First Political Blog of the Season

This was sent to me via email, I thought it was so good that I needed to share it with everyone and I thought it was time to throw something political into the mix.

I'm a little confused. Let me see if I have this straight:

If you grow up in Hawaii, raised by your grandparents, you're "exotic, different." If you grow up in Alaska eating mooseburgers, that's a quintessential American story.
If your name is Barack you're a radical, unpatriotic Muslim. Name your kids Willow, Trig and Track, you're a maverick.
If you graduate from Harvard Law School and you are unstable. But if you attend 5 different small colleges before graduating then you're well-grounded.
If you spend 3 years as a brilliant community organizer, become the first black president of the Harvard Law Review, create a voter registration drive that registers 150,000 new voters, spend 12 years as a constitutional law professor, spend 8 years as a State Senator, representing a district with over 750,000 people, become chairman of the state Senate's Health and Human Services committee, are elected to 4 years in the United States Senate representing a state of 13 million people and sponsor or co-sponsor 131 bills and serving on the Foreign Affairs, Environment and Public Works and Veteran's Affairs committees, you don't have any real leadership experience.
If your total resume is: local weather girl, 4 years on the city council and 6 years as the mayor of a town with fewer than 7,000 people, 20 months as the governor of a state with only 650,000 people, then you're qualified to become the country's second highest ranking executive.
If you have been married to the same woman for 19 years while raising 2 daughters, you're not a real Christian. If you cheated on your first wife with a rich heiress, and left your first wife and married the heiress the next month, you're a Christian.
If you teach responsible, age appropriate sex education, including the proper use of birth control, you are eroding the fiber of society. If , while governor, you staunchly advocate abstinence only, with no other option in sex education in your state's school system and then your unwed teen daughter ends up pregnant , you're very responsible.
If your wife is a Harvard graduate lawyer who gave up a high-paying job in a good law firm to work for the betterment of her inner city community, then gave that up to raise a family, your family's values don't represent America's. If your husband [nickname "First Dude"], sports at least one DWI conviction and didn't register to vote until he was 25, but did belong to a group that advocated the secession of Alaska from the USA, your family is extremely admirable.

OK, much clearer now.

We won a Wii

It's been a long summer and we all have been very busy, hence the lack of blogs of late. But something happened yesterday that has brought me out of my blogging funk-- We won a Wii!!! It all started when Brian signed the boys up for the second annual Wentzville Soapbox Derby. The city provided the cars and we paid $5 per child for the boys to race down the "hill of thrills" in front of Progress Park. There was food, door prizes, a corny announcer and it was a beautiful day, so all in all it seemed like it was going to be a great afternoon. Every child that raced got a T-shirt and a bag of goodies (stickers, coupons, etc). Additionally, each kid was entered into a raffle- they raffled off gift cards, a 19 inch flat screen TV, and a Nintendo Wii. And as my intro revealed we won the Wii-yippii. Alex's name was picked just as he finished his race (which he lost by a hair). Brady won his race but by then we were all so excited about our new Wii it really didn't matter who won or lost (not that it would've anyway). It was a very nice set that came with several games and controllers (approx. value $400). My arm hurts from playing too much tennis and bowling and we've all had a great time with it so far. Needless to say that we will definitely be signing up for the soapbox derby again next year!