Daily Commentary – Monday, February 22nd, 2010 – Finding Something Positive & Feel Good Stories

• It may be an uphill battle these days but it’s good to look for a positive story sometimes.

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Happy New Year 2010 … Wishing All a Happy, Safe and Joyous New Year

HAPPY NEW YEAR 2010 FROM SCARED MONKEYS

Wishing every one a Happy, Safe and Joyous 2010. We thought we would look back over the years and remember those that have brought us into so many new years. As we ring out the old and herald in the new, I can honesty say that Guy Lombardo and Dick Clark were there for pretty much every New Years celebration.

Guy Lombardo and his Royal Canadians ushered in so many New Years back in the day

New Years Eve – 1957

Dick Clark has been  a NYC Time Square institution

What would New Year be like without the 2010 Tournament of Roses Parade. This years Rose Parade Grand Marshal is the Hero of the Hudson, Captain Chesley Sullenberger III.

I want to thank all the readers, listeners and commenters of Scared Monkeys.com, Scared Monkeys.net, MissingExploited.com, Scared Monkeys Radio and Blink on Crime. You have all made it a very truly memorable year.

Thanks to all moderators and admins that devote their time and the folks that send in the stories and to Vanderbilt for his fantastic artwork that inspires so many posts … Wising you all the best in 2010.

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.

HAPPY 2010!!!

Hat Tip Video: American Power

MERRY CHRISTMAS 2009 FROM SCARED MONKEYS

A VERY MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL FROM SCARED MONKEYS

On this special day we would like to wish all a special Christmas wish to all and always keep in mind the true reason for the season.

We would like to send a special MERRY CHRISTMAS wish to all those who could not spend Christmas with their families and loved one’s.

A special thanks to the men and women of our Armed Forces. God bless them, everyone.

Luke 2:10-17

And the angel said to them, Be not afraid; for behold, I bring you good news of great joy that will be for all the people. Today in the town of David; a Saviour has been born to you; he is Christ the Lord This will be a sign to you: You wilt find a baby wrapped in strips of cloths and lying in a manger.

JOY TO THE WORLD

A Merry Christmas to all and God Bless …

Daily Commentary – Thursday, December 10th, 2009 – A Tragedy Strikes Close to Home … Domestic Violence Claims the Life of Cherry Simpson’s Niece, Lacey Gaines

Scared Monkeys, please listen to the following Dana Pretzer commentary as one of our own as lost a loved one to domestic violence … it really has hit too close to home. Cherry, please accept out condolences in your loss. Our prayers are with you.

• Friend of Scared Monkeys and activist Cherry Simpson lost her niece Lacey Gaines to domestic violence on Tuesday. Our thoughts and prayers are with her and her family.

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Happy Thanksgiving 2009 from Scared Monkeys … Remember to Give Thanks

Scared Monkeys wishes everyone a Happy Thanksgiving and reminds all today while you are with family and friends and enjoying your Thanksgiving meal to remember to give thanks. It is even more important to give thanks in trying and difficult times.

The following Thanksgiving proclamation comes from George Washington and was wrote in 1789.

Two things are self evident from Washington’s proclamation. One, no one writes like this any more and it is sad that we do not have any Statesmen that can. Two, so much for separation of Church and State. Our Founding Fathers had no problem thanking Almighty God for the blessings that were bestowed upon them. In fact, they felt it necessary to do so. Please remember what America had just been through and George Washington felt it necessary to give thanks to God for the birth of a new nation.

Whereas it is the duty of all nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God, to obey His will, to be grateful for His benefits, and humbly to implore His protection and favor; and Whereas both Houses of Congress have, by their joint committee, requested me to “recommend to the people of the United States a day of public thanksgiving and prayer, to be observed by acknowledging with grateful hearts the many and signal favors of Almighty God, especially by affording them an opportunity peaceably to establish a form of government for their safety and happiness:”

Now, therefore, I do recommend and assign Thursday, the 26th day of November next, to be devoted by the people of these States to the service of that great and glorious Being who is the beneficent author of all the good that was, that is, or that will be; that we may then all unite in rendering unto Him our sincere and humble thanks for His kind care and protection of the people of this country previous to their becoming a nation; for the signal and manifold mercies and the favorable interpositions of His providence in the course and conclusion of the late war; for the great degree of tranquility, union, and plenty which we have since enjoyed; for the peaceable and rational manner in which we have been enable to establish constitutions of government for our safety and happiness, and particularly the national one now lately instituted for the civil and religious liberty with which we are blessed, and the means we have of acquiring and diffusing useful knowledge; and, in general, for all the great and various favors which He has been pleased to confer upon us.

And also that we may then unite in most humbly offering our prayers and supplications to the great Lord and Ruler of Nations and beseech Him to pardon our national and other transgressions; to enable us all, whether in public or private stations, to perform our several and relative duties properly and punctually; to render our National Government a blessing to all the people by constantly being a Government of wise, just, and constitutional laws, discreetly and faithfully executed and obeyed; to protect and guide all sovereigns and nations (especially such as have shown kindness to us), and to bless them with good governments, peace, and concord; to promote the knowledge and practice of true religion and virtue, and the increase of science among them and us; and, generally to grant unto all mankind such a degree of temporal prosperity as He alone knows to be best.  (Given under my hand, at the city of New York, the 3d day of October, A.D. 1789.)

A Happy Thanksgiving to all …

UPDATE I: From Michelle Malkin, some Thanksgiving hello’s and Thanksgiving shout-outs from our troops in Iraq to their families. Let there be no mistake, to our military … Thank you!

