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• Morning News - Pirates Make a Mistake

  No, there is no news about the Veggie Tales. And if there were, I probably wouldn't report it. (Not my thing.) But there are real pirates in the news again, along with Blackberrys, iPhones, and Mitt Romney! (Oh my!) Read on... Read More... Posted May 05 2009, 09:00 AM by Brett Singer with | with no comments Filed under: news, technology, iPhone, pirates, barack obama, republicans, mitt romney, Brett Singer, sarah palin, morning news, president obama, cellphones, blackberry curve

• Did Sarah Palin Know That Bristol Was Sleeping With Levi?

  In an interview with Tyra Banks that will air on Monday, Levi Johnston says that Alaska Governor Sarah Palin "probably knew" that he was having sex with her daughter Bristol. Levi also tells Tyra that Mama Palin allowed the young lovers to sleep in the same bed at her home. Well. As the Church Lady might say, isn't that special. Read More... Posted Apr 04 2009, 06:07 PM by Brett Singer with | with 3 comment(s) Filed under: Celebrities, celebrity, politics, Google, sex ed, tyra banks, celebrity kids, abstinence, Brett Singer, sarah palin, bristol palin, palin, levi johnston, palin family, bristol palin nasty break up, teenage parents, abstinence only education, sarah palin daughter

• Morning News - The Obama Bracket

  Monday Monday… Can't trust that day… Actually, you kind of can trust Monday. It's fairly reliable in that it always comes after Sunday. I don't think that's what Mama Cass and Co. were talking about, but then again, it was the 60's, so who knows? Anyone make an NCAA bracket? I did. I know nothing about college basketball, and my picks are proving it, especially in the Midwest Conference. At least there's no money at stake for me. President Obama made one, which is being resoundingly mocked by many. Some were upset that he even took the time to make his picks... Read More... Posted Mar 23 2009, 09:00 AM by Brett Singer with | with no comments Filed under: Celebrities, news, politics, sports, internet, technology, crime, media, barack obama, basketball, theater, economy, obama, recession, congress, update, bracketology, March Madness, Brett Singer, sarah palin, theatre, broadway, celebrity news, george w. bush, ncaa, morning news, finance, jay leno, the tonight show, president obama, stimulus plan, bracket, presidential bracket, bowling, the fed, obama's special olympics joke, whitewater, ncaa bracket, obama's bracket, special olympics, president obama's bracket, susan macdougal, jim gibbons, obama on the tonight show, west side story, federal money

• GMA Tweets Details On Levi Johnston And Son

  I was watching this video interview with Levi Johnston, aka the no-longer-future Mr. Bristol Palin. The breakup was mutual, Levi says. He needs to be more "mature" before marriage. (That sounds like it wasn't so mutual, but who knows.) Then I saw this: Check Neal Karlinsky's Twitter page. He'll be tweeting some behind-the-scenes details about the interview. Um, OK. Sure. Why not. I'm curious about Twitter, which is the big thing online these days. All the kids and TV reporters are doing it. What does Neal have to say...uh, tweet? Read More... Posted Mar 16 2009, 04:00 PM by Brett Singer with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: news, politics, Good Morning America, Brett Singer, sarah palin, bristol palin, trig palin, levi johnston, chris brown, rihanna, gma, is this news, trip palin, reporting, palin family

• Bristol Gives Levi the Boot

  The most watched teen romance of 2008 had few convinced that it would last forever. Still, when Levi Johnston showed up at the Republican National Convention but hours after news broke that he and the VP nominee's daughter were expecting, there was a feeling, at least, that Mama Palin would control their message then and until the end of time. But someone else has taken over the message now, namely Levi Johnston's sister, Mercede. She tells Star Magazine that 18-year-old Bristol broke off the young couple's engagement a while ago. And also that she's now allowing Levi to see their infant son, Tripp.   Read More... Posted Mar 11 2009, 06:22 PM by Madeline Holler with | with 6 comment(s) Filed under: sarah palin, teen pregancy, bristol palin, levi johnston, bristol palin-johnston, breakup

• Kids Color to Save Alaska's Wolves

  The nonprofit Defenders of Wildlife Fund has started a unique way to get kids involved in activism. In protest of Governor Palin’s aerial wolf killing program—which has caused the deaths of 109 wolves just this hunting season—the Fund is collecting drawings of wolves from kids all over the country, and will mail them to Governor Palin’s office. Perhaps her overwhelming maternal instincts will override her passion for senseless wolf slaughter? Read More... Posted Mar 05 2009, 06:30 PM by Hannah Tennant-Moore with | with 4 comment(s) Filed under: protest, alaska, sarah palin, defenders of wildlife fund, wolves, wolf slaughter, aerial hunting

• Elizabeth Hasselbeck Thinks Everything (Including Aerial Wolf Killing) is About Abortions (PLUS VIDEO)

  If you’re ever invited to a dinner party with Elizabeth Hasselbeck, I’d avoid the topic of aerial wolf hunting or any topic really, because Mrs. Hasselbeck seems to think everything comes back to abortions.   And I hate making polite abortion talk at dinner parties.   A recent PSA denounced the practice of aerial wolf hunting, a passion of vice presidential nominee and nature-raping advocate Sarah Palin. Most would agree that aerial hunting is a completely unsportsman-like practice in the already brutal hobby of hunting. Elizabeth Hasselbeck thinks we need to stop whining; after all, 260,000 abortions are performed each year! (Her number, not mine)   Can you follow the leap in logic? Read More... Posted Feb 25 2009, 09:30 AM by Cole Gamble with | with 37 comment(s) Filed under: the view, abortion, barbara walters, elizabeth hasselbeck, sarah palin

• A Michelle Obama, Sarah Palin, Hillary Clinton or Nancy Pelosi Preschool - Which Would You Pick?

  Who would you most trust with your offspring, Michelle Obama, Sarah Palin, Hillary Clinton or Nancy Pelosi? No, this is not the start of barroom joke. These are the contestants in the “Who’d Run the Best Daycare” poll currently running of US World and Review. So who’s winning? Read More... Posted Feb 23 2009, 05:30 PM by SunnyChanel with | with 8 comment(s) Filed under: preschool, hillary clinton, michelle obama, poll, sarah palin, Nancy Pelosi

• Morning News: The Real Story Behind Palin's Nomination

  Remember how shocked everybody was back in August after the Democratic National Convention when John McCain picked Sarah Palin? His decision was characterized as impulsive, that she had been plucked out of nowhere. In fact, an August statement from McCain's campaign stated as much. Wrong!   Read More... Posted Feb 19 2009, 09:00 AM by Madeline Holler with | with 4 comment(s) Filed under: dick cheney, March of Dimes, lice, sarah palin, morning news, vp nomination, houseing rescue, trailblazer, gavin newsom, geronimo, nits, miAchael bloomberg

• Sarah Palin: Family Has to Pull Together for Pregnant Teens

  In what was supposed to be Bristol Palin's big moment with mom's buddy Greta on Fox News, but I doubt anyone was suprised when Alaskan Gov. Sarah Palin stuck her head - and her two cents - into the conversation. But while her daughter's common sense approach to abstinence-only education (it doesn't work - duuuuh) has been getting all the attention, the former vice presidential candidate was surprisingly on the ball. When things go wrong, she says, families have to come together. VIDEO AFTER THE JUMP Read More... Posted Feb 18 2009, 08:34 AM by JeanneSager with | with 5 comment(s) Filed under: parenting, family, teen pregnancy, generations, sarah palin, Jeanne Sager, teen moms, bristol palin

• Bristol Palin Tells Fox Mom's Got it All Wrong

  Bristol Palin went on Fox News last night to confess that she doesn't think abstinence education works. Actually, what she said was, "Everyone should be abstinent, whatever, but it's not realistic." Read More... Posted Feb 17 2009, 07:58 AM by KeriF with | with 3 comment(s) Filed under: abstinence, Keri Fisher, sarah palin, bristol palin

• Why Sarah Palin Hid Her Pregnancy

  An unauthorized biography of Alaska Gov. and once-U.S. vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin finally explains why Sarah Palin kept her pregnancy with son Trig a secret for so long -- even from her other four children.   Read More... Posted Feb 16 2009, 05:29 PM by Madeline Holler with | with 14 comment(s) Filed under: pregnancy, sarah palin, levi johnston, palin pregnancy, bristol palin trig palin

• Education for All? Not in New Hampshire

  Would you send your kids to kindergarten if it was going to cost you money? It's the only choice provided to parents in Hudson, NH, the last city in the contiguous U.S. not to offer free kindergarten to its children. The city of twenty-five thousand has been ordered to comply with a 2007 New Hampshire law calling for universal kindergarten by this fall, but district officials are bucking the order. They need more money to make it happen, they say. Read More... Posted Feb 06 2009, 08:32 AM by JeanneSager with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: education, tuition, kindergarten, new hampshire, constitution, private school, taxes, alaska, sarah palin, Jeanne Sager, free education, school taxes, costs of school, full-day kindergarten

• Sarah Palin Speaks To Esquire About Kids And Things

  Sarah Palin is back. In truth, the Hockey Mom/Lipsticked Pitbull/former Vice-Presidential candidate never left. So before anyone hits me with a "Why don't you leave that nice woman alone!", remember that all of these quotes are from Palin herself, via an interview in Esquire Magazine. It's not like people put a camera in her house. We'll stick with the quotes that are about her kids. Here we go: Read More... Posted Feb 05 2009, 11:15 PM by Brett Singer with | with 12 comment(s) Filed under: news, video, dinner, Today Show, barack obama, Fox News, sexism, republicans, Democrats, election, John McCain, conservative, liberal, election 2008, double standards, the media, president, Brett Singer, governor of alaska, alaska, sarah palin, NBC, matt lauer, presidential election, beau biden, GOP VP pick, anchorage, sarah heath, bristol palin, trig palin, bristol, trig, palin kids, hockey mom, lipstick, RNC, palin clothing, cheap clothes, palin spent 150k on clothes, is it fair to pick on palin's kids, is sarah palin the next oprah, mccain staffers say it's palin's fault, mccampaign, palin says media people are stinkers, palin says mccain staffers are jerks, matt lauer interviews sarah palin, casserole, sexist, palin says leave my kids alone, palin 2012, sarah palin esquire magazine, sarah palin interview in esquire magazine, sarah palin interview, sarah palin named her daughter after the town that ESPN is in

• Little White Whales Going, Going...Gone?

  Move over Cook Inlet Beluga Whales, no more babies in the deep blue sea for you!  Alaska governor, Sarah Palin says that the whale population, having dwindled from a small 650 to its current 375 since 1994 are doing just fine, thank you.  She is suing the federal government for listing the Belugas as endangered. Why?  Because the protection required by the listing would threaten oil drilling, gas development and other "lucrative" projects, according to Mother Jones. This isn't the first time Palin has challenged an endangered species listing.  Last August, she asserted the polar ice caps aren't melting and the polar bears will be just fine.  To prove this, she Read More... Posted Feb 03 2009, 11:00 AM by Shannon LC Cate with | with 12 comment(s) Filed under: environment, global warming, raffi, alaska, sarah palin, polar ice caps, Shannon LC Cate, endangered species, beluga whales

• Girls More Confident Since Presidential Election

  50 percent of girls ages 12 to 17 have more confidence since the presidential election, according to a study by the Girl Scout Research Foundation. The study of 3,284 adolescent girls also found that half of young women now believe they will be able to achieve their goals, and 55 percent feel more comfortable speaking their minds. Read More... Posted Feb 01 2009, 03:35 PM by Hannah Tennant-Moore with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: teenagers, girls, hillary clinton, boys, feminism, self-esteem, confidence, Girl Scouts, White House, election, adolescents, sarah palin, confident, president obama, first black president, girls more confident since election, goals, glass ceilings

• VIDEO-Obama Kids Say DC Schools Are Wimpy

  That's not exactly what they said… well, actually it kind of is. And as a New York parent (formerly a New York kid) I think I even agree. The President, during a light-hearted moment at a meeting with business leaders the other day (this was before he spoke out against Wall Street bonuses; I doubt the mood would have been so cordial if it was after that), made a comment about Sasha and Malia's school being closed: Read More... Posted Jan 30 2009, 06:30 PM by Brett Singer with | with 7 comment(s) Filed under: news, music, politics, school, video, chicago, censorship, Ann Coulter, barack obama, Republican, michelle obama, rush limbaugh, weather, democrat, malia obama, obama, John McCain, conservative, liberal, snow day, snow, president, Sasha Obama, Brett Singer, sarah palin, political, president obama, the obamas are a great first family, first family, inauguration, swearing in, president elect obama, the white house, keeping kids home from school, obama says dc schools are wimpy, flinty chicago toughness, obama girls can't believe school canceled

• Babble Podcast for January 26, 2009 (now with a working player)

