Salt City Sinner

Posted on 5/30/2012 by the Salt City Sinner Mittens! After securing Texas and, thus, the 2012 Republican nomination for President of these United States, how does one kick it live and direct? The Daily dug up this delightful photo of a young Mitt Romney holding a gun to his head. Good  times! Well if you are Willard "Mitt" Romney, first you host a huge fundraiser in Las Vegas , where the big draw was prominent Birther and human incarnation of ugly, godsforsaken hubris and vanity Donald Trump. Then you release your own birth certificate , which has literally never been a political issue until Big Joe Farah and the boys at WND breathed unholy life into it like some kind of golem made of $h!t. Umm... online? In PDF form? Certified by the State of Hawaii? Then, the next day, you host another  white-collar, high-rolling fund-raiser at a luxurious estate with a bloodless, heartless CEO: With Democrats portraying Mitt Romney as an out-of-touch millionaire and ...

Posted on 5/29/2012 by the Salt City Sinner Self-styled "America's Toughest Sheriff," Joe Arpaio has set out on a lonely mission these days. Joe "Tough Guy" Arpaio, picking on prisoners. Isn't Fascism a blast? For starters, Joe "Tough Guy" Arpaio is well known for picking on the poor and imprisoned  In my household, growing up, we had a name for guys who love to pick on people already kicked down - bullies. Bullies and Fascism go together like a slice of lemon and a glass of refreshing water. Look how happy he is to make Maricopa County prisoners wear pink underwear! Why did he do such a thing, and why does he make most of his prisoners live in stifling tent cities  (which he, in his own psychopathic words, has described as "concentration camps" ) in one of the most hot and horrible climates in the United States? For Freedom, of course! American Fascists are all about Freedom! Arpaio is all about Freedom! Arpaio is a loa...

Posted 5/25/2012 by Gerald Long, some images by ViewFinder It's a small thing, to be sure, (only 7.11 ounces) but small things add up to big things, like big people for example. To be fair 7-Eleven, Inc. created “SlurpFree” day to debut its new Slurpee Lite™ Fanta Sugar-Free Mango flavor drinks which will provide its customer base with a healthier alternative to its line of sugar based frozen drinks. From this blogger's viewpoint however, 7-Eleven can and should do better. Let's look at the big picture: The key word here is “obesity” which describes a condition hugely different from that of being “overweight”. As any Wii dweeb such as myself can tell you Obesity” is determined by your Body Mass Index (BMI). A BMI of 25-30 means you're overweight. A BMI greater than 30 means you're “obese”. And if you think these numbers are painful to look at, wait until you see yourself in the mirror after your BMI tops 30. As the abov...

posted 5/23/2012 by the Salt City Sinner Gods darn it, I tried to ignore this story. I tried to ignore it on April 18 when Grant Morrison popped off about Batman in an in-depth feature on superheroes for Playboy . Quoth Grant: [Batman]s very plutonian in the sense that he's wealthy and in the sense that he's sexually deviant. Gayness is built into Batman. I'm not using gay in the pejorative sense, but Batman is very, very gay. There's just no denying it. Obviously as a fictional character he's intended to be heterosexual, but the basis of the whole concept is utterly gay...All these women fancy him and they wear fetish clothes and jump around rooftops to get to him. He doesn't care - he's more interested in hanging out with the old guy and the kid. First of all, consider the source of this statement from two angles. Angle one: Morrison is the most talented comic book writer of the last thirty years, and I'm including Alan Moore and Neil Gaiman (wr...

Posted 5/20/2012 by the Salt City Sinner HAIL to thee, Amun-Ra, Lord of the thrones of the earth, the oldest existence, ancient of heaven, support of all things;  Chief of the gods, lord of truth; father of the gods, maker of men and beasts and herbs; maker of all things above and below;  Deliverer of the sufferer and oppressed, judging the poor;  Lord of wisdom, lord of mercy; most loving, opener of every eye, source of joy, in whose goodness the gods rejoice, thou whose name is hidden.  Thou art the one, maker of all that is, the one; the only one; maker of gods and men; giving food to all.  Hail to thee, thou one with many heads; sleepless when all others sleep, adoration to thee.  Hail to thee from all creatures from every land, from the height of heaven, from the depth of the sea.  The spirits thou hast made extol thee, saying, welcome to thee, father of the fathers of the gods; we worship thy spirit which is in us. ...

posted 5/18/2012 by the Salt City Sinner With so much fomenting and "journalism" and whatnot flying back and forth at this blog (or, as my good friend and confidant has coined it in a much more continental way, "bloggue") sometimes I forget the little things. It would be my pleasure and delight to take our few readers who have internet access in shantytowns and under the freeway on a brief tour of Salt City Sinner headquarters. We have a totally legitimate place of business, easily accessible by the front door. Well, "accessible" might not be the right word. To open the front door of our fallout shelter cum information center, you have to have a key. In particular, a nine-pound iron key that fits this lock: I admit, in terms of administrative overhead, having cast-iron nine pound keys forged is a bit of a bear, which explains the limited cast of characters you see here. Each day on my way to my legitimate job, I have to remove my Guy Fawkes...

