Mimosa, Bloody Mary, nice flute of champagne — or maybe a favorite tipple in your coffee. Make yourself one and join me at our own Algonquin Round Table, the spirit of Dorothy Parker abides.
Happy Sunday, dear friends! Pass the champagne and fill your flutes with abandon. Let’s celebrate two years of Sunday brunch together, dears! While our weather is finally cooling off into autumnal delight, this election season is heating up with no end in sight. I’m not even sanguine about the days after November 5. But I will try to find the humor in it all, and keep us well stocked in adult beverages. So grab a plate, dig in to our brunch offerings today and let’s get to it. L’Chaim!
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Is there any better proof of why our elected civil servants cling like lampreys to their jobs than getting a glimpse of baubles like these?
Jewelry, political mementos and a “stunning collection of American art” once belonging to Sen. Dianne Feinstein are hitting the auction block.
The “Legacy of a Stateswoman” auction from Bonhams, happening Oct. 8 in Los Angeles, will include some of the California Democrat’s most beloved — and glitzy — personal items. (snip)
Among the more than 70 baubles and jewels up for auction is a “dazzling 4.14 carat diamond ring flanked by tapered baguette diamonds,” which is expected to fetch as much as $65,000.
Some of Feinstein’s extensive art collection that she displayed in her Washington home while serving in the Senate is also for sale. “Ships Sailing in the San Francisco Bay with Fort Point in the Distance,” a 1907 painting by William Alexander Coulter, is estimated to be sold for $70,000 to $100,000.
Far be it from me to disparage anyone’s favorite collecting pastime. Diamonds or beanie babies, if it pleases you, have at it. But who really paid for it all? Feinstein was in an elected office of one sort or another from 1969 until her death last year and amassed a net worth of $90 million.
Marie Antoinnette would sigh in envy.
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“No, I’m not.” 1995:
HOLY SH!T
This is an unearthed ABC profile of San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown in 1995.
Your jaw is about to hit the floor… pic.twitter.com/W6oO30AUY6
— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) September 10, 2024
Pass the popcorn, dears.
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That’s a lot of moola to teach kids the 9th grade math they failed to learn in, you know, ninth grade.
The Harvard Math Department will pilot a new introductory course aimed at rectifying a lack of foundational algebra skills among students, according to Harvard’s Director of Introductory Math Brendan A. Kelly. (snip)
“The last two years, we saw students who were in Math MA and faced a challenge that was unreasonable given the supports we had in the course. So we wanted to think about, ‘How can we create a course that really helps students step up to their aspirations?’” he said.
“Students don’t have the skills that we had intended downstream in the curriculum, and so it creates different trajectories in students’ math abilities,” Kelly added.
States like California and TamponTim’s Minnesotta kept kids out of school for over a year (cheered on by the execrable Randi Weingarten) … unnecessary for the kids but a like a hit of high-grade heroin for authoritarians like Newsom and Walz. So, here we are with a huge cohort of kids who were in failing publik skool systems failing even more. Who knew 9th grade algebra was going to cost parents so much?
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Kamala Harris just got hit with the biggest fact check in human history pic.twitter.com/LDeniMIO88
— Kevin Dalton (@TheKevinDalton) September 13, 2024
Potemkin Kamala lied with impunity.
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As J.D. Vance recently stated, no one in the media wanted to pay attention to the havoc wrought by unlimited illegal aliens dumped into small communities by Biden-Harris until cat memes went viral. Springfield is finally getting assistance from the governor and stories out of places like Aurora, CO, are getting exposure.
How did members of Venezuelan gangs suddenly find themselves in Colorado’s suburbs?
The troubling conclusion: The Biden administration, in partnership with Denver authorities and publicly subsidized NGOs, provided the funding and logistics to place a large number of Venezuelan migrants in Aurora, creating a magnet for crime and gangs.
And, worse, some of the nonprofits involved appear to be profiting handsomely from the situation.
Excuse me, but my shocked face went on strike last week and we still haven’t negotiated a deal for return.
