Brad Pitt in New Orleans

I just don’t believe that X is still close to Jane Pitt. Maybe in X’s mind, but that’s all. The Pitts just seem like nice people who might not use caller ID when someone annoying calls.

I like the idea of encouraging Jared to put up a Stever Irwin thread. This guy is nothing but an animated example of love, goodness, enthusiasm for God’s creations, and an ambassador for animals. There is not one person who has ever said anything bad about him, and in 15 years of television, that says something! He is kindness personified. His inability to take himself too seriously and laughing at the camp aspects of his presentation only endeared him further to the world. And I am using the present tense because he still lives on, his soul has touched so many, and he left the world better than he found it.Steve Irwin, more than any celebrity, deserves his own thread, so that his many admirers and shocked fans around the world have a place to express their grief.My condolences to all who knew him, and to all in a state of shock over his passing.

Does anyone actually realize the damage that Jolie has done for people wanting to adopt a child from Cambodia. The ‘agent’ she used to adopt her son was responsible for the government closing the gates for others to adopt…CAMBODIA Important Update Regarding Cambodia AdoptionsFebruary 12, 2002 Expressing particular concern about the adoption process in Cambodia, On December 21, 2001, Bureau of Citizenship and Immigration Services in the Department of Homeland Security (BCIS) Commissioner James Ziglar announced an immediate suspension of the processing of adoption petitions in Cambodia. On January 25, 2002 the Cambodian Foreign Ministry verbally notified the U.S. State Department that it would suspend the issuance of adoption documentation to American families in acknowledgement of trafficking concerns and other problems in the adoption process in Cambodia. Also the fact they they aided the growth of corruption in Africa. Basically saying here Namibia, here’s lots of money, don’t let any reporters near us. Money talks. I think this woman has done more harm to further her own glory and the sooner people look into her dodgy dealings the better. # 1838 | food for thought |*****************************Ok - I’ll indulge you for a few minutes. While I do see what you are attempting to stir up here, I fail to see any real connection to Angie. What is the ‘agent’s’ name, and what is your proof that he/she is even connected to Angie or this situation? The info you posted does not name a specific agent, nor does it name an agency. Sorry, but in order to prove your point, you will have to provide the crucial evidence (names, agencies) that link this to Angie. Do you know what agency she used to adopt Maddox? Do you know the name of the person? Then you have to show that they are the same. If you are going to try and show how diabolical she is, you are going to have to do more than insinuate, and that’s all this is. The change in the adoption process in Cambodia could have zip to do with her, and you know it. The burden of proof is on you.Now, about Nambia…also, again, where and how does the fact that they paid alot of money to rent out a resort and put up barriers "contribute to the corruption of Africa"?. Sure, they took advantage of existing laws to their advantage, but there’s no corruption in that. Again, you have to show a real connection.

For your information Dragonfly:Angelina Jolie’s Adoption agent admits fraudABS/CBN, Interactive ^ | June 25, 2004 | not givenPosted on 06/27/2004 7:34:11 AM PDT by television is just wrongAngelina Jolie’s adoption agent admits fraud SEATTLE - A Hawaii woman who helped Oscar-winning actress Angelina Jolie adopt a Cambodian boy pleaded guilty on Wednesday (Thursday in Manila) to visa fraud and money laundering as part of a ring that paid poor women as little as $100 for their children, her attorney said. Lauryn Galindo, 53, and her sister in Seattle, Lynn Devin, received fees of $10,000 or more to arrange adoptions by U.S. residents of children described as orphans, even though many still had parents, according to the documents. Devin, who pleaded guilty in December, but has not yet been sentenced, and Galindo have agreed to surrender all property associated with the crimes, including a home in Hawaii and a Jaguar automobile. Galindo’s public defender attorney, Jay Stansell, declined to comment further. The sisters operated an agency called Seattle International Adoptions, which paired hundreds of children from Cambodia with adoptive parents from 1997 to 2001, when suspicious U.S. immigration authorities halted adoptions from the impoverished Southeast Asian country. In one instance, Galindo faxed Devin documents with a notation saying "Father dead — mother very poor — Kampong Speu," referring to a 4-year-old girl who was with her birth mother in Cambodia, court documents show. Devin and Galindo then directed the adoptive parents to pay $100 to the birth mother and paid $3,500 to the Kampong Speu orphanage, described as "Cambodian ministry clerks, employees or officials" in the plea agreement. The adoption ring received a total of $93,700 for the adoptions cited in the case. Describing children as "abandoned" and misidentifying many of them brought the charges of visa fraud, while financial charges stemmed from efforts to hide the profits in Cambodia and avoid financial reporting of the transactions at a bank in Hawaii. Galindo could face up to 20 years in prison at a sentencing hearing set for September. Prosecutors have said that the investigation will not change the status of children adopted through the Seattle adoption agency.

