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You know, when I finished school I was looking forward to having more interesting things to say in LJ - you know, real stories about real people doing real things, not just headlines.

But "Guards probed for naked Iraqi prisoners" is hard to resist! Probe! I think it was shadow27 who took the time to point out the irony of how if you're caught 'being gay' you're thrown out of the military, yet here we are making prisoners act 'gay?' Ye gods man!

I'm not sure how to feel about this. I'm sorry, but the publicity is kind of filling me with glee. Why? Bush and his crew have been the ire of me and any literate Americans (and our victims) for years now, and even the left-wing is in shock as his crew has surpassed all our worst fears. So now he's getting busted over something he almost couldn't have known about, and while he is the guy at the top it seems unfair to hold him responsible for. It's like a murderer getting jail-time for a murder they didn't commit - it's not justice, but it's close? Of all the horrible things he is responsible for, this is what may finally sink him. So Bush commits all sorts of atrocities himself, but some low-level part-time officers with digital cameras will be his undoing. Right result, wrong reason. Ultimately I'm not comfortable with it. Why can't the US rise up and just learn to tell right from wrong? Why does it take these incidents to turn them against Bush, when his direct actions are all so reprehensible?

Michael Moore: this guy is a chump, the left-wing Rush Limbaugh. He is as liberal with the 'facts' as Rush, and uses just as many illogical emotional appeals. I would never call him a voice of reason, and reason to me trumps any political bias. In any case, he is getting TONS of free press for his release, and now looks like a martyred cause. His movie will almost certainly be released now by someone, and will make a bloody fortune since it's forbidden fruit.

Kerry: anyone else notice that the FBI had a file on him based on his anti-war activity? Isn't it nice that for decades the government has been ready to pounce on political dissidents? Freedom is the freedom to agree with what you are told? Terrorism starts with questioning the people in power?

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I just skipped home from the gym! Well the orthoguy was awesome, he was black and I mean US black not broken english black. Hate to sound culture-phobic, but I've had many doctors that were foreign that didn't inspire confidence from my HMO McKaiser. This guy seemed to know exactly what I was talking about and had a plan right away - answered all my questions, yay! So my good news is I can work out all I want and I won't do any more damage. The bad news is that I have somehow damaged a nerve at the bottom of the back of the neck which controls the boobie (that's a medical term). So the boobie itself is fine, it's just not getting the right signals. He says after 2 months if it't not better to return and they do nerve tests and a catscan. He also said if we do a cat scan they can also scan the sternum to see if I have torn something in there - cartlidge damage which he says is tough to deal with there as it's right over the heart. Eh - at least I have a direction to go in.

So I went to the gym and SUCKED. You have no idea how lame I felt only being able to do 6 reps with 50lbs on the bar, 2 quarters, my warm up morning weight!? I wound up finishing with bar plus 30 lbs. Most of my other weights were ok but...bleah!

Still, when I left I just felt so alive! I miss these fucking endorphins! I may not but lifting much but my god...the mirror is still good to me. Weak sure, but I'm pretty!