We send soldiers to Iraqistan. Iraqistan is a breeding ground for terrorists. If we don't pull out our young men right now, Iraqistan will never stop giving birth to terrorists. Enough said.

Like every other year, a lot of stuff has happened. For some weird reason, the year feels like it has gone way too fast. It feels as if last September was only a week ago, and everything was mushed into only a few days. I'm done my sophomore year, but I don't feel done. I was doing more and more stuff and then finally... nothing. That's it?

Yeah, apparently it's over. On the other hand, the summer doesn't feel like summer. I have summer assignments, work, band, and AP/SAT review among other things. It still feels like part of the school year. Next year is even worse, and then next summer will be somewhat of a repeat of this summer. It's like I have school all year.

Anybody else feel the same way?

One of the greatest beneficiaries of the American Dream was Albert Einstein, who helped the allied forces win World War II. Even though his genius basically gave him a free ride to do whatever he wanted, he insisted that he go through the immigration process and be treated like any other foreign immigrant in the United States.

Unfortunately, you don't see this kind of behavior anymore. Instead, those who come to this country illegally get a free ride to citizenship, while those who came legally have to wait longer in line to get their turn. Does this make any sense to you?

No? Too bad! This is the kind of sheer hypocrisy that the president and members from both houses of Congress have agreed to. We already know how easy it is to cross the border, get a job and a home, and get free healthcare and other social services at the expense of AMERICAN TAXPAYERS! Now they want to take this one step further by giving them a free ride to citizenship.

Did I mention they get free college?

Yesterday afternoon, President Bush made a statement on the ideal. He said, "The agreement reached today is one that will help enforce our borders, but equally importantly, it will treat people with respect. This is a bill where people who live here in our country will be treated without amnesty but without animosity."

Of course it's amnesty! They announced that over 12 million people that are illegally in this country will be rewarded with permanent residency and eventual citizenship because they broke the law by ILLEGALLY CROSSING THE BORDER.

History repeats itself, and this is no exception. Remember the last amnesty plan set in place 21 years ago? The effect of that was the biggest wave of illegal immigration that we have seen in the history of the country. And for somebody to think that anyone can just build a wall tall enough while giving millions of illegals reward just for being here illegally is just absurd.

All they're doing with this announcement is encouraging even more illegal immigration than anything that has ever been done in this country. Sadly, we are going to see the impact on the border and in our neighborhoods.

While all of this goes on, legal immigrants like me have to wait in line years longer to get their citizenship. "Sorry you can't become a citizen. Maybe you should have jumped the border illegally. That would put you in a much better spot."

The president said that the legislation would require these illegals to "learn English." Yeah, we all got lost in a city before and pulled over to a guy on the street and asked for directions. We were greeted with a "NO ENGLISH NO ENGLISH." If they can learn two words, they can learn to speak in complete sentences. Does the government want them to learn English? If they did, we wouldn't have to press 1 on the dial tone for English and bilingual legal documents would cease to exist. We don't even have to vote in English if we don't want to!

After 9/11, there has been a push to protect our borders and tighten our security so we won't have another major catastrophe like that one. End result is you're a terrorist if you're on an airplane with a water bottle and some shaving creme, but America's legs are open to thousands of border jumpers every day.

All we'll see is another mass exodus of impoverished bums from Mexico. Yeah, like we don't have enough of THAT already. And here's the worst part: if they're citizens, they'll be able to VOTE. By voting, they'll just bring this country lower and lower.

If we want to see a national policy of cultural corruption, we will have millions of people being rewarded in front of the entire world. But most important, in front of our children just because we were too lazy to do the right thing, and that is crack down on illegal immigration and the employers who are profiteering from it.

Neither the true patriots nor the legal immigrants support hypocrisy to this degree, and neither should you.

HPV is a deadly sexually transmitted virus that can kill millions of women by giving them cervical cancer.

Or is it?

I asked a lot of Merck employees and other advocates of Gardasil about exactly how the HPV causes cancer. Their answers are somewhere along the lines of "Well, there are many factors that can lead to cervical cancer, and HPV is just one of the things involved." Ask them if there is any evidence at all that the vaccine will significantly reduce incidence of cervical cancer. Guess what? There isn't.

Just because they did a couple of studies where they found that most of the women who had cervical cancer had a certain virus in them. From that, they concluded that the virus causes cervical cancer.

One thing that's strongly emphasized in Statistics class is that correlation does not prove causation. That means just because you find a bunch of women with cervical cancer who have HPV, you can't prove that the two have anything to do with each other.

As with everything else, it's all about the money. If you mandate vaccination for all teenage girls, think about how much money Merck would make. They're paying everybody off to promote the vaccine in the media and the medical community. They also have lobbyists giving politicians special favors to make it mandatory. Look at how the governor of Texas handled the situation and tell me he's not corrupt.

The vaccine is only expected to last about 15 years, and even that's debatable. Let's say that a 12 year old girl gets vaccinated. It stops working when she's 27, and she still doesn't have cervical cancer. 15 more years later, she's 42. She finally has cervical cancer. By then, the vaccine will already be obsolete. So what was the point of all of that?

Remember VIOXX? Basically, Merck pushed for speedy approval by the FDA and promoted it heavily t the gullible masses. Any criticism was crushed and ridiculed. Do I need to remind you how that turned out?

This is basically another one of the dirty tricks by Big Pharma. They can only get away with these things in the United States of America. They charge overinflated prices for things that you can get ten times cheaper importing from Canada. Pathetic.

Basically, Gardasil will go down like VIOXX. Except this time, it'll take a couple decades because middle-aged women get cervical cancer, not 12 year old girls.