Not the Wall Street Journal, Washington Post nor the New York Times . . . No, USA Today remains the most widely read newspaper in the United States, according to the latest Mediamark Research Inc. report. USA Today has more than 3.6 million readers daily.

The interesting thing about the publishing of the USA Today, the paper does not print on Saturdays and Sundays.

. . . nothing beats a Sunday paper, a cup of coffee, bagel with cream cheese and fighting to see who gets the comics first . . .

After my new computer I did not see myself spending my hard good money for Microsoft Office Professional. But as a programmer I need to have all resources available to meet my client needs, no matter the code. The most important tool for a web developer is the web server. But I want to cut the chains of any OS dependent, including Linux, Apple and especially Microsoft.

What I am looking for in a web server:

• Easy install
• Programming for everything under the sun
  • ASP
  • ASP.NET
  • PHP
  • Ruby on Rails
• Hosting multiple sites
• Easy set up
• Quick easy start up
• Quick easy stop
• Log files
• SSL
• Security Functions
• Most importantly not taking up CPU (since it will be used on a laptop)

Here is my solution, Abyss Web Server.

First things first…. It works just about any machine:

• It runs HTTP, HTTPS, PHP, Perl, Classic ASP, ASP.NET, Python, Ruby, Rebol, and TCL
• Bandwidth Control
• Multiple Language Support
• SSL/TLS Certificates Management

The entire control panel is a wonderful programmed web interface. Everything is just one click away, with it being a simple bookmark I can work on my freelance projects and turn it off when I am done.

As far as running code I find everything I program runs smoothly just as if it was running on their original associated web server. Even my ASP and ASP.net runs perfectly but without the pesky reliance on Microsoft.

I can connect to my databases including:

• MS SQL
• MySql
• SQL express
• 10g Express Edition

I wish the stats were more detailed, but as they stand this what you get:

I would like more detailed log files, or the option to export into an XML or spreadsheet format. The only option is to import the *.log file into my spreadsheet program.

As a freelance programmer I need to have be prepared to program in any code, with any database, and adjust to the client needs. Abyss Web Server is exactly what I need, and did I mention… Free!

5 out of 5 Monitors

During an acceptance speech at a Los Angeles film gala in December 2007 the two-time Oscar winner Jodie Foster spoke about her parter of 14 years Ms Cydney Bernard, calling her: “My beautiful Cydney, who sticks with me through the rotten and the bliss.” Yes, if you have been hiding under a rock, Jodie Foster has long been an individual living comfortable in the “Glass Closet

“I think there are four kinds of gays in Hollywood,” explains Howard Bragman, CEO of the PR firm Fifteen Minutes. “There’s the openly gay; the gay and everybody knows it but nobody talks about it; the married, closeted gay who doesn’t talk about it; and the screaming ‘I’ll sue you if you say I’m gay’ person.”

Jodie Foster’s “Glass Closet” entitled her fans to ignore the rumor and rumblings from the gay community stamping their feet claiming she is ‘one of us’. But this special closet is not limited to those living in the Hollywood spotlight. It also includes all public figures. So, before you get all fussy like a Dupont Circle late night drag queen let me answer a few questions:

Yes, there are professional athletes that are gay. This includes the Olympians, NFL, NBA, MLB, NHL, WNBA and all other sports. You really think that all your teammates on your bar softball team are straight? Look around you, did you know that 1in 10 US citizens are Gay, Lesbian, BiSexual, Transgendered? Before your rant and rave that there is “no way” a NFL player is gay, did you know that the NFL offered domestic partnership benefits for their players?

Yes, just because someone is married doesn’t mean the individual is straight. You want examples; John Travolta and Senator Craig. Most likely at least two of your neighbors, who knows what goes on behind closed doors? What happens behind your closed doors?

Yes, there are plenty people who are against any positive gay laws who are gay. We just need to look a the current GOP, who are willing to change the US constitution to keep GLBT individuals second-class citizens. Senator Craig, Senator Mark Foley, Republican political consultant Ralph Gonzalez, President George Bush’s top adviser Ted Haggard, Representative Bob Allen, National Chairman of the Young Republicans Glenn Murphy Jr., Spokane Mayor Jim West, GOP Adviser Paul Crouch, 92% approval rating from the Christian Coalition Ed Schrock, Republican National Committee chairman Ken Mehlman, and there are many more in the GOP (many who are married). Here is something to think about:

A controlled study of 64 heterosexual men (half claimed to be homophobic by experience and self-reported orientation) at the University of Georgia found that the allegedly homophobic men (as measured by the Index of Homophobia) were considerably more likely to experience more erectile responses when exposed to homoerotic images than non-homophobic men.

Theorists including Calvin Thomas and Judith Butler have suggested that homophobia can be rooted in an individual’s fear of being identified as gay. Various psychoanalytic theories explain homophobia as a threat to an individual’s own same-sex impulses, whether those impulses are imminent or merely hypothetical. This threat causes repression, denial or reaction formation.

“Homophobia is gay”
Frank Iero

Now with California and Massachusetts having legal recognition of same-sex marriages the debate of the legitimacy of the GLBT individuals as proper US citizens will be accelerated. For so long, the GLBT individual has been treated as a second class citizen, that their citizenship is debased valued than illegal and legal aliens. That a teacher can be fired, legal families can’t formed or protected, rights of marriage has be taken away (state by state) in a form of hetrosexual marriage (with a divorce rate of almost 75%) protection, and the laws of the US are only a structure to give GLBT individuals health issues and early deaths (by withholding health insurance to domestic partnerships).

The burden of not federally supporting same-sex marriages has a catastrophic affect. It will put the United States one step closer towards a fascist country.

“The most notable characteristic of a fascist country is the separation and persecution or denial of equality to a specific segment of the population based upon superficial qualities or belief systems.”

So, what is the problem with a fascist country? Everything. It will make what happens behind your closed doors public and relevant.

As of this writing, Jodie Foster reportedly ended her long-term relationship with the movie producer Cydney Bernard. But you can’t count that as a reason not to be against same-sex marriage. Jodie never came out.

We are all familiar with software that take up not only hard drive space but most software are lingering in the background hogging up your processing power. If you think I am kidding, just click all at once ctrl+alt+del and see for yourself all those pesky programs processing.

With the access to the internet becoming cheaper (free at your local library and coffee shop) , with cities (like Minneapolis, MN) offering wifi within the borders and most cell phones are just tiny internet devices who needs software. Online applications will become more popular, even necessary.

Got to Go

MizPee finds the closest, cleanest toilets in your area. You can add and review toilets, get some cool deals in your area and challenge your knowledge of toilet trivia.

Green Envy

How to be more sustainable in a paperless environment? The website Make Me Sustainable would be a great resource to keep bookmarked. This is a good tool to take action and monitor your own life.

Your own Carbon and Energy Portfolio Manager enables you to visualize and contextualize your individual impact. Make Me Sustainable sustainable solutions empower you to act upon your knowledge. We can help you to become a more environmentally conscious and efficient individual or business. Make Me Sustainable empowers you to spread the word and encourage a sense of community.

Ageless Technology

TeeBeeDee is a free social network where men and women over 40 come to meet new people and make new friends. TeeBeeDee is a safe place to meet people online, explore new interests, share wisdom and experience, and enjoy a sense of community with people your own age.

At this time 30 TBD members on the topic of Reality TV and 1325 TBD members on the topic of, you guessed it, Sex Talk. But, I do not see any topic of the Wii Fit, too bad.

Wiki Wiki

PBwiki lets you quickly set up your own free, hosted, password-protected wiki to edit and share information. “It’s as easy as a peanut butter sandwich”.

The test wiki took less than a few minutes to setup and utilize right away. This will allow you to create a wiki all your own. What is so good about a wiki?

Instead of having your documents and knowledge scattered in multiple repositories, PBwiki offers one central place to store files and collaborate - so everyone on your team, family or social circle can access what they need, from any location.

