I’m hooked on those you tube Road Rage Videos. Most of the images are caught on dash cam. The details on some of these are extremely sharp with some of the cameras allowing the driver to capture clear images of the license plates .
What I find fascinating is a lot of the owners of these dash cams are often in the wrong. Giving chase, blocking the other vehicles and putting and themselves and their passengers in harms way.
The testosterone level is often beyond a million plus. With men and women engaging in reckless violent behavior. Most acts are unintentional, its a momentary oops, with the driver in the other car overreacting. One man attacked the car behind him with a baseball bat breaking the windows with a family inside the car BECAUSE he believed the car behind him was following him was following to closely in a 15 mph zone.
My advice is to ignore your ego. Turn around and drive in another direction. If they follow you ,call the police. If the traffic comes to a stop, stay in you car. Do not speak. We don’t know his state of mind of if he is carrying any weapons. At the end of the day. Your ego will be fine and you will live another day
This video, contains footage of a man ramming his SUV into a car here in Sacramento near the W X Freeway
Three months ago there was a national discussion regarding blackface in America. When NBC host Megyn Kelly said it was OK when she was growing up for white people to dress up as black characters. Kelly, spoke out against a controversy that erupted last year when Luann de Lesseps appeared to darken her face when she portrayed Diana Ross on “The Real Housewives of New York. Some of de Lesseps cast mates questioned her judgement.
Kelly believed, “blackface” wasn’t racist. She believed it was okay as long as you were dressing up like a character.
Kelly’s “blackface” comment was discussed on every news channel in America for nearly two weeks. The story was in every Newspaper in America including the Sacramento Bee. In a tweet, Megan Kelly said the paparazzi have been stationed outside her home.
After apologizing, the National Broadcasting Company cancelled her show.
December 2018, Megan was released from her contract.
January 2019, Carmichael, California (a suburb of Sacramento)
Elementary Students at the Victory Christian School learned about the works of David Livingstone a British missionary and explorer who worked in Africa in the late 1800’s The guest speaker, wanting to make her role more realistic put on an African garb and darkened her skin to resemble an African woman.
This presentation was approved by the school Superintendent John Huffman.
Many parents of this school were outraged. The Superintendent say’s he used poor judgement.
Huffman also issued a statement to FOX40 News which broke the story that reads in part “I was wrong to allow the use of makeup no matter how innocent the intentions as it has offended some of my students and parents. I should have anticipated that this could be offensive, and I apologized to my students and parents asking to be forgiven for hurting them.
It’s difficult to believe the Superintendent was “that” tone deaf. Good parents tell their children not to make fun of others. As it is often mean and cruel. This is reinforced by our schools and religious communities.
Blackface is a form of theatrical make-up used predominantly by non-black performers. (whites). These images were often exaggerated and the performances often reinforced stereotypes. These stereotypes were not just limited to black people, other ethnicities were affected, Mexicans, Jews, Asians, Native Americans, the list is long.
Megan Kelly, in defense of her statement ,mentioned people in “Whiteface”. No one challenged her.
The parents of the Victory Children’s School will have the final say on the future of Superintendent Huffman.
Not only is it 2019,this is Sacramento, California one of the most racially diverse cities in America, not Selma Alabama or Paris Texas.
Despite all the warnings, every year shoppers fill the cars with gifts and return to the mall to shop. Once their shopping is completed they return to an empty car with a broken window. At an Sacramento area mall yesterday. The victim thought the security camera would protect their belongings. His wife, wants the mall to replace the items since the crime happen on their property. Many of the victims will not take responsibility for their stupidly. These crimes will happen in all the best neighborhoods, shopping malls, hotels, parking garages and airports this weekend. With Common Sense missing in action.
Stupid on Parade
Why brave the crowds at the malls, when people make it so easy for thieves to simply break a window. Everyone at their (the thieves) home will be genuinely surprised at Christmas.
They broke into my car? I was just gone a minute! Yes, I left my purse on the front seat, but I locked the door. I’m not totally stupid!
I think we packed everything, my Camera his meds. Were so excited we haven’t seen our children in months. Everything is packed and on the porch so we’ll be ready in the morning.
I left my car running, I always do I was just running into the store for some cigs. Someone just took my car!!! Its Fucking Christmas, who does that?
“This is Ridiculous” (all these people)
We missed out flight. It wasn’t my fault, NOT ONE PERSON would let our family go ahead of them!
