Scared Monkeys Radio Daily Commentary - Tuesday, September 30, 2008 - Dana Discusses “Cognitive Functionality”

• Dana ponders a lesson from his Police Academy instructor.

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Scared Monkeys Radio Daily Commentary - Wednesday, September 10, 2008 - It Began One Decade Ago Today

• Dana looks back on how it all started… Ten years ago today.

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Change We Can Believe In … REV. JESSE JACKSON’S COMMENT TO OBAMA: ‘CUT HIS NUTS OUT’

Think Jesse Jackson wants to give up his spot at the head of the black activist table? Not a chance. Think there is not some deep seeded resentment that Jackson never got the chance to be the first black President? Think people ever learn not to talk into a live mike? And now for something completely different. Obama supporter, Jesse Jackson, trashes Barack Obama … From the lips of Jesse Jackson, there is some change we can believe in.

Once again the old “live” hot microphone comes back to haunt a would be interviewee. The victim … Jesse Jackson. Obama has claimed that he was going to be the brunt of a racial attack during the Presidential election. Who knew that Obama would get attacked on race by of all people, Jesse Jackson? Revered Jesse Jackson apologized Wednesday for saying Barack Obama is “talking down to black people” during a taping at Fox News. 

Jackson, talking to CNN on Wednesday, said Obama has given what amounts to “lectures” at African-American churches.

“I said it can come off as speaking down to black people. The moral message must be a much broader message. What we need really is racial justice and urban policy and jobs and health care. There is a range of issues on the menu,” said Jackson, who was an acolyte of the slain civil rights leader, Martin Luther King Jr.

It would appear that he has a little bit more to apologize than that from what it seems Jackson actually said.

REV. JACKSON TRASH TALKS OBAMA: ‘CUT HIS N**S OUT’
Wed Jul 09 2008 16:28:20 ET

SHOCK: REV. JESSE JACKSON SLAMS OBAMA, WANTS TO ‘CUT HIS N**S OUT’… APOLOGIZES FOR ‘CRUDE AND HURTFUL COMMENTS’ CAUGHT ON TAPE… FOXNEWS WILL PLAY JACKSON TAPE IN ITS ENTIRETY TONIGHT ON ‘O’REILLY’ 8 PM ET/5 PM PT… (The Drudge Report)

HEAR IT FOR YOURSELF … WOW

Jesse Jackson apologizes for comments critical of Obama

According to Jackson, a Fox News microphone picked up comments he meant to deliver privately that seemed to disparage the presumptive Democratic nominee for appearing to lecture the black community on morality.

A simple and obviously honest comment made by Jesse Jackson against Barack Obama some how gets spun into a dissertation on on urban policy and racial disparity. Shore it was Jesse. We have always said that Jesse Jackson was about his power and wielding said power. Jackson will kick and scream all the way into obscurity and irrelevance.

This is a sound bite in a broader conversation about urban policy and racial disparities. I feel very distressed because I’m supportive of this campaign and with the senator, what he has done and is doing,” he said. “I said he comes down as speaking down to black people. The moral message must be a much broader message. What we need really is racial justice and urban policy and jobs and health care. That’s a range of issues on the menu.

“Then I said something I regret was crude. It was very private. And very much a sound bite,” he also said.

In a statement issued earlier Wednesday to CNN, Jackson said, “For any harm or hurt that this hot mic private conversation may have caused, I apologize. My support for Senator Obama’s campaign is wide, deep and unequivocal. I cherish this redemptive and historical moment.”

Over the course of the campaign season, Obama has at times directed criticism directly to the black community, most sharply in a Chicago speech on Father’s Day that criticized some men for failing in their duties as parents.

• Jesse Jackson Offers to Neuter Obama
• Jesse Jackson disses Obama on race
• Jesse Jackson Obama Comments (Video)

UPDATE I: NY POST: JESSE JACKSON SAYS HE WANTS TO CUT OBAMA’S ‘NUTS OUT’

In a vulgar tirade caught on tape by Fox News, the Rev. Jesse Jackson said he wanted to “cut his [Barack Obama’s] nuts out” and he accused the fellow Chicagoan of “talking down to black folks” by giving moral lectures to African-Americans, source said Jackson’s shocking quotes were picked up by a hot mic before an interview on health care in Fox’s Chicago studio last Sunday

UPDATE II: More from the Jesse Jackson “”Wanna Cut His Nuts Off” Saga

It will be hard to spin this Jesse Jackson comment away. And after listening last night to the Reverend Jackson trying to do so I am still in complete wonderment at just want he said. Or tried to say.

