Cap'n Bob & the Damsel

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

Fossett Breaks Record

Follow up on Around the World – and then Some:

FOXNews.com – Science News – Fossett Breaks Record for Nonstop Flight

MANSTON, England — Adventurer Steve Fossett completed the longest nonstop flight in aviation history Saturday after journeying around the globe — and then some — in about 80 hours.

Image (from Fox News): Steve Fossett, right, and Richard Branson, left, answer questions after a fuel leak prevented the first attempt at takeoff.

11 Feb 2006 by Aviation

There’s Not Enough of This . . .

. . . in the mainstream media:

Fluff-Filled Toys and Children, Perfect Match
By SPC Karl Johnson – 363rd Mobile Public Affairs Detachment

Right: Sara, a child living in Baghdad, with Beanie Baby “Courage”. The toy was a gift from Army Maj Jim Barker, whose letter back home telling his family how much the child loved the toy resulted in he non-profit organization Beanies for Baghdad being founded in May 2003. To date, more than 150,000 of the stuffed toys have been passed out by Soldiers since the project began.

BAGHDAD — In a country where having a toy is a rarity, Soldiers passing out beanie babies to Iraqi children can become very popular.

“The children’s faces just light up when they see you,” said Sgt. 1st Class Alan Certain, Company C, 490th Civil Affairs Battalion. “It’s amazing to see what an effect a simple toy can have on a kid.”

The civil affairs Soldiers pass out the small toys during their missions in central Iraq.
To date more than 150,000 of the miniature stuffed animals have been distributed throughout the war-torn nation with the help of Beanies for Baghdad, a nonprofit organization. What started as an attempt to get one child to smile has turned into a project that is helping Soldiers build positive bonds with the Iraqi people.

“This is forming the beginning of friendships between the children and the Soldiers,” said Donna Ward, Beanies for Baghdad project manager. “The hope for a better tomorrow is found in the children of Iraq.”

“We are hoping to see an entire new generation of Iraqis who trust that we are their friends and that we’re here to help them,” said Capt. Darrell Retheford, Co. C, 490th CA Bn.

The success of Beanies for Baghdad has just begun, said Ward. “We have so much more we hope to accomplished,” she said. “These little ones didn’t ask to be born in the conditions they are growing up in and this is a way we can make a difference.” “I personally feel this is a small gesture we as Americans and other countries can do to help our Soldiers sow seeds of friendship and to give these children something to smile about in a war-torn land,” said Ward.

Reprinted from the CENTCOM Newsletter.

11 Feb 2006 by International Islamic Terrorism Media Military

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

Categories

Archives