Brad & Angelina High Tail it to the Hamptons

Thanks guli for the video. I noticed Zee leg was was not bow anymore.

373 Idlemess : 08/26/2007 at 10:29 pm

Honestly folks, did anyone wanted them together?

Me personally, I never imagined it. I thought that Brad was too hollywood for my Angie. I didn’t think he had the balls to be with some as edgy and hot as Angie. Brad is Midwestern boy next door type of hunk. Angie is edgy living for the moment on her own terms type. The coupling of this couple was amazing to me and fascinating. I couldn’t stop watching them emerge as one. It was kismet.

Does anyone know if Brad is going to AOJJ’s premiere in LA on 9/21/2007?

376 sharon : 08/26/2007 at 10:43 pm

I would imagine so. It’s his movie so his premiere.

372 jq–Yep in most cases it does with proper nutrition. That’s why I was so pissed off when the trolls started commenting about Z’s legs in Prauge. Many babies who are malnutriened will also have problems with the growth of their bones but with proper nutrition it corrects itself. I was fuming when I was reading those posts (granted I wasn’t here thank god, it was when I was catching up with certain threads).
Brad and Angie love their kids and they have all the resources to go to the best doctors, they know what they are doing.. OK, that topic really bothers me because Ms Z is so special to me and I really don’t think she’d be alive if it weren’t for Angie and Brad…

373 Idlemess—I think there is more to why Angie was with BBT and why she behaved that way. JMHO, I think b/c JV left when Angie was a few months old she never had a father figure and here she meets a famous, handsome(yuck not my taste)
BBT who is 20 plus years older than her, he was like a father figure she never had and wanted to please him just like little girls do with their dads.
But our Angie grew up and realized he was going thru a mid-life crisis and needed her to feel he was still young. After having 4? (one of them almost the age of Angie)kids he tells Angie he doesn’t want kids anymore. So she agrees not to get pregnant but she decides to adopt.BBT did not like that and it was over right away. But what does BBT do, gets his next girl friend pregnant right away. If there a s s whole trolls think X was hurt (she is the reason why her marriage ended) how do you think Angie felt…But nooooo Angie doesn’t get hurt, she is tough..right, WRONG, she got hurt alot and it took Bradley to heal her!!!! Again JMHO :-)

This is my third post,don’t know why they arn’t going thru??
Love my Fav couple. Angie looks so awesome in her white outfit but when doesn’t Angie look fab? Brad what can i say Yum:)..Take care All BAMPZS FANS….

Peace

Goodnight JustJazz, hope to hear from you tomorrow :-)

Article from the Washington Post Outlook Section by David Brinkley
posted August 26, 2007

The answer to New Orleans’s levee woes is painfully obvious: money and willpower. Common sense dictates that the endangered areas — if repopulated (and that is a big if) — demand levees that can sustain Category 5 storms. It’s a national obligation. Entire blocks are moldering away while the federal government lifts only a cursory hand to reverse the desultory trend.

Unfortunately, one of the biggest misperceptions the American public harbors is that Katrina was a week-long catastrophe. In truth, it’s better to view it as an era. Remember, the Dust Bowl of the 1930s lasted eight or nine years. We’re still in the middle of the Katrina saga.

Bold action has been needed for two years now, yet all that the White House has offered is an inadequate trickle of billion-dollar Band-aids and placebo directives. Too often in the United States we forget that “inaction” can be a policy initiative. Every day the White House must decide what not to do.

The stubborn inaction appears to fall under the paternalistic guise of helping the storm victims. Bush’s general attitude — a Catch-22 recipe if ever there was one — appears to be that only rank fools would return when the first line of hurricane defense are the levees that this administration so far refuses to fix.

New Orleans appears to be largely abandoned by the Department of Homeland Security, except for its safeguarding of the Port Authority (port traffic is at 90 percent of pre-Katrina numbers) and tourist districts above sea level, such as the French Quarter and Uptown. These areas are kept alive largely by the wild success of Harrah’s casino and a steady flow of undaunted conventioneers.

