Midgets vs drug dealers in Manhattan
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take it!
A pair of thieves in a Mercedes Benz swiped a Richard Mille watch and other pricey jewels — worth more than $4 million in total — from people who had just left Manhattan hotspots, cops said Thursday.
Cops are now hunting for the duo in a pair of incidents earlier this month — the first on Aug. 14, when two men were robbed after they left TAO Downtown around 4:20 a.m. and walked to West 30th Street and Broadway.
One of the alleged robbers displayed a black handgun as the suspects swiped multiple pieces of jewelry from the men, ages 47 and 27, cops said.
From the older victim alone, they stole a Richard Mille watch, multiple chains, necklaces and rings worth about $4 million in total, police said.
…. [The crime wave continued]
Cops are still looking for both suspects.
One is described as a man with a dark complexion, about 5 feet tall and 140 pounds.
The other suspect had a medium complexion, and was around 5-foot-2 and 140 pounds, police said.
If these gentlemen are ever re-blinged, or if the thieves didn’t steal all their worldly goods, i wish they’d contact me — I’m sure I can find them some nice, splashy homes in the round Hill area, even at COVID prices.
As an aside, I’d never focused on exactly how much money our underprivileged are pulling in down in upper Manhattan, and the cash they have available for stupid purchases; I shall adjust my marketing accordingly.
*I am, perhaps unfairly, assuming the victims were not some of the Greenwich hedgies we see poolside at our lesser clubs — I could be wrong.
And it begins
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mr. president! mr. president! that’s you, you fool — you have a call!
Are they just throwing monkey shit against the wall to see what sticks? Rhetorical question.
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We’ve gone through and discarded initial CDC “guidance” for: surface disinfecting; latex gloves; plastic face shields; plexiglass barriers; no early treatment with monoclonal antibodies; masks — no, yes, no, maybe, but never those useless blue paper surgical masks (though Dr. Fauci, the original piece of monkey shit, is still advocating their use because … well, because); outdoor masking (see, contra, Oregon); and God knows what else.
And God, but not the Feds, knows what tomorrow’s science will dictate. After we’ve purged the military of its officer classes, we should turn our attention to flushing out the government’s health care bureaucracy. Or do it simultaneously.
Sold on Birchwood
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42 Birchwood Drive, which started at $4.250 million, in February 2017, has sold for $3.450.
The now-former owners paid $3.750 for it in 2009 and that probably seemed like a bargain, because its original 2007 ask had been $4.995, but there’s something Dr. Fellish about the Gate Field-Birchwood area that I can’t quite put my finger on. I personally like the neighborhood; it’s private, quiet, and it’s an easy trip to town down Lake Avenue, but it’s been my impression that houses linger there. That’s a general impression, mind you, gained with no historical review of sale histories, so take it for what it’s worth; just about nothing, or less.
Still, it has sold, and that always comes as a relief to owners who no longer want their house.
(Of course, some of the interiors may need to be refreshed)
Mission Accomplished
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flowers for pows
Her handlers labelled her swing through Asia “a changemaker event”, and indeed it was. After depositing a bouquet at a Vietnamese war memorial celebrating the shooting down of American “pirates”, Kampallawalla led a roundtable discussion on lesbian, transvestite and cripples’ rights, which produced a solemn vow from the Viet Cong to end all discrimination of any kind, “especially against those who disagree with us”.
“But that’s not all!”, a State Department spokesman crowed to FWIW. “Did you catch her act in Singapore? How she fearlessly took on the looming Christmas present shortage head-on? Wow! That’s leadership, man — she’s ready for Washington now, ready to lead — just wait and see.”
UPDATE: Even the White House considers Kampalla worthless. After putting her in charge of solving the border crisis (chortle), then giving her responsibility for ushering the dead-on -arrival Democrat voting bill through the Senate (guffaw), they sent her off on a meaningless trip to Singapore and Vietnam while Afghanistan was exploding (chortles and guffaws drowned out by hysterical laughter).
When you can't meet your own standards, lower your standards — it's not solely the American Rule
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royal marines paraded by their iranian captors
(News the other day that the British Defense Minister had announced that his country would be forced to stop its civilian evacuation efforts in Kabul once the U.S, withdrew its troops prompted me to retrieve from my draft folder this article I’d begun, but set aside. Where is the British Army, and why can’t it maintain its own military operations? Here are some news items, all related, that may explain where they’ve gone.
And where we’re going. Most of what’s happened to Britain’s military is happening to ours and the possible exception: our military industrial complex is keeping up arms production as fast as we can give away our weapons to terrorists, is useless without the will to use our strength. Which we no longer have.)
RAF drops rejection rate by 20%
RAF is 'dropping its standards to get recruits' as rejection rate falls by 20% over last five years
RAF chiefs are rejecting fewer applicants than five years ago, leading to fears the Air Force might be lowering its standards to keep recruitment numbers up.
The RAF has long been famous for having the strictest recruitment policy in the British military, rejecting more applicants than the Army and the Navy.
