Hey, Ms. Flibberti-I’m-like-a-lot-of-other-chicks-but-mostly-I’m-just-ME-gibbit!. 

 Yeeaaahhh.

Ahm, darlin’,  I like to have a word wit youse, just in private and between youse ‘n’ I.

You don’t gets to bitch, moan, whine, whimper, weep and lash out about how terrible your romantic life is and then, all’a’once tells us that you have had a dozen dates in 12 weeks with cuddly, soul soothers, tall dark and handsomes and cute daddies.

Get it?

Irony is NOT fuckin’ dead.  It’s alive and well in the blogosphere.

You know how many women would give their mastectomies to have your dating prowess?

PLUS you gots girlfriends to roast the beefcake over wineglasses?

Sheeeeiiiittt, girlfriend.

and, besides that, you out ogling them pro athlete men butts.

G!

Get a grip!

You be fine and gots no place to stand and bitch.

From the perspective of those of us who have records of chastity rivaling monasteries and convents, seems like as long as you forget to tell ‘em “yo, dude, I like you”, your life will look  like you hang with Paris Hilton (don’t forget your panties when the photogs are watching you get out of the Hummer2, K?).  ‘Sides, what you worry?  Let ‘em slink away with the deep bench you playin’.

WTF, Girl.

Sheesh.

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spent some time this a.m. working on administrative stuff and a couple of hours this p.m. actually practicing a little law.

Took off from the office early and picked up my Left Coast sister and she and I took a tour that included Sauced!, some of the better thrift stores and a 1/2 order of Onion Rings at Johnnie’s on Britton Road.  Just like 35 years had never happened, we just sort of trucked around town like gasoline was still 4 gallons for about a dollar.

After we parted, I came home and fixed my own special treat dinner:  cornbread and beans with ham, cut spring onions, sliced tomatoes, a garden salad with vinegar and oil dressing and sweet iced tea.

I topped that off with a chocolate dessert and coffee with cream at Rococo’s, where the Monday night jazz jam had attracted a bevy of beautiful young women, none of whom heard a single word from my mouth because I kept to myself, enjoying the thrill of violating the law and sneaking a cigaret.  Shy and  Issei were as good as always and I narrowly missed hearing Holly do her thing.  I almost did not notice a certain brainstorming design artist with his sketchpad.

Somewhere in there, I sqeezed in a little schmooze with MCARP, KelleyO, Andre and a certain beautiful foreigner who scooted out as soon as I arrived, all under a threatening sky out on the Paseo patios. 

I can’t think of many better ways to have an “ordinary” Monday and still have such a good time. 

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A pet peeve, that is.  If you want to share yours, or see what others find peevish, try

http://www.mypetpeeves.com/

it’s entertaining but aggravating because everybody’s pet peeve is also yours.  Sort of like hypochondria.  Bad drivers, elevator etiquitte, bad spelling, cell phones and their uses, it’s all there and it includes video pet peeves as well.

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Is it worth your time to stop and pick up a quarter?  How about a dollar?  Ten dollars?

For a whole lotsa folk, almost all of them Republicans and CEOs, it doesn’t pay to stop and pick up a $20 bill.

Here‘s a fascinating way to look at CEO salaries

My California sister rolled into town with bag, baggage and family this weekend.  sure is good to see her.  she’s the sister that can’t help it, everything that comes out of her mouth tends to be funny.  It’s good to see her and I can’t wait for my turn at the stay up most of the night and tell lies slumber party that siblings have in my family.

I tried very hard to take Suzart’s money at the poker game last night.  I got some money from almost everyone else at the table, but I think so did Suz.  She won like 50 pots in a row at the end of the night to reverse her losses from early on.  Birthday luck.  The dinner and dessert was FABULOUS!  Thanks, KW, for being the hostess for this shindig.

Also want to send a shout-out to MCARP.  He’s right that a beautiful day on the patio at Sauced! with friends is a complete joy in itself and the proof was his companionship yesterday.  He bravely approached a woman with an enigmatic tee shirt when my own cowardice was in full force.  Turns out the enigmatic message was just that, a trivial piece of nonsense.  He still has reportorial instincts while mine are in remission.

While I love having the top down on the Midlife Chrysler, the wind and the fact of life for Spring are such that my allergies are killing me.  So, I’m going to do the sensible thing and vacuum and work in the yard.  If I’m found gasping for breath, please tell them it’s not a heart attack and don’t push one of those big needles into the center of my chest. (Remember that scene in Pulp Fiction at the drug dealer’s house?  YIKES!  Made my phobias go into hyperdrive.)

I received a nice message from the friendly folks at Social Security this weekend.  Dear Old Fart, it said, you can retire on $85 a month in just 12 years if you are a good boy.  Good luck with that.  Your friends at SS.  BookemDanO is my retirement advisor and if he doesn’t win the lottery powerball jackpot for us, I’ll have to work until I fall into my grave.  Unless The Gary is right and the Mayan world calendar will bring us all into the Age of Aquarius in 2012 and none of that crap matters.  I also have my Sizzling Supermodel with a PhD and zillions who inexplicably chooses to fall in love with me scenario.  I would be humbly OK with just an average multi-millionairess, though.

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Here’s a damn telling detail from the AP report about the Gonzales Judiciary Committee hearing:

Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (news, bio, voting record) was traveling, and a spokesman referred reporters to noncommittal comments the Kentucky lawmaker had made on April 1.

