And up on Riversville Road, a contract — finally.

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430 Riversville Road, currently priced at $1.595 million and certainly selling for less, has found a buyer. The original agent priced it at $2.499 million back in July 2023 — that has proved to have been overly optimistic.

Of note, the new agent added this to its listing description: “Enjoy everything Greenwich and desirable Glenville has to offer.” Off-hand, nothing strikes me as perceptibly desirable about Glenville and, apparently, the agent was also stumped, because her choice of pictures to illustrate her point lacks any evidence to support her claim.

Something missing here, even though there was room to post a snap or two that would have been gladly supplied by the Glenville chamber of commerce.

To its credit, the house does have a Cos Cobber pool, probably imported from that neighborhood at great expense.

Riverside Sale

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1 Club Road, nee 136 Riverside Avenue), has sold for $2.250 million. A fine old 1850 house that could stand some updating, it started at $2.995 in June and was still priced at $2.750 when it was reported as pending in August. A bold low offer can still work, sometimes, even in this market. Brother Gideon, whose listing this was, tells me that the buyers intend to retain and renovate rather than raze and replace, a decision all Riverside residents should applaud.

(One reason, possibly, for this property’s sluggish market performance might be because would-be buyers looked up the address on Zillow, and were gravely disappointed by what they found upon arrival.)

No fact checking in the state media, but the facts are out there nonetheless

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Harris claims ad quoting her 2019 vow to ban fracking is 'mischaracterization' to make people 'afraid' of her

'There’s no question I’m in favor of banning fracking,' Harris said while running for the 2020 Democratic nomination

More like this man, please

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Hung Cao Annihilates Tim Kaine in Senate Debate

On Wednesday evening, Virginia Democratic Sen. Tim Kaine was destroyed by Republican challenger Hung Cao during their first and only debate. 

According to a poll published shortly after the debate, Cao was the winner, with 75 percent support to Kaine’s 25 percent support, according to WRIC.

Cao, who is an immigrant, came to the United States with his parents as a refugee from Vietnam in 1975. He is a retired Navy captain and served with special operations in Iraq, Afghanistan and Somalia. He attended the United States Naval Academy. 

In the debate, the candidates were questioned about military recruitment numbers dipping. Cao pointed out that the woke agenda that has permeated the military in recent years is to blame. 

"When you're using a drag queen to recruit for the Navy, that's not the people we want. What we need is alpha males and alpha females who are gonna rip out their own guts, eat ‘em and ask for seconds,” Cao said. “Those are young men and women that are going to win wars.”

Do you support mass deportation of all undocumented immigrants?” Cao was asked. 

“Immigration is very near and dear to my heart. When Vietnam fell, we had nowhere to go and America brought us in. My parents waited in line for seven, we all did, for seven years, to get our citizenship,” Cao said. “The last thing that my dad had hang over his bed when he passed away two years ago was his naturalization certificate.”

“I love this country so much that I wrote a blank check up to including my life to defend it for 25 years…to anybody who wants to come here, don’t ask for the American dream if you’re not willing to obey American laws and embrace the American culture…that’s the no. 1 criteria coming into the country. If you come here illegally, then you need to leave, especially if you’re a violent crime person,” he said, adding that there are 13,000 convicted murders and 16,000 convicted rapists that came across under the Biden administration’s watch.

Cao was asked again if he supports mass deportations. 

“If you came here illegally, you’re basically screwing up the whole system…you can’t jump the line,” he said.

And:

The moderators tried to silence the audience again when Cao stated, “never go against an Asian when it comes to math.” 

"Honestly, of the 227 bills that Senator Kaine has proposed, only three of them made it through… That's a 99% failure rate,” Cao said.

"Check the tape on that. That's completely wrong," Kaine retorted.

"There's two truths in the world, okay? Never walk into a target store wearing a red shirt and never go against an Asian when it comes to math. Trust me,” Cao said.

