I almost missed this one, but the bus didn’t.
“I came out and they’re screaming and yelling and then she said something about a bus in the bedroom. So, as I walk in the bedroom obviously the bus is inside our bedroom and I could see the bus driver and he asked, ‘Hey, is everybody OK?'” homeowner Joe Cusenza said.
I mean, “obviously”…it is what we do around here, right?
I don’t think we want to be in his shadow anymore…
San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom issued an apology Thursday following reports that he had an affair between his former assistant, the wife of his campaign manager, who resigned earlier this week.
Via NBC San Diego. An affair between? Please! Just the basic facts are enough!
When I was a young, strapping, college-going lad, a wise fellow took me under his wing. He taught me how to dress, how to dance, and how to pick up chicks.
I remember one night at a club, when a limousine pulled up in front. My mentor grabbed me by the arm, and took me aside. I excused myself from the honey whose first four phone number digits I had just procured. He took me to the window and pointed to the car. A door opened, and about nine middle aged women, wearing clothes that their bodies could not cash, came flying out in a drunken hysteria, and piled into the club.
Now that the dust as settled on last week’s MySpace debate, I figured we could take a few swings at this situation in Orangevale:
An Orangevale man is being fined $2,500 for flying five American flags on county streetlight poles.
The best part of this story is that the man being fined, Ed Andrews, took up a collection last summer in his neighborhood and raised $400 for the flags and brackets. Well done, Ed.
Now the lawyers are involved as well as the Sacramento County supervisors:
At an impromptu meeting on a neighbor’s driveway Wednesday evening, Sacramento County’s Director of Transportation Tom Zlotkowski explained that allowing American flags on light poles around Acer Way and Ortiz Court would mean any other flags could be put up.
Hmmm, I wonder about that, but, sure, OK.
“But yet people could go out and burn the flag if they wanted to, but yet we’re having a problem flying the flag and showing our patriotism,” said Michele Turner, whose future stepson is due back from Iraq in a few days.
There’s the issue, Sacramento. Where do you draw the line? If a gal has to pay to have repairs made to her sidewalk, why can’t folks fly old glory in their neighborhood?
The Bee’s Sam McManis reports that KCRA has laid off 5 editorial employees (including Mike Bond) in a restructuring move aimed at making room for a new morning news show over at sister station My58TV in late March.
Elliott Troshinsky, president of KCRA and My58TV, said new hires will be made for a My58TV newscast slated from 7 to 9 a.m., but it was necessary to eliminate several positions.
“This new newscast will need a different type of staff than what we currently have,” he said. “So this will free up some positions for the new morning news.”
I hope this “different type” of staff doesn’t include My58’s Street Team duo of Travis & Kelly. You know, the two winners of My58’s “Host Hunt” last year. Frequent Sac Rag readers will recall that CoolDMZ reported on this in September:
…is holding the competition to find 2 hosts for an as-yet unannounced new show for one year. It will most likely be a show in the “Good Day Sacramento†model.
Just to catch you up on their goings on lately, here’s Travis & Kelly “hitting up” Capitol Garage and the True Love Coffeehouse. Rest easy, folks, the chin stroke and super toothy grin are still in heavy rotation.
Anybody know a good copyright lawyer out there? I can’t tell but I think The Sac Rag’s copyright is being infringed by “ralph myree,” registered owner of “Free Traffic Counter” which as pictured is reprinting an article by sac-eats without attributing it to our site. However, the link for “Original post” does point to our post. Is there a name for this type of site? I assume it is just built to generate Adsense revenue. Maybe I’ll sue Google too, for allowing its service to be used in such a manner!
For those of you not up on your recycling news, as of January 01, 2007 the California Refund Value (CRV) paid to consumers when they recycle containers at recycling centers is 5¢ for each beverage container less than 24 ounces and 10¢ for each container 24 ounces or greater.
Folks looking for a place to recycle their goods can search here. From the FAQ page:
Customers will continue to pay the current 4¢ for beverage containers under 24 oz. and 8¢ for containers 24 oz. and greater through June 30, 2007. Beginning July 1, 2007, if an overall recycling rate of 75% has not been achieved for calendar year 2006, consumers will pay 5¢ for beverage containers under 24 oz. and 10¢ for containers 24 oz. and greater that they purchase in California.
Hear that, Sacramento? There’s money to be made out there. Sure, you could enter a radio contest and sue when things don’t go your way or mingle online with registered sex offenders, but those of you with that “can do” spirit know what I’m talking about. Don’t let the homeless and less fortunate have all the fun, get out there and collect those bottles and cans. They won’t recycle themselves you know! Or wait, maybe they will…
While we are on the topic, I wanted to mention this story about a lawsuit that has been filed against News Corp. (the owners of the popular social networking site MySpace.)
Four families have sued News Corp. and its MySpace social-networking site after their underage daughters were sexually abused by adults they met on the site, lawyers for the families said Thursday.
I know, shocking right? Nevertheless, the debate rolls on whether society should hold organizations like MySpace or 107.9 The End accountable for incidents like this. The site provides the forum for chaos and mayhem, but people themselves actually provide the chaos and the mayhem, right?
“In our view, MySpace waited entirely too long to attempt to institute meaningful security measures that effectively increase the safety of their underage users,” said Jason A. Itkin, an Arnold & Itkin lawyer.
Ah, interesting. But, shouldn’t the underage girls know better than to visit the site and chat it up with older dudes? I mean, no one puts a gun to these girl’s heads (if you read the story you’ll find that comes later) and forces them to log on.
Don’t even get me started about the new Statewide trans-fat ban bill. There are circles of Snark Hell reserved for the nanny-state sillyness in the California Assembly. At least with this round, you say, the nannies are protecting the children:
Oils that contain less than 0.5 grams per serving would be OK, as would pre-packaged foods sold in schools
D’oh. Well, at least they banned smokable cancer sticks, right? Double d’oh!!
Has anyone else noticed that on cbs13.com (other local sites, too, I’ve just noticed it more here lately) they “write” their online stories by sort of transcribing their video reports? For example, I’m reading today’s story about recent copper thefts on construction sites. I start to read the first few sentences and I notice that there a several errors. So I watch the corresponding video from the newscast. Ron Jones tells me that there is a rash of copper burglaries in Sacramento. The text in the story is more or less the text from the video report. Except that key words are removed:
The owners of a construction supply company in West Sacramento tell us a guy driving a nice tan or gold colored Chevy Suburban is copper thief…Copper is all craze among legitimate customers and recycling thieves…The suspected thieve is accused of stealing about 2,000 pounds worth…
I can go on and on. It seems like lazy journalism. As with most local online news stories (not just cbs13.com) I wonder if anyone ever reads them after they go live. Perhaps it’s an automated system that converts the spoken word to print. If so, does anyone know how this works? I wish we knew people at local news stations that could shed some light on this!
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