Yesterday, I e-mailed the Today Show and thanked Ann for wearing her hair down. Today, her hair was up, which made me think about how she could look with really short hair. I wasn't impressed.
I'm starting to move on anyway. Carol Costello of CNN has been looking spectacular. And she's that way consistently. Great hair = great ratings in my book.
Yeah thats what scares me about Ann, that she will go back to that dreaded pixie. If she does cut it, lets hope for atleast shoulder length anyways and join Natalie and Campbell. lol Natalie looks nice anyways!
While they're at it, they should do something, anything, to either Campbell
Brown or Natalie Morales. Not only have both had pretty much the same
shoulder length brown hair forever, but they have almost the same cut. They
are on the same show and I can't tell them apart! Even a small color change
would be welcome.
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Few men are killed by the bayonet;many are scared by it.Bayonets should be fixed when the fire fight starts.General George Patton Jr.,War As I Knew It,1947.
Rod that is a well made point. It did give us a few years of Ann with llong hair especially as long as it is. Remember she and daughter did it together because her asked her too. Do wish folks would remember that. I do prefer it long like it is but we can only guess how short she'll cut it. hope not much above shoulders. Whats anybody else's guess of how it will be cut?
LoL says on their website that not all hair goes to a wig for alopecia
sufferers. Thay aren't untruthful. I don't know how many women don't know
this or would back out if they did. A charity needs cash to operate. If I
donate something to a charity, I assume they sell it to operate. Did you know
that a charity only has to give out 5% of what they take in each year to be
within Federal charitible guidelines?
If Ann doesn't know LoL might not use her hair and she found out, she
would cut it anyway. She hates her hair long. It's going regardless. In fact all
you LoL haters should thank LoL. If Ann didn't want to donate she wouldn't
have grown her hair out in the first place. Due to LoL, you got a few years of
Ann with long hair.
When the person from LOL comes on the Today Show he must warn the women that their hair might not actually be used, and then ask them if they still want to through with it. If Ann and the women knew that, they might just back out. It would be interesting to see.
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Well it will be great if Ann doesn't get much air time March 1st because she decided against donating her hair. I`m still sending my e-mails to them. Letting them know how I feel about it.
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I missed it. I haven't been watching because they haven't been showing her. I think they are going to give her alot of air time March 1. So why not just give the others more. But we will see.
Few men are killed by the bayonet;many are scared by it.Bayonets should be fixed when the fire fight starts.General George Patton Jr.,War As I Knew It,1947.
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I don't know if LoL deserves any of the rumor or innuendo. As JF says,
people take what they read on Give.org, a private organization, and
extrapolate it. It's possible that these suppositions are true, but there's no
evidence. While I don't think LoL needs to update the info on Give.org, I
agree that it would be journalistically responsible for "Today" to interview
the organization and ask questions. Include questions on these
suppositions. The biggest question is whether they need all the ponytails.
What's awful is that people accuse them of financial improprieties, fraud,
embezzlement, and not helping kids. They may not need all the ponytails,
but there's no evidence to support any of these claims.
JF, there is no accounting knock on Give.org. That's a myth spread by people who don't want women to cut their hair. Locks of Love met 15 of 16 Standards for Charity Accountability. They failed to meet the other one, only because they declined to provide one financial document to the BBB. The BBB is not a public organization and Locks of Love is not required to provide them anything. This report is over three years old. That makes it irrelevant.
There are no financial irregularities. They've never had complaints about financial problems or been accused of anything. The government has never had any problems with them. People spread misinformation about them. I'm not an advocate for LoL. I would never push anyone to donate. It's their hair. I know that people that do are pretty happy when they do. A family member does have alopecia. I am sensitive to what LoL does. I've never seen an Internet argument against them that holds water.
Really wasn't meaning to get into this and Rod, I completely aware of everything you've said (see my myriad of past posts on this). My point was that the Give.org item is usually the only piece of concrete evidience the anti-LoL folks point to and the rest is extrapolated from their interpretations of what they've found on the website or outright hearsay.
