This wouldn’t hurt so much if they hadn’t used your money to give Chrysler to the Italians

Go east, young man!

Jeep production being moved to China by executive Fiat

About as likely as ending alcohol abuse, though that would probably solve the problem

YWCA hopes new program will end violence. End violence? Good luck with that, ladies. My own hope is that no taxpayers were hurt in making this production.

If he’s lost the Priuses, he’s lost the country

California: Prius spotted wearing a Romney sticker.

God bless Texas

Threaten to arrest UN election observers if they show up at the polls. I only regret that Texas seems to have sworn off hanging horse thieves.

This is what passes for the Greenwich real estate market these days.

Almost certainly not Mead Point

No kidding – our only reported sale (and zero accepted offers) is 80 Laddins Rock Road, sold “as is” for $503,750, after 220 day on the market. Wheehoo!

(Obama and) I blame Bush

Manufacturing Index falls to -4, economists had predicted a +5. “Unexpectedly”.

Open house tour

There are several worth the gasoline to see, so I’ll be heading out soon. One I won’t bother with is a house that’s now on its third broker but still at the same price – the sellers want back what they paid in 2007 and are obviously willing to wait until 2007 comes around again. That may take some time, so I hope they enjoy living where they do.

Say what you will about a strengthening market, Zillow sees the writing on the wall

New division finds and reports on pre-foreclosure and foreclosure properties. interesting stuff.

UPDATE: Looks like it only searches one zip code at a time, so you must select each of the tow’s zip codes, one at a time, to get the whole picture. Here’s Riverside, for instance.

Scared of going to jail, scientists scramble to scare us – who can blame them?

Run away!

If there’s a six-year penalty for failing to warn of earthquakes in Italy, what’s the exposure for missing a hurricane? Apparently no rational “expert” wants to find out, so they’re out early and often with an Eastern Seaboard alert. Brace yourself, Bridget.

UPDATE: Now (as of 3:13 PM) it is, according to our national weather people, a “Frankenstorm”, due to arrive on Halloween.