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I am sure that by now everyone has heard about Noah Cyrus and her lip sync video of Tick Tock. I am also sure that everyone has formed some harsh opinions of the Cyrus family as a result. We have a responsibility to look beyond that though.

Maybe if the radio stopped polluting our children’s ears with inappropriate music on the free air then our children would stop acting like little crazed sex maniacs and junkies. Seriously do you think they are to stupid to put 2 and 2 together to realize what is censored out? I mean most kids do go to public school and learn this stuff. Bleeping words out or replacing them with other less offensive words that mean the same thing is worthless and the radio and TV stations know it but don’t care because sex and drugs sells especially to undeveloped minds.

I heard a radio dj knock the Cyrus family over this as they followed that comment with guess what, the song Tick Tock. How is that acceptable? I personally have met the Cyrus’s and had a number of conversations with Billy, they are decent people trying to raise children in a land gone wrong. Next time when pointing fingers take a good long look in the mirror and ask yourself how things got this way in the first place.

Just yesterday I bought an Acer Aspire One, Model number D250-1371 for my daughter as a birthday present. I bought it mainly because the specs matched those of the laptop she has been using hapily up until the screen burned out. So I took it out of the package to have a look over it before giving it to her so I could make sure everything worked as it should.

At first I was excited because everything seemed to be working just fine. I then copied a few MP3 files to the Music folder and proceeded to play them in the included windows media player that comes bundled with Windows 7. After playing about half of the song the playback stopped and then started again after about half a seconds time. This persisted on every MP3 I tried to play. No specific intervals or anything like that so it is a totally intermittent issue.

This is the type of thing I would expect to happen if I had been over loading the computer by opening tons of intensive applications all at once while trying to listen to music but this is far from the case. There are no other programs running except those required by the OS and the computer itself.

I figured this must just be a driver issue or something to that effect so I decided I would later reinstall from the D2D feature provided and I moved on. I then decided to change the background image on the desktop known to us all as “wallpaper”. This proved to be something that is not allowed by the OS.

I call tech support who BTW is outsourced to people who can barely speak english. They send me to another support number who was an english speaker but he tells me that the first people I spoke to should have helped me and they have been sending people over to them all day that they should not have. He also told me that they have been getting a large volume of calls in regard to their computers that Walmart distributes for them.

I was then refered back to the original number. The next technician told me that I bought the netbook version so I am not capable of changing my desktop wallpaper unless I chose to upgrade for a minimum of $80.00 or more depending on what features I want. This computer comes with Windows 7 Starter. Microsoft opted to try forcing users to upgrade for yet more money just so we the users can access the most basic of functionality that is available in “all” previous graphically based operating systems and then companies like Acer decided to be just as cheap and use bogus crippleware in their hardware.

I then told the support tech that I was begining to think I should just bring the thing back because it is an joke all around but the one thing that would change my mind and make me keep the Acer Aspire One would be if I could just install an operating system that is actually all there without voiding my warranty and you guessed it, this is not an option.

After this I will never buy another peice of technology from Walmart nor will I ever buy an Acer. It should also go without saying that Microsoft can scratch me off their user list as well. The Acer Aspire would be a great little unit if they did not lock you into using a crippled OS. That is just bad marketing and I hope the rest of the people buying this garbage see this and stop supporting them.

I have been following some of the talk and Internet posts about the recent alleged outbreak of H1N1 otherwise known as Swine Flu or Avian Flu. I have been rather amazed that the lies and misleading information about the Swine Flu has spread faster than any virus ever did. We as human beings need to take a serious step back and look at the situation. Firstly I am willing to bet that the cases of H1N1 that have been found are nothing new and many people everywhere carry it. I am also willing to bet that this has gone on for a large number of years. The symptoms are the same as any other flu and if treated right away the infected would be just fine which goes for all flu viruses that we have seen.

The only reason we are seeing so many accounts of H1N1 is that we are now targeting that strand specifically so of course the numbers of infected people is going to climb as we never bothered before to determine what type of flu someone had, we just treated it as the flu and moved on.

I believe the number of deaths that have been seen in Mexico as apposed to the lack of deaths from it everywhere else is only due to a lack of proper health care and other failing conditions such as tainted water supplies. I am not suggesting that water is how people are contracting Swine Flu but I am suggesting that drinking already tainted water only attributes to the bodies immune system not being able to tackle the virus as it would normally.

There have also been raging stories about hundreds and even thousands dead from H1N1 but seriously that is not the case. There were 20 something in Mexico that died from H1N1 and the rest are not substantiated one way or the other. Back in 1976 there was such a hysteria over the Swine Flu that the US government started mandatory inoculations which resulted in further complications and deaths that where not necessary. I feel that this does not merit to be called an outbreak or epidemic at all as apposed to something like the HIV virus is a global epidemic. When I can ask any one of you to name 2 people that you know who have H1N1 and you do than I would consider it a serious problem but I can guarantee only 1 in every 1000 readers I have will know only 1 person if that.

I have seen accusations against the government ranging from population control to trying to use it as a test to see how fast people react and what their reaction is while the government monitors things like twitter and the like. I have yet to see any hard fact or even any sources revealed in regard to any of this so I view it all as propaganda and fear mongering. We as the people of the world need to grow up and stop spreading lies and nonsense. Take a little time to think about things before you go run off at the mouth next time. Check your facts, show your sources, and mainly be responsible for your actions otherwise get yourself signed up to go on Jerry Springer because that is the place for that type of thing.

On a final note, let this Swine Flu be a message to us all that we need to take care of ourselves. Wash our hands frequently, prepare our food properly, know the source of our food, eat properly and exercise often. These are all things that will help you to overcome illness.

I am not to be considered an accurate source of information on this as I am not a doctor or scientist. I am only statig my opinions and common sense. Please when seeing or reading anything check things out for yourself before believing any of it.

Bless you all.

Rev. B