Spot-on, Charlie

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Why is Juneteenth a problem? ... On its face value I have no problem with it, I think it's wonderful ... The issue is that the entire point of it, as per postmodernists do and deconstructionists, is to subvert July 4th. That has always been the agenda.

That there is a black independence day and a national independence day. The same way they have a black national anthem that plays before NFL games ... It is a neo-segregationist federal holiday.

And they're so tricky, aren't they? Because they say, 'Oh, Charlie are you against the emancipation of slaves?' Of course we're not against that, because that's not what this is about.

This is a summertime competitor to create multiple independence days to further deteriorate, erode, and destroy the celebration of our actual Independence Day.

Riverside has a new newsletter via the Riverside Association

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The Riverside Tide's History Lesson — who knew that Riverside Avenue was once named in honor of the Irish?

Before it was the Riverside we know today, this area was called Mianus Neck—a quiet, tight-knit farming and fishing community where Riverside Avenue was known simply as the Potato Road. [Or, as some would have it, Bog Trotter Lane — Ed]

Everything changed in 1869 when real estate developer Jeremiah Atwater and attorney Luke Vincent Lockwood swooped in. They renamed the area, built a dedicated train station, and marketed the neighborhood to New Yorkers looking for a beautiful summer escape.

The bet paid off. Today, Riverside proudly boasts two sites on the National Register of Historic Places:

  1. The Riverside Avenue Bridge (1894): Connecticut's only surviving cast-iron bridge.

  2. The Samuel Ferris House (c. 1760): A historic colonial farmhouse located at 1 Cary Road, originally owned by some of Riverside's earliest settlers.

Problem, solution

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No no no!

Earlier this week, our RTM rejected Scott Frantz’s offer of a free statue of G.W. Bush because of disputes over its location.

Yesterday, a FWIW reader suggested that a statue of Israel Putnam presently standing in Redding be removed from that inconsequential town and erected at the top of the steps of our Put’s Hill.

My guess is that the residents of Redding, inconsequential or not, might object to a high-handed confiscation of their statue by Greenwich, so what are we to do? The solution is so obvious, so simple, I’m astonished that it’s been left up to me to make all right: put George on Israel’s horse and mount him on the grounds of Knapp’s Tavern.

Two transactions that were reported on the MLS at yesterday's bell

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The GMLS office is closed today for a federal holiday “Juneteenth” which, so far as I can tell, is a celebration of the day that Africans who’d been captured and enslaved by their fellow Africans and thence shipped in irons to this country were freed by the executive order of a white man. I imagine there will be various ceremonies held around the country thanking President Lincoln, Republican, and the white soldiers who fought and died to free those Africans, but I haven’t heard of any so far.

In any event, to real estate:

Round and round we go (Updated — and around again)

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By this point, I don’t think the public cares who won, who lost, just so long as the whole thing ends.

Update: June 19, 10:02 AM

Iran declares the Strait of Hormuz closed again after US lifts blockade

Bomb them or go home, or bomb them and then go home. Whatever.

Voting, Democrat Style

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Anything wrong with this ballot? nyone? Anyone? Bueller?

FBI Descends on LA Skid Row Over Potential Voter Fraud/Bribery of Homeless

Federal officers descended on Skid Row in downtown Los Angeles Thursday morning as part of a stunning investigation into voter fraud following LA’s mayoral election.

About 20 agents swooped in on the notoriously blighted area after homeless people living there claimed they’d been paid cash to sign multiple registration forms, forge signatures and fill out voter information ahead of the mayor’s race and governor primaries.

LA responds: “we’ll just bring in a new batch of voters”

By a decisive vote of 10 to 5, the Los Angeles City Council approved a ballot proposal that, if approved by voters on November 3, will give noncitizens the right to vote in local elections.

They’re not allowed to even be here, let alone vote, but is that any reason to let such a valuable resource go to waste?

Maine's Platner, Bernie Sanders and AOC are just a few of the members of the DSA: many more are already in office as senators, congressmen, mayors, and current candidates

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Democratic Socialist Radicals Push to Destroy Constitution for Socialist Republic

Earlier this month, the Democratic Socialists of America’s top leadership met for an in-person meeting of their National Political Committee (NPC), the DSA’s governing authority. The result of the meeting was “Workers Deserve More!”, a rebooted platform for the organization featuring a host of radical proposals. The document commits DSA to

  • “scrapping the U.S. Senate”

  • “abolishing the carceral forces of the capitalist state” [No prisons, no police]

  • “defunding the Department of War”

  • “amnesty for all immigrants” [open our borders to the world, let in anyone who wants in], and

  • “replac[ing] the President and Supreme Court with an executive and judiciary chosen by and subordinate to Congress.” [Which would mean the House of Representatives, the Senate having been abished]

Read More: Democratic Socialism in the District of Columbia

Mamdani Backs Congressional Candidate Who Called America a 'F***ing Disgrace,' Says She's Changed

Pie in the sky? I don’t think so, nor do they. It’d be interesting to hear a few of these politicians address, explain and defend these goals and demands, but the flying monkeys of the media would never ask such a question for fear iof awakening the dupes voting these people in.

Because, except for the Village People, gay construction workers have long been barred from this nation’s power corridors

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The Bee’s on top of the story:

And submitted with no comment: While scouring images for gay construction workers, I came across this story about a little boy’s mother expressing her pride, if you will, at her child’s participation in the 2015 edition of the annual gay parade. “He wanted to do it when he was six, but we thought he was too young”.

Desmond Napoles, 8, whose dancing drew joyous applause from the crowd at Sunday's New York City Pride March