We told the hotel,we would arrive at 8:07 where are they?
Do you mind, if I go in front of you?
I only have two items…….
My family are on their way and I have no food at home….
I have a fear of crowds……
My elderly parents are in the car…………
I just can’t wait in this crazy ass long line….
There is room over there, to the right, My RIGHT DAMMIT!!!
Data collected by the Board of State and Community Corrections and analyzed by Sacramento News and Review shows that Sacramento County’s aging jails are glutted with people who are presumed innocent. Through the first six months of this year, 58 percent of the approximately 1,800 people in county lockup on a daily basis had yet to be sentenced. That percentage has remained static for more than two years.
People who are released without charges still spent an average of 32.5 days in jail, the review found. Those who had their cases dismissed in court averaged more than 39 days in custody.
Click on link below for the full story in Sacramento News and Review
Civility is getting difficult to find in these Trump times.
For some, Fox News is the only place where one can find the truth, and for them ANY OTHER news channels is NOT acceptable. Arguments and sometime fights are taking place in hospitals lounges, restaurants and hotels over the news channel.
The disagreements aren’t not between, teenagers, Gen Y or even those carefree Millennials. They are between those snow capped Baby Boomers, who fight over remotes, push plates on the floor, and at times complain because they are forced to watch subversive television or hateful television.
Last week, a woman having early morning breakfast with her four friends between 70-87 (it was her birthday) complained about CNN being on. “Its not real news” she said and wanted the channel changed to Fox News.
The breakfast person refused, as there were others watching the newscast. The women angrily returned to the table with her friends. Suddenly, the women and her friends began chanting “Fake News, Fake News, Fake News , this went on for a couple of minutes.
On the television screen was the Thousand Oaks, shooting.
Perhaps there would be less outrage if the story was told by Wolf Blitzer or Jake Tapper.
There are many white men who are OUTRAGED!!! Here you have a black man stirring the racist pot. IF a white man said something about a Black man, they’d lose their jobs. Megan Kelly lost her job over “Blackface’ so here we have a black man calling white men terrorist, he should lose his job is only fair!
There are white men in this rapidly changing world who believe that they are under attack. It had gone too far and it far more difficult to be a white man in America and this morning advertisers and CNN will demand that Don Lemon lose his job.
THE OUTRAGE
In the course of a week, 14 bombs were mailed to prominent Democrats. On Wednesday, a white man attempted to enter a black church in Jeffersontown, Kentucky. Fifteen minutes later, he drove to near by Kroger Supermarket and killed two black people. As the gunman passed a white shopper in the parking lot he said, I won’t shoot you. Whites don’t shoot whites.” Saturday, a white man entered a synagogue and killed 11 worshipers and wounded six others including four Police Officers.
Cnn’s Don Lemon said Trump would have people believe immigrants are to be feared, but statistics reveal the biggest threats are home-grown. He went on to say, we have to stop demonizing people and realize that the biggest terror threat in this country is white men, most of them radicalized to the right, and we have to start doing something about them. So ,have to start doing something about them. There is no travel ban on them. There is no ban — you know, they had the Muslim ban. There is no white-guy ban. So what do we do about that?”
“the biggest terror threat in this country is white men.”
This is what some people heard! Other’s heard he called for a “white guy ban” Fox news said Lemon was ranting! Others called him a racist!
You decide, Listen.
There are many in this country who supported the Presidents ban on Muslims and individuals from the middle east based on a unsupported belief that, Muslims hate Americans and want to destroy America. The facts are white men are the principle source of terrorism in the United States and no one is proposing a ban on “white men” this is what I believe Mr Lemon meant.
When its not Fake News
Since 9/11 attacks in 2001, far-right violent extremists have killed 106 people in 62 attacks in the United States, while radical Islamist violent extremists have killed 119 people in 23 attacks.
From 2008 to 2016, there were almost twice as many terrorist incidents carried out on U.S. soil by right-wing extremists — many of whom are white — than by Islamist extremists. It showed there were 115 incidents involving right-wing extremists and that those that ended in death were more deadly than incidents carried out by other groups.
An analysis of the Global Terrorism Database by researchers at the University of Maryland published in 2017 shows a “sharp increase”in the share of attacks by right-wing extremists, from 6% in the 2000s to 35% in the 2010s. The share of attacks by religious extremists also increased, from 9% to 53% between the two decades.
