Friday Shitlist

1. Old Sacramento Fireworks

Holy shit the fireworks in Old Sac were pathetic. Five minutes of uninspired fireworks and a weak money shot. Ex-girlfriends of mine, please refrain from making a joke at my expense.

2. Sony’s Racist Billboard.

Seriously, what the fuck were they thinking? Who green lighted this:



3. My inability to trust people at the 'walk' button.

How come if I’m walking, and I come up to an intersection, and there are people already there, waiting to cross the street, I feel the need to press the walk button anyways? Do I think they’re that stupid to not have pressed it? And then to make it worse, if I’m there waiting, and someone comes up and presses it, I get insulted. “This motherfucker doesn’t think I’m smart enough to press the button?” I ask myself. “Asshole.”

4. Neo-Nazi’s in the Army.

Be all you can be.

A decade after the Pentagon declared a zero-tolerance policy for racist hate groups, recruiting shortfalls caused by the war in Iraq have allowed “large numbers of neo-Nazis and skinhead extremists” to infiltrate the military, according to a watchdog organization.
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The report said that neo-Nazi groups like the National Alliance, whose founder, William Pierce, wrote “The Turner Diaries,” the novel that was the inspiration and blueprint for Timothy J. McVeigh’s bombing of the Oklahoma City federal building, sought to enroll followers in the Army to get training for a race war.
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An article in the National Alliance magazine Resistance urged skinheads to join the Army and insist on being assigned to light infantry units.
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“Light infantry is your branch of choice because the coming race war and the ethnic cleansing to follow will be very much an infantryman’s war....It will be house-to-house, neighborhood-by-neighborhood until your town or city is cleared and the alien races are driven into the countryside where they can be hunted down and ‘cleansed.’ ”

5. Lieberman/Lamont

Holy Christ, enough already. Yes, Joe Lieberman sucks. I hope he loses the primary to Ned Lamont. But you know what? That’s for the voters in Connecticut to decide. They’re not electing a national Senator, but a senator from Connecticut. Yes, senators obviously impact national policies and politics, and yes it would be nice to have a more progressive Democrat than Leiberman in that seat, but it still seems weird to me to have all these people from outside the state donating money and giving Lamont such overwhelming support. If only they supported their own local candidates half as much.

Lieberman has been attacked so harshly by Democrats that if he somehow does win the nomination, it’s going to be really weird seeing everyone trip over themselves trying to reconcile a reluctant endorsement of Lieberman with their previous attacks. “Well, he’s the Democratic nominee" ain’t gonna cut it.

Here’s an idea: let Connecticut worry about who they elect, and nationally we’ll try and deal with whatever result occurs.