Meet the 'chubby boy with the curly hair': New photographs of Barack Obama's childhood in Indonesia emerge

Chubby is not a word I usually associate with the Prez. Via.

Video- Michelle Obama: Making Healthy Food Accessible & Affordable

Michelle Obama to Appear on Fox's 'Huckabee'

Wonder if Mikey will come clean on exactly how he dropped all those lbs?

Washington Whispers reports First Lady Michelle Obama will be interviewed on Fox News Channel this weekend on Mike Huckabee's show. The two will talk about Mrs. Obama's anti-obesity campaign. Huckabee, the former republican governor of Arkansas, lost more than 100 pounds and wrote about it in Quit Digging Your Grave With a Knife and Fork.

Video- Beck continues to attack Michelle Obama for trying to raise awareness of and combat childhood obesity

Videos- President Obama signs obesity executive order and First Lady introduces Let's Move

Two for the price of one!!

Obama plan funds nurse visits to new moms

It was another campaign promise that the President is living up to, for those who are keeping score.

As a candidate, Mr. Obama touted the Nurse-Family Partnership (NFP), founded in the late 1970s by psychologist David Olds.

"This program saves money," Mr. Obama said in 2007. "It raises healthy babies and creates better parents. It reduced childhood injuries and unintended pregnancies, increased father involvement and women's employment, reduced use of welfare and food stamps, and increased children's school readiness. And it produced more than $28,000 in net savings for every high-risk family enrolled in the program.

"I will expand the Nurse-Family Partnership to provide at-home nurse visits for up to 570,000 first-time mothers each year," Mr. Obama promised. "We can do this. Our God is big enough for that."

The Obama administration kept its word. Its first budget called for a home-visitation program for new mothers costing $8.6 billion over 10 years. The home-visit program is now embedded in health care reform, costing $750 million over five years in the House bill and $1.5 billion in the Senate bill. The bills are being merged.

But, as usual, the fundies read scary things into a program that should be as non-controversial as telling someone to brush their teeth-

The program could increase "matriarchal dominance" in poor neighborhoods already awash with absent-father homes, said Gordon E. Finley, a psychology professor at Florida International University who writes on gender roles.

Most nurses are women, he said, so it would mean more women advising women, without necessarily considering the fathers. And because nursing is a female-dominated sector, the program means more jobs for women, but not men.

The program may bring "biases of the medical community into the home," said E. Christian Brugger, an ethicist and senior fellow at Culture of Life Foundation. The medical community, for instance, has a bias against large families - women in maternity wards who have delivered a second child are "routinely asked" whether they want to be sterilized, he said.

Someone sounds a little afeared of the women folk, don't they?

Me & Mike Jackson

Wow, this has been a bad day for us Baby Boomlets. First Farrah (we girls were outraged over the nippage on the poster) I seriously remember the first time I saw her I was all, "Oooooh, she's shiny". But she deserved our consideration after going serious with the "Burning Bed". And then there's the J5.

I grew up in Northern Indiana, about 45 minutes from Gary. My grandmother went to bingo every Thursday night at our Catholic church and I was expected to accompany. I did, but I would usually pocket a 45* so the little un's could have some fun. Usually the 45* was "Rockin' Robin". And Mike was the man, all though little.

G-d bless Mike and Farrah, they were our past.

'A Christmas Story' 25th anniversary draws crowds to Cleveland house

Gee, you'd think the media is ready for Christmas to come. The whole article is cute, go read.

The streets of Cleveland were still asleep Friday when the Gillens of Miami, Fla., bolted through the hotel lobby, ready to see the city that helped make their father famous.
Like caffeinated shoppers tracking deals, the Gillens were a jangle of joy. After all, the city threads through the family's past; it's where their late father starred in "A Christmas Story."

Twenty-five years ago, Jeff Gillen played the scary, worn-out Santa listening to a little boy in the movie classic that did much of its filming in Cleveland.

This weekend, his wife, Arlene, and children, Phil and Elana, are joining about 4,000 people to visit a convention at the Renaissance Hotel and A Christmas Story House in Tremont.