NEW BABY!!!!! ...soon

At 16 days overdue Angela's water broke at 2 AM this morning. We shall be new a Uncle and Aunt soon!! We'll keep you posted.

2008 Presidential Candidate Calculator

With so many candidates running for president and the media's treatment like the race has been on for a year now I (Melissa) have been left wondering who I really agree with. Attributed to my hippie nature I generally vote Democrat. However, I really wasn't sure who fit my views since the race has been more about who can trash the other candidate than what their vision for America is. So when Aunt Judie sent me the link below I thought this should be interesting.

http://www.vajoe.com/candidate_calculator.html


Appearantly, I really am a Democrat when you look at the results. The list is split in half. The top half of the matches are all Democrat and the bottom are all Republican. However, I was quite surprised that Dennis Kucinich was my closest match. Who the heck is he?! I mean I know the name, but know nothing about him...until now. I guess we agree 77.55% of the time. That is pretty neat. Also who is Mike Gravel? No, really I've never heard of him.

I guess I also have to hope that Fred Thompson doesn't get into office or I will only be happy with one quarter of what he does.




My full results:

Your Top Match
Ohio Representative Dennis Kucinich (D) 77.55% match You are number 1,380,341 to use the Candidate Calculator.

Your Other Top Matches

Former Alaska Senator Mike Gravel (D) - 76.53%
Delaware Senator Joseph Biden (D) - 69.39%
Connecticut Senator Christopher Dodd (D) - 69.39%

Middle of the Pack

New York Senator Hillary Clinton (D) - 61.22%
Former North Carolina Senator John Edwards (D) - 61.22%
Illinois Senator Barack Obama (D) - 58.16%
New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson (D) - 57.14%
Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani (R) - 52.04%
Arizona Senator John McCain (R) - 51.02%
Texas Representative Ron Paul (R) - 51.02%
Businessman John Cox (R) - 43.88%
Former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee (R) - 39.80%
Former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney (R) - 29.59%

Bottom of the Barrel

Kansas Senator Sam Brownback (R) - 26.53%
Colorado Representative Tom Tancredo (R) - 26.53%
California Representative Duncan Hunter (R) - 24.49%
Former Tennessee Senator Fred Thompson (R) - 22.45%









Ben here, here's my results... I don't care I'm still voting Obama :)

Your Top Match
Ohio Representative Dennis Kucinich (D) 88.89% match You are number 1,492,379 to use the Candidate Calculator.

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Your Other Top Matches

Former Alaska Senator Mike Gravel (D) - 79.86%
New York Senator Hillary Clinton (D) - 59.72%
Former North Carolina Senator John Edwards (D) - 56.94%

Middle of the Pack

New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson (D) - 56.94%
Illinois Senator Barack Obama (D) - 55.56%
Connecticut Senator Christopher Dodd (D) - 54.17%
Delaware Senator Joseph Biden (D) - 51.39%
Texas Representative Ron Paul (R) - 45.83%
Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani (R) - 36.11%
Arizona Senator John McCain (R) - 33.33%
Businessman John Cox (R) - 29.17%
Former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee (R) - 28.47%
Colorado Representative Tom Tancredo (R) - 22.92%

Bottom of the Barrel

Former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney (R) - 14.58%
Kansas Senator Sam Brownback (R) - 12.50%
California Representative Duncan Hunter (R) - 11.11%
Former Tennessee Senator Fred Thompson (R) - 11.11%

Halloween Hangman

The perfect web game to avoid doing homework with...

http://dedge. com/flash/ hangman/hangman. swf?a=300

Pictures from Michigan

A Blessing or A Curse?

For Ben's birthday I bought him photography classes. He was very excited and now I don't know what his face looks like without a camera stuck in it. The photo quality in our library has certainly increased tremendously. However, I can't seem to take him anywhere without that camera. A few of my favorites are below.

The Vestivities

Our dear friend Scott turned 30 about a week ago and, again, Ben did a great job taking pictures.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/langbenj/sets/72157602085980527/

Angela and Jonathan's Baby Shower

A few weeks ago Aunt Marge, Aunt Kathie, Aunt Grace, Grandma Trudi and I hosted a baby shower for Angela. Ben did a great job taking pictures.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/langbenj/sets/72157602075148512/

Cosmic Train Wreck! Neat!

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/08/070822-dark-matter.html

Some birthday party photos

We survived the thunderstorm

Well both Ben, the kitties, and I are fine after Thursday nights severe weather. A few blocks away the strong winds broke a grocery store's windows and all over town there was high standing water all day Friday. Some nearby towns still didn't have working stop lights the next day. Driving around on Friday I could see the reminants of 1' and 2' diameter trees lieing on the side of the road or