never watched MSNBC in my life (it requires a subscription, I believe) but I’ve seen enough clips of Reid over the years to know that her former network couldn’t get worse.

Although maybe give them an A for effort here.

It just keeps getting better; or worse, because we're also learning how deep the rot has spread

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and let’s not forget who biden’s handlers put in charge of guarding our nuclear waste stockpiles

Those Perverts Who Chatted About Sex All Day At CIA/NSA/DIA--Gabbard Fired Them All

But it’s far more than just sexual perversions — these supposed guardians of the nation are all far-leftists, and, I’m sure investigation will show, spent four years sabotaging the Trump administration and the next four years propping up Biden’s.  

@realchrisrufo

  • NSA and CIA officials expressed their desire to have hermaphrodite babies in order to advance trans ideology. 

  • CIA officials celebrating the death of Christian leader Pat Robertson. This is a recurring theme in the NSA chatrooms: hatred against Christians, conservatives, Italians, and heterosexuals. One intelligence officer even casts aspersions on his own grandmother.

  • NSA, DIA, and Navy intel officials blast @libsoftiktok as a "fucking monster". They also slur Italian-Americans as "terrible people."

  • NSA, DNI, and SpaceCom officials claim that Tulsi Gabbard is "fervently anti-queer," a "Russian agent," and a member of the MAGA "cult." These employees, including at least one "they/them," are attempting to undermine Gabbard from within.

  • Intel officials are rallying opposition to President Trump's cabinet nominees in secret NSA chatrooms

  • One NSA official claims to use "it/its" pronouns, meaning that this person does not identify as a human, but rather, feels like a sexless, genderless thing.

  • Intel employees used the chatroom to discuss "ethical non-monogamy," or "polyamory." Many claimed to be part of sprawling sexual networks and have a rich slang vocabulary about their sex lives.

And:

DNI Tulsi Gabbard says she’s firing more than 100 intel employees who took part in ‘obscene’ sex chatrooms

Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard announced Tuesday night that she was dismissing more than 100 employees of the US intelligence community (IC) who participated in “obscene, pornographic, and sexually explicit” chatrooms on a government messaging platform.

Gabbard told Fox News’ “Jesse Watters Primetime” that the spooks — who were exposed by conservative activist Christopher Rufo for having discussed their fetishes and sexual fantasies on the National Security Agency (NSA) Intelink platform — had committed “an egregious violation of trust.”

“When you see what these people were saying,” she told Watters, “they were brazen in using an NSA platform intended for professional use to conduct this — kind of really, really horrific behavior.”

“And they were brazen in doing this, because when was the last time anyone was really held accountable?” she asked. “Certainly not over the last four years, certainly not over the last 10, maybe 20 years, [as] we look at some of the biggest violations of the American people’s trust in the intelligence community.”

The cabinet official issued a memo earlier Tuesday calling for the termination of every employee, ranging from those at the Defense Intelligence Agency to US Naval Intelligence to the NSA, and the revocation of their security clearances by week’s end, according to DNI spokeswoman Alexa Henning.

“These disgusting chat groups were immediately shut down when [President Trump] issued his EO ending the DEI insanity the Biden Admin was obsessed with,” Gabbard, 43, also wrote on X. “Our IC must be focused on our core mission: ensuring the safety, security, and freedom of the American people.”

The chat logs, first reported in City Journal by Rufo, a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, showed LGBTQ employees discussing polyamory, pronoun usage, sex lives and gender transition procedures between 2022 and 2024.

“[G]etting my butthole zapped by a laser was ‘shocking,'” said one employee talking about a procedure.

“Medical science is going to give me tits one way or another,” added a second employee.

“An intersex birth would be a great opportunity to raise a kid as non-binary and let them choose later,” a third offered.

Other chat logs in the “LBTQA” and “IC_Pride_TWG” Intelink Messenger groups reveal the employees accusing Gabbard of being a “Russian agent.”

Online “work” meetings of the chat groups included titles like “privilege,” “ally awareness,” “pride,” and “transgender community inclusion,” according to a current and former NSA employee who leaked the chats to Rufo.

“NSA is aware of posts that appear to show inappropriate discussions by IC personnel,” the agency posted in a Tuesday statement on X. “IC collaboration platforms are intended to drive mission outcomes. Potential misuse of these platforms by a small group of individuals does not represent the community. Investigations to address this misuse of government systems are ongoing.”

