Just a few things...

As for the picture of John-John, his hair isn't nearly as stiff as Reagan's. 


Intelligent people can't have good hair?  False.  Here are a few examples of intelligent people with great hair. 

Monica Lewinsky aside, this man is no idiot.

Another brilliant man. 

That's right. 

As for the pictures of Kennedy's hair "out of place," it's called blowing in the wind, and it's fabulous.  Reagan had stiff hair, Kennedy had hair that looked good and had great shape, and when he was outdoors, it moved with the wind.  This isn't a bad thing.  It's natural and still fabulous, and it makes him like a real man, an outdoorsman, etc.  Reagan looks like a pretty boy with slicked back hair.  Manly (J.F.K.) vs high maintenance (Reagan).  Manly wins any day. 

The Best Presidential Hair: J.F.K or Reagan? - Reagan

Now I know what all you guys are thinking. "Oh got to vote democrat, always!" but this is the one vote in which political policies are not concerned. This debate is intend to consist of reasons why one former presidents hair is better than the others. Nothing to do with politics (yes I'm reffering to your arguement Charlotte -_-). But considering how the readers of this blog consist almost entirely of liberal college kids, (and I as one myself) I am going to try and reason with you here. I personally would love to vote for JFK, But I just have to be honest here even if its hard to choose Reagan. He had some seriously suave hair, always tidy and smooth. Never a hair out of place. Kennedy on the other hand...not so much.

I mean you have to ask yourself, would they really put a man with bad hair into the movies?
 I dont think so.

Besides liberals should want JFK to lose this vote! I mean after all intelligent people aren't exactly
known for having good hair.

Now unintelligent people on the other hand, well their hair is always wonderful. Thats's because
if it's not, well there just batting 1000 now arent they?

Now for the last topic I'd like to cover, the hair product situation. For any of you that are going to try and compare Reagan's hair to Pauly D (Charlotte -_-).  Really?! I'd like to present you with a much more accurate comparision. Oh wow look what I found a photo of! Is that? could it really be?! One of America's most ridiculously handsome men rocking Reagan hair?! Yup. It is.

 Oh and by the way looks like the Kennedy family eventually joined in on the hair product trend too.

Ooo Awkward.

So yeah...Check and Mate.

The Best Presidential Hair: J.F.K or Reagan? -J.F.K

It wasn't just his politics that got him all the ladies.

J.F.K. – Au Natural

Recently, my friend and I have been debating a very serious issue: presidential hair.  Wigs don’t count; the earliest presidents are disqualified.  It’s come down to one of the greatest presidents, John F. Kennedy, and one of the uh… well, Ronald Reagan.  My friend thinks Reagan takes the win, but I know otherwise. 

There are many, many reasons J.F.K’s hair is far better than Reagan’s hair, and here are just a few:

1.  Kennedy’s hair was attached to a head containing the brain of a liberal thinker.  As though that weren’t enough...

      2.  The luscious locks of J.F.K. are red.  Ahhh, sweet uniqueness. 

      3.  Reagan’s hair, though it is undeniably nicely shaped, is obviously filled with products.  Being a girl who uses mousse, I understand the need.  However, the use of product should be kept on the DL.  Reagan is the presidential Pauly D.  (One and Two .)See the resemblance?

      4.  Jack’s hair is naturally perfect.  No product necessary.  It has incredible shape, and is fabulously voluminous.  Unlike the Reaganator, Kennedy could just brush his hair back and it would be flawless.  When you look at it, you don’t think “aged T-Bird” or “former greaser,” like you might with Reagan.  It just looks damn good.  In other words, President Kennedy was a badass, and his hair didn’t need product to keep good shape.  Au natural.

      5.  One source says the following to describe Kennedy: “In many ways he was like Bruce Lee, Jesus, and Hugh Hefner rolled into one.”  Why did no one ever describe Reagan in this way?  Undoubtedly it’s because like his economics, Reagan’s hair was flawed. 

          6.  Probably due to the products, Reagan’s hair could never do this.  Yeah, that’s right.  No hair billowing in the wind for President Reagan.  It's just too hardened!

       7.  Just to really drive it home, from a family like this, how could Kennedy not have great hair? It’s in his genes.

It’s clear now that John F. Kennedy had the best presidential hair.  To be fair to Reagan, at least now we know that his bad policy might have been influenced by the massive headaches he likely endured due to his overbearingly heavy, product-filled hair.  Yeah, Reaganomics  makes a little more sense now.

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(Reagan argument coming soon.)

Democrats and Republicans: an Analysis

My grandpa is a good man.  He’s worked hard his whole life, he votes yes for the school budget, and he’s an avid Yankees fan.  But he is human, and we all know humans have faults.  Gramps is no different; he has voted republican for a solid portion of his life, and intends to continue this trend.  His justification for doing so: rich people aren’t evil, and they shouldn’t be punished.

