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I don’t really consider myself a Republican or a Democrat. What I’d really like to see is a true multi-party system. That’s why I started a group on Facebook with that name. Here’s my description:

The United States describes itself as a democracy. How pure can that democracy be when there are realistically only two parties to choose from? We are told that there are many political parties available to us in the U.S., but when was the last time that a non-Republican or -Democrat got even 5% of the vote when running for president? We haven’t even had a feasible third-party candidate since the 1940’s, apart from the one election in 1968.

What we need is more people willing to vote for a “third-party” candidate without being afraid of a “bad guy” getting into the White House.

If you’d like to vote for who you truly think would do the best job, instead of for the lesser of two evils, join this group!

Anyway, that being said, and with the elections coming up in just a few days, here are my results from Blogthings about how Democrat or Republican I am:

You Are 20% Democrat

If you have anything in common with the Democrat party, it’s by sheer chance. You’re a staunch conservative, and nothing is going to change that!

You Are 68% Republican

You have a good deal of elephant running through your blood, and you’re proud to be conservative. You don’t fit every Republican stereotype, but you definitely belong in the Republican party.

Here’s another excellent online resource for finding CD information. Especially if you’ve got a few MP3s and don’t know what album they were from or who sang a particular song. It’s called Gracenote. It used to be “cddb” for CD Database, but a few years ago it became Gracenote. Just do a search for artist, disc, or song title and you get a list of matches that you can browse through.

I’ve gotten MP3s sent to me by friends who didn’t know what group performed it, or that kind of thing, and when I needed to find out, Gracenote was just the place. In fact, I think Gracenote is the source that many music players use to look up CD info.

A word of caution, though. The information in Gracenote CAN be uploaded by individuals, so you will occasionally find misspellings or mistakes. Still, it’s a very worthwhile resource.

Gracenote’s self-description:

The first step in media management begins with knowing what’s in your collection. Today’s consumer can quickly amass thousands of songs making media management critical to a consumer’s experience. The ability to navigate and organize large music collections is largely dependent on accurately identifying and categorizing songs, albums and artists that it contains. Gracenote MusicID™ is the essential ingredient for digital media recognition of CDs, digital music files and streaming audio. With the most comprehensive database of music recordings in the world, the Gracenote Media Database contains more than 55 million tracks and 4 million CDs, spanning more than 200 countries and territories, and 80 languages.

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