Paltrow: I'll Never Leave Britain

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[BushisTheMan]

Actress Gwyneth Paltrow is ruling out the prospect of returning to America to raise her child - because she deems her homeland too dangerous. The Oscar winning beauty - who is pregnant with her husband Chris Martin 's baby - has been living in London since settling down with the Coldplay star, and she has no intention of bringing up their child in a threatening environment. She says, "I worry about brining up a child in America. At the moment there's a weird, over-patriotic atmosphere over there, like, 'We're number one and the rest of the world doesn't matter.' And the guns in school - it's not great."

[wizardoz]

"over-patriotic".....hmmmm. I just don't think that's possible.

You know, ten bucks says she thinks Palestinian suicide bombers slaughtering children to "free Palestine from the Zionist occupation" isn't "over patriotic" at all.

[pro libertate]

"Oscar winning beauty?" I have never understood the liberal media's adoration of Ms. Paltrow. I've never found her beautiful and she certainly didn't deserve her oscar.
Cate Blanchett was brilliant in "Elizabeth."

[CyberCowboy777]

Jigglism? LOL!

jingoism

Sorry for my spelling!

[Pagey]

Hey Gwyneth, if Madonna's Mansion in Britain can be robbed, yours can too. I'd compare the safety of the average person being mugged in L.A. , to that happening in Britain, and you're well on your way to being mugged over there ( did you know the cops don't carry guns in Britain darling? What will you do when your intruder sticks a gun in your face,and you know NO ONE is coming to help you with any force,HMMM?) and the USA humbly thanks you for not making anymore movies too. Now just shut your piehole and go raise your child in your 'allegedly' peaceful surroundings. LOL

[SouthernFreebird]

Oh No!.... what are we gonna do now..?

[doug from upland]

DFU NOTE: This bomb damaged 76 buildings and put 500 tons of glass on the London streets.
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1993: IRA bomb devastates City of London

A massive bomb has ripped through the heart of the City of London, killing one and injuring more than 40.

The explosion shook buildings and shattered hundreds of windows, sending glass showering down into the streets below. A mediaeval church, St Ethelburga's, collapsed; another church and Liverpool Street underground station were also wrecked.

The cost of the damage has been estimated at more than £1bn.

	We didn't expect them to do it again in the same area

Security guard Raymond Fayers

Police had received coded warnings, but were still evacuating the area when the bomb went off. Most of those injured were security guards, builders and maintenance staff, and those who had come into their offices to work at the weekend.

Police said the bomb was hidden in the back of a dark blue tipper truck, parked in Bishopsgate.

It was home-made, with about a ton of fertiliser - similar to the bomb which devastated the Baltic Exchange a year ago, killing three people.

Repairs to the Exchange had just been completed, and the building re-opened, when the same banks were damaged again by today's blast.

One of those injured, security guard Raymond Fayers, said, "We were all surprised that they picked the same hotspot again. Every night, virtually, we get some sort of scare, but we didn't expect them to do it again in the same area."

The dead man was found under rubble during a five-hour search of debris near where the bomb went off. He has not yet been identified.

City back in business on Monday

Police say they are in no doubt that the bomb was planted by the IRA, although the organisation has not said it carried out the attack.

The explosion comes just over a month after the Warrington bomb, which killed two children. The IRA expressed its regret after the outcry that followed.

Commander David Tucker, of the Anti-Terrorist Squad, said, "We had hoped after the deaths in Warrington that there would be some sort of turning point, but that seems to be not the case."

The area around the site of today's blast remains sealed off, but the Lord Mayor of London has promised that the City will be back in business on Monday.

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The explosion shattered hundreds of windows

The BBC's Peter Gould: "It was inevitable that there would be casualties"

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The dead man was later identified as 34-year-old Ed Henty, a freelance photographer working for the News of the World. He was married with two children.

Directly after the explosion the government threw what it called a "ring of steel" around the City, with roadblocks in and out of the financial district. Security in the area remains high.

The damage caused by the Bishopsgate bomb cost £350m to repair. The huge payouts by insurance companies contributed to a crisis in the industry, including the near-collapse of the world's leading insurance market, Lloyd's of London.

The IRA carried out one more major attack on London's financial centre. In 1996, after a year-long ceasefire, it planted a bomb in Canary Wharf in the Docklands area. Two died and many more were injured.

A second ceasefire has held since 1997 and opened the way for the IRA's political wing, Sinn Fein, to join multi-party talks on the future of Northern Ireland.

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[duckman]

Gwyneth, Edith Me

[Brilliant]

Too dangerous? She seems pretty whimpy.

[nopardons]

nd the unborn child's parents are married,albeit after conception, so that makes the child LIGIT and no " bastard ".

[Old Grumpy]

What did Britain do to deserve that? Why can't she go to France instead?

[Spok]

I applaud her decision. Alec Baldwin--are you listening?

[admiralsn]

Again, I apologize for the remark see 32

[scotsman1]

No,the rest of the world does NOT envy you,or want to be American.There are other great countries out there,where the people are quite happy to be Scots,English,Australian etc......America isnt the be-all and end-all you know.

[nopardons]

Okay...wrote before I saw # 32. :-)

[aculeus]

Factoid from Mighty Google:

Gwyneth Paltrow, the beautiful, blond Oscar-nominated heroine of "Shakespeare in Love," is descended from a distinguished rabbinical dynasty, called Paltrowitch, which may stretch back to 17th-century Russia. According to the London-based Jewish Chronicle, the actress can count 33 rabbis among her ancestors on her father's side. Her great-great-great-grandfather was Rabbi Tsvi Paltrowitch, the Gaon of Nitzy- Novgorod in southwest Russia, the Jewish Chronicle reported.

Source: http://www.vdu.lt/~ktv/kabbalah/paltrowitch.html

[Republicus2001]

heh, at least I'm free in America - not a subject of a Queen

[Prodigal Son]

I live in Britain. It's not so bad here.

[Right_in_Virginia]

Actress Gwyneth Paltrow is ruling out the prospect of returning to America to raise her child

Let's hope this is the start of an enormous trend among Hollywood elites.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

***Actress Gwyneth Paltrow is ruling out the prospect of returning to America ****

Didn't the Osmonds (Donnie, Marie and the rest of the brood) make this statement back in the early 1970's?

[Age of Reason]

She says, . . . like, 'We're number one and the rest of the world doesn't matter.'

You got that much right, bimbo.