Monday: Voting guide

Ok, time to break out the LWV candidate guide, and figure out who I'm voting for.

• President: Obama. Duh.
• US Senator: Lingle didn't respond, which would have pissed me off if I didn't already not like her. Hirono.
• US Representative: Hanabusa.  Charles Djou is a smug bastard.
• State Senator 11: Taniguchi.  His comments sound less like a request for volunteers.
• State Representative 24: Neither of them responded?  Crap.  Well, Sabey is apparently anti-gay marriage, so he can go fuck himself.  Belatti, apparently, although she needs to have a real webpage in the future, and not just a stupid facebook page.
• Hawaiian Affairs Hawaii: Incumbant, crazy eyes, sleepy eyes.  Incumbant, I guess. Lindsey.
• Hawaiian Affairs Kauai: That one guy's nicknamed Radar, but he has no statement.  Kagawa Fu?
• Hawaiian Affairs Molokai: Machado.  One candidate, easy choice.
• Hawaiian Affairs At Large: Apoliona.  If she can fight off this swarm of leis, she's good enough for another term.
• Hawaiian Affairs Maui: I don't care anymore. Kain.  He seems reasonable.  I assume people who do care will vote for the correct choice and everyone else will split equally.
• Mayor: Caldwell.  The rail project isn't perfect, but abandoning it would be stupid.
• Prosecutor: Kaneshiro seems to be more obvious pro-puppy, so since I otherwise don't care, he gets the vote.
• Councilmember V: Wow. Neither of those is useful.  I don't care who you're married to.  Give me some policy specifics.  I guess Hayes?  He actually lists issues on his webpage, and they seem reasonable.  I'm not particularly sure city council members actually have much power anyway.
• Councilmember VI: 16 candidates? If I ever meet you, Tulsi Gabbard, I'm going to complain that you resigning to run for Congress made me wade through a pile of lunatics who want your old job.  Ok, let's click on their webpages (candidates without webpages aren't real candidates).  You're out because of autoplaying videos, you have no actual comment on issues, you look crazy (and are, it seems)...  Yoshimura?  I guess that works.
• Dam Amendment: Yes.  When the opposition is "not only small people, but big people can benefit," that's not terribly strong.
• Retired Judge Amendment: Old judges are usually depicted as cranky jerks, but I'm not sure this is something that's really a big deal. Yes.
• Grant Amendment: Supports organizations previously funded through HUD. Yes.
• Fund Amendment: So we have funds now, but this would make possibly other new funds to fund things that need to be funded, but currently have no funding funds funded.  "According to the Council, adoption of this amendment would enhance the transparency of the City's finances."  This seems important. Yes.

Who else is glad that election time only comes once every four years?

Bookshelves.

Puppy.

Red pandas.  Nature's hilarious clowns.

• Insightful commentary on ebooks.  I like amazon, but I don't want to be locked into their drm and reader.  That's why I still buy regular books.  If they had some sort of clearinghouse where I could get ebook copies of things I have hard copies for, that would convince me to switch to ebooks.  Making me rebuy everything I already own at $10 each means I need to drop another $20k on books.  Books I already own.
• Even the robots are OCD now.
• If Clone Wars moves to Disney XD, I won't be able to see the last episodes, since I don't get that channel.  It seems like this isn't that great of a strategy outside of the cross promotional stuff.
• Crab lord.
• Squirrel!
• Grover and Cookie are my favorite monsters.  This makes them even better.