Gabbard noted in her Fox News interview that the messages were “just barely scratching the surface” of the rot within the intel community.

I don't see how this works: the paper's entire readership is comprised of liberal government trough feeders, and they're not likely to share his epiphany (UPDATED)

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go forth and code

Bezos gets red pilled:

Jeff Bezos parts ways with Washington Post opinion editor David Shipley, seeking new hire with zeal for ‘personal liberties and free markets’

The billionaire Amazon founder, who bought the Washington Post in 2013, posted a note on social media saying he was looking for a new opinion editor who would emphasize advocacy for “personal liberties and free markets.”

“I offered David Shipley, whom I greatly admire, the opportunity to lead this new chapter,” Bezos wrote on X.

“I suggested to him that if the answer wasn’t ‘hell yes,’ then it had to be ‘no’.”

Bezos wrote that “after careful consideration, David decided to step away.”

“This is a significant shift, it won’t be easy, and it will require 100% commitment — I respect his decision,” the e-commerce mogul wrote, adding: “We’ll be searching for a new Opinion Editor to own this new direction.”

Bezos wrote that he was “confident that free markets and personal liberties are right for America.”

UPDATE: Much more on this story over at InstaPundit, including this still-amusing picture from 2022:

A contract in Conyers

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polo just ain’t what it used to be up there in the back country

10 Hurlingham Drive, asking $8 million, 111 days on the market. Built in 1990 and comprising 13 acres and 12,456 sq. ft. interior space, it was looking bedraggled back in 2012 when it sold to these owners for $4.7 million ($6.587 in current dollars). From its pictures, it’s been remarkably rejuvenated and, hyperbole aside, the listing agent’s description confirms this:

[M]eticulously re-built with commercial-grade mechanicals, stunning high-end finishes used in all new kitchen and bathrooms. New plaster moldings, seamless new wood floors, exceptional cabinetry...all done with the finest craftsmanship and thoughtful design. Geo-thermal system installed for efficient cooling/heating w/ separate zones for each room. State-of-the-art water purification system, spray foam insulation, Crestron, heated driveway, and commercial sized generator.

Pre-2007, Conyers Farm homes commanded premium prices, but no longer. Even if this one fetches its full $8 million asking price, and I don’t think it will, $642 sq.ft. is about what the meanest Havemeyer hovel is selling for these days.

Sic transit Gloria Municipal Bonds

What can't go on, won't

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Biden Judge Invokes the Mythical Irrational and Imprudent Clause to Block Trump

Duane Patterson:

At some point, the Supreme Court is going to get pretty tired of this nonsense. Until then, we are living under a Constitutional framework that says the President gets to run all of Article II agencies and departments...unless a federal judge determines the actions of that president aren't cool and slaps down a nationwide injunction to stop it. It's no longer a functional democratic republic in which we're residing, but a kritocracy. [Okay, I had to look that one up: “… Under which sovereignty is taken away from the people and handed over to judges to decide who rules the citizenry.”] The country will not be able to withstand whim of law by partisan district court judges for very long. 

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Late morning on Tuesday, Judge Loren Alikhan issued an indefinite injunction against the Trump administration, barring the elected leader of the Article II branch from freezing grants and loan payments as part of their effort to cut waste, fraud, and abuse.  

Did she find in her ruling that Trump's actions violated the Due Process Clause in the 5th and 14th Amendments, citing capricious and unfair treatments at the hands of DOGE or agency heads? Why no, no she did not. Did she invoke the Commerce Clause as a backdoor into finding that the President of the United States can't actually rein in agencies of which he is Constitutionally responsible? Nah. 

She invented the Irrational and Imprudent Clause. 

“In the simplest terms, the freeze was ill-conceived from the beginning. Defendants either wanted to pause up to $3 trillion in federal spending practically overnight, or they expected each federal agency to review every single one of its grants, loans, and funds for compliance in less than twenty-four hours,” US District Judge Loren AliKhan wrote as she issued a preliminary injunction against the administration. “The breadth of that command is almost unfathomable.”

“Either way, Defendants’ actions were irrational, imprudent, and precipitated a nationwide crisis,” she added.

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In case you're scrambling through your copy of the Constitution for the Irrational and Imprudent Clause, let me save you a little time and effort. It ain't there. 
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Her decision will obviously be appealed, which will chew up time and resources. Judge Alikhan joins a list of Democratically-appointed district court judges that have thrown themselves into the breach of the running of the federal government by way of nationwide injunction. 

