If it feels good, it must BE good, right? Am I right?

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Hidden in your garage, a treasure awaits you

Sound the trumpets!

A Half Million Pounds Have Been Diverted through Greenwich’s Food Scrap Recycling Program in the past four years (total).

That’s out of 71,360,000 pounds of food scraps were collected and disposed elsewhere by the town during that same period.

Put in perspective, after four years of effort, we’ve managed to divert 0.007% of our wet garbage to compost piles and away from of out-of-state landfills: how much are we paying for this symbolism? And how much CO2 has been spewed by coal-fired Teslas driving banana peels to the dump?

Greenwich compost advocates estimate that food waste comprises 22.3% of the 40,000 tons of garbage Greenwich carts off each year; 17,840,000 lbs. X 4 yrs = 71,360,000 lbs of grapefruit rinds and coffee grounds to be disposed of. 500,000 lbs diverted from the waste stream over 4 years, or 0.007%. Freddie and the Dreamers claim that this is saving the taxpayers great big gobs of money; the numbers say that he and they are just tossing horse chips at us.

Biden, of course, calls for Israel to increase the flow of aid to make up for the losses

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see no evil

Hamas caught on video stealing dozens of humanitarian aid trucks entering Gaza Strip

Hamas terrorists were captured on video taking control of 47 of 100 aid trucks entering the Gaza Strip on Tuesday.

“It’s no secret that Hamas takes control of humanitarian aid. We’ve already published here tapes of Hamas, in which you hear them say themselves they have no more room in their warehouses,” Channel 12‘s Almog Boker reported on Wednesday evening.

“But this evening we also bring special documentation of what it looks like from inside, with cameras that are tracking it in real time,” he said.

The footage shows Hamas first taking over the trucks, including attacking the drivers. Then the trucks are driven through Rafah with armed terrorists riding on them. If any citizen approaches the trucks, they are immediately fired upon, Almog reported. Gunshots can be heard in the background of the footage.

Humanitarian aid, meant to prevent starvation among Gazans, has instead become a lifeline for Hamas and its continued control of the Strip.

“Control over humanitarian aid is control over the citizens. Hamas and [its leader Yahya] Sinwar exercise almost absolute control over what happens with humanitarian aid, and this is how they control the population,” Boker reported.

He noted the IDF on Tuesday killed a handful of terrorists trying to take control of some aid, but said that the army’s efforts haven’t been enough.

In a report in mid-September, Boker noted that Hamas resells the aid to the population to finance recruitment, with 3,000 terrorists having been added to Hamas’s payroll in northern Gaza.

… “We let all those trucks come in, and Hamas’s strategy is to steal, hoard and gouge. That’s what they do. … They steal the food. They charge exorbitant prices from the Gazans. And that’s how they continue, [or] they hope to continue, to survive. And we have to take that away from them,” he said

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The Israeli government has been under pressure from the Biden administration to allow humanitarian aid into Gaza from the war’s start, with President Joe Biden promising that if aid ended up in the hands of Hamas it would cease.

Nevertheless, the White House has continued pressing Israel to increase the flow despite admitting publicly that Hamas—a U.S.-designated foreign terrorist organization—seizes much of the aid.

On Wednesday’s call between U.S. President Joe Biden and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, in which an Israeli retaliatory attack on Iran was the main agenda item, the president again brought up the “the humanitarian situation in Gaza,” according to a White House summary of the call.

And just at the closing bell ...

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500 Valley Road, Cos Cob, has been reported sold. $3.345 million selling price, $3.295 asked. Listed September 3rd, and fully under contract in 7 days (essentially, what with contract preparation and the like, overnight.)

Nice location, good-looking house, and this seems to be the goig price for house like it these days, so no surprise here.

unlike so many houses one sees on the market, this one enjoys a callipygian backside — good on the builder

These are the people who are (were) supposed to be our strongest NATO ally

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Oh, SNAP! Germany Has a New Way to Defend Yourself Against Machete-Wielding Migrants

Stephen Green, PJ Media:

Germany has a little problem with the totally grateful Muslim migrants that Berlin's elites have allowed into the country, where they show their gratitude by stabbing Germans. But don't worry because one German doctor has just the thing to deal with a knife attack, and no, it isn't stitches.

Before we get to that, the most recent case to make the news happened less than two weeks ago, when a Syrian "migrant" wounded 31 people, including two children, in an arson attack. He could also be seen carrying an impressive-looking machete.

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Call me old-fashioned, but the first thing I think of when confronted by a machete-wielding madman is how glad I am that my wife and I both have our concealed carry permits. Then I picture one or both of us going Full Indiana Jones on the madman.

But this is America, where we don't have a whole lot of extra time to waste trying to talk madmen out of their machetes or scimitars or whatever.

Firearms being largely verboten in Germany, one doctor has come up with a surefire way to defend yourself against bad guys with big knives, but it only works if you're a real hoopy frood who knows where your towel is.

The towel-snapping technique is 100% guaranteed to almost work, provided your attacker is a frightened woman with a fake knife who doesn't really want to cut you. Also, you have to carry a towel with you everywhere. 

I'm having an impossible time remembering that these are the same people who once overran France in six weeks and made it all the way to the gates of Moscow before winter stopped them cold.

