Tomorrow’s guest on my radio show, “High Noon,” will be Bart Didden, the Port Chester resident who has been fighting a developer’s seizure of his property through eminent domain.

Didden says the action by the village of Port Chester and the developer, G&S of Old Bethpage L.I. violated his constitutional rights when they took his land in the village’s urban renewal zone. On Tuesday, the U.S. Supreme Court turned down without comment his application to review his case.

Didden, with the pro bono help of the Institute for Justice, a Washington, D.C. based legal organization, wanted the court to clarify its controversial 5-4 decision in Kelo v. New London which upheld the governmental right to transfer private property to private interests.

Didden will talk about his ordeal on my show which airs at 12 noon, tomorrow on WVOX, 1460 AM. Listeners outside the frequency can log on to www.wvox.com.

Today’s column was about Frank Ippolito, a prolific letter writer to The Journal News and a darn good artist.
Ippolito also writes poetry to go along with his artwork. Here’s one he wrote about me. What an honor!!

KING OF THE HILL

When the news of the day

is depressing and bleak
so despondent to make one ill, I resort to the pages of the journal news
and to the column written by phil…

Reisman is witty and jocular

a facetious, humorous soul,
he delights in provoking with jovial mirth
and hilarity is his ultimate goal…

no target is immune from his humorous

barbs even those with unimpaired virtue,
to all his readers he offers a thrill and high spirited hilarity
found only in the column written by phil…

his detractors are humorless political

types impressed with their own tarnished egos,
they look down their noses and fit to kill but they are certainly no match
for our exuberant columnist phil

In Sunday’s column about Jeanine Pirro and her prospects of a career in television, I wrote at length about former New York City Mayor Ed Koch’s brief stint on the boob tube.

In the column I noted that Koch looks a lot like Frank Perdue, the late-great chicken magnate who starred in his own commercials. Here’s what I wrote:

“Bitingly sarcastic and combative, Koch was like Frank Perdue on steroids. His ability to nag miscreants made him a natural to preside as judge for “The People’s Court,” the daytime reality show that taps drama from a bottomless pit of small-claims litigants.”

Well, lo and behold. Who did I hear from? None other than Mitzi Perdue, Frank’s widow, who set me straight. She wrote:

“I loved the article, except you did get one part backwards. Ed Koch on steroids would have been Frank Perdue. Ed was a little bland compared to Frank. Other than that SERIOUS MISTAKE, I loved every word of the article!

“Warmly,
“Mitzi Perdue
”(Mrs. Frank Perdue)”

This goes to show one thing: You never know who may be reading out there.

This little extra-terrestrial was specially created for me by my pals over at the UFO Roundtable, a local organization of flying saucer buffs and earthbound explorers of life on other planets. You gotta love it. The goon even reads The Journal News!

My thanks goes out to Bill Allen, who mailed the thing from outer space via parcel post. One thing—he, she or it doesn’t have a name. Which begs the question: How can you determine the sex of a space alien?

For those who are interested, the UFO Roundtable meets the first Wednesday of every month at the Grinton I. Will Library, 1500 Central Park Ave. in Yonkers. Meetings start at 6:30 p.m., and are free and open to all.

It hit me today. He might be a little bit too tall, but Erik Estrada should play Al Pirro when they cast the actors for “Albatross,” an episode of NBC’s “Law & Order Crimnal Intent.”

The show which will is supposed sometime this year, is based on the real-life antics of former Westchester DA Jeanine Pirro and hubby, Al.

Estrada, I think, is the perfect Al. I don’t know who should play Jeanine. Maybe the brunette from “Charlie’s Angels.” Hmm…

As you may know, I host a weekly radio program called “High Noon” on WVOX radio, 1460 AM and streaming live at www.wvox.com.

The show airs Thurdays at 12 noon. No topic is off limits. If there’s anyone in public life you’d like to me have on as a guest, let me know through this blog.

MORE THAN A FEW READERS WERE INSPIRED TO WRITE AFTER LAST SUNDAY’S COLUMN ABOUT PAY RAISES FOR POLITICIANS.

Tom Durkin of White Plains writes:

“Sunday’s column listed politicians’ arguments for raising their own
pay. Argument number 1 was that more dollars buys better office-holders.

I agree, but the problem is that the salary should be raised BEFORE
the election process so that better candidates will be enticed to run.

The present situation (where salaries are usually raised just AFTER
an election) is, I think, akin to deciding to pay more rent to get a
better apartment, BUT doing so right after agreeing to renew your
lease (and giving the extra money to your old landlord for the same
old lousy apartment).”

A Putnam resident (no name given) writes:

“Guess the big boys are teaching the little guys a thing or two or visa versa. Putnam Valley sure learned good!! And it ain’t over yet.”

