E. Michael Harrington

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I FLEW ON TWO AMERICAN EAGLE FLIGHTS yesterday, again to a MAJOR TARGET type of city, Washington, DC. When we left DC, we turned sharp left and flew low over the Pentagon. I got to see where the 9/11 attack occurred. Also looking into the gigantic Pentagon courtyard, I noticed about 6 or 7 cars driving around in there.

DCA, the code for National Airport in Washington, DC, now ironically known as Ronald Reagan National Airport, has improved over the years. Its restaurants, stores and bars are excellent and span the gamut from LEGAL SEAFOOD to the Smithsonian Store to the Foggy Bottom Brew Pub. It's a great airport for a layover.

http://www.mwaa.com/concessions/dcavendors.htm

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I WAS REALLY HAPPY TO BE CONSIDERED NORMAL and not a potential terrorist yesterday. There is a lot to be said for showing up to the actual airport from where you are flying. The airline tends to treat you as ordinary. YEA Ordinary! I passed on through security. No Bounce dryer sheet inspections and no rub downs or touches of the good parts with the backside of the hand. To paraphrase, I was the Intentional Tourist.

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I TOOK MY MOTHER to MICHI KUSA, one of our favorite restaurants, last night immediately after I got home. Brian the owner is ridiculously cool and very kind and sweet to my mom. He is also completely irreverent and one naughty character. He is from Okinawa, and a retired pharmacist. Everyone who goes into Michi Kusa has no choice but to get to know Brian. Michi Kusa is stunning and beautiful, the staff is tremendous, the food is perfect and the clientele are always at ease and willing part of the evenings goings on. I also had tempura banana for the first time.

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I GOT A VERY NICE PERSONAL EMAIL from American Singles today. Their logo:

Look. Connect. Love.

What are they doing sending this stuff on Christmas Day? Oh, I can figure that out. It must be that Christmas is a lonely time for some or that being with too many relatives or spending too much time with a few relatives can make one miserable, or make one yearn to Look Connect Love. I think too much family is what makes Thanksgiving and Christmas such great days for attending movies - one gets to escape those accidental byproducts of marriage, RELATIVES.

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Here is the ad I just got.

http://www.americansingles.com/?prm=31156&lpid=6&

I like Cindy - she has a beautiful smile although there might not be teeth in her mouth. She might have the biggest non-teeth showing smile I have ever seen. She seems sweet and lovely. I guess her full name is CINDY, ONLINE. [Maybe her last name is Cindy and her first name is Online?] She is 22 and asks, "Any cool guys available?" I don't think she has uttered a complete sentence here but I can figure out what she means.

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The other singles at this site are Linda, Susan and Angela. Linda Online is 26, Susan Online is 28 and Angela Online is 21. There are also some guys online but I am a flaming hetero. I did not choose this heterosexual lifestyle. It just happened. I go to sleep and when my dreams are erotic (they surely are involuntary) they are of females.

From this ad, it seems that these Online sisters (with a last name, ONLINE, they just might be sisters) are looking to meet males. I would prefer to meet one of their older sisters, perhaps in her thirties or even older. Maybe there aren't single women over the age of 28 who are looking for males? That could be what it is.

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Out of these women, I stand a chance with two of them - Linda and Angela. Linda wants someone fun and Angela wants someone nice. I cannot satisfy Cindy, even though I like her looks, because I am not COOL, and I cannot satisfy Susan because she wants to make a match and I am not into manufacturing matches or any other products.

I DON't LIKE TO JOIN clubs so I have probably just wasted a few minutes thinking about the Online sisters.

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I WILL BE VERY GLAD WHEN CHRISTMAS is over as I no longer like the Christmas season.

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I THINK BUSH HAS BEEN SPYING ON EVERYBODY and that there will be some amazing revelations coming in 2006. I think Republicans ESPECIALLY who always seems to be against BIG GOVERNMENT, should be really angered over Bush's making big government much bigger, more secretive and unaccountable.

It is amazing that even a conservative pro--business publication such as Barron's have called Bush to task for making up laws. Bush seems to be LEGISLATING FROM THE OVAL OFFICE or worse. Bush and his friends love to rant about those judges who LEGISLATE from the BENCH and are JUDICIAL ACTIVISTS. But how can Bush claim with a straight face (let us ignore www.busuorchimp.com) that he is protecting the American people and that the law is on his side? For the law to be on his side, one would have to be wildly the opposite of one of their mantras ---------- STRICT CONSTRUCTIONIST -------

No matter what Bush says, he is not a strict constructionist or conservative, if Eisenhower is a conservative.

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Here is the Barron's eeditorial:

Unwarranted Executive Power
The pursuit of terrorism does not authorize the president to make up new laws
By THOMAS G. DONLAN

http://online.barrons.com/article_email/SB113538491760731012-lMyQjAxMDE1MzI1NDMyODQ0Wj.html

Bush firmly believes that the law and the Constitution allow him to ignore the law and the Constitution. Law does not apply to the President. Oh but if this was Bill Clinton, Republicans would be mad as hell.

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CHASTITY

"We may eventually come to realize that Chastity is no more a virtue than malnutrition." - Alex Comfort, 1968

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