French Breast Implants to be Removed

The vultures came home to roost after feasting on thousands of unsuspecting women. The vultures are the individuals at the now defunct French company, Poly Implant Prosthese (PIP). PIP began business in 1991 manufacturing silicone breast prostheses. It quickly became the world's number three implant maker because their products were cheaper than others' implants. But there was a sinister reason why PIP's implants were cheaper. At some point, perhaps even from the first implant made, PIP filled their implants with an unapproved silicone gel. PIP's gel was not a medical grade product, but an industrial gel of the type commonly used in non-medical applications. For almost 20 years PIP enjoyed stolen success at the expense of hundreds of thousands of women who are now being urged to have their shoddy, dangerous implants removed. I personally believe there are very few medically-indicated reasons for breast implants. And 'enhancement' is not one of them. But I also believe that the PIP individuals found responsible should be shot by firing squad. I wonder whether PIP began as a fraud, or became a fraud during the course of its existence. PIP was simply flesh and blood people, decision makers, exercising grossly poor judgement. Did they just sit around the conference table one day snacking on fine French cheeses and sipping wine and decide to enrich themselves by perpetrating this unholy fraud? Well, someone, that is, some one person signed off on the idea. But the decision was surely a collective one. And those are the vultures who should be shot. Dead. My sympathies extend to the affected women and those who support them.

ATF = WTF

Light Bulb Ban on Hold

I'm not sure who, individually, I should be pointing my finger toward for deciding for me which light bulbs I should be using, but the so-called Light Bulb Ban is on hold. But only until September 2012, according to CNN/money. My rant is that the government and the rest of our 'handlers' keep sticking their hands where they don't belong, enacting laws that neither they nor we understand, and attempting to fix things that aren't broken. The 'Edison lightbulb' is not broken, even if energy policies across the globe are. I don't want to give up the comfortable, warm lighting within my home only to replace it with the harsh glare of a big-box parking lot or a 6-lane highway. Nor do I want to pay through the nose to buy lighting I don't want or need. If the individuals in government feel they need their collective hands somewhere, I suggest they bend over and stick 'em up their own butts. And leave the light bulbs to people who are smarter, and who have brighter ideas.

Facebook: Agent of the Government, and the Devil?

Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg and some of his underling mouthpieces say they have made a few mistakes, but all is bliss, and that millions of users have nothing, absolutely nothing to be concerned about. It's my opinion that the world's largest spy agency has plenty to hide, while considering that users have nothing to hide. Even if they want to. Same story, different day. Just in the first week of December 2011, according to FoxNews.com, "Facebook settled with the Federal Trade Commission for allegedly exposing details about users' lives without getting legally required consent. In some cases, the FTC charged, Facebook allowed potentially sensitive details to be passed along to advertisers and software developers prowling for customers. Now, a surprising security hole in Facebook allows almost anyone to see pictures marked as private, an online forum revealed late Monday. Even pictures supposedly kept hidden from uninvited eyes by Facebook’s privacy controls aren’t safe." After a brief flirtation with Facebook, I quit it because of their seemingly calculated missteps, empty promises, and meaningless apologies (much like the Obama administration). It is now popular for companies and agencies to do as they damned well please, then ask for forgiveness when caught than to ask permission to perpetrate shenanigans in the first place. It's a new era in the lying and privacy theft businesses. It's not pretty. But obviously lucrative.