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MRS RUTH MADOFF: ASHAMED & ACHEY

Mrs. Ruth Madoff has broken her silence, now that her husband is gone-zo, locked-upped, and slammed away.
ABC news printed her statement.
Ruth is embarrassed. She is ashamed. Yadda yadda. You would be too if someone took your home and your boats and called them not yours anymore.
She feels betrayed. And confused. Poor Ruth.
Not a day goes by when Ruth does not ache, the deep ache-y break-y kind of ache, over the stories she has heard and read about the daily suffering all these innocent people are enduring because of her husband. For the record, these are not "stories"; these are people lives. Details, details.
Solution: if Ruth is really achey-break-y wrecked each and every day as she says, she could cure what ails her by taking her Bernie-leftover $2.5 million and buying a gigantic, fully furnished home with lots and lots of bedrooms to house at least some of the people whose "story" is that they cannot pay a mortgage today due to her husband, prisoner no. 560235.

JENNY SANFORD ROCKS

Departing from women hoo embarrass women to give a loud horaah to one who deserves it.

Jenny Sanford Rocks.
That's all I know for sure today.
Hate hate hate when smart women married to politicians who have ego-induced girlie friends hop up on a podium to stand by the other woman's man, looking pathetic. Member Mrs. Spitzer, whose icky partner paid up? Ew. And how 'bout the wife of the Senator who did NOT use sign language in the men's room stall to signal he was up for stuff right then and there? Shoot me.
Bravo to Jenny Sanford.
She and her plane hopping cheater man are separated. As it should be.
She was as straightforward with the press as can be when she told them she had no clue where the guy was.
She said right out that she felt "shocked and obviously deeply hurt. I didn't think he had it in him" ... "It's hard to find out your husband is not who you thought he was".. she said very plainly
She also called him on the fathering thing: if he wanted his kids - he made a choice to go ahead and have 4 with her - he'd toe the line a little a bit. Like maybe think of their welfare and feelings more than how nice it might be to snuggle and smooch a new neck.
Jenny Rocks. May she set the new standard for smart, self-respecting ladies everywhere.

LISA MARIE PRESLEY & WHAT JACKSON REALLY NEEDED

Lisa Marie Presley, ex-spouse of Michael Jackson in the legal sense of the word anyway, whose til-death-do-us-part-commitment to Jackson lasted 20 months, is torn up.
Don't know alot of ex-spouses who would be as seemingly ripped apart at the passing of an ex as she seems to be.
But then, maybe the fleeting nature of thier life-long commitment allowed her to maintain some not so nasty ex-style feelings.
Presley writes that her relationship with the pop king was too emotionally taxing. "I became very ill and emotionally/spiritually exhausted in my quest to save him from certain self-destructive behavior and from the awful vampires and leeches he would always manage to magnetize around him", she says. She confesses to being ".. in over my head while trying."
I get it. Some people in desparate need of help suck you in and down. Bottomless pits of need who keep sucking until you grab the largest white flag you can find and waive it desparately back at 'em and then run and hide.
But her current oozing of emotion for the man is sounding a little hollow, gotta say. Even if she, personally, was in over her head and couldn't help him anymore, okie doke. We all have just one life; its so ok not to dedicate it to someone else's nuttiness. But if she loved the guy as she claims, seems she woulda found a way to substitute her own amatuer intervention in the form of a short marriage with some sort of professional help for the guy. 

RUTH MADOFF: GOOD TO GO WITH $2.5 M

Ruth has hit rock bottom.
She is nothing now but a multi-millionaire.
Poor thing.
Its reported she has cried uncle in connection with her claim to $80 million in assets.
Like that - snap - her homes in NY City, Palm Beach Florida and Long Island are gone. Poof. Like her boats. Imagine. Boatlessness, overnight. Surely some boatlessness support group can help get her through this.
At 68, with $2.5 million in her pocket, Ruth will be ok. More ok than her husband's friends/victims, for sure.
Now, with a few million bucks in hand, she can get about the business of working her way through her other Bernie-imposed big life problem:  being shunned by the hairdresser who had a special and long relationship with Ruth's now faded sun-kissed highlights.

OCTO-SICKO MOM SULEMAN & SCREWING UP

Octo-sicko mom Suleman has finally admitted it out loud: "I screwed myself. I screwed up my life, I screwed up my kids' lives....I have to put on this strong facade and I have to pretend like I don't regret it."

Kinda nice to see a screwed up parent whose kids will pay the price say out loud boy, did I really blow it. (Much better than the refrain parents who can't bear to think of their own role in screwin' kids up who 'splain whacky kid behaviour as "That's just sonny being sonny....".) Yes, you did, Octo-sicko. For lots and lots of others' lives who had no role whatsoever in your mucked up thought process that lead them to where they are.

So, maybe Octo-sicko's realization will prod her to get her kids professional help early, rather than waiting until their brains spontaneously combust later on in life.

Octo-sick Mom also says her older kids are increasingly curious about who their father is. Shocking.

At some point, each and every member of her litters will know who thier dad is. And they'll watch Octo-sicko's web-available video in which she expresses to the world regret about creating them.