(More at the link; read the whole thing)

I’ll just add that my own towel fighting experience came during good-natured towel-snapping battles in the boys locker room at Eastern Junior High (remember when they had showers in our schools? Such an innocent time), and my knife-fighting resume is even thinner — okay, zero — but it looks to me that that instructor is leaving himself wide open for a knife thrust directly to his chest. Ow.

HotAir’s Beege Welborn doesn't like our mainstream media (with good reason)

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Reason #9276: Why Legacy Media Deserves to Die in the Full Light of Day

After describing the various lies our “trusted news sources” have been feeding the masses, Welbprn turns her focus to a recent Washington Post article on inflation, a topic that particularly interested me because of a notice of price increases I recieved from Amazon, as detailed below. Here’s Welborn:

WaPo, the haughty "Democracy Dies in Darkness" rag, who only recently shed their shining example of the extent to which liars and fabulists have become national jokes, now has their "economic columnist" rah-rahing "economic news" that really isn't at all what her very first chirpy paragraph implies, which is normally about as much as people glance at.

“The rest of the numbers - with ZERO CONTEXT - are hidden behind the chart she put up.”

JUST IN: More good news on inflation. US inflation was 2.4% (y/y) in September. That’s close to the Federal Reserve’s 2% target and it’s the lowest since February 2021.

“I noticed.”

As promised, here’s my Amazon story:

When I went to Amazon just now I received a notice of price increases on items that I’d placed in the “maybe later” cart. Pretty impressive:

  • Amazon Basic water filters for Brita pitchers: From $9.39 to $12.49

  • Levis dungarees: From $29.33 to $36.90

  • Solar battery pack for cell phone: From $39.00 to $49.99

  • The flashlight (pictured above): From $12.95 to $19.95

Have I mentioned that on January 20, 2001, I paid $1.67 a gallon to fill my Honda’s gas tank while in New Hampshire? It’s a stroke of incredible fortune for the Democrats that half the country believe the Party’s media branch’s lies instead of their own eyes, and have decided on voting based on two issues, and two issues only: ABORTION! and “NOT TRUMP!”.

Otherwise, the Democrats would be in trouble next month.

We told Gideon the same thing when he was frittering away his time in Judo classes, but would he listen?

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From America’s Paper of Record, of course

ST. PAUL, MN — Sources close to Bruce Connor say that the 21-year-old martial artist has just finished proving he's a total idiot by spending 17 years earning his black belt when he could have just purchased one on Amazon for $12.99 years ago.

According to Nancy Connor, Bruce's mother, her son's oversight is one of the great disappointments of her life.

"I always told him, all those years," Nancy said, shaking her head. "It was always 'Bruce, we could get this on Amazon for much, much cheaper.' And then he'd always shake his head and go try to break a board or the kitchen table or something. I'm really, really disappointed by this."

Over the past 17 years, Bruce's family has spent well over $14,000 on lessons, tournaments, equipment, and emergency room visits. Bruce, however, thinks that it was worth it.

"This is the proudest day of my life," said the absolute moron, grinning like a chickenbrain. "Because this one has the karate logo on it. I couldn't find any like it on Amazon. Take that, Mom. Why do I do this? Because it's there! Hiyaah!"

At publishing time, Bruce had reportedly totally wasted another 7 years of his life getting really good at chess when he could have just gotten a computer to play it for him.

Quick flip

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A NYC interior designer paid $7.650 million for 313 Stanwich Road in June 2023, dolled it up, put it back on the market three weeks ago at $8.995 million, and it’s already pending.

So far as I can tell, the designer/purchaser splashed a lot of paint around, placed the existing refrigerator, new last year, behind tasteful cabinet doors, and performed no structural changes; he shouldn’t have needed to, because the entire house was renovated in ‘22-23. So a quick buck here, for quick work.

I was first introduced to this house in the late ‘80s, when, as a young associate, I was dispatched to interview the owner/client who was embroiled in a (very silly) law suit with a fellow Greenwich decorator. “Take the second entrance, she instructed me when I’d called to set up the appointment and get directions, “not the first.”

Upon arrival, I dutifully continued past the first driveway and proceeded to the second, which, I discovered, had a large “Tradesmen Entrance” posted in front of it. What’s good enough for tradesmen is good enough for me, but I didn’t like her attitude, so I turned around and pulled into the first driveway. I found it amusing that the lady had such a low opinion of lawyers because, besides being married to one, she was also the daughter-in-law of one of the most prominent, famous lawyers in FDR’s administration, and who for decades afterwards served as name partner of one of the world’s largest legal firms. A case of familiarity breeding contempt, perhaps.

2023 kitchen

2024 version

The listing promises an “opportunity to buy home fully furnished”: I assume that means this dingy, useful in almost any situation, and its painter, shown below.

The painter may appear to be a bit large for the dinghy; overkill, even, but when the wind is blowing 180 MPH, you'll be glad you paid extra to get it

New Listing in Cos Cob

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42 Loughlin Avenue, $3.485 million. Prices are soaring in our former neighborhood of factory workers and lawyers, and this section of town is rapidly transitioning to Millionaire’s Row. If the trend continues, Cos Cob Elementary may want to discontinue handing its graduating students its traditional “Job Opportunities for You” pamphlet, outlining careers in snowplowing and yard maintenance.

Not the kids wouldn’t find it useful, eventually, but millionaires tend to want their children to complete high school and college before beginning their life’s employment.

poor zebra is now just a pale imitation of itself