Jackson relating Obama’s condescending qualities to faith based organizations is rather bizarre. It is one of the few things that Obama does not talk down to.

Video of Jackson’s comments on Fox

• Wizbang: Dr. King Would Be Proud
• Jawa Report: Jesse Jackson, “I wanna kick Obama right square in the nuts!”

134th Running of the Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs … Remembering Barbaro

Why we love sporting events like The Kentucky Derby. Win, place or show … there is always a greater story told than just the outcome of the race. The race is secondary to life’s lessons learned along the way. Thank you Barbaro for reminding us what it means to fight the good fight. Barbaro … A true sports HERO!

I am not a horse big racing fan or claim to be any type of expert on the Sport of Kings; however, I am a fan of all sports. The Kentucky Derby is a spectacle beyond horse racing no different than the Indy 500 and Daytona 500 are not just car races. The events have far exceeded their sports. The sights, the sounds of the Kentucky Derby make it a must attend event at least once for any sports fanatic. The playing of “My Old Kentucky Home” just makes it a true piece of Americana.

Today is the 134th running of The Kentucky Derby … The Run for the Roses and the most exciting two minutes in sports. All eyes are on Big Brown out of the 20 horse field. However, keep your eyes on Colonel John, Eight Belles and Pyro. Did I just say 20 horses? Wow, that is going to be one hard task to get 20 horses in the starting gates and get them off cleanly.

Big Brown favored at Kentucky Derby despite post

• Kentucky Derby.com
• Kentucky Derby Selections

God works in mysterious ways … some times its through one of his beautiful creatures to remind us that caring, compassion and humanity is what is truly important in life.

However, that being said their is an affection that people have with animals that also transcends other sports. There is nothing more beautiful and majestic than a thoroughbred race horse. To see one of these horses up close is to see just what beautiful animals they truly are. When we think of the Kentucky Derby, we think of Secretariat, Mint Juleps, women in hats, and last years sad and inspiring story of Barbaro. Barbaro won the 2006 Kentucky Derby and became news as it looked like we would finally have another Triple Crown winner. However, that was not meant to be as after Barbaro won the Kentucky Derby, he was hurt the Preakness and was permanently injured.

How we face adversity, whether if we win or lose is how we are remembered.Barbaro, the horse who reminded us what it meant to be human

It was at that point a horse named Barbaro went from a race horse to a national icon and became a part of all of us. In the daily struggles of our lives, Barbaro brought out the best in all of us and reminded us what it means to be human.  Barbaro will always be remembered in Derby and horse racing lore. However, he touched so many others lives. Not so much for his winning, but the fight to survive. Then in the end after his long battle, his humane death. Certain stories transcend sports. They capture the imagination and consume the public consciousness. It is not if you win or lose, it is truly how you play the game and how one faces adversity. That will be remembered a life time.

Barbaro will always be remembered. What do we think of you Barbaro, We will always think of you and admire you. You are a Triple Crown winner of life … caring, compassion and humanity.

Thank you Barbaro for reminding us again that important lesson in life. Run free and unbridled forever into eternity watching over the Derby and all of us.

UPDATE I: Big Brown Wins the Kentucky Derby Going Away

Big Brown thundered down the stretch to win the 134th Kentucky Derby in impressive fashion. Tragedy also struck the Derby as the second place finisher, Filly Eight Belles collapsed after finishing the race. Eight Belles unfortunately had to be immediately euthenized as the horse broke bones in both front legs.

Filly Eight Belles breaks down after 2nd-place Derby finish

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) - Filly Eight Belles finished second behind favorite Big Brown in the Kentucky Derby on Saturday, then collapsed with two broken front ankles and was euthanized after crossing the wire.

UPDATE II: Hillary’s Horse

Hillary Clinton had picked filly Eight Belles to win the Kentucky Derby. Try as she might, the filly came in second; however, sadly had to be euthenized following the Derby after breaking both front ankles.

Tragedy struck the first filly in the Kentucky Derby since 1999, as Eight Belles went down on the track after her second-place finish today, broke two ankles, and was euthanized.

Showing a sisterhood with the female horse, Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., during a trip to Louisville this week had said she was going to bet on Eight Belles to win, place, and show.

ABC News’ Karen Travers reports that Clinton told supporters in Jeffersonville, Ind., earlier this week, “I hope that everybody will go to the derby on Saturday and place just a little money on the filly for me. I won’t be able to be there this year — my daughter is going to be there and so she has strict instructions to bet on Eight Belles.”