In the not-so-very-long run, this may all turn out to our benefit, because the Supreme Court is going to be forced to step in. Federal judges, unelected and appointed for life, are issuing nationwide injunctions constraining the actions of the administrative branch. In times past, these temporary injunctions were ordered on a case-specific basis, and their scope was almost always limited to the particular judicial district a judge was sitting in. No longer, and that’s a problem.

Patterson continues, with a list of just some of the nationwide injunctions issued by pro-Democrat judges in the past month:


Deborah L. Boardman  

  • Court: U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland  

  • Action: Issued a nationwide preliminary injunction on February 5, 2025, blocking Trump’s executive order to end birthright citizenship for children of undocumented immigrants.  

  • Details: Ruled in a lawsuit by civil rights groups and pregnant immigrants, citing the 14th Amendment and Supreme Court precedent (Wong Kim Ark, 1898).

  • John C. Coughenour  

    • Court: U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington (Seattle)  

    • Action: Issued a temporary restraining order on January 23, 2025, followed by a nationwide preliminary injunction on February 6, 2025, against the birthright citizenship executive order.  

    • Details: Called the order “blatantly unconstitutional,” extending a prior 14-day block into an indefinite injunction pending litigation.

  • John J. McConnell Jr.  

    • Court: U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island  

    • Action: Issued a temporary restraining order on January 31, 2025, and later reinforced it on February 10, 2025, blocking a Trump administration federal funding freeze.  

    • Details: Responded to a lawsuit by 22 Democratic-led states, ordering the restoration of frozen funding and accusing the administration of violating his initial order.

  • Amir Ali  

    • Court: U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia  

    • Action: Blocked the Trump Administration freeze of all U.S. foreign aid. Has updated ordered ordering the Trump Administration to restore funding immediately.  

    • Details: Ruled after nonprofits and public health groups sued, noting the freeze interfered with congressional appropriations authority.

  • Paul A. Engelmayer  

    • Court: U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York  

    • Action: Issued a preliminary injunction on February 8, 2025, blocking Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency from accessing Treasury Department records.  

    • Details: Acted on a lawsuit by 19 Democratic attorneys general challenging Trump’s administrative restructuring efforts.

  • Joseph N. Laplante  

    • Court: U.S. District Court for the District of New Hampshire  

    • Action: Issued a preliminary injunction on February 10, 2025, blocking the birthright citizenship executive order.  

    • Details: Third judge to block this policy, promising a detailed ruling later, in a case tied to immigrant rights groups.

  • Kelley B. Hodge  

    • Court: U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts  

    • Action: Issued an injunction on February 10, 2025, blocking cuts to health research grants.  

    • Details: Responded to a lawsuit by 22 Democratic attorneys general against Trump’s funding reduction plans.

  • Carl J. Nichols  

    • Court: U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia  

    • Action: Issued a temporary restraining order on February 7, 2025, pausing a USAID downsizing deadline.  

    • Details: Blocked a midnight deadline that would have placed 2,200 USAID employees on administrative leave, part of Trump’s federal workforce reduction efforts.

Patterson:

With exceptions to the injunctions on birthright citizenship, which is a legitimate Constitutional matter that the Supreme Court will ultimately have to decide once and for all, every other judge in question here is substituting their own partisan position that the administrative state needs to be protected from the clutches of the President, who was elected to reduce and end the reign of terror by the very same administrative state. What is happening in the district courts are an extra-curricular Constitutional exercise, and it's not the first time we've seen shadow governance by judicial fiat from a friendly judge. But the sheer volume of judges fighting back at the Trump administration has to be giving the conservative majority on the Court a sense that they're going to have to throw the flag soon. 

Michael Moore is concerned

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Mr. Melvin Orlando Hernandez Villanueva ponders rocketry and immunotherapy theories while in ice custody awaiting his release

It strikes me that the above-pictured Mr. Villanueva is as unlikely to make a significant contribution to the world of science as he is to pick vegetables, or trim shrubbery in the Hamptons, but Moore’s fears are probably groundless anyway because these rocket scientists will all soon be back with us; or they were, under past standard practice. Will that change? The jury’s still out.

Dallas, Feb 25, 2025: