As Miss Zoot said earlier today, “I may be a bleeding heart liberal - but I’m also quite patriotic.” (I really hope I’m quoting from another blogger correctly, I’m still pretty new to this, and I don’t want to offend peeps…I’m attributing enough credit, right? I also left a comment on her post about quoting her?)

Sometimes I just have to laugh at myself, because I am such a liberal. I often get very jaded and sarcastic about our country: the new spying laws, gun control bills, racial profiling, waterboarding, etc…But really? It’s a great place to live. Especially now that there are only 199 days left of Bush Rule (under the 200 mark! SWEET!)

JS and I spent a lovely afternoon at Del Mar Beach (thanks, Google Images!). It was an odd day, weather wise. Not overcast, per se, but foggy. Very foggy. Yet still nice and warm. Later in the day, the fog burnt off, but it gave the beach a mysterious and hidden quality to it (even though it was jam packed with people). Normally, my IA self doesn’t like to be near so many people, but today, it was totally fine. I’m sure a lot of it has to do with the recent No Alcohol on Beaches rule, but everyone was just there to have a good time. There were tons of families - including, of course, dozens of babies in cute diaper ruffle swim suites and sailor hats. I think it also helps that Del Mar is more of a “yuppie” or “country club” sort of atmosphere. All the people who want to get drunk and rowdy tend to head to PB (don’t let the website fool ya, PB is a very, very scary place).

ANYWAY, the point of this post was to give you more videos! Which, apparently WordPress does not want me to share with you because the code keeps getting jacked up and messing up the blog. It’s too late to keep going at it, so I quit. Sorry to leave you videoless. You can see them on YouTube.

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