Seen here in Malawi this morning wearing.. camouflage pants and army boots? (Well played, Ambassador Madonna), the pop star’s attempt to adopt a four-year-old Malawian girl, Mercy, was delayed by a judge today who pushed the adoption hearing to Friday. The AP reports:
Some child advocacy groups say the 50-year-old pop star’s plans to adopt a young Malawian girl have been fast-tracked because of Madonna’s money and status. One accused her of acting like a rich “bully.”
Meanwhile, a coalition of non-governmental organizations held a press conference in the capital, Lilongwe, criticizing the pop star’s latest adoption application.
“Mercy James is a child who has her extended close family members alive and we urge Madonna to assist the child from right here,” a statement from the coalition said.
Mabvuto Bamusi, the coalition’s national co-ordinator, said they were asking the court to uphold the country’s laws and to “fully” assess Madonna’s second adoption bid.
You know what? How about Madonna and Angelina, and apparently Fergie now, all have to put the adopting on hold until we handle more dire child problems here in America first? I’m talking safe homes for all the Octo-kids, and the Duggar family is completely sterilized. Or at least half of them are taught the birth canal isn’t a cannon for Jesus. I’m willing to compromise.
I agree with Justifiable. Right on all points.
It’s good that adoption is not easy folks! Foreign kids are not like pets what you buy in a pet store! No matter who you are!
Decades ago they used to sent up these kids like a postpackage! To cut the cost!
I agree with 49 SoTe. But I still don’t like Madonna, just like I wouldn’t like a man with that kind of huge ego, and there are LOTS of men with that kind of huge ego.
Lots of insanity in the world folks!
Actually I completely agree with fish (cause appearently that’s his name), even though he is just jerking around. This trend for adopting children from Third world countries really annoys me. What the hell? Why the fuck would you go abroad to adopt a child when there are hundreds and thousands of unhappy, deprived, orphaned children in your own country? What, aren’t American babies misfortunate enough? Or is it not hip enough for dear celebrities to adopt white kids? Fucking show offs! I hate this. Using children for fucking publicity like that, what could be more disgusting?!
“Or at least half of them are taught the birth canal isn’t a cannon for Jesus” YES! stupid christian-patriachy loving nutcases.
We had this subject already years ago! We’re against interracial adoption!
Aren’t there orphans in your own backyard!? Look there first! You’re only encouraging countries not to solute their own problems!
A solution for their problems!? Their problem gets only bigger! How dumb can you be!
Kids are not to be sold folks!
@32 – Lourdes will never be on the pop scene. There is only enough attention for ONE narcissist in that family…
Come on, everybody knows niglets are “buy one, get one free!”
“Or at least half of them are taught the birth canal isn’t a cannon for Jesus”
I nearly peed myself after reading that one. I’m glad I’m not the only one a little freaked out by the Duggers and their lifestyle.
She probably can’t adopt within America because the adoptive selection is way strict. They don’t want little kids to go to ‘unsavoury’ parents such as Madonna.
The fact that she is recently divorced would prevent her adopting in the States straight away. Not too mention fucking a kid half her age as well as a married man. There is NO WAY they would let her adopt…
And she’s such a fucken psycho she makes me sick. Doesn’t she know she is a constant walking embarassment to herself?
#49 wahwahwah you can always tell a material girl fanatic. The kid has family and isn’t in danger of starving. Madonna wants remove her from her family so Malawi is suggesting if she cares so much for her she should support the family so they can take of the girl THEMSELVES . You can easily “save a child from death” as you so hysterically put it without adopting her in this way. You have no idea what sort of relationship Lourdes has with her mother, you don’t live with her and you’re not her BFF – her education and languages have nothing to do with this. There are plenty of kids like her who have great education and opportunities up the wazoo but they’re not exactly being raised by their wealthy parents. And if a single guy no matter how famous wanted to adopt a little girl on his own there would be a helluva lot of discussion, so shut your cake hole when all you have to offer is idiocy.
#51 Back atcha with #38 – yeah, lacking a sensitivity chip is important when packing your latest “I’m a caring mommy” cami togs.
