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Find Your Candidate – VAJoe.com – Where The Military Matters Most:

Answer the questions below to find the 2008 Presidental candidate that best aligns with your beliefs. Give it a try!

Mark the column for ‘Yes’ if you support the issue and ‘No’ if you oppose it. After that, select how important the topic is to you. If you are unsure or have no opinion on a topic, just mark the unsure column. You will be scored based upon how well you match the current views of each of the 2008 presidental candidates.

Your Top Match:

Based on your responses, this is your top candidate for 2008.

Former Alaska Senator Mike Gravel (D)
91.30% match

Thoughts on Pavarotti:

The finest singers not only hit the notes but erase the difference between notes and words. Singing is most thrilling when it becomes a kind of heightened talking.

Even More Transport:

Barcelona has a recently new program called Bicing, which is a bike sharing program. Bike stations are placed strategically throughout the city, and subway stops usually have signs pointing to them. Members have a card which they swipe, they’re told which bike to grab, and off they go. It isn’t necessary to return the bikes to where you got them; they can be dropped off at any bicing station. The first half hour is free, and after that there’s a bit of a surcharge. When the program began they set the annual membership fee at some absurd low figure like 7 Euros, causing most of the city to sign up. That’s now been increased to 24 Euros.

It’s apparently become quite popular with seniors, who use them for leisurely afternoon bike rides.

And from the same source:

Philly Car Share now claims 25,000 members, and has lowered midweek rates on Priuses to $2.90/hour, $29/day.

Would They Share?:

We have launched wouldtheyshare.com, a website about whether Britain is a sharing nation. We want to spread the word about FON in the UK, and for that reason we created wouldtheyshare.com. Our site reveals the Brits’ attitudes towards sharing, and we are giving away 100 La Fonera+ among people who answer our daily sharing question and register at fon.com. And there is more! Amongst this month’s voters, we are giving away a trip to Madrid (flight + hotel) for two people. Check the details here.

Harry S Truman:

“Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a source of terror to all its citizens and creates a country where everyone lives in fear.”

• Slashdot | The Morality of Web Advertisement Blocking
  My first slashdotting.
  (tags: slashdot memes)
• 174 – The Nine Nations of North America
  Still relevant after 27 years.
  (tags: books history society culture)
• Flying to Toronto to learn about Christmas Lights?
  ‘Not only does this not seem “environmentally friendly” (to use the city’s words), but it seems, at least on the surface, the kind of thing that could be solved with a 30 minute telephone call.’ This from a guy who spends more time studying airline schedu
  (tags: transportation climatechange environment)

Quote of the Day:

“I will decide based on whether I have about $30 million in committed campaign contributions and whether I think it is possible to run a campaign based on ideas rather than 30-second sound bites.”

— Newt Gingrich, hinting again to the Washington Times that he might run for president in 2008.

If it isn’t possible, he need not look too far to learn why.

• The Lauryl Letter:: Left-Wing / Right-Wing
  all that need be said
  (tags: politics humor culture)