Greenwich, Connecticut real estate, politics, and more.
Greenwich, Connecticut real estate, politics, and more
11 Round Hill Club Road, purchased new (well, old, but still-unlived-in) in 2019 for $8.325 million, is back on the market now at $19.9 million. This was built as a spec house in 2014-15 on land bought for $3.850 million and originally priced at $17.950. Buyer response was not gratifying, and the builders eventually accepted the aforesaid $8.325 from these owners and slunk away. How much of a bargain was that 2019 buy? We’ll find out.
156 Old Church Road, listed at $4.995 million 16 days ago is pending now. Listed last year in May for, first, $5.250 million and dropped to $4.950 before the owners gave up and rented it out for a year. It seems that the delay will have paid off.
And another Hooligans & Lawyers listing is also reported pending, this one at 103 Sheephill Road in NoPo, listed at $1.095 and gone via highest and best offer within days.
After a judgement of strict foreclosure had been entered in August ‘24, and several motions to reopen that judgement and set new sale dates had been granted, time was running out, but buyers did appear for 17 Highland Farm Road, and it has sold for $1.635 million.
Case history’s here, if you’re curious to see how CT foreclosure procedures wend their way ever so slowly down the path towards judicial resolution.
968 Lake Avenue, $2.7 million. The owners paid $2.750 for it in 2005 ($4,515,000 in current dollars), so no home run here. I’m just guessing, but those look like Acorn windows in some of the pictures, with failed seals. Acorns were commonly used in inexpensive homes back in the 70s when this one was built, and there was a design/production flaw with them that caused the seals to break. The manufacturer stood by its guarantee until it went bust as the result and since then homeowners have been on their own. Very expensive to replace them all, but that’s usually the best solution, and this price might reflect that cost.
I’m always wary when listing agents mention the dreaded “R” word in their property descriptions, as here: “Enjoy the home as is or renovate to your specifications.”
I asked Chatbox to draw a picture to illustrate the story below, but my request was rejected as “inappropriate”. Okay, you can’t argue with a pre-programmed idiot, computer or human, but you can usually find an easy way around it.
In any event, here’s the actual item I wanted to comment on.
Another bill that died that day would have banned the sale and use of polystyrene food packaging and containers along with plastic straws, starting on July 1, 2027. It would also mandate water fountains in state and municipal buildings to be replaced with water-cup-and-bottle-filling stations at a cost of $5,000 to $10,000 per fountain.
A well-deserved fate for this idiotic bill, but as demonstrated by our Hartford legislators year after year, decade after decade, lunacy is forever, and this one will resurface:
Co-chairwoman of the Appropriations Committee State Sen. Cathy Osten said she thought the ban on plastics will … come back to the General Assembly next year.
Fight, fight, fight.
February 28, 2024: Biden 'fit for duty,' physical 'identified no new concerns,' his doctor says
President Joe Biden underwent his annual physical Wednesday morning at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in what could be the final health update before the November election.
Biden, 81, last received his physical on Feb. 16, 2023.
A written summary of the physical released Wednesday afternoon from Dr. Kevin O'Connor, the president's physician, said "the President feels well" and that the test "identified no new concerns."
"President Biden is a healthy, active, robust 81-year-old male, who remains fit to successfully execute the duties of the Presidency, to include those as Chief Executive, Head of State and Commander in Chief," he said.
He "continues to be fit for duty and fully executes all of his responsibilities without any exemptions or accommodations," he said.
July 8, 2024:
This is the Most Dangerous Cover-up in the History of the Presidency:
— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) May 18, 2025
Last summer, White House Physician Dr. Kevin O’Connor swore to the American people that Joe Biden was “completely fit for the Presidency” — no issues, nothing to see.
Now we learn Biden has “advanced”prostate… pic.twitter.com/JryrV92wXv
And, absolutely related, this:
Stop what you're doing. Watch this.
— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) May 18, 2025
The way they effortlessly lied to the public about Biden's health should infuriate you. Never trust these propagandists again.pic.twitter.com/geHe0Q2FFO
And Canadian plane crashes, the price of eggs (until the price fell, then radio silence), and, doubtless, poor Joe’s prostate cancer, Sad.
It took me a few seconds to realize what this “abstract” piece of … art represents. No, those aren’t lip kisses. The gay Mr. Maldonado makes a powerful case for the immediate deportation of all our illegal visitors.
‘Tiger King’ Joe Exotic’s husband deported to Mexico after being detained by ICE
The newlyweds had tied the knot just a few weeks ago while in a Texas federal lockup, where Exotic, 63, is currently serving a 21-year sentence for plotting to hire a hitman to murder big-cat arch-rival Carole Baskin and violating federal wildlife laws.
Is it cheating if I’m on ozempic?
Yale students go on pro-Hamas hunger strike; administrators refuse meeting
“Demands include divestment from Israel, an end to the partnership with Tel Aviv University “and any fellowships that fund student travel to Israel,” a meeting with “University leadership,” a repeal of Yale’s rules that “limit peaceful protest and student advocacy,” and a guarantee “peaceful” protesters (like themselves) won’t be disciplined for their actions.”
