Barack and Michelle Obama Buying Mega-Mansion in Martha's Vineyard https://t.co/bLaNVaQsuW— TMZ (@TMZ) August 22, 2019
ADDED: I clicked through to the article and see that the house is 6,900 square feet. I wouldn't call that a "mega-mansion." Maybe a mansion. Here's a list of the 100 largest houses in the United States. #100 — the smallest of the largest — is 39,648 square feet. The Obamas' new house is less than 20% the size of that place. It's less than 4% the size of the #1 largest house (which is — as ever and never-to-be-exceeded — the Biltmore Estate).
The Obamas are mainly getting beautiful land, with lots of trees, and I don't think 6,900 square feet is so large for a couple, especially one that is likely to entertain many house guests over the years. The house isn't even twice the size of the house Meade and I live in, and we don't think of ourselves as living in a "mansion." The Obamas new house is actually rather modest for their purposes.
I regret the snarkiness of my post title. I was influenced by TMZ's word "mega-mansion." Yeah, I do think setting a strong example with respect to the carbon footprint should be important for the Obamas, but I suspect they think that 6,900 square feet with lots of green space around it is pretty good example-setting.
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«Oldest ‹Older 201 – 267 of 267Purple Penguin keeps moving left toward his left pole default position.
Inga needs to move slightly to give him room alongside Cook and Chuck.
Well, I guess this means the sea level isn't rising anymore. Problem solved. Thanks, Obama! JPG
We're back to how things were with Obama -- the whole presidency no one wanted to criticize him and risk being accused of racism. Clearly he does not believe that global warming/climate change is the most urgent existential threat to humanity.
Penguin, give us an example of a previous claim I couldn't back up
This isn't the first time you've accused me of being a russia collusion hoaxers / kavanaugh gang rape leader hoaxers / Putin threw the election to Trump hoaxer types. I've repeatedly asked you to show me where I have said any such things, and you have refused to do so. Will you do so now or will you simply continue with your baseless & childish name-calling?
I also recall a bunch of bullshit you were spewing about the online searchable database of those who signed the recall petition. (Something about how no private group did any such thing and if they did it was 'cause they were required to be law...didn't make any sense at all so it's no surprise you bailed out of there.)
And your constant claims I'm a "lefty" is also wrong. (tho that may be due to your own delusions rather than you intentionally trying to be deceitful...'cause as it was pointed out, everyone who isn't totally in your camp is considered "left-wing" when you're making your home at the Right Pole.)
I'll bet my left nut that property is at least 10,000 sf when you include the guest house.
Purple Penguin keeps moving left toward his left pole default position
Asking Drago and you to back-up the stuff ya'll say that I say is considered "moving left"?
*rolls eyes*
You're weird. And not in a good way.
virgil xenophon, Baton Rouge sounds good right now. It's a dreary, rainy day in the 'ville.
and you are shocked! just shocked! when your commenters go into full on Obama hatred and CAGW denial.
We're simply reciprocating the hate, Freder.
purplepenguin: "Asking Drago and you to back-up the stuff ya'll say that I say is considered "moving left"?"
Still waiting on an example of a claim I've made that couldnt be backed up.....
Still waiting....
Fab
Tell us more about that 1619 project...
I guess all those reparations checks cleared.
Still waiting on an example of a claim I've made that couldnt be backed up
Claiming that I didn't respond to that is another example of you telling lies ...'cause several examples were provided in my post of 8/23/19, 12:54 PM. A post which was made prior to the other post you quoted/responded to, so I find it hard to beleive you didn't see it.
Carbon-based lifeforms and their waste products. Save Gaia. Plan a child today.
What a shame that it will all be under water in 12 short years, as the rising oceans caused by climate change will engulf it all! Of course, back in 2007, they were telling us that we only had 12 years to save the Earth, and showing us eco-porn of simulated pictures of New York and Miami under water. Perhaps Barack and Michelle are insufficiently-true believers?
purplepenguin: "...'cause several examples were provided in my post of 8/23/19, 12:54 PM."
LOL
So we disagree on the extent of your leftism credentials and you have some vague remembrance of something having to do with some searchable database but no other details!!!
Thats it!
What an astonishing (though completely expected) walkback from your earlier lies that there were so very many examples for what you claim!
Nice try Lefty McLeftyson.
Bottom line: we are still waiting...