Justice for Rebecca “Becca” McEvoy … Please do not let Becca be Victimized Twice (Part 2)

Becca McEvoy & her family need your help … Justice for Becca

The question that every one needs to ask themselves is should a victim of a crime be denied justice because they die? Should people suspected of heinous crimes be allowed to walk because their victim dies a part from the initial crime? Does that mean the crime never happened?

ARE YOU GOING TO IDLY SIT BY AND WATCH THIS PRECIOUS LITTLE 11 YEAR OLD GIRL, BECCA MCEVOY, BE VICTIMIZED AGAIN!!!

Please go to ipetitions and make your outrage be heard. Deceased victims of crimes and their families are allowed justice.

Becca McEvoy was a victim of sexual abuse. The story is beyond heart breaking. A child who was a victim of unspeakable crimes allegedly by her step father Bob Ingle. Becca then dies in a car accident before the trail ever takes place against the man who victimized her. Now, our legal system may do the same thing to the memory of Becca.

Please help this family and make this story be heard. Email the media and your State and Federal representatives. DO NOT LET A CRIME HAPPEN TO BECCA A SECOND TIME.

PLEASE HELP PROVIDE … JUSTICE FOR BECCA.

Charlton Heston, Hollywood Giant and American Acting Icon Passes Away at the Age of 84

1924 – 2008

Rest in Eternal Peace

Today I awoke to hear the sad news of the passing of one of my favorite actors and persons of all time, Charlton Heston. A man who not only talked the talk, but walked the walk. On screen he stood up to the power of Egypt, Rameses and Pharaoh as Moses and led his people out of bondage.

Heston as Moses in The Ten Commandment: Hear and obey! Let my people go!”

In real life, he stood up to the liberal Hollywood agenda and voiced his opinions and stance on the Second Amendment and the right to bear arms. His conservative views on the right to bear arms was hardly a popular one on the Left Coast and Hollywood. No one can ever forget the NRA speech and his famous 5 words … “from my cold dead hands”.

One thing is for certain, they rarely make them like Charlton Heston any more. Charlton Heston was a true hero and American icon. Heston had been suffering from Alzheimer’s disease in recent years. Today, he is in a much better place. Our selfish loss is heavens gain. Mr. Heston, may the peace of the lord be with you, may you rest in eternal peace. God bless you.

Charlton Heston, the Hollywood legendary actor, civil rights leader, political activist and former President of the NRA has sadly passed away at the age of 84. Charlton Heston was known to all and was a larger than life. Heston had taken part in such legendary films as The Ten Commandments, Ben-Hur, Planet of the Apes, El Cid, Julius Ceasar, Midway, The Agony and the Ecstasy, The Greatest Story Ever Told and one of my favorite sleeper sci-fi films of all times Soylent Green. The too numerous to list movies he acted in list as a who’s who in film history. They just did not make them any more in Hollywood like Charlton Heston. He was a true original.

 From The Ten Commandments – Parting of the Red Sea

Statement by the Family of Charlton Heston

Charlton Heston was best known to generation after generation of people for his portrayal of Moses in Cecile B. DeMille’s, The Ten Commandments, on every year at Easter/Pass Over. However, it was the epic movie Ben-Hur where Heston won an Academy Award for best actor.

Hollywood legend Charlton Heston dead at 84

Heston, known for portrayals of larger than life figure including Moses and Ben Hur, was suffering the late stages of Alzheimer’s disease.

Heston’s wife of 64 years, Lydia, was at his side at the time of his death, according to the family statement.

Comments from other bloggers regarding the passing of Charlton Heston:

• The Astute Blogger: CHARLTON HESTON: RIP
• The American Mind: Charlton Heston Dead at 84
• The Jawa Report: Hollywood Just Got 100% Worse
• Michelle Malkin: Sunday meditation: Tribute to Charlton Heston
• The Q and O Blog: ”Moses” gone to the Promised Land 
• Wizbang: Charlton Heston dead at 84

UPDATE I: Charlton Heston, Epic Film Star and Voice of N.R.A., Dies at 84

The same quality made Mr. Heston an effective spokesman, off-screen, for the causes he believed in. Late in life he became a staunch opponent of gun control. Elected president of the National Rifle Association in 1998, he proved to be a powerful campaigner against what he saw as the government’s attempt to infringe on a Constitutional guarantee — the right to bear arms.

In Mr. Heston, the N.R.A. found its embodiment of pioneer values — pride, independence and valor. In a speech at the N.R.A.’s annual convention in 2000, he brought the audience to its feet with a ringing attack on gun-control advocates. Paraphrasing an N.R.A. bumper sticker (“I’ll give you my gun when you take it from my cold, dead hands”) he waved a replica of a colonial musket above his head and shouted defiantly, “From my cold, dead hands!”