And then there’s this long one from loyal readers Bob and Jenny Petrucci:

Re: “The Democrats take their money from the taxpayers and the Republicans take theirs from the lobbyists.”. In our view, the Republicans take from both (and so would the Dems were the roles reversed…”politics”, you know). Remember what your “friend” said a number of years ago…in essence, that the reason why they win is because they spread it around. How nice it is that they can cut deals to have a certain amount of Republicans given/holding jobs under a Democratic administration. Does that not smell? And let’s not forget the “rumors” during certain “elections”. And even in “redistricting”. Does all that come without some “obligations”? In other words, “Stick with us; it’s US politicians against them”. Also, when we complained about many things that were happening, Republican “LEADERS and ELECTED officials” said, “Don’t blame us. We’re outnumbered 9-8” (at that time). Uh, excuse us, but where does it say in their job description that the Dems are required to lose whenever they can take over the majority? Our response is, “Well if we can’t blame you for not getting more of you elected, who else is there to blame?”. Their refusal to take responsibility (or ANY action) later made it 11-6. We think it could have been worse
but the Dems let them have some turf (spread it around like expensive butter). And that pattern runs throughout the county. As long as it does, with now a virtually non-existent Republican Party, with any semblance of it existing at/from the largesse of the Democratic Party, no one (almost as if under contractual agreement) is about to fight them. Is the word “cahoots”? Let’s not forget the countless number of things our people (and you guys) brought to them; factual, documented things, with some in particular that (with many of them lawyers) all they had to do was start legal proceedings. And what did they do? Absolutely nothing. Hmmm, why? In fact, they gave us the MOST resistance. Re: the more money for good people below….they got more money and it didn’t bring in good people. All it did was bring in more of the same….listeners of that politico radio station “WIIFM”, well known as “What’s In It For Me”. And then, when it’s time for a vote, they prance out all their “cronies, associates and other form of vested, paid for, interests” to speak publicly so as to have window-dressing for their pre-determined vote.

Never buy into a politician’s b.s. when he or she says they want to run things “like a CEO.” That’s a claim that’s always made with a pretext of fiscal responsibility, but don’t trust it.

All you need to do is look at the $210 million bag of swag Bob Nardelli, the departing chief executive officer of Home Depot, got away with to know that most real CEOs these days are in it mainly to enrich themselves with, of course, the help of enabling boards of directors.

Are CEOs like Nardelli the model you want your elected officials to follow? If so, then hold onto your wallet.

In yesterday’s column, I talked a lot about municipal officials who’ve lately given themselves raises…I focused on New Rochelle where the part-time mayor will see his salary rise at least 30 percent to almost $85,000 in 2008. Sure, it’s hardly a king’s ransom. But the city’s business isn’t run by the mayor. It’s run by a city manager, who gets $163,000 a year.

Before I wrote the column, I talked at length to Chris Selin, a Democratic councilmember, who along with two others on the council voted in the minority on the pay raises.

I didn’t quote Selin in the column (not enough space), but here’s something she said about the mayor’s job that’s worth putting into the blog.

Said Selin: “Really, the smount of time it takes to do this job well is a lot more than part-time. It truly is, but you have to take into consideration the fact that it’s NOT A CEO’S POSITION (Emphasis mine). It is not the day-to-day running of the city.
“The city manager does that. It is a policy job and, on top of that, it’s ceremonial.”

Check out the Westchester County Democratic Web site—www.westchesterdems.org.

Click onto the home page. At the top, you’ll see the party mission statement and a photo of party Chairman Reginald A. Lafayette. Scroll down to the bottom and you’ll see “District Finder,” which, when you click on it, should help you find out your legislative district and who your state representative is.

Not so.

But if you live in the state of Minnesota, you will have better luck.

Jeanine Pirro may not be number one in politics right now, but her highly-publicized marital problems with husband Al has placed her in a top ten list of infidelity news stories of 2006.

Yes, there is a list for everything.

This particular list was put together by Ruth Houston, a self-decribed “infidelity expert,” who is an author and founder of www.InfidelityAdvice.com.

Pirro ranks eighth on Houston’s list “for asking ex-NYPD Commissioner Bernard Kerik to bug her husband’s boat because she suspected him of having yet another extramarital affair.” The bugging never happened, but Pirro’s indiscreet query resulted in a federal investigation, the news of which broke in the middle of her campaign for New York attorney general. (Don’t hold your breath that anything will result from t that federal probe, incidentally.)

Others on the infidelity news list include: ex-model Christie Brinkley whose marriage ended over her husband’s affair with a 19-year-old personal assistant; former New Jersey governor Jim McGreevey’s book, “The Confesion,” which revealed details of his gay relationship with a government aide; and the resignation of Ted Haggard, the head of the National Association of Evangelicals who preached anti-gay morals while dallying with a male hooker.

Number one on the list, if you care, was the phenomenon of “Brokeback Marriages,” which was named after the Academy Award wining film, “Brokeback Mountain” and signfies same-sex infidelity. (See McGreevy and Haggard.)