This is good, the internet is not just for porn anymore.

Serenity: Better Days is a three-issue comic book series published by Dark Horse Comics. The series explores some plotlines that the Firefly TV series was originally to explore. It takes place before Serenity: Those Left Behind and the film Serenity, but after “Objects in Space”.

The series is written by Joss Whedon and Brett Matthews, with Will Conrad doing the art and Adam Hughes doing the covers. The colorist is Michelle Madsen.

“After the Earth was used up, we found a new solar system and hundreds of new Earths were terraformed and colonized. The central planets formed the Alliance and decided all the planets had to join under their rule. There was some disagreement on that point. After the War, many of the Independents who had fought and lost drifted to the edges of the system, far from Alliance control. Out here, people struggled to get by with the most basic technologies; a ship would bring you work, a gun would help you keep it. A captain’s goal was simple: find a crew, find a job, keep flying.”

The comics have all the quick witted remarks, underlying individual agendas and the dysfunctional family/crew that I loved with the Firefly series. I hope, just like all Browncoats (the self titled fans of Firefly/Serenity) this is not the last flight of Firefly. Rumors are constantly a whisper on the net for a Serenity II which are constantly denied and even the hopes of a MMO has been set to mum. The only remainder continuation of Firefly/Serenity is through the graphic novel medium or continual online discussion.

5 out of 5 Wasabi

Margaret Cho

The NFL has changed for the worst. I am not talking about the poor attempt for extreme drunk fans with the XFL or the poor marketing attempt of the USFL. I am talking about this short lived World League of American Football (WLAF) and NFL Europa.

These were supposed to be the equivalent of MLB minor leagues to develop on demand players for the NFL. But it failed. So, the NFL returns their watchful eye to the collegiate athlete. But there is a problem using the NCAA as their personal “minor league”. This is a plea for the NFL to start up the WLAF and get their hands out of the collegiate athletic system.

Families pay their hard earned money to make sure their Timmy or Suzy get an education, which is never enough so loans are becoming a necessity. Students graduate with a five figure debt, not talking about those who continue on to professional careers that finish their education easily with a six figure debt.

The WLAF should be the solution for the NFL draft not the universities that have to constantly adjust to the United States Department of Education whims to meet their student’s needs. There are students who come into a financial aid office crying because they need that one last $1000 to keep from going home and there are no more options. The final solution, if it is an option, to get a micro loan from the pockets of the institution.

But, never the athlete . . . especially the football player.

Who needs the football player anyway?

• NFL - The NFL has limited themselves to make money no matter the human cost.
• The Institution - There is no way that the University or College would put their books, libraries or their academic achievements ahead of their precious football team.
• NCAA - The existence of the NCAA is dependent on the amateur athlete and is constantly in the news due to corruption (google news search)
  
• States without NFL teams - The monopoly of the NFL and taking advantage of the amateur athlete and the institution has controlled the opportunity for a true NFL experience in many states.
  
• Sofa fans - Those fans that will never leave the couch, unless of course they score with NFL tickets. These are fans that would never leave the comfort of their living rooms for any thing except for maybe more beer.

So what is needed fix the NFL and have become something that everyone can watch and invest locally.

