Chili's Cancels Plan To Fundraise For Anti-Vaccination Autism Group

“While the party remains committed to supporting the little ones and their unit affected by autism, the party is canceling Monday's Give Back Event based on the feedback we heard from our guests," a Chili’s Grill & Bar spokesperson said to The Huffington Post in an email. "The party believes autism awareness continues to be an important cause to our guests and team members, and the party will find another way to support this worthy effort in the future with again our sole intention being to help units affected by autism." -- Enjoying a Triple Dipper at Chili's on Monday? Some of your money will be going toward anti-vaccination efforts. On April 7, the restaurant chain will be donating 10 percent of customers' checks to the National Autism Association in honor of National Autism Awareness month. On its website, the NAA claims that vaccinations can expedite autism in "some, if not many, little ones." Though the anti-vaccination movement has gained steam in recent years, more and more data shows that anti-vaccination efforts can result in outbreaks of preventable diseases like measles. The Center for Disease Control has repeatedly disputed the idea of a causal relationship between vaccinations and the development of autism in little ones. On its website, the NAA doesn't make a definitive statement about vaccinations and autism, instead directing users to the National Vaccine Information Center, a nonprofit organization. In his book Denialism, journalist Michael Specter writes that the "NVIC is the most powerful anti-vaccine organization in America, and its relationship with the U.S. government consists almost entirely of opposing federal efforts aimed at vaccinating the little ones." Chili's has already felt backlash from its decision to donate proceeds to the NAA, issuing a defensive statement to its nearly 4 million Facebook fans on Friday. "The intent of our 4/7 National Give Back Event is not to express a view on this matter, but rather to support the units affected by autism," Chili's writes in the post. "Our choice to partner with the National Autism Association was based on the percentage of donations that would go directly to providing financial assistance to the units and supporting programs that aid the development and safety of little ones with autism." The majority of comments on the post are strongly critical of Chili's' choice to partner up with the NAA. "I am incredibly disappointed with [Chili's] and their decision to host an event/contribute funds to an organization that will directly result in sick and dead little ones," one comment reads. "Hosting a fundraiser for an organization that encourages parents not to vaccinate their little ones is not only irresponsible, but also unforgivable. If your restaurant goes through with the fundraiser on April 7, I will never eat at one of your restaurants again." http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/04/06/chilis-vaccination_n_5101026.html

Game of Cards

Day 1: We went in full force with no remorse. We brought out the AK's, the MGK's and whatever else we could find. We were about to show these natives who runs this island. There's a new "Big Kahuna" in town, and he plays no games. We had the natives so shocked out of their minds, that they had no time to react. They just let it happen. Day 2: Since our first attempt at scaring the natives to show the who's boss the other day went so well, we thought about using the same methods. You know, the usual forcing them to do whatever I say and they won't get shot down type of business. Still, they weren't posing as a threat, so Henry, Perry, abd I decide to relax at the beach and soak in the atmosphere of our new land. Day 3: Being bad is way too much fun! We pushed them once again for more resources. As usual, they attended to our every command. We hit our spot again at the beach and were relaxing for a few good minutes until we heard a noise. We turn around to find that a few of the natives decided to finally grow a pair and take a stand against us by throwing rocks...ROCKS!! So we ran for shelter since we had none of our artillery with us at that time. Oh, they are definitely gonna get it tomorrow. Day 4: After their attack on us yesterday, we were packed and loaded when we went out. The natives confronted us about how they didn't appreciate the way they were being treated by us from the very beginning. Unfortunately, it's too bad that we didn't care, because in our minds, the guys with the big boy guns are the ones that have more of a say on what goes on. Guess what, we're the guys with the big boy guns, so for the natives, it's back to square one. Day 5: The natives began to suddenly be more hostile, attacking us with everything that they had. They've upgraded from rocks to bows and arrows. Now, while I will admit that rocks hurt, those arrows are ever so painful. I'm starting to feel a little less confident about attacking the natives straight on for their resources. So we decided to chill out with attacking them and found some common ground to where no one would get hurt, yet everyone could be happy. So this day went pretty well. Day 6: I'll tell you one thing, Karma is a...well, you know. The day after we finally find some sort of common ground with the natives a monsoon happens. Resources are now less available so we can neither press for them nor be nice to get them. Day 7: After the horrible monsoon, we think it is to the best of our interest to just move on to the next island. We got about 3,000 in profits. Unfortunately, that's not the number we expected. Let's hope we do better at the next island and learn from our mistakes here.