Monthly Archives: January 2010

Too much time on their hands

The Greenwich Health Department has actually taken the time to issue helpful tips on what to do when the temperature drops into the twenties. You might want to remember this when the budget comes around for discussion.

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Oops! Now it’s the rain forest that isn’t threatened by global warming.

The Times of London is discovering a global warming fraud every day. Where is the Times of New York on this fraud? With Walter Duranty, hoping for another Pulitzer.

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Who you going to believe, me or your lying eyes?

I’m going back and forth with a surveyor friend of mine – he says that FEMA has dropped my property, and anyone else’s who lives on the waterfront , a full foot-and-a-half closer to sea level. I don’t dispute that … Continue reading

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Taliban terrorist leader killed by drone: Code Pink, ACLU mourn

Another bad guy gone. Code Pink’s ladies , who I assume are iPad users, have joined with the ACLU to shoot down this weapon because, well gee, we deserve to be punished. We have some very odd people in this … Continue reading

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Frank Rich: Don’t you dare question a Democrat’s patriotism

But if it’s that panty-waist John McCain, who endured years of torture in Hanoi rather than leave before his comrades, well, that’s another matter. It’s hard to say which New York Times columnist is most execrable, but drama critic Frank … Continue reading

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A command economy and Tesla

Tesla, the former manufacturer of a $100,000 battery-powered sports car, announces an IPO. And why not? They are stopping production of their roadster until at least 2013, but we taxpayers have just given them $435 million to build a new … Continue reading

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Alert to real estate readers

I don’t exactly apologize for so little Greenwich real estate news on this blog during weekends, but by way of explanation, I’ll point out that the main source of up-to-the-minute news on that subject, the Greenwich MLS Internet site, closes … Continue reading

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Breaking news from Year 001

Obama, Scott Brown related.

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BPA – the new Alar

One of the most useful chemicals around – bisphenol A, or BPA, is under siege. I’ve already lost access to water bottles made from it – as a hiker, I’m now expected to carry twice the weight in an aluminum water … Continue reading

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Time for the 51st state?

Reflecting on the fact that Greenwich alone – 60,000 people in a population of 2.5 million –  provides 14% of Connecticut’s income tax revenue while getting nothing back, extrapolating that a bit – we’re talking $12,000 per capita – to … Continue reading

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Still more nonsense revealed about global warming

UN’s Nobel prize wining report with its claim about disappearing Himalayan glaciers was  based, we learned last week, on nothing. Now it turns out another part of its “scientific” analysis was founded on a popular mountain climbing magazine’s article and a … Continue reading

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Santa Rosa liberals: “we don’t hate faggots, we just have, er, environmental concerns”

A Gay assisted living retirement community gets stonewalled in one of California’s most liberal cities. Who’d have guessed? Gays, like blacks, have fallen for the Democrat line for decades – they’re always surprised when they’re dumped – do you remember … Continue reading

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Even chumps can awake

Fannie Mae going after banks that sold it crap mortgages. Stuck with about $300 billion in loans to borrowers at least 90 days behind on payments, Fannie and Freddie have unleashed armies of auditors and other employees to sift through … Continue reading

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Breaking news from Scusie’s Dog Bowl

Baba Booey, Gary Dell’Abate, was actually seen shopping at the Riverside A&P!! Wow – real people doing real things. You want more? Here’s a dead person who never lived in Greenwich:

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The trouble with socialism is that sooner or later you run out of other people’s money

Greenwich: $142 to Hartford, $1 back. For every $142 local residents pay out in state income tax, Greenwich gets about $1 back in municipal aid annually, according to a new study by the South Western Regional Planning Agency that has town … Continue reading

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The wonder of capital

Real banks get out of the lending business so alternative lenders step in. 40% a year to keep your business running but you do what you gotta do. Makes you wonder, though, whether the world would really have ended last … Continue reading

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This isn’t fair

We get the cold, they get the snow. I prefer snow.

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It must be love – or bonus money

68 Park Avenue in Old Greenwich sold yesterday for $2.665 miliion, just about full price. Assessment is $1.8 million so someone really, really wanted to live on this street. Nice (for sellers) when that happens.

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Breaking news from 1948

Ghandi’s ashes scattered in South Africa

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Jeeze – come on, guys

Remember that meteorite that crashed into a medical building down in Virginia? The docs donated it to the Smithsonian which, in return, was going to pay $5,000 for the rock and that sum was to be donated to a Haitian … Continue reading

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