A little light mist this morning left this delicate and fragrant gardenia quite photogenic.
California
Damsel Sends You Seagulls and Surf
On a day with monster 13 to 20 foot waves battering Southern California, seagulls play in the surf.
Now that you’re transfixed with all the beauty and awe of this scene, take a few moments and go have a laugh at this video. A tip of the bonnet to Dave at Garfield Ridge.
Update: Hey, this is Cap’n Bob. Damsel’s lovely picture is wonderful. That being said, the other dimension was the sound and fury of the surf, and the feeling of being there. So, to add to the sensory experience, I shot a video panorama of the cove where she shot her picture. Turn up the speakers and listen to the surf and the foghorn from the Point Vicente Lighthouse.
Give Your Children to Us – Now
Attention California Taxpayers – Does Meathead have his hand in YOUR pocket? Worse yet, does he have plans for your kids?
From the Sacramento Bee:
State’s preschool ads play politics, critics say
[To] opponents of actor-director Rob Reiner’s pending $2.3 billion universal preschool initiative, the spots feel more like taxpayer-financed political advocacy that primes voters for the June election.
They criticize the fact that Reiner chairs the state commission paying for the ads and also leads the initiative campaign that may benefit by its message.
“It’s a matter of sheer common sense – this is an expenditure of taxpayer dollars promoting preschool,” said Jon Coupal, president of the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association. “It’s clearly connected to the pending initiative, and as a matter of ethics it crosses the line. Whether it crosses the legal line remains to be seen.”
Just as Damsel and I thought: the preschool endorsement ads are a political ploy by the left. It seems that the socialist-inclined teaching profession wants our kids sooner in order to prevent parental contamination of their well-thought-out political indoctrination of your kids. We spotted this underlying theme in the ads when they began, and contend that the socialist attitude is “you birth ’em, we’ll take it from there.” This concept is working in China and other communist nations, where youth indoctrination is vital to the survival of tyrannical governments. They don’t want your parental guidance of morality, ethics and religion to interfere with their program.
As for Meathead’s political connections, he seems to have abundant ties to hollywood radicals and socialist-leaning Democrats, evident from the picture on the right.
Damsel Sends You a Tiny Daisy
These tiny daisies are no bigger than your thumbnail. They are shown in their approximate real-size in the inset. These grow on a two foot high bush in the flowerbed out back.
Took-O-Meter
Schwarzenegger refuses to spare Williams’ life
With a reprieve from the federal courts considered unlikely, founder of Crips gang is set to die by injection at San Quentin early Tuesday.
SACRAMENTO – Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger refused today to spare the life of Stanley Tookie Williams, the founder of the murderous Crips gang who awaited execution after midnight in a case that stirred debate over capital punishment and the possibility of redemption on death row.Schwarzenegger was not swayed by pleas from Hollywood stars and petitions from more than 50,000 people who said that Williams had made amends during more than two decades in prison by writing a memoir and a series of children’s books about the dangers of gangs.
Time left until Tookie gets got the needle:
