Thursday, November 8, 2007

Sarkononsense:“On aime une Amérique qui est fidèle à ses valeurs.

Oy,oy,oy............Sarko
Quel valeurs???????
Et par ailleurs.voila:Madame Arianna Huffington has the word

Watching the news in our celebrity-choked culture, it's easy to feel that the grand experiment envisioned by our Founding Alchemists -- turning a fizzy mix of freedom and responsibility into societal gold -- has spun wildly out of control. The promise of unlimited opportunity has given way to rampant narcissism and misplaced perfectionism (and the disappointed self-loathing that inevitably follows the search for a flawless self).

But isn't this the logical result of the path the Framers set us on? After all, from the beginning, America has been dedicated to "Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness," hasn't it? So why not lust after fame and Botoxed beauty and hedge fund riches and size 0 jeans? Thomas Jefferson told us to, damn it! Only he didn't. The signers of the Declaration of Independence assumed that some truths did not have to be proved
-- that some truths were, to borrow a phrase, self-evident.
It was self-evident, for example, that the happiness to be pursued was not the blissed-out buzz induced by drugs or shopping sprees. It was the happiness of the Book of Proverbs: "Happy is he that has mercy on the poor." It was the happiness that comes from feeling good by doing good.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/arianna-huffington/in-pursuit-of-the-america_b_71738.html

And voila again:'The rich do strange and terrible things with their money' beat reporter Alex Kuczynski is supplanted at the Times today by second-stringer Deb Schoeneman, who introduces us to Brad Peik and Sara Kehoe, a couple who have retained a "personal manager" to help them invent their lifestyle.'The rich do strange and terrible things with their money' beat reporter Alex Kuczynski is supplanted at the Times today by second-stringer Deb Schoeneman, who introduces us to Brad Peik and Sara Kehoe, a couple who have retained a "personal manager" to help them invent their lifestyle.http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/08/fashion/08storr.html?ref=style

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