National identity card on its way

 

All good things come to those that wait

Despite long-standing promises by the state that they would never be used for identity purposes, a move’s afoot to add photos to Social Security cards so as to make voter ID easier.

While the politicians fight over this, it raises another question: social security cards are issued only after an applicant produces a stack of original documents – no photocopies accepted – starting with a birth certificate and moving up from there. If demanding photo ID to vote places such a burden on the poor, how is it that they have no problem signing up for welfare?

Just asking.

Anyone else following this reinstitution of county government, ruled by Hartford?

 

It’s okay; there’ll be Vaseline

Special item 34 was approved unanimously by the RTM Monday night with s far as I know, no public discussion.

As far as I can understand it, the Hartford Democrats came up with the idea to force towns into regional zones, (discussed here last year) – the first step was claimed to be limited to transportation matters, but schools, “environment” hospitals etc. are all slated to be consolidated. The matter before the RTM was to give town approval to join a region – although the enabling statute says a region will only be created “upon approval of 60% of the towns affected”, apparently Malloy’s henchmen made it quite clear to Greenwich that if they didn’t pick a region Malloy would do it for us.

So, no choice, or so they say, but where were our “leaders” and why weren’t they screaming to high heaven about this? Politicians of both parties don’t dream of private jobs, they dream of government jobs and the patronage power that comes with them. Connecticut got rid of its county governments long ago, while Westchester has built an entire layer of bureaucracy atop local government, with tens of thousands of extra government jobs to be passed around and paid for. Our own pols have coveted that set-up since at least Lowell Weiker’s day and last year, they finally got it started. Monday, they took the next step.

And Greenwich Republicans bent over and took it meekly.

 

It’s getting harder and harder to keep track of all this

 

First gay marriage in Greenwich, Malcolm Pray, officiating

Transgender “female” rapes wife after filing for divorce.

Dana McCallum works as a senior Twitter engineer and is now facing five felony charges stemming from an incident that occurred the night after she served her wife of six years with divorce papers.

McCallum, whose legal name on the charging documents is Dana Contreras, was arrested on January 26 and charged with three counts of spousal rape, one count of false imprisonment and one count of domestic violence. McCallum has been listed as one of the top ten most important LGBT people in tech and she has spoken at length about her transition after being born biologically male. She and her wife, who has not been named due to the nature of the crime, had been married for more than six years.

The San Francisco Examiner reports that the 32-year-old engineer and her wife were separated but were still having sexual relations by the time of the alleged crime.

I can’t even figure out the sex of the “wife” – does a male posing as a woman marry another woman or a man? Are they each wives to each other? Was this rape per anus or per os? The questions just keep coming.

Reported contracts

58 Park Avenue, Old Greenwich, last ask, $2.495, original price a year ago, $2. 875.

 

2 Meadowbank

2 Meadowbank Road, Old Greenwich, $1.295 million. Gone in a week, but why not, at this price? Just 0.2 of an acre, old, 3-bedroom house (large enough to raise my friend’s family back in the day) and some of the land is in the flood zone, but if you want to be south of the Village, this is  great street and an affordable house. Not bad.

 

 

 

 

11 Hawkwood

11 Hawkwood, asking $2.695 million. One acre. It took a year, but the owners didn’t drop their price and someone has apparently agreed to meet it, or at least approach it.

Buyer of Copper Beech revealed, sort of

Mr. Floyd Mayweather, principal, Conservation Institute LLC

In the comments section of the first posting on this sale, below,  ace reporter Michael Dinan – not to be confused with ace real estate agent Michael Dinneen) reports that the property was sold to The Conservation Institute LLC . That doesn’t really tell us much: the parties on record with the Secretary of State’s office are all lawyers, who act in these circumstances on behalf of undisclosed clients to preserve the privacy of those clients, but it would appear that this was a real purchase by a real buyer. The mind boggles. On the other hand, commission of 5% on $120 million is $6,000,000, which David Ogilvy richly deserves for finding someone to pay so much for so (relatively) little.

UPDATE: Barbara Heins has more on this story, over at Patch.

The lunacy of the left

There no longer is an England

Al Dente sent this along and I had to check that the dateline wasn’t April 1st, but it’s not. British Lord suggests people curtail eating beans to slow global warming and the “Climate Change Minister agrees.

