That comment alone is sporfle-worthy.
Unreal, Hollywood is now collecting these kids like bottle caps trying to impress one another..."Oh look what Madonna has, I must outdo her!" I read the father of this kid Moadonna hijacked use to walk 25 miles a day to visit his kid. Real nice, now he`s taken away to be raised by a slut.
Here's the story of a slutty actress
Who had adopted three very lovely kids.
None of them looked like their mother,
The youngest an African.
Here's the story, of a man named Bradley
Who was gettin' busy with Jennifer Anniston
They were beautiful, living together
They were all alone.
Till the one day when Angie met Bradley
And they knew it was much more than an affair,
That these two adulterers would somehow form a family.
That's the way we all became the Branjelina Bunch
The Branjelina Bunch,
That's the way we all became the Branjelina Bunch.
The Branjelina Bunch.
Who was the American Black woman caberet singer back decades ago that moved to France and adopted kids endlessly?
That is what Jolie is starting to remind me of.
Well I just hope, that all the kids she's adopted will have a good future socio-economically and make good use of the upward mobility that these celebs offer them.
I couldn't care less about what Pitt and Jolie do with each other so long as the kids are better off than they might otherwise have been.
Just to take preemptive action against anyone who'll start to tell me that there's more to raising children than social mobility, let me set the record straight.
I do agree that moral values are more important but keeping in mind the situation that these kids were in, I don't think there might have been too big a chance of them developing much of that. With Brangelina, lets hope they make the most of what can be realistically expected.
What is sad is there are so many older kids that need to be adopted. And with their money, they could really help save these kids in getting them the help they really need to adjust. Oh Wait, these are the all caring Hollywood stars what was I thinking, older kids would actually mean caring and dealing with them rather then pass them off to their nannies.
Forgive the memory Glitch
Bear :-)
These kids that are being adopted by Hollywoodites are only going to be raised by nannies, anyway.
I'm not impressed.
LOL! Sporfle? Please enlighten me, I have to know what this means. It's sounds like what happens if you laugh after a big sip of milk...
That being said, she'd got a child that matches the drapes, the tile in the living room, one for the kitchen and now she needs someone that will go with that new couch...
Truly I am happy for the children she is saving from abject poverty and a life of misery.
Now this thing about a "rainbow family", it's very nice sentiment. Americans as much as anyone are open minded towards race and religion. It's such a major misunderstanding that other societies think Americans are racists, it's a myth perpetuated by media and a reality practiced among Democrats.
When I went to Brasil one time, for example, my buddy Paulo introduced me to his buddy Carlao (big Carl.) Brasil has more names for people of different racial pursuasion and a name for every color between. Carlao was "preta" or black, really, really black. Carlao hears I'm from America and asks "So what do you Americans think when you see us here in Brasil, all different colors, getting along?" Like we're spending our time shooting minorities from the back of trucks while chewing "tobbacky" in our spare time up North.
How the hell does he think I learned Portuguese "intimately" anyways? I responded in my best "Paulista" dialect "O que e um arcoiris com so uma cor?" ("What is a rainbow with but one color?"). Abstract, but it nailed my point. Answered the question intellectually and touched his soul, which is how "gente real" communicate. Carlao took the time to ask questions and learned we Americans are not racist SOBs and are generally open minded to people based upon behavior, not color.
Yeah, if you start chopping off heads and calling us infidel, generally, we're going to "frown upon you" and cure you like some sorry@ss foot fungus. Make an effort to integrate and contribute to society and Americans will generally embrace you and say "Welcome, neighbor".
So it's nice to see Joley reach out and make an effort to put together her little "Rainbow" family. I hope she spends some true quality time in making them a family. Even if she sends them off with the army of nannies, it will be a far better fate than had they been left where they were. Talk about winning the lottery of life.
As far as the "rainbow family" comment, it kind of touches me. I've constantly embraced God's infinite diversity and appreciated his work. Judge each person for how they behave in your world, and don't judge them for how others treat them. It was how my father raised us. Seems genuinely typical of the American sentiment, where we historically received the tired, hungry and trod upon that most other nations abused who wanted to work to build a better life. We raised them up and gave any man or woman willing to work for the chance and become an American and integrate into society, to build a good life in this land.
