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welcome to america, mates

Here in its entirety is Maine Public Radio’s coverage of this latest border incident here in Vacation Land:

Border Patrol arrest 4 British men on the Golden Road for alleged illegal border crossing

Border Patrol agents arrested four British nationals last week on the Golden Road, after the men allegedly crossed the border illegally in a remote section of Somerset County.

According to court records, maple workers alerted agents at the St. Zacharie port of entry to four men walking on the Golden Road, which is primarily used by logging trucks.

Border Patrol agents found the men near the road and took them into custody for allegedly entering the U.S. without inspection.

Agents also took two U.S. citizens into custody on suspicion they were planning to pick up the British men. They were found on the Golden Road after their car ran out of gas, according to court records.

And now, courtesy of Paul Harvey’s ghost, is the rest of, and the real story:

NPR appears to have borrowed ABC News’ editor:

Hoist by his own peter(ard) (No one likes forced puns, Chris, except you)

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“If I said it, I’ didn’t mean it — c’mon, man!”

Having already determined that their former darling Eric Swalwell is not as desirable a gubernatorial candidate as some others in the race, and started a removal effort, the latest accusations of sexual misconduct have forced the Democrats to move swiftly to finish the job. Even though the current complainant seems to have had a serious problem with alcohol at the time — she admits she was in constant, repeated alcoholic blackouts during her sexual bouts with the Congressman — under the Democrat mantra of “believe all women”, they have no choice but to believe this one. Of course, they’d have found a way to evade or ignore that rule if they still considered Swalwell an asset rather than a liability, but they don’t, so he won’t last. Couldn’t happen to a more deserving pos.

Update: Matt Margolis explains further why Swalwell has to be booted from the governor’s race

Even though this is California, Swalwell’s problems could very well cost Democrats the election. California runs a jungle primary, where all candidates from all parties compete together and the top 2 vote-getters advance to the general election — regardless of party affiliation. With a historically crowded Democratic field splitting the liberal vote, two Republicans — former Fox News host Steve Hilton and Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco — had been polling at the top of the field. Swalwell was running in third.

If he stays in the race, he keeps siphoning off a substantial share of Democratic votes. That risks producing something extraordinary: a November ballot with zero Democrats. A Republican-only general election for California governor would be catastrophic for the party — it would threaten Democratic turnout in the midterms and make competitive House races far more winnable for the GOP.

The calls to exit the governor's race are about one thing: political survival. Party leaders want the governorship to stay blue. Trust me, none of the Democrats calling for Swalwell to drop out care about the women who came forward. If Democrats actually cared about accountability, they would be demanding that Swalwell resign from Congress as well. Their silence on that front reveals the calculation beneath the outrage.

From back in the days when Swalwell was considered a useful idiot for the Democrat establishment:

How ruthlessly effective is the Democrat machine?

Eric Swalwell is asked to drop out of the race because a Republicans may actually win.

He refuses.

Party operatives tap into their pool of white liberal feminists and just like that, he's hit with not one...not two, but FOUR sexual assault accusations.

Of course, none of the victims can remember any details, just that it happened. The exact Blasey-Ford and E. Jean Carrol playbook.

Within an hour, the victim is being interviewed on @CNN.The email goes out.

Almost immediately, the teacher's union is condemning him and Schumer, Pelosi, Jeffries and every other Democrat on Twitter is calling for him to drop out of the race.

Keep in mind, when Tara Reade accused Biden of forcibly sexually abusing her, they called her a liar and nobody called for him to drop out.

This is all a coordinated attack because they've seen the internal polling that Steve Hilton may actually win this thing and they are sacrificing Swalwell because liberal idiots like him are a dime a dozen.

Says the billionaire who led the charge to block construction of the Keystone pipeline, close refineries, and curtail oil exploration

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(Cont) ... the usual Sacramento script.

As of April 2026:
• CA average: ~$5.89/gallon
• National average: ~$4.08/gallon
• Difference: +$1.81 that has ZERO to do with any war or “Big Oil.”

That premium has existed for decades — long before this conflict began.

Highest gas taxes & fees in America (~71¢ excise + sales + cap-and-trade + LCFS credits = nearly $1.80/gal in total state burden).CARB’s boutique “California-only” fuel blend that no other state can supply.

