Sunday, July 30, 2006

Well, how's it going in blogger land?

Enjoying the summer? Good.

Well, what have we to say.....Ah, to start with, my new fish, Gobu, had babies! Imagine my Surprise, I didn't even know the little bastard was pregnant. Let alone female. I came home Friday night, and lo and behold, there were these two little clones swimming around the bottom of the tank...Kinda weirded me out. But I'm getting used to them..Already named em..Chuck and Bob. Hey, their my fish, I'll name em what I freakin please...

Moving on. Ya know those commercials about the AAA, you know, the Automobile Club of America. How that President of the AAA comes out and tells us all to be "Good, Safe Drivers...And to be Mindful of the Road?"

Well, Saturday, I was out driving, and who do I see, but a AAA Claims adjuster tooling down the road. EATING LUNCH! While driving!


How's that for an example? hahahaha!


And now on to the issue of one Mr. Gibson..

The following is an excerpt from an article in "The NY Times" :
Mel Gibson Apologizes for Tirade After Arrest


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By ALLISON HOPE WEINER
Published: July 30, 2006
MALIBU, Calif., July 29 — The film star and director Mel Gibson apologized Saturday for belligerent behavior and for saying what he called “despicable” things that he does “not believe to be true” when he was arrested here on a drunken-driving charge early Friday.
But Mr. Gibson, in a statement, stopped short of addressing claims that he made virulently anti-Semitic remarks to an arresting officer, as described on a Web site that posted several pages of the sheriffÂ’s report.
The sheriff’s report, carried on TMZ.com, a Web site owned by Time Warner, said Mr. Gibson had demanded to know if the officer, James Mee, was a Jew. During an obscenity-laced tirade, according to the report, Mr. Gibson also said “the Jews are responsible for all the wars in the world.”
Steve Whitmore, a spokesman for the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department, declined to comment on the report. But he said the department would eventually disclose details of the arrest. “Nothing will be sanitized,” Mr. Whitmore said in a statement.
People associated with the case privately acknowledged the reportÂ’s authenticity, but they agreed to speak only on condition of anonymity because of the ongoing investigation.
The report of Mr. Gibson’s outburst further disturbed some people who were already wary of what they saw as anti-Semitic overtones in his 2004 blockbuster “The Passion of the Christ,” and who believe that he has failed to disassociate himself clearly enough from remarks by his father denying the Holocaust.
“If it’s true what’s reported, frequently hatred, bigotry and prejudice, which is controlled, explodes at moments of stress and crisis,” said Rabbi Abraham H. Foxman, national director of the Anti-Defamation League. “Liquor loosens the tongue of what’s in the mind and in the heart, and in his mind and in his heart is his conspiracy theory about Jews and hatred of Jews.”
Late last year, Mr. Gibson began developing a four-hour miniseries on the Holocaust for ABC, in what was widely seen as an effort to patch up his relations with parts of the Jewish community. A spokesman for the Walt Disney Company, which owns ABC, had no immediate comment on the project’s status. Disney’s studio division is also expected to release Mr. Gibson’s film, “Apocalypto.”
Mr. Gibson, who lives in Malibu, was arrested about 2:30 a.m. Friday on suspicion of driving under the influence of alcohol and released on $5,000 bail.
In a one-paragraph statement issued Saturday through his publicist, Alan Nierob, Mr. Gibson said: “I acted like a person completely out of control when I was arrested, and said things that I do not believe to be true and which are despicable. I am deeply ashamed of everything I said, and I apologize to anyone I may have offended.”
Mr. Gibson acknowledged an ongoing battle with alcoholism and said he was taking “necessary steps to ensure my return to health.”
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Now mind you, It's not so much that he was drunk to start with...or that he's baggin on the Jews, a very close friend of mine is Jewish, and brought this story to my attention, no, the main reason for my distaste hear...The bigotry. And I think the Rabbi said it best with this statement " Liquor loosens the tongue of what's in the mind, and what's in the heart."

Guess he didn't "Absolutely" nail this one....Did ya Mel?

2 comments:

Wolfies Rants said...

Ya gotta love this..:

As TMZ reported, the arresting deputy was ordered by officials to take out references to Gibson's bad behavior. We're told the altered report makes no mention of the fact that Gibson attempted to flee the scene by running to his car to escape. We're also told that the officer checked a box on the report that Gibson was "belligerent." Ironically, even though officials did not order the deputy to remove that reference, they did order him to re-write the report to eliminate all references to the supporting evidence leading the officer to believe Gibson was indeed "belligerent. "


Celeb Justice at it's finest...

Annie said...

Well Congrats on the GRANDCHILDREN Wolfie!!.. You must be feeling hella OLD now with grandkids named Bob and Chuck... Hope you got health and life insurance for them. No swimming without supervision, now. *wink*.

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