Greenwich, Connecticut real estate, politics, and more.
Greenwich, Connecticut real estate, politics, and more
24 Bedford Road, asking $1,995 million, 45 days on market. The owners paid $1.570 for it in 2007 and have been trying to sell it, alternating with renting it out, since 2014, when they began at $2.150.
The description includes this highlighted feature: “Convenient to the Westchester Airport & Armonk.” I suppose that’s a positive, although some might disagree.
33 Richmond Hill Road, $2.850 million. The sales records for big, expensive spec houses on Richmond Hill might give a builder pause, though they seem to recover their natural, wild optimism once they exit their latest bankruptcy proceedings, but this house looks perfectly nice as-is, so maybe it will survive.
The news cycle is focused right now on the newcomers from Venezuela that our Border Czar has invited in, but the real story is that none of the 11 - 33 million illegal aliens that have crossed our border and settled here will ever be deported; our laws might allow it, but our courts and the liberal law groups funded by Soros and every billionaire’s child’s — including his own* — will make sure that these people are ours forever.
Even Tren de Aragua gang members will remain, because their home country won’t accept deportees, and U.S. law forbids deportations of illegals to countries that won’t take them. In fact, a 2001 U.S. Supreme Court decision means that these people can’t even be held for indefinite periods and must be released to roam about the country, to prey upon the rest of us.
If dissolving our borders isn’t being done in order to dissolve our country itself, what other explanation is there?
And here’s an irony: despite opposing walls on our borders, the NYT has placed this story behind its own cash wall:
https://www.nytimes.com › 2024 › 09 › 23 › nyregion › a-venezuelan-gang-reaches-new-york.html
A Venezuelan Gang Reaches New York - The New York Times
3 days agoThe Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua — a feared criminal organization that concentrates on sex trafficking, human smuggling and drug dealing — has emerged in New York City amid
Kamala Harris shouting 'Down down with deportation!' at a 2018 parade in Los Angeles pic.twitter.com/jgcAmkeQbe
— Charlie Spiering (@charliespiering) September 23, 2024
17 Highland Farm Road has dropped to $1.699 million. it began at $2.3 million in 2022, slowly fell to $1.750 before expiring in May 2023, then came back on in November at a counter-intuitive price of $2.199. Further adjustments have been taken since.
11 Vineyard Lane, currently asking $9.995 million, is reported under contract. The owners paid $9 million for it in 2008 and have been trying to sell it, off and on, since 2011, when they began at $9.955. They’ve put some money into it over the years, but at least it appears they’ll be getting back close to what they paid 16 years ago. We all like happy endings.
114 Overlook Drive, listed in June at $3.850 million, went under contract in 3 days and closed today at $4.5.
on my way to med school!
THAT IS NOT WHAT ENGLISH TEACHERS SHOULD BE SAYING: Books are too long and boring, say English teachers.
Nowadays, many students rarely read full-length novels, reports AP’s Sharon Lurye. Teachers assign excerpts, “a concession to perceptions of shorter attention spans, pressure to prepare for standardized tests and a sense that short-form content will prepare students for the modern, digital world.”
In a 2022 statement, the National Council of Teachers of English declared: “The time has come to decenter book reading and essay-writing as the pinnacles of English language arts education.” Instead, teachers are urged to focus on “media literacy” and short texts that students feel are “relevant.”
Deep reading builds “critical thinking skills, background knowledge and, most of all, empathy,” said UCLA neuroscientist Maryanne Wolf told Lurye. “We must give our young an opportunity to understand who others are, not through little snapshots, but through immersion into the lives and thoughts and feelings of others,” Wolf said.
“Only 14% of young teens say they read for fun daily, compared with 27% in 2012,” according to federal data, Lurye reports. So, if students aren’t asked to read books for school, most will not read at all.
Longer attention spans are made, not born — and English teachers are supposed to help make them. Instead, they’re making excuses.
We conducted a study on left-wing activism in medical schools. The findings were shocking.
— Do No Harm (@donoharm) September 23, 2024
Check out some of the results of this report from @jaypgreene below 👇👇
Download the full report: https://t.co/CLeDDxQfEU pic.twitter.com/uFEh4ytoGs
"Medical school coursework appears to be much more concerned with conveying ideological goals to future doctors than with teaching them how to interpret, let alone conduct, scientific research," Do No Harm concluded.
Among the highest-ranked institutions Do No Harm studied, seven had more politicized than scientific terms printed in their course catalogs: Harvard, UPenn, Stanford, Vanderbilt, Icahn School of Medicine, Baylor, and Emory.
Do No Harm discovered that this divisive ideology is infused into introductory classes covering basic topics. For example, at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, "Introduction to Anesthesiology" is described as "a core component of the Human Rights and Social Justice Scholars (HRSJ) program for first-year medical students" and "is intended to provide students with a space for building critical thinking and community around social justice work."
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At Harvard Medical School, a course on Integrated Human Pathophysiology "focuses on key concepts in normal physiology and pathophysiology of the kidney, endocrine and reproductive endocrine systems." However, content that "explores health equity" and "climate change" is also "integrated."