1. Anytime the NFL drafts a collegiate student or graduate (if the NFL mimics the NBA soon High School graduate) the NFL must pay a penalty. The NFL must give the institution an exact (100%) amount of salary, in one lump sum. For example; if the draftee receives a five year contract for 2 million then the institution get the full 2 million on signing the athlete. Note: the money can’t go to any athletic group, it is back to each of the students via financial aid office.
2. Bring back the WLAF. If the NFL draft directly from the WLAF there isn’t a penalty to any institution, unless the draftee was a member of the WLAF for under one (1) year.
3. The WLAF must be established, first, in states that do not have an NFL team.
4. The WLAF can’t be established in any state with one established NFL team until all other states have at least one WLAF team.
5. The WLAF can’t be established in any state with two established NFL teams until all other states have at least two WLAF teams.
6. The WLAF can’t be established within a 60 mile radius from an established NFL stadium and/or city home of a NFL team.
7. The WLAF must be established like the minor league in the MLB. The NFL will get their recruits after two years exclusively with the WLAF.
8. The WLAF will not be able to recruit any individual that has not completed a secondary degree, military service or recognized apprenticeship program.
9. If a WLAF team recruits any student without a completed secondary degree (AS, BS) the WLAF team must pay a penalty twice.
   1. WLAF team will pay equal amount of annual salary to the institution, directly to the student body via financial aid office for a total of two years.
   2. WLAF will pay 1/2 of the bonus received from the NFL, if the player goes to the NFL. If there is no bonus then the WLAF and NFL team will be frozen from the next NFL draft.
   3. If there is a trade within the WLAF with a penalized player the new WLAF team will be responsible for the remainder financial penalty to the originating institution.
10. The football season of the NFL will be played only on Sundays, Monday night and limited to two games on a US Holiday.
11. The football season of the WLAF will be played on Saturdays, Thursday and limited to two games on on a US Holiday.
12. The football season of the NCAA will be played on Saturdays only and no games on any US Holiday.
13. Each WLAF team will have to be affliated with an NFL team, until further notice.
14. All established independent leagues (ie Empire League) will automatically become part of the WLAF status and a draft will assign affiliation. Not one established independent team in any football semi-pro league will be left out of the WLAF.
15. The WLAF will be divided up into four division (loosely based on time zones):
    1. Pacific (Including Hawaii and Alaska)
    2. Mountain
    3. Midwest
    4. Atlantic (Including Puerto Rico)
16. At the end of the season the top of division will play each other in playoffs:
    1. Pacific vs Moutain
    2. Midwest vs Atlantic
    3. The determination of home advantage is win/loss during regular season, with a tie breaker being the over stats of the players.
17. The winners of the playoffs will go the super bowl equivalent, National Bowl.
    1. The national bowl location will be on a rotating basis. Each WLAF team home will host the National Bowl and will not host again until all WLAF team homes have been given the opportunity.
    2. Any WLAF team town may forfeit hosting the National Bowl, if so, the next WLAF team on the list will be hosting. Any forfeiting town will not be moved to the bottom on the order, but will have to wait until all other WLAF team homes have given the opportunity for hosting the National Bowl.
18. The WLAF may not expand outside the United States until every states has an establish WLAF team.
19. No WLAF team may not move out of the state unless another WLAF team will be taking its place.
20. WLAF teams must use train or (hybrid) bus travel during their regular schedule. The divisions are located, exception Pacific, within the same time zone and can be traveled through non air transportation.
    1. The WLAF teams will not all have the same budgets. Those WLAF teams that have stronger NFL or local support will have an advantage over those who do not. This will give each team an equal playing field when it comes to away games.
    2. There are three travel exceptions:
       1. WLAF teams located or playing in Hawaii, Alaska and Puerto Rico.
       2. WLAF teams playing in the playoffs.
       3. WLAF teams playing in the National Bowl.
21. WLAF rules will adhere to all NFL rules.
22. WLAF will not have broadcast blackouts.
23. WLAF sponsors will be a five tiered:
    1. Local - At least 25% of the budget must come from local sponsors. Local will be a 100 mile radius. National chains, even though they may be independently owned and operated, will not count as local.
       1. Those WLAF teams with the top five highest number and percentage of Local sponsors will be rewarded with a 1% end of year WLAF profits towards their team. Which means that if a WLAF team in Charleston, WV has 300 local sponsors and it reaches the minimal 25% budget requirement will receive the 1% profit over the team in Richmond, VA has 20 local sponsors and have reach the minimal 25% budget requirement.
    2. State - No more than 75% of the budget. This is sponsorship within the border of the state. This will not include bordering states.
    3. Division - No more than 25% of the budget. Division will include a sponsor within the time zone of the WLAF team.
    4. National - No more than 25% of the budget.
    5. International - No more that 10% of the budget.
24. The top five WLAF teams with full capacity attendance records in relation to the local population will receive a 1% profit. Which means if Center Valley, PA (population 6,282) has a stadium that seats 8,000 with attendance averaging 7,500 per game will receive the 1% profit over the team in Rapid City, SD (population 59,607) has a stadium that seats 12,000 with attendance averaging 10,000 per game. Even though Rapid City had the higher attendance record it is not as impressive as Center Valley.
    1. This does not include ticket sells, it is actual attendance.
25. Each WLAF team will be required to have a PR division with a marketing outreach budget no less than 5% of total budget.
26. Each WLAF teams will be required to do community outreach the entire year for a total 10 hours a month off season and 20 hours pre/post season and 10 hours during the season.
27. WLAF will require each team member to have two sessions with a qualified financial adviser.
28. All WLAF team mascots will be animals and cannot have mascots that represent a person, persons or a group alive or historical can be used as a WLAF team mascot.
29. All WLAF team names must be an animal. No color, person, person or a group alive or historical can be used as a WLAF team name.
30. All WLAF team members during pre/post season and during the entire season will be a representative of the WLAF and NFL affiliate. During such times, out of athletic uniform, the player will be in business or business casual at all public WLAF public events.

The NFL monopoly has been getting away with using the collegiate athlete long enough. There should be a minor league system to develop players available to play in the NFL. Education funds should not be used to develop NFL players. 90% of all college students receive federal funding for a higher education and still need private loans to supplement educational cost. All NCAA football athletes receive special scholarships, room and board funding all at the cost of the entire student body. While the NFL reaps the rewards of a glorified minor league without spending a dime.

It is time to change the NFL and stop the use of collegiate athletes. No more handouts. No more full scholarship for athletes. It is time for the NFL to put forth their own system to develop players or at least reimburse all 2 and 4 year colleges that receive federal assistance for their student bodies until the re-establishment of the WLAF.

It is time for the NFL to stop making stadium and start making futures.

After a student at San Diego State University died from a cocaine overdose, San Diego, Calif., police launched an undercover investigation into drug sales at the school. They found so much evidence that federal investigators joined the case. After a full year of gathering evidence, teams arrested 96 people, including 75 students. Officers confiscated $100,000 worth of drugs, $60,000 in cash, plus firearms and other evidence.

Among those arrested were one who was about to graduate with a master’s degree in Homeland Security, and another majoring in criminal justice. “When one of these individuals was arrested, he inquired as to whether or not his arrest and incarceration would have an effect on his becoming a federal law enforcement officer,” said an incredulous Ralph Partridge, special agent-in-charge for the Drug Enforcement Administration.
(CNN)

So, this is the future of US security, the reason for the Patriot Act and the NRA . . . stupid like a bunch of White House staff.

Fannie Mae announced a new, national policy on down payment requirements for conventional, conforming mortgages the company will purchase or guarantee. Starting June 1, 2008, Fannie Mae will accept up to 97 percent loan-to-value ratios for conventional processed through automated underwriting system, and 95 percent loan-to-value ratios for loans underwritten outside of the automated underwriting system, in all geographic locations in the United States. The new national down payment policy will supersede the policy the company adopted in December 2007 that required higher down payments in markets where home prices are declining.

Expect to see this trend for all mortgages.  It is about time.  100% financing should not be a standard anywhere.  If you want a car, home or other large purchases save for an acceptable down payment.  This will prove that you can not only manage money but truly understand what is needed for an investment.

This will not only affect the bottom line of lending agencies, but the “For Sale By Owner” (FSBO) option will prove to be a viable option.  If you have put something down anyway, why not skip the middle men.  Eliminate the lending company, and Realtor.  You money will go further than with a FSBO.  Using a conventional loan, owner taking closing costs and nothing . . . absolutely nothing to a Realtor is a win - win situation for both seller and buyer.

