Chris Murphy: ignorant, stupid, or just another politician who thinks his constituents are? Embrace the power of "and".

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Connecticut’s junior senator is … a senator, and it’s his gang of Democrats over there who have shut down the government by refusing, seven times, to pass the House of Representatives’ continuing resolution that would keep things running. I say, good for them — keep it closed — but Murphy thinks closing the doors in Washington is a bad thing, and so, par for the course, he blames the other legislative body for his crew’s deliberate act.

Naturally, he starts off with a distraction: the false claim that somehow tries to link Trump with the Democrat’s own scandal, Jeffrey Epstein and his donations to the donkey party — a issue that not only belongs to them but, despite their repeated attempts, has exactly zero interest to their hoped-for voters — and then tosses out his bullshit line of the day. Too bad; it doesn’t fly.

Here’s Twitchy:

Guy Benson Shuts Chris Murphy DOWN With 1 Simple Fact for Claiming Republicans Refuse to Show Up for Work

Ah, the annoying sound of Senate Democrats' shutdown symphony reaches a new crescendo of hypocrisy with Chris Murphy unleashing a lie-filled tirade on X. 

Spare us the pearl-clutching, Chrissy: Your caucus passed the buck all while national parks shutter and contractors stare at empty bank accounts. If anyone's shielding sleazy elites here, it's the Dems dodging transparency on those very files they love to demagogue about—classic projection from a guy whose 'wild' meltdown proves he's more interested in viral victimhood than actual governance.

Then again, maybe his new girlfriend wrote this for him.

If so, she's not very good at it either.

Seven times.

And he knows the House already passed the spending bill ... he also knows it's Democrats in the Senate who are keeping the government closed. He just hopes his idiot voters are too dumb to know better.

Bonus Material

Here’s a transvestite Democrat with his panties in a knot and his feet tangled in them as he tries to attack the big bullies on the other side of the aisle:

What's the MATTER with these people?

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The taxpayer-funded library announced its excitement via Facebook, stating that the event will take place from 1:00 to 2:30 p.m., but provided few details on what they termed an “epic afternoon.”

Out Maine, which distributes pro-transgender books to children as young as kindergarten, posted its own advertisement for the event, offering a few more details.

Their post makes it clear that the event is directed at “youth and their families.” They clarify that a Maine-based drag queen will be reading children’s books aloud, after which children will participate in arts and crafts.

It is not clear what books the drag performer will read during the event. Out Maine has previously worked to distribute children’s books like “When Aiden Became a Brother,” “Bodies Are Cool,” and “It Feels Good to Be Yourself: A Book About Gender Identity” through their Read the Rainbow program.

According to the non-profit’s 2024 Form 990 tax filing, it received $384,306 in government grants that fiscal year.

“Drag is not inherently sexual, nor is it necessarily related to gender identity. It can be simply a fun form of creative expression. The books that will be read and crafts we will do will be completely age-appropriate for the children in attendance and vetted by librarians,” head librarian Caroline Ward-Nesbit told the Maine Wire on Wednesday evening.

I call Bullshit: it is about sex, and it’s all about indoctrination of very young children

RELATED:

Out Maine Secures Grants to Send Pro-Trans Children’s Books Across the State’s Schools, Libraries, and Even Pediatricians’ Offices

Out Maine, an LGBTQ non-profit that pushes radical gender ideology on children, received three new grants this month to help fund its “Read the Rainbow” program that distributes pro-transgender books to children as young as kindergarteners.

“This upcoming school year, we’re going to be able to offer an expanded list of diverse stories and book sets across all grade levels. Previously, the program was only offered to Maine public school librarians, but now we’re going to be able to offer it to all public libraries across the state and also all youth-serving organizations, even pediatricians’ offices and counselors’ offices,” said Out Maine Communications Coordinator Ellie Roy speaking to the Portland Press Herald on Monday.

Out Maine’s annual program was previously only able to distribute the books to Maine school libraries, but, with the grants, they will be able to send the books across the state to new locations.

The organizations secured grants from the Maine Humanities Council, the Margaret E. Burnham Charitable Trust, and the Crewe Foundation, but did not specify how much money the grants were worth.

