Pending on Sherwood

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70 Sherwood Avenue, priced at $4.295 million but going via highest and best bid, so final price will be higher. The history of the house is that it was sold, gutted, to the Frattaroli brothers in 2006 for $2.3 million; they completely renovated it and put it back on the market in September 2007 for $5.775 million. I toured it at that time and it was nice house, but the timing was unpropitious, because the great crash was just beginning. They eventually sold it for $3.375 in 2010, that buyer put in a pool, and resold it to these owners in 2021 for $3.495.

So, while the Frattarolis may not have done well here, this owner has.

Whatever their sins, and there are many, what did the poor Irish do to deserve this?

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waiting for barbara

The Unluck of the Irish: Rosie O’Donnell Flees Overseas with Trump Stowed Away in Her Head

Rosie O’Donnell has kept her promise and left the United States thanks to the election of President Donald Trump. Of course, she took Trump with her overseas as he is plainly still living rent-free in her head. On Tuesday, she explained it all in a nine-minute video.

Rosie O’Donnell confirms she has fled the United States for Ireland following the election of Donald Trump.

The 62-year-old says she left and dragged her 12-year-old daughter with her because not all Americans have equal rights now.

"I was never someone who thought I would move to another country, that’s what I decided would be the best for myself and my 12-year-old child. And here we are."

"You know, I’m happy. Clay is happy. I miss my other kids. I miss my friends."

"I miss many things about life there at home and I’m trying to find a home here in this beautiful country and when it is safe for all citizens to have equal rights there in America, that’s when we will consider coming back."

Looks like Trump finally did it...

X-clips are back up, thank goodness, and we can resume watching the best moments of our genius class

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word salad and corn chips: breakfast of champions

I’ve seen her worse, but it’s still a relief to realize that we won’t have to endure four more years of cackling hyena laughs bursting from the lips of the president of the United States. And I want to thank our ex-VP for confirming my long-held belief that the TV audience for the Academy Awards show was made up exclusively of mouth-breathing morons.

Kamala Harris roasted for trying to tie love of Doritos to Big Tech innovation during AI conference

Harris attended the Human[X] AI conference Sunday in Las Vegas, which was billed as Harris' "first post-election address." She took the stage with Nuno Sebastiao, the CEO of data science company Feedzai.

Harris recounted that on the night of the Academy Awards, March 2, she had a hankering for nacho cheese Doritos chips and had them delivered to her house via DoorDash, according to clips of the interview on social media. 

"We did DoorDash ’cause I wanted Doritos, and the red carpet part was about to start, and nobody wanted to leave to go to the grocery store," Harris said. "So it was DoorDash. … So I was willing to give up whatever might be the tracking of Kamala Harris’ particular fondness for nacho cheese Doritos for the sake of getting a big bag of Doritos as I watched the Oscars."

"But here’s the thing. At what point do we also uplift and highlight the consumer’s right to also expect — and you can debate with me if it should be a right — I think it should," she continued in the clip of the video. "To expect that the innovation would also be weighted in terms of solving their everyday problems, which are beyond my craving for Doritos, but about whatever — and I know the work is happening around — you know, scientific discoveries, for example. To cure long-standing diseases."

"But I’m going to throw out another one … I would love it if there would be an investment of resources in solving the affordable housing issue in America," she said. "Like help me with that. Help me with that."

Takes one to know one, I guess

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Check out the "turtlegender" person on the Oregon Consumer Advisory Council

Nope, this isn't satire. This is a real person on the official panel that makes policy recommendations for mental health services in the state of Oregon.

That's what made the lockdown so infuriating: anyone with a brain knew it was a useless gesture and would devastate society

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Ed Driscoll, on InstaPundit:

THIS MUST HAVE BEEN PAINFUL FOR THE BOSTON GLOBE TO PUBLISH: ‘The lockdowns were never really effective:’ New research shows COVID stay-at-home orders did more harm than good.

Sumbul Siddiqui remembers every detail about the morning of March 10, 2020. She remembers feeling anxious as she walked into a Somerville conference room packed with masked-up mayors from around Boston. She remembers grim-looking doctors from Italy appearing on a big screen, describing the horrors of people collapsing and dying from a mysterious respiratory illness.

After that, Siddiqui, then mayor of Cambridge, did what she never imagined she would have to do: She called top city administrators and the school superintendent to begin the process of shutting down every school and municipal building in the state’s fourth-largest city.

“We all left that meeting terrified,” she said. “I remember saying, ‘OK, we have to shut things down. We have to stop the spread. I don’t want people to die.’”

Five years later, Siddiqui is still torn about the implications of that decision. On that same day, Governor Charlie Baker declared a state of emergency in Massachusetts and, within days, suspended in-person learning at public and private schools and banned on-site dining at bars and restaurants across the state.

Knowing what we know now, she wonders, did public officials react appropriately? Did they adequately consider the trade-offs among competing values, including the devastating costs of closing schools, businesses, and places of worship?

No. Next questions?

And the masks, “social distancing”, school lockdowns and even the touted vaccines. We knew, and the people who imposed all that also knew; they did it anyway.

This is the man whom Democrats are demanding be released

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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:

Anti-Israel Columbia students call for 'total eradication of Western civilization'

“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.”

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