Daily Archives: November 2, 2009
Unrestrained greed hurts all capitalists, not just the sweat hogs
Executive pensions soared 19% last year even though,as you may have noticed, the companies and shareholders they supposedly serve didn’t do nearly so well.
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Al Gore, carbon billionaire
Say it ain’t so: Al Gore profits as result of his global warming scaremongering. Representative Marsha Blackburn, Republican of Tennessee, asserted at a hearing this year that Mr. Gore stood to benefit personally from the energy and climate policies he was … Continue reading
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Free the Meadow Drive One!
Greenwich Time has come up with the story about the man arrested to picking up campaign signs. He was exercising his free speech but two Greenwich police, fresh from saving our town from unbelted drivers, arrested him, handcuffed him and … Continue reading
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Ah, how little he knew
Greenwich Time reporter Neil Vigdor described a recent get together of tax collector candidates this way: “Tax Collector Candidates Square Off.” That’s a promising start, immediately undercut by the next sentence: “Compared with the tempestuous debates in the first selectman’s race, … Continue reading
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You look at LA and see a budget crisis, crime, gangs and poor folk – the City Council sees cats who can’t defend themselves against mice
LA City Council votes to ban declawing cats
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There’s an opening at a religious book store I know of
Jerry Brown’s aide resigns after secretly taping reporters’ calls.
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I don’t claim to speak for God, but he can’t be happy about this
Clerk at Christian bookstore arrested on Peeping Tom charges after hiding videocam in ladies’ restroom.
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You don’t say
Treasury unlikely to recoup billions given to Chrysler and GM. Yeah, well, at least we have those Cit and AIG “investments” going for us.
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The morning after’s a bitch
NYT: Iowa Obama voters rue their decision. “I’m afraid I wasn’t realistic,” Ms. McAreavy, 76, a retired school nurse, said on a recent morning on the deck of her home here in east-central Iowa. Honey, you’re just beginning to wake … Continue reading
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This is just cruel
Desperate for advertising revenue, the Philadelphia Inquirer ran a full page advertisement from Macy’s today hawking Phillie World Champions 2009 tee shirts. The ad was intended to be run only if the Phillies had actually, you know, won the series, … Continue reading
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It takes an election to make a Democrat (temporarily) see sense
White House pushing for a temporary exemption from Sarbanes-Oxley for small businesses. This post-Enron “reform” was supposed to punish big business and prevent fraud. It punished all right, but had no effect on fraud. The cost to major corporations runs … Continue reading
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M4 Carbine – wrong weapon for the job?
The New York Times, of all papers, has started a discussion on whether the M-16 and the M4 Carbine are adequate weapons for our troops. I’ve never fired one but from all I’ve read over the past 42 years, they … Continue reading
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How accurate is Zillow?
Not enough to base a buying or pricing opinion on, I’d say. I just checked a few sales prices from today: 18 Concord sold for $360,000 while Zillow estimated $475,500.13 Shore Acre Drive, gone to contract in 3 days so we … Continue reading
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Shhh! Don’t tell Russ Pruner
Russ’s partner at Surf & Turf Realty, Ken York, just sold this Glenville multi-family for $360,00. Its assessed price was $415,300. Ken probably told Russ that he sold it for $1.36 million, just to let him sleep tonight.
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Rental vs. sale price disconnect
This house on Circle Drive seems to illustrate what’s happened to our housing market over the past three years. The owners paid, according to our MLS records, $859,000 for the land it sits on in 2006, $70,000 above its asking … Continue reading
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Aw, does this mean Walter Noel will no longer be “King Walt”?
Antigue rescinds Allen Stanford’s knighthood. You strip a Ponzi artist of his honor, what’s he got left to live for?
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Gradley Fighting machine
We can now tell all- Greenwich tax collector Bill Grad is the candidate who smacked down a foul-mouthed, abusive Republican (or maybe the third party candidate’s?) supporter this morning on the train platform. If you’re a tax delinquent, this should … Continue reading
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He’ll be effecting an economy
Sportscaster Jim Nantz ordered to pay ex-wife $1 million a year for life (!). She seems to have done nothing to deserve living on another person’s earnings for the next forty years but considering the babe spent over a million … Continue reading
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Our regulators at work
UBS provided the SEC with proof that Madoff was lying to them as far back as May, 2006 and the SEC did …nothing.
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Two Contracts
Thirteen Shore Acre Drive in Old Greenwich was listed at $2.495 and found a buyer in three days. Assessment is only $966,000 but that’s just crazy – this house and this street haven’t seen a below million value in a … Continue reading
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