Natalee Holloway: Greta Van Susteren Finally Admits She was Wrong About Joran Van der Sloot

“I am inclined to believe him”. (Greta Van Susteren)

Greta is choking on those words that she said following her past interview she did with Joran Van der Sloot in 2006. She couldn’t back peddle fast enough from those comments after the Peter De Vries tapes came out this past weekend.

After all this time Greta Van Susteren has to finally admit she was wrong about Joran Van der Sloot. So Greta, “are you not inclined to believe him”? Greta admits that she made a poor evaluation. Well, its about time. Read the full transcript HERE.

TACOPINA: Fair enough. Fair enough. But I think — look, for a living, I sort of make an evaluation of people and…

VAN SUSTEREN: So do I, and I made a poor one. I made a poor one.

On tonights show when Beth Holloway and Jug Twitty are on, Greta Van Susteren … you owe them both an apology.

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Beth Holloway’s reaction to Joran Van der Sloot’s confession on Peter R. DeVries

Beth Holloway’s reaction to Joran Van der Sloot’s confession on Peter R. DeVries show.

“The ocean is big,” (Joran Van der Sloot)

There is a special place in hell for people who do this to others. The world knows what you did you human piece of garbage. You should never be given a moments peace. The people of Aruba have suffered because of what Joran did and his lies and Joran does nothing but laugh at them.

It is plain to any common thinking person what happened to Natalee Holloway and the mention of drugs can only be directly linked to the compulsive liar who felt the need to get rid of her body. If it was an accidental overdose, that is what one does. Leave a body there for someone to find because heaven forbid you actually get her medical help. But no, it the sick mind of a sociopath the answer is to dispose of the evidence. Why? Because that is what one does when they sexually assault someone and give someone drugs without their knowledge. No normal innocent person just decides to dispose of a body.

Hidden Camera Shows Dutch Student Saying Natalee Holloway Died on Aruba Beach

THE HAGUE, Netherlands —  Hidden camera footage broadcast on television in the Netherlands on Sunday showed Dutch student Joran van der Sloot saying he was with Natalee Holloway when she died on a beach in Aruba, and that he asked a friend to dispose of her body at sea.

“She suddenly didn’t do anything anymore,” Van der Sloot said of the 18-year-old Holloway, in a conversation with a man he believed to be his friend.

Van der Sloot said he panicked and tried but failed to revive Holloway before calling a friend with a boat to dispose of the body.

“The ocean is big,” he said.

This is a must watch, especially for those in Aruba who have defended Joran Van der Sloot. You have defended a person who has caused this type of pain.

Natalee will never be found, says Joran

The body of American teenager Natalee Holloway will never be found,’ Dutch student Joran van der Sloot was seen saying on a tv programme on Sunday night.

Sitting in the front seat of a car and smoking marijuana, Van der Sloot is seen talking about how Natalee started shaking and died after they had sex on the beach late at night. ‘She didn’t say anything anymore,’ he says.

After fitting a car with three secret cameras, De Vries was able to record a number of conversations with Van der Sloot as he went for drives with an older friend called Patrick van der Eem. Van der Eem approached De Vries offering to help with the investigation after meeting the student at a casino last year.

In one conversation Van der Sloot tells Van der Eem he phoned a friend called Daury to help get rid of Natalee’s body. Daury loaded it into his boat and dumped it at sea, Van der Sloot said.

But free newspaper DAG carried an interview with Daury on its website on Sunday night in which the 21-year-old says Van der Sloot is talking nonsense. ‘That is bullshit,’ Daury says. ‘He cannot have said that. I was in Rotterdam at school.’

On Friday, Van der Sloot himself said he had made the entire story up. His lawyer also said Van der Sloot had nothing to fear from Peter R de Vries’ revelations. (Dutch News)

On Super Bowl Weekend … The Top 10 Greatest Football Movies of all Time

With the Super Bowl upon us, here are my top 10 football movies of all times. Give us your.

1. Brian’s Song – James Caan and Billy Dee Williams are brilliant in their portrayals of Chicago Bears running backs Brian Piccolo and Gayle Sayers.

“I love Brian Piccolo, and I’d like all of you to love him. When you hit your knees to pray tonight, please ask God to love him, too.” Bears running back Gale Sayers uttered these famous words in May 1970, as he accepted the NFL’s Most Courageous Player award.

