Woman who asked to have wrinkles smoothed out gets bigger breasts

What is happening in Germany? In a previous post, you read about a German woman who got a new anus when she went to get a leg operation. Well, now the NY Post reports that another "German woman who wanted to smooth some wrinkles on her chest was aghast when she woke up with bigger breasts instead. Ingrid Bruelling, 33, wanted doctors to give her breasts firmer skin after she lost 200 pounds on a crash diet. But when she woke up after the operation, she found that doctors had put in silicone implants, increasing her cup size from a C to a D."

The web site Ananova.com reports that Bruelling is suing doctors over the procedure.

Mother rescues son from a foreign land...

The NY Post reports that "It began with an e-mail on her MySpace page: "He is fine. He is healthy. I will try to get him back for you."
Queens schoolteacher Tiffany Rubin's heart leapt. After months of searching, it was the first real lead that her 7-year-old son, kidnapped by his father and taken to South Korea, could be found.
"I was like, 'Oh, my God,' " she told The Post, recalling how she felt the first time she read the e-mail.
But it would take an ex-CIA agent, a Christian charity, bottles of makeup to conceal her black skin and some cash at the airport to get him back.
The boy wept for his mother while he was held by his father - begging to come home and be reunited with her.

The relationship between Rubin and her boyfriend, Jeffrey Salko, was never storybook. The unmarried couple broke up when their son, Kobe Lee, was 4 months old. They spent the next six years in court fighting over custody.
It wasn't until Salko, who Rubin says wasn't paying child support, was in danger of losing visitation rights that he took a drastic, illegal step. Salko disappeared with the boy last August, when Kobe was on a two-week visit at his Brooklyn home.
Rubin jumped on the Web to try to locate her son.
For weeks, she joined chat groups and pleaded her case to MySpace members in Seoul, where Salko, 37, also known as Kang-Shik Lee, has family. In late November, the MySpace tipster said the boy had been located.
As promised, the tipster contacted the US Embassy. But absent some sign of abuse, the Foreign Service staff and Korean police who visited Salko in December had no authority to remove Kobe.
Rubin, 30, decided to take matters into her own hands. She couldn't afford the five-figure cost of a bounty hunter, so she turned to Michael Miller and his American Association for Lost Children..."

Here's the rest of this amazing story.

Here's the link to the American Association for Lost Children.

A view from the soapbox

According to the NY Post, "...late October, when Countrywide CEO Angelo Mozilo said he expected the fourth quarter to be profitable - comments that drove the stock up to $17.11 the next day. But over the last few weeks, investors have begun to believe that Mozilo's pledge could be tough to achieve as Countrywide's mortgage organizations fall and the available capital to fund new mortgages shrinks...The mortgage giant's stock is now trading at nearly half the $18 conversion price for the $2 billion of preferred stock that Bank of America bought back in August. Shares closed at $9.65 [11/23/07]."

And Bloomberg reports on 10/31/07 that "Countrywide Financial Corp. shareholders sued Chief Executive Officer Angelo Mozilo and 19 other company officers and directors, claiming a stock buyback program allowed them to sell shares at inflated prices.
The defendants sold $842 million in company stock while issuing false and misleading statements about the financial health of Countrywide, the biggest U.S. mortgage lender, the New England Teamsters and Trucking Industry Pension Fund alleged in a complaint filed Oct. 29 in Los Angeles Superior Court...Mozilo and the other ``defendants caused Countrywide to engage in unlawful business practices and to disseminate false and misleading statements to the public while simultaneously using more than $2 billion of Countrywide's assets to prop up the price of Countrywide stock via a share repurchase plan,'' the pension fund said in the complaint.
The fund accuses the company's officials of insider selling and breach of their fiduciary duty to both the company and shareholders. They seek unspecified damages."

I know this is a story that many will skip over... But this thing stinks like Enron. I remember the videos and news alerts from Ken Lay saying that Enron was in good standing. All the while, he was selling his Enron stocks while he convinced the suckers to keep their shares. This sounds just like what Mozilo may be doing. I am not saying that Countrywide is a repeat of the Enron scandal and implosion... But these sound so much alike. My feelings for Countrywide went negative as soon as I saw a story on ABCNews about how the company promised those victimized by Katrina could skip some mortgage payments. These customers were sent a letter telling them that they could focus their attention on the effects of the hurricane, and they wouldn't be forced to pay any penalties. The company then reneged on its promise and demanded backpayments from these customers or they would loose their home. The Countrywide twerps forced the people who wanted to keep their homes to take out loans to pay these charges. Luckily, one couple recorded phone conversations with a Countrywide rep who felt bad for the customer and admitted what happen over the phone. I am searching for this story on ABC and I will post the link once I find it. When and if Countrywide goes the route of Enron, then "all hell will hit the fan." Greed once again is going to suck some good people down. And I doubt that Bank of America will ever see any of its $2 Billion again. Even the Australians have an opinion of this...

Different Twist On CBS Story...

You may have heard the CBS news story that trumpeted "startling" and "stunning" news of a "hidden epidemic" of veteran suicides. Well, here is a link to a different take on the story from Michael Fumento of the NY Post. Take a look at it to see for yourself. Maybe the recently announced strike involving the CBS News writers, producers, and editors will bring more balanced reporting to CBS. But then...that would be too much to ask. This is another reason why so many people turn to the internet to get their news. You have to keep an open mind when you hear the news...