Posted on 04/29/2006 1:51:06 AM PDT by beaversmom
Saying she's "ready for anything", Angelina Jolie is talking about her new life and the fact that her hormonal pregnancy state has her giggling endlessly, according to an article in People magazine and the usual celebrity netchat.
The actress held a press conference in her vacation home of Namibia, and addressed the serious topic of Global Education Week. She also did an "exclusive" interview with reporter Ann Curry on the Today show, in which she continued her efforts to bring attention to the need for educating all the world's children.
In the interview, Curry asked about having the baby in Namibia, and Jolie responded, "We just don't know where it's going to happen or where it's going to be."
When Curry asked if there would be a doctor nearby, Jolie replied, "We've been smart about it. Things will be as they will be. I'm ready for anything."
Asked whether it would be a boy or girl, the actress declined to comment, saying, "I'd like to keep that to myself."
As for her thoughts on educating the world's children, Jolie was more outspoken.
"The lack of education causes death," she said. "More children die under the age of five when parents are not educated; more people get AIDS when they haven't had an education. Statistics prove that if every child was in school every year, 700,000 less people would get AIDS."
As spokesperson for Global Education Week, Jolie obviously takes a personal interest in the subject partly because her own two children – Maddox, 4, from Cambodia, and Zahara, 1, from Ethiopia – likely would have lacked for every opportunity.
"There is no possibility she could have gone to school," Jolie said of Zahara. "In all probability, what would have happened to Maddox, he would have been one of the kids doing the garbage picking in the street, and he would have been on his own.
Jolie appeared surprised when Curry compared her concern for education to that shown by another woman – first lady Laura Bush. "She should nudge her husband," said Jolie.
When Curry pointed out that the United States does spend a considerable amount of money to insure that poor people get an education, Jolie acknowledged, "They do. But (the Bush program) 'No Child Left Behind' means NO child left behind. Britain gives three times more than us right now. They're not richer than us. So, I don't know what the great excuse is."
She made no mention, however, of the historic amount of money Bush had allocated for the African AIDS crisis, even though that's where she's currently residing.
As for her giggling fits, she credits her delicate condition.
"That's what I've gotten from the pregnancy," said Jolie. "Brad said that to me, too. I just get hysterical now. It goes on for hours. It's hormonal."
Is there anything they don't know?
If I could only fly.
I don't think she's talking about the spending in this country... She's unhappy about our spending in other countries...
You are right--I didn't read carefully enough. Still, I think we give quite a bit around the world through our government and private charities.
What a joke she is.
It's interesting that the giggly, hormonal lesbian would mention education and President Bush in the same conversation as he is much better educated than either her or her boy toy.
Midnight Cowgirl
What does she do other than have sex with Brad Pitt?
I want to turn jalapeños into gold.
I'm worried about the girl. She flies over to Africa, and right off the bat a bee stings her in the lips.
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The Poverty Puzzle ('The White Man's Burden,' by William Easterly)
--SNIP--
It's not that simple, William Easterly argues in "The White Man's Burden." Take those mosquito nets. When aid agencies hand them out in poor countries, he writes, "nets are often diverted to the black market . . . or wind up being used as fishing nets or wedding veils." Free nets don't get to the people who need them.
But in rural Malawi, clinics serving new mothers sell insecticide-treated bed nets for 50 cents each. The nets come from a program developed by local Malawians working for Population Services International, a Washington-based nonprofit organization. In Malawi's cities, the group sells nets for $5 each, using the profits to subsidize sales in the countryside.
The program, Easterly reports, has "increased the nationwide average of children under 5 sleeping under nets from 8 percent in 2000 to 55 percent in 2004. . . . A follow-up survey found nearly universal use of the nets by those who paid for them." By contrast, when a Zambian program handed out free nets, "70 percent of the recipients didn't use" them. Charging for nets may sound hardhearted, but prices provide vital information about commitment.
That's a neat picture.
You mean Albert Einstein is alive?
Sorry Angel, the "wages of sin is death." Got it. Now try teaching the world about being a responsible parent by not having a baby out of wedlock. Sexual promiscuity has created tremendous heartache and death in Africa, especially with the AIDS epidemic. Or did the writer leave that out of your script?
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She's got liberal disease.
She cares, she's tried to educate herself, yet a basic lack of common sense and the fact she gets her economic education off blurbs in leftist newspapers keeps her hopelessly useless in the real fight.
The cure for anything for these types is to throw more money at it. And simple cultural inferiority is so Politically incorrect. So they sit and cry over the babies, totally useless.
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