PC Police at it again

I can't believe the story I just read. I'm glad it is in England, and I love the lady's response and of that of her neighborhood, but still? A neighborhood association telling someone their Christmas lights, which are on their private property, are offensive and to take them down? PULEASE! Yeh man, "Bugger Off!!".

Throughout the Election season people were rolling their eyes at Republicans and their assertion that Obama would lead us towards socialism. I, for one, did not appreciate that but hey, I guess I'm a fear-monger for agreeing to such things, right? Maybe not.

Apparently, socialistic values have been creeping in for a while and are being shown in multiple examples now by the local (umm .. democratic) governments!
Case(s) in point (from monicamemo.com):

Faced with a $12.5 billion deficit next year, New York Governor
David Paterson .. is teeing up the following:
Higher gasoline taxes
New taxes on clothing
New taxes on health insurance
Requiring new
license plates ...
... "anti-obesity" tax on non-diet soda.
If you want a
Diet Coke, no problem. If you want a Classic Coke, you're screwed. Wait,
correction: According to New York State, you're fat AND you're screwed.

New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg has put into effect all
kinds of intrusions, including banning transfats ... and putting a 6 cent
surcharge on all plastic bags.
San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom has banned plastic water
bottles. Most cities and states have passed widespread smoking bans, instead of
allowing individual establishments to determine whether or not to allow smoking.
And who can forget The Bama's campaign statement: "We can't drive our SUV's,
you know, eat as much as we want, and keep our homes on, you know, 72 degrees at
all times."

This is incremental fascism. It starts with plastic water bottles, moves on
to non-diet soda, and ends with you in Orwellian chains of an oppressive
nation-state. It's time we demanded some of our freedoms back, and a reversal
of those we've already lost. *

For the record, as someone misunderstood something in one of my signatures on iVillage, "Obamaphobia" is a word some uses to describe a "fear of socialism". Not wanting your capitolistic country to take a turn towards socialism does NOT mean that one does not like people who are socialists or live in socialist countries. There is a VAST difference!! Some may not agree that Obama would do that, but I and others believe he would, and I expect frankly nothing less than respect from others for me to have my opinion, as I respect their right to their own opinions that might differ from my own.
Afterall, in America, that's what it's supposed to be :o)

Vent on society- celebrities

Has anyone been following the Christie Brinkley divorce?

I normally don't follow celebrity stuff unless it's Patrick Dempsey, then well ...)- but FoxNews has been covering this a great deal, and that's my channel, so ... but I'm looking through my DVR and see the Red Eye was accidentally recorded last night, so I'm watching it, and they're talking about "the latest", which, OMGoodnes .... what in the WORLD is our society coming to when this kind of crap is said!!!~

"Peter Cook, the estranged husband of Christie Brinkley, was said to be narcissistic by a court psychiatrist (Oh, so NOW we see a diagnosis as to why he was tossing $3k into porn each month?) during their publicized divorce trial proceedings on Tuesday.

Dr. Stephen Herman, the court psychiatrist, said that both Brinkley and Cook need therapy. Herman said that Brinkley needs therapy as "an outlet for her anger and feeling of betrayal" (okay, we can see this...) by Cook, who had an affair with 18-year Diana Bianchi, which ended their marriage.

Herman said Brinkley, who's been married four times, also "needs to start working on deeper issues," including "her choice of male figures." (Blame the victim? "It's your fault you married this guy though you had no idea he had a thing for teen girls and was addicted to porn" UHG!!)

Herman met 11 times with the parents, their 13-year-old son and 10-year-old daughter. He said Peter Cook is a "narcissist" who constantly needs to have his insatiable ego fed. Cook, a Hamptons architect, "needs constant reassurance that he is a terrific guy," Herman said in the report. (UNBELIEVABLE!!!!!!, I thought the idea behind therapy for narrcissim was to overcome the desire to think the world should revolve around you!! This QUACK is doing the opposite!!)

Prior to the scandal, Brinkley described Cook to an interviewer as "just the greatest father."

The primary focus of the trial has been on Cook's teenage mistress and his Internet sex activities. He has apologized for both. (He's sorry he's having to publicly admit what he done ... he's sorry he got caught ... if he was truly sorry he would have apologized before the trial, but these apolgies happened in court!!)

The court heard testimony last week from Cook, 49, and Diana Bianchi, who was 18 during their affair in 2006. Cook said he gave Bianchi a $300,000 payoff, had sexual encounters with her in his office and Brinkley's Hamptons homes, and spent thousands of dollars on online pornography.

Narcissism is a borderline personality disorder, first diagnosed by Sigmund Freud, who named it after Greek myth of Narcissus, who was doomed to fall in love with his own reflection in a pool of water.

Narcissism, the borderline mental illness, is the act of extreme self-love, self-centeredness and self-regard."

http://www.transworldnews.com/NewsStory.aspx?id=52847&cat=14

Disclaimer: I haven't seen what's on the rest of this site, it's the first one I found the quotes for the topic on ...

When did it become OKAY to act like this? At the rate our society is going, NO ONE will be accountable for ANYTHING because we can just claim to be ill!!

How about we all come down with "acute plagarism" and sell other people's work and expect to get paid for it because it's our illness. Huh? What do you think?