Our new Village People

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Old timers may remember “The Children’s Shop”, owned by Cliff Frost, who was often seen running down the street to hop on a fire truck and join his fellow volunteers, including Sterling Watts of Watts’ Hardware, save lives and rescue pets. Or The Old Greenwich Sports Shop”, owned by Bud DeVito with assistance from his daughters, or Bob’s Pet and Model Shop, across the street. All friendly, nice people, residents of Riverside and Old Greenwich, who were an integral part of the Village and who enriched the lives of all in the community.

They’re all gone now, and have been replaced by out-of-town proprietors who have brought their venomous political views into the Village and insist on inflicting them on the rest of us.

That’s not only stupid from a business perspective, it’s downright unneighborly.

This year’s edition

Slow learners: Our brightest minds are figuring out what's been obvious for the past eight decades.

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Arafat walked away fron the Oslo ACCORD IN 1983, preferring to continuing to work his grift, and died in 2004 with a (hidden) fortune estimated at between $300 million and $1 billion,

WSJ: Biden Admin Slowly Realizing Hamas Doesn't Want Peace. Change that to “Palestinians” And they’ll be almost there.

Officials cited two main reasons for the pessimism. The ratio of Palestinian prisoners that Israel must release to bring Hamas-held hostages home was a major sticking point—even before the U.S.-designated terrorist group killed six hostages, including an American citizen. And the two-day attack on Hezbollah with explosive pagers and walkie-talkies—followed by Israeli airstrikes—has made the possibility of all-out war much more likely, complicating diplomacy with Hamas.

Another problem is that, according to Biden administration officials, Hamas makes demands and then refuses to say “yes” after the U.S. and Israel accept them. The intransigence has severely frustrated negotiators, who increasingly feel the militant group isn’t serious about completing an agreement. 

How would he know?

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Biden falsely claims he's never spoken to Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell as president

Biden met with Powell in the White House in May 2022

At least three times, in fact.

President Biden on Thursday falsely claimed he had never spoken to Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell as president, despite having a meeting with him at the White House two years ago.

Biden, during a speech to the Economic Club of Washington, said, "Unlike my predecessor, I respect the Federal Reserve's independence as they pursued a mandate to bring inflation down."  

"And that independence has served the country well. And by the way, I've never once spoken to the chairman of the Fed since I became president," Biden added. "We'll also do enormous damage to our economy if that independence is ever lost." 

However, in May 2022, Biden met with Powell in the Oval Office in what Bloomberg described in a report as his "third in-person session with Powell" since becoming president. 

Liar, liar, pants on fire.

In fairness to Ol’ Dependables, he lost his memory long ago, despite Kampalla’s and various media types’ insistence that he was sharp as a tack and functioning as late as June of this year. Here he is in 2022, around the time he was meeting with Jerome Powell for one of those three meetings. Can we really blame him today for not remembering where he was, or who he talked to two full years ago?

You'd need a heart of stone not to laugh; I am not that man.

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Report: Hezbollah Hiding Heavy Death Toll From Exploding Devices, Leadership of Elite Radwan Terror Force Decimated

Consecutive waves of exploding devices have incurred heavy losses on Hezbollah’s leadership and terrorist fighting forces. The command structure of Hezbollah’s elite terrorist Radwan force has been ‘decimated’ by the well-coordinate strike, Israeli sources confirm.

Officially, around 3,000 Hezbollah terrorists were wounded in Tuesday’s pager explosions. The walkie-talkie blasts on Wednesday reportedly injured 450 terror operatives. The actual figures are much higher, reports suggest.

… Significant damage was inflicted on Hezbollah’s special operation forces unit Radwan force, which lost large parts of its command structure. At least 450 were injured in the explosion of the hand-held walkie-talkie radios throughout Lebanon, and these join the more than 3,000 Hezbollah operatives who were injured by the pager blasts.

… . The Iran-backed terrorist group is in disarray following the strike. Twice bitten, the Hezbollah terrorists were now scared of touching electronic devices and electric switches, social media posts show.