Ginger's Pretty Mama

Should we watch a movie?

Uncle Vinnie...

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Is it a football?

Meet Ginger

In three or four months we will bring home our baby girl, Ginger Thi Hang Baldwin, from Vietnam. She was born in August. We are unbelievably excited and can't wait to meet her and hold her and bring her home. We've been through so much and waited so long, but we finally have a child and it's just a matter of time until we are all together.

As you can see she is absolutely adorable, perhaps the most beautiful baby in Southeast Asia. From the look in her eyes I can tell she loves to fish, watch birds, read, watch movies, and hike and camp and play. Especially play. Her arms look very flexible so she's probably good at yoga too.

Adoption Fundraiser -- get cool pants!!!

THE CORDAROUNDS BLOG

WHEN LIFE GIVES YOU BABYROUNDS, MAKE A BABY.

It was a famously bad business decision, the creation of Babyrounds. Not the concept, but the volume.



Last summer, we said, “Hey, let’s make something cute and clever out of all these leftover fabric scraps!” Little did we know this industrial waste would yield a mountain of baby pants as terrifying as the Eiger!

Despite having sold more baby pants than a meth-addled Willy Loman with a steamer trunk full of Garanimals, we’re still up to our eyeballs in the darn things. So, with space at a premium aboard Cordarounds’ new economy-size corporate zeppelin, we’ve decided to hold another Babyrounds sale and give 100% of the proceeds to our friends Chuck and Erin, who shelled out a serious wad of dough on failed in vitro fertilization, and now must pay another mountain of moola to adopt a child.

Cordarounds has established many business firsts: first clothing company to own and operate a functioning dirigible, first advertisement to include the phrase, “We shall leave the surf frothing with our enemy’s rotten blood!” Now we’d like to be the first company to donate all profits from the sale of high-tech baby pants to a good cause. This isn’t 2% for the rainforest or 5% for the manatees. When you buy a pair of Babyrounds for $20, Cordarounds will put 100% of that double sawbuck toward the purchase of a child for Chuck and Erin.

So, if you have a baby, know someone who has a baby, or need a strong procreation incentive, pick up a pair of Babyrounds this month, and know you’ll be doing a darn bit of good.

But that’s not all. Cordarounds scientists have cooked up something very special for all our new Babyrounds customers: With each pant purchase, they’ll use a special laser to nano-etch your name on a unique part of the child’s anatomy.

Stake your claim by purchasing a pair of Babyrounds and telling us your desired real estate in the comments section of the order form. What will bear your name? The funny bone? The uvula? Maybe a lymph node?

And, finally, if you're feeling charitable, but are far too manly to ever purchase baby pants, we understand. To you, we offer this link to the Chuck and Erin blog and baby fund.

Posted on July 25, 2007 04:48 PM | Permalink

One Reason the Constitution Party is Absurd

The Constitution Party is founded on the premise that The United States Constitution and The Christian Bible are the sole documents of reference for any questions about government, and seemingly how we live our lives day to day in America.

The Bible is absurd for obvious reasons, in that not every person and every faith even places value in it. Why not pick the Koran or the I Ching? There are more Muslims and Buddhists in this world than Christians after all.

The Constitution, on which our government is founded, is a fine document, and I do believe one of the greatest civil documents ever written. But, it has and should be modified to suit the current times. Why The Constitution Party insists on forcing the same values on us as the puritanical Founding Fathers of 250 years ago is beyond me. And amazes me.

In refutation of this I point to the letters of Thomas Jefferson, author of the Declaration of Independence, 4th President of the United States, founder of the University of Virginia, and my favorite Founding Father:

"I am certainly not an advocate for frequent and untried changes in laws and constitutions. I think moderate imperfections had better be borne with; because, when once known, we accommodate ourselves to them, and find practical means of correcting their ill effects. But I know also, that laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind. As that becomes more developed, more enlightened, as new discoveries are made, new truths disclosed, and manners and opinions change with the change of circumstances, institutions must advance also, and keep pace with the times. We might as well require a man to wear still the same coat which fitted him when a boy, as civilized society to remain ever under the regimen of their barbarous ancestors."

-- Thomas Jefferson, to Samuel Kercheval, July 12, 1810

It would seem that some people just refuse to develop or advance their minds or human kind. As far as I'm concerned they do not have to keep pace with the times. But they better no try to hold me back.

I Guess They Got Away With It

Haven't seen anything in the press about Fangs' AsianWeek racism. I guess they got away with it and will continue to run the City as they see fit.

Re: Do You Hate Blacks?

