Madonna and child

[Edwina's Secretary]

So....because she is famous and rich....and followed everywhere....she should not use that for good....so people use their earned fame to set an example of giving to those less fortunate, to fixing things, to helping. Hoping (often correctly) that if people see celebrities do it, they will follow. (It was very big during WWII as a way to sell war bonds.) What a sin!

I said it and will say it again...I am not a Madonna fan nor did I EVER think I would be defending her.

But...here is a woman who wanted another child and, after a difficult time carrying her last child to term, it did not happen "the natural way..." so she wants to adopt. Her fame means that WHATEVER she does will be filmed and analyzed.

She spends HER OWN money to fund six home for children in a country most of us could not find on a map.

She falls in love with one child and offers him a home.

Due to...who knows what...misunderstanding...change of heart...not enough money paid....the adoption falls through.

Lovely to see such compassion....such giving of the benefit of the doubt...of being non-judgemental.

[Karen]

My point was that I don't know how good of a parent she is, that should be most important, and I have no way of judging that. That doesn't necessarily have anything at all to do with money or fame, but it should have a lot to do with adopting a child.

[RICHARD]

Hoping (often correctly) that if people see celebrities do it, they will follow. (It was very big during WWII as a way to sell war bonds.) What a sin!

STOP IT!
Being older than you I remember seeing the stories about them..


MANY (MOST) of those celebrities fought in the war..

Baseball team rosters were filled with 4Fs what played in the place of many stars that volunteered for service.

Not only baseball, football and movie stars gave aa few years to U.S. was effort


I get really tired of seeing Clooney, Penn, Ciccone (ma dunce na) and the rest of the 'stars' selling their twist on the rest of the world.


We went to Somalia and Bosnia to help people and got shot at.

What makes Darfur and any other 3rd world country different?

So ....

Let the public sector worry about those places.

We send USAid, the Peace Corp and any other relief workers in and they get kidnapped or killed.
We pay the ransom, the morons get richer, we send in troops and they get killed we get criticized and blamed for making a situation worse.
We leave and then we tick off another country and another generation.

Ask Ma DUH na how many security people she had as escoirts and scouting the way....



If we do it the right way we go in and get rid of the government and let the people rule themselves...

Oh, we already tried that...


P.S.

WHy are we worried about Darfur when we haven't cleaned up Louiisiana yet...

Oh, that's right, the stars determine the Cause du Jour...

[Edwina's Secretary]

Last time I remember you whining about Louisiana it was that the government should NOT clean it up....not the government's responsibility (unlike Iraq....)

can you try for a little consistency (and logic) with your lack of compassion???

(And you are full of bs on the war bonds....1. I am older than you....and 2. many of those who sold war bonds did NOT serve in the military...it was their way of giving...like Ronnie making movies....)

If you are tired of celebrities trying to help...stop listening...

[Pam]

P.S.

WHy are we worried about Darfur when we haven't cleaned up Louiisiana yet...

Oh, that's right, the stars determine the Cause du Jour...

You are so right Richard!

[RICHARD]

WHy are we worried about Darfur when we haven't cleaned up Louiisiana yet...

Oh, that's right, the stars determine the Cause du Jour...

Hmmm, I said that WE hadn't cleaned up Louisiana yet.

Why do people pay for insurance? to get screwed in the event of a catastrophe?

The private sector held many fundraisers for the area and my biggest bug up my arse are the people who don't want to go back and rebuild...


Everyone knows about Kate Smith and God Bless America. I saw Bing in a sailor suit once. Lombard was too old, Deitrich was not a citizen...Cagney was a gangster....


Yes I am full of mieda and not very compassionate when it comes to certain things in life. I cannot bleed the blood I don't have.


Not only that, how can I trust someone who makes their living in the make believe?

I have stopped listening to celebrities....but they keep showing up on the tube.

I think it's very nice that they do fly in to all these areas, flit around with a camera crew and come back to the United States to make more money to spend on mansions, cars and late night dinners at the Sunset Strip clubs-
get arrested for DUI, shoplifting and all kinds of stuff....


I laugh.

[Edwina's Secretary]

I have stopped listening to celebrities....but they keep showing up on the tube.

Why don't you turn it off?

You are not making sense. You complain if celebrities give time and money to others and complain when they spend it on themselves....

As is being discussed in another thread here...it is the meanness that bothers me....

It is easy to feel compassion for someone who is poor and illiterate. It is more challenging to feel compassion for someone who is rich and makes music I don't like.

[RICHARD]

Why don't you turn it off?

You are not making sense. You complain if celebrities give time and money to others and complain when they spend it on themselves....

As is being discussed in another thread here...it is the meanness that bothers me....

Mean?

Where?

My only problem is the press that they get for doing "good deeds"

Let me clarify...I don't care about the act...it's the coverage.
I care more about my "home town' than I care about the world.

I just thought about Ma duh na getting jobbed over that kid....


Heh, heh heh.......

If she don't get the kid will she pull out with the three million bucks she donated?

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I'll save people the trouble..


Yes, I am an uncaring bees turd!

[Edwina's Secretary]

My only problem is the press that they get for doing "good deeds"

Let me clarify...I don't care about the act...it's the coverage.

So...it is a bad thing to publicize people doing good deeds?

Better to save the ink for people doing bad things???

What does "jobbed" mean?

[RICHARD]

What does "jobbed" mean?

Jobbed means "to get fleeced, screwed.

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To the tune of Like a Virgin....

I went into the wilderness
Looking for a kid or two
Didn’t know about the cost
That's 3 million to you!

What a joy, found a boy!
What a find, but he’s left behind
‘Cause I’m bending the rules
His dad I’ll try to fool

Adopt an urchin Hey!
You don’t have to wait any time
Adopt an urchin
Buy him Nike, Levis and Calvin Klein

I couldn’t take him home that day!
So he went on a layaway
So, on this you can bet.
He came home on private jet!

Adopt an urchin. Hey!
Spoil him with a huge home!
Adopt an urchin
He’ll get a nanny, ‘puter, cell phone!