Who decides between dead and mostly dead?

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Grave Error? The late Democrat Gerry Connolly Endorses Candidate to Fill the House Seat Vacated by His Death

It’s bad enough that we have dead Democrats voting in our elections, but now we have them making candidate endorsements as well! You can’t keep a Democrat down even when it’s six feet under. On Tuesday, Virginia Representative Gerry Connolly used his X account to endorse his former chief of staff, James Walkinshaw, for his old House seat - the seat he vacated because he died in late May of this year.

…. Dems have a thing about exploiting elderly officials when they’re alive (see Joe Biden), now they’re exploiting them after they've left this mortal coil.

Paging Miracle Max

Not so fast – “Unintended Blue State consequences tend to spread to Red States. This is something to keep in mind when laughing over Blue State woes.”

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if so, they imported the stuff from out of state

An example of one of those consequences: “Green states” demand for imported electricity drives up the price for their residents, but also those of the supplier states, too.

Pennsylvania Saves “Clean Energy” Maryland from Spanish-Style Blackout during “Heat Dome”

Meanwhile, clean energy policies in Maryland contribute to rising electricity prices in Pennsylvania.

… Maryland has set ambitious clean energy goals to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and transition to a more sustainable energy future. Central to these efforts is the Renewable Portfolio Standard (RPS), which requires electricity suppliers to source 50% of their power from renewable resources by 2030. Recent updates to the RPS exclude trash incineration from qualifying as renewable, ensuring only zero-emission technologies contribute to the state’s targets.

To further advance its climate commitments, Maryland enacted the Climate Solutions Now Act, aiming for a 60% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by 2031 and net zero emissions by 2045. The state is also moving toward a Clean Power Standard, which would require all electricity consumed in Maryland to come from clean and renewable sources by 2035.….

Unfortunately for Red States exporting energy, they are connected to the grid of the energy deficient regions ruled by climate cultists. Electricity costs are rising for residents throughout Pennsylvania, with the average household potentially facing an increase of $20 to $30 on their bills. Several Pennsylvania legislators attribute these price hikes to what they describe as poor energy policies enacted in Maryland and neighboring states.

…As a whole, Maryland doesn’t generate enough power to keep the lights on itself. Instead, it’s relying on Pennsylvania and other states in the PJM grid for 40% of its electricity.

“Not only are we generating the power and bear the burden of generating power, but we bear the burden of eminent domain taking our land to build these high voltage transmission line projects. We also pay for that infrastructure in PA to get that energy to a place where people are refusing to do the right thing,” [York County Senator] Phillips-Hill said. “They’re living in a green energy fantasy land.”

This NYC resident looks at the even larger picture:

…. A lot of MAGA folks say, “They voted for it. Let ’em rot.”

Really? You think this is that simple?

Here’s the truth: Yes, a majority up here do vote blue. Yes, NGOs fund just enough swing voters. And YES, the GOP barely even showed up to fight back.

But even if we did cause this… even if we do deserve the consequences… Here’s the dangerous lie: That once things get bad enough, people will wake up and common sense will return to blue states.

WRONG. That’s not how Marxists operate. They don’t fix things when cities collapse—they celebrate it. They thrive in chaos. They’ll crawl through decades of pain, suffering, and bloodshed if it means consolidating power.

The LONG MARCH was long for a reason. They didn’t care how ling death and suffering continue. They feed off despair. …

So no—this won’t fix itself. And if we don’t fight for these cities, if we just sit back and let them burn, we’re not punishing the left. We’re surrendering America. One city at a time.

Life isn’t fair. These people who run the NGOs that rig elections don’t “get what they deserve”. They get away with literal murder and escape to Martha’s Vineyard to laugh at us.

Looks as though NYC voters are going to get it, good and hard

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According to Google, estimated total turnout today is expected to be 27% of all registered NYC Democrat voters, so 73% of them are perfectly happy to let someone else choose their mayor. Republican voters comprise 35% of the total number and have no vote in today’s primary and thus no choice in this fall’s election. This can only be good news for Florida and CT real estate sales.

Update after reflecting on this: Maybe not so good for Connecticut. The state’s always benefited from being slightly more hospitable to its citizens than its neighbor, although that differential has been eroding since we voted in an income tax, but a large part of the wealth in lower Fairfield county is tied to NYC’s financial industry. What if the exodus from Wall Street, already well underway, accelerates, and what if — horrors! — the refugees don’t move over the border but abandon this expensive hellhole for more accomodating states to our south and west?

Bummer.

New (to me — just stumbled across it) word for the day; supposedly obsolete, but it deserves to be revived: gruccild

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I can’t imagine why it ever fell into disuse, but if there were ever a time to bring it back ……

Gruccild (noun): A woman who complains; a complainer or grumbler

According to Grok….

Etymology:

It originated in the early 13th century and comes from the word “grutch” (meaning “to murmur, complain, find fault with, be angry”) combined with a suffix of unkown origin. “Grutch” itself comes from the Old French.

