Lamont to LA's Bass: "We got you beat by a factor of ten, you pussy"

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As Rare as Hen's Teeth: a price cut in Old Greenwich

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20 Sound Beach Avenue has dropped its price from $3.310 million to $2.950. No. 18, next door, also new construction but lacking this one’s one-car garage, just sold in late February for $1.849, so this price may still be optimistic.

Both houses share the same convenient location (practically) under I-95, and although this one claims six bedrooms vs No 18’s four, does anyone really need six bedrooms here? I guess we’ll find out.

18 and 20 sound beACH AVENUE

David Strom's got a lengthy article up discussing the EU, the US, and the fight for free speech

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Ursula Is Not Just a Villain in The Little Mermaid, But a Free Speech Arsonist in Real Life

It’s absolutely worth reading in its entirety, although to be honest, I;m not sure reading it will accomplaish anything except to depress you. Here are some excerpts:

Sunday was World Press Freedom Day, and I was bombarded with nauseating posts on X from European leaders and, worst of all, Ursula von der Leyen, about their commitment to free speech and a free society. 

Barf. That is as appetizing as getting such a lecture from the Iranians or North Koreans, or having Vladimir Putin explain how to ensure that the economy is not riddled with corruption and abuses of power. 

Freedom? All they do is regulate and fine people, meddle in every aspect of people's lives, and use regulations to silence as many of their opponents as possible. When they talk of free speech, what they mean is that you are free to agree with them and praise them profusely. 

🚨🇪🇺The EU is literally mocking us while it kills freedom of speech and carries out mass censorship!

The official European Commission account on X shared a message calling for "freedom of speech" and "democracy" as the fundamental pillars of the EU itself.

However, the reality is quite different.

- In the EU, someone is arrested every hour for a social media post.

- The EU is abolishing anonymity on the internet for greater control.

- The EU is banning political parties.

- The EU is interfering in the elections of other sovereign countries.

- The EU is demanding that member states participate in and finance wars.

- The EU is importing migrants and replacing its own population.

Where is the freedom of speech and democracy here? 

Where are the rights? Where is the future?

There is none - the EU must be abolished so that everyone can live freely.

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We should be scared of what is happening in the EU because it is exactly what the technocrats here in the US are working towards, and that is one of the reasons why our establishment hates Trump with a passion. The Biden and Obama administrations worked diligently with the EU to circumscribe the rights of Americans as much as Europeans, and helped fund the institutions that work to destroy freedom. 

(FWIW) Strom wraps up with these two videos. Kerry’s a nothing-has been, safely ignored, although he certainly still represents what the Left has in mind for us, but check out Klaus Schwab: “The current battle is between state capitalism and shareholder capitalism; state capitalism will win in the short run, and then we will have stakeholder capitalism, which will be socialist.”

And finally, this: The current battle is between state capitalism and shareholder capitalism; state capitalism will win in the short run, and then we will have stakeholder capitalism, whis will be socialist.

These are exactly two of the three topics discussed here that Google Adsense cited when demonetizing this blog (the third was for questioning the efficacy of the COVID vaccine).

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And:

It's Official: The Climate Scam Was a Scam All Along

Stephen Green:

It's nice when something you knew was a fraud all along turns out to be a fraud, but it's even nicer when the people perpetrating the fraud admit it was a fraud all along.

"The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has just published the next generation of climate scenarios," science policy analyst Roger Pielke Jr wrote late last week, and in what he called "big news," the new framework "eliminated the most extreme scenarios that have dominated climate research over much of the past several decades."

So the oceans aren't about to boil off or freeze over or whatever the current scare story is?

Exactly: "The IPCC and broader research community has now admitted that the scenarios that have dominated climate research, assessment and policy during the past two cycles of the IPCC assessment process are implausible. They describe impossible futures."

This is important because the IPCC's changes resulted in "an update to the Science Based Targets initiative’s rules eliminates the need for steep emission cuts by 2030," Trellis reported on Friday. In other words, even the people committed to radically reduced carbon emissions now say we don't need to radically reduce carbon emissions to save the world or whatever.

Without getting too technical — you can read Pielke's full report for that, should you feel the need to go shoulder-deep in the weeds — the upshot is that the previous frameworks lacked "any systematic effort to evaluate plausibility of scenarios." Now, however, "the new HIGH scenario is exploratory — a thought experiment, not a projection."

My guess is that the IPCC still includes the non-scientific, scary-sounding "HIGH scenario" because otherwise the money might dry up.

