Happy Easter 2012 from Scared Monkeys … HE IS RISEN, TRULY, HE IS RISEN!

Scared Monkeys wishes all a Happy Easter …  HE IS RISEN, TRULY, HE IS RISEN!

Easter represents the greatest story of  “Hope & Change” ever. Never forget that true hope comes from above, not from man. As (John 3:16 states,  “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.” However, never forget that Without the Crucifixion, there would have been no Resurrection. A Resurrection that represents eternal rebirth.

JESUS CHRIST Is Risen Today – Alleluia! – EASTER HYMN

Christ the Lord is risen today, Alleluia!
Earth and heaven in chorus say, Alleluia!
Raise your joys and triumphs high, Alleluia!
Sing, ye heavens, and earth reply, Alleluia!

Love’s redeeming work is done, Alleluia!
Fought the fight, the battle won, Alleluia!
Death in vain forbids him rise, Alleluia!
Christ has opened paradise, Alleluia!

Lives again our glorious King, Alleluia!
Where, O death, is now thy sting? Alleluia!
Once he died our souls to save, Alleluia!
Where’s thy victory, boasting grave? Alleluia!

Soar we now where Christ has led, Alleluia!
Following our exalted Head, Alleluia!
Made like him, like him we rise, Alleluia!
Ours the cross, the grave, the skies, Alleluia!

Hail the Lord of earth and heaven, Alleluia!
Praise to thee by both be given, Alleluia!
Thee we greet triumphant now, Alleluia!
Hail the Resurrection, thou, Alleluia!

King of glory, soul of bliss, Alleluia!
Everlasting life is this, Alleluia!
Thee to know, thy power to prove, Alleluia!
Thus to sing, and thus to love, Alleluia!

Luke 24:1-6

On the first day of the week, very early in the morning, the women took the spices they had prepared and went to the tomb. They found the stone rolled away from the tomb, but when they entered, they did not find the body of the Lord Jesus. While they were wondering about this, suddenly two men in clothes that gleamed like lightning stood beside them. In their fright the women bowed down with their faces to the ground, but the men said to them, “Why do you look for the living among the dead? He is not here; he has risen!

Above All – Michael W. Smith

Crucified, laid behind a stone
You lived to die rejected and alone
Like a rose trampled on the ground
You took the fall and thought of me
Above all

Happy Easter to All, remember “Above All” let there always be true hope in your lives. God Bless.

Oh-oh Oreo – Happy Birthday … Oreo Cookie Turns 100 Years Old

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO THE OREO COOKIE …

Today the Oreo cookie turns 100 years old. Talk about withstanding the test of time. The first Oreo cookie,  called the Oreo biscuit, was sold in Hoboken, New Jersey in 1912. The Oreo is the top selling cookie of the 21st Century. Admit it, you twist them open and eat the cream filling before you eat the cookie.

The Oreo Cookie has proved it can withstand the test of time.

The chocolate cookie with cream in the middle has been around since 1912.

Today, Kraft Foods is celebrating the Oreo’s 100th birthday in grand fashion—hosting more than 100 “birthday parties” across a dozen countries, plus games on their website, and you can even buy a package of limited edition “Birthday Cake Oreos” to celebrate the occasion. For $4 on the company’s website, you can also send a friend a coupon for a free package of Oreos.

Check out the nostalgic ads of Oreo over the years at the Daily Mail.

Martin Luther King Jr … MLK Day 2012 … The Dream Continues

On this Martin Luther King Jr. Day let us all reflect on the fact that  we have come a long way; however, we have a ways still to go.  MLK Jr’s message goes out to all people, not just to blacks or to whites, all. Martin Luther King Jr. had a dream, do not let others interpret that dream for you. Listen to it and figure it out for yourself. It is never about the color of one’s skin, it is always about the content of one’s character. Always!

August 28, 1963: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his “I Have a Dream” speech on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial during the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.

Full text of MLK Jr’s “I Have a Dream” speech can be read here.

I say to you today, my friends, that in spite of the difficulties and frustrations of the moment, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream.

I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: “We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal.”

I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at a table of brotherhood.

I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a desert state, sweltering with the heat of injustice and oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice.

I have a dream that my four children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.

I have a dream today.

CNN Does Anything for Ratings … New Year Eve Host Kathy Griffin Strips Down to Underwear & Begs Anderson Cooper to take His Off

Kathy Griffin’s clothes drop prior to the ball …

With CNN’s low ratings, it is obvious that they will do anything for ratings … thus, off come Kathy Griffin’s clothes. It is obvious that CNN wants the awkward banter between Anderson Cooper and Kathy Griffin. For a square, Anderson Cooper made the comment, “you got a rockin body”.

Before the ball dropped in Time Square New York last night ushering in 2012 … CNN’s New Years Eve host Kathy Griffin’s clothes dropped down to her underwear in from of a supposed shocked Anderson Cooper. Sorry, after year after year of comedian Kathy Griffin’s antics on New Years Eve, this cannot come as a shock to CNN. One might even think that it is scripted. Although edgy, Girffin’s actions last night were actually far more tame than in previous years like THIS and THIS.

More at The Blaze.

HAPPY NEW YEAR 2012 FROM SCARED MONKEYS … Wishing Every One a Happy, Safe and Joyous 2012

SCARED MONKEYS WISHES EVERYONE A HAPPY 2012 NEW YEAR …

We wish every one a Happy, Safe and Joyous 2012. We look back over the past year and remember it with fondness as we look to the future and the new year. we say goodbye to special friends and look forward to meeting new ones.

I want to take a moment to thank all the readers, listeners and commenters of Scared Monkeys.com, Scared Monkeys forum, Blink on Crime, Scared Monkeys Radio and MissingExploited.com.  You have all made it a very truly memorable year, there has been heart ache and joy.  A special thanks to all the moderators and admins who devote their time and the folks that send in the stories and those on the front page and forums who comment.  Wising you all the best in 2012. God Bless!

Lets celebrate 2012 with a blast from the past. Before there was Ryan Seacrest and even before there was Dick Clark’s Rocking Eve, there there was Guy Lombardo and his his Royal Canadians who started it all in 1929. From 1977 comes the classic video below … How great are the retro graphics and special effects!

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.

Not to be outdone. let’s reminisce and watch all of the Time Square New Years Eve Ball drop from 1976 to 2011.  Do you remember where you were? My how it has changed over the years. especially check out the celebrations of 2000 and 2002, with all the craze of Y2K and the first post 9-11 New Year Eve, respectively.