But dont worry penguin. Soon some other Totally Not Lefties like Inga and LLR Chuck and r/v and howard will totally come to your Totally Not Lefty defense, just like they do for ALL the Totally Not Lefties.
and you are shocked! just shocked! when your commenters go into full on Obama hatred and CAGW denial.
Global Warming is a hoax with lots of money spread around to keep it going. As AOC's chief of staff (and brain) noted, it is all about ending Capitalism. Climate is a convenient label.
I didn't "hate" Obama . I just think of him an empty suit picked up by wealthy backers and put in place. He seems to be rather charming, which was taken by the left as intelligent.
If the Global Climate Change alarmists are right, the Obama's new vacation home will be underwater in just a few years.
I don’t get Althouse’s defending the Obamas on this. Obama and all his progressive buddies call global warming an “existential crisis” yet they live in complete contradiction to that. I’m coming to believe that every single thing progressives claim to believe is a lie. Every single thing right down to being appalled at kids in cages. They are descendants of the father of lies.
Certainly a welcome addition to the island.
I predict Greta Thunberg will not be leveling her vacantly malevolent gawk at the former POTUS as he and his multitudinous retinue jet in and out of MVY.
we are still waiting
Yes, we are still waiting for you to show us where I've said anything at all about Russia collusion, Kavanaugh gang rape leader, and/or Putin throwing the election to Trump. You made the claims - please back 'em up.
The fact that you have no recollection at all about our discussion regarding the recall signatures being in an online searchable database speaks volumes. It wasn't that long ago - were you posting while drunk? Perhaps you've convinced yourself it never happened? Or maybe you're intentionally lying again, eh?
Whatever the reasons, I find your lil' shtick to be boring. Luckily for you folks on here consider you to be a "saint" and our hostess is obviously entertained by your childish antics...your nonsense wouldn't be tolerated in too many other places.
"...one of the top conservative blogs in America..."
Wait. What?
You're obviously new here.
Althouse isn’t and hasn’t ever been a “top conservative blog.” I think Althouse herself rejects the “conservative” label.
You're obviously new here.
You're obviously posting this in the wrong thread.
And I've been around long enough to remember when it was advertised to advertisers as exactly that. Also been around long enough to know that at least one fella who actually knows Althouse in person (as opposed to just online, like most of us here) considers her to be one of the top conservative bloggers...tho he limits it to just "Wisconsin" rather than "America". (But I reckon it wasn't the "in America" part you were objecting to, eh?)
And not just him, other sites also list her as such....or at least they used to. Looking at the dates on those it appears she may no longer be considered relevant in those circles.
If AlGore and Prince Charles were right this house would have been underwater 7 years ago. But that would not have mattered because humans would have starved to death 30 years before that and peak oil would have ended modern civilization by then.
purplepenguin: "The fact that you have no recollection at all about our discussion regarding the recall signatures being in an online searchable database speaks volumes"
The fact that you cant speak to this traumatic "incident" with any specificity whatsoever speaks MORE volumes.
Perhaps your schtick of increasing the amperage while declining to get more specific will wear thin here as it has for others just like you.
When the Obamas travel between their three homes, I assume they go by bicycle, right?
penguin, I hope, for your sake, you are not referring to the statutorily required posting of recall signatures in WI and why that was different from the left doxxing conservatives because I specifically noted the differences AND provided links to those requirements...which obliterates your entire point.
But only completely.
Unexpectedly.
"Perhaps your schtick of increasing the amperage while declining to get more specific”
well put
Obviously they don't believe the bullshit they spew about sea-level rise.
statutorily required posting of recall signatures in WI and why that was different from the left doxxing conservatives because I specifically noted the differences AND provided links to those requirements
You provided no such links pointing to the law which required those Tea Party organizations to create that searchable database (which was your latest absurd claim in that thread before you bailed out..at first you said there was no such database available online at all)
But feel free to post it now - what law required Wisconsin GrandSons of Liberty & We the People of the Republic to create their online searchable database?
(Assuming, of course, you can finally acknowledge that there is such a database available. Are you finally able to do so or you still trying to deny such a thing even exists?)
As a sign of good faith, I am willing to concede, right now, that purplepenguin is every bit as conservative as self-identified super-duper "muh principles" conservative LLR Chuck.
Still on that? What bothered you so much about Scott Walker?
Isn’t the whole point of signing a petition to make your support known and public?
AAT: "Still on that? What bothered you so much about Scott Walker?"
