We are all equal under the law...except for Paris Hilton, of course!

I have lost my faith in the system.

Until recently (recently being yesterday) I believed that the American judicial system was fair. All that stuff that I grew up hearing about all citizens being equal under the law, stuff that I vehemently believed, has been proven nothing more than a load of crap.

Yesterday I learned that when you are rich, young and slutty you are above the law. You are above judicial sentences. You are above the rest of us mere mortals. Hell, you are even above those like you.

Some years back, Martha Stewart was convicted of insider trading. Martha Stewart is an old lady who was sentenced to jail because she made some money. Her crime didn't hurt anybody, and yet in her old age she was sent to jail and lived among the inmates until she served her time.

Fast forward a few years and Paris Hilton gets a DUI. She was driving intoxicated posing a risk to herself and others all for the sake of getting a burger. Okay. She gets probation, alcohol education, fines and a suspended license.

Does she go to alcohol education class? No. Does she stop driving? No. She got caught once and she signed a document acknowledging that her license was suspended. She was given a break. She gets caught AGAIN. Still hasn't gone to alcohol education class, her license is still suspended. She gets a court date and gets sentenced to 40 days in jail. Everyone says that she will only do 23. But it's okay because justice is being served.

Comes jail time and she gets her own cell for her safety. I mean, Martha Stewart's safety was never questioned, neither was Michelle Rodriguez's, neither has Joe Francis'... But this is Paris Hilton and she is special so she gets her own space. Fine. At least she is doing her time. Three days later her lawyer and psychiatrist managed to somehow convince the Sheriff that there is something so wrong with Paris that she can't stay in prison, so in a most benevolent act he sends her home with a monitoring device to finish her sentence. According to him " punishing celebrities more than the average American is not justice."

The irony of that statement flabbergasts me!

Anyway, everyone gets pissed off including the judge who sentenced her so she has to go back to court today at 9:00am PST but, you know, her hair and make-up people came over and she can't leave her house a mess so she didn't leave her house until 10:25PST.

How does this happen?

Had it been you or me or anybody else our ass would still be in jail! I love how people keep saying that she was imprisoned for a traffic violation...Did everyone forget that her license was suspended because of drunk driving?!?!?! Has everyone lost sight of the fact that she is not the first person to be sentenced to time in prison for that very thing???

But we must all feel sorry for poor little Paris Hilton...just like we must all feel sorry for poor little Lindsay Lohan who crashed her car while driving under the influence (and she is underaged mind you!) and she'll probably get away with it because she went to rehab!

The media circus is responsible for creating a breed of people who are seemingly superior thereby paving the way for a two tier legal system. The one thing that we had that was fair, at least to an extent, no longer exists. We now live in a place where special people get special treatment beyond the extents of the velvet ropes.

And what's more, tax payers money are subsidizing this royal waste of time...

Yet another sad day for a family somewhere...

My friend Ellen went to Columbine High School.

Back when I was in college, while everyone else was celebrating 4:20 in a most corrupt fashion, she would spent the day all bent out of shape thinking about her friend who got shot by one of her classmates. It was a tragedy everyone knew had happened, but frankly it was a hard tragedy to relate because it is hard to imagine those things happening to people "like us".

...and yet, they do happen and then like now all we can really do is hope that things like that don't happen again ...

But they do continue to happen.

Thirty plus people died yesterday at Virginia Tech at the hands of what I can only qualify as a mad man.

I'm not one to follow the news unless there are some good news somewhere within them; however, I've been following this closely because in a university of 26,000 that really could have been any school at any time. And what's more, a handful of those deaths could have been prevented if someone had taken action either after the first shootings or before, when the shooter was writing those twisted plays that have become paramount in this investigation.

My stance on Freedom of Speech is that we should each be allowed to say what we want and that we should take the Don Imus' and Rosie O'Donnell's of the world with a grain of salt. But as a person who demands the right to feel safe at work/school/life environments, I EXPECT that when someone writes something that could be an obvious hint of a potential threat, that someone should do something. That's why we have counselors and the such!

Unfortunately, our society is not one that is very egalitarian and it is not one that shares values.
"rich kids," "debauchery" and "deceitful charlatans" are a part of our culture and we can choose to embrace them or not, but by no means should they have to worry about getting shot on their way to class for being the way they are!

My thoughts and prayers are with the friends and family of those who lost a loved one yesterday...a mere week before the Columbine shooting's anniversary. My thoughts and prayers are with the friends and family of anyone who has lost anyone and shouldn't have in these horrific incidents.

All I hope, and hope is a strong force, is that we will learn from these unfortunate mistakes and people will learn to take action when necessary and those who are disturbed will learn the value of human life. I can't imagine bringing a child into a world so unsafe. We lead wars abroad but we should worry about our own wars, the ones being waged by our kids in our own backyard.

"People are strange

when you are a stranger

Faces look ugly

when you are alone"

I'd much rather be a stranger and be alone than I would like to count on you for company.

I get it. I hope you get it too.

...still raining...

* My ulcer is coming back.
* I lost my wallet with EVERYTHING in it.

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!

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But I got some long distance love.
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You make me perfect.
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I love roaming.

When it rains, it pours.

The other day I was talking to my friend Ellen when she mentioned that bad things always happen in threes. Considering that normally things work out pretty well for me, I wasn't really worried. I mean, the only bad thing that had happened to me in a really long time was my computer dying on me but that wasn't even so bad because it was still under warranty.

Well...apparently Ellen was right.

Let's see...my laptop died, the charger for my iPod died too so that sucked, I got into a car accident (more like someone crashed into me while my car was parked!), I lost my new D&G glasses, I haven't even moved in and I am already having issues with the association in my new building, I still can't find furniture I like (though now I own a bed, a TV, and a coffeemaker!) and I'm afraid of what might come to me in the next couple of days!

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH...

I need love...