Posted by ViewFinder on 5/16/2012 At 9:00 am I entered the Public Space containing a hearing- knowing that this Evidentiary hearing on Living Rivers appeal of the groundwater discharge permit to U.S. Oil Sands for a Tar Sands mine at PR Springs in the Book Cliffs of Utah, was actually a CLOSED hearing.   I approached the receptionist and requested entry to the hearing and was immediately declined when my name was not showing on the "list".  After requesting to speak with a Manager I was required to wait... eventually a lovely woman came out of a secure area of the first floor and gave me the same explanation that this was not a "public hearing" and if my name was not on the list as a participant in the hearing there would be no entry permitted.  We were however provided a second room in which we could convene and watch the hearing via a live video feed projected onto two large screens at the front of the room.  I requested to speak with the person...

posted 5/14/2012 by the Salt City Sinner As I so often say to myself these days, "I can't say it better than Grant:" Image by the preternaturally talented Alex Ross Grant Morrison's Supergods , which anybody who has ever read a comic book even once should read and slowly savor, gets *really* interesting in chapter 21. In the chapter, titled Hollywood Sniffs Blood . Morrison marks the ascendance of comic book culture in Hollywood with 2000's "X-Men." He acknowledges early efforts in the field like Tim Burton's Batman movies, but I agree with Morrison that the turn of the century marked a turn of fortune for comic book culture in Hollywood. Morrison makes the case that M. Night Shyamalan's Unbreakable was the true turning point in super hero cinema. I won't argue with the master -- Samuel L. Jackson (an outspoken comics fan among celebrities) would later build upon his performance as Mr. Glass by becoming the embodiment of Sp...

posted on 5/12/2012 by the Salt City Sinner Mitt "Mittens" Romney! Didn't everybody enjoy his last turn in the bucket ? After getting soundly trounced by ancient desert reptile John McCain in the 2008 Republican primary, Romney is back for more. His entire primary campaign so far (which is, thanks to Texas Armadillo Ron Paul , not technically over) has been like the Republican version of the John Kerry candidacy in 2004 - nobody seems to like him, he was virtually nobody's first choice, but there he is, last man standing, about as welcome as a breakfast of thin gruel and tepid water. In an apparent attempt to add some red meat to said sad breakfast, and also to dislodge the persistent and unfortunate belief among the Republican base that Romney is a cult member rather than a True Christian *, Romney delivered today's commencement address at Liberty University, an impressively insane "college" founded by Jerry Falwell. Liberty University is n...

posted by ViewFinder on 5/11/2012 The American Dream Act- this piece of legislation was originally introduced August 1, 2001 by Senator Orrin Hatch and Dick Durbin.  The intent was to allow good standing undocumented immigrants to have conditional permanent residency IF- they graduated from US High Schools and arrived while they were minors and had been living here continuously for a minimum of five years.  The bill would have given them a 6 year temporary residency period if they were to move on to a higher education or enlist in our military and complete at least two years of honorable service in  our military system.  Unfortunately the bill was not passed.  Several forms of the bill have been introduced including one in December 2010 that passed with Congress but failed in the Senate with a vote of 52-44.  Only 8 more votes were needed for the bill to pass and make it to the President's desk for signing.  Orrin Hatch- failed to be present for t...

posted by Gerald Long, 4/9/2012 KSL  is reporting an accidental rooftop fire at City Creek's Nordstrom  today ( click here for story ) but Have they Reported the Whole Story? Wednesday, May 9, 2012 3:13PM  

posted by ViewFinder, 5/6/2012  March 23, 2012 my baby sister took me on a drive to a place I had never been before.  I had driven by the old abandoned building on the shore of the Great Salt Lake many times but had never stepped inside or even near it until that day. I would have never experienced this beautiful contradiction if she hadn't taken the time to share her "spot" with me.  Old and New combined in this place that some called Ugly and others Beautiful. Where paint is sprayed upon her walls inside and out... or at least it was. Where many found an escape, an attraction, pulling them in to share her unique markings. The first and the last time I would ever see her in all her glory as she has been laid to rest.  An "eye sore" removed from the shore of the "Great" Salt Lake.  If only some could have looked deeper and seen her beauty.  She gave them a place to express their talents and emotions- tearing her ...