@ 62. The truth is Lourdes is probably just a host body the mummy queen is growing so she can do some creepy voodoo “Skeleton Key” ritual and take possession of it on her 18th birthday. Poor kid.
Is that Lola with her in pic 6? She’s adorable!
Those boots look like she’s been wearing them all of about 3 minutes. Even the soles are still shiny.
Christ what a phony.
#70 Oh God, does that mean those aren’t real US Army camouflage cargo capris either? What sort of monster are you to shatter all my illusions like that??
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Points:
-Malawi is not a war torn country. They’ve had peace since at least the 60′s. It is just very, very poor.
-Most of the children in orphanages, which are really just dumping grounds, have extended family. They are much too poor to care for the children whose parents have died.
-It is extremely difficult to adopt children in the U.S., ESPECIALLY any in the foster care system. My father has tried, and they have so many restrictions. My dad is an attorney, upstanding, but is considered past the age limit, cost notwithstanding.
-However bad orphans in America have it, it can no way compare to the plight of those in Malawi. It’s the second poorest country on Earth. I didn’t know any of this until this weekend; I watched Madonna’s documentary “I Am Because We Are”. It’s on hulu & youtube now. It was eye-opening and heart-wrenching. It’s given me an understanding of what Madonna is trying to do with her Raising Malawi foundation. I recommend it.
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No matter how many children Madonna kidnaps from third world countries, she will always be a used-up, fugly old warthog. And she has ass herpes.
I hate her, she makes me barf.
@Kat: And why do you think it’s extremely difficult to adopt children in the U.S. ?
Maybe because all the restrictions make sense !!! Who the hell needs a 3 year old child when you’re 50 ??? Eventually the herniated disc will make it very difficult for you to teach your child riding a bike…
If a woman wants to get pregnant with 50 the whole society would scream, no way, not at this age !!! But if Madonna wants to adopt a little girl with 50 that’s o.k.??? Nature did good on equiping women with menopause, and I bet she is already in it…
btw…those pants…those boots…who does she think she is ??? Even there’s been no war in Malawi since the 60′s, these are surely not the right clothes for posting an adoption claim…
She doesn’t really want kids. She is buying slaves. Her ego is that big that she really beleives she can go into anty country and buy her some young blood. Oh, shit. She is doing that. Do these kids have to call her MASSA?
Since she does not let them watch the news on tv, they do not know they are slaves for an old hag with delusions of grandure. Money sure has corrupted her.
“Mabvuto Bamusi, the coalition’s national co-ordinator, said they were asking the court to uphold the country’s laws and to “fully” assess Madonna’s second adoption bid.”
Looks like Madge is not greasing Mr. Bamusi. That is how the third world works. If you don’t bribe the correct piss-pot bureaucrat, they are going to stonewall you (or throw you in jail).
I actually feel sorry for Skeletor. No matter where she goes, if she tries to pick up another crotchling, some parasite is going to be picking her pocket. She should stick with collecting Beanie Babies.
god those cheek implants look as if martians rehabitated on madonna’s face
she needs a new kid, once that mini-me daughter of hers (Lourdes) becomes the new Hannah Montana. I mean, what 50-year old broad doesn’t want to dress up like an employee at Gander Mountain and adopt black babies?
This is one of those trends that’s going to be accepted as weird and terrible by everybody in 15 or 20 years, not just smart people like us.
And I like the badazz bushwear on our subject there…just pathetic.
Good lord, look at the mug in pic #7! And she’s really trying to say she’s never had plastic surgery?!
who the fuck wears militia attire (plus a “malawi” t-shirt) to adopt a child in an underdeveloped African country? maybe she’s trying to sympathize with African kids by resembling a child soldier. what an insensitive dumb bitch.
that’s a girl???
Madonna, if not for cheek implants, Botox, and Juvederm injections, how the hell does your face get fuller and firmer the skinnier and older you get? In the film “Truth or Dare” you made fun of people who got plastic surgery, saying you would always be natural and work with what you have. HYPOCRITE.
I like Madonna’s outfit.
In Truth Or Dare Madonna still looked good. It’s easy to say you would never do this or that when you dont have that choice to face. She didnt want to age. WHo does? Looks matter. and if she didnt get any surgery done you would complain about that. So who cares?
