Daily Archives: November 19, 2009
Here’s how ObamaKare is going to eliminate waste, cut costs and pay for itself
$100 million paid to Senator for her vote for health care. Yeah okay, that was wasteful, but now we’re really going to get serious abut this. We mean it!
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Global warming – is there anything it can’t do?
Global warming forces women into prostitution. The world’s oldest profession is actually caused by rising temperatures. Effects of climate change have driven women in communities in coastal areas in poor countries like the Philippines to risk dangerous jobs, and sometimes … Continue reading
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The debate is over
Scientists baffled by global temperature ‘time out”. Hasn’t increased in the past ten years and the models didn’t predict that. The planet’s temperature curve rose sharply for almost 30 years, as global temperatures increased by an average of 0.7 degrees … Continue reading
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National Association of Home Builder’s Dream Home is an unfinished bust
What could be more appropriate and timely? The model dream home being constructed for the NAHB is an empty hulk, done in by lack of funding. Domanico Custom Homes, the small private builder selected for the project, had to halt … Continue reading
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We are heading into the abyss
FHA now lending on no-money down million dollars homes and everybody wants one. What could possibly go wrong? SAN FRANCISCO — In January, Mike Rowland was so broke that he had to raid his retirement savings to move here from … Continue reading
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Greenwich Time busts a story wide open
Amazing but true: manhole cover exposed by shifting sands! Woxtra, woxtra, read all about it! For a buck – what a deal. Even more telling about the state of our local paper, this front page story is labelled “most viewed”.
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This can’t be good news
Treasuries turn negative. From ZeroHedge: The last time Bill yields turned negative (in essence investors paying the Government to hold their money for them) was in the days after the Lehman bankruptcy, when the entire world was about to blow … Continue reading
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Just saying …
Actually, I’m not saying it but Best of the Web is: Accountability Journalism An Associated Press dispatch, written by Erica Werner and Richard Alonso-Zaldivar, compares the House and Senate ObamaCare bills. We’d like to compare this dispatch to the AP’s … Continue reading
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I see a bad moon rising
WSJ: Mortgage delinquencies soar. One in 7 of all mortgages, from 1 in 10 last year, and last year was not so hot. About one in seven American households with mortgages is behind on payments or in foreclosure, according to … Continue reading
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All that work done for you, for free!
Whoever purchased 606 W. Lyon Farm in 2007 paid $1.150 million for it, installed new windows, doors, moldings, a new kitchen and new baths, then landscaped it and returned it to the market in 2008 asking $2.250. It sold today … Continue reading
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Riverside contract
Not my favorite house but Hidden Brook’s a nice street and 29 is now under contract. Asking price was $2.795, which should reassure other owners on the street.
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Rentals in Greenwich
For reasons unrelated to this particular house, I pulled its rental history and lo, found a pretty good illustration of what’s been going on with our rental market. This is a nondescript, 1954 house in a good neighborhood and when … Continue reading
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Some houses I’m skipping on the open house tour today
For $12 million bucks, I want an address other than 12 Byfield Lane (how come builders keep confusing the street address with the price?) and, not for nothing, a better picture than the cheap digital snapshot posted here. I’m sure … Continue reading
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15 Lia Fail under contract
I’m a little surprised this lasted seventy-two days. Despite readers’ comments on its Tony Soprano look, this is a very nice house inside, well laid out and in excellent condition. Add to that a close-to-town location with both privacy and … Continue reading
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The boys are back in town
Our Greenwich boys in blue are back on the Post Road with another seatbelt roadblock this morning and it frosts my rear end. I wear a seatbelt – it’s the smart thing to do, but what possible business is it … Continue reading
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We’re in the best of hands
Attorney General Eric Holder was on Capitol Hill yesterday trying to defend his decision to bring Kahlid Mohammed back to New York for trial . It didn’t go well. Asked what we’d do with the son of a bitch if he … Continue reading
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Screams from the forgotten and irrelevant Jesse Jackson
Trying on a new role as Pope, Jackson excommunicates conservative blacks: “You can’t be against ObamaKare and call yourself a black man”.
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This isn’t about an ice cream treat
WSJ: Fear of Double Dip in Housing. The U.S. housing market is sputtering again, adding to doubts about the vigor of the economic recovery. Just a few months after housing showed signs of leveling off, bad weather and uncertainty over … Continue reading
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