Everyone loves John F. Kennedy. He was smart, witty, and good looking. He was the perfect president of the united states, standing up to those mean old communists and the Iron Curtain. His entire family was in politics ( his brother bobby, his dad Joe, and his grandpa "honey Fitz" Fitzgerald). When he was assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald, the entire nation wept. 30 years latter, they pondered.
I am currently reading the dark side of Camelot, by Seymour Hersh. The book is a biography that shows off the worst sides of JFK. Trust me, they're tons of them. I personally have always thought JFK was the greatest president who lived. He was flawless. But he's actually not. Don't get me wrong, JFK was a great president, who was a war hero, and a great man. He just had many "quirks" that are mostly responsible of his father. Joe Kennedy's life lesson to his son, was to get rich, go into politics, get married, stay married, have as many children as possible, and have as much sex as possible. In the book, Joe, walks right into a family lunch with a random women, and proceeds to walk by his wife, and have intercourse with the woman. JFK respected his father greatly, and if Joe did it, then he should to. JFK would go on to have many affairs with women before and after he married Jackie Kennedy.
When Al Gore lost to George Bush in the 2000 presidential election, everyone of the Democrats was appalled. They had been cheated. In the election of 1960, JFK stole the votes of Chicago from Richard Nixon, because his father was in with the mob, and they forced people at gunpoint to vote Kennedy, or voted themselves as thousands of people who had actually died in World War Two. Chicago was the state that won Kennedy the election.
Though he had his flaws, so did many presidents. JFK was a very nice, polite man his main problem was just that...
He never really wore any pants.
Wednesday, January 26, 2011
Thursday, January 20, 2011
funny 1900s
Recently, Txai has lent me the first two books in the Tintin series, which I have read before, but mainly just looked at the pictures. This time, I looked at the pictures again (along with the words, I am no longer 6) and noticed how horribly stereotypical those books where. It was appalling.
Every single black person in the book was portrayed to be the shade of midnight and ALWAYS, stressing the always, were either servants who were clueless, or crooks and henchmen to the bad guy. The henchmen looked a lot like monkeys who had just been thrown out a tree. It was strange seeing what people who drew described as. I don't know, it might just be me, but i really think it's creepy to make races stereotyped in cartoons. odd.
Indians are again, very stereotyped. They are shown as angry stupid men, who use the words "um" and "How chief" to an extent. I have never actually met a pure native American, but I have a feeling that they don't get tricked into killing each other by residue being flicked at them by a white kid tied to a stake.
Chinese people are the ones that are so badly portrayed, it makes me laugh. They all where fast food employee outfits that I would assume belong to a burger king drive thru attendant rather then a emperor.
Everyone has eyes that are so slanted they couldn't possibly see from them. Oh, and they all smoke truck loads of opium.
When did the world finally realize that not every Chinese person smokes opium?
Every single black person in the book was portrayed to be the shade of midnight and ALWAYS, stressing the always, were either servants who were clueless, or crooks and henchmen to the bad guy. The henchmen looked a lot like monkeys who had just been thrown out a tree. It was strange seeing what people who drew described as. I don't know, it might just be me, but i really think it's creepy to make races stereotyped in cartoons. odd.
Indians are again, very stereotyped. They are shown as angry stupid men, who use the words "um" and "How chief" to an extent. I have never actually met a pure native American, but I have a feeling that they don't get tricked into killing each other by residue being flicked at them by a white kid tied to a stake.
Chinese people are the ones that are so badly portrayed, it makes me laugh. They all where fast food employee outfits that I would assume belong to a burger king drive thru attendant rather then a emperor.
Everyone has eyes that are so slanted they couldn't possibly see from them. Oh, and they all smoke truck loads of opium.
When did the world finally realize that not every Chinese person smokes opium?
Thursday, January 13, 2011
Looking through eyes that are not your own
It's been a little while since I have read a really good book. One that makes me wish that I could just skip school and not come home to play video games, but just to read. In House Rules, by Jodi Piculut (Author of the renowned novel My Sisters Keeper), a child with Asbergers (which I can't spell for my life) is put on trial for murder. I have not figured out who did it yet. After reading for a while, I went downstairs to have dinner, and all of the sudden, I was looking at food as if I was autistic.
