OMG! A catamaran capsized at Alum Creek

Lame. Worse than the Paris coverage.

Paris? What's happening in Paris?

SHE'S BACK IN JAIL!!!! (LOL) RICH WITCH GOT WHAT SHE DESERVES!!!!

There's already plans for a Paris in jail movie. It'll be titled The Shaw Skank Redemption.

Mooommmmmmmy!, this isn't right right!!!

I think that reads
Sure Skank Redemption

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I am in Paris right now, and there really isn't much going on. I just saw some police officers chasing a guy that had stolen something...they can't run very well.
Amsterdam by nightfall though.....

As my wife said ...

Aren't you glad about Anna Nicole. At least she had a lot of class ... and built herself up from white trash.

Shaw Skank Redemption

has GOT to be the best line ever ...

If they only knew how many times we might flip during a competatively raced series, we would have Satellite coverage from CNN,FoxNews, CBS, MSNBC....etc

I still like how the FOX news guys said,

Paris Hilton was in jail for just under 73 hours, heck, I've been in Monopoly jail longer than that!

PS...that was sarcasm.

I'm not sure if it was Michael Musto on Olberman or John Stewart who said it first but it's very appropriate.

I believe it was Stewart.

Not to be a party pooper but...Women incarcerated typically get out after 10% of their time is served. We have an overcrowded prison system and that is how it is dealt with. According to averages Paris did serve her time. I am tired of Paris H! She is a whiner but she served 10% of her sentence...Next!

Poop all you want, Dano - most people only get one chance at probation without spending time in the hoosegow. She's been convicted, shown contempt, violated probation twice, and only now is she getting any real consequence - 20 days out of a 45-day sentence. Don't buy the media disinformation. Once again the State steps in where parents seem to be unable - no wonder the prisons are overcrowded... your suggesting 10% sentences as a solution? In an America where justice is already neither swift nor sure?

Wohoo! Another global warming thread!!!

But look at the big picture here. If all us catamaran sailors wrote sympathetic letters to Paris, maybe we could get her to come out for a ride on a catamaran -- think of the PUBLICITY!! The papparazzis (spelling?) would LOVE it.

Paris Hilton or Bo Derek? Paris Hilton or Bo Derek?

DING DING DING Bo can sail.

Bo wins!!

And Bo has a brain. That is required for sailing.

Doug

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Dan

True Mary, But she would charge to get on a cat.. Think the going rate is around the half million mark to appear..

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pornos

are free apparently and make good publicity.. so here is an idea based on your excellent suggestion.... Not sure how comfy a wave tramp is but then maybe its ok for that type of film?.. You have the wave. With your permission, and seeing the publicity slant is your idea, if Alan could provide the.....
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You need something exciting like an Inter 20 with spinnaker, and Paris on the trapeze. If the media is capable of getting lots of video of that, it will prove that it is possible to do it for the Olympics, as well. <img src=

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You're assuming she's OK with getting splashed with water.

She's fine with getting splashed with water, Oh..... you're going to need to remove all those icky fish, and while you're at it could you replace the lakewater with avian. that's all. Thanks

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Maybe not.

That is specifically the media disinformation I'm referring to; the 10% is tripe. The 10% was uttered once by a legal analyst who was describing what she should have gotten the first time she showed contempt or for her first violation of parole - this number has been siezed upon by media as proof that she is getting a raw deal because she is famous. Total bunk. Her latest sentence was 45 days with a 50% reduction for good behaviour, which she has yet to exhibit.

The justice system in the US is unfair - money and class will get you out of hot water - the situation with Paris reaffirms rather than contradicts this. Our prison system creates more criminals. Commit a crime and the odds are you either won't be caught, won't be punished, or will actually spend time with people who can teach you to avoid getting caught next time. The irony in the Hilton situation is that normally, law enforcement is at odds with Justice due to light sentences and legal technicalities that put offenders back on the street without consequences. Now, we see more law enforcement agencies struggling to meet the sentencing requirements - in part due to mandatory minimums passed by politicians who don't understand the effect of their empty

tough on crime

election-time rhetoric. Overcrowding? Are there more criminals? Is it just that more criminals are being caught? Is it that mandatory minimums are too harsh? Is prison really a deterrent? Recidivism is climbing, class and socio-economic background are statistical standouts in current prison populations... tough issues that made me switch from Criminology to Geology in college.

On topic and a tangent to the Hilton coverage - how many uninformed viewers believed the sailors at Alum Creek were in a life-threatening situation? The readers of this forum know better, but Mike's post drives home that, unless you do, you might take the media coverage to be an accurate representation... I'd bet the sailors told the reporter

hey, it was no big deal really,

and that part is in the editor's recycle bin.

Are you talking about putting 2 tramps on one wave????

We shouldn't even have prisons. Just large holes where the bodies of criminals are thrown, and burned. Jay walking, to murder one. It would drive crime to a standstill. Just look at Singapore.

I've joked for a while now that police squad cars should carry a cross in the trunk to crucify DWI offenders literally instead of just figuratively.