  Here is the ninth Babble Podcast. On today's episode: - Obama goes after Limbaugh, kind of. - Rod Blagojevich (who I've decided to start calling B-Rod) is just a bundle of fun - The Dark Knight did not get nominated for a Best Picture Oscar. Some guy in his mother's basement is weeping. - Linda Ellerbee, mini cameras (not Mini-Me), and Jason Wu. Read More... Posted Jan 29 2009, 10:41 PM by Brett Singer with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: parenting, Celebrities, Movies, news, blog, politics, Babble, downloads, strollerderby, academy awards, oscars, Batman, barack obama, radio, opinions, rush limbaugh, heath ledger, droolicious, famecrawler, election, John McCain, listening, mp3, Brett Singer, sarah palin, the dark knight, podcast, babble podcast, Rod Blagojevich

• Morning News: No Saturday Mail and Other Bummers

  We always kind of liked Saturday mail delivery even if it was mainly Wal-Mart ads and guilt-inducing pleas from Amnesty International. Once in awhile, it also means a little red package from Netflix. So we're pretty bummed about the postmaster general asking Congress to lift the requirement for Saturday deliveries. Cuts are the only way, he explained, for the U.S. Post Office to get out of debt. Why doesn't he just ask for money like everyone else? Read More... Posted Jan 29 2009, 09:30 AM by Madeline Holler with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: catholic church, sarah palin, stimulus package, morning news, octuplets, James Brady, army suicides, Parade magazine, post office

• Parents Ripped Off On Inauguration Trip?

  It wasn't all fun and games (and hope – let's not forget hope) at the Inauguration of Barack Obama on January 20, 2009. Congressional Youth Leadership Council organized trips to our nation's capitol for 15,000 students at a rate of $2500 for five-days. 1,000 of those students were from New Jersey, and some of their parents are mighty peeved that their young'uns didn't get a good view of all the Obama-mania. Read More... Posted Jan 27 2009, 06:00 PM by Brett Singer with | with 3 comment(s) Filed under: news, politics, school, parents, New Jersey, barack obama, Republican, students, michelle obama, democrat, cool stuff, malia obama, obama, John McCain, conservative, liberal, president, Sasha Obama, Brett Singer, sarah palin, lego, political, president obama, the obamas are a great first family, first family, inauguration, swearing in, president elect obama, the white house, linda ellerbee says keep your kids home from school to watch the inauguration, keeping kids home from school, linda ellerbee, what time is the swearing in, inauguration coverage, what time is the inauguration ceremony, inaugural balls, lego inauguration, lego inaugural, daily record, missing the swearing in ceremony, New Jersey Consumer Affairs Division, Congressional Youth Leadership Council, purple tunnel of doom, missing the ceremony

• Bronx Students Question Obama Through Poetry

  It's one thing when Rush Limbaugh attacks the idea that Obama is going to bring "change" to our country. Of course Limbaugh doesn't want change – as far as he's concerned, everything is fine. But it's a little different when high school students from the Bronx wonder whether or not our new President is really going to be all that different from those who held the office before he did. These kids are a little bit older than those we usually talk about on Babble, but this video kept my attention from beginning to end. The poetry the students recite is pretty raw; to put it mildly, this isn't exactly Robert Frost territory: Read More... Posted Jan 24 2009, 05:16 PM by Brett Singer with | with no comments Filed under: news, politics, school, new york times, video, Ann Coulter, NY Times, barack obama, Republican, michelle obama, democrat, poetry, malia obama, obama, John McCain, conservative, liberal, comics, spiderman, president, comic books, Sasha Obama, Brett Singer, sarah palin, political, abc news, president obama, the obamas are a great first family, first family, inauguration, swearing in, president elect obama, the white house, linda ellerbee says keep your kids home from school to watch the inauguration, keeping kids home from school, linda ellerbee, juju chang, what time is the swearing in, inauguration coverage, juju juggles, what time is the inauguration ceremony, inaugural balls, poet, poems, bronx

• NY's New Senator Is Moving On Up, With Baby In Tow

  When New York Governor David Patterson named upstate congresswoman Kirsten Gillibrand to replace Hillary Rodham Clinton as the state's junior senator, he introduced a political figure who will seem, in some respects, oddly familiar: a woman of limited political experience, who won a hard-fought election and is now quite popular among her constituents, who is just 42 years old and married with children, including an infant. Just like 42-year-old mother/politician Sarah Palin was when we first met her back in September, Gillibrand is considered an "up and comer" within the party, in part because of policy stances that at times put her at odds with that party's majority (in Gillibrand's case, she's a Dem the NRA loves, which introduces another parallel to gun-totin' Sarah). Read More... Posted Jan 23 2009, 01:30 PM by Kate Tuttle with | with 3 comment(s) Filed under: working mothers, sarah palin, caroline kennedy, David Patterson, Kirsten Gillibrand

