Disappoint.

My declaration the other day...seems it doesn't matter now. The person with whom I had my little disagreement has decided it might be best if other arrangements were made. I'm angry, but not too. I'm not very surprised, either. I can't say I didn't see this coming, and I'd already started to discuss options.

I'm just tired of being blamed for other people's drama, or being the focus of it. I'm sorry if not falling in obsequious genuflection at your feet enrages you, but it took me a long time to learn to stand properly. If my disagreeing with you means you feel a need to take your ball and go home, well, so be it. We probably wouldn't have had much fun playing, anyway.

I am nobody's scapegoat.



I shall plant roses this summer. I can't express how incredibly happy I am about that. I shall think of my roses, and be glad.

Since some have asked....

From "Forward" (http://forward.com/main/article.php?ref=200402261252 -- though you'd have to register to see it)

... Gibson's controversial father, Hutton Gibson, was sounding a less conciliatory note. On the eve of film's release, he reportedly stated that the Holocaust was a "fiction" and that Jews are conspiring to take over the world. The elder Gibson told one radio interviewer that the Jews are "after one world religion and one world government," and said that someone should "hang" Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan. The remarks were condemned by the Simon Wiesenthal Center.







So I went there, too.

http://www.wiesenthal.com/social/press/pr_item.cfm?ItemID=8950

February 19, 2004

WIESENTHAL CENTER CONDEMNS HUTTON GIBSON'S STATEMENTS DENYING THE HOLOCAUST

The Simon Wiesenthal Center strongly condemned the remarks given to New York radio talk show host, Steve Feuerstein, by Hutton Gibson in which he said, referring to the Nazi Holocaust, "It's all -- maybe not all fiction -- but most of it is," he said, adding that the gas chambers and crematoria at camps like Auschwitz would not have been capable of exterminating so many people. He continued, “Do you know what it takes to get rid of a dead body? To cremate it? It takes a litre of petrol and 20 minutes. Now, six million of them? They [the Germans] did not have the gas to do it. That's why they lost the war."

In his interview on WSNR radio's Speak Your Piece, to be broadcast on Monday, February 23, 2004, Hutton Gibson also argued that many European Jews counted as death camp victims of the Nazi regime had in fact fled to countries like Australia and the United States.

During his lengthy radio interview, Hutton Gibson, 85, also said Jews were out to create "one world religion and one world government" and outlined a conspiracy theory involving Jewish bankers, the United States Federal Reserve, and the Vatican among others.

Rabbi Marvin Hier, dean and founder of the Simon Wiesenthal Center said, “The issue here is clearly not the rantings of an 85-year old man, but the fact that this Holocaust denier and bigot continues to cause pain and suffering to Holocaust survivors in the last years of their lives. Coming just days before the release of his son’s already controversial film, ‘The Passion of the Christ’ these remarks should be resoundingly condemned by Christian leaders everywhere,” he concluded.

In June 2003, Wiesenthal Center researchers noted that Hutton Gibson was a featured speaker at the Barnes Review Conference sponsored by America's leading racist of the last half century and Holocaust denier Willis Carto. Among the other attendees were Australian Holocaust denier Frederick Tobin from the Adelaide Institute, and Ingrid Rimland, wife of Canadian/German holocaust denier Ernst Zundel.

For more information, contact the Center's Public Relations Department, 310-553-9036.