Decades of refinery closures, low-carbon mandates, and permitting hell that slashed in-state capacity while CA imported more crude from foreign sources.

Nevada imports 85-90% of its fuel from those same strangled California refineries. Arizona gets ~33%. Green ideology isn’t just screwing Californians — it’s pricing out your neighbors too. (Sound familiar, @AaronDFordNV?)

You and Governor Newsom keep blaming Trump and producers for the mess Sacramento engineered.

Meanwhile, the same CARB regs you cheered are now a national security issue for DoD bases on the West Coast. Trump’s Defense Production Act moves to fix what ideology broke. That’s not “Big Oil” — that’s basic energy security.

And while we’re on the topic of who really benefits: It is our understanding that you built your ~$2 billion fortune running Farallon Capital, a hedge fund that delivered big returns in part through investments in fossil fuels — including coal mines and power plants abroad. 

Then your fund pivoted to climate investing via Galvanize Climate Solutions, raising hundreds of millions for “decarbonization” plays and profiting handsomely from the subsidies, mandates, and regulations.

In political science terms this would be called rent-seeking.

Energy security isn’t optional.

American oil & gas delivers it — when Sacramento gets out of the way.

But it sounds like if elected you're not prepared to get out of the way.

At any rate, thank you for sharing your views on this important issue.

Steyer, who spent $250 million of his own money running for the Democrat presidential nomination in 2020 and garnered not one delegate, has turned his ambitions to the California governor’s seat this year and “in March 2026, Steyer's campaign petitioned the California Secretary of State to disqualify Eric Swalwell from running in the governor's race. Steyer argued that Swalwell is not a California resident and that he is domiciled in Washington, D.C.. Two days ago, we asked who was behind the sudden abandonment of Swalwell by Democrats; now we know.

Sales reported

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I’ve posted on all these previously, so here are just some basics: Photo, price, link.

341 Sound Beach Avenue, Listed at $2.8 million, sold for $3,007,000

182 Taconic Road, $6.325 million, originally listed at $6.850

10 Tomahawk Lane, $2.840 million. Originally listed at $2.395 in 2024, the owners pulled it in February ‘25, redid it, and put it back on the market at $3.250, so the money put into it probably paid off

12 wooddale road, $4.450 sold, $4.5 million asked

A rental concept that might swing in our Irish Quarter, but otherwise, “No sex, please, we’re WASPS”.

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“the home is sanitized thoroughly with “hospital-grade disinfectant” and a black light between each guest, according to Corpening.” I can’t even ….

This coastal Maine rental house is designed for sex 

Hidden Honey Homes, a company that outfits single-family homes into adult-only short-term rentals, opened its first Maine location on Dec. 1, 2025. It’s one of only four locations in the country owned by the Florida-based company. 

“We’re for modern couples who either are proactively preventing a rift in their relationship or may be experiencing that and want to spice things up,” said Erica Corpening, who co-founded Hidden Honey Homes with her husband. “Or maybe couples just need a getaway and need to know that it’s okay to have sex somewhere.” 

While other companies throughout the country have created similar adult-only rentals, this is the only known instance of one in Maine. It also adds a new competitor to the region’s expansive short-term rental market that can limit housing for year-round residents.

… The home sits on the bank of the Union River in Ellsworth and the exterior looks no different from others around it. The rental has a three night minimum and costs vary throughout the year. In the height of the summer, fees can be more than $1,300 per night, the booking website shows. 

Designed for two people, the home offers a standard kitchen, living space, one bedroom and one bathroom. The property’s other bedrooms, however, have been remodeled to be themed “play rooms” with restraints and specialized furniture that are designed for couples to be intimate. 

The company’s other locations are in Florida, where the founders live, and North Carolina. The owners sought out a coastal Northeast location because Corpening was raised in Massachusetts and “New England is near and dear to my heart,” she said. 

Sex among Protestants is never to be spoken of, and certainly, no proper couple would want to be seen checking into a house whose neighbors would know exactly what they intended to do in there! The horrors!

