Dan from Madison

Number Gut, Continued

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Many authors have written on these pages about what damage has been done to us humans by people choosing not to vaccinate their children.

I remember just a few years ago when faced with this choice. To me it was a no brainer, but my wife was exposed to other wives/moms her age that had chosen not to vaccinate their kids. I finally convinced my wife to vaccinate the kids by using common sense with her. I said that if there was such a huge connection between autism and the vaccines, wouldn’t we see a huge explosion of autism cases? After looking at simple figures available online, this was simply not the case.

Today on Fox News, it seems that many who wrote here are vindicated – they doctored the data. These guys, imho, should be shot for endangering the lives of millions of people.

Perception Is Reality

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I have had an interesting half decade or so to run an experiment on my customers. It wasn’t an experiment I expected to run.

Back in 2005 or 2006 I bought a Hummer H3. Before then I owned three Ford Explorers in a row, all purchased about four or five years apart. After I bought the H3 I started to get lots of questions from my customers, and a lot of times they were almost deriding.

I own a small business, and since I am always the first one there in the morning I park in the closest spot to the front door on one side (so on the other side of the front door the customers get close spots as well) – the point is that you can see the vehicle when you enter the place of business.

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Holiday Music

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A large vendor of mine was kind enough to send me a cd of Holiday music. The songs on the disc:

Winter Wonderland
Frosty the Snowman
Favorite Things
Blanket Full of Snow
Jingle Bells
March of the Toys
Toyland
Holiday Cheer
Sleigh Ride
Suger Plum Fairy

I would assume that you can figure out why I am pissed off.

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Book Review – An Object of Beauty by Steve Martin

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Yes, that Steve Martin (MAN that is a funny clip).

A few weeks ago I had on in the background CBS Sunday Morning while I was doing a bit of work at home. A story came on about Steve Martin and what he was up to. I had no idea that he was a Grammy award winning artist – on the banjo. I love banjos.

They mentioned that he had written another book (I didn’t even know he had written one before) and that it was about the world of collectible art. Mr. Martin is a fine art collector. As I have aged I have learned to appreciate paintings and other types of art more and more so this looked to be an interesting book. I ordered it up on Amazon with a few other things for my anti-library the next day.

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Yearly Religious Memory Dump

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Warning – long, rambling personal narrative follows.

Last night I went to the Christmas program at the school that my kids attend. They attend a Catholic school. My family is not Catholic.

The kids, especially my older one, have been asking if they can turn Catholic. This is natural, being immersed in that environment and it is fine with me. My wife may turn Catholic as well. I told her I was good with it as long as they don’t mind that she is married to a non Catholic person – I have no intention to ever be Catholic.

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