KATE HUDSON & A-ROD: SAY IT ISN'T SO, AGAIN

Could we please?
Could we girls please just right here and now agree that all of us who are reasonably smart, cute, funny and/or successful stay light years away from A-Rod, who, as we have pointed out, feels free to put his thing-a-ma-jig any old place it will fit?
Bethenny Frankel listened to us and seems to have not let anything move past a single date.
Thank you, Bethenny.
Bethenny fancies herself as a skinny girl, but she is a smart skinny girl. So she passed on A-Rod like a smart girl would pass on swapping spit with a boy in the middle of a bad case of swine flu.
Now, we are hearing reports that Kate Hudson is hanging out with him. I don't know if Kate is smart or funny. But she sure is cute and successful. Be one of us Kate, see the swininess beneath his good looks and send him back to his alleged little black book that allegedly includes alleged girls-for-hire. 

OCTO-SICKO MOM SULEMAN $ FOR OCTO-SICKO TV

We knew it was coming. We just didn't know when the deal would be inked.
The unemployed, single woman who had a too large litter of babies to try, in her own words, to fill her emotional hole, is sticking her babies on TV in exchange for money.
Of course she is.
Suleman's lawyer, presumably acting as her spokesperson now that a few public relations firms have fired Octo-sicko for being just that, confirms Suleman has agreed to put her babies, so numerous no one or two or five people could conceivably provide them adequate developmental care, on national TV for cash.
I for one am going to wait to decide to tune in to TV coverage about Suleman and her troop.
For fifteen or twenty years. When reporters flock to cover signs of Sicko's decisions in the form of her kids' invariable and icky attachment disorders and other emotional problems that show up in kids with whack job moms who use kids to meet their own sicko needs. And then, I will only tune in long enough to say told ya'.

TAKING A PASS ON JFK's LOVER's BOOK

I don't think I'll be reading Mimi Beardsley Alford's life story, coming to a bookstore near you soon. Nothing against the woman. She may be a lovely woman these days. Mimi is a 66 year old retired church administrator from New York who had an affair with President Kennedy while she was a college intern in the White House. She is coming out of her affair-closet after sitting in it quietly for 40 years. Writing a book about boinking a married man at work, and no doubt getting paid handsomely for it.  What the heck. She is retired. The guy she married and divorced is now dead. The married man who swooned over her to get her into bed is too.  Mimi smells a cha-ching and is going for it.

I don't think I'll be laying out money to hear Mimi's story. A young willing woman who didn't mind having a fling with a guy whose wife was upstairs. A philandering kinda guy, who happened to hold public office,  noticed her, tested out her willingness, and took her up on it. The End.

Wouldn't spend money to read Monica's story either.

I had several tours of duty as an intern. One in high school at a state capitol. One in college in Washington, DC. Another in grad school. In those beautifully powerful buildings with ornate halls and people whose jobs I really wanted, I tried to dress, walk, talk and work as professionally as a kid could. Every now and then I felt like a policy maker. Helping all kinds of important people shape the future. So what that I was writing letters to angry citizens or taking notes at hearings. Letters and notes were part of the machine, I figured. It was a chance to learn stuff, make impressions, build a resume. Don't care to pay women who took the same kinds of opportunities at the same stage in life to boink the boss.

HOW ABOUT A VIDEO ABOUT GIRLS WHO MADE HOW TO KILL VIDEO?

Perhaps the biggest all time Whew! to the youngest ladies ever to grace this space.

Two girls, 11 and 12 years old, from Washington state, made what they thought was an entertaining video suggesting ways a classmate of theirs might die. Hanging, shooting, poisoning. All fine options, according to these young ladies.  So fine, they popped the video on YouTube for the world to see.

Law enforcement said it won't take action because it was not done with malice or hate.

What?

Can we just agree that discussing how best to end a person's life is inherently hateful or at least swimming in malice?  If not, what the &%* is it? Funny? Cute, if it comes from a person under a certain age? 

The school the girls attend won't say how they were disciplined, in light of privacy concerns.  And no word from the parents on how they dealt with their sweeties.

I say this: the subject of the video oughta make her very own little YouTube worthy video stating the facts and only the facts about who these girls are, what they did, where they go to school, who their parents are and other simply identifying life factoids. And, she should keep updating it so who they are and what they did is evident, with a quick search, to the colleges these girls apply to, their potential employers and the cute boys they wanna date...

PILOTS DIVORCE FOR CASH

ABC News reports that Continental airline is claiming, through a lawsuit, that nine of its pilots divorced their spouses - all of whom were named as the beneficiary for their pensions. And then remarried the very same spouse once the cash started flowing to them.

Ahh, love re-found.  Or, alimony on its head. 

I would be happy never to hear the phrase "protecting marriage" again. At least until we, collectively, treat it like a thing worth protecting, the phrase should be banned. 

According to the lawsuit, filed in Texas, the pilots and their spouses divorced to take advantage of a quirk in federal pension law that lets a former spouse who is a beneficiary in a pension receive all or a portion of the dough in the event the marriage goes ka-put. 

The Continental suit alleges that even if the divorces were legal under the law - all the papers were all proper and so on -  the divorces were "subterfuges or sham transactions in that the Defendant-pilots and their respective Defendant-spouses had no intention of disassociating as marital partners but obtained the divorce decrees ... for the purpose of providing the Defendant-pilots access to lump sum distributions of their pensions without having to retire or otherwise separate from active employment."

Even if the suit gets tossed, if the fact pattern is true, the pilots and their spouses make a major mockery of marriage. The institution bunches of people, in California and elsewhere, seek to "protect" for heterosexual couples. (Wanna bet all the pilots and their spouses fall into that camp?) They also mock the right to divorce - a terribly painful part of too many lives.