Daily Commentary – Monday, January 24th, 2011 – Good Riddance, Keith Olbermann
- Was he fired? Did he quit? Who knows. Glad he’s gone.
Posted January 24, 2011 by Scared Monkeys Dana Pretzer, Keith Olbermann, Media, MSNBC, Podcast, Scared Monkeys Radio | no comments |
Fitness Guru Jack LaLanne Passes Away at the Age of 96
Jack LaLanne, the Godfather of fitness and health, has passed away at the age of 96. The man who brough fitness and health to households long before it became a cottage inductry has passed.
Rest in Peace
The man who for 70 years has told Americans to eat healthy, pump iron, lose weight and exercise has died from respiratory failure due to pneumonia in his Morro Bay, CA home Sunday afternoon. The fitness pioneer revolutionized the way we looked at health and fitness. Jack LaLanne is survived by his wife Elaine, his two sons Dan and Jon, and a daughter, Yvonne.
“The Jack LaLanne Show”
This is a nation of tired people,” he said, in an effort to encourage people to exercise. “Everyone is suffering from that chronic disease that I like to call pooped-out-itis.”
“Inactivity is a killer,” LaLanne once said. “The only way you can hurt the body is not use it.”
LaLanne was a fitness pioneer, opening the first of his many exercise studios in 1936. He focused on weight-training at a time when the idea of pumping iron was strictly taboo, especially for women.
“You have to understand that it was absolutely forbidden in those days for athletes to use weights. It just wasn’t done. We had athletes who used to sneak into the studio to work out,” he once said.
Athletic trainers believed bulking up would slow athletes down and women were supposed to look curvy and feminine, not athletic and toned.
“Back then, women weren’t supposed to use weights. I guess I was a pioneer,” LaLanne said.
Jack LaLanne has been igniting change and promoting fitness for years. We have truly lost a national treasure. Jack LaLanne was a man before his time.
LaLanne spent decades talking about the healthful benefits of exercise and fitness. He opened his own health spa in California in 1936, years before the fitness craze swept the United States. LaLanne even designed the world’s first leg-extension machine, along with several other pieces of fitness equipment now standard in the fitness industry.
He was born in San Francisco on September 26, 1914. A self-confessed sugar- and junk-food addict as a child, he went on to study bodybuilding and weight-lifting by the time he was in his late teens.
Jack’s wife of 51 years, Elaine LaLanne said in a statement: “I have not only lost my husband and a great American icon, but the best friend and most loving partner anyone could ever hope for.”
Former US Senator George Allen to Declare his Candidacy for US Senate in Virginia
Former Sen. George Allen will end weeks of speculation and formally declare his candidacy for U.S. Senate in Virginia on Monday, two Republican advisers tell POLITICO.
Allen, who has been making all the moves of a candidate in recent weeks, is expected to blast an e-mail to supporters with a video message before alerting the media.
The announcement comes as no surprise. The former governor and senator has been making all the moves of a candidate in recent weeks, touring the state to champion a repeal of the health care law, quietly reaching out to state lawmakers and seeking advice from those who guided his earliest campaigns.
George Allen lost to current Virginia US Senator Jim Webb in 2006 election by less than 8,000 votes. Jim Webb has yet to announce whether he is even going to run for reelection. All eyes will be on this high profile Senate match up as in 2012 Democrats have to defend 23 seats while Republicans only have to defend 10.
There will be a much different political climate in 2012 as compared to 2006 when Jim Webb was elected, along with the Democrat take over of the US House and Senate by Democrats. Since the 2006 victory by Democrat Jim Webb, Democrats lost the VA governorship in 2009 as Republican Bob McDonnell won big. The 2010 midterm elections was also a debacle for Democrats in Virginia. The GOP picked up 3 US House seats in VA 02, VA 05 and VA 09.
Virginia is a much different place in 2010 than it was in 2006 or 2008 when Obama carried the the Commonwealth 53% to 47% over McCain. This will prove to be an extremely tough hold for Democrats.
Obama Hope & Change: Pianist Plays Anti-American Pro-Communist Song at Obama White House State Dinner
UNREAL, IS THIS WHAT OBAMA HOPE AND CHANGE HAS COME TO … Pro-Communist songs played in the White House!!!
A Chinese pianist played an anti-American Communist propaganda song at Barack Obama’s White House State Dinner for Chinese President Hu. Why is no one surprised? Could the Obama Administration be any more pathetic of disrespectful to America and those that fought and died in the Korean War? Obviously, there was no otrage from Obama or his peeps. Let me guess, the Novice in Chief had no idea what he was listening to?
