Fazio: There's massive corruption in Hartford; Democrats: “Trump, Trump, Trump!"

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Fazio, Lamont trade blame for tolerating corruption in Hartford, D.C.

Lamont challenged the credibility of Fazio or any other Republican to question his ethics, given their tolerance of a president whose net worth has grown by more than $2 billion since returning to the White House, while his attorney general signed off on a deal ending the IRS examination of his taxes.

“You’ve got a president who’s added well over a billion dollars to his income on gross malfeasance and corruption. I didn’t hear a word from any of the Republicans, I didn’t hear one word from Ryan Fazio,” Lamont said. “You know what I heard was crickets.”

The issue of corruption in a state governor’s race is what either party is going to do to stop it; Fazio has articulated his policies and proposed actions, Lamont and his fellow Democrats have nothing in their shallow intellectual tank to address any issue, state or national, so they deflect, and count on their voters’ TDS to carry the day in both.

What does Trump have to do with Democrat tolerance of state corruption? Nothing; that’s why the Hartford crooks are pointing away from the state Capitol and towards the District of Columbia.

Insanity: the new normal (Updated)

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Messianic complex (“a psychological state where an individual believes they are responsible for saving, rescuing, or fixing others”) much? She’s Jesus risen again — no different in that respect than most modern liberal women, although Jesus didn’t advocate strangling babies or throwing his enemies into gas ovens (unless you’re reading the Episcopal bible)

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Here’s how she celebrated 9/11:

‘Attack on US soil’ comment sparks backlash for NC House candidate

“I think our only hope is an attack on US soil, preferably Alabama, Louisiana where the stupid people live.”

And, while I didn’t fact-check the post below, it sounds entirely likely:

Guilford County sheriff’s reports from two incidents in 2024 list Gregory Thomas Headen as the victim and Shelly Headen as the suspect in alleged simple assaults.

UPDATE: As I was just saying …

The [38-year-old] demonstrator charged the field in the seventh inning of the Yankees-Mets Subway Series game in The Bronx on Friday at exactly 9:11 p.m. — before quickly getting tackled in centerfield by security, video showed.

Fans immediately broke out into chants of “USA!” when the man was brought down onto the grass.

Just hours before the stunt, around 4:30 p.m., Marcucci posted an unhinged, rambling rant on Facebook.

He went off on a nonsensical tirade about capitalism, Zionism, Saudi Arabia and 9/11, mentioning a string of high-profile people including President Trump and Joe Rogan.

Marcucci also posted a brief video of himself at the baseball game before he stormed the field, showing off his personalized “K. Marcucci” jersey from the stands. 

The front of the shirt reads “No Kings,” a widespread anti-Trump sentiment. 

Ah, to be ten years old again on an early Saturday morning

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Not much in Week in Pictures this week, but I liked (and improved) this one:

Fact checked it, so that you don’t have to:

AI Overview

The primary Danish word for "speed" is fart, while hastighed serves as a more formal alternative.

Understanding "Fart" in Danish

  • Everyday Usage: The word fart means speed, motion, or pace in Danish, Swedish, and Norwegian.

  • Origin: The term comes from old Nordic language roots meaning a journey or travel.

Never Remember

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9/11 and Teddy Maloney

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Cos Cob 9/11 Memorial at sunrise

On this horrible day, people will gather to remember and mourn their dead across the country, and, in Greenwich, a 25th Anniversary September 11 Remembrance Service will be held 8:30 - 10:30; Guests are asked to arrive by 8:30 so that the service can begin promptly at 8:46, the exact time the first plane slammed into the North Tower.*

So many died that it’s hard to truly gather the enormity of loss — tied to the financial industry as it is, Greenwich alone saw 33 murdered that day; our sons, daughters, and friends. So it’s easier for me to focus on just one, Sally Maloney’s son, Teddy, 32, married in 1998 to his childhood sweetheart Brinley, father of their 14-month daughter Mason, and expecting a new baby girl, who would be named Teddy in his memory, in two months. He left for the Towers that morning and never came back.

Sally and I didn’t know each on that day, but we met a few years later when I entered the realtor world, and became friends. Then, some years later, when my John was dying, we bonded, because the pain at the loss of a child seems unique among all the world’s woes, and have remained steadfast friends since. So every year I try to remember Teddy here on these pages and send Sally my love.

The writer Robert Dugani, who lost his own father at ten, concluded one of his mystery novels with a scene where the protagonist is kneeling by his murdered wife's gravestone. He glances over and sees an older woman placing flowers on what turns out to be her husband's grave, dead some 35 years. "When does it stop?" the protagonist asks her, and she replies "The ache in your heart each morning when you wake to realize she's really gone? "It doesn't. Time doesn't heal all wounds. But it does deaden the pain so that we can go on."

