Greenwich, Connecticut real estate, politics, and more.
Greenwich, Connecticut real estate, politics, and more
Wrote about it back when it was first listed, and included a brief history of the house and its owner (S&H Green Stamps founder).
137 Sound Beach Avenue, Old Greenwich: $1.9 million.
I wrote about it here, back in January when it went to contract.
(It’s not just Greenwich experiencing high prices: 121 Strawberry Hill Avenue in Norwalk, a 1940 hiuse, 1,933 sq. ft., was listed in January at $749,000 and sold yesterday for $807,000)
Mahmoud Khali, leader and organizer of the anti-Israeli riots at Columbia, is also the leader of CUAD — Columbia University students Apartheid Diversity (CUAD). And who is CUAD? These people:
“NEW YORK CITY (TND) — Columbia University students protesting the school’s investments tied to Israel advocated on Thursday for the “total eradication” of Western civilization.
A group named Columbia University Apartheid Divest (CUAD), which consists of more than 100 organizations, issued a statement of support for Bengali protesters. They noted the “revolution must continue” after former Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina fled the country ahead of a planned march on her residence.
The Bengali protesters opposed Hasina’s rule and a quota system for government jobs. They planned to march on her home on Monday before she escaped to India.”
“We are Westerners fighting for the total eradication of Western civilization,” CUAD said in a [now deleted] Instagram post.
We stand in full solidarity with every movement for liberation in the Global South,” the group added. “Our Intifada is an internationalist one – we are fighting for nothing less than the liberation of all people.”
More here (Click for the full X thread)
(Twitter’s still acting up, but this link will get you to the actual post.)
1 Ivanhoe Lane has hit the market today priced at $4.5 million. I remember showing this to clients back in 2006 or 2009; it was a nice house, and they liked it, although they ultimately chose another. It appears to be essentially unchanged since then, although the dead animal skin appears to have moved from one room to another between 2019 and now. What has changed, however, is its price.
We’re living in interesting times.
2019
2025
Another change over the years is the quality of pictures that go up on the internet. Check out these examples from 2006:
This strain may have emerged from gain-of-function research conducted at two specific facilities: the USDA Southeast Poultry Research Laboratory (SEPRL) in Athens, Georgia, and the Erasmus Medical Center in Rotterdam, the Netherlands.
Read the article and decide for yourself; it’s an interesting hypothesis, and it wouldn’t surprise me in the slightest if the author’s suspicions prove true.
“Well, I would never have expected that!”
House Republican support grows for keeping clean energy tax breaks.
In a letter shared exclusively with POLITICO, 21 House Republicans — whose districts have drawn billions in new investments because of the Inflation Reduction Act incentives — said developing clean energy was critical for the U.S. to meet President Donald Trump’s goal of becoming “energy dominant.” And they threatened to resist their colleagues’ efforts to gut the law to help pay for a small fraction of the GOP’s multi-trillion-dollar tax-cut package.
“We have 20-plus members saying, ‘Don’t just think you can repeal these things and have our support,’” said Rep. Andrew Garbarino (R-N.Y.), who organized the letter.
The growing pushback against eliminating the IRA’s hundreds of billions of dollars in tax credits and other incentives — which have largely benefited GOP-controlled districts — will complicate efforts by House Republicans to slash federal outlays without shrinking Medicaid spending as they seek to offset the tax cuts in their budget bill.
20 Heronvue Road, that started off in July 2024 at $4.5 million, and is currently asking $4.275 is reported pending; a notice of lis pendens filed by one’s lender will do that, concentrating the mind wonderfully. Just as it did for the previous owners, who looked for $5.4 million in 2008 and sold to these sellers for $3,062,500 in 2015.
It’s a pretty house, in its own way, with a slightly odd layout that was workable. It was in a somewhat neglected state back when it hit the market in ‘08, but these owners appear to have restored and even completed some of the to-be-done finish work that was still evident when the listing was active in 2012.
