Daily Archives: July 29, 2009
Greens go white
White roofs to save energy catching on. No problem with me -if it saves money, do it. But when the white roof advocates start off on their stopping global warming trip, I find myself asking why they don’t follow my own … Continue reading
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Cops get token award in discrimination suit against Greenwich
But it cost us $700,000 to defend the suit. Ouch.
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Democrat School Board candidate withdraws
Made a third wheel by Congressman Himes’ intervention into local politics, Jane Dayton quit the school board race today. “He done me wrong”, Dayton told our reporter Edgar Martins, referring to Himes. “The no-good, yellow-bellied lying snake threw me over … Continue reading
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Maybe my Viking friend will want to move to Des Moines
Des Moines buses now required to honk every time they turn. I thought Mayor Koch had a most brilliant solution for honkers: require NYC cab horns to sound inside as well as outside the car. Des Moines is going the other way, … Continue reading
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Sometimes you’ve just got to let nature take her course
900 chumps gave $200 million to a scam called “Radical Bunny” and were astonished when it turned out to be a money loser. The SEC says that the high risk loans to mall developers and other commercial builders weren’t the safe … Continue reading
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Geeze, Stephen Dent dodged a bullet here
Here’s another moron who had an affair with a prostitute but instead of just blackmailing him (3X!) , this babe used inside information he gave her to trade on and now he’s just pled guilty to six counts of securities … Continue reading
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No Obamcare vote before recess
Blue Dog Democrats don’t like the bill and have stopped it, for now. It’s too much to ask, but not too much to hope, that the new king of the Greenwich Democrat Party, Congressman Jim Himes, will use the break to … Continue reading
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Yet another contract – bank sale in OG
12 Ledge Road, possibly the ugliest post and beam home ever constructed, has gone to contract. It started life way back in 2006 at $3.795 and after the hilarity died down it returned to Ulster Bank, the chumps who’d loaned … Continue reading
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Well, there’s always NoPo, here in Greenwich
Turns out Ruthie Madoff may not be permitted to buy that one bedroom in Spanish Harlem (or whatever the hell you want to call it – the area that isn’t the East Side) after all: Madoff Trustee Irving Picard is … Continue reading
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Holy Batshit, Bernie, your apartment’s a mess!
Who knew? Bernie Madoff, known for his anal retentive obsession with tidiness, left his penthouse a mess. Of course, it could have been Ruth who left Dorito crumbs in the VCR, empty Cold Duck bottles under the bed and soiled underwear … Continue reading
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Dawn Harbor contracts?
Reader RR has heard that both Dawn Harbor properties currently for sale, land and house, have gone to contract and wonders if that’s so. I have seen nothing reported yet but I believe they have – there may be some … Continue reading
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This should be interesting to watch
105 Rockwood Lane, a 1954 colonial on two acres, has just been listed for $3.2 million. That price surprised me – I’d have thought two acres here would be worth about $2 million – but when I checked the records … Continue reading
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Husted Lane sale
This was a nice old (1935) house renovated in 1997 and listed for sale in May of last year for $5.250. Sold today for $3.9 million which is respectable and evidence that there are indeed buyers out there. Over an … Continue reading
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Did Patriot Bank find a last-minute savior?
That’s the rumor I’m hearing – someone has been persuaded to inject $55 million into the operation. That would pretty much turn control of the bank over to him, I’d assume. If the rumor’s true, the bank’s still left with … Continue reading
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A Greenwich tale, imported from England
Shopaholic dies under weight of purchases.
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Obama: “It’s Bush’s fault!”
I sympathise with the man, but he’s got to recognize that the American public’s collective memory has a half-life of 12 days (do you even remember what costume Michael Jackson was buried in, for instance?). Right now, many Obama supporters … Continue reading
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It’s baaack!
This is a decent house on a desirable street but like everything else in its price range, it’s having trouble selling. The owners paid $5.125 million for it in 2004, added a pool, stonewalls, landscaping and did a ton of … Continue reading
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Bernie Madoff gives first interview
It’s his first because no one wants to visit him. But this lawyer who’s suing the Madoff clan did, and Bernie opened up. Here’s a big d’oh: Bernie says he got away with it because the SEC was so dumb. You … Continue reading
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Group think and global warming hype
Long article here. Here’s an excerpt: The consensus of climatologists about “global warming” certainly seems a ripe candidate for error-prone conformism. It’s not really possible to become a climatologist if you are a global warming skeptic, which means the consensus … Continue reading
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