That’s about as sad, and accurate, as I can bear this morning. Blessings to all, and especially to you, Sally.

All my love on this horrible day,

*Back in 2015, Greenwich native and writer and Jerry’s son, wrote an excellent article on the Memorial and how it came to be built. Highly recommended.

Smell the burn

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First the good news, for those of you worried about her and Puerto Rico’s futures:

$750K-a-year head of the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, Janisse Quiñones, who oversaw the draining of the Santa Ynez reservoir, leaving firefghters high and dry during last year’s Pacific Palisades fires has fled LA for Puerto Rico, where she has been appointed head of PR’s hopelessly corrupt and incompetent electrical grid operator, LUMA.

The reservoir (and a second one) are still empty, as this year’s fire season draws nigh, so on with the rest of the story:

….[I]nterestingly enough, it turns out that one of the main culprits in the Pacific Palisades fire catastrophe is the infamous and EMPTY Santa Ynez reservoir, which was meant to keep the water pressure up for the fire hydrants it provided water to.

As it was sitting EMPTY with LA firefighters none the wiser at the time of the great conflagration that ate the LA hillsides, a number of significant problems were encountered as the embattled first responders tried to save homes and businesses from the raging inferno - hydrants ran dry for lack of both water and the water pressure to feed what water there was to upper parts of the waterlines, and firefighting helicopters with their dump bags had to fly to another site six air minutes away per load, instead of just up over the hillside, about a thirty-second flight.

And the Santa Ynez reservoir is dry. Still.

Santa Ynez Reservoir Dry Again as Palisades Endures Third Fire Season Without Water

Seriously. It's the canvas cover issue again.

The Los Angeles reservoir that was notoriously empty during the 2025 Palisades fire has been drained once again as crews replace its floating cover, to the dismay of area residents who worry that there won’t be water available to fight wildfires.

The Santa Ynez Reservoir stores drinking water for Pacific Palisades, and the $19.5-million project to replace its damaged cover is needed to ensure the water is safe to drink, according to the Department of Water and Power.

But with warm weather and wildfire season ahead, community leaders would prefer to see a full reservoir even if the water isn’t suitable for drinking.

“It’s a failure to recognize that there is value to this community to have the reservoir full,” said Maryam Zar, head of the Palisades Recovery Coalition. “It’s incredible to me that after the experience we went through [with the Palisades fire] there is still no recognition that this reservoir should be filled to the gills, whether or not it’s potable.”

Mayor Bass and her brain trust have come up with a “solution”, one that the man the Democrats cheated off the ballot, Spencer Platt, believes to be unwise:

NOTHING YOU'VE EVER DONE IN YOUR LIFE COULD POSSIBLY BE AS DUMB AS KAREN BASS RUNNING OUR WATER SUPPLY THROUGH A RUBBER HOSE THROUGH SIX MILES OF FLAMMABLE BRUSH

And so on. Read the whole article, if you still own property in Los Angeles or are considering (trying to) live there.

Concluding, I don’t remember whether I posted on this last week but if I didn’t here it is. And if I did, here it is again:

No arrestees' names published? Then you know

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Machete Attack in Port Chester Waterfront Place Parking Garage Results in Multiple Arrests

Greenwich Free Press:

The Port Chester Police Department responded Tuesday evening to a physical altercation involving approximately 8 to 10 individuals on the MTA-owned commuter parking level of the Waterfront Place parking garage.

According to a release from Port Chester Police, several weapons were recovered including a machete – all suspects and recovered evidence were immediately turned over to the MTA Police Dept as they proceeded with their investigation.

Two individuals were transported to the Westchester County Medical Center to treat injuries. As of Wednesday morning 6 individuals had reportedly been charged and arrested by the MTA Police.

“There has been no confirmation that this incident was gang related. Preliminary information suggests the altercation may have been connected to an incident from earlier Tuesday, which remains under investigation,” Port Chester Police said.

Only because it’s a (very) slow day for real estate news, I did some digging and found an alternatives source for the names omitted in the article above: here are the miscreants — surprise!

Machetes, knives involved in Port Chester parking garage fight; four charged

Nine to ten people, multiple weapons, including machetes, razor blades and knives.

A 17-year-old boy and an adult suffered lacerations to the face and head and were taken to a hospital for treatment, Taffe said. Police later charged four people with criminal possession of a weapon.

Several people fled the scene, leaving a blood trail, police said. Port Chester police later took four people into custody several blocks away.

The following people were charged with fourth-degree criminal possession of a weapon:

  • An unnamed 17-year-old male from Port Chester

  • Hector Durasno-Escandon, 18, of Port Chester

  • Jorge Osoy Lopez, 18, of Port Chester

  • Wilmer Ledesma, 22, of Queens