I've discussed this here before, but Stephen Green does it better (of course)

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Elon Musk Didn’t Just Leave Delaware — He Started a Stampede

Tiny Delaware is a corporate behemoth, but the trickle that began with Elon Musk — as so many things do — is now a flood worth more than three trillion dollars in corporate value. "Since 2024, over 61 companies have left or filed to leave Delaware," Leave Delaware reported on Thursday, including "Tesla, SpaceX, Coinbase, Roblox, Dropbox, Simon Property Group, Dillard's, and Fidelity National Financial."

An additional seven "pending shareholder votes are scheduled in the next two months" to reincorporate elsewhere. 

Delaware’s business-friendly reputation is why the state has just about one million residents, but two million registered business entities.  

That is, until the state's corporate-focused Court of Chancery twice denied Tesla's proposed pay package for Musk, even though it was fully shareholder-approved. The decision was exactly the kind of nanny-statism that companies incorporated in Delaware to avoid. 

So Tesla reincorporated in Texas — Wall Street firms have major outposts there now, too, as well as in Florida — and SpaceX quickly followed.

Serving as a corporate P.O. box accounts for as much as one-third of Delaware's state revenues.

But clearly that's changing almost as quickly as the Court of Chancery sabotaged the state's reputation in a fit of suicidal pique over Musk's politics.

Today's news goes back to something I've written about California several times over the last five or six years.

The Big Tech firms that dominate Silicon Valley — and whose profits and income taxes keep Sacramento afloat — likely aren't going anyway. I'm talking the real big boys like Alphabet (Google's parent), Meta (Facebook), and Apple. Steve Jobs didn't devote so much effort while he was dying to get the company's five-billion-dollar "spaceship" headquarters designed and approved, just to have Tim Cook hang a "For Rent" sign on the front door someday.

But their Bay Area footprints haven't grown very much, while all three firms have expanded out-of-state in big ways. Meta alone plans hundreds of billions worth of new U.S. infrastructure by 2028, mostly in states like Texas, New Mexico, Indiana, South Carolina... pretty much anywhere but business-hostile California.

While those massive HQs aren't going anywhere, the problem California Democrats have yet to recognize, at least publicly, is where the next Apple, Facebook, or Google pops up. Tech firms almost always go from Too Big to Fail to Too Big to Innovate. It's almost a sure thing that the next generation of startups — the ones that turn today's giants into tomorrow's also-rans — will launch in Texas, North Carolina, or... well, pretty much anywhere but business-hostile California.

But that's in the medium-to-long term.

What's amazing about Delaware's "bad luck" is just how quickly things began to unravel. It's been more than a century since Delaware became the favorite place for businesses located anywhere to incorporate, thanks to expert Chancery Court judges, predictable corporate legal precedents, and a light regulatory touch. The First State quickly became the legal home for most Fortune 500 companies. No factories. No fancy headquarters. Just a P.O. box.

California's growth stalled a decade ago, and unless the business climate improves, the Bay Area will get slowly nibbled to death by out-of-state upstarts. 

….[As] Elon Musk could tell you — and probably did, if you follow him on X — it's a helluva lot easier to move a corporate P.O. box than it is to relocate a billion-dollar HQ.

Delaware forgot that. The exodus has begun. 

Sort of Conyers Farm south, which will probably appeal

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39 Brookridge Drive, 18,000 sq. ft. of new construction, has been listed today with a guide price of $28.5 million. That’s a size and a price that was once more commonly seen up in the Conyers Farm development with its 10+ acre minimum lots, and this one has just 2.4 acres, but if you’re not an equestrian, do you really need or want a paddock and stables and be a half-hour from town?

Conyers Farm prices softened, then plummeted after the 2008 crash and never recovered: buyers’ tastes changed. So this one might very well work better for an uber-rich buyer. And if such a buyer truly insists on being a faux-Englishman, the gardener can set out a Havahart or two and catch all the foxes needed to feed that illusion.

Here's a shocker: Riverside home sells for just a smidgeon over its asking price.

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247 Riverside Avenue, listed at $8.295 million, sold for $8.3. No massive bidding war here, but the sellers paid $6.2 for it in December 2024, so they probably covered their costs.

The pictures have all been yanked — out of town buyer from an undisclosed location, so maybe that’s why — but I covered it earlier, when it first hit the market, and nothing’s changed.

Expensive, sure, but think what you’ll save on yard maintenance, having none.