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. : )
I am sometimes too cynical for my own good and do tend to home in on the negative and sporfle-worthy aspects of the situation.
Thank you for pointing out the positive.
Sporfle, of course, is a marvellous word, which as you rightly say sounds like what happens if you laugh after a big sip of milk, or indeed if you hide behind your hand trying desperately not to lol.
I have all sorts of similarly odd expressions that I hope to sprinkle throughout the internet as I go. :)
Interesting post. I recently watched a program on the Discovery channel about Brazil and learned that over 40% of the slaves exported from Africa went to Brazil. Something like 6 or 7 times the amount that went to the U.S. Bahia was heavily settled by these slaves and much of the culture/religion still exists to this day. You certainly don't hear of the racism issues there that we have here.
The history of caipira was also very interesting. A martial art disguised as a dance.... It sure is amazing to watch.
Truly a country that is "abençoada de Deus".