In case there are still children out there not terrified by clowns, this morning there are clowns randomly placed on street corners to remind kiddies about deadly childhood illnesses! That’s right, it’s the Shriners’ Kids Day, so that clown approaching your window at the red light is not a serial killer, just a helping hand trying to raise money to help sick kids.
Note: The Sac Rag wholeheartedly endorses charity hospital facilities.
Please to enjoy this little tidbit from News10.net regarding a murder investigation in Vacaville. While I’d love to comment on the use of the euphemism “swarthy” to describe the suspect’s complexion, what really caught my eye was this:
Two vehicles are also believed to have present at the time of the woman’s murder. Detectives are trying to locate a blue and gray two-tone mid-1990s Dodge Intrepid and a black or very dark-colored car similar to a Lexus or Nissan Altima. That car has distinctive wheels described as being 18 to 20-inches in diameter with 10 to 12-inch long teardrop-shaped spokes.
Quick, someone call X to the Z to solve this mystery! And who needs a sketch artist when you can use The Ride Pimper.
NOTE: This is the first-ever edition of Pick & Droll, a weekly column devoted to the Sacramento Kings and the NBA, and available exclusively on The Sac Rag. Enjoy.
Now that Monarchs fever has subsided (hey, my temperature rose 0.2 degrees Fahrenheit!), the Kings are again the sporting focus of Sacramento. Training camp opens this week, which means opening day is but around the corner.
This squad is a largely unfamiliar team – only the nucleus of Brad Miller, Peja Stojakovic and Mike Bibby remain from last summer. The three players we got for Chris Webber are all still around, and three new rotation players have been added, as well.
So what are the biggest questions heading into the season?
(Column continued in extended entry.)
Continue reading “Pick & Droll: We Have Questions, You Have the Answers?”
Did anybody else need a nap after trying to read the Bee’s new and improved Sunday Scene section? Maybe you have to have a teething 6 month old in the house to get the full effect. I think the Bee wants to make its paper version look more like its Web site, which is also impossible to navigate.
They’re watching us. Oh, they are watching us.
People from Montana are, anyway. Check this one out. The 2005 National Youth Workers Conference is going on in Sacramento, and apparently, the meeting is out to undermine the entire Christian faith by introducing “eastern practices” into the Church. Though, isn’t the birthplace of Christianity in the “east”? How far is Jerusalem from Montana, anyway? But I digress…
She says parents and youth workers need to be aware that those who approve of putting Christian youth into this semi-conscious state “are the same people sponsoring this Youth Workers’ conference.”
Semi-conscious state? I wouldn’t worry about it too much, Montananonianites. Sacramento has that effect on everyone.
Perusing the newly released Best of Sacramento list over at the Snooze and Review (get it?) I am not surprised to see that The Sac Rag’s acquisition of the top spot in the hearts and minds of Sacramento’s online set is going to have to continue to work the grassroots approach. Lots of press for Heckasac as Best entertainment blog and readers-choice Best Blog (beating out frickin Weintraub, wow). Two of the award-winning sites hit us up with semi-frequent linkage (Heckasac and Uneasy Rhetoric) so maybe this well deserved attention for those bloggers will give the Rag crew a little indirect lovin’.
At least, that’s how I was thinking until I found the results of Reader’s Choice best local Web site:
NapkinNights
http://sac.napkinnights.com
2. Suckramento.com
http://www.suckramento.com
3. Sacramento Midtown.com
http://www.sacramentomidtown.com
Well, zero out of 3 ain’t bad. Do not click the first two, but click the third for a nice laugh (unless you designed that site, in which case, nice work. Great job.)
On an unrelated note, though, thank you Chrisanne Beckner for giving me the answer to a riddle by exposing A&A Imports as the source of the strong and enticing donut smell at McKinley Park.
You knew it was coming Sacramento. Where to begin, where to begin.
It is crafty, I’ll give you that.
KCRA brings us the news of a Federal harassment/discrimination suit against the Paragary’s restaurant group, which serves up the hippest chow in town at such joints as Spataro, KBar, Cafe Bernardo (where the lawsuit originated), and of course Paragary’s.
In a court document, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission charges the Paragary Management Group with sexual harassment, saying Leticia Fernandez complained to supervisors but was ignored.
… three other Mexican women who worked at Paragary restaurants are also involved in the legal battle. The women claim that because of their race, they were not given the breaks that whites or Asians were given while at work.
Maybe Heckasac’s spaghettini was tainted with the disgusting spice of bigotry?
No word on allegations that Paragary management staff engaged in other bigoted activities, such as
Note: The following commentary is from Mrs. TopofIt’s perspective as an educator in Sacramento county.
“Did school start already?†This is probably what many of the officers sent to pick up these “parents†heard this week as Sacramento County held its 10th annual truancy sweep. This time of year school offices are buzzing with new enrollments…those who just realized why their neighborhood was so quiet during the day or why their child suddenly had no one to play with. School is tricky like that. Just sneaks up on you. And with such high expectations of having your child attend 180 days of it, come on, get real. So who cares if you have missed 30? That’s not so bad, right? The real fun lies in the excuses. As a teacher, you hear them all. These range from a simple missing of the bus to grandma’s doctor’s appointment. You can’t really expect a child to attend school when grandma has to have her cataracts dialated? Who could concentrate? Better just stay home.
Continue reading “Back to School?”
Stories like this just make you feel better about yourself, don’t they?
(I’ll pause as you click over and read the story…words, words, bank robbery, words, words, dye, words, red bomb…)
Ok, so what is really great about this report is the description of the suspects at the end.
The suspects are described as males in their late teens or early 20s, each about five feet seven inches tall with short, stocky builds.
That and, well, they have, like, red dye all over their hands, arms, faces, necks…
Hmm, I saw a couple of dudes going into a Cash N’ Go today with red dye on their faces, but, shoot, these guys were closer to 6 feet tall and in their late 20’s. I’ll keep looking.
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