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I'm feeling like a loser because I don't talk about things I do in LJ - for the most part I just comment on politics and stuff you can see sitting in the basement of your mom's house because YOU'RE A LOSER WITH NO LIFE!!!

That aside, good fucking god what is the deal about Reagan? An old man dies, so what? A president who to this day - despite the Bush adminstration - had more felony convictions of his cabinet members than any US president! Yay! He sold arms for hostages - hostages who were treated better than prisoners of war we beat today! Yay! He tripled the federal deficit, TRIPLED THE DEFICIT! We're still paying for the damage he caused!

Now, some good things did happen in his years - though mostly things done by CARTER that he just inherited. Guess who STARTED the mideast peace process and got Egypt to negotiate - something thought impossible to even discuss? Even after leaving office, Carter did habitat for humanity and won international acclaim including a nobel prize...do you think they'll name 50 things after him, talk about putting him on money, or take a week off for him?

Reagan on money - you've got to be fucking kiddding. Washington, Lincoln, Jefferson...Reagan. Sure. Might as well add a Hilton sister.

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This week I've had several girls mention their desire for a big, beefy man (in one case a direct quote, other just with minor phrases like "big strong arms"). The only girls I know that don't seem to want a big beefcake...want other women. Even the women-wanting ones seem to want beefcake men, with the woman standards being more flexible. Does this mean every time I see a woman with a small guy, short or skinny or both, that they have settled?

I have to start paying attention to marketing - not getting any younger, ya know. I've lifted weights for over ten years, and while I am often referred to as 'fit' or 'in shape' I realize I'll never be beefy or big (often meaning tall). Unless I pull a gattaca, I'm stuck at my current height.

So, the logical pursuit is to become more woman-like.

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Good god - no surprise here, but the US engaged in terrorist activities in Iraq - the exact type of which we now criticize as 'enemies of freedom!'
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=578&e=6&u=/nm/20040609/ts_nm/iraq_allawi_cia_dc

So, we train Osama Bin Laden, and what he does is heroic when aimed at the Soviet Union. When he turns against us, he's a terrorist.
We train Iraqi insurgents to bomb civilian targets, and it's in the name of freedom. When civilian and military targets are hit now during our occupation, it's by 'enemies of freedom.'

Wordsmithing isn't what it used to be.

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What a long strange product roll-out it's been!

I just returned from the cafeteria where coke has taken over with their mind-control devices. I heard music from the hallway, and on entering the lunch-zone was blasted with...pop crap. Besides bad music, they had a giant counter set up with three clear tubes coming out of it. Each tube had a big red button, duck dodgers style.

Here's the deal - press the button, and a blast of CO2 sends a NEW C2 COKE flying up the tube with a blast of frost. It's like old coke, only with 1/2 the calories and a whoosh! Whoosh! It's so cool - it shoots up the tube! Yeah! Now everyone will want one! As if that wasn't enough - they give you a spring-pen with it! What is a spring pen? It's a pen that...is a spring. Only, it's a pen. It's...a spring-pen. And it says coke.

I'll tastefully not mention the teen-aged girl with the halter-top and tiny pink shorts with well-muscled legs and tight abs. She had nothing to do with the promotion and I had no reason to notice someone in such excellent shape walking around half-naked, not at her age. That would be wrong.

( Speaking of hot and tiny, djpsyche gave me this gem )

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I'm getting off early today due to Reaganitis. Yay - first good thing he's ever done for me! We may get off tomorrow - I have much giggle.

Why tell you this, you random people who are bored enough to read my 5th pointless post today, following 5 pointless posts yesterday? Because this makes it post #5! What a waste! Next week...quizzes!

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This makes no sense. I just got my contracts grade - a flat C. A C. That's just not possible. I got a B last semester, and met with the professor who thought I wrote well and clearly knew the material...and somehow this fell to a C. I'm just in shock - this is so unexpected I wonder if they got the right grade? Never in a bazillion years did I suspect I would get a C, not in this class. A B perhaps, but a C???

Positive side - my grades may be low enough to stop trying to have a decent class rank after all. This makes A+ in civpro, flat B in writing, and this mystery C.

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I got my final grades not good

Torts II - B-
Contracts - C
Those two were my strong classes last semester. This semester I tried much harder, and still did poorly.

I got a B in writing, where I stopped trying and an A+ in civpro, which I bombed all semester.

I'm not happy, but I think as my gpa has really sunk I'm not g0oing to try so hard anymore. I'd have to quit my job to do better, and I've been miserable in school.
My class rank is GONE. New GPA is only 3.16 for the year, barely average.