How to Adopt an African Baby Lesson #1: Become a celebrity

Hollywood actress and UN activist Angelina Jolie has adopted an Ethiopian infant, an AIDS orphan she has named Zahara Marley.
The Daily Telegraph reports the adoption was approved last week by officials. Jolie flew into Ethiopia on Wednesday to collect the baby. Earlier in the week Jolie told celebrity website People she was "very happy to have a new addition to [her] family".
Jolie travelled to Ethiopia with her "Mr And Mrs Smith" co-star Brad Pitt, who she is rumoured to be romancing.
The adoption explains Jolie's recent trip to London department store Harrods, where she was recently spotted shopping for baby items. The visit sparked rumours she was pregnant to Pitt, which Jolie emphatically denied.
Zahara will be a sister to Jolie's son Maddox, who she adopted from Cambodia three years ago.
(from www.yourtv.com.au or whatever the site is)

Hmm.

Adoption sure comes easily for Ms Jolie. I mean, usually it takes forever and a century for a normal family to attempt to adopt a child from overseas (at least it does here in Australia - not that it's not hard enough to adopt 'normally').

And just how does she do it? Does she pop over to Africa, have a look around a few orphanages, line up some babies and say, "Oh, I'll take that one, thanks. Do you also have any in a lighter colour? No? Oh well, I guess this one will just have to do for now."

Okay, so I'm cynical about the whole thing, but it just doesn't seem fair or right that celebrities seem to get short-listed for everything and are allowed to do whatever they want when other families who would love to adopt a lil tacker from another country (or their own country) are struggling through miles of red tape, forms, waiting lists, blah blah blah blah blah!

Bollocks, I say!

As www.defamer.com puts it:
Angelina Jolie is extending her family the old-fashioned way, by jetting into Ethiopia, proclaiming, “I want that one!”, and assimilating a poverty-stricken infant into her steadily-growing brood. Once the quicky adoption of her new daughter is complete, Jolie and newly politically-conscious man-friend Brad Pitt will next (private) jet off to Tibet to select a third delegate of the Security Council for their planned alternate United Nations (comprised entirely of adopted offspring educated solely on international location shoots), which will one day replace the decaying, ineffectual institution and usher in a new era of peace and unity.
Oh, who are we kidding? You know those kids are going to spend their lives trying to convince the public that they’ve earned their movie roles on their own merits, struggling against the burden of famous parents.