In fact, she's right — Congress can impeach a president for any reason, or no reason at all

I may be stupid, but I have horse sense!

Of course, the Senate would then have to try him, and that will be more difficult task.

Cortex really thinks the President can still be impeached

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said she is on board with trying to impeach President Trump, a position at odds with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.

“I think you could reach in a bag and pull so many things out that are impeachable of this president. I support impeaching this president,” the freshman lawmaker told Yahoo News’ “Skullduggery” podcastSunday evening. ….

The New York Democrat said there are “many things” Trump has done that would constitute grounds for impeachment but she singled out violating the emoluments clause of the Constitution as the most egregious.

“I think it’s always been emoluments,” Ocasio-Cortez told the podcast. “It’s always been about that for me.”

The clause forbids federal officials from accepting payments from foreign governments without congressional approval.

Ocasio-Cortez also said she believes Trump has committed tax fraud.

Remember the Russian collusion story that was the ostensible reason for all this? Never mind.

But she downplayed special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 election, which according to Attorney General William Barr cleared Trump of colluding with the Kremlin.

“If we had gotten something from the Mueller report then I would probably put that up there as No. 1, but I feel like it’s a little risky to put the entire grounds of impeachment … to put all yours eggs in that basket,” she said, adding that emoluments “includes any kind of financial misconduct.”

I hope this moron and her friends do manage to bring impeachment proceedings against Trump, because nothing could split Americans into two clearly defined groups better than that. But my real worry is that Trump hatred is so intense, so wide-spread, that every one of the deranged will crawl out from under their beds to vote against him next election day. The numbers still favor Trump, but the Republicans are going to launch a massive get-out-the-vote campaign of their own if they, and independent voters still clinging to their sanity, hope to beat back these people.

I've never heard of this lady, but she's apparently one of the 4,675 people running for president

Marianna Williams calls for reparations

WASHINGTON — Marianne Williamson, a 2020 Democratic presidential candidate, argued that reparations for descendants of slaves are a “debt we owe” as a society.

Williamson has suggested allocating $100 billion to a council that would spend the money on programs that benefit African-American ancestors of slaves as a form reparations.

Williamson was asked how she would pay for reparations, specifically where she would allocate the money from in the federal budget. In response, Williamson said that "nobody" asks that same question when tax cuts are passed or when wars are waged.

"This is not a debt we can afford to delay any longer. The economic restitution for two and a half centuries of slavery followed by 100 years of domestic terrorism. Germany has paid $89 billion to Jewish organizations since World War II," Williamson said during a CNN town hall on Sunday evening.

"It's simply a debt we owe. This country will not heal until we take a serious moral inventory. A nation must undergo the same level of deep moral inventory [and] admission of our character defects. Racism is a character defect. Let's end this. Let's fix this. Let's solve this. Reparations won't end everything but it will be a profound gift. It implies a mea culpa. It implies a recognition of a debt owed and therefore, it carries not only economic power but spiritual force -- whatever it costs, it's time to do this," she added.

It’s astonishing, to me, how demands that were considered fringe ideas and dismissed by even Democrat politicians just a few years ago: gay marriage, transvestites competing with female athletes and using girls’ bathrooms, socialism, open borders and reparations are just a few examples, are now considered mainstream, and opponents to any of them are called racists, homophobes and, worst of all, free market capitalists, all of whom must be silenced.

Condo glut?

California’s cold market is doing well, which just shows that it’s scarcity, not design, that drives sale

I received the following letter from a reader last week, and though a quick check of our MLS numbers produced slightly different numbers, they were close to the reader’s. While I was at it, I looked at our inventory of single family homes compared to last year’s sales, and if I were the owner of a house priced at $4 million and above, I’d settle in for a long wait.

Hi Chris,

I know you do not dabble in condo/townhouses but there is an incredible phenomenon going on in Greenwich.  