Now, my grandpa isn’t a dumb man.  On the contrary: he’s usually highly logical and reasonable.  His justification for voting republican therefore confuses me.  Unfortunately, he isn’t alone in thinking the Democratic Party is the party set on punishing the wealthy.  This is a common misconception. 

However, my grandpa and I were driving on the highway when something happened that would prove to be a perfect way of depicting the two major political parties in America and clearing up my grandpa’s illusion.

I was driving while Gramps was in the passenger seat.  We were heading north on the New York Thruway, listening (myself, grudgingly) to Michael Savage.  A black Toyota Camry drove a short distance ahead of us, and when my grandpa saw the car he made a miserable noise.  I asked what was wrong and he responded, “look at the sticker.  Filthy.”  I was expecting a Boston Red Sox sticker, but what I saw wasn’t filthy at all, it was a sticker from the 2008 election that read “Obama-Biden.” 

And so the bickering-turned-heated contention began.   

“Democrats are communists!”

“No, they just think everyone should have a fair chance at a prosperous life.”

“You can’t take rich people’s money, they earned it.  We can’t all be equal.”

“We don’t want everyone to be equal, we want everyone to have equal opportunity.”

So on and so forth.

A little while later, we came to a point on the road where the right lane was closed, and we had to merge.  Naturally, many of the people in the left lane were hesitant to let the “slow drivers” from the right over into their own lane.  When it was my turn to get over to the left, we saw the black Toyota Camry again.  With no one too close behind him, the driver slowed down and allowed me to pass.  At first, I simply waved to thank him and continued driving; I thought nothing more of the incident. 

After some time, the right lane was open again, and I merged back into it.  We were driving for about five minutes when a big pick up truck cut us off.  I had to literally step hard on the brake and slightly move to my right, into the shoulder.  The truck had been passing another car, and as soon as it was physically possible, the driver of the truck got back over into the left lane, cutting off the car the same way he did me.  Rather angry, I looked again at the truck.  Not so surprisingly, I saw a bumper sticker that read “McCain-Palin.” 

Instantly I looked at my grandpa and said “you see?!  Of course, the republican would cut everyone off and risk hurting all of us just so he can go even faster, because 85 mph isn’t enough.” 

My grandpa laughed and rolled his eyes, as he always does when he knows I have a point.

Now, of course I don’t think every single republican drives the way the man in the truck had, nor do I doubt there are democrats who do so.  But this confrontation is a good example of the differences between democrats and republicans.  Democrats, like the man in the Toyota Camry, are willing to, and know other people should, sacrifice a little of their own interests in order to help out others.  He could have kept going at his speed, and I would have had a problem getting to the left.  However, he slowed down and let me over; he gave up a little, knowing it would help me out.  The republican, on the other hand, thought only of himself.  He should have waited a few more seconds and passed the car in front of him safely, without jeopardizing anyone else.  Instead, he was only worried about his own advancement, and acted that way despite the fact he was harming others.

This is the difference between democrats and republicans.  Democrats are willing to sacrifice, even if it’s only a little, in order to help others, whereas republicans are not.  Equate this to taxes.  Democrats, though no one ever likes super high taxes, are generally supportive of taxes if their purpose is to help others have opportunities; if they’re in support of healthcare, education, etc.  Republicans though, view taxes as toxic.  It doesn’t matter if it means more books for students or more medicine for the ill, if it’s a tax it means more sacrifice, and republicans say “no way.”  

No one likes taxes.  But democrats see that sacrifice on the individual’s part helps the whole.  Going back to the Thruway, we all know traffic runs more smoothly when we merge properly, when we sacrifice.  And we know that traffic becomes congested and accidents occur when we all speed up and ignore cars needing to pass instead of working together.  That’s the democratic philosophy, sacrifice a little, and benefit the whole.  A democrat is the driver of the Camry.  A republican, though, is that man driving the truck, the man who refuses to look at anything other than his own interest. 

And if there are too many of those drivers, we will get nowhere.         

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Are we really safer?

So I’d like to start this post out with a quote which I believe were the last words of the famous revolutionary Che Guevara. “I know you are here to kill me. Shoot, coward, you are only going to kill a man”. This was a man who helped start an entire revolution. What he was saying here was that he was just a man, but what he created would not be over with the end of his own life. What he started was much more powerful than himself. Now I do not intend for this post to be “inspiring” at all. I, like with most of my posts, want this to be eye-opening and offer a view that although may not be the most celebrated idea but rather more of an honest interpretation. As I’m sure your all already aware, Today news broke about the death of Al Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden. It seems as if the whole country has let out a sigh of relief. Which is completely understandable and reasonable. President Obama has called the world “safer”. But can we really considered the world safer after the death of one man? I mean people are treating this like that scene in the Wizard of Oz when they finally kill the wicked witch and all her evil soldiers just drop their weapons immediately and rejoice that she’s gone. The sad thing is that’s only a movie, and we may have killed the leader of a terrorist organization but we did not kill that organization. New leaders can always be found. That’s the scary thing, Is that while this is great news and we should all be happy about this. I hate to see people treating it as if its finally over. I just want people to realize what the media is doing here. I mean after all this is a man who was not so horrible in the eyes of this country’s leaders back in the 80’s (look it up if you don’t believe me). This was also a man whom the U.S. had multiple opportunities to get but did not take advantage of (again, look it up). So the point I’m trying to make here is that try and be a little more conscious of media hype and look at this a little differently. Why wouldn’t the media want to take a little advantage of this situation? I mean after all its going to boost patriotism and restore confidence in our nation which frankly, many people are losing. So next time remember, there’s always more to the story.

