I could start by saying that the “silly season” of political correctness in England continues unabated, but as it now seems to be an all year round event, I can’t.

Now those “frightfully nice” denizens of Horsham, Sussex find themselves in the headlines for their 15 minutes of stupidity. I am indebted to my friend and fellow contributor Syd for this story.

It seems that 16 year old Lydia Playfoot is taking her old school to the High Court for banning a “purity ring” which she claims is a breech of her human rights.

The Millais school claims that the ring is not an essential part of her Christian faith but does make allowances for students of other religions. The ring (according to the headmistress) breaks “Uniform Rules”

I would like to suggest that this school is not educating its students properly; except in the time honoured subjects of rigidity and narrow mindedness and is failing with an “E” in the all important lesson in common sense.

The cult of “The Silver Ring Thing” has spread across the United States and its devotees are showing symbolically that they will abstain from sexual relationships. In part sponsored by the Bush administration the rings are as much a symbol of the growth of the evangelical right wing as the administration itself.

The jury is still out on whether this latest fad actually works but in the British Isles where it is not unheard of for eleven and twelve year old girls to become pregnant I would have thought that any device which discourages promiscuity in the under age population would be welcomed by one and all.

When reading this story I quickly formed an opinion that the ring wasn’t so much the problem as its connections with Christianity and that this mess is similar to the incident at British Airways recently where a ticketing agent complained that she had been told to stop wearing a silver cross.

When will these politically correct idiots learn that if you are to make an exception for one belief system then you must apply that exception to all?

If the “purity ring” only encourages the young to think twice about possibly ruining their lives then I would say; “a nod’s as good as a wink to a blind bat” where the uniform “uniform rules” are concerned.

In the Socialist Republic of California something wicked this way comes.

The “Govenator” Arnold Schwarzenegger recently gave his thoughts to a gaggle of Hispanic journalists in San Jose.

He told the journalists that immigrants in the United States should switch off their Spanish language televisions and radio’s and stop reading Spanish language newspapers if they want to learn English.

Alex Nogales, president and chief executive of the National Hispanic Media Coalition said; ” “I’m sitting shaking my head not believing that someone would be so naive and out of it that he would say something like that,”

Obviously the “politically correct sunshine” has gone to someone’s head and I personally don’t think that it is Arnies.

Now L.U.LA.C. (League of United Latin American Citizens) has weighed in screaming hysterically about taking him to a court of human rights or somesuch….

Has it ever occurred to these fighters for the right to line their own pockets that if anyone in the United States had the right to address this subject it was the Governor of California!

An Austrian immigrant to the United States he has used every advantage that this country has to offer to become a worldwide megastar and Governor of the worlds 5^th largest economy.

Far from being “naïve and out of it” Arnie chose this occasion to pass on some of the wisdom learned from his journey of life. He went on to say; “You’re just forced to speak English, and that just makes you learn the language faster,” He also said that he rarely spoke German.

From my perspective I can’t really see what all the fuss is about because I often feel like telling Americans to switch of their televisions. It might cause them to learn to speak English Faster.

I’ll be back!