No word whether they’ll be joining their fellow revolutionaries for latte and cinnamon bun breaks around the corner at Starbucks, where their brave contemporaries are protesting the imposition of a dress code, but I’m guessing they already have.
Bearded female Starbucks worker leads an employee protest over the company telling them to adhere to a dress code.
— Oli London (@OliLondonTV) April 30, 2025
pic.twitter.com/ImxrAJMDCv
I’m so old, I remember when you only saw bearded ladies at carnival freak shows; now they’re serving burnt coffee at retail shops.
Update: the fat thing in the clown hat above says it all, but here’s another one anyway: “How dare a company impose a dress code! We didn’t have to do that in kindergarten, why should we have to now?”
Mask wearing Starbucks worker explains why she is going on strike.
— Oli London (@OliLondonTV) May 17, 2025
“We’re out on strike today because Starbucks is trying to implement a new dress code. No one ever asked for a new dress code.” pic.twitter.com/HCjtCQq5S9
I hate to give any attention to those two sleazes cashing in on their own participation in the great hide, but there’s a link on Instapundit to excerpts from another participant, The Atlantic, and oh, hell, why not?
AN AUTOPSY REPORT ON BIDEN’S IN-OFFICE DECLINE: “Five people were running the country,” a political insider told the authors of the new book Original Sin. “And Joe Biden was at best a senior member of the board.”
It is of course literally true that Biden could string two sentences together at the start of his presidency (and can now). But Original Sin makes clear that even before he launched his first campaign against Trump, Biden was struggling. The authors write, “Those close to him say that the first signs he was deteriorating emerged after the death of his beloved son Beau in 2015”—a decade ago. Tapper and Thompson point to recordings from 2017 of Biden speaking with Mark Zwonitzer, the ghostwriter of his memoir. These tapes, which came to light six years later as part of Special Counsel Robert Hur’s 2023 investigation into Biden’s inappropriate handling of classified information, suggested that the president had lost a mental step, or several. “He grasped to remember things, he sometimes had difficulty speaking, and he frequently lost his train of thought,” the authors write, describing the recordings and the special counsel’s sense of them. “Biden was really struggling in 2017,” Tapper and Thompson write, adding, “His cognitive capacity seemed to have been failing him.”
Three years later, on the presidential campaign trail, Biden’s struggles became more obvious to those around him. Tapper and Thompson report that, in 2020, members of Biden’s inner circle gave the candidate a teleprompter with scripted questions for a local-news interview. It was an apparent effort to work around his dwindling communicative and cognitive abilities: Aides lamented that even then, “they couldn’t rely on him to stay on message, and he often had a very short attention span.”
On July 2nd 2020, AP “reported:” Biden did not use teleprompter to answer reporters’ questions.
A few months later, an official member of Team Biden did so as well: “Watch Joe Biden spokesman TJ Ducklo absolutely melt down when [Bret Baier] asks him if Biden has ever used a teleprompter for news interviews from his house. Ducklo explodes and, like he did throughout the interview, accuses him of being a Trump campaign shill.”
—Real Clear Politics, September 10th, 2020.
More from the Atlantic:
The book’s most astounding previously unreported story from Biden’s 2020 campaign concerns his staff’s attempts to create videos of the candidate speaking with voters over Zoom. Tapper and Thompson’s description of this is worth quoting at length:
Biden would sit in a room with several monitors beaming the face of real Americans in front of him so that they could discuss issues of importance.
The videos came back, hours of footage. Some on the team couldn’t believe their eyes.
“The videos were horrible,” one top Democrat said. “He couldn’t follow the conversation at all.”
“I couldn’t believe it,” said a second Democrat, who hadn’t seen Biden in a few years. “It was like a different person. It was incredible. This was like watching Grandpa who shouldn’t be driving.”
A special team was brought in and told to edit the videos down to make them airable, if only a few minutes worth. They had to get creative.
The authors go on to write, “Edited, the videos likely appeared fine to viewers, Biden no worse than any other senior on Zoom. But two of the Democrats who were involved in the films’ production together were dumbfounded. ‘I didn’t think he could be president,’ the second Democrat said. After what they’d seen, they couldn’t understand how Biden could be capable of doing the job.” (Two other top Democrats blamed the lousy footage on the awkwardness of Zoom.)
The idea that this same man, only a short time later, was able to reliably prosecute the duties of the position to which he was elected is hard to believe. Indeed, some incidents cataloged in Original Sin suggest that Biden may have been struggling to do the job even early in his term. Cabinet meetings were “terrible and at times uncomfortable,” one Cabinet secretary told the authors. “And they were from the beginning.” Biden relied on note cards and canned responses. (Some Biden aides told Tapper and Thompson that Cabinet meetings are stilted in every administration, and that Biden was more engaged in smaller meetings.)
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