Looks like the MSNBC-Obama merger is complete . . .

Janet Napolitano did double-duty on Good Morning America today, describing administration anti-terrorism efforts while serving as an MSNBC shill by parroting the liberal network's new marketing catchphrase, Lean Forward.

To complete the daisy chain, Napolitano was interviewed by ABC's Bianna Golodryga, wife of . . . former Obama budget director Peter Orzag. View video after the jump.

The topic was the foiled plot to send explosives to synagogues in Chicago.

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No doubt about it, Fox’s “Glee” is a pop-culture juggernaut. In 2009, the “Glee” cast landed 25 singles on the Billboard Hot 100, the most by any artist since The Beatles. The show is syndicated all over the world. Its second season debut scored more than 12 million viewers. Clearly, Fox knows that this show about a high-school glee club is a hot ticket for high-schoolers, and its appeal trickles down through the lower grades. They’re the ones who are downloading all the “Glee” singles for their iPods. 

So who is the marketing genius who decided that female “Glee” stars should pose in their bras and underwear in the badly named “Gentleman’s Quarterly” magazine? And with a fully clothed male star putting his hand on their rear ends on the cover? Surely, a lot more children watch the TV show than check out GQ magazine, but the photo shoot was news all over the entertainment world. Sleazy marketing is the best marketing.

This decision was almost uniformly condemned. One standout example was CBS anchor Katie Couric, who denounced it in an online commentary. “These very adult photos of young women who perform in a family show just seem so un-'Glee'-like. The program is already edgy in the right ways, these images don't really, in my humble opinion, fit the 'Glee' gestalt.”

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"The war situation has developed not necessarily to Japan's advantage." — from Emperor Hirohito's surrender announcement to the Japanese, August, 1945.

"By most accounts, the Democrats stand to lose seats in both the House and Senate this coming Tuesday." — Media Matters, Oct. 29,2010

By most accounts?  So by some accounts, Democrats do not stand to lose any seats in the House and Senate on Election Day?

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Happy Halloween, my Friends. For those of you who love the dress-up and parties: Enjoy! For those of you who fear the treats, please see Leighann’s D-Mom wisdom from earlier this week. I stumbled on this video, created last year by the crew at the non-profit charity iPump, which provides insulin pump systems to diabetic [...]

In the summer of 2007, a seemingly new eating disorder emerged in mainstream media, one that was directly tied to diabetes. It was dubbed “diabulimia,” in which a person with diabetes restricts or completely stops taking their insulin in order to lose weight. Like most things in pop culture, diabulimia was a flash in the [...]

Something wicked this way comes! And its name is Halloween. As much as I enjoy the costumes and the candlelit parties, this holiday constitutes a true nightmare for those of us whose health is severely — and immediately — impacted by consuming sugary treats. For parents of diabetic kids, it’s especially rough, since you can’t [...]

Partnerships between multiple universities or institutions are not so uncommon in research, but when’s the last time you heard of an entire state coming together to cure a disease? Earlier this month, the University of Minnesota and the Mayo Clinic, together forming the Minnesota Partnership for Biotechnology and Medical Genomics, announced a formal 10-year-long partnership [...]

The claim made the creator of the Ice Cream Diet is simple: you can drop the weight and still be able to eat something delicious, like ice cream, each day. This is a little hard to believe, as we’ve all been taught that desserts like ice cream are fattening and will make us gain weight. [...]

In its exact definition, aromatherapy is the process of using volatile plant oils in order to treat not only the physical well being of a person but also his or her psychological and mental health.
From decades past, apothecary drawers have been filled with essential oils that have been used in the treatment of diseases and [...]

When people think of aromatherapy, this usually means getting treatment in a spa. Those days are gone now as the person can buy a kit and bring it out whenever it is needed.
The customer can just buy it from a reputable store and have this stored in a cool and dry place so this [...]