The Blockhouse has found a buyer

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After 372 days on the market, 29 Lockwood Drive, Old Greenwich, is reported under contract. Priced at $4.995 million. I wrote about this back in September 2024 when, after 116 days on the market, it took a 2% price cut from $5.095 million, and wrote about again on February 18th of this year when it was brought back from the expired list and put back on active at the same $4.995 that had failed before. But the owner stuck to his price and someone’s finally bit. Did the bitee have to move from that $4.995? We’ll have to wait until it closes and the actual sales price to see.

(As an aside, there was quite a fight over the construction of this house back in 2013-2014, but as the picture above shows, the neighbors lost.)

While I was away ...

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16 Lia Fail, Cos Cob, listed at $4.625 million, sold for $4.3, to Jersey City (07302 Zip) buyers. A previous attempt to move it at $3.5-$3.25 million in 2020-2021 fizzled, which I’d attribute both to the COVID market back then and, unfortunately, the failure of that listing agent’s failure to appreciate the power of The Orange. The new broker corrected that oversight and incorporated the color in 15 of the listing’s 34 pictures. Well done, although she did miss two obvious additions that, had they been included, would probably have seen this property sell for full, even above ask.

To be fair, the first broker did try, but he just didn’t get it

Oh, just fly away, would you?

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Fortunately, there’s a way for Ford to atone for his sin of amassing a fortune during his climb from simple carpenter to superstar: sell his Wyoming ranch, his jets, helicopters and California mansion, and give it all back to the people he seems to think he stole it from:

NPR: This obscure program lets Americans donate to help pay off the national debt

…. 1961, the government set up another account, a special account for what it called gifts to reduce the public debt. And it meant that the money in that account could only be used for that purpose. It wouldn't get swallowed up by the general fund.

And as of this past Friday, it’s even easier to do!

Americans can now use Venmo to help pay off US debt

Method of payment a recent addition as US treasury gives kind-hearted citizens chance to help reduce $36.72tn debt

Ah, the power of symbolism

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after a hard day of doing it to the world, professional global warmists check in for an evening busman’s holiday

Brazil's Erotic 'Love Motels' Are Getting Ready for UN Climate Change Summit, Report Says

The erotic motels, normally reserved for "lunch-hour trysts, clandestine affairs and passion-struck lovers seeking a few hours of privacy away from cramped family homes," are now getting ready for hosting "diplomats and climate scientists, civil servants and environmental activists," arriving in November for the U.N. climate conference, the Times reported.

The news comes as the 12-day summit, set to draw tens of thousands of attendees [45,000 up to 90,000 all, no doubt traveling by foot and solar-powered bicycles — Ed] to Belém, Brazil, has left the Amazonian city scrambling to meet lodging demands amid unfinished construction and soaring hotel prices. "With less than four months to go, much of the new lodging is still not complete and the city is thousands of beds short of its target," according to the Times.

Local officials faced scrutiny earlier this year for paving over tens of thousands of acres of protected Amazon rainforest to build a four-lane highway aimed at easing traffic to the climate conference. The deforestation undermines the very purpose of the summit, critics said.

The estimated attendance figure I cite came from an Associated Press article. Day in and day out, the AP spews some of the most duplicitous and often just downright wrong propaganda to be found in the nation’s press. In fact, AP content makes up the bulk of almost all of our local papers’ “news” coverage.

Here’s an example:

This year nearly every nation — the United States, the No. 2 carbon dioxide emitter and historically biggest polluter, withdrew from the accord earlier this year — has to submit their first plan update.

What’s missing from this? The identity of the No. 1 carbon dioxide emitter, and the proportionate contribution of each.

Blame the Department of Education for this, not NOAA

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Responding to frantic inquires from the heartland, NOAA has tried to reassure the public

Inland Tsunami Warning? National Weather Service Gives All Clear to North Dakota - No Wave Worries