DeSantis shines, Harris declines

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Florida National Guardsmen deliver supplies to North Carolinians — "Operation blue ridge"

David Strom: DeSantis Is America's Governor: Rescuing North Carolinians AND Deploying Guard to Ports

Ron DeSantis is undoubtedly America's most competent governor in generations and probably the most skilled in generations. 

It was DeSantis' skill at governing and fighting the leftists where it matters that attracted me to him when he was running for president, and I still believe he would have been the best president since Reagan had he won. 

But it was not to be. We chose Donald Trump because he has been battling the bad guys, and I am okay with his being the candidate. 

But if there is anything we have learned over the past year, DeSantis is even better than we knew. His ability to mobilize government resources to fix problems is unmatched, as we have seen with the latest hurricanes to hit the East Coast. He had rescue operations wrapped up lickety-split and sent the Florida National Guard to harder hit areas in North Carolina before FEMA was even getting spun up. 

There’s much more at the linked-to article, all of which is worth reading, I especially like how Strom finishes:

But what I do know is that Republicans are shining and proving their competence and compassion and that the Biden administration can't even get a photo op right. 

ILA Union Chief wants our roadways to be run like U.S. Ports again

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Back to the future: remember tollbooths? 

Union boss Harold Daggett rages against E-ZPass for costing union jobs in video weeks before strike shut down ports

Harold Daggett, the union boss who shut down 14 US shipping ports, went on a wild rant about technology just weeks before dockworkers went on strike Tuesday – and even took aim at E-ZPass. 

The head of the International Longshoreman’s Association decried the loss of toll booth workers because the shift to E-ZPass allows motorists to zip through “like it’s nothing and then get billed in the mail,” according to an interview last month.

“All those union jobs are gone,” he said in the Q&A posted to ILA’s YouTube channel on Sept. 5.

The foul-mouthed boss also fumed over the proliferation of self-checkout kiosks in retail stores.

“Someone needs to go to Congress and say, ‘Whoa, time out,’ this world is going too fast for us. Machines have got to stop,” he said during the 17-minute video.

Daggett, who has led the union since 2011 and rakes in nearly $1 million in salary, has demanded a nearly 80% pay increase for ILA’s 45,000 workers from Maine to Texas and an end to automation projects by port operators. 

Needless to say, Mr. Daggett has the full support of the Harris-Biden administration.

Here’s the video — begin at 4:45

Who here remembers COVID? Same people. (UPDATED)

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Politicians Are Hindering Rescue Efforts in North Carolina, and One Rescuer Has Had Enough

One Florida entrepreneur who has been trying to rescue people for several days vented his frustrations in an Instagram video on Tuesday. Jonathan Howard has been working on rescue efforts since over the weekend, and he didn’t hold back in explaining what’s going on. You can watch the video here, but I didn’t embed it because of the profanity.

“I try not to cuss but I am just so mad at the lack of Government support and I need people to hear how desperate this situation is,” Howard wrote in his caption. “I don’t have time to be nice or gentle right now. People are literally dying by the day here and it can all be fixed with Helicopters. It’s like our Government wants these people to die. They’re so incompetent, disorganized, and dishonest it’s disgusting.”

Related: Parts of Georgia Are Struggling After Helene Powered Through the State

Howard is a member of the Florida State Guard Special Missions Unit, and he has been working with a non-profit called Aerial Recovery to help save lives. But he’s running into infuriating bureaucratic brick walls.

“I'm gonna tell you everything that's happening from the ground, what I'm actually seeing because what they're telling you is complete bulls**t on the news, and these politicians don't have a f***ing clue and they’re lying,” he began.

Howard emphasized the need for helicopters in the air to help search for people. Chainsaws and trucks aren’t enough. He said that people are “10 miles in, 20 miles, 40 miles in the mountains. There's no way to get with them or even communicate with them. I am literally flying around in a civilian helicopter looking for SOS messages carved in the mud or paint on the ground, and we're dropping down and saving them.”

He related how he and his friends rescued an 11-day-old baby, yet government entities were using the media to claim credit for the rescue. They rescued an older woman who was on oxygen and only had one day left in her supply.

