"Suit ties death of woman to face lift; National company asserts method is safe" by Jonathan Saltzman, Globe Staff | March 4, 2010
Donna Ames, a recently divorced mother of three, was depressed and wanted to look younger. So the 49-year-old woman went to the Waltham office of Lifestyle Lift, a national cosmetic surgery company that markets its face lift as a way to “transform your life.’’
Instead of making her wrinkles vanish, the procedure killed her, Ames’s family and lawyers say in a lawsuit filed yesterday....
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Why, ladies, why?
You look fine the way you are and there are plenty of single men around.
Not me, I'm a repugnant and ugly looking creature (worse than the ape flipping you the finger and easily recognizable); I meant other guys.
Evan Ames, a freshman at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, said his mother had struggled for years with bipolar disorder and had been depressed since getting divorced from his father about two years ago.
She taking the pharmaceutical drugs, too?
Those damn things always seem to be involved.
She had owned a maternity clothing store in Burlington for seven years, he said, but was not working at the time she had the surgery.
“She was trying to turn her life around and get another start,’’ said Ames....
This is TRAGIC and COMPLETELY UNNECESSARY!
Damn this glamor magazine culture!
I'd rather they wear the veil fer crying out loud!
Are we loving our women by making them feel inadequate for the look$?
Please, ladies, you are ALL BEAUTIFUL in your own way and DON'T LET ANYONE TELL YOU DIFFERENT!
The Lifestyle Lift has been featured on numerous television programs, including “The Montel Williams Show,’’ and has been advertised widely in infomercials.
Oh, his radio talk show is garbage (just like all of them)! Sometimes it on at night on the way home.
But the company agreed to pay a $300,000 settlement last year after New York’s attorney general, Andrew Cuomo, determined it had engaged in “astroturf marketing,’’ creating bogus grass-roots buzz by having employees fabricate online testimonials.
It's pervasive, readers.
Also see:
And the newspapers? Pffft!
Yeah, a divisive, deceiving, distorting, agenda-pushing, war-promoting paper is going to set it all straight! Ha!
“I need you to devote the day to doing more postings on the Web as a satisfied client,’’ employees were told in one internal e-mail, according to Cuomo’s office.
I could do better by you, dear readers, and will work harder soon.
After the settlement, Lifestyle Lift said it had changed its informational material to reflect actual patients’ comments.
Damn criminals!
Forget jails; off with their heads and let God sort 'em out.
Watch the fraud go away fast!!
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One that turned out better back in the business section:
"Radisson sets $1.5b rebrand, facelift" by Associated Press | March 4, 2010
MIAMI - Radisson hotels are getting a $1.5 billion luxury rebranding and facelift....
Not only is the avarice of the wealthy a slap in the face during this period of economic pain for so many; the juxtaposition of that word strikes me like a glove, readers.
Same day articles.
Radisson, forever underperforming in the United States, will be remade into a more stylish and contemporary brand here, with distinctive architecture and flair, president and chief executive Hubert Joly said at a conference in Kissimmee, Fla....
Translation: Your standard of living is slowly but surely s***ting out, 'murka.
Radisson has always been more successful outside the United States, he said, because its properties in many of the world’s capitals are stunning, while its US hotels are more pedestrian....
I'm stunned at the insult, readers; however, I'm running, not walking, away from this post fast!
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