Officials "Have No Idea" Why Wrong-Way Richie Can Drive

46. People can only take so much. Someone in the D.A office wanted to make an example, so they singled Paris Hilton out. Perhaps you will see new candidates for the post of your Mayor in the future. It was an election campain from the D.A office and nothing more.

By taking Paris Hilton out, they have made their point. So they rest of the pack gets deals or their case mislayed. It seems that the Mel Gibson law should take care of this by controlling the free press.

Paris Hilton is a martyr for the rest of various pack of young stars who loses control of their life.

If they truely wanted justice, they would have Paris, Linsey, Nicole, Ty, Mel etc. chained together down in Griffith Park picking up litter, so their fans could see that the laws also are in force for them.

Posted at 3:53PM on Jun 1st 2007 by C. Overgaard

47. The DMV supercedes the courts. Marijuana and painkillers do not get license taken away from you. In fact, if it were her first offense she would get a wreckless driving charge.

Posted at 4:46PM on Jun 1st 2007 by diablofeminina weho

48. Paris and Nicole are two different people, they will not be treated the same because the incidents that they caused were two different incidents. The arresting officer is probably different in both cases and probably the prosecutors are different people. Individuality exists. Besides, there is so much more to worry about in the universe than Nicole Richie, or Paris Hilton. I bet I could go an entire month without ever knowing what one of them is doing and -- hey! I will survive...

Posted at 5:10PM on Jun 1st 2007 by C.

49. After a guilty plea on a traffic offense (including DUI), traffic court judges, at their discretion, have the authority to impose court supervision for a specific period of time before entering an adjudication of guilt. The clerk of the court reports records of arrests to DMV and will report the court supervision sentencing disposition to DMV but the DMV can take no action until they receive an official adjudication of guilt signed by the judge. A court supervision sentence delays judgment pending the offender's good conduct and compliance with the judge's terms of supervision. If the offender successfully complies, the case will be dismissed and closed without the judge entering an adjudication of guilt or record of conviction. Countless millions of drivers have the mercy of a traffic court judge and sentencing to court supervision to thank for keeping moving violations off of their DMV record. I hope the headhunters playing the gotcha game in Hollywood don't screw that up.

Posted at 5:16PM on Jun 1st 2007 by Bodo

50. By: William Campbell Douglass II, M.D.

For the last week, you've read the latest news - and my latest predictions - about one of the biggest evils on the American medical landscape: Mass vaccinations.

As you'll recall, one of my extrapolations of this false panacea of medicine had to do with a new vaccine that's all the rage - one designed to prevent most cases of HPV (genital warts) in young women, along with the subsequent development of cervical cancer this viral infection is linked to...

My argument is that while it's all fine and good to prevent infections of a common STD and its often-cancerous aftermath, there's a "point of diminishing returns" in the equation if the vaccine gives young women a false sense of security about the safety of sex. This may expose them to all kinds of other diseases, some deadly (and getting deadlier).

But there are some "wild card" factors in this equation, too - things that could either mitigate the urge among young, naïve people to copulate with abandon OR temper that very same urge: Things like schooling, parenting, and one other influence I alluded to in the last Daily Dose...

I'm talking about popular culture.

If you've been a reader of mine for any length of time at all, you know I've long lamented the steady decline in the themes and messages in a lot of modern cultural influences - things like movies, TV, magazines, music (if you can call it that) and the over-publicized antics of spoiled celebrities. Now here's how this dovetails into the vaccine equation...

In the absence of strong, morally principled parenting - and schooling that minds the lines between what's proper curriculum and what's the responsibility of those parents to teach their kids - young, sexually curious adults are taking their cues on how to act from all the wrong places: Rap "music" lyrics and videos, movies, mom's Cosmopolitan mags, and whatever they learn from predators that prowl Internet chat-rooms and the MySpace profiles all their hyper-sexed, Ritalin-addicted friends are posting...

What's worse, they also learn how to act from what they're seeing Paris, Britney, Lindsay, and all the other pop-tarts doing on TV! (If you don't know who these people are, or are clueless about MySpace, you need to plug in to understand your kids and grandkids - but be forewarned, the journey's not for the faint of heart).

Think today's kids aren't REALLY so impressionable that they'd take their cues from a bunch of spoiled, talent-less Hollywood party-girls and gangster-rap stars?

According to recent UK Daily Mail article, researchers asked a random survey of 1,500 British kids aged 10 and under (the answers would be similar for American kids, I promise you), "What do you think is the very best thing in the world?"

Ranked from 1 to 10 by greatest number of responses, their answers were:

1) Being a celebrity
2) Good looks
3) Being rich
4) Being healthy
5) Pop music
6) Families
7) Friends
8) Nice food
9) Watching movies

And last on the list...

10) God

Take a look at the top three answers: Celebrity, beauty, and wealth. And also notice how "pop music" ranks above family, friends, and God...

Still think kids' sensibilities about life, love, sex, and what's important aren't being shaped heavily by hyper-sexed popular culture?

Bottom line: With STDs, sexual objectification, and victimization rampant - and with schools promoting sex as though it's civic duty - it's more important than ever for parents to set strong boundaries that instill sexual temperance and age-appropriate behavior in their kids.

Instead, we have parents steering children, either by first-hand example or by tacit approval of their over-eroticized young lifestyles, into having risky sex early and often...

If only we could come up with a vaccine against THIS kind of "cancer."

(Still) lamenting over-sexed parenting,

William Campbell Douglass II, M.D.

Posted at 11:29PM on Jun 1st 2007 by Parents Need to Know

51. To: "10. Doesn't surprise me one bit that no one knows what's goin on! LA cops aren't really on the ball, now are they?

Posted at 2:04PM on Jun 1st 2007 by Dr. Ruth"
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Anyone who has ever lived in LA knows that the only thing the LAPD is on the ball about is beating people down on the streets and making bad arrests. I put in my time in living in HellA and believe that to be the truth.

Posted at 1:52PM on Jun 2nd 2007 by sk8rgurl

52. Nicole's administrative per se (APS) hearing is set aside now because her DUI involves drugs not alcohol. The DMV will only initally suspend i.e. act on its own w/out the court when the DUI involves alcohol because APS hearing are concerned with section 23152(b) of the California Vehicle Code. The code section deals w/ a driver found driving w/ .08 percent or more of alcohol in their blood. That section of the vehicle code is silent to drug offenses. In cases that involve drugs, the DMV will wait to see how the court deals w/ the case i.e. if the person is conviceted of DUI, Wet-Wreckless or a Dry Wreckless. If the defendant is found with a high concentration of drugs in their system, the DMV can take action against their driver's license if the DMV deems that the public at large is not safe w/ the defendant's driving in the state.

In short, Nicole is not receiving any preferential treatment. She is receiveing the same treatment that any other defendant would receive under the same or similar circumstances.

Posted at 12:28AM on Jun 4th 2007 by Lori

53. The reaon why she still has a lisence is because they did blood work on her, and it takes a while to come back. When it comes back as her having illegal substances in her body, her lisence will be gone for a (long) while.

Posted at 3:19PM on Jun 21st 2007 by Jax