HAPPY NEW YEAR FROM SCARED MONKEYS

WISHING ALL A SAFE AND HEALTHY

HAPPY NEW YEAR

All of us at Scared Monkeys wish all of you a very Happy New Year. With a memorable 2007 behind us … our hope and prayers go out to those in 2008 who sacrifice their time and efforts to help others.

We want to thank all the readers, listeners and commenters of Scared Monkeys.com, Scared Monkeys.net and MissingExploited.com. You have all made it a very memorable year … See you in 2008 …

Please take a moment to listen to some of our contributors and moderators discussing some of the events of 2007 and special New Years Wishes … Click here to listen!

Should auld acquaintance be forgot
and never brought to mind?
Should auld acquaintance be forgot
and days of auld lang syne?
For auld lang syne, my dear,
for auld lang syne,
we’ll take a cup of kindness yet,
for auld lang syne.

Should auld acquaintance be forgot
and never brought to mind?
Should auld acquaintance be forgot
and days of auld lang syne?
And here’s a hand, my trusty friend
And gie’s a hand o’ thine
We’ll tak’ a cup o’ kindness yet
For auld lang syne.

Dana Pretzer shares additional New Years greetings on Tuesday’s Scared Monkeys Radio Daily Commentary.

Don’t forget to watch the parade of parades … The 2008 Tournament of Roses Parade on HGTV.

Rose Parade Pictures

Weapons Crack down at Carlos N’ Charlies … This is a Tourist Destination?

ARUBA … SAFE?

For an island that claims they are safe, Aruba seems to be awfully concerned about the number of illegal guns on its street. Aruban police raided the popular dance club and “tourist destination,”Carlos N’ Charlie’s searching its customers for illegal guns. One would think while the police were in Cn’C that maybe they would have checked to see if everyone was actually of legal drinking age as well.

Why does it always seem to come back to Carlos N’ Charlie’s? Why is it that the ALE singles these types of places out on Aruba and yet allows unsuspecting tourists to flock there? Returning to the scene of the crime.

They searched people in the street and in several nightclubs.  The police surprised the dancing public of the popular disco Carlos ’N Charlies around 02:00.  They stopped the music and the light was suddenly turned on.

So Aruban police and prosecutors feel the need to search the dance clubs where tourists go that travel brochures state are tourist destinations? What should this tell travelers to Aruba of just how safe these types of places are? What is even more shocking is that the police during these raids feel the need to wear bullet proof vest.

This time under supervision of among others chief of police Peter de Witte and chief public prosecutor Hans Mos, they searched the nightlife-people in Oranjestad. 

The police searched the visitors thoroughly; even those that were in the lavatories.

So did the ALE search residents and tourists alike? One can probably imagine that no tourists were even aware of any such Aruban laws of search and seizure.  Now imagine if the ALE has performed this raid at Carlos N’ Charlies the night that Natalee Holloway went missing back in 2005, this story may never have ever occurred.

Aruban Police Crack Down on Illegal Weapons … Caption Contest

Amigoe: Police check for weapons  - full story below

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Scared Monkeys Radio Daily Commentary - Monday, December 31, 2007 - Nonja, Worlds Oldest Orangutan, Dies At Age 55

• Dana comments on Nonja’s death, and wishes us a Happy New Year.

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Aruban Police Crack Down on Illegal Weapons … Caption Contest

From Amigoe, December 30, 2007

CAPTION CONTEST

Hmmm … thought there was no crime in Aruba

Give us your caption to the above picture …

Club Libby Lu Strips 6 Year Old Hannah Montana Ticket Winner of Prize (Fake Essay)

JUSTICE … The 6 year old girl who had submitted, with the help of her mother, a fake essay that her “daddy died in Iraq”, has had the prize taken away. Thankfully, this was the decision made. The mother should be completely ashamed of her misguided priorities.

As we have previously stated, SOLDIERS DO NOT DIE SO THAT 6 YEAR OLD’S CAN WIN HANNA MONTANA TICKETS!!! 

GARLAND, Texas (A) — A 6-year-old girl who won four tickets to a Hannah Montana concert with an essay falsely claiming her father died in Iraq isn’t going to the show after all.

The contest’s sponsor, a store chain named Club Libby Lu, withdrew the prize Saturday and awarded it to another contestant. It didn’t identify the new winner.

“With this decision, we hope to revive the intended spirit of the contest, which was designed to make a little girl’s holidays extra special,” Club Libby Lu chief executive Mary Drolet said in a statement Saturday.

New England Patriots Go for 16-0 Perfect Regular Season Against NY Giants (UPDATE: Patriots Perfect 16-0)

PATRIOT GAMES … PERFECTION … PATS GO UNDEFEATED … 16–0 REGULAR SEASON.