I counted 50 condos/townhouses listed in Greenwich from $1,950,000 and above on Realtor.com.  Now according to Houlihan Lawrence data, only 15 condos sold in 2018 for $2 million or above.  In 2017, the number was 19.  In theory, we have over three years of inventory.  

Much of the supply is new developments.  

125 Filed Point Road has nine listings or 60% of the total volume in 2018.  The units came on the market in March 2018.  

62-68 Soundview Road has four units listed.  They came on the market in March 2019.  

141 Milbank Avenue has three units listed.  They came on the market in December 2018.  

165 Shore Road has 2 units listed.  They came on the market in May 2018.  One unit saw its price drop from $2,495,000 to $2,095,000.  Another from $2,925,000 to $2,050,000.     

These are just the ones listed.  Each community has more units than listed so some were either pre-sold or being held till the first batch of units are sold.  

There is another big development being constructed near 62-68 Soundview Road, closer to town hall.  May be it will be ready for the 2020 season.   

It does not take an economics degree to figure out that the market for these condos are in trouble.  Just the new construction listed above is as great as all units sold at that price in a year.  

You really have to ask who is lending to these developers?  Money is cheap and plentiful but banks expect to receive their money plus interest back.  

Interesting times.  You can publish this if you wish.  

This had to sting

4 Rapids Lane (off Winding, mid-country) has sold for $2.9 million. A 1962 house that’s been renovated and kept up-to-date over the years, the sellers paid $3.7 for it in 2000. Interestingly, the town’s been carrying it on the tax roll aT $4,051,000. Next town reassessment, tax relief for mid and back country properties is going to come at the expense of Riverside and Old Greenwich.

Brace yourself, Bridget.

Instant sale on Riverside's Glen Avon

9 Glen Avon, $1.995 million, is already pending after just five days. That’s not even time enough for a building inspection, so I assume a builder made a deal for this property the first day, and the four following days were spent drafting a sale contract..

UPDATE: I just heard from the owner: the house was indeed sold in one day, but I’m glad to report that it is being purchased by a family with four kids, who’ve been renting in the area. It makes me happy that this fine older home will survive to see at least one more generation grow up in it.

Is this even legal? If it is, it shouldn't be

Calling the Woke

“Surf & Turf” is “reinvented with an Asian twist at a new NYC restaurant. As I understand the cultural appropriation crowd, whites are forbidden to serve tacos (they shut down a new taco stand in Portland, Oregon), or Chinese or Vietnamese or Thai food, and so on. I even read recently of a (white) soul food restaurateur for daring to open a restaurant in Harlem.

So what’s with Japanese sushi chef daring to mess with that most American of foods, our beloved surf and turf?

I expect to see a picket line throw around this establishment no later than tomorrow.

The Tiger roars again!

Wins the Masters, first time since 2005 (and his last victory of any major came in 2008). I know he was revealed to be a jerk in his personal life, but I was one of those non-golfers who were said to double the TV audience when he was in contention, and from 1997 to 2005, it was a real pleasure to watch a superb athlete at work. I haven’t watched golf since his body fell apart and he stopped winning, so today was a treat.

Besides, I read an article yesterday by some “expert” sports columnist explaining, rather patronizingly, in my opinion, why he couldn’t possibly win, and watching one of those guys forced to eat crow is a delicious sight. Nothing could match Rachel Maddow on 2016’ Election Night, but this will do, for now.

ElectroMagnetic Pulse — still a (growing) threat, still ignored by Congress

Fun book, if you’re into nightmares

Trump to sign executive order to study the risks of an EMP attack.

In what would be a major about-face for the federal government, President Trump is reportedly preparing to sign an executive order to study the risks of an electromagnetic pulse (EMP) attack on the US.

