calimary
calimary's JournalHe is a dismal excuse for a human being.
I wrote out three thank-you cards and hand-carried them
into three local Dicks stores after they stopped selling assault rifles.
Asked for a manager. One appeared immediately. They each accepted my thank-you card and stopped to listen to me. One was very restrained, polite, and all-business. But the other two? My goodness! VERY responsive, friendly, even enthusiastic. They each gushed about the public response theyd seen - ALL positive. Some people had sent in flowers or cookies. Tons of good feedback. At the third encounter, I engaged with the young woman manager. But then a young male colleague came over, and he was downright bubbly with delight at the public reaction. They were clearly having a great day at work that day.
I asked them to pass my thank-you note up the food chain. They all said they would.
Positive reinforcement! Its a good thing! Also gratifying when you hear in little unscientific polls like this - how many others out there who feel the same way you do. It was empowering, for sure!
+ another 1
Yes, they should. Along with the beneficiaries of the cheating.
Hey look, it all comes down to this:
Do we teach our kids that cheating is okay? And is something they should go ahead and jump into for momentary gain?
Or do we teach our kids that cheating is NOT okay, and NOT something you dont do, because its just simply WRONG??? (Whether you profit from it or not?)
Good Grief this is INFURIATING!!!!!
YES!!!!! Get RID of Rick Caruso, too!
Big-ass developer in the chi-chi parts of L.A., whos to blame for the McMansions and high rises and skyrocketing real estate prices. He hosted dick cheney for dinner and other visits frequently during the bush/cheney era, causing miserable traffic tie-ups all over the place - because of course everything had to grind to a halt so dickies entourage could motorcade swiftly through town in style and comfort.
BIG-ASS donor to the CONS.
On edit - btw, Little Miss Princess was on Rick Carusos yacht in the Bahamas, spending spring break with his daughter Gianna, whos also enrolled at USC, when this story broke. Poor little thing had to cut her vacay short to return to LA.
And she photoshops well.
My husband and I have this saying - ...but he/she photographs well. Thats usually in reference to the nauseating trend mainly in television news and infotainment - where brains or quick wit dont seem nearly as important as a pretty face. You can be a card-carrying idiot or semi-literate, but MAN-oh-MAN if you look good on camera, You. Are. SET.
In this case, with our little princess here, and others like her, part of the process involved online researchers carefully sifting photos of athletes, and finding just the right photo into which to photoshop the rich kids face, correct the color and shading, and then Voila! You have Her Spoiled Highness sitting in the rowboat (as the crew athlete she really isnt), or posing in the sport which the applicant-poseur claims as a specialty.
But hey - isnt this the new republi-CON way? Cheat to win?
Oh, excuse me - shes an influencer - who vlogs on Instagram with more than a million followers about makeup and clothes.
https://www.thecut.com/2019/03/lori-loughlin-daughter-olivia-jade-college-vlogger.html
So lets give her a medal then, eh? I was pleased to see that one of her sponsors has dropped her. I guess if youre young, cute, slim, rich, and connected, you can busy yourself building your brand.
https://www.thecut.com/2019/03/olivia-jade-could-lose-sponcon-deals-amid-college-scandal.html?_gl=1*1bj2lvn*_ga*YW1wLUF2NHVPSDUwZExSS295MVlRWlY0VXRsckl1b0ZlSmVSRUJ5U1J2Tzhud21ma0lfY1pfZENBMDJjLW9GdnVhRzk.
Btw I learned all kinds of things reading through this shit. Spon-con - or sponsored content - that allowed her to link up with HP (which has terminated its relationship with her), Sephora, TRESemme hair care products, Marc Jacobs Beauty, Amazon, Dolce & Gabbana and more (?!?!?!!).
THIS. THIS is the video I saw that has left me OUTRAGED!!!!
Game days. Partying. I dont really care about school.
What a spoiled snot-nosed brat! Well, princess, if you dont really care about school, then GET THE FUCK OUT!!! That prized space youre occupying that you dont even begin to deserve rightfully belongs to some other kid who takes that level of education seriously, DAMMIT!
GET THE FUCK OUT!!!! So SOMEBODY MORE DESERVING can enroll in that school and take that slot, DAMMIT!
DAMN IT! When I think of how I damn near broke my fucking neck studying to make grades in hopes of getting into a good school - to try to make something of myself. The game days and partying I DIDNT do or go to because I was too busy trying to keep up my grade point average. Too busy studying, reading, writing, working my ass off to keep getting those As.
Night after night of all-nighters. Studying and studying and studying some more. All the papers and essays and reports I agonized over. All the notes I made and study guides I put together during exam weeks. Man, I must have filled a hundred spiral notebooks with notes preparing for tests. Color-coding topics and subtopics with a slew of colored markers so I could find any fact at a glance. Good Grief I worked! Nothing was just handed to me on some fancy designer plate. I worked my tail off!
Im so angry I feel like I could actually catch fire! That spoiled little shit should go wait tables in some cheap dive for a couple of years and try to earn some money to help pay her own way at some institution that may not have a marquee name or glittering rosters of billionaires stuffing their endowment accounts but could still provide her with a respectable higher education. Maybe shed learn to appreciate the value of an education for which many kids would give everything they owned.
I hope shes shamed off that campus and fucking EXPELLED. MAN does she ever need to do some learning!
Sorry for the rant. But MAN this one hit me HARD!
So then we think of another word, phrase, term - that isn't so loaded.
Keep thinking!
That's another good one.
Social Capitalism.
This is good stuff.
The MESSAGING. We need to master the messaging. Especially going into the next election cycle.
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