Category: News

Life imitating art in the 916

There is a scene in “Airplane” when Kramer is trying to make his way through the airport and is being hounded by various religious zealots to the point that he starts punching and kicking them one by one…I’m sure you know the one. Well one of the zealots comes at him with the line “Jews for Jesus?” which results in a swift beat down.

As I was making my morning commute I couldn’t help but think of this scene when I noticed a huge bus in the parking lot of Safeway on Arden near Watt Avenue. I had to pull over and grab a photo. “Jews for Jesus” written on the side and back. Whiskey tango foxtrot is going on here? Details are sketchy, but I did find mention of it here (reader’s note: this link goes to the Athiest Alliance Web Center, you know, not that there’s anything wrong with that.)

If anyone has any information on this bus and its business in Sacramento, please let us know!

UPDATE: SinghCity went to work and delivered the goods with the link to the Web site and their business in the River CIty. Well done, brother. Cause you know, “Jesus spoke with a Jewish accent and so do we. After you hear the Liberated Wailing Wall, you may not like gefilte fish, but you will know more about the Jewish roots of our faith and have a deeper understanding of God’s Word.” I couldn’t get that at the atheist site, I’ll tell you that.

Breasts Not Bombs… Err, on Second Thought, Bombs

Now when you heard about this protest, you had to know it wasn’t going to be the staff from the new Hooters. And these brazen protesters did not disappoint. One of the women who was arrested (Sheba Love no less), actually had a beard. “War is indecent, Special Elections are indecent,” quoth Ms. Love as she was carted off to be booked. You know, I was gonna say something about apples and oranges there but somehow it doesn’t seem appropriate.

Oh, and the small crowd that gathered to witness the spectacle? Mostly men, or as I prefer to call them, “pervs.”

Nothing’s Shocking

So a 20 year old man was “found dead behind a Sacramento home Friday morning after apparently being electrocuted by downed power lines.” Pretty crazy, huh? Crazy that in this day and age people still would go near a downed power line? No, what’s really crazy about this story is the following wonderful example of Sacramentocana (I don’t use this non-word nearly enough) And I quote:

“It’s really kind of a shock to us. When we give folks directions they usually follow them and stay safe,” Sacramento Metro Fire Capt. Steve Turner said.

Why Pink Floyd will live forever

We’ve all heard about the story of the drama teacher who was fired from the Catholic school where she taught, because of her pre-employment work at a family planning clinic.

What do I find interesting about the story?

The student whose mother first complained about Bain was expelled from Loretto after launching what school officials characterize as a public attack against the school on her personal website.

Man, firing the teacher and kicking out the student. Loretto administrators, you’re gonna run out of bricks for that wall at this rate!

But, I’ll tell you what I find even more interesting…
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The Second Coming

This town really has a love-hate relationship with Wal-Mart, but maybe, that’s because there’s stuff to love, but other stuff to hate about the place.

I’ll tell you one thing, you have to give the ‘mart props for giving us reason to hope that the mallsore called Florin Mall gets razed to the ground. A new Wal-Mart supercenter can only be an improvement to the area. Plus, it makes it more convenient for people who do their banking at all the pawn shops over there.

Rancho Cordova is rated NC-17.

A while back, Mrs. TopofIt observed how common it was to see kids in public places during school hours.

Well, my blogger-in-law, your voice was heard through the Sac Rag megaphone, and the powers-that-be have listened. Rancho Cordova is thinking about locking all kids down during school hours.

But, I wonder if the cops should also be locking down the adults in Rancho as well, although for other reasons than you think…
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‘Operation Boo’ Targets Offenders

Well tonight’s the night for walking around and asking for candy, and as we all know there are some major creeps out there. But don’t worry, Sacramento’s on the case. The article is short enough, I’m just going to post it in its entirety:

Law enforcement officials are hitting the streets to keep children safe from sex offenders on Halloween.

“Operation Boo” will put parole officers out among the trick-or-treaters, knocking on doors and checking up on high-risk registered sex offenders, who have been warned to turn off their lights and not answer the door on Halloween.

“We physically go to the home and knock on the door … to see if they are complying with that. If they answer the door we have a problem we have to deal with,” state parole administrator Rick Burrows said.

Some parents said it is comforting to hear that agents will be on the streets.

“So, if a sex offender were to open the door and try to get my child in the house, they wouldn’t be able to. The best measure is for parents to be active on Halloween with their children,” parent Tuesday Airola said.

Where to start? Since these offenders are definitely able to follow society’s rules, why not just make it up to them not to do something that is perfectly legal, like answering the door for any reason. Second, I’m not sure how paragraph three will work.
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