Thanks to the NFL buckling under to the tremendous fan pressure, the Patriot – Giant match up, a game for the ages and NFL history will be seen on the NFL network, NBC and CBS. It would have been rather embarrassing disaster for such a significant NFL game to have had a TV rating of 4.0. Some have compared the game to being like a Presidential address … “You flip the channel and the Patriots will basically be what’s on.”

“We appreciate CBS and NBC delivering the NFL Network telecast on Saturday night to the broad audience that deserves to see this potentially historic game,” Goodell said. “Our commitment to the NFL Network is stronger than ever.”

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Missing Anu Solanki … Turns Out to be Runaway Newlywed … Returns Safe

24 year old Anu Solanki from Illinois had been missing since this past Christmas Eve. After all the searches with dogs, after all the water searches with divers … Anu Solanki returned home safe. Looks like a case this time of a “Runaway Newlywed” … at the cost of $250K!

Cell phone records indicated Solanki had left voluntarily with a 23-year-old male friend from California, authorities said earlier Friday. Mayberry did not know whether the friend, Karan C. Jani, had returned with Solanki.

Jani placed several cell phone calls to Anu Solanki while she was at work at a Wheeling hotel Monday morning, the sheriff’s office said in a statement. Solanki may have met Jani a short time later that day, then left the area with him, officials said. (Yahoo News)

Hannah Montana 6 Year Old & Mother Concert Essay Winner A Fake … “My daddy died this year in Iraq.”

Since when did we start teaching our children that lying is acceptable? Dying to get Hanna Montana tickets at any cost … even at the risk of losing our humanity.

Is nothing sacred? Is this how we honor our fallen brave military? With a fake essay on how a little 6 year old girls daddy died in Iraq. So this is what our society has become and parents deem okay to teach their children to lie to get what ever they want at all cost. Brave men and women in our Armed Forces die every day in Iraq to provide security for the United States and quell terrorism over there so we do not have to experience it here. 

“My daddy died this year in Iraq. I am going to give mommy the Angel pendant that daddy put on mommy when she was having me. I had it in my jewelry box since that day. I love my mommy.”

THEY DO NOT DIE SO THAT 6 YEAR OLDS CAN WIN HANNA MONTANA TICKETS!!! 

A six year old girl with the help of her mother, Priscilla Ceballos deceived contest officials at Club Libby Lu by entering a fake essay stating that her “daddy dies in Iraq”. How in the hell does any parent think that this was okay to do?

“We did the essay and that’s what we did to win,” Priscilla Ceballos, the mother, said in an interview with Dallas TV station KDFW. “We did whatever we could do to win.”

The mother had told company officials that the girl’s father died April 17 in a roadside bombing in Iraq, company spokeswoman Robyn Caulfield said
(USA Today)

A Texas mother helped her 6-year-old write a fake essay saying that her father had died in Iraq in order to win hard to get Hannah Montana concert tickets. (CBS)

Now that contest officials have found out that this was a lie, they may be revoking the ticket. MAYBE!!!???  Now that the cat is out of the bag, the mother is claiming that she never told contest organizers that the essay was true and that her 6 year old daughter was aware that this was a work of fiction. SURE YOU DID! The mother is in full CYA mode, ‘We Never Said This Was A True Story.’ If you never said it was true then why did you say the father’s name was Army Sgt. Jonathon Menjivar, had died in a roadside bombing April 17 in Iraq?

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The Dana Pretzer Show on Scared Monkeys Radio - Friday, December 28, 2007 - Guests Include Robin Sax and Larry Garrison

This week, Dana reviews the news of 2007 with his special guests:

• Robin Sax, Los Angeles Deputy District Attorney
• Well known journalist and President of SilverCreek Entertainment, The News Breaker, Larry Garrison

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MP3 Christmas Gift for 10 Year Old Girl Bought at WALMART Preloaded With Porn

I hardly think that this was on Santa’s list of presents to bring children …

Hey Walmart … Wanna get away? This must have been the feeling when Daryl Hill realized that the MP3 player he had purchased at Walmart for his 10 year old daughter was preloaded with porn and explicit songs. One would think that legal action will be part of this families new year.

A father gave his 10-year-old daughter a Christmas present that would make Santa blush.

Now Daryl Hill wants to know why an MP3 video player he bought at a Wal-Mart in Sparta was preloaded with pornography and explicit songs.

Hill bought three of the players as Christmas presents for his children. He said one of the devices had apparently been returned to the store from a previous owner who loaded sex clips and songs with lyrics about using drugs.

“Within 10 minutes, my daughter was crying,” Hill said Thursday. “I wish I could take the thoughts and images out of her head.”

Hill questioned why Wal-Mart Stores Inc. would sell used merchandise as new, which he said violates its own policies. (FOX News)