Author: SinghCity

As most of us know, President George Bush will be making an appearance in West Sacramento on Saturday for an Earth Day event. Arnold Governegger is using Bush’s swing through the state as an opportunity to plead his case for federal assistance regarding our levees to the unyielding feds:

“The situation could not be more serious,” Schwarzenegger said. “Right now we are one big storm or one earthquake away from a major disaster just like Katrina, everyone seems to understand that but the federal government.”

Let’s be fair to the feds, Arnold. As we know, the federal government will only understand the potential for disaster after the disaster happens. Until then, no one will have predicted the failure of our levees too, right?

On a related note, Assembly Speaker Fabian Nunez does not appear to be entertained by the Arnold vs. George megamatch main event:

“It’s not good enough for us that our Governor is pounding on the Bush administration. We need to see real results. We want to see money coming back into California.”

It’s always more fun when money’s on the line.

They always say, the first step to solving a problem is acknowledging that you have the problem in the first place. When you have a problem, never feel ashamed to seek help:

If you were a skunk with your head stuck in a jar, what would you do? At least one skunk in that predicament knew how to get help.

Unfortunately, while the skunk knew what the problem was, the human being it approached for help was at a loss:

“It walked up to me and I took off running and went and called my father and said ‘You’ve got to see this and help me,'” Smith told News10’s Jonathan Mumm.

Fortunately, all three (father, daughter and skunk) were able to put their heads together (figuratively of course), to get that skunk out of the jar for a breath of fresh air.

Here’s another one for our record books:

Dr. Katz uses a sophisticated clinical instrument, The Halimeter, to measure levels of bad breath at his clinics. Any reading above 70 means that someone has offensive breath.

The highest reading ever? 1800 – from a physician in Sacramento, CA who drank 2 bottles of wine daily and smoked 2 packs of cigarettes every day. Both habits are bound to cause bad breath because they make the mouth extremely dry.

Sacramento. The Bad Breath Capital of the USA.

Who says we’re in a housing market bubble? Not Knights Landing, that’s for sure:

The sleepy river town of Knights Landing in Yolo County has become a target for developers.

Two builders are about to start construction on the first subdivisions in decades in the village beside the banks of the Sacramento River. They are small projects, totaling fewer than 100 homes, but one of the developers expects to submit a plan to build 600 additional homes in town…

The tract is about twice the size of the town itself. About 65 acres is in the designated urban area, and would be commercial development; the balance is agricultural land. In theory, 800 acres could hold 3,200 homes, assuming a fairly low-density project of four units per acre.

Let’s see…”on the banks of the Sacramento River”. That sounds promising.

But here is what really caught my eye…
Continue reading “The yuppies are coming”

Sac Rag reader Plumwin sent me this tip last Friday, about another murder by sword:

Jonathan Ralph Lee, 25, a transient [from Sacramento], went to the Happy Valley home and allegedly used a martial arts-style sword on display in the house to attack his mother, Deena Smith, and stepfather, Barry Alan Smith, said Shasta County Sheriff’s Capt. Dave Compomizzo.

This is the third story in almost four months involving a murder where a sword was used as a weapon. That has to be a record or something.