links for 2007-01-12
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“Jolie…would “never take a child away from a place where adoption is illegal.” Yet Jolie failed to mention that she adopted her Cambodian son, Maddox, through a group that was later found to be guilty of fraud…”
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So silly. Thanks Rob! “A Black Hawk County judge apologized Wednesday for making a comment about jurors with big lips - a reference she denied was racially charged.”
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“Why was Jesus persecuted and crucified? Was it because Jewish leaders viewed him as a threat to their teachings, because the people rejected him as a false prophet or because the Romans considered him a political rebel? Or was it because he was black?”
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Sigh… ” “I Love New York,” the new reality series starring former “Flavor of Love” contestant New York, made history on Monday (January
scoring the highest debut in VH1 history.” -
Thanks Jason! “we offer a completely biased survey of the best, worst and strangest moments in black American music over the past 12 months.”
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“The defense attorney for a Virginia teenager convicted of fatally stabbing another young man placed some of the blame for the incident on lyrics from Atlanta group Crime Mob’s record “Knuck If You Buck.”
Carmen Van Kerckhove is co-founder and president of 
Nina wrote:
I wondered when the media would finally get back to the Cambodia adoption issue with Angelina. If I recall she also was living in another country while filming a movie so she adopted Maddox from there and not throug the U.S. Again the issue of shadiness and money influencing legislation come into play. It is not about these stars intent to “save children” but their constant dodging of the law and search for sainthood in return. And Malawi does not ban adoption, they have an 18 month, in-country residency requirement which Madonna avoided. Also Angelina’s recent comments about loving her adopted children more than her biological one because of their struggle-uncomfortable! Isn’t one of the cardinal rules of parenthood, never let your kids know which one of them is your favorite?
Posted 12 Jan 2007 at 11:02 am ¶
Lyonside wrote:
>Isn’t one of the cardinal rules of parenthood, never let your kids know which one of them is your favorite?
Bottom line: good thing they have money. The therapy bills are gonna be killer when those kids are teenagers.
Posted 12 Jan 2007 at 11:37 am ¶
kim wrote:
I think unless Jolie manifests such favoritism in her raising of the children (and I hardly believe she will) that it falls to rhetoric, and one which a child raised in an atmosphere of appreciation for the struggles of the world, will naturally grow to accept as a form of rhetoric.
Children who are raised in homes where their parents foster, or adopt troubled children, or hard-to-place children, have many resentments and upset at having ’shared’ their parents, but also have a built-in perspective and understanding of the nature of the extension of self, and the family that one creates for onesself.
Her children may be no different, if she actively parents.
That being said, most of the children of mega-celebs have a default relationship with a team of shrinks and therapy groups. So, I second the Lyon on this one (again).
Posted 12 Jan 2007 at 1:54 pm ¶