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Another Yahoo article is telling me that Pelosi is getting tough…with Nancy Nord, the acting head of the Consumer Product Safety Commission. Over toys. I’m sorry I can’t get too agitated over this, as I don’t, won’t and haven’t bought my kids any of the toys on the list. The ones they received as gifts were either given away or tossed. So, that’s not too much of a concern with me.

When you have a sitting president who has willfully broken the laws of this country, hell in some cases it looks like he’s gone out of his way to break laws and you say “Impeachment is off the table.” When there is mismanagement at every level in the Bush adminstration, but you choose instead to slap your fellow Democrats, the fact that you want to go after the head of CPSC just shows you have no fucking priorities.

Nancy Pelosi = fucking dimwit.

But Tanner (that would be John Tanner, voting section chief of Justice’s Civil Rights Division) apologized for his absurd remarks, regarding photo IDs for voters:

“That’s a shame, you know, creating problems for elderly persons just is not good under any circumstance. Of course, that also ties into the racial aspect because our society is such that minorities don’t become elderly the way white people do. They die first.”

From Yahoo:

Rep. Artur Davis, D-Ala., said that in the 2004 presidential race, for example, the same percentage of eligible black voters as whites cast ballots in his state. But of those groups, more blacks over age 60 voted than whites in the same age group.

Tanner, who said he too is from Alabama, said he was unaware of those statistics.

“You engaged in an analysis without knowing the numbers,” Davis told Tanner. “If you are basing your conclusions on stereotypes rather than facts, then it suggests to some of us that someone else can do this job better than you can.”

Go Davis.

Still those remarks were made at the beginning of this month and he’s just now apologizing for it. Oh well, it took Edwards until he was out of the Senate to apologize for voting for the AUMF.

No double standards here!

There’s no two ways about it. Short story: Bigot, pissed off that Obama had dickhead McClurkin on his stupid little gospel tour decided to post a diary that was incredibly racist. Only a fucking racist would actively search out those images AND type that shit. That should be grounds for autobanning. But, there were people actively uprating the bigot’s comments and the diary. The admins didn’t do one damn thing to stop it except for minor tsking. Now, keep in mind that back in July, some bigotted asshat did a diary that insulted Jews. That diary was taken down immediately by the admins and that person was banned. Nevermind, apparently the diarist lost his ability to comment for a bit. The very next day there was a diary from him entitled “Apology”. He apologized for the images. I’m guessing it’s because they were copyrighted, which is an instant bannable offense, unlike racism which is just simply ignored if you’ve been there along time. In that “apology” diary, he pretty much defended his previous racist diary and was condescending, “I’m sorry you got offended by that.” Naturally, there were the moronic imbeciles who posted, “I thought it as satire!” Right, here’s the words (I’m linking to k/o’s diary because he made the same arguement and has the links):

I Sho’s Don’t Think No Bad ‘Bout Obama! I Sho’s Don’t!
by HarveyMilk
Fri Oct 26, 2007 at 11:22:48 PM PDT

I’m sah glad Obama done included us all, I kicked up a storm in Ms. Getty’s flour bin! I sho’s am happy Mr. Obama done decided that we all count!

When we decided we wanted to be included, Mr. Obama done went outta his way to have someone like us be up on the stage. He white and plenty gay. Well gay, even! Praise be!

We sho’s am happy, Mr. Obama! We’d name our kids after you, iffin’ we had any.

You too good to us. Too good!

Real soon now, they’ll be no difference. Not a difference at’al

He had a image of a man in blackface in this shit. And that’s supposed to be satirical. Yeah fucking right.

Needless to say, the mere fact that he was back (if you click the link you’ll see he’s still commenting), in my mind, means that the site admins decided to stand by this guy and let his racism go. Me:

And yes, I find a little more than ironic

That people who allowed this bigot to remain here and people who uprated his comments, have no problem hanging McClurkin around Obama’s neck. They say it’s “indefensible” that McClurkin did what was expected of him. They call Obama a “homophobic bigot”. Using that logic, what does that make them? They let this guy stay here. They uprated his comments.

Fucking. Useless. Hypocrites.

So, when MissLaura (not responding to me) says that there’s no double standard…:

Running down a list of candidates in my mind and completely forgot that Biden and McCain were actually running. Like, I remember Huckabee over McCain. I guess it’s because Drop Dead Fred took over as Grampa of the GOP field. He positively makes McCain look like a spring-chicken. But not a gay spring chicken. He has sweaters for that.

UPDATED: Okay, in looking for a link for McCain’s gay sweaters, I went Think Progress. The 3rd comment down, just killed me:

McCain would need to wear about eight sweaters at the same time to look younger.

Comment by Badmoodman — July 11, 2007 @ 11:35 am

I sent this to to the help group:

I noticed a new comment in one of my entries, clicked on it and saw
that it was from me.

http://faboomama.blogspot.com/2007/10/my-toddler-this-week.html

Now, I don’t use the term ‘first’ to reply to any blogposts, so it’s
not like I accidentally did this. Since the blogger team email seems
like a well-known secret, I’m posting here. I’ve already changed my
password, but am curious how do I stop this from happening again and
what steps do I need to take to make sure none of my email was
affected by this?