So it's nice to see Hollywood types promote the same thinking. Of course it's some 40 years that this obvious lesson was impressed upon us by my parents. Still, it gives me hope that some day, even the Democrats may treat their constituents as real human beings and not as subjects to a socialist agenda.
I have a dream, yes? We should all hope that one day they will learn. Angelina Joley is in a very real way is contributing to that end.
'Nuff of my blather. More coffee, have a nice day. : )
Why dont they just adopt an adoption agency. With their money they could support a good adoption agency and do some genuine good. They could stop by once in a while and see the kids, just like they will do anyway since nannies will be raising them most of the time.
hell...I think she adopt enough to at least have a full basketball team!!!!!
hollywood people..."is there anything that they don't know?"
The next child will be a specially-selected, multi-culti-approved, media-ready 1/4 Glaswegian, 1/4 Aborigine, 1/8 Mexican-Meztizo, 1/8 Finn, with a hunchback and clubbed foot, suffering from a seriously debilitating disase (preferaly whichever form of cancer is trendy amongst the celebrity set this week, and which hasn't had a colored ribbon assigned to it by whoever makes these decisions) and found in a half-full litter box in the jungles of Papua-New Guinea.
Let's see Madonna top THAT one.
We should not ridicule an act of charity simply because we disagree with the politics of the person who does it.
I may be wrong, but I haven't seen her using her children to garner media attention, and since that's so, I think it's entirely possible that she's simply doing the right thing. And since the thing she's doing is an indisputable act of charity, I for one will give her the benefit of the doubt until someone can demonstrate to me otherwise.
I disagree with her politics as much as anyone here, but I can't speak ill of an act that I find to be charitable.
If we are Christians here, let us take a Christian attitude, and despise only sin, not sinners.
Brad is saying what the Hell have I gotten into?
ML/NJ
"I believe I'm meant to find my children in the world and not necessarily have them genetically."
This woman may have the best of intentions, I don't know. But I am reminded of Madonna who had an abortion because it ruined her figure just before her world tour and then went out and adopted another man's child.
Jolie is not married, in a fairly new, somewhat erratic relationship, working like a dog making films and adopting kids along the way from countries all over the world. She's freely admitted she would rather keep a man and had bisexual stints. I have to say this woman strikes me as quite bizarre.
I guess when you have money you can do strange things but I don't see her as anything to admire.
Good... maybe she will stay home, quit making crappy movies, and disappear from public view. She really should make up with her dad.
LLS
I'm quite disappointed with the Freepers on this thread. While I still question the skirting of the laws for Madonna's adoption, I've never seen any questionable practices with regards to Jolie's adoptions - other than some bogus story in the Sun I think about some women who claimed she was the mother of the Zaraha (the mother was paid for the article probably). Angelina was talking about adopting another baby just a few weeks after giving birth. So somehow I don't think this is an attempt to one up Madonna.
Yes, we may feel that there are children in our foster care system that need to be adopted, but she is giving these children a better chance in life than they would have had in their native countries. Zaraha was a very sick baby when Brad and Angelina adopted her. She probably would have died if she stayed in the orphanage any longer.
And from all the pics I've seen of them - and there are plenty because the paparazzi loves them - they always seem to be very hands on with their children. It's not often that you see those babies being carted around by nannies only.
Not only that, but whether you agree with her politics or not, she is not a "do as I say, not as I do" type of person. She may lobby our government and other governments for certain causes, but she also donates 1/3 of her own earnings to charity. Just recently they donated a large sum of money to start a foundation in the memory of Daniel Pearl.
So I think many Freepers should consider not being so hard on someone that really wants to do what she can to help give others a chance in life.
PS - Had to step away while typing this, so apologies if some had brought this up, and especially if they’ve articulated it better (no caffeine yet this morning).
The "baby race" is on between Angelina and Madonna.
Interesting how no one adopts American children. Also, it's acceptable to adopt a black child from Africa but not a black child from America? With the adoption flurry in Hollywood, why is no one helping their own nation's children? That would be the more noble thing to do, in my opinion.
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