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LOS ANGELES, California (X17online) - Roseanne Barr has taken to the web to voice her dislike for Angelina Jolie and her partner Brad Pitt, as well as Jolie's father, Jon Voight. In a post on Barr's official blog titled "Jon Voight," the actress rips into the couple, calling Jolie "evil" as well as criticizing her political beliefs.

Barr writes, "Your [Jon Voight's] evil spawn Angelina Jolie and her vacuous hubby Brad Pitt make about $40 million a year in violent, psychopathic movies and give away three of it to starving children, trying to look as if they give a crap about humanity as they spit out more dunces that will consume more than their fair share and wreck the earth even more."

Barr continues, "Miss Jolie says she likes [John] McCain too and hasn't decided who to endorse....huh? Aren't you supposed to be somewhat enlightened, or do you not know that the African daughter you hold in every picture had parents who suffered and died because of the Republican party's worldwide economic assault on Africa over the last few decades since Reagan?....We want to save not lose our souls thank you. Now go back to making your movies about women who love to handle big guns that shoot hundreds of people to death."

LOS ANGELES, California (X17online) - Roseanne Barr is using her blog to voice her views on the Israeli conflict in Gaza.

"Israel is NAZI state," Roseanne, who is Jewish, wrote on her blog.

In another post, Roseanne comments on the high number of Palestinian deaths compared to the number of Israeli casualties.

"TEN, that would be TEN Israeli deaths compared to 688 Palestinian deaths. SIX HUNDRED AND EIGHTY EIGHT deaths!Pardon me if I find it hard to feel sympathy for Israel. They should be ashamed. This is their justification to kill civilians, children and women?" Barr wrote.

The former television star also used her local radio program to make remarks critical of Israel.

LOS ANGELES, California (X17online) - Her reality show Roseanne's Nuts was cancelled by Lifetime after one season, but Roseanne Barr is bouncing back with a new scripted production deal.

NBC picked up Downwardly Mobile for a pilot deal, according to Deadline. The multi-camera sitcom focuses on a working class family living in a mobile home community with their friends, all of whom are struggling in today's economy. Barr co-created the show with boyfriend John Argent and former Roseanne executive producer Eric Gilliland.

This comes fourteen years after NBC passed on Roseanne, the working class sitcom that later made a successful nine year run on ABC. Downwardly Mobile is in the same familiar territory as Barr's last scripted run, as the actress feels society is in as similar a place as it was twenty years ago.