The down side, expect the Federal Reserve to respond to the trend with a raise in interest rate.

This general election more than most will test the courage of voters to avoid lesser-evil strategic voting that has propped up our two-party plutocracy. People with intelligence and conscience must resist peer pressure and the temptation to vote against John McCain by voting for Barack Obama.
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It is all about money.

The Right and Left only go with the money and make the platform irrelevant. The Democrats and Republicans both want the same thing, a blind vote for their presidential candidate.

Yet, when I try to make a stand for a more suitable candidate over Obama, I am automatically tagged a McCain supporter. Why, because I am not going with the party with the most money. Not supporting McCain doesn’t automatically mean a supporter of Obama, nor does the opposite; Not supporting Obama doesn’t automatically mean a supporter of McCain.

I previously wrote about the HRC lobby group in Washington DC and the failure to support a candidates with the better ratings for the sake of election money.

The HRC would not support pro-gay Tom Allen (ME) and Jim Neal (SC). HRC, the GLBT lobby group will not support an openly gay candidate? I wonder if NOW will ever endorse a man if there was an equivalent candidate that was a female? The Human Rights Campaign is supposed to be “America’s largest civil rights organization working to achieve gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender equality”.
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I would like to vote for a candidate that closely meets the standards for my ideal candidate. It is not Obama and I will not vote for Obama. So, here is the Hypocracy, there are those in the GLBT community consider me a “moron” for not voting for Obama (if there isn’t an Obama/Clinton ticket), because Obama is “supposed to a gay friendly candidate”. But that is only comparing him to McCain. There are much better candidates than Obama on many issues, but many believe I have to vote for where the money goes and where the strongest possibility of going to the white house.

These are the same people who criticized HRC (like myself) for not supporting the gay candidate because of money and now I am suppose to support Obama, even though he doesn’t have the better gay friendly platform.

Obama is not my perfect candidate and doesn’t match all my political views. So, if there is a better candidate out there why would anyone be criticized for voting for them? There is much criticism of those who are neither McCain nor Obama supporters. What are the alternatives?

• Constitution Party (Read more…)
  • Chuck Baldwin
• Green Party (it is not Nader)
  • They will announce their candidates July 13th, 208. Here are their candidates (Read More…):
    • Jesse Johnson
    • Cynthia McKinney
    • Kent Mesplay
• Libertarian Pary
  • They will announce their candidates May 26, 2008. Here are the qualifying candidates (Read More…):
    • Wayne Allyn Root (Front Runner)
    • Daniel Imperato
    • Michael Jingozian
    • Bob Jackson
  • Note: The Libertarian Party also has a female candidate, Christine Smith, but has not yet qualified.
• Social Workers Party
  • The SP has already voted their candidates for the presidential election.
    • Brian P. Moore (Presidential Nominee)
    • Stewart Alexander (Vice Presidential Nominee)
• Prohibition Party
  • The PP has already voted their candidates for the presidential election.
    • Gene Amondson (Presidential Nominee)
    • Leroy Pletten (Vice Presidential Nominee)
• Party for Socialism and Liberation
  • The PSL has already voted their candidates for the presidential election. (Read More…)
    • Gloria LaRiva (Presidential Nominee)
    • Eugene Puryear (Vice Presidential Nominee)
• Socialist Workers Party
  • The SWP has already voted their candidates for the presidential election. (Read More…)
    • Róger Calero (Presidential Nominee)
    • Alyson Kennedy (Vice Presidential Nominee)
  • Note: The SQP will also name an alternate SWP Presidential nominee in some states, where needed, as Calero is not US Born and is not constitutionally qualified to be on the ballot.
• Independent Candidates
  • Ralph Nader
  • Former US Senator Sam Nunn (D-Georgia)
  • Stephen P. “Steve” Adams (Independent-Kentucky)
  • Donald K. Allen (Independent-Ohio)
  • Blake Ashby (Independent-Missouri)
  • Terry “Tee” Barkdull (New American Party-Nevada)
  • John Taylor Bowles (National Socialist Order of America-South Carolina)
  • Clark B. Braxton (Independent-California)
  • Richard H. Clark (Independent-Maryland)
  • Don Cordell (Independent-California)
  • Claire Cruise (Independent-Georgia)
  • Orion Karl Daley (Balanced Party-New York)
  • Christopher J. Dardzinski (Write In-Michigan)
  • Michael David Elder (Independent-Texas)
  • Cris Ericson (Marijuana Party-Vermont)
  • Nick Farmer (Write In-Indiana)
  • Quay Fortuna (Ward Republic Party-Iowa)
  • Mark B. Graham (Independent-Florida)
  • Pete Grasso (Independent-Virginia)
  • Jon Greenspon (Independent-California)
  • Jack Grimes (United Fascist Union-Pennsylvania)
  • Bob W. Hargis (Independent-Oklahoma)
  • William “Bill” Ingram (Independent-North Carolina)
  • Paul Jensen (Independent American-Michigan)
  • Arnold M. Jones (Independent American-Utah)
  • Rob Jorgensen (Independent-North Carolina)
  • Daniel Kingrey (Independent-New Hampshire)
  • Steve Kissing (Independent-Ohio)
  • David Koch (Independent-Utah)
  • Brad Lord-Leutwyler (Independent-Nevada)
  • Joe Martyniuk (Independent-Illinois)
  • David Masters (Independent-North Carolina)
  • Charles Maxham (Give Me Back America Party-New Jersey)
  • James McCall (Independent-Ohio)
  • Frank McEnulty (New American Independent Party-California)
  • Tom Millican (Independent-North Carolina)
  • Phillip W. Morrow (Independent-Texas)
  • James Mote (Independent-?)
  • Jeff “Petro” Petkevicius (Independent-Louisiana)
  • Arthur J. Regan (Independent-Massachusetts)
    
