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February 2007
Lighthouse
Last weekend, as a diversion to running errands and shopping, we took a quick drive to the Interpretive Center next to the Point Vicente Lighthouse on the Southwest side of the Palos Verdes Peninsula. As we passed the lighthouse, I snapped this picture through the open car window. Catalina Island can be seen across the channel.
Upgrading from Blogspot
Imagine having your own domain name for your weblog — you know, like yourname.com or yourorganization.org or yourpetproject.us — think of how much cooler that would be than yourblog.blogspot.com. But wait — there’s more — you also get custom eMail addresses such as nickname@yourblog.com or family@yourblog.com or friend@yourblog.com and so on. Setting up and managing your own weblog domain may be less expensive and easier than you think.
An Aloe of Some Sort
I’m having a busy day today, errands, working, installing the new computer, etc. So I will stick up a picture I took last weekend during a little side trip we took to a local whale watching site. They happened to have a few botanical specimens around the grounds, so I snapped this picture of an aloe something or another. Damsel usually takes these flower photos but her camera was having a ‘retarded blond’ moment where it didn’t seem be able to focus or function. Damsel is a summer blond — those are her words and she says she’s entitled to say that.
Three Daffodils
The bulbs are all actively producing beautiful flowers in the garden today. We were on the backyard swing cleaning up our guns after a trip to the shooting range when I grabbed the camera and got this shot of these three daffodils with the sunlight a little behind them. Great colors, don’t you think?
Flame Tulips
These red and orange tulips look to me like little torches. They are on the coffee table in my Waterford Seahorse Crystal Rose Bowl. The morning sun brings out the tulip colors and makes the crystal sparkle.
McCain Off the Short List
Once upon a time, I thought I could support John McCain as the next Republican presidential candidate. We had him on our short list of favorable candidates. Over the last couple of years, however, he has eroded our support for his candidacy because of his positions on several key issues:
- McCain-Feingold Campaign Reform Act
- Participation in the “Gang of 14” against the nuclear option
- Disparaging remarks about Donald Rumsfeld — “Worst Secretary of Defense ever” (has the Senator forgotten about Vietnam — Robert McNamara, Clark Clifford and Melvin Laird?)
And now there’s this:
John McCain, applauding Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger for taking on the “compelling issue of global climate challenge,” pledged Wednesday to make California’s global warming fight the model for a national effort to curb greenhouse gases.
Appearing with the governor at the Port of Long Beach, the Arizona senator said he will fight in the Senate — and if elected president — to adopt low carbon standards for vehicle fuels to cut pollution blamed for climate change.
McCain sharply criticized the Bush administration for only belatedly acknowledging the global warming threat and for failing to come up with solutions.
“I would assess this administration’s effort on global warming as terrible,” McCain said.
He called for a national program based on two efforts already begun in California.
It sounds as though the Senator has finally found a religion of sorts – a belief in intangibles founded in rumor, innuendo and superstition rather than in fact.