Candy Banned - A sign of the end of the world?

Just a quick note. Recently, a conneticut student was suspended for buying candy in school. Yes thats right for buying one of our world's most wonderful creations; CANDY! As an advocate for candy, I feel I must protest. Apparently, the school had banned candy from being sold in schools due to its "wellness" program. The student was offered a bag of skittles from another student, upon which he paid a reasonable fee for the bag of goodness. A teacher later caught the boy with candy in his pocket. The child is an honors student and lost his status of the vice-president along with bieng suspended for a period of 1 day.

This is retarded. I love candy, its fantastic. There is something fantastic about ripping open a package of your favorite sweets and relishing in their blessing. In fact, recently I was told that my favorite candy "Mamba" was the most environmentally unfriendly. Give me a break! Heck you want me to be more environmentally friendly? Flavor the wrappers, I'll eat those too.

A Real Life Experience

As a quick follow up to my last posting, I wanted to give you a taste of socialized medicine in action. Recently, Jessica's grandmother seriously injured her leg. As I understand it she was standing on her stool in her room trying to reach something and fell. As she fell her leg caught the edge of the dresser. You can tell by the picture what type of damage it did. Yep, that's her bone showing. It basically ripped half of her calf off. The ambulance was called and she was rushed to the hospital. However, the hospital didn't have the surgeon necessary so she was transferred to a different hospital. At that hospital she was stuck in a room with 5 other patients, and they "laid" a bandage over her wound. Wow, what a lovely recipe for staff infection, an open wound exposing your bone. The surgeon came later that day and said that they didn't need to operate until the next morning. By the next morning half of her skin had died and a skin graph was necessary to complete the surgery.

As stated previously, I believe we need healthcare reform, but I'm leary of socialized medicine (no offense to my english family, I love your candy selection and Simon Cowell does an excellent job at capitalizing on our stupidity). Sure, it would probably work as well as our current system, but its not a solution for improvement (my opinion). Suppose one day I happen to rip open a buttock, I don't want my coccyx showing for a day before I get stitched up.