#73 some of your points are well taken.
You’re right, Malawi may not have been directly involved in war since the 60′s, but they have seen the horrors more recently- via thousands of refugees from Mozambique in the mid to late 1980′s.
I also totally agree with you about adoption here in the U.S.- It is extremely difficult.
And I also agree that we Americans have seen no poverty like that of Malawi, not even our orphans. We can’t even imagine it.
But where you lose me is at any defense of Madonna.
Madonna is a sanctimonious creep, who does things for show, not because she really cares. Throughout her career we have seen this activity- she has never had an original idea in her life- she builds on the hard work of others, and then claims it as her own. All the while making huge piles of money.
For that you have to give her props- she is a genius at self promotion.
If this raises awareness of Malawi’s plight, that’s wonderful, but don’t kid yourself that Madonna’s not checking out how that Malawi tee shirt looks on her, and how this foundation will affect her taxes, social position, credibility, etc.- now that she’s realized that the acting thang just ain’t gonna float.
Now- for keira @ #76
Wake Up! Infants aren’t the only ones up for adoption! Why can’t a person of 50 adopt an older kid? There are many prospective adoptive parents who would be overjoyed to adopt the children that no one else seems to want-
THE OLDER KIDS! They need homes, too. Just because they aren’t all new and tiny anymore doesn’t mean they need parents any less!
(And I don’t think that a 50 year old would be too creaky to take them on…)
For God’s sake, 50 is MIDDLE AGE, not old age!
And no, I’m not 50.
But I agree, I hate Madonna and she makes me barf, too.
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She probably can’t adopt an American child because we know she is fucking retarded. There is no way a court in the US would ever let that thing adopt an American kid. That would be considered cruel and unusual punishment.
She only wants to get a black girl so she will have a matching set. Ever hear of a woman wearing 2 different colored shoes?
Now she can breed them and sell them to her cronies as slaves. Madonna is a slave trader now. Think about it. She goes to a foreign counrty, pays off a black person and then buys another black person. Sounds familiar, doesn’t it?
#86 – Normally, I’d agree with you: yes, Madonna said she would never have plastic surgery when she was younger and looked good, so it was easy for her to say. But Madonna has always been so hell-bent on proving her intelligence, her sanctimoniousness, and taking pride in her big, pseudo-intelligent mouth, that she should have had the forethought (genius that she is) that her words could come back to haunt her.
And I hear you: no one wants to age. Me included. But I don’t have the responsibility of being a role model (although I don’t believe she’s much of one) to millions of girls/women. She’s built a career on being a strong, independent woman who doesn’t listen to anyone. If anyone in the public eye should have taken a stand against the media’s discrimination against aging women and owned up and accepted, nay, embraced her aging face, it’s her.
#76, you are right, I don’t understand women wanting to have children at age 45 and up, but there are lots of grandparents raising their grandchildren out there and doing a great job. I don’t think her age is all that relevant considering she is still in great shape. The little girl was obviously put up for adoption to begin with and she went to adopt her and now they are saying “No, the little girl has a family but if you want to help then support her family so they can take care of the little girl?” What? If Madonna just wanted to give someone money she would of done that, she wants to adopt a child. She obviously can’t have anymore and while I think it would of been better for her to adopt within the USA, I have heard from a lot of families how hard it is to adopt because of all the restrictions. Yes, some are in place for good reason, however it really is not fair that some people who clearly shouldn’t have children can give birth and some people that would make great parents can’t have children and also can’t adopt in our country. I mean seriously think about it there are 14 year old girls having babies in our country and no one says a thing, they have the right to raise the baby if they can. Yet if someone that is old enough to really take care of a baby and give it everything it needs can’t have a baby and tries to adopt they can’t because they are single? If they could actually have a baby on their own no one would say anything about them being single. That is what people mean when they say the adoption restrictions in our country are strict.
Not Madonna, cheek implants, Botox, and Juvederm injections, how the hell to get your face is fuller and stronger you get skinnier and older? Movie “Truth or Dare” You people who made fun of plastic surgery in telling you what you have and always will be natural to work with. Hypocrite.