In the past, even having a visible tattoo was a bar to joining the Air Force.
But latest Ministry of Defence figures show that over the past five years, its rejection rate has fallen by 20 percentage points.
Critics say this has coincided with all three forces facing a crisis over recruitment, and claim standards have been lowered to get less-able applicants through the vetting process.
The data, lodged in the House of Commons library, shows that in 2015/16, there were 22,107 applications at the RAF, with 13,830 being rejected – a rejection rate of 62.6 per cent.
But in 2019/20, there were 32,634 applications, of which 13,387 were turned away – a rejection rate of 41 per cent.
The RAF is facing a personnel shortage, according to MoD figures released earlier this year. They showed that there should be 31,869 airmen and women, but there are only 29,853.
Rejection rates at the Royal Navy over the past five years have fallen from 42.6 per cent to 29.4 per cent, and at the Army from 32.3 to 28.2 per cent.
Former Tory MP and ex-Army colonel Patrick Mercer said: ‘The RAF, like the Army and Navy, have faced a recruitment crisis, and a drop in numbers, so they have reduced their rejection rates. Also, in some cases, they have massaged their figures to allow women into the RAF, who may not be as fit as men.
Interesting but the might be the most alarming takeaway from the article:
And what you have to appreciate is that at the RAF, there are very few people flying planes now, so they don’t have to make it so rigorous if you are going to be flying drones from a room.’
And this, from a year ago: Britain spent so much on its 2 new carriers that it can’t afford planes or escort ships
This collapse of the British military has been going on for decades, so I guess we might say it’s a matter of tradition now. In 2007, after the Navy had stood helplessly by white Iranian speedboats captured two of their ships, James Lewis penned this, on Britain’s loss of will: British Military Hollowed Out
It hurts to say it, but the Royal Navy has become an object of pity among those of us who admire what Britain used to be and do: Like standing against the Nazi onslaught, abolishing slavery around the world, and yes, bringing civilized government to brutish and sadistic regions of the world, which had no acquaintance with simple decency among holders of power before that time.
….Today, the Royal Navy is slated to be cut in half, and political correctness has turned Britain into a basket case. It is tragic.
But of course, the rot isn’t confined to our former colonial rulers:
And, finally, but (mostly) unrelated, this bonus news: British medical students demand the right to work as prostitutes to fund their education.
There’s a tuition fee, darling
At last, the Biden contingency plan for Americans trying to leave Afghanistan is revealed.
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We’ve spent months planning for this. We’ve got it!
Just after 7 PM Eastern time Wednesday, the US State Department issued a warning advising US citizens in Afghanistan to avoid traveling to the Kabul airport, to avoid the airport gates unless they are told to go there, and for any US citizens at the Abbey Gate, East Gate, or North Gate to leave immediately.
“Don’t worry”, a chortling Biden told FWIW, “we’re giving them Peter Alexander’s phone number — let him deal with it”.
In recent memory, at least
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Muzzle optional, depending on circumstances
German dog-walking rule meets howls of protest
Germany is set to outlaw the quick after-dinner walk around the block with the dog.
In draft legislation unveiled this week, dog owners in Germany will need to make sure they walk their canine pet twice a day for at least an hour in total as part of reforms to animal welfare rules.
The aim is to make life better for the country’s millions of house-trained dogs, but not everyone is happy. A commentary in tabloid Bild described the plan as “the most insane idea that a ministry has ever come up with in living memory,” questioning whether such a system is even enforceable.
“Living memory”? Well, sort of.
Commentator Ed Driscoll adds this, applicable to our own situation as well
As a wise woman [James Taggart, you’ll know her] once wrote:
“Did you really think we want those laws observed?” said Dr. Ferris. “We want them to be broken. You’d better get it straight that it’s not a bunch of boy scouts you’re up against… We’re after power and we mean it… There’s no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren’t enough criminals one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws. Who wants a nation of law-abiding citizens? What’s there in that for anyone? But just pass the kind of laws that can neither be observed nor enforced or objectively interpreted – and you create a nation of law-breakers – and then you cash in on guilt. Now that’s the system, Mr. Reardon, that’s the game, and once you understand it, you’ll be much easier to deal with.”
And a contract slipped in just before the closing bell
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Circa 2010
19 Stoney Wylde Lane (off Clapboard Ridge) asking $3.995 million. It sold for $2.9 in 2013, and $2.975 in 2010.. ai showed it to clients in 2010 and they liked it, but ultimately passed, partly because of its sligtly quirky layout which didn’t bother me at all: I thought it worked well, but I was showing the place, not buying it, so we moved on.
I haven’t seen this iteration, and the extensive photoshopping makes it difficult to see what changes were made to raise its price by $1.1 million, but obviously, at least one buyer noticed them, and approved.
a much better photo, 2021
you’d think that if they could photoshop the orange, they could extend the same courtesy to Mr. Zebra, but …
unless, of course, “Squashed Otter” is the new zebra, and it could quite well be — I haven’t been keeping up
