Greenwich, Connecticut real estate, politics, and more.
Greenwich, Connecticut real estate, politics, and more
I’d go with the explanation that they’re just a bunch of pampered, retarded-development, ignorant morons, but whatever. The proper response is still, “go f**k yourself”.
“you don’t understand — the children of allah don’t look down on gays, we look up to them!”
Iraq's parliament passed a law on Saturday criminalizing same-sex relationships with a maximum 15-year prison sentence, saying the move aimed to uphold religious values. Rights advocates condemned the law as the latest attack on the LGBT community in Iraq.
“This is simply marvelous”, Trey Rosenthal (thrs/turzip/whatver), president of the Brandeis chapter of Jews for Hamas told FWIW. “Not that there will be any Jews of any sexual persuasion left in the Middle East by the end of this decade, but we love all of our brothers and sisters and confused genderites of whatever religion they may celebrate, so any compassion shown to them can only help make this a better world. I mean, the old noose-around-the-neck thing was pretty permanent, but 15 years? Heck, you could do that bending over.”
no, not paris …
Go ahead: Guess what town these experts at the Daily Mail are talking about.
And it’s not Cos Cob, even if this concession hints at that:
Many properties for sale are in more deprived areas that are often dangerous and yet to gentrify, but there are still many bargains to be had.
UPDATE. Curious, I went to Zillow to see what’s available in the supposedly gentrifying “Corktown” section of the city, and found this one. $1.1 million, 290+ days on market and going nowhere; however, it’s a pretty cool renovation job, and its brick-fortress design should deter all but the most enthusiastic of looters. But, really? Who thought it was a good idea to put so much money into this project? I smell government subsidy cash in here, somewhere.
There’s a video here, and here’s a picture taken from it showing the surrounding”neighborhood” — Welcome home!
And many more examples are cited in this article:
When voters say ‘no’ to new stadiums, what do professional sports teams do next?
I’ve seen plenty of articles, often in the WSJ, that study the effectiveness of taxpayer subsidies for sports stadiums — here’s just one, from Citizens Against Public Waste:
(One small snippet)
…. The most common argument in favor of taxpayer subsidized facilities is the promise of economic growth where they will be built. But spending at or near stadiums is subject to the “substitution effect.”10 Outside of major events, stadium seats are usually filled with predominantly local residents. When city residents choose to attend an event at a stadium, they shift their spending from one area to another. For a stadium to generate new revenue in a given area, event attendees would have to continue other spending at the same level as they do outside of the spending on the event. Unfortunately for subsidy proponents, this does not happen. Event attendees will usually reduce other discretionary spending to offset the extra funds needed to attend the occasional sporting event.
A September 2016 Brookings Institute study supported the substitution effect by finding that, “any economic activity generated while attending a game, will largely if not entirely be offset by reduced spending on other local leisure activities.”11 When cities play host to major sporting events, many businesses see a decline in revenue because local residents choose to avoid the extra traffic and activity they provide. For example, after Super Bowl 50, restaurant owners in San Francisco reported “a 40 to 50 percent reduction in reservations and services.”12 Instead of bringing in additional patrons, the Super Bowl drove patrons away, costing business owners money.
Here at home, we don’t seem to be listening: Governor Lamont and his crowd comitted $80 million of the then-estimated $100 million cost of rebuilding Hartford’s XL Center in hope of bringing in replacement for the Hartford Whalers, who deserted the city 30 years ago, leaving behind a mountain of public debt and a pathetic won/lost record. That plan is now on hold because construction estimates have soared to $149 million, but politicians love stadiums, and I have no doubt they’ll still be ready to slap a huge debt on taxpayers’ backs when new numbers are available.
I forget how much of the $92 million cost of UConn’s East Hartford football stadium was paid for by state debt, but it was a lot, it’s still being paid off, and UConn has yet to draw more than 15,000 spectators to a stadium designed for 40,000; often, it’s fewer than 6,000. We’ve now comitted $2 million per year, for two years, to begin renovating the 15-year-old unused arena. That’s a pittance, but far more is promised: “it’s a good start” says one of the proponents.
The CT Mirror ran an informative article on this just this past February:
Research shows stadium and arena projects are poor public investments.
Across the country, pro sports teams are gearing up to improve or build new stadiums and arenas. In Chicago, both the NFL’s Bears and the MLB’s White Sox are exploring moves. Baseball’s Cleveland Guardians, Milwaukee Brewers, Oakland Athletics and Kansas City Royals are all working toward new or improved stadiums. So are the NBA’s Philadelphia 76ers, Oklahoma City Thunder and Los Angeles Clippers.
Elected leaders continue to shower tax revenues on stadium and arena projects with the aim of recruiting or keeping teams and boosting local economies. But public debate is growing, as decades of research shows that taxpayers don’t see a positive return on their investment.
[RELATED: New minor league soccer team, stadium planned for Bridgeport]
“This is without exception,” Bradbury said. “It’s really across the board that these are really poor public investments.”
That hasn’t stopped the deals from getting larger. Adjusted for inflation, stadium subsidies have risen to a median of about $500 million from a 2010 median of $350 million, Bradbury said.
In 2022, New York officials approved a record $850 million subsidy to finance a new stadium for the NFL’s Buffalo Bills.
Then, last April, the Tennessee Titans landed more than $1.2 billion in state and local funding for a new professional football stadium in Nashville.
The momentum is only growing, with governments benefiting from pandemic aid and strong economies, said Neil deMause, a journalist who has written extensively about stadium subsidies.
