Posted on 07/11/2010 3:59:49 PM PDT by TaraP
It's interesting to try to divine the chicken-and-egg of Mel Gibson's firing by WME last week: Was it his (first-alleged, now aurally proved) misogynistic and racist comments that enabled the agency to part ways with him, or was it the death of longtime agent Ed Limato that did the trick?
Earlier today the news surfaced that William Morris Endeavor had split with Gibson last week-- as Limato lay seriously ill, and just several days after Radar Online broke the news that Gibson had verbally abused his girlfriend Oksana Grigorieva by using the N-word. (The reports were just that until today, when audio of the Gibson incident was released on Radar.)
There's of course a third variable in all this -- the fact that Gibson just wasn't much of a bankable star anymore anyway.
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If you're a Catholic, what are you doing hanging out with Fred Phelps?
Where did I say that?
And why is it that no one else is willing to say that slavery in America was evil, a disgrace and a crime against humanity?
That was never the issue. The issue was YOUR statement in Post 155: I’m not quite sure America has paid for the “mistake” of slavery, but even if it has paid for that “mistake,” it does not minimize that mistake or absolve America of slavery and placing African Americans in scientific experiments.
THAT post has ALWAYS been the issue.
While I understand that many fought against its implementation, the 13th Amendment outlawed slavery in this country.
And yes, those who hold slaves in the Sudan today are as evil as those who held slaves in America in 1865 and before.
Off to Barton Springs to swim with my wife and daughter.
Well that makes no sense at all. If so many fought against its implementation, how could the 13th Amendment possibly get radified?
I have to go and finish my yard work. And we have rain coming. All my stuff is still out there.
The stars have aligned, I live!
Let the initiation begin!
Light the green fire, bring out the shining trapezohedron, form the circle and play the music of Eric Zann!
[Lady Gagga.. er.. Gaga can be substituted.]
Then we shall launch the intercontinental ballistic wombat!Or was that “incontinent”, never did read that specification sheet.
But it did say specifically “wombat”, so it must be immensely powerful!
And then it is off to the trial by tutu wearing pygmy hippos!
*evil laughter*
Survey the pink fish, jump on the Black Iguana.
Let the games begin!
Off the same album as “spinning wheel” by that band.
Talking to yourself is a sign of impending mental collapse.
Awe...the green fire makes my butt look big.
Yeppers, but we’re talking Iguanas here. Black ones.
Under-the-bed Iguanas that’ll bite and spit. And bite.
Where were we again?
Gives me an unhealthy pallor too, but it’s in the handbook so it must be done.
Though I’m still trying to wrap my mind around the whole marching penguins thing.
I wish I was in Tijuana eating barbecued iguana...
The thing under the bed with ivory polished teeth and the eyes that glow red.
By the way, what in your world would constitute America having “Paid” for slavery?
What would be “enough” in your world?
Man, you marinate those suckers in vinegar overnight and grill 'em in foil...
Marinated Hussein Iguana.. MM MMM MMMM!
None of this matters because I'm white. After all, Truman is more interested in the color of skin than the content of character.
I guess I ought to pay my fair share. I've got some spare change in the ashtray of my pickup. I hope this helps.
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