Paris Hilton Out of Jail After 3 Days!

:laugh: Please stop! I am so glad I don't have a webcam I would never live it down, although it probably wouldn't be as funny as MP. OUCH! :laugh:

 

No, I think racial slurs are racial slurs. Jap is a slur used during WWII, unlike Brit.

My comment was not an offshoot, and apparently you can't see that. My comment was germaine to the Paris Hilton situation, and how it was evidence of what John Edwards has said. That is on topic. You tried to derail it into being ABOUT Edwards' wealth. That is a diversion and a hijack.

 

You brought up the notions of wealth and of Edwards. I tie them together and you think I slippped a prickly pear into your boxers. You make some pitch for Edwards via route of the subject of the thread [an offshot subtopic] and you think I can't make the obvious connection from another approach. Little wonder you have supported groups like AU and ACLU in the past here; in their view we have free speech and free religion, just not both at the same time.

 

She may have to go back to jail. The judge is saying the sheriff is in contempt, and has ordered her back to court in the morning...

Someone may have common sense!
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070608/ap_en_ce/paris_hilton

 

I'm glad that the judge is pulling the two of them into court. I heard on another board that her room wasn't the right temperature. The first thing I thought was that my room has been so hot or so cold (that I crocheted a shawl to keep in the room) all year AND no one has offered to reassign me to another room! hummmmpffff!

 

The headline photographs of Paris bawling in what looks like genuine fear and misery in the police cruiser make me sad.

And while public outrage is shooting through the roof over her apparent preferential treatment, and somehow Al Sharpton is getting credit for voicing the opinion of the public, I can't help but wonder how this is any of our business, and whether there are any more important stories to cover, such as the military buildup and threats of war along the Israeli-Syrian border and the various rockets and missiles Russia just sold to Syria and Iran.

 

Chessic,

You are right, this is trivial. And there are more important things in life. The thing is that there are consequences for our actions. And at what point is this young woman going to learn that she too has consequences. Just because she is rich and famous, just because she has a face that could stop a 1000 ships does not mean those consequences go away. Any young woman caught in her situation would be sad and pitiful photographed awaiting her fate.

The fact of the matter is that so often for the rich and the powerful the same rules simply do not apply. So where do we draw the line. Where do we say this is just too trivial, I don't care that a different set of standards apply, I'm not going to pay attention?

Most everyone who has posted on this thread cares intensely about the profound and important events going on in the world today. We care about the war and those fighting it. We care about politics and the hungry and social issues and those who don't know Jesus. And while our comments may have come across as light in this thread, they represent the great inequity that exists in this county between the haves and the have nots. They represent frustration.

Humbly submitted,
Bitsy

 

Unfortunately this is a relative statement. For a great number of folks there is nothing more important than this situation or it wouldn't be all over the news :laugh: or is it :BangHead:, but I also agree it's very :tear:

 

rofl! The contrast between this and the "face that LAUNCHED a thousand ships" almost made me swallow my bubble gum. Paris is no looker, for sure, but God loves her and that's good enough for me. I hope this event helps her in the long run and offers a lesson to those to whom she might be a role model.

We certainly have the ability to care about more than just one thing at a time, but I admit I'm frustrated by the press's extensive coverage of this to the expense of other stories.

 

I'm glad you've got a sense of humor. :thumbs:

The coverage is frustrating. They did manage to squeeze in that there is some kind of airway crisis on the east coast.

Back to my LOTR marathon (oh and we are taking 50 customers to the Warthogs game tonight - wonder what we'll be talking about - besides the Warthogs of course . . . )

 

The title of this thread stirs my preaching instincts! Can't you imagine waxing eloquent on the contrast, "Paris out of jail after three days, but Jesus out of death's prison after three days."

 

I was once asked by an atheist, as near as I can remember the exact words, "If Jesus could leave hell after only 3 days, why would a sinner have to go for eternity? If Jesus was paying our penalty, shouldn't he have to go for eternity, too?"

Seemed like a tricky question at the time.

 

http://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=3264588&page=1


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