These NGOs are run, respectively, by Yoli Casas and Marielena Suarez, who, according to their professional biographies, do not appear to have previous experience in large-scale migrant resettlement.
Nevertheless, the city flooded them with cash.
According to public records, between 2023 and 2024, ViVe Wellness and Papagayo received $4.8 million and $774,000, respectively; much of this funding came from the Migrant Support Grant, which was funded by ARPA.
Then, in 2024, ViVe secured an extra $10.4 million across three contracts, while Papagayo received $2.9 million from a single contract to serve migrants; two of those five contracts were awarded to implement the Denver Asylum Seekers Program, which promised six months of rental assistance to nearly 1,000 migrants.
With this funding in hand, the two NGOs began working with landlords to place migrants in housing units and to subsidize their rent.
More sugar, more ants. As we saw with the Covid funding, with little to no accountability in place, fraud was rampant. The invasion of millions of illegals — by design — is causing corruption and collapse of immigration institutions and infrastructure. More and more we have “no-go zones” in the United States mimicking the worst of large European cities.
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— TheFOO (@PolitiBunny) September 10, 2024
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There is hope for the next generation.
Quote: “Dear teenage boy at the skate park:
You’re probably about 15 years-old, so I don’t expect you to be very mature or for you to want a little girl on your skate ramp for that matter. What you don’t know is that my daughter has been wanting to skateboard for months. I actually had to convince her that skateboarding wasn’t just for boys. So when we walked up to the skate park and saw that it was full of teenage boys, she immediately wanted to turn around and go home. I secretly wanted to go too because I didn’t want to have to put on my mom voice and exchange words with you. I also didn’t want my daughter to feel like she had to be scared of anyone, or that she wasn’t entitled to that skate park just as much as you were.
So when she said, “Mom it’s full of older boys,” I calmly said, “So what, they don’t own the skate park.”
She proceeded to go down the ramp in spite of you and your friends flying past her and grinding rails beside her. She only had two or three runs in before you approached her and said “Hey, excuse me…”
I immediately prepared to deliver my “She’s allowed to use this park just as much as you guys” speech when I heard you say, “Your feet are wrong. Can I help you?”
You proceeded to spend almost an hour with my daughter showing her how to balance and steer, and she listened to you – a feat not attained by most adults. You held her hand and helped her get up when she fell down and I even heard you tell her to stay away from the rails so that she wouldn’t get hurt. I want you to know that I am proud that you are part of my community, and I want to thank you for being kind to my daughter.
She left the skate park with a sense of pride and with the confidence that she can do anything, because of you.”
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Well, that was a rapid Sunday morning, friends. Don’t pass up using a doggy bag and take the rest of today to relax and refresh for the week ahead. See you next Sunday. Cheers!
featured image original graphic by Darleen Click
Cameron says: The last one is an older story but it’s still a good one. -:-)
As for the NGOs, they need to be audited so hard that there is little more than a smoking crater where their building was and then they get taxed on that as well.
Scott says: “As for the NGOs, they need to be audited so hard that there is little more than a smoking crater where their building was and then they get taxed on that as well.”
In Colorado?? With our side saddle governor?? Not likely! you can bet he’s getting kickbacks of some sort.
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GWB says: But who really paid for it all?
Ohh, she did, I’m sure. The question is why her net worth went up so much – insider trading is the answer.
Your jaw is about to hit the floor
Not really. If you’ve been paying attention, though, you might laugh your heiny off with that look on her face.
kept kids out of school for over a year
Oh, it wasn’t the Wuhan Flu response that caused these kids to fail – just public schools.
Potemkin Kamala lied with impunity.
Lies, dear. Not “lied.”
publicly subsidized NGOs
If they’re getting my tax dollars, they aren’t really NGOs, are they?
Nuke their public fisk funding. NOW.
The invasion of millions of illegals
If they import the third-world here, then you should no longer have any objection to being “governed” by the UN, right? Because you’re no longer exceptional, right? When you’re just like everyone else, then you shouldn’t have any trouble accepting the same people that rule everyone else ruling you.
Dear teenage boy at the skate park:
THAT was my smile for the week. Thank you for sharing it.
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