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! Sit down, grab a flute of bubbly and a plate to help yourself to a bountiful buffet of brunch offerings. Don’t pass up the individual quiches or the delicate mille-feuilles. Oh, yes bathing suit season is around the corner but life is enhanced by “worth the calories” mouthfuls. It has been a week of weirdness, even as the rabid left continues to act to form. Who knew that they could mouth platitudes celebrating Mother’s Day last Sunday but then spend the following week rending their garments over a commencement speech celebrating women who choose to be wives and mothers. A Catholic speaking at a Catholic college about Catholic values? Say it ain’t so!!! So lift up your glasses, friends, and let’s get to it. À votre santé!

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As if “Diversity” isn’t a graftastic con all the way down

When asked why he robbed banks, infamous criminal Willie Sutton said, “Because that’s where the money is.” I mean, dears, who is surprised to find out a fraudulent job will attract fraudulent people?

A former diversity manager at Facebook and Nike

was sentenced to five years and three months in prison for stealing more than $5 million from those companies that had been earmarked for DEI initiatives, federal prosecutors said.

Georgia resident Barbara Furlow-Smiles, who pleaded guilty to wire fraud in the case in December, stole more than $4.9 million from Facebook “utilizing a scheme involving fraudulent vendors, fake invoices, and cash kickbacks,” Atlanta U.S. Attorney Ryan Buchanan said in a statement.

“After being terminated from Facebook, she brazenly continued the fraud as a DEI leader at Nike, where she stole another six-figure sum from their diversity program,” Buchanan said.

Dollars to cronuts that Missy Barbara isn’t the only brazen fox in the DEI chicken coop.

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“Diversity is our strength”

Ahem.

Queuing means the old, small and weak are treated fairly. Not all cultures queue. I saw this living abroad. pic.twitter.com/XAXOY5n5uq

— Larry Lemon (@larrylemonmaths) May 13, 2024

Dears, next time you hear some Leftwinger claim ‘all cultures are equal’, don’t argue. Seek revenge.

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How Denver’s ‘give a mouse a cookie’ program is going

Democrat politicians care more about illegal aliens than the needs of their own citizens. And the illegals are pressing the advantage …

When my adult children were young, a favorite read-along book was called If You Give a Mouse a Cookie. It was a cute story with the premise,

If a hungry little traveler shows up at your house, you might want to give him a cookie. If you give him a cookie, he’s going to ask for a glass of milk. He’ll want to look in a mirror to make sure he doesn’t have a milk mustache, and then he’ll ask for a pair of scissors to give himself a trim…

Illegal migrants to Denver have done just that. Last week they submitted a list of 13 demands to Mayor Mike Johnston that they insist the city must meet before they vacate their tent city encampments and move into city-provided shelters.

These migrant families are currently living under bridges and near train tracks. Let’s look at some of their demands.

Migrants will cook their own food with fresh, culturally appropriate ingredients provided by the city instead of premade meals — rice, chicken, flour, oil, butter, tomatoes, onions, etc. …Also, people will not be punished for bringing in & eating outside food.

Hey, set out the sugar, expect ants, not unicorns.

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Postscript question, why did this take a FOIA request?

EXCLUSIVE: Internal CBP data I obtained via FOIA request reveals 13 years of known gotaways data at the border, showing gotaways have *exploded* under the Biden admin compared to the Trump & Obama years.
This is the first time these numbers have ever been revealed.

FY2010… pic.twitter.com/LUQU5v87b2

— Bill Melugin (@BillMelugin_) May 15, 2024

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You don’t hate ‘journalists’ enough

The story you haven’t heard about …

Two illegal aliens in a box truck tried to break into Marine Corps Base Quantico. One was a Jordanian national who illegally crossed the border & one was on the terrorist watch list.

The open border is endangering our servicemembers & their families.https://t.co/Evt5Txe7HF

— Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) May 15, 2024

Now imagine if it were a couple of ‘white Christian nationalists’ or, heaven forefend, Zionists!

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“Life Has to Be Fought For.”

Important thoughts from an important thinker …

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Your Sunday smile

Before the green ecofascists showed up, there was good, old-fashioned conservation. This family oozes it.

Daniel Kozmetsky wades through a sea of lemon-yellow wildflowers growing along a ridge and looks over a wide valley that stretches in front of him, part of the sprawling RGK Ranch his grandparents founded half a century ago. “This is the spot,” he says, sweeping out his arm as though introducing a star on a stage. “This is where developers stood and said, ‘We could put a lot of houses on that hill over there.’ ”

Instead of a sea of rooftops, though, this former cattle ranch between Hamilton Pool Road and Highway 71 in western Travis County, about thirty minutes west of downtown Austin, will become a park where hikers can take in Hill Country vistas and explore a tributary of Bee Creek that spills over a series of limestone ledges. Travis County officials are using funds from the Proposition B Parks Bond Measure, which voters passed last November, to purchase the 1,507-acre parcel where a subdivision was once planned. (snip)

The ranch is one of the last large remaining undeveloped tracts of land in the area and protects significant wildlife habitat and watersheds feeding Bee Creek and Lake Travis. Historically a cattle ranch, RGK Ranch transitioned to conservation and forestry management practices during the last twenty years.

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Dears, I’m sorry to say our time together has come to an end for today. It’s a lovely Sunday, go out and enjoy your family and friends. I don’t know where the time has gone, but Memorial Day is fast upon us next weekend. Yowzer, half the year almost gone. Take care and I’ll see you next week. Cheers!

featured image, original graphic by Darleen Click