The brutal Galveston Hurricane of 1900 may be a historical guide to the administration’s thinking. Most survivors of that deadly Texas storm moved to higher land. Administration policies seem to tacitly encourage those who live below sea level in New Orleans to relocate permanently, to leave the dangerous water’s edge for more prosperous inland cities such as Shreveport or Baton Rouge.

After the 1900 hurricane, in fact, Galveston, which had been a large, thriving port, was essentially abandoned for Houston, transforming that then-sleepy backwater into the financial center for the entire Gulf South. Galveston devolved into a smallish port-tourist center, one easy to evacuate when hurricanes rear their ugly heads.

To be fair, Bush’s apparent post-Katrina inaction policy makes some cold, pragmatic sense. If the U.S. government is not going to rebuild the levees to survive a Category 5 storm — to be finished at the earliest in 2015 and at an estimated cost of $40 billion, far eclipsing the extravagant bill for the entire Interstate Highway System — then options are limited.

But what makes the current inaction plan so infuriating is that it’s deceptive, offering up this open-armed spin to storm victims: “Come back to New Orleans.” Why can’t Bush look his fellow citizens in the eye and tell them what seems to be the ugly truth? That as long as he’s commander in chief, there won’t be an entirely reconstructed levee system.

Shortly after Katrina hit, former House speaker J. Dennis Hastert declared that a lot of New Orleans could be “bulldozed.” He was shot down by an outraged public and media, which deemed such remarks insensitive and callous. Two years have shown that Hastert may have articulated what appears to have become the White House’s de facto policy. He may have retreated, but the inaction remains.

The White House keeps spinning Bush’s abysmal poll numbers by claiming that his legacy will rise decades from now the way Harry S. Truman’s did. But Truman had a reputation for straight talk and bold vision. If Bush wants history to perceive him as Trumanesque, then he must act Trumanesque.

Bush’s predecessors moved mountains. Theodore Roosevelt set aside 230 million acres for wildlife conservation (plus built the Panama Canal). Franklin D. Roosevelt began a kaleidoscope of New Deal programs to calm the Great Depression and Truman oversaw the Marshall Plan rebuilding of Western Europe after World War II. Bush could seize the initiative and announce a real plan to rebuild, a partnership between the government, Fortune 500 companies and faith-based groups.

Unfortunately, right now New Orleans is having a hard time lobbying on its own behalf. Minnesota’s Twin Cities have about 20 Fortune 500 companies to draw in private-sector money to help rebuild the bridge that collapsed in Minneapolis. New Orleans has one, Entergy, which is verging on bankruptcy. So besides U.S. taxpayers and port fees, New Orleans must count on spiked-up tourist dollars to jumpstart the post-Katrina rebuild.

But this is where the bizarre paradox of living in a city of ruins comes into play. Out of one side of its mouth the New Orleans Chamber of Commerce says, “Come on down, folks! We’re not underwater!” Yet these same civic boosters — viscerally aware that the Bush administration is treating the desperate plight of New Orleans in an out-of-sight, out-of-mind fashion — don’t want to bite the hand that feeds them large chunks of reconstruction cash. New Orleans is both bragging about normalcy and poor-mouthing itself, confusing Americans about what the real state of the city is.

Recently Mayor C. Ray Nagin, born with the proverbial foot in his mouth, tried to explain why the homicide rate in New Orleans is so appallingly high. When a TV reporter asked, Nagin merely shrugged: “It’s not good for us, but it also keeps the New Orleans brand out there.” This absurd comment — and dozens like it — hurts New Orleans’s recovery almost as much as Bush’s policy of inaction.

Everywhere I travel in the United States, people ask, “Why did you guys reelect such a doofus?” There is a feeling that any community that reelected a “first responder” who stayed in a Hyatt Regency suite during Hurricane Katrina, never delivered a speech to the homeless at the Superdome or Convention Center in New Orleans, and played the “chocolate city” race card at a historic moment when black-white healing was needed probably deserves to get stiffed by the federal government.

