Cake - Week 2

Here is my cake from this week. We are learning to make roses, and since mine are far from perfect, I decided to play with color to make them more interesting. It is a double layer chocolate cake with strawberry jam filling.

Setting the Record Straight

Someone posted this on Trevan's myspace page, and I think it is a brilliant comparison of the facts. Let's think about who is really ready to lead this country. We cannot afford to make the mistake of electing the wrong person again.

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." * Grow up in Alaska eating mooseburgers, 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.

*Graduate from Harvard law School and you are unstable.
* Attend 5 different small colleges before graduating, 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, spend 4years in the United States Senate representing a state of 13 million people while sponsoring 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 less 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 and first in line behind a man in his eighth decade.

* If you have been married to the same woman for 19 years while raising 2 beautiful daughters, all within Protestant churches, you're not a real Christian.
* If you cheated on your first wife with a rich heiress,and then left your disfigured wife and married the heiress the next month, you're a true Christian.

* If you teach responsible, age-appropriate sex education,including the proper use of birth control, you are erodingthe fiber of society.
* If, while governor, you staunchly advocate abstinence only, with no other option in sex education in your state's school system while your unwed teen daughter ends up pregnant, you're very responsible.

* If your wife is a Harvard graduate lawyer who gave up aposition in a prestigious 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 you're husband is nicknamed "First Dude", with at least one DWI conviction and no college education, who didn't register to vote until age 25 and once was a member of a group that advocated the secession of Alaska from the USA, your family is extremely admirable.

Cake - Week 1

The new adventure in my life is cake decorating. That's right, I started a class last week and this is my first cake. Not terribly impressive, but let's hope that it gets better in the weeks to come.

Congratulations Roger!!