On 2/28/07, EPB <> wrote: Does anyone else suspect that this Kenneth Eng guy was writing this type of inflammatory articles just to make a big name for himself? Racist and bigoted remarks seem to be making big headlines these days. If he was trying that angle, it's working, unfortunately.

One of the blogs called it a brilliant marketing piece before going on to pick it apart. That doesn't affect my shadenfreude of watching the Fangs suffer financially and politically. I don't really get off on watching Britney or Anna Nichole or Mel Gibson or Kramer self destruct, because they have not wronged me personally. Heck, most have entertained the hell out of me, regardless of their eventual highly public regrettable actions.

OK, sure, I watch them, but I don't "get off" on it. That's a huge distinction, like the difference between sitting back and watching the Nazis take over your country, and, joining the SS so you can round up the Jews and gays yourself. See, one is actively evil, while the other is passively evil.

Re: Do You Hate Blacks?

On 2/28/07, Brad B. wrote:

Town hall meetings, City Supervisors sending denouncements, press conferences by local race leaders; isn't this the type of overreaction that will invariably turn this single column by an idiot into more than it is? This guy could have been dismissed locally and forgotten about and now he's probably gearing up to do the rounds on the news channels. People's 15 minutes are turning into career opportunities like the one being handed to this guy by the very people who denounce him.

But the PC parade of formalities and necessaries, that keep stories going longer than they ever need to be, is in motion.

It seems like people these days have to go so far to denounce and separate themselves from unpopular behavior that we have started keeping these events alive longer than they should be. When all that is really needed is to dismiss and ignore such silliness.

Now we have this Fang guy lying about not knowing what's going on. Him meeting with leaders who he lies to, to which these groups simply don't care cause now they get some media attention. Now Fang and black leaders will have a show of reconciliation that is completely fake only to appease people. Personally I'd rather not be lied to by the Tim Hardaway's as they try and recover from their brain farts, trying to get me to believe they don't mean what they just said. It's all lies, it's a show. Lies that keep people happy. When Silent Bob had lesbian and gay jokes in his Chasing Amy screenplay, the gay groups wanted a contribution to their organization before they would endorse the movie, They just wanted a fucking cut and then they would say all is fine. It's all just lies. The funny thing here, now, is the only person being honest to himself in this story is the ignoramus who wrote the article.

Yeah. My angle is to see the Fangs suffer: politically, financially and by their reputations. This is so blatant that it magnifies what lousy people and unscrupulous journalists they are, and underscores how politically corrupt the family is.

And truth be known, some of what the idiot Eng points out does indeed happen. Relations between Blacks and Asians here are horrible. His article does not move to mend the relationship, but it does expose it to the community at large and even beyond.

All of the formalities, town hall meetings, and public events aren't necessarily a bad thing. And even when the NAACP and Ted Fang smooch to make up, the people will still know. Political Blacks in the City will know not to deal with the Fangs. Opponents now have something real to fire at James Fang during the next BART Board elections.

The Fang Family just published -- on top of the tripe they've been publishing -- the most blatantly racist column to appear in a public newspaper since the KKK was running Middle America. And for whatever fallout, whether real or for show, occurs, the Fangs look bad. I really cannot imagine them looking good around here again after this.

The fact that all 11 of the City's supervisors unanimously sponsored a resolution urging all City departments to pull any advertising from AsianWeek finally shows some willingness to punish this family for its deeds.

AsianWeek, like the other Fang-owned publications that once existed, got a huge percentage of its income from classified legal ads. If that stops, the paper stops. If the paper stops, the Fangs' voice is unheard. That won't stop racism or heal the relationship between these minority groups, but it will at least silence the last of the Fangs' assaults on the public discourse.

-chuck

Do You Hate Blacks?

Ted, Florence, Samson,

Time to fold up shop. Your good will has been used up in San Francisco. How could you let this kind of garbage get printed?

I can't believe I ever felt good about working for you. By the end I knew I was working for cheap, uncaring, corrupt people, but early on I believed in the dignity and freedom of the press -- any press. I believed John Fang was a good man. But since his death you have sullied his name and ruined everything he built. Asian Week is a farce now, a racist tabloid not worth the low-grade newsprint its toxic ink is printed on.

Eng should be unceremoniously fired. James should be removed from the BART board. And Tom, how can you still work for the Fangs knowing what you do about their operations?

Shut down the racist Asian Week!

-Chuck Baldwin

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2007/02/27/MNGTCOBI921.DTL

On the Beach Today

New Messages on the Bird Log

Since I haven't come up with any thing to say here yet I though I'd point you to some new posts on my Bird Log. Click here.