Monthly Archives: July 2009
Gee, next thing you know they’ll be telling us that global warming’s a big pile of poop
50 year study: organic foods no healthier for humans than conventional food. But they’re pricier, which I thought was the point. Homeopathic “medicines” anyone?
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Riverside Contract
60 Meadow Road, that nice brick house I mentioned earlier last week, has gone to contract in ten days. $3.995 or something like that. Nice house on an acre of land. My guess is that someone local has admired this house … Continue reading
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Ferdinand Steyer, Mountain Works
I’ve recommended my friend Ferdinand before (and provided a link to his business over on the right) . A reader used that link, hired Ferd and sends along this report. Speaks for itself. And good job, Ferd – if you’d … Continue reading
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Uh oh, Walt’s sicced the dogs on me!
Received the following email from some Fairfield Greenwich Group PR guy. I’ll call him after lunch and report back but it sounds like fun. Oe question: where is FGG getting the money to pay a PR firm? Christopher: I … Continue reading
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The love that dares not speak its name
Man arrested for having sex with horse, twice. Thanks for the link to Walt who is naturally protective of his filly(ie)’s and keeps a constant guard up for shameful stories like this. Posted in July 29th, 2009 by Claudette Rothman in … Continue reading
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This house not for sale?
I ws scanning the data, looking for houses in the $3-6 million range that have been on for a long time, reasoning that some might have come down low enough to prove an attractive bargain for some clients here this … Continue reading
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Some statistics
Russ Pruner’s firm, Shore & Country, always has a good data base on line and he’s got an interesting chart up now, showing the fall off in volume and sales in the first half of 2009 from the first half … Continue reading
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McKinney drops out of Himes race – Frantz at the gate?
As predicted here months ago (well, maybe last week), John McKinney couldn’t raise enough money to mount a campaign against Jim Himes and so has annunced his intention to stay in Hartford. Does this mean Scot Frantz, the Riverside resident who … Continue reading
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Are banks making too much money from foreclosures to bother modifying them?
That’s what the Times suggests – fees for insurance, appraisals, handling etc. all dwarf the puny payment the feds offer if they’ll work a deal with their customers. BusinessInsider has a summary. I don’t know whether it’s true but when it … Continue reading
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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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