All true conservatives and Totally Not Lefties dislike Scott Walker.
penguin is attempting to conflate the public records in terms of recall petitions and signatures with the statutory requirements of state agencies which I specifically called out and provided links to.
This is considered "clever"...usually on the left....
Unexpectedly.
Not as clever as $450/hr super legal beagle and husband of Morgan Fairchild LLR Chuck.
29 acres and a house = 40 acres and a mule adjusted for inflation.
They are DUE, ya raycists!
penguin is attempting to conflate the public records in terms of recall petitions and signatures with the statutory requirements of state agencies
Am doing no such thing and you are a liar and/or very confused for claiming I am.
For those keeping score at home: What happened in this thread was Drago either forgot about or was intentionally lying about the existence of the online searchable database of recall petition signatures. Even when the link was provided, he claimed the people who created it were required by law to do so.
It all goes downhill...for him...from there.
14 mil property is pretty mega in most people's worlds.
Does Val Jar get a room?
Titus said...
Certainly a welcome addition to the island
I believe outside MA they call it "The Vineyard." I imagine 29 acres is a furr piece of it.
It will be interesting to see how big the BO price discount is.
So why did you sign the petition? Why did you think Walker should be recalled?
Penguin, 4 things
I never claimed a private group did not create a database of public records, the State agencies under Walker executed their responsibilities precisely as the law required, recall information is public information and the obamas are complete hypocrites.
I have to say, penguins deflection attempt in support of the dems is the worst deflection attempt since whenever LLR Chuck's last one happened to be.
Val jar already has a home on the island. Has for years. There's a whole black area there. Always has been.
I don't so much worry about a person's individual carbon footprint as the collective footprint of the human species. We wouldn't have to worry about CO2 and clean water and the melting of polar icecaps if we had only 2 billion people in the world instead of eight, nine or ten.
Paul: "We wouldn't have to worry about CO2 and clean water and the melting of polar icecaps if we had only 2 billion people in the world instead of eight, nine or ten."
When is your planned suicide?
What Titus says is on point to this post. I'm interested to read it. As for the rest of the discussion, I wish you guys would take it outside.
The Godfather: "What Titus says is on point to this post. I'm interested to read it."
Alright then.
Titus, where specifically is the "black area" and how many people live there?
it's called oak bluffs, Stephen carter called it ocean park in part of his historical drama, which has goes from the 50s to the 90s.
Well at least they have room to park the mobile homes for Michelle's mother and Valerie Jarrett.
Being a public servant is a damned good gig. As I've said before, Trump will be the only one to ever leave the Presidency poorer than he came in, except those assassinated of course. He may be the first President to actually serve the public rather than the other way around.
The Obamas were always poseurs of the highest order. From their very beginnings lifted by identity politics, and for an identity they only represented for it's benefits and never its obligations.
We wouldn't have to worry about CO2 and clean water and the melting of polar icecaps if we had only 2 billion people in the world instead of eight, nine or ten.
That was the plot of Tom Clancy's novel "Rainbow Six." Ever read it ?
"We wouldn't have to worry about CO2 and clean water and the melting of polar icecaps if we had only 2 billion people in the world instead of eight, nine or ten.".
Won't the horror of global warming solve that problem itself, but only if we let it. That's the beauty of man-made disasters. They're self-regulating. All that matters is that Gaia survive, which it will, with or without us. I take great comfort in that.
If you want to kill off a few billion, start a movement, but I won't join unless I see real commitment.
If you zoom in, you will see a lot of litter.
correction, it goes into the early 00s, with Jericho's fall, but it's not set in that same hamlet,
The Biltmore House is amazing.
The furnishing cannot be exceeded.
It is one of a kind, paid for by the child of one of the richest humans ever.
Not feeling the love for my beloved Obama here.
readering is foolish.
And boring.
Invent a better character, readering.
FFS
What a shame that it will all be under water in 12 short years, as the rising oceans caused by climate change will engulf it all!
Not if they get 30 years mortgage and only make payment for 12!!!
Plus they're getting discount price.
waiting for Inga's masterful defense of this mega hypocrisy. I guess the Obozo's are vying with the Clintoons' to be the Grifters in Chief
The Obama’s reportedly have a 65 million dollar book deal with Random House and then there’s the Netflix deal, speeches, foundations and corporations that don’t mind having celebrities on board. When you can pull this many clicks, 15 million dollars is chump change.
What! No solar panels on the roof or on the lawn?
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