MAY 4, 2011
BRUCE A. BRENNAN BLOG FROM THE WORLD AND MY MIND
The news as I see it and the views as I want them.
May 4 is … National Candied Orange Peel Day
To save Cairo, Illinois, we blew up a levee that will flood thousands of acres of Missouri farmland. This was OK by a Court that sided with Illinois and enforced an old treaty that authorized the levee destruction. Play this song and just remember, “Now, cryin’ won’t help you, prayin’ won’t do you no good. When the levee breaks, mama, you got to move.”
As further proof that the White Sox are a very bad team, they suffered a no hitter last night, thrown against them by a guy that had never thrown a complete game as a professional. Francisco Liriano, the Minnesota Twins starter, wasn’t sharp to the point that he dominated, but he got the job done. He struck out two and walked six, and he had three-ball counts to three of the four hitters he faced in the ninth inning. Of his 123 pitches, only 66 were strikes.
Making the feat even more unlikely: The no-hitter was Liriano’s first career shutout and complete game in 95 career starts—he hadn’t even gone the distance in 110 minor league starts—and he hadn’t thrown more than 97 pitches or pitched more than 6 1/3 innings this season. Not exactly a no-hitter candidate.
One of the first false reports our government issued about Operation Geronimo is being questioned. The government said one of the helicopters had mechanical failure causing it to land. Apparently the mechanical failure was caused by the bullets being fired into it by the people in the compound. I am sure there is more to come and here is another correction. A woman killed during the raid of Osama bin Laden's compound in Pakistan was not his wife and was not used as a human shield by the al Qaeda leader before his death, a U.S. official said on Monday, correcting an earlier description. Now the White House has issued a third version saying Bin Laden was not armed.
The Pakistan government appears to grasp the fact everybody with a brain and many without one know the Pakistan government was providing safe haven to Bin Laden. Although they deny this the government is now claiming some credit for the killing of Bin Laden. According to Pakistani officials, the operation was a joint U.S.-Pakistani operation, but U.S. officials insisted that only U.S. personnel were involved. Apparently to be a leader in a Muslim country or a Muslim leader, you must be convinced you are smarter than everyone in the world and that no one will question what you say and you do not mind being ridiculed by the world for your arrogance and ignorance. Under Muslim law, you are encouraged to marry your cousin to keep the clan going. The centuries of inbreeding has obviously affected the intelligence genes of Muslims. They are a race of people full of imbeciles.
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The short history of breast implants; since the late nineteenth century, breast implant devices have been used to surgically augment the size (volume), modify the shape (contour), and enhance the feel (tact) of a woman’s breasts. In 1895, surgeon Vincenz Czerny effected the earliest breast implant emplacement when he used the patient's autologous adipose tissue, harvested from a benign lumbar lipoma, to repair the asymmetry of the breast from which he had removed a tumor. In 1889, surgeon Robert Gersuny experimented with paraffin injections, with disastrous results. From the first half of the twentieth century, physicians used other substances as breast implant fillers — ivory, glass balls, ground rubber, ox cartilage, Terylene wool, gutta-percha, Dicora, polyethylene chips, Ivalon (polyvinyl alcohol–formaldehyde polymer sponge), a polyethylene sac with Ivalon, polyether foam sponge (Etheron), polyethylene tape (Polystan) strips wound into a ball, polyester (polyurethane foam sponge) Silastic rubber, and teflon-silicone prostheses. In the mid-twentieth century, Morton I. Berson, in 1945, and Jacques Maliniac, in 1950, each performed flap-based breast augmentations by rotating the patient’s chest wall tissue into the breast to increase its volume. Furthermore, throughout the 1950s and the 1960s, plastic surgeons used synthetic fillers — including silicone injections received by some 50,000 women, from which developed silicone granulomas and breast hardening that required treatment by mastectomy.
A breast implant is a prosthesis used to alter the size, form, and feel of a woman’s breasts in post–mastectomy breast reconstruction; for correcting chest wall congenital deformities; for the aesthetic enhancement of the bust; and as a procedural aspect of male-to-female gender transition surgery. There are three general types of breast implant devices, defined by their filler material: saline, silicone, and composite (alternative composition). The saline implant has an elastomer silicone shell filled with sterile saline solution, the silicone implant has an elastomer silicone shell filled with viscous silicone gel, and the alternative composition implants featured miscellaneous fillers, such as soy oil and polypropylene string, et cetera. The pectoral implant is the male breast implant device for reconstructive and aesthetic enhancement of a man’s chest wall, (see gynecomastia and mastopexy). In breast reconstruction surgery, the breast tissue expander implant is a temporary breast-implant device used in staged breast reconstruction. Much of this comes from Wikipedia.
Although they are not too related, have you ever wondered where the concept of marriage came from? It is mentioned in the Bible. Marriage has been around since before recorded history. One obvious reason for it was the creation of offspring. But a far more important reason for marriage was the cementing of alliances. Difficulties abounded in the ancient world, and the more allies you had the safer you were. Marriages were the preferred method for sealing alliances between families, clans, tribes, and ultimately nations.
The idea of marriage based on romantic love is actually a relatively recent innovation. The true purpose of marriage throughout the ages was advancement of family (clan, national -- whatever) interest. That's why throughout history most marriages were arranged. There was no romance or love involved -- this was business. With the growth of pre-nuptial agreements and post-nuptial agreements, marriage is becoming more business like once again.
The idea of marriage based on romantic love is actually a relatively recent innovation. The true purpose of marriage throughout the ages was advancement of family (clan, national -- whatever) interest. That's why throughout history most marriages were arranged. There was no romance or love involved -- this was business. With the growth of pre-nuptial agreements and post-nuptial agreements, marriage is becoming more business like once again.
Just a couple of thoughts I had.
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