Concerns have previously been raised about the effect of methane emissions from cows on global warming. But in the House of Lords today a Labour peer raised questions about the impact of human diet on emmisions. Viscount Simon, 73, a Labour peer who has been a member of the House of Lords for more than 20 years, voiced his fears about the ‘smelly emissions’. Lord Simon said: ‘In a programme some months ago on the BBC it was stated that this country has the largest production of baked beans and the largest consumption of baked beans in the world.’

He asked (Climate Change minister) Lady Verma: ‘Could you say whether this affects the calculation of global warming by the Government as a result of the smelly emission resulting therefrom?’ Lady Verma described his question as ‘so different’ but she appeared to suggest that people should think twice about over-indulging in baked beans or any food which causes flatulence. She added: ‘You do actually raise a very important point, which is we do need to moderate our behaviour.’

RELATED? : Michelle Obama avoids windy wardrobe malfunction.

Either I blew it or the buyer did, but boy, was I wrong

 

Copper Beech

Copper Beech has sold for $120 million – I’d guessed $30 -$50 million, tops. I can’t imagine how someone made that number work, but congratulations to David Ogilvy.

UPDATE: We (this blogger and readers) are all guessing it’s a creditor, not a bona fide buyer – see comments)

UPDATE II: It has now been reported to the Board, with Ogilvy shown as having represented both sides of the transaction.

 

Sale on Binney Lane

 

16 Binney Lane

16 Binney Lane, Old Greenwich, sold for $3.450 million. This was pretty much a brand new house created from a 1961, out of the flood zone (of course down there, you might want to keep a dingy available should you desire to leave your house during floods) and all in all, decent living. And Binney’s a great street.

The builders/sellers paid $2.250 million in 2012 and as noted, rebuilt and expanded it. I don’t see the huge profit here (they had to reduce it from $3.750, so perhaps that’s why) but I suppose it’s like food stores: high volume lets you accept low margins.

No surprise here

 

Scientology founder Elron Hubbard: “You want to get rich, start a religion.”

Christian churches merge with the Holy Church of Gaia. The two religions were always close, now they’ve joined forces.

 From the U.S. to the UK to the Vatican, global warming activism has become part of the religious conversation.

Carbon fasting in the U.S.

For years, some U.S. Christians have been doing what they call a “carbon fast” for Lent — the period between Ash Wednesday and Easter Sunday. During this time, thousands of people make an effort to reduce their carbon footprint, whether it’s driving less or not investing in hydrocarbon fuels. New England Regional Environmental Ministries (NEREM) launched the effort in 2011. The goal of the “carbon fast” is to wean people off carbon dioxide-intensive goods and foods in order to stem global warming. Rev. Dr. Jim Antal is one of the founders of NEREM and currently writes daily messages to thousands of carbon fasters around the globe about how to lower their carbon footprint and be one with the climate.

 Is global warming a “great demon”?

The Church of England says it is and has promised to divest itself of hydrocarbon fuels as a last resort in order to help cut Britain’s carbon dioxide emissions.

[C]alls for divestment were echoed by Bishop Steven Croft of Sheffield who called global warming “a giant evil; a great demon of our day.” “Its power is fed by greed, blindness and complacency in the present generation, and we know that this giant wreaks havoc through the immense power of the weather systems, which are themselves unpredictable,” Croft said. The Church of England has so far not divested of hydrocarbons, but has said it’s still committed to tackling global warming.

Self-sacrifice, rigid dogma, moral superiority, persecution of heretics, impending doom and salvation through worship of the one true god, Mother Gaia. Nothing new here, it’s just amusing to see the Christian orthodoxy, its, numbers dwindling, trying to horn in on another religion (think Christmas trees). “The thousands of young people through 350.org who have showed both surprise and respect at my leadership”, says on such leader, “getting arrested a couple of times at the White House, and other brands of leadership — it opens their eyes to say, ‘My goodness, maybe there is something in the church.”

The church wants in on the a pool of gullible idiots while the  warming alarmists worry as their predictions of apocalypse don’t materialize, so the merger makes sense.  The hope is that, when the end of the world does not arrive on the date promised, these people, like their predecessors over time, will fade away.

To be replaced by the next religion, probably one based on the coming ice age.