According to the non-profit’s 2024 form 990 tax filing, they received $384,306 in that fiscal year.

The funding will also go toward distributing “active ally toolkits” and instructing librarians and teachers on their use.

The Read the Rainbow program includes four categories of books for children of different ages: one for grades K-2, 3-5, 6-8, and 9-12.

The kindergarten category includes titles such as “When Aiden Became a Brother,” about a young boy who goes through a gender transition with the help of his parents, directed at children aged 4-8.

Slightly older children in the grade 3-5 bracket will be offered “Dotson: My Journey Growing Up Transgender,” and “This is Our Rainbow: 16 Stories of Her, Him, Them, and Us.”

High-schoolers can read “Some Assembly Required: The Not-So-Secret Life of a Transgender Teen,” or “Mismatched” described as a modern queer retelling of Jane Austin’s “Emma.”

Not that there's anything left to save of the formerly Christian Church of England itself, but it’s a shame to see such a popular tourist attraction defaced

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well, if you guys aren’t using it ….

But of course …

Via The Independent (UK)

Brightly-coloured writing asking questions like “Are you there?” and “God, what happens when we die?” have been plastered on pillars and walls of the 579 AD-founded building, just days after Dame Sarah Mullally was revealed as the next Archbishop of Canterbury…

The installation has been created by poet Alex Vellis and curator Jacquiline Creswell, who were inspired by community workshops at which people responded to the question: “What would you ask God?”

The cathedral said they worked with “marginalised communities” and a team of skilled artists to come up with handwritten literature, pasted on stone pillars, walls and floors…

“This exhibition intentionally builds bridges between cultures, styles and genres and, in particular, allows us to receive the gifts of younger people who have much to say and from whom we need to hear much.”

FWIW’s on-staff apostate has been observing and commenting on the decline of the C of E and its US branch for years; here are just two of his posts on the topic:

October 7 2025

The dismal futures facing the Church of England and the Episcopal Church

June 11 2024:

The end of the Church of England?

Praise Allah, he has risen! The medias' favorite faker, Mr. FAFO has emerged from the rubble to grace our televisions again

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but where’s greta?

Of All the People to Survive in Gaza, You Knew Mr FAFO Had to Be One of Them

The infamous, legendary, risen-and-rerisen-from-the-dead master of the theatrical 'Pallywood' propaganda short, the one and only Mr. FAFO himself. There he was, gleefully trudging through the evening light, weeping for joy and wearing what looked like a new generic press vest for the occasion.

Ah, schweet, schweet peace at last.

If you are unfamiliar with this notorious character, let me assure you, he is world-famous among the innerwebs and social media savvy. His name conjures an immediate picture of some sort of over-the-top emotional appeal with a threat of imminent danger - all pure theatrics for a gullible Palestinian sympathizing population in productions known as 'Pallywood.' He derisively became the subject of an ongoing, farcical game of 'Where's Waldo (aka FAFO)' the second his face appeared in any video of supposed carnage or exceptional cruelty perpetrated BY THE JEWS.

And there were many.

Here he is, a victim of an Israeli air raid, writhing in pain in a Gaza hospital, his slender frame dotted by wires and electrodes. And there he goes again, a day or two later: He’s a radiologist now, helping a blood-smeared patient into a small MRI machine. Since Oct. 7 he has died on camera—not once but twice—and then, like Lazarus, come back to life. He sired a (fake, plastic) child, then lost it in a bombing; found work as a foreign correspondent; picked up a gun and joined the fighting; laughed joyfully when Jews were slaughtered; wept bitterly when the Jews struck back; discovered his calling as a singer; led us on guided tours of his shelled-out hometown.

Who is he? He is Saleh Aljafarawi, 25, Gazan, Hamas supporter, and professional social media influencer. The genre in which he works is Pallywood, the term coined by scholar Richard Landes to describe a long Palestinian cinematic tradition, in which a wide variety of political parties and terrorist groups create fake dramatic videos and peddle them to sympathetic Western media outlets who pay for these comically obvious fabrications and then cynically or cluelessly present them as indictments of the Jewish state’s cruelty.

But such literal-minded answers miss the larger point. #MrFAFO—the acronym means “f**k around, find out”—matters because his work is the best prism we’ve got if we wish to truly gaze into the heart of darkness.