All I was saying was that, at this point, I'd like for either NBC to take two minutes of the hype for Ann's haircut to clarify some of this stuff or for LoL to just update their info with Give.org. Again, I don't think LoL remotely deserves the rumor, innuendo, and inference of "evil" some in this community foist upon them. I just wish someone (NBC, LoL, SOMEONE) would finally take the time to refute the easily refutable stuff.
Ending my commentary on this yet again,
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Well said!! here's a question for thoese with children would YOU break a promise to Your child if they asked you to do it with them and said yes? I know I couldn't an I don't have any. Ann did this with her daughter TOGETHER.. Just hope she doesn't go too short
It does sound like they have more than they need. Unless someone
actually goes to their offices, how would we know? I don't think you can
take a few bits of information out of context and assume you know. I
have no problem if they sell hair to finance the charity. That's what
charities do. They sell things they get to operate. If someone doesn't want
to donate because LoL may have enough ponytails, fine. If someone
wants to, fine. Even if no little girl gets the ponytail, the person donating
feels good.
Kramer, I have no probelm with you liking long hair, although I think that
you're rather singular in your preferences. My issue is when you think that
Ann should bow to your preferences, when you think that if she knew
how much you like her long hair, she'd keep it.
Of course, NBC is in it for ratings. That's what they do! They try to get
viewers. I understand that if every American woman cut her hair, you'd be
disappointed. Don't worry. Women do that every day. And other women
grow their hair out everyday.
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Too bad they atleast don't give her a few segments inbetween the Olympics coverage though. Especially since their are no games going on at that time. Only news segments for the next two weeks sure isn't enough. Notice too Ann the last couple of days has just been wearing her hair in a bun, getting use to that length probably.
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Rod, sorry about your family member with alopecia, but even you've got to admit that LoL must have a warehouse full of hair that the group will never use. Females of all ages cut off their ponytails every day across the USA and donate them to LoL. The donations must outnumber the need.
To me, this is more about 1) what I like and 2) the result of all this.
I like long hair and I like Ann Curry much better with long hair. I never even noticed her when she had short hair. It was always "Katie, Katie, Katie" on The Today Show. Now, Ann is stunning.
Ann and her network are conspiring to turn her haircut into a ratings bonanza. They're soliciting others to join in -- all for ratings. Ann will go from the anchorwoman with the beautiful long hair to the anchorwoman who cut her hair. To me, she won't be as easy on the eyes. I'll never look at her the same way.
Lovers of long hair, like myself, will watch and hope cutting beautiful long hair for charity's sake doesn't become a nationwide epidemic.
I know, you have to respect Ann's decision. But that doesn't mean you have to like it.
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There you go someone has counter with some facts. I been waiting for someone to light the other side. Thanks Rod.
Few men are killed by the bayonet;many are scared by it.Bayonets should be fixed when the fire fight starts.General George Patton Jr.,War As I Knew It,1947.
The sense of ownership some people have for Ann Curry is... well...
disturbing. She doesn't like her hair long. I'd think that would be enough
for anyone to respect her decision. Why should she take anyone's
preference over her own.
JF, there is no accounting knock on Give.org. That's a myth spread by
people who don't want women to cut their hair. Locks of Love met 15 of
16 Standards for Charity Accountability. They failed to meet the other
one, only because they declined to provide one financial document to the
BBB. The BBB is not a public organization and Locks of Love is not
required to provide them anything. This report is over three years old.
That makes it irrelevant.
There are no financial irregularities. They've never had complaints about
financial problems or been accused of anything. The government has
never had any problems with them. People spread misinformation about
them. I'm not an advocate for LoL. I would never push anyone to donate.
It's their hair. I know that people that do are pretty happy when they do. A
family member does have alopecia. I am sensitive to what LoL does. I've
never seen an Internet argument against them that holds water.
I really think she would change her mind if she knows how many adore her long locks.
Wow. What's the weather like in your world?
Seriously, though, if you want to get behind a cause, then harass (harrass? harras? bother?) the news department to get LoL to explain their accounting their knock on the Give.org charitable organization list if for no other reason than to make this whole issue go away.
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