Pronounced (possibly — very few 13th century Englishmen still around to help out here) as “Gru-child (with the u” as in “gruff or grumble” and “ch” as in “chair”.

Buh-bye

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Top [well, HR office] Trump official calls US airstrikes on Iran ‘pointless,’ suggests ‘deep state’ swayed prez

WASHINGTON — A top staffer in the federal agency overseeing personnel for the Trump administration has denounced the US strikes on Iran as “pointless” and suggested the decision was made by members of DC’s “deep state.”

Andrew Kloster, who serves as general counsel at the Office of Personnel Management, tweeted — and then deleted — a string of posts ripping the US for having sent “handouts” to Israel in the past and for previously downplaying the threat of Tehran getting a nuclear weapon.

Within a half-hour of President Trump announcing successful US airstrikes on Iranian nuclear facilities Saturday night, Kloster wrote on X, “I apologize and will never again doubt the power of the deep state.”

In a response to an X user saying that “Iran’s nuclear sites being crushed seems a long-term benefit for the US,” Kloster wrote, “I think it was just kind of pointless.”

He also boosted a post from Vish Burra, disgraced former New York Rep. George Santos’ ex-director of operations, that referred to Israel’s conflict with Iran as a “tribal squabble” after Tehran broke a cease-fire Trump secured Monday night.

The posts — still visible as of Tuesday morning — have since been deleted.

As no doubt Mr. Kloster himself will be by the close of business today. I assume he received an offer of a better job before posting this.

On the other hand, although I liked this house, readers (looking at you, EOS, and you, 06830) didn't. And I certainly wouldn't have waited from November until now to take a 3.5% price cut

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Heck, I might even have used that time to take an updated, summer photo.

52 Carriglea, cut from $14.250 million to $13.750. The readers weren’t as enthusiastic about this house as I was back in November, and they’ve proved prescient.

  • EOS 8 months ago

    I was prepared to say wow, I’ll take it but I’m quite underwhelmed. I don’t care for the architecture style and the interior is definitely still 2005. But the location will surely make this home fly off the shelf.

  • 06830 8 months ago

    The questions buyer's agents will be getting are "What's the land worth?" and "how much will it cost to build new?" My question is what sane person would choose this over 88 Cedar Cliff, which is sitting unwanted at the same price but is (despite its flaws) a light-years better house (no way this cost $4m to build in 03/04), in a superior location, with much better views (the photos here are carefully staged to avoid the reality that you are looking into a neighbor's backyard and the RYC parking lot). A mudflat dock is not making up that difference unless you really, really love paddleboarding.

    Also - there are yachts at RYC?

6/25/25: 06830, 88 Cedar Cliff Road, which you and I both like, is still on the market after 1,146 days (April 22 2022) and is now asking $13.995; that’ll happen when you start at a preposterous price like $25.5 million.

And yes, there are some very substantial yachts kept at RYC, although many of them are permanently moored atop Hens and Chickens, just outside Cos Cob Harbor.)

“Free to a good home”

Another price cut on this fantastic house, and I don't get it

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Now $6,995,000

118 John Street was listed at $8.250 million on April 14th and that struck me as a reasonable price. You can read my and readers’ reaction to the house here, along with some of its and its late owner’s history (he established the Seven Bridges Foundation, next door).

But my enthusiasm has not been met, so far, by buyers shopping in this range, and today the price was cut a second time, to $6.995. The vagaries of the market place continue to surprise me, occasionally, and this is one of those times.

So, I dunno — too masculine (and how could that possibly apply to me?); too informal? Too Adirondacky? Regardless, someone’s going to pick this up at what I consider to be a good price.

Depending on how much over ask it gets, this one I understand

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108 Orchard Street, Cos Cob, listed at $1.975 million 12 days ago, and reports fully-executed contracts today. Given what I’m seeing houses trading for in this market, this price doesn’t shock me. Quite a difference since these owners paid $831,000 for a then-1,108 sq. ft. home in 2016, kept the foundation, and built a new, 2,802 house. Nice place, and if the owners are making a tidy profit, well, more power to them.

Open insurrection

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Will he remember this?: "Donald Trump is not free to bulldoze his way through the rule of law. He is an executive, not a monarch. He swore an oath faithfully to execute the duties of his office. When the courts speak, Donald Trump must accept their judgements and honor the Constitution."

Yesterday the Supreme Court ruled against U.S. District Judge Brian Murphy and stayed his order barring the deportation of certain illegal aliens; he’s farted in their general direction and says that the highest court lacked jurisdiction over the matter and thus he has no obligation to obey their order. That’s not how our judicial system works, as I hope this arrogant, woke pipsqueak is about to learn; forcefully.

We Had Another Judicial Coup Incident Against Trump Last Night

The Supreme Court ruled that Trump's deportations to third-world countries can continue without limited notice, blocking an injunction by a little judge who sought to wrest immigration policy away from the executive. The high court slapped down Judge Brian Murphy’s order, but like James Boasberg, another disgrace to the bench, he’s ignoring the ruling.