South DaCola Flashback
l3wis 
2008
South DaCola music club w/ LL Cool J
I believe Walking with a Panther came out in 1988? It was the first rap album I ever bought. I still like it to this day. I saw LL in Atlanta about 5 years ago and he did about four tracks off the album including, There Jingling Baby. If you like old skool rap with a mix of R & B this is a great album.
Review by Robert Johnson
Though a big commercial success upon it’s release (it hit the Top Ten and sold Platinum), WALKING WITH A PANTHER is largely considered to be a disappointment by many of LL’s biggest fans. True, it is not in the same league as RADIO or BIGGER AND DEFFER in terms of consistency and cohesiveness, but PANTHER is actually quite good on it’s own terms.
LL’s emotional range as a performer remains as impressive as ever. He can run the gauntlet from explosively bold (“Nitro”) to smoothly seductive (“You’re My Heart”) to deliriously horny (“Jingling Baby”) and back again. The best track is easily the sophisticated jazz-rap tour de force “Going Back To Cali” (#31 Pop, #12 R&B), which had been previously released on the LESS THAN ZERO soundtrack. This surprising maturity is also found in the deep lyrics to “Jealous” (which is one of the more sparsely-produced tracks here) and the disturbing “Fast Peg” (which starts out like a typical ode to lust but comes to a chilling end).
The album’s biggest hit was the boasting “I’m That Type Of Guy” (#15 Pop, #7 R&B, #1 Rap), but the disc’s best macho anthem is actually the tight and very funny “Clap Your Hands.” Unfortunately, LL’s humor mostly falls flat elsewhere, with the dull “Big Ole Butt” and “1-900 LL Cool J” (both of which have no hooks or wit) being the prime offenders. Even worse are the crop of “I Need Love”-rip-offs. “You’re My Heart” succeeds due to LL’s intense performance, but “One Shot At Love” and “Two Different Worlds” are almost laughably lame.
The biggest problem with PANTHER is that it does not have enough quality material to justify it’s long 76 minute runtime and many of the strong tracks get bogged down by filler. However, PANTHER has more than enough strong moments to make it a good release. Interestingly enough, the B-side to the “Going Back To Cali” single (the terrific “Jack The Ripper”) wasn’t included here, even though it’s actually much better than half the songs that did make the cut.
Health of the Mother
The Motherload John McCain’s Debate explanation when Obama explian’s his voting record on abortion.
“Health of the Mother… this has been stretched by the pro-abortion movement to mean almost anything.”
Sound Familiar? Vote Yes For Life has been trying this angle once again, in claiming the exceptions for the health of the mother are clearly defined within Initiated Measure 11. They are really hoping you won’t read the fine print (or understand it).
But it seems clear to the lawyers for Sanford Health:
“The health-of-the-mother exception imposes a standard that is not clearly defined. Medical facilities and providers have learned, through the malpractice arena, that whether a physician’s clinical judgment comports with ‘accepted standards of medical practice’ can be a matter of debate. Initiated Measure 11 borrows the civil litigation standards, which can be ambiguous and subject to different interpretations, and attaches criminal penalties for failing to comply with the potentially vague, undefined standards. As a result, for those instances where a pregnant woman faces uncertain, but potentially very serious health risks, Initiated Measure 11 will require a physician to choose between possibly committing a felony or subjecting a pregnant woman to a higher degree of medical risk that what would otherwise be clinically desired.
Mr. McCain, with all due respect, no one is pro abortion. We all would like to see abortion to be limited, but until those trying to stop it (VYFL) do not do it in a truthful manner, and to contradict themselves in saying “All life is precious”, yet are flip about “the health of the mother”, you My Friend, are selling us lipstick on a pig.