It's a weird feeling to have, looking through different eyes. The expression is tossed around often, but to actually have a moment where I could understand what these kids are going through was, well, odd. It's like when you dream about your life, but you play the role of someone else.
Trust me, this little experience has not made me think of myself as some sort of sympathetic person, I do feel for those with autism, but really it just made me think about what life would be like black and white. When you have Asbergers, Every question you are asked is very literal, so you answer it likewise. Say I asked a child with Asbergers if he had the time, he would most likely stare at me and say "How could I possibly have control of the time?"
Though a world of literal questions and answers may seem simple, it would probably be very complicated to follow exactly, which is what we would have to do. Who knows, I couldn't handle that world. But obviously some people are forced to.
It's a weird feeling to have, looking through different eyes. The expression is tossed around often, but to actually have a moment where I could understand what these kids are going through was, well, odd. It's like when you dream about your life, but you play the role of someone else.
Trust me, this little experience has not made me think of myself as some sort of sympathetic person, I do feel for those with autism, but really it just made me think about what life would be like black and white. When you have Asbergers, Every question you are asked is very literal, so you answer it likewise. Say I asked a child with Asbergers if he had the time, he would most likely stare at me and say "How could I possibly have control of the time?"
Though a world of literal questions and answers may seem simple, it would probably be very complicated to follow exactly, which is what we would have to do. Who knows, I couldn't handle that world. But obviously some people are forced to.
Thursday, January 6, 2011
Rotten punk kids
I have cleverly deducted why people hate teenagers so much. Why everyone thinks all of us are mean, obnoxious and rude. It is because of the way we are portrayed in books. I'm sure that someone else has already thought about this, but I have a new way of looking at it.
Say an elderly man is reading a book, about a nice elderly man who reads books about other elderly men. Stay with me. In the book, there are some teenagers who are not that mean, hey are just going through a tough time in there life A.K.A puberty. The man decides that the book was boring and cliche, so he does not like it. In fact, he laments this book. It is the vain of his existence. He goes out for a stroll to clear his head, and he sees some teenagers, just hanging around a street corner. He remembers the book and that teenagers were in it, and boy does he hate that book and everything it talks about (besides elderly men who read about other elderly men, such as himself). He yells "Damn it you punk kids, why do you ruin my life?", and calls the cops.
I thought about all this, because in a book I just read called someday this pain will all be useful to you, the teenagers are totally awful people, and the main character James can see right through all of there facades and into their horrible inner core. Funnily enough, James is also a teenager and he hates it. Chin up James.
So now we have seen that the reason people hate teenagers so much, is not because they are bad people. It is because of an overly complex system of ideas and theories that travels through peoples brains and confuses everyone.
Or we just generally are horrible, rotten, rude, obnoxious, mean, evil, disgusting, menacing, distasteful, degrading to our society people.
But mine sounds better.
Say an elderly man is reading a book, about a nice elderly man who reads books about other elderly men. Stay with me. In the book, there are some teenagers who are not that mean, hey are just going through a tough time in there life A.K.A puberty. The man decides that the book was boring and cliche, so he does not like it. In fact, he laments this book. It is the vain of his existence. He goes out for a stroll to clear his head, and he sees some teenagers, just hanging around a street corner. He remembers the book and that teenagers were in it, and boy does he hate that book and everything it talks about (besides elderly men who read about other elderly men, such as himself). He yells "Damn it you punk kids, why do you ruin my life?", and calls the cops.
I thought about all this, because in a book I just read called someday this pain will all be useful to you, the teenagers are totally awful people, and the main character James can see right through all of there facades and into their horrible inner core. Funnily enough, James is also a teenager and he hates it. Chin up James.
So now we have seen that the reason people hate teenagers so much, is not because they are bad people. It is because of an overly complex system of ideas and theories that travels through peoples brains and confuses everyone.
Or we just generally are horrible, rotten, rude, obnoxious, mean, evil, disgusting, menacing, distasteful, degrading to our society people.
But mine sounds better.
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