Meanwhile, Stanford offers a course called "Global Leaders and Innovators in Human and Planetary Health: Sustainable Societies Lab" that centers on "environmental sustainability" as well as "social and environmental justice and equality."
The Baylor College of Medicine's class on "Human Rights and Medicine" covers "immigration reform," "gender issues," "cross-cultural considerations," and "issues of distributive justice affected by militarization in society."
I’m not shocked because we’ve been hearing about this sort of nonsense for some time now. Here’s an example, from earlier this May:
Nearly half of all students at UCLA’s medical school, [once] known as one of the best in the world, fail basic tests of medical competence, a new report has revealed. Many are attributing the school’s fall from grace to its agressive acceptance of less-qualified minority candidates.
The report, released today by the Washington Free Beacon, stated that the rates of failure on “shelf” exams (standardized tests that cover a number of issues including emergency medicine, family medicine, pediatrics, and other specializations), have increased tenfold at UCLA’s David Geffen School of Medicine since 2022.
A number of professors, members of staff, and members of the admissions committee, spoke anonymously with the Free Beacon. One professor told the outlet that a student failed to identify a major artery, and then shouted at them for even asking them the question to begin with. Another claimed that students at the end of their medical rotation couldn’t even comprehend basic lab tests, or present patients.
“I don’t know how some of these students are going to be junior doctors,” the professor said. “Faculty are seeing a shocking decline in knowledge of medical students.”
The blame for the failures has been attributed to the arrival of Jennifer Lucero as the Dean of Admissions in 2020. Lucero allegedly prioritized the admission Black and Latino admissions over white and Asian applicants, rather than basing acceptance on competency. This practice has been occurring even though California has explicitly banned public schools from considering race on admissions since 1996.
Not so long ago, patients were suspicious of entrusting their healthcare to doctors with foreign medical degrees: now, they should probably insist on it.
FCC FAST-TRACKS George Soros’ purchase of 200+ radio stations. “The FCC decision to fast-track his deal is the first time in modern history such a deal has been approved by the full Commission without first running the national security review process—a process that could take up to a year or more.”
In the meantime, every branch of the government, every agency, is attempting crush Elon Musk’s entire panoply of revolutionary business from Space X to Starlink to Tesla, all because he disrupted their control of propaganda when he purchased Twitter. No such danger with Soros, of course; he owns the government.
I'm gonna make 'em an offer they can't refuse
Rick Moran, PJ Media:
The International Longshoreman's Association is threatening to strike on October 1 if it fails to come to an agreement with the United States Maritime Alliance, which represents port management.
A strike would shut down five of North America’s 10 busiest ports and a total of 36 ports along the East and Gulf Coasts. The impact on the economy would be almost immediate with supply chain issues similar to what happened during the pandemic.
Joe Biden says that he will not use his presidential authority to force the union back to work if it goes on strike. Given the damage that even a short strike could do to the economy, it's a mystery why Biden won't help his vice president out and force the union to keep working.
Interfering in a labor dispute is always a fraught proposition. Some speculate that Biden is upset at Harris's supporters in the Democratic leadership who forced him out of the race. Biden could still order the workers back to the docks, but he's given no sign that he will take that course of action.
The global economic turmoil wrought by a strike of this size cannot be overstated.
The ports that would be affected move nearly half of all U.S. imports, and billions of dollars in trade each month. The ripple effects on supply chains in Europe, Asia, and Latin America would also be significant.
None of this is likely good for Democrats.
Election Day is only six weeks away, and Vice President Kamala Harris is locked in a nail-biter of a presidential race against former President Donald Trump. Harris is currently leading by two points, a smaller lead than Hillary Clinton had in 2016 before losing to Trump. A strike would begin on October 1, the day of the vice presidential debate between Democrat Tim Walz and Republican Sen. JD Vance.
Moran:
A short strike of a week or less would still wreak havoc on the supply chain. And the longer it lasts, the more the strike threatens the upcoming holiday season.
"A prolonged strike could lead to weeks, or possibly months, of shipping delays and backlogs, worsened by limited rerouting options, high costs, and time constraints," Abe Eshkenazi, CEO of the Association for Supply Chain Management, told Business Insider. "The supply chain is inextricably linked, and as we enter the busiest shopping season of the year, businesses, retailers, and consumers alike will feel the impact of a stoppage."
Jim Cameron has published his own thoughts on this upcoming attraction over at Greenwich Free Press:
Remember post-COVID when store shelves were empty, construction delayed, pharmaceuticals in short supply and auto production disrupted? Online orders were delayed and prices soared.
That could happen again, affecting not only you but the rest of the world. The economic effects would measure in the billions of dollars a day. Even a one day strike would take five days to recover from. If a strike lasts a week, the cleanup would last until mid-November. If it drags on for a month, well, we don’t even want to contemplate that.
Though West Coast ports would remain open if there’s a strike (different unions), there’s no way they could handle ships diverted from the East. They just don’t have the capacity.
What kind of imports will be affected? Think food, crude oil, electronics, clothing and, yes, holiday gifts.
We went though this same thing a few years ago when the west coast union struck. Between the two unions and their fierce opposition to modernization, we have the most antiquated, expensive port handling facilities in the developed world. That’s great for their $200,000 jobs, not so good for the rest of us, so no sympathy here.
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