Michelle Obama Monkey Picture Removed - Morning News

The Michelle Obama Monkey Picture has been removed from the blog Hot Girls, and therefore will soon be gone from Google Image Search, according to The Guardian. Continue reading »

Obama: Energy Future Depends on Kids’ Skills

A seemingly ever-increasing population, hooked on iPods, cellphones, and GPS systems, with big-screen televisions in every room, along with the requisite complement of DVD players, DVR’s, and video game systems, uses a lot of power — and that demand is only going to grow.  The three R’s — reduce, reuse, and recycle — can only go so far in assuaging the need for energy.  Clearly, we are going to continue to need to develop new ways of generating power.  What those ways will be are anyone’s guess, but where the ideas will come from is clear — from the scientists of the future.  That’s why Michelle Obama wants states to improve science and mathematics education.
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Happy 40th Birthday, Sesame Street!

Google has replaced their logo with a series of Sesame Street-inspired images in honor of the big birthday.

1969 was certainly a banner year.  Neil Armstrong touched down on the moon.  Woodstock took place in upstate New York.  The Beatles released Abbey Road.  The Boeing 747 is first placed into service.  The television shows The Brady Bunch and Monty Python’s Flying Circus debuted.  While those shows, for better or for worse (not necessarily in that order), eventually went off the air, another show that got its start in 1969 is still going strong: the venerable children’s show Sesame Street.

It would be difficult to be a part of American society and not be familiar with the show — everyone, it seems, knows Big Bird, Oscar the Grouch, and the ubiquitous Elmo.  The show was meant to depict the sort of world kids in the big city themselves lived in and the idea worked.  It worked so well that now, forty years later, the show is as popular as ever.  As of 2006, Sesame Street was the most watched children’s show in the world — there are 20 international independent versions and it is shown in over 120 countries.
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The Obama Family at a Miley Cyrus Concert

Michelle Obama took her daughters to a Miley Cyrus concert at the Verizon Center last night, putting both election results and weekday bedtimes second to Sasha and Malia’s desire to “Party in the U.S.A.” with their peers. Continue reading »

Obama Daughters Get H1N1 Vaccine

The emergence of the Swine Flu and the resulting vaccine has sent conspiracy theorists into overdrive.  One doesn’t have to look very hard to find fringe groups who sincerely believe that the H1N1 virus is a “bioterrorism attack by the New World Order” and that the vaccine itself is a “eugenics weapon” aimed at reducing the world’s population.  As evidence of their theories, they point to the fact that President Obama refuses to have his own children vaccinated against the virus.

Those conspiracy theorists will now have to look elsewhere for their proof as the White House has announced that Sasha and Malia Obama received the H1N1 vaccine last week.

While that should shut the conspiracy theorists up for a while, something tells me it won’t.  The same article on the White House Blog confirms that while the First Daughters were vaccinated against H1N1, the President and his wife were not.  They received only the seasonal flu vaccine.  Of course, the President and First Lady are not in the priority groups for the vaccine as identified the by CDC - those under the age of 24, pregnant women and people with underlying conditions. But a good conspiracy theorist never lets the facts get in the way.

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Michelle Obama Action Figure — in 3 Amazing Looks!

Finally, the First Mom for your action figure collection!

Jailbreak Toys, the people who brought you one of the several Barack Obama action figures last year, has released the Michelle Obama action figure. You’ll love what she’s wearing! Continue reading »

First Lady Celebrates Sesame Street

Michelle Obama on Sesame Street

On November 10, 1969, a television show unlike any other debuted on PBS. Based on the idea that if you could hold the attention of children, you could educate them, the program introduced kids to a grouchy green creature who lived in a garbage can and an oversized yellow bird. That show, of course, was Sesame Street.  Forty years later, the program that forever changed children’s television is celebrating with a brand new look and a VIP quest. Continue reading »

SkippyJon Jones’ Mom Judy Schachner Talks to Babble

He’s a favorite of Michelle Obama, and this week, SkippyJon Jones is being launched into, er, “spice.”

The lastest in a line of books featuring a Siamese cat who thinks he’s a Chihuahua, SkippyJon Jones Lost in Spice is littered with Spanish words for your kids to practice and a story that’s been peppered with a liberal dose of silly.

Author Judy Schachner sat down with Babble via the phone from her home in southeastern Pennsylvania to explain why cats need three names and why her cat speaks with a Spanish accent: Continue reading »

The 4 Best Dressed Moms

People Magazine just released their 10 Best Dressed list.  The have honored ten celebrities for their sizzling style.  “Daring or demure, high fashion or hippie chic, each of these stars turned up the heat and set the fashion world ablaze this year.”  Four of the top ten just happen to be moms. Very very chic moms. The winners? Continue reading »

Obama Defends His Ugly Jeans

In an interview with Today Show’s Meredith Viera (short video after the jump), President Obama defended the jeans he wore to throw out the first pitch at in last week’s major league baseball All-Star game.

The jeans — a little too faded and riding a little high in the waist and at the ankle — betrayed our handsome president’s nerdy roots. (The super white running shoes and the zipped up jacket with a fitted waist only added to the cringe factor, but nobody’s talking about that, so I won’t either. )

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