It’s Congress itself; although I also despise the lickspittle, gullible press that goes along with the charade. The members need to appear to be “doing something” about something, so they whoop up a sexy-sounding bill that “addresses” it: in this case, border security and drug cartels, and pass it (almost) unanimously. Then, having accomplished nothing, they settle back in their comfy chairs to return calls from their lobbyist/donors.
What, exactly will this bill do? It took some looking, and the Fox reporter, who’s no better nor worse than the rest of her fellow Swamp correspondents, doesn’t bother to say — doubtless because she was too lazy to look — but it’s simply an amendment to an existing law that already requires the CBP to file a report with Congress detailing its efforts to address the smugglers’ border tunnel network; this groundbreaking law (so to speak) changes the existing one to require an annual report, instead of just a one-off. That’s it. Sound and fury, signifying nothing, but the headlines, man, the headlines! I don’t know why our domestic terrorist Tlaib opposes it, but who cares? Perhaps she just refuses to engage in meaningless theater.
One of the few Democrats I’ve seen actually pretend to address the issue of Musk’s exposure of waste in government spending conceded that Musk was indeed performing a service by exposing the gambling going on in the casino, but complained, “he should be putting all this in a report and submitting it to Congress so that we can conduct proper, orderly hearings and investigations and draft appropriate legislation”. In other words, “so we can bury it forever and do nothing, just as we’ve done for the past five decades”.
Does anyone else remember William Proxmire’s Golden Fleece Awards? Given out monthly from 1975 to 1988, and called by the Washington Post “the most successful public relations device in politics today” each award exposed some ludicrous government expenditure — the $15,000 USAF hammer, identical to one Proxmire picked up at a hardware store around the corner for $2.50 was one of the most infamous of them — and got lots of giggles from his colleagues and vows to do better, and then disappeared down the rabbit hole, forever. Nothing has changed since Proxmire’s days; DOGE is just the latest incarnation of the Golden Fleece, and will meet the same end. Here’s the beginning of that process: Well, It’s Been Fun — Trump’s Commie Labor Pick Confirmed.
And that’s why I hate Congress.
The Subterranean Border Defense Act Would Help Congress Address Growing Threat of Cross-Border Tunneling
WASHINGTON — Today, Representatives Lou Correa (D-CA), the top Democrat on the House Border Security and Enforcement Subcommittee, and Eli Crane (R-AZ) introduced the Subterranean Border Defense Act, a bipartisan piece of legislation that would require annual reports to Congress on efforts taking place to counter illicit cross-border tunnel operations.
“It’s clear that human traffickers and illegal drug smugglers have developed dynamic ways to evade capture—making it urgent and necessary that we adapt to defend against their attempts to breach our border,” said Rep. Correa. “I’m honored to be leading this bipartisan effort, alongside Rep. Crane, to help improve our efforts to counter these tunnels and those who rely on them, and protect the lives of those on both sides of our border.”
As Transnational Criminal Organizations (TCOs) continue to expand in both size and sophistication, illicit cross-border tunnels along the southwest border of the United States represent a significant and growing threat to national security. Since 1990, law enforcement officials have discovered more than 140 tunnels that have breached the U.S. border, with an 80% increase in tunnel activity occurring since 2008. CBP dismantles cross-border tunnels as part of its overall border security and law enforcement missions.
“As terrorists, cartels, and smugglers develop new ways to infiltrate our country, the U.S. must stay on the cutting edge of security technology to protect our citizens and our infrastructure,” said Rep. Crane. “I’m proud to be able to champion one more deterrent on our southern border that will play a crucial role in keeping Arizonans safe.”
The National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2023 mandated that CBP submit a one-time report to Congress on a strategic plan for counter illicit cross-border tunnel operations. This report has since led Congress to conduct critical oversight and has enabled CBP to formalize many of the authorities, processes, technologies, and resources needed to counteract illegal underground tunnels under the U.S.-Mexico border. The Subterranean Border Defense Act would mandate a report every year going forward to ensure Congress has sufficient knowledge and oversight in regard to this dynamic threat.
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