It is a timeless classic that has made more men cry than Old Yeller. Never have their been more scenes in a football movie where guys had to hide their heads and wipe the tears. The story of Brian and Gayle’s relationship on and off the football field as they learn Brian Piccolo gets cancer is one for the ages. Far and away, the best football movie ever.

Brian’s life a Song of friendship, courage

2. Remember the Titans – The real life story of the trails and tribulations of integration in the early 1970s of T.C. Williams High School and its football team. Caucasian head coach, Bill Yost of the Titans is replaced by an African American coach, Hermann Boone. Football has always been a microcosm of life and in Remember the Titans it plays out in true to life form. The many issues of team,  racism and change are taken on in an impressive way.  Many can remember busing and school integration in the early 70’s and the narrow mindedness that went along with it. Remember the Titans is truly inspirational and a reminder to all that it is not about the color of one’s skin, but the content of their character.

The two best lines in the movie are when injuries white linebacker Gerry Bertier says the the nurse in the hospital regarding his friend, black linebacker Julius Campbell, “Alice, are you blind? Don’t you see the family resemblance? That’s my brother”.

And when Coach Boone says,  “This is where they fought the battle of Gettysburg. Fifty thousand men died right here on this field, fighting the same fight that we are still fighting among ourselves today. This green field right here, painted red, bubblin’ with the blood of young boys. Smoke and hot lead pouring right through their bodies. Listen to their souls, men. I killed my brother with malice in my heart. Hatred destroyed my family. You listen, and you take a lesson from the dead. If we don’t come together right now on this hallowed ground, we too will be destroyed, just like they were. I don’t care if you like each other of not, but you will respect each other. And maybe… I don’t know, maybe we’ll learn to play this game like men.”

3. Rudy – The remarkable and true story of the undersized and under talented “Rudy” Ruettiger who played as a walk on that played for the University of Notre Dame in the 1970’s. This inspirational movie is for anyone who never gives up on their dreams.

Here is the actual video of the Rudy play in real life where he sacks the quarterback at the end of the game. Funny thing is, I remember seeing the actual game back in 1975 on Notre Dame Football highlights.

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Its a Democratic Smack Down … Barack Obama Vs. Bill & Hillary Clinton … Who exactly is the Candidate, Bill or Hillary?

Who is running for President for the Democrats, Bill or Hillary?

The war of words between former President Clinton and Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Barack Obama escalated today as Clinton accused his wife’s Democratic rival of saying the Reagan administration was better than the Clinton administration.

The Democratic primaries are getting really interesting. For the first time in a long time, Democratic hopefuls are not bowing down to the Clinton’s. Honestly, the Clinton’s do not even know how to respond as they have been given a free pass by their party and the media for such a long time. Enter Barack Obama, the Democrats People’s champ. Yes, Bill … Barack did call you a liar!

(From Now Public)

If this was the WWE and Vince McMahon was promoting a new pay per view, it would be a regular smack down handicap match. In one corner, Barack “I think Oprah is backing me” Obama. In the other corner the dreaded tag team opponent of Hill/Bill “we are co-Presidents” Clinton. It seems that Michelle Malkin has a front row seat ring side for the fight as well. Watch the video HERE. Ring the bell and let the match begin. Watch Obama take on Hill/Bill in a special handicap match.

With Obama’s new strategy, the Democratic nomination fight took on a new contour: It’s Obama versus two Clintons, not just one. And the line of attack emerging from his second consecutive primary loss appears to be this: The Clintons are a couple whose words cannot always be trusted.

As Baldilocks so perfectly put it, In short, Obama is saying that the former president is a lying sack. So what else is new, Senator?

Look who is also present ring side for this Smack down:

• Gateway Pundit: Barack Obama Slams Bill Clinton! Update: Robocalls Attack Barack “Hussein” Obama
• Blue Crab Boulevard: When Bubba Attacks
• Red State: Obama Calls Bill Clinton A Liar
• Patterico’s Pontifications: Barack Obama Criticizes the Other Clinton

Barack vs. Bill: Obama Hits Ex-Prez Over ‘Troubling’ Attacks
Vows to ‘Directly Confront Bill Clinton’ Over ‘Statements That Are Not Factually Accurate’

“You know the former president, who I think all of us have a lot of regard for, has taken his advocacy on behalf of his wife to a level that I think is pretty troubling,” Obama said during his first morning television interview since coming in second in Nevada. “He continues to make statements that are not supported by the facts — whether it’s about my record of opposition to the war in Iraq or our approach to organizing in Las Vegas.

“This has become a habit, and one of the things that we’re going to have to do is to directly confront Bill Clinton when he’s making statements that are not factually accurate,” Obama added.