Amusing Stupid Monkey Headlines Appearing on 12/30/11

Today's amusing headlines come from around the web. Some are the funny "ha-ha" type whilst others are of the funny peculiar type. Enjoy.

"What the fuck?"

HEADLINES: 12/30/2011

• Perry slams surging Santorum as a 'prolific earmarker' - MSNBC

• A Santorum surge in Iowa? - MSNBC

• Investigations of the Year: What's In Your Egg McMuffin? - ABC

• Friends: Texas Gunman Was Mad Wife Doing Well - Fox News

• 385 Pounds of Caviar Found in Russian Morgue - Fox News

• Gingrich wants it both ways? - CNN (see below)

• Poll: Gingrich down, Santorum up - CNN

• 10 ways not to kill your book club - CNN

• Justin Bieber tops Kim Kardashian as most-searched - LA Times

• Man killed by train can be sued over bystander's injuries - LA Times

And believe it or not....
• Van Halen announces 2012 tour with David Lee Roth - CBS News

Blast from the Past: Dancing in the Street

Every generation has a remake of a song that feels to them like it is new, or now if you will, even if their parents (or grandparents) remember the original being much better. Sometimes, the same song will hit the charts in almost every generation, sometimes more than once.

One of my favorites is Dancing in the Street by Martha and the Vandellas. That song lands squarely in my mother's generation. But before she had finished growing up (or at least shortly after I was born), the Mamas and the Papas had released their version. And by the time I was a pop music fan, there had been Van Halen's rocking version followed a few short years later by David Bowie and Mick Jagger's version. One thing you've got to say is that this song is versitile. Still, where is this (or even the last) generation's version? Aren't we overdue for a new one? Summer may not be here yet but it is pretty soon!

Rockers Irritated at McCain-Palin for Using Their Songs

Photo from source, PopEater

Several rock stars are pissed that the John McCain-Sarah Palin campaign have used their songs for their events. I expressed a sigh of relief when I read this, having been a little startled to hear--in particular--Van Halen when Palin was originally introduced.

There probably isn't anything these artists can do to prevent someone from playing their songs--not in a free country. But you'd think for high profile events, that event planners would see what the artists think before using their work. It just seems like common courtesy. And then to refuse to stop using a song?

I'm watching some sort of McCain-Palin whistle-stop on MSNBC right now, and would swear that Van Halen's "Right Now," played them off. It's starting to sound like a theme song, and I'm quite sure Van Halen doesn't like that idea!

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Heart Attacks McCain Over 'Barracuda'

"I feel completely [expletive'd] over," the band's Nancy Wilson told EW on Thursday night after their song was played following McCain's acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention in St. Paul. According to TMZ -- which broke the scandal, the band has filed a cease and desist order. . .

Read more at: PopEater