Thank you

And still no answer.

Wow! The LA Times coverage of yesterday’s peace march near downtown was awesome. The full-color photos, the exhaustive interviews…I mean that was probably the most comprehensive number of articles on one rally in a major metropolitan newspaper.

Oh…huh? What? You woke me…I was dreaming I live in a city with a good newspaper.

Not that the paper mentioned it beforehand, but there were peace marches all over the US and Canada yesterday. The one in Los Angeles was not too far from the Times building. The LA Times, being one more cog in the Bush administration propaganda machine, rarely covers them. Okay, they rarely cover LA, but still…Why bother running anything, if you’re not going to cover it. Today, we were blessed with a tiny 2×4 b/w photo of protesters. In San Francisco. To add insult to injury, you learn that it’s an AP photo to accompany the AP article they ran. On like page A32. Here’s where LA is covered in the LA Times:

The protest was the largest in a series of antiwar marches taking place across the country, including in New York City, Los Angeles and Philadelphia.

and

In Los Angeles, protesters marched up Broadway Street around noon to City Hall. On Temple Street, a “die-in” was staged in which Iraq veterans and supporters laid down as the sounds of air raid sirens and bomb blasts filled the air, organizers said.

The story has a San Francisco location tag and out of 14 paragraphs only 2 have the city name. Now, this is an article I can appreciate in say The Desert Sun (which, BTW, great new website you guys!). I guess it could be worse. NOLA.com ran an article call Give War a Chance. It covered the protest and the nimrod writing it, didn’t actually attend the protest or, um, interview anyone who was there. She just has her GOPinions and damn the facts if they get in the way of writing an article!

But really. Even though you’re slaves to Chicago at least pretend once in a while to cover Los Angeles. Just a hint: It’s those two words before ‘Times’.

I’ve been thinking of moving my blog to someplace else. Anywhere else. Blogger is always down for maintenance, my ID got stolen the other day and the tags, the main point of this entry, just drive me nuts.

When Blogger added taggability to this interface I thought it was pretty cool. Now, I’m not so sure. I like the autocomplete, but I shouldn’t have to try to trick it to make it take my options. For example, for my previous entry, I just wanted the word ‘candidates’ as a tag. I tried putting it in, but it autocompleted to ‘democratic candidates’. If I type the whole word ‘candidates’, it doesn’t matter, ‘democratic candidates’ will go in. Then, I’ll have to either make up a new tag that won’t autocomplete (like I did with ‘republican candidates’) or I’ll have drop down to the tag box, delete the word ‘democratic’ and then enter.

I’m really kinda done with this interface.

Running down a list of candidates in my mind and completely forgot that Biden and McCain were actually running. Like, I remember Huckabee over McCain. I guess it’s because Drop Dead Fred took over as Grampa of the GOP field. He positively makes McCain look like a spring-chicken. But not a gay spring chicken. He has sweaters for that.

UPDATED: Okay, in looking for a link for McCain’s gay sweaters, I went Think Progress. The 3rd comment down, just killed me:

McCain would need to wear about eight sweaters at the same time to look younger.

Comment by Badmoodman — July 11, 2007 @ 11:35 am

Today was the first day of Boo at the Zoo at the Los Angeles Zoo. As usual, it was filled with parents and their poorly raised children. Ha! Seriously, though it wasn’t as bad as it has been the last few years.

Poor Alton was so tired since he didn’t get a nap. He had to sleep trick or treat!

Ilia was a doctor. 95% of all the other little girls were some Disney character or princess. Oddly enough, most of the black girls were Dorothy or a pirate. That was weird. She didn’t want to wear her doctor costume, but I wasn’t about to have her walking outside the house in that Jasmine costume I got her.

She got a couple of compliments from moms of princesses, “See, look at the doctor! She’s not a princess!” and I overheard more than a few moms mention to their little girls that the didn’t have to be princesses. Lame. If you don’t like the princess costume, um…don’t buy it. What’s she gonna do? Use her non-existent allowance to buy it behind your back?

Anyway, the little boys were either a superhero or some TV character. Whatever happened to originality? At least it wasn’t another Harry Potter pukefest.

Don’t ask me about Adrian’s pose.

Alton finally woke up, so we put his costume on him. Funny, once I got him out, we both turned to see another little kid in a giraffe costume! Too funny. Well, this time he was okay with wearing his costume and since we were over next to the giraffes, I got a pic.

We walked around the zoo a bit more and both of them just loved seeing all the kids in the costumes. They’d be walking, then just stop to stare. We saw one little kid dressed as a spaceship and that was probably the coolest costume we saw. A lot of adults got into the spirit too, so that made Ilia understand that big people dress up too.

So, I guess we’ll be back next year, ’cause it’s not like we’ve missed a year since Ilia was born.