“Stadium deals tend to beget other stadium deals,” he said. “When the Bills got their money from New York, that made it easier for the Titans to get their money from Tennessee.”
So, after I’d determined that it wasn’t the Google AdSense ads that were responsible for the grossly pornographic pop-ups that were appearing on this site, I decided to reactivate my account, which I’d cancelled 24 hours before. That triggered a review by the master computer Google uses to control anti-progressive political sites, and lo — I’ve been informed that I am no longer eligible to participate in AdSense.
I lose $400 a month in ad revenue, which is annoying, but not fatal, and my loss is readers’ gain, but the real issue here is Google’s very effective effort to demonetize and silence all who dare speak out against the State. Forget my little blog, and look instead to what’s going on with the big, conservative websites, like PJMedia, parent site for itself, TownHall, RedState, Hot Air, and several others. Here’s a report from one of PJ Media’s columnists
The long and short of it is that any article that touches, even tangentially, on any of these pet projects of the corporate state gets the automatic demonetization hammer:
Transgenderism
Climate Change™
“Election integrity”
COVID-19 and the pharmaceutical industry broadly
Any esoteric Current Thing™ (a colloquialism for a popular narrative being foisted on the public via astroturfed, controlled media)
We would be lying if we claimed that this demonetization assault didn’t take its toll on PJ Media's fiscal health.
PJ Media, like all independent conservative/populist media outlets, is constantly demonetized by Google.
(Emphasis on “independent; we’re not competing on an even playing field with certain unnamed “conservative” outlets that are boosted in the algorithms via sweetheart Silicon Valley deals and then pretend they are besieged by “cancel culture,” nor are we talking about legacy media behemoths like Fox News that are not throttled in the same manner.)
Related: Elite Media Propagandist Cries at Davos: ‘We Owned the News’
A little definitional housekeeping: by “demonetized,” we mean that any article smeared by the fickle Google gods with this black mark of shame is no longer eligible to host Google ads, which means it cannot generate any ad revenue for the company.
Many readers might be generally aware of the demonetization warfare tactic designed to suppress dissident media but may not be aware of just how many PJ Media articles are demonetized on a regular basis, which has the intended effect of crippling revenue and, ultimately, putting us out of business forever.
So, just how many PJ Media articles has Google demonetized?
One? Two? A dozen?
Oh, you sweet summer child!
The answer is 109.
Google currently has attached “demonetized” flags to 109 PJ Media articles.
Here we have the complete list of demonetized PJ Media articles:
not now, there isn’t
South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem, who is widely tipped to be former President Donald Trump’s likely pick as running mate, has admitted shooting dead one of her dogs for being “less than worthless” — and similarly killing a goat she found “disgusting.”
The 52-year-old Republican detailed the killings in an upcoming memoir as proof she is willing to do “difficult, messy and ugly” things when needed, according to the Guardian, which obtained an advance copy.
“Cricket was a wirehair pointer, about 14 months old,” she said of the soon-to-be-shot pup with an “aggressive personality” that made her “untrainable.”
Noem took Cricket on a hunt to learn from other dogs — but she instead ruined the hunt by going “out of her mind with excitement” and attacking some chickens like a “trained assassin,” Noem wrote.
When Noem tried to grab the dog, it “whipped around to bite me,” she wrote.
“I hated that dog,” Noem continued, calling Cricket “dangerous to anyone she came in contact with” and “less than worthless … as a hunting dog.”
“At that moment, I realized I had to put her down.”
Noem, who also represented her state in Congress for eight years, explained that she then got her gun and led Cricket to a gravel pit.
“It was not a pleasant job,” she said, “but it had to be done.”
She recalled how her daughter, Kennedy “looked around confused” when she came home from school that day, asking: “Hey, where’s Cricket?”
I (kinda) get it: farm life is tougher than city or suburban life, and farmers are used to putting down cows and horses past their useful life, and, it seems, annoying dogs and goats, but if there’s one thing that stirs up even more emotion than abortion, it’s Americans’ pets, and Noem’s stupid confession would cost Trump millions of votes if he put her on the ticket.
Too bad — she’s an impressive woman, but, assuming South Dakota voters are made of sterner stuff than less rural states, she should be able to continue as governor there, and our loss will be that state’s gain.
All that said, what was she thinking?
she should have stayed with wild animals — it’s a very small elk lobby
UPDATE: Just saw this.
you’re racist nazies and a threat to democracy!
“I’ve never thought I’d see a time,” said the left’s second favorite octogenarian (don’t forget Bernie; he hasn’t forgotten you or your wallet), “when I’m going through a — a neighborhood or a rural town that’s in the West and see big signs that have a Trump sign in the middle that says ‘F Biden’ and having a little kid standing with his middle finger — seven years old, eight years old. Well, I promise, it happens all the time.”
Well, Joe, you’re building them a future where they’ll live in dark, unheated homes, crushed by inflation, and buried under a 100 million illiterate foreign dependents. Today, they’re giving you the finger; wait until your policies fully land home in 10 years — those same kids, grown, will disinter your bones and feed them to the pigs.
616 Indian Field Road, $15.495 million. It’s Mead Point, and any house there works for me, although I’ll admit that I like the interior of this house more than I like its exterior design. But that’s just my taste, and ‘m sure the owners wouldn’t spend a nanosecond worrying about my preferences even if they knew of them.
“ADOM” = adjusted days on market
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