Everything and Anything

This is not completely new, most of the US presidential candidates have a my space account and you can leave your comments on their page, but what if you could ask a question and get a response. Well you can now, kind of. There is a pretty cool website out there called AskTheCandidates2008.com - Talk with AI presidential candidates. This site will allow you to ask a candidate a question and the computer will give you an answer based on quotes from the candidate themselves.

I know that sound weird and like it wouldn’t be accurate but the system uses artificial intelligence to answer the question, so it learns from you and from others.  The following is a question I asked and the response I got. It was interesting, but needs a little fine tuning I think. This can be done by suggesting a better quote for an answer.

Hillary Clinton’s Answer:

What do you plan to do about health care?

Well, let me start by saying that all of the ideas that you’re going to hear about in this campaign are very important to get out to the public so that people can actually think about them, examine how they would affect their lives because I do have the experience of having put forth a plan, with many of the features that John and Barack just mentioned. And people were enthusiastic about it initially, but then after the insurance companies and the pharmaceutical companies got finished working on it, everybody got nervous and so politically we were not successful. Well, I’m ready to try again, and there’s three things we’ve got to do. We’ve got to control and decrease costs for everyone. This is not just about the uninsured. Yes, we have nearly 47 million, but we’ve got many millions more who have an insurance policy that they can barely afford and that they can’t get the treatments they need under it. We have to cover everybody but we’ve got to improve quality. We can save money within the existing system. I am not ready to put new money into a system that doesn’t work until we’ve tried to figure out how to get the best outcomes from the money we already have.

South Carolina Democratic Debate, April 26, 2007

I was happy with the answer since I know they can’t actually talk to me, but I can find out what they have said about an issue and decide if I like it or if I don’t. That I think is the best part about this website. I still am not sure who to vote for, I know who I’m not going to be, so this site may help me to learn more about these candidates and their view on the issues that affect me.

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This is Everything and Anythings list of the Top 10 Funniest Thanksgiving Quotes:

10. Coexistence: what the farmer does with the turkey - until Thanksgiving.
~ Mike Connolly

9. I have strong doubts that the first Thanksgiving even remotely resembled the ‘history’ I was told in second grade. But considering that (when it comes to holidays) mainstream America’s traditions tend to be over-eating, shopping, or getting drunk, I suppose it’s a miracle that the concept of giving thanks even surfaces at all.
~ Ellen Orleans

8. Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed in twelve minutes. Half-times take twelve minutes. This is not coincidence.
~ Erma Bombeck

7. An optimist is a person who starts a new diet on Thanksgiving Day.
~ Irv Kupcinet

6. I celebrated Thanksgiving in an old-fashioned way. I invited everyone in my neighborhood to my house, we had an enormous feast, and then I killed them and took their land.
~ Jon Stewart

5. The funny thing about Thanksgiving, or any huge meal, is that you spend 12 hours shopping for it and then chopping and cooking and braising and blanching. Then it takes 20 minutes to eat it and everybody sort of sits around in a food coma, and then it takes four hours to clean it up.”
~ Ted Allen

4. You know that just before that first Thanksgiving dinner there was one wise, old Native American woman saying, “Don’t feed them. If you feed them, they’ll never leave.
~ Dylan Brody

3. You can tell you ate too much for Thanksgiving when you have to let your bathrobe out. - ~ Jay Leno

2. Thanksgiving is the day when you turn to another family member and say, “How long has Mom been drinking like this?” My Mom, after six Bloody Marys looks at the turkey and goes, “Here, kitty, kitty.”
~ David Letterman

Last but not least……..

1. I love Thanksgiving turkey… it’s the only time in Los Angeles that you see natural breasts.
~ Arnold Schwarzenegger

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