Pielke added that "users of climate models and model output based on legacy scenarios will now face decisions about if and how they’d like to realign with the latest scientific understandings versus continuing to rely on outdated research."

We'll see how that works out. 

The new IPCC framework actually dates back to 2021, but is only now becoming “news” because a bunch of slow-moving pieces have finally lined up. That's just how science works.

But Pielke's analysis is a week old, and the only way I learned about it was thanks to a Toby Young post on X — he's editor-in-chief of the UK's Daily Sceptic — that PJ Media's own Charlie Martin found.

Why, it's almost as though the mainstream media doesn't want to cover stories like this one.

But for once, I don't digress.

Even though it might be "purely anecdotal, the Daily Sceptic's Chris Morrison believes that even the notoriously scaremongering BBC "seems to have moderated its wilder climate stories of late, with the 'Climate' topic on its News site relegated to the second tier of subjects," effectively demoting climate scares to "rubbing shoulders with the picture gallery and the dumbed-down 'Newsbeat' offering."

So while today's news is good — maybe even great — it does leave me with two questions.

The first it whether the American news media will follow the BBC's lead and stop scaring people with end-of-the-world stories.

The second is what the Left will use to scare us with next.

Price wars in NoPo and Cos Cob

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22 Wescott Street — behind Riverside McDonald’s — sold for $2.350 million in July 2021 (ask was $2.290) and was put back up for sale eleven days ago at $3.295 and has gone pending. That’s a cool million, figure, for four years. Beats working.

And over in Cos Cob, 29 Old Stone Bridge, guide price $2.795 million, is pending after seven days. I’d rather save the money and live in Old Stone Bridge, even though I wouldn’t be able to order a Big Mac and fries out my back window.


On the bright side, the Imam and his followers won't have a navy to use when they finish their takeover of Britain

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from trafalgar to laughingstock, 221 years

HMS Iron Duke has been withdrawn from active service, leaving the Royal Navy with just five operational Type 23 frigates, NavyLookout has revealed.

The naval analysis website broke the story today in a detailed piece well worth reading in full. The withdrawal comes less than three years after a £103 million refit that by any measure was extraordinary in its scope. The work took 49 months and more than 1.7 million man-hours, and was described as the most complex ever carried out on a Type 23.

Iron Duke had been laid up in Portsmouth since 2017 and arrived at Devonport in such poor condition that the structural work on her hull was almost twice what had been needed on any previous ship in the class.

Hartford Clown $how

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Understand that exactly this law has already been ruled unconstitutional, preempted by that document’s Supremacy Clause by the 9th Circuit, the country’s most liberal court. Lamont knows that;, and so do State’s Attorney Tong and Judiciary Committee chairman Steven Stafstrom, yet they’re committing the state to hudreds of thousands of dollars in litigation costs for the sole purpose of virtue signalling on a sunny May afternoon.

April 22, 2026:

9th Circuit blocks California limits on anonymous immigration agents

A federal appeals court on Wednesday struck down California’s requirement that masked federal agents identify themselves, a blow to the state’s ongoing resistance to the Trump administration’s deportation program. 

A 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel handed down a ruling prohibiting California from enforcing a section of the 2025 law that mandates federal law enforcement officers visibly display identification while carrying out their duties. 

The law was destined to face critical scrutiny from the federal judiciary. An 1890 Supreme Court case provides that a state cannot prosecute federal law enforcement officers acting in the course of their duties. 

The law also ran headlong into the Supremacy Clause of the Constitution, which holds that states may not regulate the operations of the federal government. 

CT Mirror

In a statement on Friday, Gov. Ned Lamont said he was “looking forward to signing the bill into law.”

“The people of Connecticut should not fear for their safety when visiting hospitals, schools, and religious and government buildings. The provisions included in this bill include commonsense measures to protect peoples’ constitutional rights from federal overreach,” said Lamont.

By “the people of Connecticut” Lamont means illegal aliens, as does his fellow moron, Chairman of the CT House Judiciary Committee Steven Stafstrom, who said “people are more concerned to go to the hospital or appear in court because they’re afraid of encountering federal agents and being detained.”

If someone who isn’t supposed to be here in the first place is made “more concerned” when appearing in court after being arrested for committing yet another crime, or showing up for taxpayer-funded “free” medical care, well, I don’t share that concern.

Here’s Mr. Stafstrom — as a partner at PUllman & Comley, he charges $900 hour for legal advice. If that advice is as sound as the guidance he gave the state in this instance, his clients may want to demand a refund.

“Is it this face that makes me look stupid?”