Lang Lang, a Chinese pianist, plays the piano at the White House on Jan. 19, 2011. The music he is playing is the theme song from an anti-American propaganda movie about the Korean War
Lang Lang the pianist says he chose it. Chairman Hu Jintao recognized it as soon as he heard it. Patriotic Chinese Internet users were delighted as soon as they saw the videos online. Early morning TV viewers in China knew it would be played an hour or two beforehand. At the White House State dinner on Jan. 19, about six minutes into his set, Lang Lang began tapping out a famous anti-American propaganda melody from the Korean War: the theme song to the movie “Battle on Shangganling Mountain.”
The film depicts a group of “People’s Volunteer Army” soldiers who are first hemmed in at Shanganling (or Triangle Hill) and then, when reinforcements arrive, take up their rifles and counterattack the U.S. military “jackals.”
The movie and the tune are widely known among Chinese, and the song has been a leading piece of anti-American propaganda by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) for decades. CCP propaganda has always referred to the Korean War as the “movement to resist America and help [North] Korea.” The message of the propaganda is that the United States is an enemy—in fighting in the Korean War the United States’ real goal was said to be to invade and conquer China. The victory at Triangle Hill was promoted as a victory over imperialists.
This administration is as clueless as we have ever had in the WH. But wait, remember last year when the WH had no clue there was a Moa Tse Tung ornament on one of the Christmas trees in the WH? But then again, Obama just plays stupid.
Of course Barack and Michelle Obama most likely had a clueless smile on their faces the entire time as they listened to the anti-American diddy. Doesn’t anyone in this administration screen what is done in the White House? I guess this is what is allowed when China owns American debt … they get to play anti-American songs in the White House.
There is little doubt that Obama knew this was going to happen, but that he had no problem with it fits neatly with his world apology tour, his three years of apologizing for the United States in foreign lands, his bowing and scraping (literally) before kings and tyrants the world over, and his constant need to punish this country.
NEXT UP AT THE OBAMA WHITE HOUSE FOR YOUR LISTENING PLEASURE … Soviet National Anthem
Posted January 23, 2011 by Scared Monkeys Barack Obama, China, Communism, Foreign Policy, Hope and Change, Lost in Smallness, Obamanation, WTF, You Tube - VIDEO | 8 comments |
The Barack Obama Hawaii Birth Certificate Saga Continues … Release, Not Release, and Why Not?
The saga continues as to the Barack Hussein Obama Hawaiian birth certificate …
Lately it would appear that those on the LEFT are acting more like “bithers” than actual birthers. It has been the LEFT and the MSM that has been pushing the Obama birth certificate authenticity story almost more than those that began question BO’s place of birth. Recently, even MSNBC’s Chris Matthews jumped on the “birther” band wagon and questioned why President Obama would not just release the document and put all the nonsense to an end.
Chris Matthews Asks the simple question … why doesn’t the President just release the document?
Newly elected Democrat Governor Abercrombie stated he was going to get to the bottom of the long form birth certificate and release it. However, privacy laws that shield birth certificates has prompted Democratic Gov. Neil Abercrombie to abandon efforts to dispel claims that President Barack Obama was born outside Hawaii.
“There is nothing more that Gov. Abercrombie can do within the law to produce a document,” said Dela Cruz. “Unfortunately, there are conspirators who will continue to question the citizenship of our president.”
Abercrombie, who was a friend of Obama’s parents and knew him as a child, launched an investigation last month into whether he can release more information about the president’s Aug. 4, 1961 birth. The governor said at the time he was bothered by people who questioned Obama’s birthplace for political reasons.
But Abercrombie’s attempt reached a dead end when Louie told him the law restricted his options.
Hawaii’s privacy laws have long barred the release of a certified birth certificate to anyone who doesn’t have a tangible interest.
However, the sudden back track from Gov. Abercrombie leads many, including those on the LEFT, to wonder why. Everyone will remember that Abercrombie promised that once he was elected Governor he would prove Obama’s birth certificate existed because he would march down to the Hall of Records and demand its production from the archives. So why the back track? This is rather unbelievable as two things would have had to take place prior to Abercrombie’s promise, one, he would have to have had Obama’s approval and two, he would have known the privacy laws of the state he was about to become governor of.
I, like Republican House majority leader Eric Cantor believe that Barack Obama is a US citizen, I happen to believe there is another reason why Obama has spent so much money and gone to such vast lengths to suppress the document. I always believed that there was other embarrassing or thought otbe damaging information on the certificate like race of Obama being “caucasian”.
Here is a rather interesting ans simple explanation from HILLBUZZ.
Posted January 23, 2011 by Scared Monkeys Barack Obama, Birth Certificate, Bizarre, Eric Cantor (R-VA), Media, Obamanation, WTF, You Tube - VIDEO | 54 comments |