The Attack on America September 11, 2001 … DO YOU REMEMBER, PLEASE DO NOT EVER FORGET

Eight years ago this morning, September 11, 2001 it was cool beautiful Fall morning when it happened. Then it happened again.  Please take time in your day to remember and reflect back on that day and the following days after September 11. Take time to remember and say a prayer.

Do you remember where you were and what you were doing?

We can no longer put our heads in the sand and pretend like 9–11 never happened. Many of us lost colleagues, former class mates, fellow church members and people among our communities that day.

It has been seven years since the fateful morning of September 11, 2001 when a plane hijacked by muslim terrorists crashed into the World Trade Center in New York City. Then another plane hijacked once again by Islamofascists flew into the second Trade Center Tower. Then the Pentagon was attacked. Then a fourth hijacked plane went down in a field in Pennsylvania.

Hardly a Shocker … Jenny Sanford, Wife of SC Governor Mark Sanford Leaving the Governor’s Mansion … Splittsville

This is hardly shocking news … Jenny and Mark Sanford splitting up.

Ever since embattled South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford made the fatal comments that he was “hiking the Appalachian Trail,” … then admitted his affair with an Argentinian woman. After Governor Sanford’s disastrous press conference following his admissions, one wonders how moving day did not take place sooner. Personally, I am shocked he is still governor of South Carolina.

Jenny Sanford, the wife of South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford, announced Friday morning that she and their sons will leave the governor’s mansion in Columbia and settle in the Charleston area, a split that comes after the couple tried for seven weeks to mend their marriage.

On Friday, Jenny Sanford issued the following prepared statement:

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SC Governor Mark Sanford Admits Affair with Argentinian Woman … From Missing to Wishing He was Missing … Appalachian, Argentina, Lost in Translation

BLAME IT ON RIO … OR IS IT ARGENTINA?

Mark Sanford, from Governor of South Carolina, to potential Presidential candidate to disgrace. At this point Sanford will be lucky to stay the Governor of SC after he admitted an affair with an Argentinian woman at a disastrous press conference yesterday. Maybe Sanford should have stayed in hiding after that debacle called a presser.

Really, Argentinia & Appalachian Trail are this close to each other.

Lost in translation … Who knew that a hike along the Appalachian Trail would translate to Argentinian Tale, or is it tail? One could have suspected that when the story came out of Sanford’s missing was a result of his hiking exploits, only to have his vehicle be found at the Atlanta airport, it was easy to suspect that something was amiss at the Circle K.

It is unbelievable that a man in Sanford’s position would act in such a selfish and reckless manner to his wife, his family and his state. Michelle Malkin aptly puts it … BASTARD!  Hot Air makes a good point on their lesson; however, I have to correct them on one detail. This does not pertain if you are a Democrat and your name is Bill Clinton.

The lesson: If you want to have a career in national politics, keep it in your pants. If you want to conduct affairs, stay out of politics. If you use your public office to lie to your constituents and your family, you deserve everything coming your way. No sniveling

One thing is for certain, Mark Sanford must go.

It has nothing to do with the affair per se, just like when President Bill Clinton was asked to resign. It’s not and never about the sex, that is between you, your wife, your family and your God. You must go because you were derelict in your duties as the Governor of the great state of South Carolina. Of course, the media will make it all about the sex and the affair as that is lazy journalism that sell. Sadly, this situation is about much more.

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David Letterman’s Pathetic Apology Way Too Late … I Take Full Responsibility for Bristol/Willow Palin Knocked Up Joke … Sexist, Creepy Pig

David Letterman … YOU ARE THE JOKE … and you need to be fired.

The whole joke and incident was just creepy.

What took you so long, a sincere apology would have been done immediately, not a week later after pressure came to bear against you. We all know what his first reaction was to the incident. Since when is it ok to cross the line and go after a child of a politician?

Vanderbilt – 09

Letterman, a onetime successful comedian has sunk to desperate
levels. Overcome with apparent hate for all things Conservative,
this joker is grasping for straws. He claims to ‘regret’ many
of his scripted attempts at humor, but, needs to apologize
to the Palin family directly, and to all the women of the world
for chauvinistic statements he considers ‘Funny’!

It took David Letterman a week to realize that it was inappropriate and not funny to wish a 14 year old girl pregnant. Because it is really funny that you make a joke regarding Sarah Palin’s 14 year old daughter Willow and that she get “knocked up” by Alex Rodriguez. And no, we don’t buy the excuse that, you did not know. Frankly, you would not have cared as long as your hateful remarks were made against a Republican. In this case the child of a Republican.

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The Dying Art of Handwriting? A Random Thought from Dugga

A recent article from the BBC asks if we’ll still be writing by hand at all 100 years from now.

“A century from now, our handwriting may only be legible to experts.”

A good question, indeed. I was trying to think of the last time I used “handwriting”. In 2nd grade, when I was taught the skill, we called it “cursive.” A few years later, as teachers would allow, my “cursive” writing gave way to “printed” letters. Now, my signature is little more than a scribble, and when pressed to do so, I admit to having trouble remembering how to form an uppercase “S” or differentiate between a lowercase “z” and “g”.

My desk at work is cluttered with chicken-scratch scribblings on yellow post it notes, but none of these amount to anything more than cheat-sheets or disposable reminders. Even in meetings when note-taking is required, I fire up my laptop and begin typing rather than grab a legal pad.

Perhaps I’m unique in that I spend 12 hours per day behind a keyboard. Spiral notebooks and fine writing utensils won’t be found among my business tools.

What are we losing by moving to a keyboard-based form of text communication? Does it even matter?

I’m interested in what you think, Monkeys.  Of course, you will need to type in your response!

-posted by Dugga