Life or Death: Plastic Surgery in Argentina

So, I was looking up more articles on CNN to talk about an ran across this story about this model in Argentina who had plastic surgery on her butt and died from the surgery. The former Miss Argentina was only 37. If this doesn't make young girls and women run away from plastic surgery, I don't know what will. This is an epidemic amoung women. Never wanting to accept the way they look, females (and some males) turn to plastic surgery to give them the false sense of beauty society pushes in their faces on a daily basis. Many of thes women are paying with their lives. Apparently "In recent years, Argentina has become an international destination for plastic surgery. The costs of such procedures there are much lower than in other countries." So since the United States makes plastic surgery harder to attain, everyone turns toward foreign countries who have far less advanced systems of sanitation and who have doctors who aren't licensed. According to CNN, "Medical tourism has seen a huge jump over the past decade, and is projected to be a $100 billion global industry by 2010, according to the Deloitte Center for Health Solutions." These numbers are alarming to me. Especially since I saw the Tyra Show a few weeks ago that delt with the same subject. A woman on her show almost died when she went overseas to get butt injections. Her "doctor" injected hot gel into her butt and gave her an oral anticeptic only and it took forever. I'm sorry, but to me, that seems like torture. The woman later regreted making that decision.

More Violence

I had read in the USA Today yesterday about the four police officers that were slane as they were preparing for their shifts. This crime occured on Sunday in Seattle, Washington. Apparently (on Monday) the police department had a suspect in mind that they wanted for questioning, his name is Maurice Clemmons. Who, apparently had been granted clemmency by Mike Huckabee even though this man had been "accused of child rape and assaulting a police officer". Clearly, this man was not all there. I mean, I'm against the death penalty, but I do believe that if you do the crime you must do the time. It's these tragedies that happen after a politician makes a dumb mistake that can be avoided by simply applying the law. Although the law is flawed, it is there to keep good people like "Sgt. Mark Renninger, 39; Officer Ronald Owens, 37; Officer Tina Griswold, 40; and Officer Greg Richards, 42" from dying. By the way, all of these men and women had children and families. I just think that violence is something that we should try to avoid at all cost. I also think that it's important to keep evil people like Maurice Clemmons off of the streets and rehabilitate those who can be rehabilitated. Today, Maurice Clemmons what killed by a Seattle police officer who found a running car that had been stolen (in the possession of Clemmons) Clemmons came out of a building and started running by which the officer shot and killed him. So, long story short.. violence begets violence and more people die as a result.