It's nice to hear a bit of good news after all the horrible stories of the past few days (Burma, Iraq, etc.). Say what you will about Brad Pitt, but he's putting his money where his mouth is, which is a lot more than I could say for many of his Hollywood brothers and sisters.

I don't care what the politics of this action are as long as some poor chap and/or family
profits from this. Not that it is going to hurt Brad Pitt any!

Bless his little pea picken heart!
X's & O's to Mr Pitt for doing what the rest of deep pockets Hollywood won't do...COMMIT FINANCIALLY without a wit about how it will fatten someones bottom line.
While a business here and a restaurant there will help the tax base GRADUALLY only BIG MONEY commitments will EVER make a difference.

After listening on Martha Stewart (when Pres. Clinton visited)to how $1000 can maintain a school for 100 children in Sudan for a whole year I understand that folks want BANG for their BUCKS as it's so much more impressive to say I TOTALLY UNDERWROTE THE COST of a school in Africa for a year than I donated $1000 to the 9th WARD rebulding effort which was gobbled up in paperwork and probably bought toner cartridges for someones printer!

HOLLYWOOD I believe Mr Pitt has thrown down the glove....who will pick it up now??????

Does anybody else find it interesting that the release of the long-stalled and problematic Jesse James movie JUST SO HAPPENS to coincide with the Clinton Global Initiative, where both Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie JUST SO HAPPEN to be glamorous invitees with impressive initiatives to unveil? How convenient! THEY ALWAYS DO THIS ... THEY USE THEIR "CHARITY" (and their politically correct brown children) to polish their images and sell their films, among other nefarious motives. They've been doing it for years. What a pity more people can't see through this scam ...

I consider Brad Pitt one of the shining examples of humane maleness in this 21st century.

Kudos to him and his family.

Thank you and bless you, Brad Pitt. You and Angelina are two of the people I admire the most. Your willingness to help those in need whether here or abroad shows a compassionate heart. Louisiana appreciates everything you do.

THANK YOU Brad Pitt

You are more impressive every day, and you are SAVVY about spreading your seed money into various neighborhoods, so the city has to restore water and electricty to all the city.

BRAVO!

Great work Brad! You are probably already aware of this, but as a reminder and as a way to encourage employment and opportunity for the native New Orleanians trying to recover and live their lives in N.O.
Black Contractors Say They're Excluded
WDSU - Wednesday 20 August 2007
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/082907F.shtml
New Orleans - Black contractors who claim they've been frozen out of New Orleans' rebuilding are calling on Congress and federal prosecutors to investigate the Army Corps of Engineers and the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
At a news conference, the local chapter of the National Association of Minority Contractors said federal agencies continue to dole out billions of dollars to large corporations. The group also said it might resort to protests to get its message out.

Why can't people just be happy about it? Oh, yeah. Most people love to hate. Not very progressive. Bitch. Bitch. Bitch.

Brat Pitt Don't waste your money or your time. It's gone and the idiots and the criminals are in charge. The tourism is dead. Only crazy people live below sea level it's going to happen again. A waste of time and money. Get out while you can.

Anyone checking up to make sure he follows thru?

It's great that celebrities are generous and civic minded, but why does Brad Pitt make such violent movies? The damage those extremely violent pictures do to minds may outstrip any good he's doing philanthropically. He seems obsessed with violence -- not a great example for his, or anybody's, kids. The guy's good looking and decent enough, but, man, he's making his bucks perpetuating and glorifying violence. Disconnect.

Good for Mr. Pitt.

but god bless Brad Pitt..hes being used by the gov who would have him hung in a heart beat if he spoke out to much..ironic isnt it.

Americans have given ENOUGH to NO..THE GOVERNMENT was supposed to do something by now.
Dont give another ecnt to NO ..demand the millions we already SENT(i sent $100)be used already!Americans are in debt!The government has betrayed NO and the more we donate.the more THE GOV can sit back and pretned Katrina never happened.

if he really gave a damn he'd buy all that property and put a fence around it so that when the next hurricane comes there won't be anyone there for the president to drown.

Looks like there is still hope.

This is good. He makes our own damned government look bad, as if anyone would have a hard time doing that! Bush has run away from it. the government has abandoned the people of the 9th ward for good reason. they want to build up the walls and build their white bread casinos and all. They never wanted the people to come back and build homes.

Be careful Brad, Bush might get pissed that you are making him look bad. He does not want you to succeed. He might send in his goons to get you out of the way of his profits.

Does he do coastal restoration, too? Because, otherwise, the only thing he is doing is being criminally negligent by demonstrating a reckless and careless disregard for human life.

I'm not into that celebrity bullshit, but as an American, Brad Pitt, rates pretty high.

Brad - a man with real heart.It's great to see a a man who could have or do anything choose to help others in a big way and be a good dad and partner.May his blessings return many times over.

Kudos!

When Babs Bush made a piddling donation, she stipulated that it be used to buy software from the herpes-infected-by-a-prostitute-while-still-married-son Neil's company.

GOOD FOR HIM.
I posted he was a jerk for not living in KATRINA land with anjie as they said, but this will do. Sustainable homes is good. KEEP GOING.
BUILD MORE HOMES LIKETHIS. The construction and real estate industries are screwing blacks out of housing with their bastard constructions and it shjould be stopped.

Go for it Dude!

You've got 5 million to throw down a rat hole.

Brad is just about as crazy as his character in "12 Monkeys".

Forget Clinton and Obama, I'm voting Brangelina 2008!