29. October 2008 by Patrick Budowski.

Is it right to buy an election? After reading how much Obama has spent on ads vs the amount the McCain has spent, makes me wonder if we are now at a point in our Country that it comes down to the one with the most money as well as being able to speak well in public? ( I have to give Obama credits for his public speaking)

Whatever happened to the issues? Seems to me that the average Joe, only cares about how things will affect him/her.
Few people I have spoken to can give me some real hard facts about Obama’s plan. We all read about how he wants to spend 1.5 trillion dollars on new Federal programs. One thing few point out is that it’s over 10 years. Once again I am trying to be fair.
However with the debt that we are now in, is it wise to spend more money that we don’t have? Not to mention we have no idea who’s paying for this, it can only mean more taxes for the middle class, just like Bill Clinton’s “tax cuts”.

What bothers me the most is Obama said he would take public money, and then changed his mind. He is the first person runing for President who has turned down public money  since Watergate. The point of public financing, which comes from the $3 checkoff on individual tax returns — is to
limit the outsize influence big donors can have once a candidate
becomes President.

The amount of money that public funds provide is 85 million apiece for the General election race. They must swear off private money in order to get this.

Since Obama had a great run collecting donations for his run, he decided to keep going with private money. Which is why he is able to buy more ads then McCain. This bothers me since we are now have a man running for President who is using a media barrage as well as a advertisement barrage to try to get elected. When you see something over and over again, even if you know it’s not true, you start to doubt yourself. Why do you think the beer ads always show a Pretty women with whatever beer they are trying to sell?

If Obama is elected it will be a sad day in American History, since it will be the first election in a long time that money has bought the Office of President.

Just thoughts from a sick mind

Technorati Tags: Obama, McCain, public funds, private money, election

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20. October 2008 by Patrick Budowski.

The add-on that I use the most is Foxmarks, and they just got a new update. While I have relied on Foxmarks, to keep all of my bookmarks synced  for any computer I use. They have now added a password syncing. Something that I have been waiting for, since I could never pick just one password manager nor could I take a password manager that I liked with me when I go to work on someone else’s computer. Now with Foxmarks being updated all of my bookmars and passwords are just a few clicks away.

No more trying to figure out the password for one site or another. The really nice thing I like and always have is the ablity to remove foxmarks from a client’s or Family members computer once I have finished working on it.

If you are still using IE you need to make the switch to FireFox.

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6. October 2008 by Patrick Budowski.

K9 is a free tool to keep your kids safe and control  what sites they can and can’t go too.

 http://www1.k9webprotection.com/getk9/index.php

Virtual Desktop Manger  run up to 4 desktops , It’s very easy to do.

http://www.pcworld.com/downloads/file/fid,23028-order,1-page,3/description.html

Open Office org has been around for a long time. With each release it gets better. No need to spend money on MS Office or MS Word.

http://www.openoffice.org/

Cooliris Take your browsing to the next level by using coolriis. All media files that you are looking for can be found by using this browser. Launch it out of FireFox .

http://cooliris.com/site/firefox/

Replace window notepad program with Akelpad give you more options then Notepad

http://sourceforge.net/projects/akelpad

DVD43 is a decrypter  that allows you to back up your DVD movies on your hard drive or to desk. It removes the copy right protection

http://www.mrbass.org/dvdrip/

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4. October 2008 by Patrick Budowski.

What MRU does is cleans out the most recently used files, which happens to be all over your registry. For someone like me who runs CCleaner daily, and Registry Mechanic daily, it still found close to 400 files. The only real thing missing for this is a plug-in for FireFox cookies. They have one for IE so I would hope they would make one for FireFox. Found this via LifeHacker.

If nothing else it will help people from finding out what you programs and files you have been using.

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1. October 2008 by Patrick Budowski.

Hack word press it one of the best sites to learn about word press, mainly to learn about how to change your style.
It’s one I have in my Google Reader, so I visit the site just about everyday.
If you run a word press blog then you are more then likely to know about Hack Wordpress but if you don’t then check them out. http://hackwordpress.com/

What they are giving away to the winners which they will pick out of a hat is this;

• 6 Month Developer Subscription - The winner of this prize will receive a 6 month developer subscription to Woo Themes (Courtesy of the Adii and the Woo Themes team)
• 2008 Theme Club Subscription - The winner of this prize will receive a copy of all themes released by iThemes in 2008, valued at over $1400.00  (Courtesy of Cory Miller of iThemes)
• 3 Revolution Single-Use Licenses - All 3 winners will get their choice of which Revolution theme they want their license to be for.  (Courtesy of Brian Gardner of Revolution themes)
• 5 One Theme Single-Use Licenses - All 5 winners will receive a webmaster (single-use) license of the extremely popular One Theme (Courtesy of Lee Cooper and Karl Forshaw of One Theme).
• 2 Gabfire Single-Use Licenses, 2 Multiple-Use Licenses, and 2 Developer’s Licenses - Winners will have a choice of which of Mehmet’s 3 different themes you would like your license to be for.  (Courtesy of Mehmet of Gabfire Themes)
• 2 TV Elements Single-Use Licenses - Winners will get a single-use copy of the extremely popular TV Elements video theme.  (Courtesy of Jason of Press 75)

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