• Morning News – Drunken Jokers With Bionic Limbs And Flying Cars

  Happy Friday, everyone! Comments on yesterday's Morning News got pretty heated. I considered doing nothing but stories about puppies, rainbows and sunshine today, but decided that was no fun. And as it turns out, the "Crossfire"-esque commenting has morphed into an interesting back and forth between persons of differing political persuasions. Thank you to everyone from both sides of the aisle who weighed in; check out the debate here. Today its all about a drunken Diane Sawyer, a kid with a bionic arm, and a flying car. Oh, and something called "The Oscars." Never heard of it. Read all about it after the jump. Read More... Posted Jan 23 2009, 09:00 AM by Brett Singer with | with 4 comment(s) Filed under: news, music, politics, school, drinking, American Pie, academy awards, oscars, hillary clinton, New York Magazine, Diane Sawyer, censorship, Ann Coulter, barack obama, Republican, kate winslet, Denzel Washington, michelle obama, rush limbaugh, democrat, heath ledger, concert, malia obama, obama, John McCain, conservative, liberal, comics, spiderman, adolf hitler, david paterson, president, comic books, Sasha Obama, Brett Singer, sarah palin, jonas brothers, drunk, Kevin Bacon, nymag, political, abc news, the dark knight, queen latifah, morning news, the Joker, president obama, the obamas are a great first family, first family, inauguration, will.i.am, swearing in, caroline kennedy, HBO, president elect obama, the white house, linda ellerbee says keep your kids home from school to watch the inauguration, keeping kids home from school, linda ellerbee, juju chang, what time is the swearing in, inauguration coverage, juju juggles, what time is the inauguration ceremony, inaugural balls, garth brooks, inaugural ball, will i am, john mellencamp, chief justice john roberts, oath of office, flying cars, oscar nominations, nazi kids, bernie madoff, bionic arm, bionic hand

• Sasha and Malia Beanie Baby Dolls

  Here's a good one. Ty Inc., maker of the once-insanely popular Beanie Babies, has introduced two new Beanies – Sweet Sasha and Marvelous Malia. The good part? The company claims it's just a coincidence. Company spokeswoman Tania Lundeen says the names were chosen because they are "beautiful," according to US Weekly. Do you buy it? I don't. Read More... Posted Jan 22 2009, 06:00 PM by Brett Singer with | with no comments Filed under: news, politics, school, toys, barack obama, Republican, michelle obama, democrat, beanie babies, malia obama, obama, John McCain, conservative, liberal, comics, spiderman, president, comic books, Sasha Obama, Brett Singer, sarah palin, political, president obama, the obamas are a great first family, first family, inauguration, president elect obama, the white house, keeping kids home from school, linda ellerbee, juju chang, what time is the swearing in, inauguration coverage, inaugural balls, inaugural ball, sasha and malia beanie babies, Sweet Sasha, Marvelous Malia, beanie babies not named after the first family, ty, things that are not true

• Sarah Palin Says Leave My Kids Alone

  Remember Sarah Palin? Republican Vice-Presidential candidate, kind of overshadowed John McCain for a while, said the word "maverick" a lot? Tina Fey did an impression of her on Saturday Night Live? Ring any bells? She's back. Well, to be fair, she never went away. But the Associated Press has published a story talking about how Palin "is going on the offensive against news organizations as well as bloggers she says are perpetuating malicious gossip about her and her children." They say she has, "personally reached out to media outlets such as People magazine and The Associated Press to complain about information she claimed is wrong." Read More... Posted Jan 22 2009, 02:00 PM by Brett Singer with | with 11 comment(s) Filed under: news, video, dinner, Today Show, barack obama, Fox News, sexism, republicans, Democrats, election, John McCain, conservative, liberal, election 2008, double standards, the media, president, Brett Singer, governor of alaska, alaska, sarah palin, NBC, matt lauer, presidential election, beau biden, GOP VP pick, anchorage, sarah heath, bristol palin, trig palin, bristol, trig, palin kids, hockey mom, lipstick, RNC, palin clothing, cheap clothes, palin spent 150k on clothes, is it fair to pick on palin's kids, is sarah palin the next oprah, mccain staffers say it's palin's fault, mccampaign, palin says media people are stinkers, palin says mccain staffers are jerks, matt lauer interviews sarah palin, casserole, sexist, palin says leave my kids alone, palin 2012