credit card query

I want to switch to one that has a decent rate and will actually do me some good (miles, or discounts, or something). No idea which to choose though, but I think I want a VISA .. anyone particularly happy with a card they've got? Recommendations? Thanks!

just plain weird

http://www.thescotsman.co.uk/international.cfm?id=976482003

AN EXTRAORDINARY 19th- century plot by German nobility to take over Texas and turn it into a German country has been uncovered by a historian looking through old records of some of Germany’s oldest families.