Browsing the ol’ News10.net this morning when I came across these three headlines in succession:
Granted this could be a coincidence and every city is sure to have its share of whack jobs, but whiskey tango foxtrot is going on? A fire captain, an english teacher…this is not what our fair city needs.
Continue reading “Ok, seriously…”
Sad story today about a beating murder in Oak Park the other day. Let’s just all agree that the residents of this storied old neighborhood deserve better.
That being the case, do you think Bee writer Cameron Jahn could have maybe found a different quote to describe the victim?
“He was sort of a sketchy guy, but at some level, he was kind of a cool person, like a ghetto archetype,” said Chris Ganson, who lives a few doors down.
‘Scuse me? I was thinking more along the lines of “he was a good man who did not deserve to be mercilessly beaten to death by a group of thugs.” How does that quote help me understand the story any better? Also I think the quote has a typo… in my dictionary that word starts with “stereo-” not “arche-” (thanks RonTopofIt).
What does it mean when your home builder tells you your house is one size, but when you move in, it actually seems smaller?
Well, maybe you put on a few pounds, but come on you haven’t put on THAT much weight. You see, as News10 reports, homebuilder JTS is accused of telling homeowners that their houses were bigger than the structures really were.
Who knows, in the mad rush to sell and buy homes in this city, JTS may not be the only ones guilty of this type of “internal miscommunication”.
Caught up on some Hurricane Katrina coverage this morning, since the young one wanted to get up and play with me at 6:15. Now the 24-hour cable channels were full of tough coverage, reporters steeling themselves against 90mph winds, reporting on damage at the Super Dome, giving details of relief efforts. But our local crew at Good Day Sacramento wanted to make sure us Sacramentans felt the local angle. Bring in haughty beat reporter Naj Alikhan, standing by one of the many flood gates (at H street between the tracks and Carlson Blvd). Naj reassured us that Sacramento has 3 times as many giant sump pumps as the soon-to-be destroyed New Orleans and thus would be three times safer. Because it’s not right local angle if it doesn’t make us feel more fortunate than the disaster stricken! Thanks a lot, Naj.
So it appears that Sacramento opens it arms, err, wings today to a new Hooters restaurant on Challenge Way, at the former Monterey Bay Canners restaurant site. Can’t wait to see the lines for this place. I mean, come on, who doesn’t love themselves some cheesecake, but these are buffalo wings, man, buffalo wings! I put in my application months ago to be a server, not sure why they never got back to me, but I digress.
Bob Shallit over at the Bee did a piece on something I noticed myself this weekend. There were signs advertising the new Hooters as “now open by Cal Expo” which is vague on several fronts. Lots of stuff is by Cal Expo and “now open” assumes that if you were to go there during regular business hours, it would be, like, open, right? Well, well, well.
Continue reading “The so-called “Cheesecake” effect”
Perhaps I’m missing the point, but could we all just agree that (your) God created evolution and be done with this topic? Yeah, everyone wins! Gooooo everyone!
So, I’ve inadvertently started a game of one-upsmanship with the local sports personalities of the greater Sacramento area. Don’t ask me how it happened. Ok, go ahead and ask me. No, I couldn’t possibly. Oh, ok, I’ll tell you the story.
Continue reading “The Bigger They Are…”
The Sac Bee reports on an interesting story today about the construction of a mosque in Folsom.
Notwithstanding the pathetic prejudice that is just dripping from the critics of the mosque, I loved this comment:
The proposed mosque’s Islamic design – an architectural departure for Folsom – has prompted another common gripe: that the mosque just won’t fit in, that it will be “un-Folsom-like.”
Okay Sac Raggers, share your love for the mean streets of 916 on The Rag Board. We’re talking old-skool message board here, folks. Enjoy it while you can, meaning until spam creeps figure out how to spam it.
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UPDATE: Here are some more tips on using it–the main screen has Forums with multiple posts. It’s not threaded because it’s so low-budg. To get “back” out of it, Squirty Tip, click the beautiful banner at the top. I’ll put a home link in there too JIC.
ABC News today provided a good follow up to our Adopt-a-Cluck story of a few days ago (thanks, Plum Win, for the link):
Most of the birds never have seen sunlight, but they are expected to adjust to life away from the farm. Unaccustomed to the spacious surroundings of the animal sanctuary, some still sleep on top of each other.
Quite sad, if you think about it, and it all goes on under our noses. But let’s focus on the positive here: over 700 chickens adopted! Only 159,300 more to go!!
See, whereas southern Californians would use a “Chick-o-Meter” to count something else, here at the Sac Rag, we’re actually counting chickens.
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