Because #MrFAFO, truly, c’est nous.

Some of his greatest hits put Barrymore's silent films to shame.

This one was dramatic - fiery special effects and all.

Here he is writhing in pain after an undisclosed injury at a local hospital.

This is one of his deathbed scenes. Not exactly Aida or Madam Butterfly, but he did practice quite a bit with these. 'A' for effort.

He was routinely featured in sympathetic Western news broadcasts until his fame spread so much that they realized the joke was on them.

Well, that and he got suspended from TikTok for a while.

Probably died and came back because of it.

Somehow, they even caught a quick glimpse of Mr FAFO doing his green screen work for what was sure to be another thrilling installment of THE JEWS DID IT.

Of course, there was the occasional slack off in production values...

And now he can finally celebrate Trump’s Triumph with all his fellow grateful, starving victims of Israeli genocide

Dememberment or dismemberment — those whacky but compassionate mullahs now offer their gays a choice!

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Iranian Road trip

There’s a certain logic here, I suppose. Until now, Iran’s government’s only cure for homoexuality has been execution. Now the mullahs have decided that’s unfair, because if those otherwise doomed gays identify not as homosexual, but merely people born in the wrong body, then they only appear to be attracted by members of the same sex, when they really aren’t — a boy who thinks he’s a girl is bound to be drawn to real boys, but since he’s a girl, he’s not guilty of being gay, right? He’s actually heterosexual, sort of. Right? Am I right?

The mullahs apparently think so, but just to make sure, they’re “encouraging” ordinary gays to have their genitals exorcised, whereupon they’ll be entitled to wear dresses and face coverings just like the rest of the country’s liberated women. Progress in the name of Allah!

WAR IS PEACE, FREEDOM IS SLAVERY:

Iran Seeks to Become the Global Hub of…Trans Surgery?

Iran’s embrace of trans surgery makes a twisted kind of sense. A country that denies the existence of any gay people is open to the idea that some men and women were simply born in the wrong body. And as a practical matter, a struggling theocracy is happy to offer those medical services to the rest of the world for a price

This is not your former First Selectwoman's Oldsmobile, that's for certain

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50 Hidden Brook Road, Riverside waas priced at $8.490 million and is pending after 29 days. I remember the location, though not the house, as the childhood home of Jennie Sims, daughter of Ruth Sims, Greenwich’s first female First Selectman. A modest house for a modest, incredibly accomplished family; Christopher Sims won a Nobel Prize in Economics, Jenny earned a doctorate, went on to work in national intelligence, and taught at Georgetown for years — I don’t know what brother Bill got up to in his adulthood, but I’m sure it didn’t involve shoelace repair or chicken plucking.

Perhaps the Sims who had the biggest influence on shaping my misguided youth was one of Jenny’s older brothers — I believe he was ten years older than us — who came to Miss Cardozo’s Fourth Grade class-show-and tell at Riverside School in 1963 and recounted his story of hitchhiking across the country the summer before. I was enthralled, and could hardly wait until I was old enough to do the same; that turned out to be a wait of six years, but when I was 16, I headed out for California from the steps of the former Greenwich High School, now Town Hall, on the first day of Spring vacation, picked up Rt 66 mid-country, and to my surprise was actually in LA three days later (Oops! “Dad, I think I need some airfare if I’m going to make it back in time for school.”) I repeated that trip two more times that year, although I never could duplicate the first one’s speed (it didn’t help that on one of those journeys the state of California delayed me 3 days by holding me in the youth wing of the San Louis Obispo County Jail for the “crime” of being an unattended minor), then bought a VW bus and pretty much retired my thumb for the duration of my stay on this mortal coil.

None of which, you’ll have noticed, has anything to do with this present listing, which was built in 2014. The owners paid $2.435 million for the house and land in 2012 — asking price was $2.050 — razed the Sim’s house, and proceeded to build anew; eleven years later, they appear to have done quite well with that decision.

Riverside is very much not the same neighborhood I grew up in, but I suppose that’s progress.

Original 1954 house


There are still a lot of people out there with much to answer for

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California Ignores Detainer and Releases Serial Criminal Illegal Alien; He Kills 6

A serial criminal removed from the United States multiple times for being an illegal alien and arrested for multiple offenses, including drunk driving, was released last year by the state of California despite a federal detainer. He subsequently murdered six people.