White supremacists in the United States killed more than twice as many people in 2017 as they did the year before, and were responsible for far more murders than domestic Islamic extremists, helping make 2017 the fifth deadliest year on record for extremist violence in America, a new report states.
For decades,some members of the GOP have demonized immigrants from Mexico. They were accused of straining our resources and crossing the border to have babies and to get on welfare.
Presidential Candidate Donald Trump took it further, he said the people coming from Mexico were bringing drugs, bringing crime and-they’re rapist. There isn’t any subjective data that supports any of these claims.
A point of reference for some against Mexican immigration is the murder of Arizona Rancher Rob Krentz in 2010. Krentz’s property is near the Mexican border. The Krentz family was accustomed to undocumented migrants crossing their 35,000 acres. Because of this, many assumed he was killed by one of those undocumented migrants. His widow was convinced his was killed by an illegal immigrant. After an extensive search, no one has been linked to his murder. Today, many are convinced he was killed by a Mexican national.
Less than a year after the Death of Mr Krentz. Arizona passed a law requiring anyone suspected of being in US illegally to produce papers to the police.
Race Baiting 2018 (Donald Trump’s Evil Caravan)
Before I talk about our president current attempt to inject white fear in the midterms, I want to look back a few years.
But first thing’s first! What is “Race Bating?: The unfair use of statements about race to try to influence the actions or attitudes of a particular group of people
A look Back to 1986
In 1986, a convicted felon named Willie Horton — who was serving a life sentence for murder — was released from a Massachusetts prison on a weekend furlough program, during which time he escaped and raped a woman. Then-governor Michael Dukakis had supported the prison furlough program, and when he ran for President in 1988, his opponent, George H. W. Bush, used that to his advantage. The “Revolving Door” ad never mentions Horton by name, but the connection was clear and the ad received considerable news coverage.
Bush Played on the fears of whites who were terrified of blacks.
2018, President Trump, has told his base a Caravan is coming, filled with thugs, bad people, including people from the middle east. He has a few days to convince his base these horrific people filled with diseases (so says Fox News) will be here at any moment. In a world where facts don’t matter. These terrible people are walking and they only have 800 miles to reach our borders. Tuesday, if you believe the president. Bringing lawless people who will kill the men and rape the women. (a small exaggeration)
The footage is several years old and his story about Democrats allowing illegals in is patently false. Donald Trump is doubling down on his attack on brown skinned people using fear to get them to the ballot box.
Luis Bracamontes was first deported to his native Mexico in 1997, during the Clinton administration, after he was busted selling drugs. But, according to U.S. Immigration officials, Bracamontes managed return to the United States by 2001, when he was deported a second time for being in the country illegally. That was during the first year of the Bush administration.
Bracamontes was back in America again by 2002. He married a U.S. citizen and remained in the country even as the Bush administration deported people at a record rate, topped only by the Obama administration.
When Bracamontes shot and killed the two Sacramento county deputies in 2014, he had been deported once under a Democratic administration and once under a Republican administration. He had been back in the United States for at least six years during the Bush administration and five years under the Obama administration. He is currently on death row in San Quentin.
It’s 2018
Perhaps, some white men would have been more comfortable with CNN’s Jake Tapper or Wolf Blitzer talking about this subject. One would think, in 2018 we are beyond this. Apparently not.
By the reaction,s only black people should talk about black on black crime in cities like Chicago or Detroit. Or Hispanics in El Paso or Albuquerque. Don Lemon ins’t racist, he didn’t attack white men, he talked about the news and the double standard.
I can’t remember a time when a white reporter was dismissed after reading statics about black people or any other persons of color. I can remember when a reporter or personality was dismissed after saying spic, called black women nappy headed hoes, fag and other disparaging words or terms on air. Blackface, hasn’t been acceptable since the 1930’s neither are insulting ethnic impersonations.
A man walks into a Pet Store he is immediately drawn to the sounds of a parakeet. Who resides in this large elaborate cage. It was love at first sight, he had to have the bird.
The price was unimportant, he buys the bird and a small cage.
Arriving home, he clears a special place in the center of the room for the cage. He was excitedly awaiting for the bird to sing.. But the bird sat in silence on its perch. Hours passed. Perhaps it was the new surroundings? After a few hours the owner, thought the bird would be happier if the cage was similar to the cage in the pet store.
