2. May 2008 by Patrick Budowski.

Virus are a part of being on line. We all hope that our security software is doing its job. However it never hurts to check.
Some times the anti-virus lets something slip, instead of waiting for something bad to happen I scan my computers once a week.
Windows security .com offers a free Trojan scanner. It’s pretty good, and its free! http://www.windowsecurity.com/trojanscan/
Another good site is  Runscaner http://www.runscanner.net/ There are others Micro Trend is a great site as well.
Of course they are all going to try to sell you something, however getting the scan done is whats important here. Once you find something you can remove it.

There are many anti-virus programs out there, what I use and have been using for a while now is AVG free version. I then will run
a scan such as the one’s above. If you every get stuck on something always remember that Google and the Dog Pile searches are your friend.
There has not been any computer related problems that I have not been able to solve by doing a search.

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2. May 2008 by Patrick Budowski.

Politics and Money

With the amount of money spent on this Presidential election, we could have cut into our Nations deficit. What makes people keep sending money into a certain candidate? For this race I see no one who is so good that I would donate 2300 dollars too. For McCain who is the worst money raiser of the 3 he collected 12 million in January. If he did that each month for 12 months that’s 144 million dollars. Obama collected 40 million in March. This is just over the top. It makes me wonder how much people really care about the mortgage problems. Let alone all the other problems we are facing as a nation.

Why not have 6 or 8 debates on just the issues? Instead of spending so much on getting elected, or playing the he said she said. This would allow us to find out exactly what the candidates stands for. It’s sad in a way how we, the American people tune in to all this crap. Are we that short sighted? I guess.

For me it’s not who the best in this election is, but who’s the lesser of the 2 evils. Since we know it’s going to be McCain vs. Hillary or Obama. Out of the 3 I must say McCain so far looks the lesser of the 3 evils.

One other thought is why we allow Politicians to keep their jobs, in this case 3 senators, while running for another. Would your boss allow you to take time off with pay while you looked for another job?

Last thought, anyone have any idea what it’s costing us for them to have Secret Service protection?

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2. May 2008 by Patrick Budowski.

People are often unreasonable, illogical, and self centered – forgive them anyway.

If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish ulterior motives – be kind anyway.

If you are successful, you will win some false friends and some true enemies – succeed anyway.

If you are honest and frank, people may cheat you – be honest and frank anyway.

What you spend years building, someone could destroy overnight – build anyway.

If you find serenity and happiness, they may be jealous – be happy anyway.

The good you do today, people will often forget tomorrow – do good anyway

Give the world the best you have, and it may never be enough – give the best you’ve got anyway.

You see, in the final analysis, it is between you and God; it was never between you and them anyway.

Mother Teresa

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2. May 2008 by Patrick Budowski.

Things go bad; it’s true, life happens. However it’s how we deal with things which make us different. Every person handles things different, those that look at things with a positive outlook, tend to deal with life as it happens much better. Those are the folks that don’t see a problem, only a solution. Then we have those who look to place the blame for the bad things, instead of trying to fix it, or find a solution. Of course we also have to have those that deny there is a problem.

Instead of forcing those who have served our Country to go to a VA hospital, why not just allow them to go to any hospital? Some VA hospitals are very well run, and some are rotten. Why do we treat folks here in our Country, illegal for free at our best hospitals? Yet they turn away are Veterans? What about programs for decompressing our Combat troops when they come home? Those are the ones who need help before being discharged. Why not some programs that help them get a job, and still get counseling paid for by the Feds? After all they only have the problems due to serving our Country.

I do not care how you feel about the war in Iraq, or Afgan. I only care about what; we as a Nation are going to do for our service personal? Write you’re Congressman or women let them know they need to put a good program in place, not a band aid, but something that works. Here is an idea, why not talk to the Professionals, find out what would work for them, then do it. Instead of just putting it in the same room with Social Security and Medicare, lets at least try to fix something. Take the time to find out what is being done in your name, by your Congressman or women. Look at the annual pig book that gets put out. See what pet projects get snuck into a bill. Hell, just today, we had a news report about Louisiana State government trying to pass a law for the name of the State Cocktail. Please someone tell me how this is more important than our veterans. Granted this was on a State level. If you take the time to read what passed and what failed in Congress over the last 8 years, hell just go back for the last 2 years. Before you blame it all on Bush, if someone tells you that they will veto a law, and you don’t have the votes to override it, why work on that? Why not spend time working on laws that will get passed. Bottom line we need to overhaul our Government.

Maybe I am just getting grouchy in my old age.

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2. May 2008 by Patrick Budowski.

If you really wanted to do something about what’s wrong with our Country, you could stop posting about all the negative stuff, without posting a solution to the problem, Bush and Congress are both at fault for everything that has happened in the last year when it comes to the Government, I do not care if your left, right or in the middle, the problem is neither side wanted or wants to work together. If someone makes a post with a link check it out, read it don’t just close your mind because it comes from the left or the right, read it and try to figure out what they are thinking, and why they think that way.

Let’s face it there is no news media anymore, they all have their own agendas. So news is no longer news.

I honestly can say that I do not hate anyone; I do dislike some people’s ideas.

So what are you going to do? Be part of the problem or part of the solution?

How hard is it to listen to someone from the other side? It cost you nothing, and they may have a good idea. There are thing that I agree with the left on, and things that I agree with the right. Why should we have picked a person, based on the party platform? Why not pick someone who may be from the outside, but hey it really cannot get any worse.

I am sorry there are only 2 people running right now that I might vote for, McCain and Obama.

Yet I feel with either one we still lose, because we are right back to square one, with it being the right vs the left.

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2. May 2008 by Patrick Budowski.

Just a quick intro, I wanted a place to share some of the neat apps, news, OS, and general crap I find on the net and in life.

Some days will be all about the PC, others will be about life, at least till I find my way. Stay tuned.

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