Monthly Archives: October 2009
Waist size 63 is the new 32
WSJ: Unemployed men snacking more, getting fatter.
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Coming soon to a Stamford tower near you?
Buyers sue Newport luxury condominium project for refunds. By Christine Dunn Journal Staff Writer PROVIDENCE –– Three new lawsuits seek the return of deposits for luxury condominiums at the 22-story tower which opened in June at the exclusive Carnegie Abbey … Continue reading
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Google adds more real estate information to its maps
I haven’t tried it yet but according to Information Week, it is supposed to bring a little more competition to Zillow.com and the like. That sounds good. Zillow has been getting better and better, but competition should speed up that … Continue reading
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Peter Pervert and his money
Peter Brant’s divorce case has produced some interesting details on how a silly heir with too much money squanders it – it didn’t all go to “Santa with Butt Plug”, although he spends hundreds of thousands of dollars a … Continue reading
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Ford employees commit economic suicide
Reject wage concessions, leaving Ford to try to compete with government-owned competitors paying lower wages. All I can figure is that these bozos hope Ford will fail so that they, too can become government employees. I’m really not going to … Continue reading
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Sign thief is cooling his heels in the new police holding cell
No word on identity (any interested reader can call down and find out – it’s a public record) but word is the cops nabbed someone last night at the Lake Avenue circle. He was stealing signs of both political parties, … Continue reading
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Just what poor India needs: a growing communist insurgency
Tough enough to try raising a billion people from poverty, now India has to fight off bombers and madmen. It’s always something.
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In the WSJ: an appreciation of White & Strunk’s “The Elements of Style”
It’s been in print fifty years and still going strong. I loved it, tried hard to use its advice and have given copies of “the little book” to my own children. Come to think of it, I’m going to order … Continue reading
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Short sale or foreclosure?
This WSJ columnists addresses a reader’s question on the subject. I particularly like his third option: pay your debt, you dead beat! There’s a writer who’ll never work for The New York Times.
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Sales data
I’ve got a permanent link to the site over on the right under “Useful Links”, “Greenwich Sales Data”, but if you haven’t seen it, check out Raveis’s statistic pages. Quite informative and I can promise you, no salesman will call. … Continue reading
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Can’t we just slip them a little bubonic plague, instead?
While school children outside of Washington D.C. wait, Gitmo terrorists will receive swine flu vaccine. Since I lump swine flu right up there alongside global warming I’m not all that concerned that only the politically connected and terrorists are deemed … Continue reading
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Tea Party’s first victory
Scozzafava drops out. When Obama named my Pal Nancy’s old flame, John McHugh of Watertown, NY to be the Secretary of the Army, he freed up a Congressional seat that has gone Republican for the past 120 years and set … Continue reading
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Lavery proves she’s a Demmerkrat
And has thoroughly read the Bill Clinton playbook. The lady sends out a flier stating that her opponent appointed his close friend to the position of ”dockmaster”, at an exorbitant salary, and gave him a brand new boat. Turns out that … Continue reading
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From the fine folks who brought you the Spanish Inquisition, a warning
Halloween is the Devil’s play yard. Ooooh, scary!
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Food fight moves to Town Hall
The great debate of 2009 focused on the Harbor Master yesterday and the going got tough. Lyn Lavery bitch-slapped an inebriated Livvy Floren for calling Lyn’s homeboy, Frankie the Fud, a “loser” whereupon Peter Crumbine jumped out of retirement and … Continue reading
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Hurricanes end, world continues
Last September 1st I linked to an amateur weather watcher, Sea Blogger’s prediction that we’d see no hurricanes hit the eastern seacoast this year due to a persistent wind current pattern. Not only did that prove accurate, we’ve had the … Continue reading
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The NYT reports that Obama used his visit to dead soldiers as a photo-op, until wiser editors intervened
The sentence that was in the New York Times, until it was not.
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There can’t be a crisis if we keep it under the rug, eh?
Federal banking regulators issue new guidelines permitting banks to hide non-performing loans. Your borrower’s loan is due? The assets securing his loan has fallen to 30% of its original value and he can’t refinance it or pay you back? Hey, … Continue reading
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Missing the trees for the forest
Republicans whine that Demmerkrats are stealing their roadside campaign signs. If they are, well good for them – I just wish they’d take their own down too. But while Peter Tesei is knotting his underpants over this non-issue, he remains … Continue reading
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Big Government crushing small businesses
The blogosphere, particularly Walter Olson’s Overlawyered.com, has been alive with stories of how the new Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act (CPSIA) is wiping out used book sellers, motorbike manufacturers and the like, but maybe the New York Times finally taking … Continue reading
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