Sen. Mel Martinez (news, bio, voting record) of Florida, who doubles as the general chairman of the Republican Party, had no immediate reaction to Gonzales’ appearance.

Wow.  That’s damning.  Either they are wary because they got burned on Rummy or the AG is out out and out.  Like some White House wag said, seeing the C-Span coverage was “like watching baby seals be clubbed”.  Brutal. 

I feel like Madame LeFarge sitting at the side of the guillotine, waiting for the next batch of aristocrats to come to their bloody end.  And it feels GOOD.    Ahhhahhahahaha muwuahahahah   Awwwoooooollllllllll…  ahem.  Sorry for that.  Doing little schadenfreude dance here.  … ahem … sorry again.

IthinkIhearmymomcalling,gottago,bye.

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The FBI raided still another congressman’s home, Renzi of Ariz., during the gonzo Gonzales hearings before the Senate Judiciary Committee.  The FBI is a little more careful about raiding the homes of sitting congressmen than they are your house or mine, you know.  Now, they’ve raided two GOP congressmen.  Do you think a Dept. of Justice filled with “loyal Bushies” does this just because they want to or because they just might turn up something good?  No.  They did this because they had no other choice. 

I’m no fan of Oklahoma’s U.S. Sen. Tom Coburn because he’s a nutball.  I gotta give him some “props”, though, for being man enough to hold his fire under press questioning and then telling Gonzales face to face to resign, to everyone’s amazement.  He made Lindsay Graham and Arlen Spector look like jerks for NOT doing the same thing.

Alberto (conveniently and rather ironically called “Fredo” by the president), meanwhile, says he prepared for a month for yesterday’s Senate hearing, but still said “I don’t recall” 50 times.  FIFTY TIMES!!!  The White House issued a statement that they were happy with his testimony.  WTF???

One of the most chilling bits of “news” to come out of the Senate hearings is that the Bush White House has something like 40 operatives who were given information by some 30 Dept. of Justice employees about criminal proceedings and other matters.  During the Clinton era, only four WH people were allowed to talk to 3 DOJ higherups about anything.  This is incredible to me as a lawyer because it’s so completely at odds with the idea of prosecutorial independence from political considerations.  It’s dangerous, every bit as dangerous to our democratic principles as the suspension of Habeas Corpus and wiretaps without judicial oversight. 

Gonzales testified repeatedly that “nothing improper” was done in the firings of 8 U.S. attorneys, but we must remember that this is the lawyer that believes in torture and the Nixonian idea that the “inherent” powers of the presidency are such that if the president does it, it is therefore legal.  Here, since the U.S. attorneys serve “at the pleasure” of the president, he can fire them for any reason he wants and it’s proper, even if his reasons strike at the foundations of liberty. 

There is no question in my mind that this is the most dangerous, incompetent and arrogant presidency to ever occupy 1600 Pennsylvania and there is no question in my mind that this is a failed presidency and likely the worst ever in our history.  Since that includes Buchanan, the gay president who ushered in the Civil War, that’s quite a failure.

Suz, I’m gonna take your money at the poker game, just to celebrate your birthday.
 

So you think you’re having a bad day?

How’d you like to be Karl Rove and/or the White House press office?

The FBI announced a documents raid Friday on the home of Calif. GOP congressman John Doolittle (on the 65th anniversary of the Doolittle — no relation — raid on Tokyo in WWII) looking for evidence connecting him and his wife to uberlobbyist Jack Abrahmoffl.

Meanwhile, AG Al Gonzo Gonzalez is heading up to The Hill for his newest dose of humiliation and exposure.

Maybe gun control and abortion will take center stage instead for today’s news cycles, but the corruption and partisan gaming of the system is a story with legs that will go on for two more years.

And, say goodbye to Gonzo.  He’s toast.  Wolfowitz at World Bank is toast.  Doolittle is toast.  But the Supreme Court is a lifetime.  Fuckers.

NEW YORK (Reuters) – The number of U.S. households with a net worth of more than $5 million, excluding their primary residence, surged 23 percent to surpass one million for the first time in 2006, according to a survey released on Tuesday.

The survey by Chicago-based Spectrem Group found that the number of U.S. households with more than $5 million rose from 930,000 in 2005. In 1996, there were only 250,000 U.S. households in the “ultra-rich” category, Spectrem said.

“The past few years have been nothing but astounding for wealthy Americans,” said Catherine McBreen, managing director of Spectrem, a consulting group that researches the affluent and retirement markets.

McBreen said the surge in household growth is underpinned by economic growth in recent years, which has fueled both stock market gains and also the market for private companies. She also ascribed gains to rising real estate valuations and favorable tax policies.

Oh, and by the way, just an aside, “and favorable tax policies”?  You mean the multibillion dollar tax cuts given the rich?  THOSE “favorable tax policies”?  fuckers.

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The Oklahoma Media Awareness Alliance (who the hell knows who and what that is?) presents Pulitzer Prize Winner Anthony Shadid on “Night Draws Near” featuring Okla. State Senator Andrew Rice and a discussion on Oklahoma’s media coverage of the war in Iraq at 7 p.m. April 17, 2007 at the First Unitarian Church, 600 N.W.13th Street.

For more information on OMAA visit www.TheOMAA.org

Consider this your special invitation.