In another astounding discovery, it seems that someone's had the audacity to link autism to... vaccinations? You better believe it. I linked to the Google News aggregation, so all you multi-source fanatics don't have to do any work. This is a shocker, I tell you... A shocker! Wait, no, I lied... This is exactly what I've thought for quite some time. How many of these freaky odd "uncurable" disorders are caused by mankind's futile attempts to prevent other diseases? I have a hard time believing that shooting dead virus juice into your body is in any way, shape, or form, good for you. Sure, it seems to work for the immediate purpose (except the flu shots... You know, my grandparents would religiously get their flu vaccinations whenever the news told them to, and they would get sick just as much as we would), but what about the problems down the line that nobody's going to attribute to a vaccination when you were 5 years old? (Whether because they don't have the clues to attribute it to that, or they're being paid to administer them, so they're not going to speak out against their income.)

And before you go off on some "oh, he doesn't know what he's talking about" charade, let me inform you that I was the lucky recipient of a disease called HSP, or... Uh. Let me paste it: Henoch-Schönlein Purpura. Do you know how it's caused? Well, a few sites claim that nobody knows how it occurs, but a few sites, such as oxfordjournals.org, familydoctor.org, nih.org, and health-doctor.org say it's caused by... Can you guess? That's right, vaccinations! Surprisingly (not), Wikipedia has no section on the causes of HSP, so don't even both looking there for confirmation or rejection. I had the standard sets of vaccinations before kindergarten, as well as a lucky shot in the leg that had me limping for weeks (when you remember something like that, you know it was bad), and then... oh... 5 to 6 years later, I mysteriously contracted HSP and I was sick for a whole year, man, and eventually landed myself in the hospital because some trashy doctor in Tipton, Indiana decided I had "strep throat in the blood" and overdosed me on Penicillin for weeks before we finally went to another doctor who immediately said "uhm, you need to go see this specialist right now and stop taking that useless Penicillin."

Needless to say, nobody in my family since this escapade have had vaccinations, and we're doing just peachy! No funky sickness, no HSP or autism... We all had a case of chicken pox, but it wasn't so bad, and we got to sit around and watch TV all week. Vaccinations? Totally not worth it, and I can vouch for it with personal experience.

You know, it always astounds me when I hear people arguing for a federal health care system, because "the kid next door has one, I WANT ONE TOO!" It almost sounds like a severe case of envy. Anyway, all the naturally occurring tax increases aside, which nobody seems to be touch on or case about (I don't know about you, but I haven't been to the doctor is around 10 years. So that'd be 10 years of paying for doctor services that I wouldn't use.), you just know it's going to be government bloat.

But somehow? Federal health care seems to be the exception to all the downsides of government involvement in programs. It's just a common discussion topic when you randomly bring up lines at the license branch. Anyone who's gone to get a drivers license renewed knows just how bloody slow the entire place works. And it's not like they're sitting around doing things, either. Government involvement is a bad thing always, and it's not my job to point out the projects that were negatively impacted by government involvement, it's YOUR job to show me what projects have been POSITIVELY impacted! It's your job to overthrow the majority understanding... But, hey! I heard the ultimate example of government involvement.

Hurricane Katrina. Period. You want that sort of efficiency to be your health care plan? Insane.