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13 August 2009

Sacramento Not the King It Seems


As much as I love and adore the Mayor of Sacramento, I truly hate the city he has power over. I moved to Sacramento because it reminded me of home back on the east coast, but when I got here, was quickly disappointed in alot of things I saw. People in the Bay ridiculed me because I was moving to Oak Park and told me that I would need to buy a gun or keep mase on me at all times. I scoffed at them and moved anyways. When I got here, I honestly sat and wondered what all the hype was about. Unless it happened in the further most parts of Oak Park, the amount of danger I saw was equal to that of walking in Downtown Berkeley during the day. I lived in East Oakland was expecting ALOT more from what people were telling me about.

My first disappointment comes from the lack of public transportation in the city's capitol. Yes, it may not be as frequent as the Bay Area but living in two capital's in my life, this is saddening. Buses in Richmond, VA stop running at or around midnight and in Baltimore they sometimes run over night. Here? Bus stops running at or around 9 ot 10pm unless your downtown and...whew....then your waiting once an hour till like....11.

Downtown? My next rant. I recently put on Twitter, in which the Mayor assured me they were fixing, that downtown smelled like a big urine infested alley. I noticed this while I was walking from the Central library to the Light Rail station to go home. There I noticed, forgive the remarks, a bunch of black people blasting radios without headphones, being hella loud for NO apparent reason other than to be noticed, cursing hella loud (VA Beach has a no cursing law in public) again, for not apparent reason, and watching people afraid to walk by. And I thought OAK PARK WAS THE BAD AREA??

The Light Rail is my third disappointment. If you go anywhere in the country (or at least the places Ive lived) any public transportation train system allows you to pay by cash or credit card. Nope, not the Light Rail. Cash ONLY. It's like, wtf, haven't they heard that we live in 2009 now? What baffles me is that the LR goes all the way to Folsom, but not to Sacramento International Airport. BART goes to two major airports, directly to SFO and indirectly to OAK. MTA goes to JFK, TRI-RAIL goes to all three airports indirectly, MIA, FTL, PBIA, you get the picture. Why doesn't the LR go to the only major airport anywhere in the area?

I should have heeded my friend's warning when they said NOT to move here and if I do, to buy a car first. Well, sue me for not listening. But I will say that Sacramento does have some good sides, but sadly, the bad in my eyes out weighs that. So, the Kings may be a well known NBA team, but the city it self has not royal standing to me.

05 August 2009

Jonestown Massacre: A 'Reason' to Die

Jonestown Massacre: A 'Reason' to Die

Almost three decades ago an unusual series of events led to the deaths of more than 900 people in the middle of a South American jungle. Though dubbed a "massacre," what transpired at Jonestown on November 18, 1978, was to some extent done willingly, making the mass suicide all the more disturbing.

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AND YOU WONDER WHY I STOPPED GOING TO CHURCH?