Cap'n Bob & the Damsel

California

A Virtual Seashore Visit

This site is just too cool. You can see 360° views at selected beaches along a 72 mile stretch of the coastline near Los Angeles and on Santa Catalina Island.

Beach Views

The County of Los Angeles Fire Department, Lifeguard Division, in partnership with the County of Los Angeles Department of Beaches and Harbors and the University of Southern California Sea Grant Program has created a network of web cameras weather stations and water thermometers to aid in staffing beaches, tracking rescue activity, creating public education materials, and collecting environmental data for use in pursuing our common goals of protecting and educating the public, safeguarding property and preserving the environment. Devices are installed along the 72 mile Los Angeles coastline and connected to the Fire Department’s Wide Area Network allowing Operational Captains to accurately assess staffing needs at secluded, under served beaches from anywhere on the network through a web browser.

13 Feb 2006 by California Cyberspace Environment

Damsel Sends You an Amaryllis

This beautiful pair of amaryllis flowers are two of the five blooming from a single stalk. Keep in mind that these are being grown indoors which makes them extra special. Sunlight through the figmented window and love nourish these beautiful flowers.

Coming soon are three or four more, plus another stalk growing from the bulb. Coming soon from another bulb will be pictures of a bright red amaryllis.

10 Feb 2006 by California Home & Garden Photography

Scumsuckers of the Day

Somebody please tell me that this bitch and her accomplice aren’t getting only 16 months for this crap. She and her middle-man should be getting 5 to 10 years for endangering our community by selling drivers licenses to hordes of illegal aliens now happily driving around (statistically) without insurance, thus raising the cost of driving for legitimate citizens.

From the Daily Breeze:

DMV representative took cash for phony licenses

A worker at the California Department of Motor Vehicles office in Torrance took tens of thousands of dollars in cash bribes to hand out phony drivers’ licenses to illegal immigrants, authorities said Tuesday.

Toi Shamara Kingsbury, a motor vehicle field representative at the Torrance office from 2001 to 2005, has pleaded guilty to bribery charges.

Kingsbury, 31, of Los Angeles, was arrested Nov. 9 at a restaurant where investigators watched her commit a “hand-to-hand exchange involving cash for fraudulent drivers’ licenses,” DMV spokesman Mike Miller said.

A “middleman,” Ronald Kirk, 35, also pleaded guilty. Prosecutors said he brought people wanting licenses to Kingsbury.

Orange County Auto Theft Task Force agents first suspected Kingsbury of a crime when they discovered she had switched a vehicle identification number on an auto in the DMV’s computer system, Miller said. That auto-theft case is pending in Orange County.

Undercover DMV investigators soon began watching Kingsbury work at the office at 1785 W. 220th St.

“They witnessed blatant fraud,” Miller said.

[ . . . ]

“The scam involved selling drivers’ licenses to people who didn’t necessarily have the documents to get them,” said Deputy District Attorney Max Huntsman, the prosecutor on the case. “We believe she made a lot of profit off this operation.”

The case remains under investigation, and it was not clear how many fraudulent licenses Kingsbury processed and for how long.

Kingsbury has pleaded guilty to receiving bribes and is scheduled to be sentenced April 7 to 16 months in state prison and ordered to pay a $135,000 fine, the DMV said.

And that’s not the end of it – if California Democrats pass their insane legislation for letting ALL illegals have access to drivers licenses, people like this bitch will be out of business, BUT the problem will increase many-fold. And take it a step further and consider the terrorist implications of a license giveaway.

10 Feb 2006 by California Degenerates Law and Order Whacko Politics

NSA Terrorist Monitoring Saves L.A. Landmark

Thanks to the legal and essential NSA wiretapping program initiated by the Commander-in-Chief, the tallest building in Los Angeles still stands. Today, President Bush related how the program thwarted a possible attack on the Los Angeles Library/U.S. Bank tower in downtown. During a live speech before the National Guard Association the President revealed details about a terror plot to fly a plane into the Library Tower which was planned in the weeks after Sept. 11. He said that al Qaeda planned to use operatives from southeast Asia who would be armed as shoe bombers to break through fortified cockpit doors.

For the sake of the continued protection of America and her allies, critics of the NSA program should shut the hell up and let the program do its job. Moonbats like Jimmy Carter and others who equate this legal program with questionable policies of previous administrations serve only to weaken America. If you don’t have any terrorist connections, you should be overjoyed that this program is working.

Those of us who have nothing to hide welcome the program and look forward to continued successful thwarting of terrorist plots.

Hat tip Michelle Malkin and Military Outpost

09 Feb 2006 by California Degenerates Islamic Terrorism Whacko Politics

Damsel Sends You a Chime Tower

This beautiful Moroccan-style chime tower houses the Deagan Tubular Bell Carillon situated above the City of Avalon on Santa Catalina Island. The Cap’n and I hiked up to the top of Chimes Tower Road to get photos of the chime tower and of Avalon Harbor. The chimes sound periodically, as well as can be played manually or with piano rolls on special occasions.

About the CHIMES TOWER:

Built in 1925, the Chimes Tower was presented as a gift to the town of Avalon by Mrs. Ada Wrigley. Located up and across from the Zane Grey Pueblo Hotel, the chimes have been tolling on the quarter of the hour between 8:00 AM and 8:00 PM since 1925. On holidays and special occasions the chimes are played manually and can be heard throughout Avalon.

About John C. DEAGAN:

Deagan was founder, and for many years president, of the Deagan Manufacturing Company, manufacturers of percussion instruments. He was an orchestra leader at Niblo’s Garden and at Tony Pastor’s in New York and was director of the orchestra at the Opera House in St. Louis. He became director of the Catalina Island Band in 1893 and while there was interested in perfecting percussion instruments. Deagan died at the Surf and Sand Club at Hermosa Beach, Calif., April 28, 1934 and was buried in the family vault in Chicago.

09 Feb 2006 by California Photography Travel

Damsel Sends You a Damselfish

Well, a Garibaldi actually, which is a type of Damselfish. This is a photograph we took of a Garibaldi during a recent visit to Avalon, Catalina Island, taken from the beach in front of the hotel where we stayed.

From USC SeaGrant:

Garibaldi Territory

If you were to peek under the waters of Santa Catalina Island and areas of the Southern California coast you might see a brilliant orange fish about a foot long, poised by a red algae-covered rocky outcropping, swooping and making loud “thumping” noises and putting on quite a show…for whom and why?

The garibaldi, or ocean goldfish, is the largest member of the damselfish family, and one of the few species that resides in the cooler temperate waters from central Baja California north to Monterey. Almost all other members of the damselfish family are found in tropical reefs around the world and are less than 8 inches long. The garibaldi is the state marine fish of California.

One of the most interesting things about garibaldis is their courtship and mating behavior. Males work hard to attract females and end up guarding the eggs and ‘raising the kids’ by themselves. There are many reasons that this behavior is helpful to this fish species.

08 Feb 2006 by California Environment Photography

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