# 1851 | kidi | I am with you on this one. I can’t believe that in a household of Grandma Betty, Jane, Julie, Lisa and nieces who are crazy about Brad, they all loved X?? That’s not possible. Hell, I didn’t like her from day one and not one of those females thought that. You can see her phoniness without being in her actual presence. Brad has said that everybody loves her and she is matronly. I certainly don’t see it…I see homely but matronly (mother like), where? Most likely he said that for her self-esteem as we all know it’s rather low. How do we know that his family didn’t plead with him to not marry her? I find it strange that she never had a relationship with either of Julie or Lisa who are in her age group? The only pictures that I have seen of Brad, X and his parents were around the wedding time. I don’t know of any other time where they came to visit, etc. But then again, I wasn’t a fan of the boring, ooops, I mean golden couple. *****I read the X thread and rotflmao. Did X get an upper lip wax as it seems to be vanishing? Courtney looks just as frightening….*****I read over at BAFF that there are Labor Day pictures of the family. Right now there’s just a picture of the white SUV. Hopefully, we will see them all soon. Have a good day BAMZS…

food for thought - Good, you provided more information. I also am well aware that one doesn’t need to look very far to find corruption in any foreign adoption agency. Unfortunately, many of them are run by opportunists, and many honest people have been duped by them. This still does not prove Angie had dishonest intentions or purposefully frauded anyone or "stole" Maddox from anybody. Angie found him in an orphanage in Cambodia, she did not contract with this agency for just any baby while she sat stateside and waited. She found him in a bad situation in Cambodia and wanted to get him removed from it. What’s so evil about that?As CCCC said, you obviously have a bias against Angie. I don’t think anything anybody says is going to change your mind. You are entitled to your opinion, as we are entitled to ours.

# 1857 | food for thought ————————To set the record straight.Around the same time, Lauryn Galindo, the Hawaii-based adoption facilitator whose services Jolie had used to adopt Maddox, was sentenced to 18 months in prison after pleading guilty to visa fraud and money laundering charges. She had been falsifying records of children to be adopted in visa applications to the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, and several of the children she placed had not been abandoned at all but were enticed away or bought from their birth families. There is no evidence that Maddox was among them, although the investigation is continuing. Maddox Jolie-Pitt, as he is legally named, was naturalised as a United States citizen some time ago, and there is no indication that that will be rescinded. source: http://en.chinabroadcast.cn/3126/2006/08/01/269@121374.htm

# 1838 | food for thought How the hell is Angelina personally responsible for this "damage" you idiot?Was she running the adoptions NO! If there is any wrondoing in the course of the adoption process, Angelina is the victim here as well as thousands of other parents who adopted there over the years before her.How does paying to dtay at a resort known for its secluded beaches contribut to the corrubtion of the African country of Namibia? One othe the reasons Brad & Angelina went there was because of their strict laws concerning privacy. She did not overstep her boudaries. The greedy uninvited papz who STILL came down without invitation, overstepped theirs. They are the ones who probably contributed to corrupt people because they still managed to get shots of the couple. you can’t do that without greasing some palms.

# 1862 | African Girl | - Morning AG, my weekend was great, how about you? Guli is mad at you, cause you missed her cookout :)

How does paying to dtay at a resort known for its secluded beaches contribut to the corrubtion of the African country of Namibia? One othe the reasons Brad & Angelina went there was because of their strict laws concerning privacy. She did not overstep her boudaries. The greedy uninvited papz who STILL came down without invitation, overstepped theirs. They are the ones who probably contributed to corrupt people because they still managed to get shots of the couple. you can’t do that without greasing some palms. # 1865 | Clutching Pearls |**************************ITA, and food for thought, have you dropped your argument about Namibia? You didn’t address it or rebut our replies.

#1859 ReneeI agree — she’s friends with Jane PItt, supposedly, but Brad’s sisters have too much of their own life going on to put up with her nonsense so she isn’t friends with them and they’re her own age! Frankly, I think her going on and on about how close she is with Jane Pitt was just to dig at her OWN mother, and really isn’t any truer than anything else she spits out. Totally self-serving, and you notice the Pitts never stoop so low as to refute anything said about them in the tabloids. It’s only when Doug gets riled up enough HE’LL say something, but the parents — never. So, it was real easy for the X to paint this picture and let people believe it, just to hurt her own mother.

# 1857 | food for thought | - Yeah, so the Adoption Agency Angelina used admit fraud, so what does that have to do with Angelina? Why are you here anyway? Because your food for thought is full of bullshit

remember da truth - All this bizness about JA being friends still with Jane Pitt has come from the tabbies and raggies. I don’t think any of it is true in the first place. I do agree JA would exploit the fact that she knows Mrs. Pitt wouldn’t answer back or refute it to her own benefit, though. My eyes have been opened as to what a famewhore JA really is.