Howard pointed out that he has only seen two Blackhawks engaging in search and rescue. On the other hand, he has counted around 40 civilian helicopters trying to find people and save them from the devastation.

“I have my entire team up here from Florida right now, and they have no ability to go rescue these people other than what they can drive to,” he lamented. “The people that are in dire need, they're out in the mountains. They are completely cut off.”

Howard said that his congresswoman was able to get two contracted helicopters for search and rescue, but he also pointed out that local authorities are stopping even the media from seeing how bad the destruction is. He related a story that sheriff’s deputies in the Lake Lure area wouldn’t let CNN video the devastation.

He also gave an example of the buck-passing that’s going on in North Carolina:

I should also say, when I flew here on Sunday, they actually stopped us from going in, the sheriff’s department. And it was because of a bunch of politics that they were claiming was the Speaker of the House of North Carolina that was preventing us from even going in and trying to kick us out, which I have clarified today with North Carolina politicians that reached out to me — good on them — and they were like, “That's complete bulls**t. Speaker of the House has nothing. He wants you guys there.”

But this is the kind of political BS that is happening here right now. Like, everyone's trying to be in charge without taking any type of action. Nobody wants to coordinate with anybody. Everybody wants to pretend like they're being a hero while these people are literally f***ing dying in the mountains. And these people, like I'm saying, these people are on limited medication. They're running out of oxygen, and there's no one going to get them.

“The most effective way I have found to go find these people is by getting in a helicopter and flying down the rivers and roads and looking for SOS messages or people waving us down, and then we drop down and get them,” he added.

Howard pointed out that some of his colleagues are funding their rescue missions out of their own pockets. At the same time, Air Force helicopters are grounded and personnel aren’t working because they’re awaiting Title 10 orders that aren’t coming from above.

“There's military helicopters all over here sitting on the ground, and they can't do nothing,” he vented. “Even my JSOC boys in Fayetteville, they can't get orders if they're not here. It is just the most disgusting thing, and they're killing these people. And I don't know why they're doing it.”

Bonus Material:

Ladies and Gentlemen, we present to you the President of the United States

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Pot, meet kettle:

Convenient memory lapse here, even if it’s probably authentic:

And what about the $42 billion for the broadband initiative to help rural areas? The Biden-Harris team hasn't connected anything yet. 

Why Has Joe Biden's $42 Billion Broadband Program Not Connected One Single Household?

The senior Republican FCC commissioner blames progressive politics, while lawmakers and telecom companies blame bureaucratic red tape.

"In 2021, the Biden Administration got $42.45 billion from Congress to deploy high-speed Internet to millions of Americans," Brendan Carr, the senior Republican commissioner of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), wrote in a post on X (formerly Twitter) this month. "Years later, it has not connected even 1 person with those funds. In fact, it now says that no construction projects will even start until 2025 at earliest."

In an April 2023 letter to Davidson, 11 Republican U.S. senators warned that "NTIA's bureaucratic red tape and far-left mandates undermine Congress' intent and would discourage participation from broadband providers while increasing the overall cost of building out broadband networks."

Among several examples, the senators noted that NTIA's BEAD proposal "requires subgrantees to prioritize certain segments of the workforce, such as 'individuals with past criminal records' and 'justice-impacted […] participants.'" The infrastructure law that authorized the program merely required contractors to be "in compliance with Federal labor and employment laws."

The previous year, in a letter to Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo, Republican senators warned that the NTIA's proposed BEAD rollout "creates a complex, nine-step, 'iterative' structure and review process that is likely to mire State broadband offices in excessive bureaucracy and delay connecting unserved and underserved Americans as quickly as possible."

In practice, this is exactly what's happening: Multiple representatives from the telecommunications industry told MinnPost this week that they had no interest in applying for a piece of Minnesota's $652 million in BEAD grants. Brent Christensen, president and CEO of Minnesota Telecom Alliance, which represents 70 Minnesota telecom companies, said, "None of them would bid for the federal grants because of the regulations that would come with it—especially the requirement to provide low-cost services to low-income households in exchange for grants that would allow internet providers to build out their networks."

And so on.