If By “Arrogant” You Mean “Optimistic” Then I’m The Biggest, Most Arrogant Sonovabitch Out There

The Post, in an EXCLUSIVE, reports on the details of an internal memo from Attorney General candidate Mark Green’s campaign:

A secret “talking points” memo from Mark Green’s attorney-general campaign dumps on “lightweight” Andrew Cuomo — and instructs supporters how to defend against oft-heard charges that Green is arrogant.

The 3 1/2-page memo, a copy of which was obtained by The Post, gives surrogates for the onetime public advocate and mayoral also-ran answers to tough questions including: “Isn’t Green arrogant?”

“No staff or friend or family member who knows this believes this. It’s the slander of opponents,” says the memo.

“Mark is a confidant (sic), optimistic person, which some confuse for arrogance. It’s impossible to think MG arrogant in a field with Andy Cuomo,” the memo continues.

Maybe He Needed To Feed The Meter?

The question in everyone’s mind is how many quarters it takes to justify a year in jail. Answer — $60 worth:

City officials have arrested a Department of Transportation parking-meter supervisor for pocketing quarters from the meters.

Bronx resident William Ramirez, 53, was charged with petit larceny and official misconduct and faces up to a year in jail for grabbing $60 in quarters.

Investigations Commissioner Rose Gill Hearn said Ramirez “used his position as a DOT supervisor to ‘shortchange’ the city of revenue from parking meters.”

“As a result of his illegal actions, he will find himself parked in a city jail.”

Because Of Course New York City Needs A Water Theme Park

People seem to be noticing that the audacious plan to build a gazillion-dollar water park on Randalls Island might just be a bad idea:

City Controller William Thompson and Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer are challenging Mayor Bloomberg’s plan to lease 26 acres of the city-owned island to create the $168 million Six Flags-style outdoor water park and indoor beach club.

If built, it would be the first such theme park in a major American city.

But Thompson is furious that Bloomberg aides want to push through yet another sole-source bid for a huge private project that uses public land or resources.

And Stringer is worried that residents of East Harlem and the South Bronx, the two neighborhoods nearest to the proposed park, won’t be able to afford admission prices, which could run $37 for adults and $27 for children.

“How will an East Harlem family of four pay $150 for a day in that park?” Stringer said. “Or do East Harlem kids just watch the water rides through binoculars on a hot summer day?”

But you have to like the way the project’s boosters project a confident Nathan Thurm image:

“There’s a lot of discussion to make the park community-friendly,” said Herbert Ellis, the president of Aquatic Development Group, which has built scores of water parks around the country. “I don’t think there’s anyone that won’t be able to afford it,” Ellis said.

Kids Just Say The Darndest Things!

A home-schooled seven-year-old incites Westchester middle- and high-school students to rise up:

A 7-year-old prodigy unleashed a firestorm when she recited a poem she wrote comparing Christopher Columbus and Charles Darwin to “pirates” and “vampires” who robbed blacks of their identities and human rights.

Hundreds of parents of Peekskill middle- and high-school students received a recorded phone message last week apologizing for little Autum Ashante’s poem, titled “White Nationalism Put U in Bondage.”

“Black lands taken from your hands, by vampires with no remorse,” the aspiring actress and poet wrote. “They took the gold, the wisdom and all the storytellers. They took the black women, with the black man weak. Made to watch as they changed the paradigm of our village.

“Yeah white nationalism is what put you in bondage. Pirates and vampires like Columbus, Morgan and Darwin.”

. . .

Autum, who is home-schooled in Mount Vernon and speaks several languages, prefaced her performance at the high school with a Black Panthers’ pledge asking black youngsters to not harm one another.

It did not sit well with parents.

Yes, They’re Still Looking For That Dog

And you thought the idea of having psychics help find Vivi was wacky. How wrong you were:

The award-winning show dog that went missing from JFK Airport last month is on a boat to France, wearing a little hat, according to one of 33 dog psychics working on the case.

But Vivi’s co-owner, who flew in from California to assist with the ongoing search, believes the pooch, a female whippet whose full name is Champion Bohem C’est La Vie, is surviving on her own, using her hunting skills to eat.

“She’s the opposite of a coach potato,” said Paul Lepiane, who normally has the dog on weekends. “She spends her days hunting on a farm. She’s already lived that life.”

Lepiane said most of the psychics have given overlapping information as to Vivi’s whereabouts. The dog escaped a travel cage Feb. 15 along a JFK runway after being in the Westminster Kennel Club dog show in Manhattan.

“The good news is that the psychics are all saying that she’s still alive,” he said Friday. “There all getting these messages from Vivi, so that gives us hope.”

But Lepiane said the psychics’ descriptions are too vague.

“They’ll say she’s hiding behind a stack of boxes and there’s some maintenance vehicles around. Well, at JFK there’s 500 buildings that fit that description,” he said.

For now, volunteers regularly comb the neighborhoods near the airport, handing out flyers and whistling for Vivi.

“There’s tons of rabbits at JFK,” Lepiane said. “We know she can hunt and find rabbits to eat and go inside somewhere and hide. Now she just has to let herself be seen.”