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Madonna as evangelist?

Posted in Adoption, Celebs on May 1, 2007| Leave a Comment »

Now here’s an angle on the international adoption theme that sounds almost too strange to take seriously. Since it’s coming from the Far Right, however, I don’t think I’ll let it sit on the page without a bit of a chew.

The “Conservative Voice” is suggesting that Madonna has an ulterior motive in adopting from Malawi and feeding, housing, educating and otherwise supporting thousands of Malawian orphans. According this rendition of the “fine print” in the Daily Mail … ‘Daily Mail’ and ‘fine print’ do NOT go together no matter how one may try to maneuver the words into the same sentence, by the way. It’s a big-print/no-subtlety publication of the first order as the Brits do so well … her true agenda is to somehow massage the country into a mass conversion to Kabbalah, her religion of choice.

You have to admire writing that makes tremendous leaps outside the realm of fiction … supposedly … going so far out on a limb to snip a bit then spin, spin, spin. Or not.

According to the Daily Mail, nearly half the population of Malawi is under the age of 14 and many of those children are orphans. As a result, it stands to reason that they may be searching for security—a search that might be taken advantage of by those who are pushing a certain form of ideology.

That ‘it stands to reason’ reminds me of the long-accepted carte blanche well known in the South that allows anything to be said about anyone as long as the tone is sugary and followed by a prescribed tag line: She’s ugly as sin and dumb as a shovel … bless her heart.

The article goes to to warn, ” … make no mistake, Madonna is an evangelist …” .

Please excuse me while I laugh about three-quarters of an inch off my too-copious ass. The conjured image of Madonna as Tammy Faye drizzles into my eyes like melting mascara and I’m blind with the mad mirth of preposterous presentations.

Apparently, the author has never heard of Christian-based orphanages or adoptions and is put off by the idea of religion coming into play in aid to African countries. Yeah. Right.

I’m shocked … shocked I say … that a publication called The Conservative Voice speaks spurilously about the Material Girl. And adoption, too?

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Hear ye, hear ye

Posted in Adoption, Cambodia, Writing for a living on April 27, 2007| 3 Comments »

I’m going absolutely bozonkers over working on my pro blogs lately. There’s a push on to polish them up, professionalize them, and although I’m well in favor of jettisoning bloggers who have yet to shake hands with the punctuation principal, I’m none too thrilled with the perpetual refrain of “stick to topic”.

My blogs are on international and older parent adoption, and in my little mind both of those cover a range of possible subjects that could be massaged to include just about anything I find interesting. I am, after all, an older international adoptive parent, and seeing that most of my perspective takes on some flavor from this huge part of who I am, what could I write about that is not ‘on topic’?

Apparently, the company doesn’t see things this way, however, and prefers I bang a more repetitive drum. They weren’t at all impressed by my two-parter on intergalactic adoption, and have strongly suggested I don’t go THERE again. Go figure.

Because I already end up with more adoption-related news than I can use, and now will have so much more, I’m going to start posting info here. News about Cambodia will especially feature, as the regular Friday feature of an update on Cam news is no longer favored on the International site being ‘off topic’ … much of it is not specific to adoption … and I’ll be updating regularly.

If you’re coming here from CAL or GAARP or RathCare to follow Cam news updates, welcome! I’m happy to have you. If there is specific adoption-related news, I’ll link to the blog where I post it.

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