Despite the fact that a growing number of scientists and national security experts see an EMP attack on the US electricity grid as one of the greatest terror threats facing the country, the DoD decided in late 2017 to defund a Congressional committee that had been studying the EMP threat since 2001. The DoD terminated funding for the Commission to Assess the Threat to the US from Electromagnetic Pulse Attack in September 2017, just as the threat from North Korea - considered a rogue state that could pull off an EMP attack with one of its nukes - was reaching a fever pitch.

The frustrating thing about this subject is that it has been studied, for over 30 years, and Congress refuses to pay attention. “The Report of the Commission to Assess the Threat to the United States from ElectroMagnetic Pulse (EMP)” was released September 11, 2001. Unfortunately another event committed “by some people” on that same day meant that the report, and its horrifying conclusions of the cataclysm that will follow an EMP was never noticed. That’s understandable, but there’s no excuse for not revisiting the issue during the ensuing 18 years, especially because our dependence on electronic circuitry has probably doubled since then.

Three low-grade nuclear bombs, exploded hundreds of miles above us, will destroy every electrical component in the United States. That includes not just our power plants, but computers, all means of transportation, all communications: land line and cell phones, radio, television (okay, an EMP wouldn’t be an unmitigated disaster) refrigerators, and so on: everything in our modern society.

The WSJ reported on this topic at least a decade ago, and some five years ago I happened to be at an otherwise boring party and by sheer good luck ended up seated next to a former Secretary of the Navy, just back from a War College conference on the risks and the consequences of an EMP attack. He told me that the consensus of experts there was that 90% of our population would be dead with six months.

Just as an example: NYC holds something like 10 million people; deprive them of food, water and heat for just three days, let alone six months, and the city will erupt. They’ll have mostly starved to death or killed one another in one month; the War College’s conclusion must have included in its calculation of death a higher survival rate in our mid-west farm country — but even those people may well succumb quickly to rioting mobs from the cities.

None of this is new, nor is it unthinkable. In fact, it may almost be inevitable. We could avoid the very worst of this by hardening our power grid, at the cost of just a few billion dollars, but spending money on something as unsexy as our power grid holds no attraction for politicians (see, e.g., building new bridges vs maintaining those we already have — no politician’s ever made the front page chipping paint off a bridge support girder).

The only consolation in all this is if we do all die, our feckless politicians will go along for the ride with the rest of us.

OMG! Is this truly the end of Florida Man, or will someone else step up to take his place?

Florida Man torn apart by his Carowary.

A large, flightless bird native to Australia and New Guinea killed its Florida owner when it attacked him after he fell, authorities said Saturday.

The Alachua County Fire Rescue Department said that a cassowary killed the man Friday on his property near Gainesville, likely using its long claws. The victim, whose name was not released, was apparently breeding the birds, state wildlife officials said.

Cassowaries are similar to emus and stand up to 6 feet tall and weigh up to 130 pounds, with black body feathers and bright blue heads and necks.

The San Diego Zoo's website calls cassowaries the world's most dangerous bird with a four-inch, dagger-like claw on each foot.

The San Diego Zoo's website calls cassowaries the world's most dangerous bird with a four-inch (10-centimeter), dagger-like claw on each foot

'The cassowary can slice open any predator or potential threat with a single swift kick. Powerful legs help the cassowary run up to 31 miles per hour through the dense forest underbrush,' the website says.

Like him or loath him, you have to admit that Trump is a master at trolling Democrats and forcing them to reveal their hypocrisy

LA, San Francisco, San Jose …. so many possibilities!

You want ‘em, you got ’em. Trump suggests busing illegals captured at the border to Los Angeles and other “sanctury” cities.

No, it’s not going to happen, regrettably, but the Left rose to the bait immediately, just as Trump knew it would. Illegal aliens commit fewer crimes than legal residents, aren’t a drain on the economy, schools and medical service costs, and only add to our “wonderful mosaic”? Then fine; you should welcome these people with open arms!

“Unexpectedly”, citizens of those sanctuary cities are declining Trump’s offer of generosity on their behalf.

Like stealing candy from a baby.