So he grabbed his keys and drove to the pet store and bought the large elaborate cage that was on display at the store. Even in it’s familiar surroundings the bird remained silent. He returned to pet store with his cell phone and at great expense bought every item in the cage and with his cell phone he took a picture so he could correctly stage the cage. Within minutes the cage looked exactly like the one in the store and yet the bird didn’t sing. So the owner walked away from the cage and left the bird alone. After a few hours, the owner was exasperated and screamed at the bird. I have given you everything, why wont you SING! The bird slowly opened its mouth and said, FOOD!
In mid seventies, The City of Sacramento opened the Convention Center. Leaders said the Center would generate millions of dollars for the city. Unfortunately, that didn’t go as planned, the center was losing money. Some believed a hotel of size, near the center would help generate business.
In 1988, the Hyatt Regency opened, it would be the largest hotel in the city with 503 rooms. The City of Sacramento subsidized the project.
Andy Plescia, deputy executive director of the city/county agency refers to as “a $13.3-million investment that’ll return about $28.5 million to local government within the decade.” Those returns will come in the form of tax revenues, a lease-back parking arrangement involving the city government, the city/county agency and the developers, and from expected land sale profits (under the terms of the 55-year ground-site lease, developers may opt to buy the property outright after the ninth year). Sam Burns, director of the Sacramento Convention and Visitors Bureau, thinks the Hyatt Regency will help attract another 25,000 convention delegates a year and generate $1 million in room tax for the city and $25 million for the local economy.
Once again, with the new hotel the convention center didn’t come close to generating those ambitious numbers for the city. The good news the city did eventually make a profit after the hotel was sold.
In the nineties, the money losing center was expanded again. Operators said, the convention center was too small and not competitive with other centers. According to”Eye on Sacramento” the City loaned the Center 7.5 million to cover negative cash flows.
Convention center operators said the center said it needed another component to become profitable. The twenty five story Sheraton Grand opened 2001 across the street from the center. With all the expansions and additions, what the center needs was CUSTOMERS.
*In the last 17 years, the Center has lost an astounding $268 million taxpayers dollars! $51 million in the last three years!
At 87% Sacramento currently spends nearly twice as much of its hotel taxes on the Convention Center than other cities. (The average is 45%) San Francisco’s spends 11%.
The Sacramento Convention Center is Sacramento’s “White Elephant”. Despite all the additions remains a drain on the city. With 87% of the hotel taxes going to the city, Sacramento has virtually no funds to promote tourism.
Eye on Sacramento says: City staff presented the council with a staff report that relied heavily on the city’s primary convention center consultant ,the firm of Conventions, Sports and Leisure International (CS&L). City staff cherry-picked data and findings from the CS&L study, but failed miserably to provide council members with crucial findings in the CS&L study that clearly states that an expansion of the Convention Center is not needed nor justified given market conditions.
In short, the city council was mislead by its staff into believing that its principal conventions center consultant was solidly in favor of the proposed expansion,when, in fact, it was opposed to it.
If this is true, then there are larger issues in City Hall.
The Vote to expand the center last December was unanimous! Mayor and council members approved Two hundred forty million dollars to expand the Convention Center. Which included adding a large ballroom to the plans . The convention center will be closed for 18 months so work can be done quicker than initially planned and to renovate the Community Center Theater.
The city reiterated that its general fund will not be used to pay off the debt. That’s far from the truth. If the convention center is unable to make its payments, the city has to cover the shortfall.
From the renderings, the new center and theater will be beautiful. Mayor Steinberg said: We are going to have a convention center and a community center theater that is equal to the vision of our great city.
Sacramento is a great city, over five hundred thousand people live within its boundaries. Like any other city Sacramento has many other needs. Cities build convention centers to generate income for the city.
As a business model ,the Sacramento Convention Center is a poor investment with little or no benefit to the majority of its citizens. If the Convention Center was operated by a private entity, the owners would have longed walked away from the project.
It is no secret, The Sacramento Convention Center is a drain on the city and yet those charged with expenditures in the cityunanimously approved spending 240 million dollars towards upgrading and expanding something that had never worked. In a city who’s budget is already at its limits due to increased pension costs.
City leaders often get it wrong. If they have one in Anaheim, we want one too. Prestige at any cost to the city. It doesn’t have to make sense, as long as we get one, just reach into the bottomless taxpayer cookie jar. The Sacramento Convention Center is a forty year old joke, that’s not funny. They’ve done everything imaginable to make it competitive with other convention centers in the state, and based on its history, it will be state of the art and has everything except CLIENTS.
