Hilton still wiltin'

Back from Seattle. Thank god! Some peace and quiet. In our absence the deer ate more of the roses and some other plants, the cats no doubt brought in another half dozen or more lizards, the wild turkeys finally turned up with chicks, and life goes on pretty much as usual here at Sandhill.

Ah, Paris. Paris in the spring, summer, fall and winter. Back in jail, or at least in the hospital wing of the jail. Probably only until monday. Her lawyers will appeal at which point she will be eligible for bail. I'm sure she will be able to afford it. What a mess! The judge ordered the Sheriff to bring her to court. The Sheriff stalled for a while but had to do it. This set off a near riot of the photographers and reporters. The MSM loved it, of course. All of this occurring simply because a judge wanted to make an example of Paris. We can only assume that this judge thought he was doing a good thing by making an example of a celebrity. This proves again that no good deed goes unpunished. She should never have been given a jail sentence in the first place as that does not normally happen in such cases. The Sheriff released her after only three days because, he said, of her potential health problems. But it turns out that it is commonplace for prisoners of this kind to be released after only a couple of days. I gather there is a rumor to the effect that her health problem may be related to withdrawal symptoms from drug or alcohol use. Personally, I doubt this is true, but it is the case that there are such cases where the withdrawal is exceedingly painful but insisted on by the system. They probably just throw you into a padded cell and let you suffer through it. Anyway, here is an interesting case of discrimination (against a celebrity), that led to a nondiscriminatory action by a Sheriff, which raised a ton of criticism against him for discrimination. Go figure.

Hey, it's better than the MSM having to explain why Bush couldn't attend the G8 meeting (hangover?). I have to give Bush a little credit for even attending the G8. What chutzpa! Here is a guy reviled by virtually the entire world, with a popularity rating at home of zilch, who still has the gall to show himself in public and pretend to be leading the world on global warming and stuff. You would have to be pretty stupid to do such a thing (well...) If I were in his position I would hide in the corner until school was out.

Putin's offer of a radar base to cooperate in the missile defense business has already been dismissed (as I knew it would). Bush is going ahead with it. This is a missile defense system that doesn't work, that is going to be employed against a threat that doesn't exist, in two countries where the populations are dead set against it. Now that's what I call foreign policy (with a heavy emphasis on foreign).

LKBIQ:

"For there are kinds of music the world should not hear."
Whittaker Chambers