And Nagin isn’t the only bad ambassador New Orleans has. It also has City Council member Oliver Thomas, Sen. David Vitter and Rep. William J. Jefferson — all currently in deep trouble for potentially breaking the law. Dismayed by such political buffoonery, Americans have simply turned a blind eye to New Orleans’s reconstruction plight. There is a scolding sentiment around the country that Louisiana needs to get its own house in order before looking for fresh levee handouts.

Then there are egregious contractor crimes such as over-billing and price-gouging. The medical infrastructure has largely collapsed. Mercy and Charity hospitals remain closed. A severe crisis in mental health care has erupted and gang violence is on the rise. The Environmental Protection Agency refuses to clearly state that it’s safe to live in the metro area. Young professionals, recognizing that there are greener pastures all over the nation, are fleeing in droves.

Even with our trillion-dollar debt and excessive military expenses in Iraq, the American people, if presented with a bold plan, might be ready to save the beleaguered city. Perhaps the people haven’t lost their good Samaritan grit.

Let’s, for once, put New Orleans on the front burner. After all, Katrina exposed all the ills of urban America — endemic poverty, institutionalized racism, failing public schools and much more. New Orleans is just a microcosm of Newark and Detroit and hundreds of other troubled urban locales.

How we deal with New Orleans’s future will tell us a lot about our nation’s future. In 2008 it should really be an up or down vote. Category 5 levees or not? An independent FEMA or a FEMA still ensconced in Homeland Security? Do we pour $40 billion into grandiose Louisiana engineering projects or do we instead put up “no trespassing” signs in the areas below sea level? All are hard choices with various merits and pains.
The important thing, however, is for America to decide whether the current policy of inaction is really the way we want to deal with the worst natural disaster in our history

http://www.washingtonpost.com

http://www.aarpmagazine.org/people/katrina/

Gives a good idea of what happened to the elderly in New orleans.

Brad is a great dad. I love Pax’s smile. May God bless Brad and Angie for giving these wonderful kids a future.

Hey Tijen, how are you? I’ve been hiding at this thread all day long. I really have a hard time dealing with complete stupidity and hatred for no reason certain days. Today was one of them :-)

Here check out Mmad, Pax and Z with wonder Dad Brad….

http://jjb.yuku.com/topic/73336?page=230

Tijen I am so worried about what’s going on in Greece. I hope Meli and TP and everyone in Greece is OK. Just as I suspected they are saying it was arson but due to the upcoming elections. How can people be so malicious is beyond me.

When does Aron start college? Korey’s starts Sept 4th and OSU starts end of Sept for the older one…Keep in touch, if not here via email OK?

Hey guli-

You’re still up?

I love it how Pax and Zee and their dad are all sticking their tongues out at the photographers. They sure have been making this family’s life very difficult. I am glad to see that they are having fun in NYC.

I am so sad about the fires in Greece. I just can not believe this. My parents are in their summer house in Didim right now. They say it is extremely hot and dry. Everybody is extremely concerned. I hope Turkey is helping out somehow someway. I know during the last Greek earthquake they were helping. I hope Think Positive and Meli are doing OK.

My boy starts OSU (not your, but ours in Oregon) on September 24th, but the freshmen need to be in the dorms the prior week to get ready and oriented. So we move him on the 18th. I am sure I will be crying all the way back home. I am already getting emotional. It will be good though. He will learn to appreciate home, and we will realize what a wonderful son we already have.

397 tres’ hot :Hiya lady, well I’ve been hiding at this thread almost al day since the the other one with Angie at central park is full of trolls and I am not int he mood for that. SoI am having a wonderful Sunday. Oops it is officially Monday now right :oops: So did you see the latest video? Brad the Dad with the kids. OMG let’s see what the trolls are going to say tomorrow ‘Brad doesn’t love Shi, he didn’t take her with him’….NOPE never will happen; ONLY if it is ANGIE!
Don’t know why but that’s how their minds work or I should say their twisted minds work :lol:

Tijen-when I talked to Mom two days ago she was saying how hot and dry it was and they were worried about water outages. Remember the pics I sent you from Bodrum this summer andthe fire close to my house you saw those orange planes. Well Turkey has 10 of them and I am sure they are trying to help out. My prayers are withthem…