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) finally caught up with Beto Cerillo-Bialva in September, but the illegal alien had had numerous encounters with law enforcement before. Unfortunately, however, the legal apparatus simply did not insist on holding him for his crimes, at least in sanctuary-state California.

“This serial criminal killed six innocent souls. Governor Newsom has blood on his hands. This serial criminal should have never been released by California authorities,” mourned Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin in a DHS press release. “Sanctuary policies protect the WORST OF THE WORST criminal illegal aliens. ICE will do everything in our power to remove this serial drunk driver, abuser, and drug user from our country.”

In 2024, Cerillo-Bialva was arrested for the third time for driving under the influence, but Gavin Newsom‘s California released him. As noted above, he subsequently killed half a dozen people in a drunk driving incident.

Cerillo-Bialva has been removed from the United States seven times—a felony—and maintains an extensive criminal history including possession of cocaine, three DUIs, driving without a license, and violating a court ordered restraining order for domestic abuse.

This news about Cerillo-Bialva comes just after the announcement that the illegal alien who killed University of South Carolina Student Nate Baker this year in a hit-and-run drunk driving accident was sentenced to only a year in jail.

:“21-year-old USC student Nathaniel ‘Nate’ Baker was driving a motorcycle when he was hit by a truck driver who fled the scene. The hit-and-run driver, Rosali Isaac Fernandez-Cruz, was in our country illegally and received just 1 year in prison for taking Nate’s precious life. ICE lodged a detainer to ensure as soon as this killer completes his one-year prison sentence that ICE is notified to arrest him and get him OUT of our country.”

Oh for the love of ...

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[Vancouver] City official chokes up apologizing to trans activists for hosting innocent ‘Harry Potter’ event

An elected official fought back tears while apologizing for an innocent “Harry Potter” event because it hurt trans activists’ feelings.

Board of Parks and Recreation Commissioner Scott Jensen struggled to contain his emotions as he and other board members apologized for approving Harry Potter: A Forbidden Forest Experience, a “magical” nighttime walk planned for Vancouver, Canada, in November.

Despite the event not featuring “Harry Potter” author JK Rowling, a stream of activists said it still offended them, given the best-selling writer’s outspoken views on women’s rights and trans issues.

Parks commissioner Scott Jensen gave an emotional apology for approving the event. Vancouver Park Board

“I’ve been really moved by your words,” Jensen said, his voice warbling as he fought back tears, video of the meeting shows.

“The lived experiences, the hurt … so on behalf of myself I do apologize,” he told those who spoke.

Fellow Commissioner Angela Haer also promised, “This will not happen again.”

Another commissioner, Tom Digby, later posted on X that the board “did the right thing” by apologizing.

“Shared some tears. Disavowed JKR. Will undertake concrete actions to rebuild trust,” he wrote.

Oh so touching. But there’s a problem:

“The Harry Potter event, put on by Warner Bros. Discovery Global Experiences, is expected to bring in hundreds of thousands of dollars in revenue, city officials told CTV News.”

So, just like Indian land acknowledgements, where breasts are beaten, tears are shed, and the land itself stays firmly in the grip of the universities and groveling government officials …

Despite the apology — and vows to do better — Harry Potter: A Forbidden Forest Experience will still be hosted at Vancouver’s Stanley Park in November.

Off the rent rolls and back up for sale

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28 Thunder Mountain Road, (bad link before — fixed; thank’s EOS) rented out for the past year @$30,000, is again available for sale at the same price it looked for a year ago, $6.550 million. I’m familiar with this Granoff design from back when it was new in 2006-2007, and it’s very, very nice. And from the experience of working with a client some years latter assisting him purchase land atop the hill here, I’ll attest that, unlike some houses on the other side of Thunder Mountain, there’s no appreciable Merritt traffic noise at this location.

The spec builder here originally looked for about the same price it’s asking now, $6.495, but had to settle for $5.650 in 2008. That buyer tried for $5.995 million in 2012, and eventually sold to the current owners in 2014 for $4.490. I expect they’ll do better than that this time.