  • Gary Rostad (Independent-California)
  • “Average Joe” Schriner (Independent-Ohio)
  • Jonathon “The Impaler” Sharkey (Vampire, Witches & Pagan Party-New Jersey)
  • Charles Symonds (Independent-California)
  • Ben Thompson (Independent-Minnesota)
  • Michael “Mic” Tienken (Independent-Minnesota)
  • Da Vid (Light Party-California)
  • Lanakila Washington (Humanist Party-New York)
  • Lisa Weltman (Independent-Michigan)
  • Carl Whitaker (Independent-Tennessee)
  • Ruth Bryant White (Independent-Nevada)
  • Rick Williams (Independent-Tennessee)
  • Kelcey Wilson (Independent-California)

Which fits your presidential preferred candidate?

The Volkswagen Jetta TDI Cup will make its international debut May 16-18, 2008 at Mosport International Raceway in the second race of this all-new series. After completing the inaugural race at VIRginia International Raceway in April, this next race promises to be an exciting one with drivers attempting to improve upon their initial experiences with their clean diesel Jetta TDI vehicles.

The Volkswagen Jetta TDI Cup series is an innovative approach to motorsports - 30 factory-prepared and managed 2009 clean-diesel Jetta TDIs will be piloted by talented, up-and-coming drivers, aged 16 to 26. Volkswagen’s goal is to find the driver with the most talent and help them break into the world of professional motorsports.

The Jetta TDI Cup series, the first all clean-diesel race series, is sanctioned by SCCA Pro Racing Inc. Sponsors for the race include: Aggreko, Athlete’s Performance, Bondurant, Bosch, ful(R), Holder, Hoopla, Kyosho, Oakley, Red Bull, UTI and ViOn.

Mark Pombo, winner of the inaugural Jetta TDI Cup race, will have his hands full racing four Canadian drivers that include: Andrew Cordeiro, a 24 year old driver from Woodbridge, Ontario; Chris Holman, a 20 year old driver from Burlington, Ontario; Adam Kretschmer, a 21 year old driver from Brampton, Ontario, and David Richert, a 25 year old driver from Niverville, Manitoba, Canada.