-RA

A Misguided Youth

So its nothing new that this is a tough economy and it seems next to impossible to find a job. Now this is a particularly wide topic to cover so I want to narrow this down. I want this article to pertain only to the new generation. The ones who are joining the work force (or attempting to) graduating school , chasing their dreams. Now who’s to blame for this horrible economy? What went wrong? We went from a world where dreams existed and came true. The worries we have now didn’t seem to exist for our parents. If they didn’t want to go to college there was always the family business or the factory job with benefits. Job seeking back then wasn’t as cut throat as it is now. Is corporate greed and the insatiable love for power and the dollar bill about to destruct our society? Yet no one is awake yet and ready to face the painful truth. The youth of this country is still sound asleep, abandoning all practicality and reaching for the stars. But unfortunately for them those stars burnt out years ago. We have schools that are not properly preparing students for life after college. Particularly the bloodsucking chain schools if you will ( I think you know what I’m referring to. You know 40 different ones all over the country, tuition cost an arm, both legs, your first born and your soul? Yeah those ones). Now we have students attending these universities with no idea how they're going to pay back these tuitions. Blindly signing their lives away at the bottom of an enrollment agreement. They follow their dreams and just assume from the 4 years of high school guidance counselor propaganda “College Equals Job, No College Equals Unsuccessful”. So now we have kids who truly believe they are taking the best path for their lives but 4 years later they have a bachelors degree in some obscure subject, a job at the local diner, and their very own bedroom at mom and dads house. The world is changing and we need to change the way we prepare for it. American High Schools and American Society have this one size fits all approach. That every kid in America needs to be a college graduate to be considered successful. When truthfully nowadays, you have a much higher chance of finding a job with technical school training then you do with obscure college degrees. Its going to be pretty hard to fix if we keep digging this hole. We’re going to start to see it everywhere. The guy who rings up your groceries has a BFA and Sallie Mae’s the only girl who blows up his phone ‘cause she wants her 100K back and she wants it now. The girl who serves you at the diner on Tuesday nights? She sold her soul to Freddie Mac so she’s probably not going to be of much help stimulating the economy either. I mean I don’t see these people buying new cars or houses anytime soon. So how do we fix this? I’m not trying to be a downer here. I’m all for dreaming but we need to stand up and realize that we are not a one size fits all youth. We need to grow up a little and start being more realistic here. There is not one path that suites everyone and we need to stop letting society tell us that’s how it is. This needs to change and the youth of our nation needs to start being prepared a whole lot differently or were going to end up with two social classes, rich and poor. So the point I’m trying to make here is that if you truly want the American Dream, then its time to WAKE UP!

-RA

WAKE UP!

Can’t stand Glenn Beck?  Yeah, I don’t like him either.  But I suppose that’s beside the point…

There are a few of us who will be writing on this blog, and you can count on seeing something about the Beckster occasionally.  Our aim is to write about the world, about society, about culture… and every now and then we’ll rant about monsters people who make us queasy.  We’ll talk about justice and injustice.  We’ll give our opinions and analyses of current events.  Sometimes we’ll just put our hopes for the world out there.  We’ll have debates back and forth between democrats and republicans, maybe with communists (if we can find any…).  Don’t be surprised to see some angry tirades when the republicans (or the democrats, I suppose) announce a new bill they’ll try to pass or when President Obama appeases the right.  Don’t run away just yet – not all the blogs are going to be related to politics.  We want to be a source of information and knowledge, maybe even a source of humor every so often.  And of course we’ll throw in random blogs regarding other areas of interest; expect a few (maybe gloating) blogs declaring the Yankees champions of the world…

The point is, we hope to open your eyes.  We don’t think the media (ahem, FOX..) is doing enough to seek the truth and to show people what is really going on in the world.  We want discussion, we want debate, we want answers.  We want to change the way people think.  We hope this blog will get people thinking, and, ideally, acting.  We can’t keep living in ignorance.  We need to be responsible and make changes in the world.  As Voltaire said, "every man is guilty of all the good he didn’t do."  This blog will be, hopefully, a tool to help build more thoughtful, more involved people.  And hopefully we'll get in a few really good one-liners about Sarah Palin (kidding…sorta).   
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