Brexit Divorce Papers Filed, Planned Parenthood Video Creators Indicted, Privacy Reg Repeal Heads to Trump: A.M. Links

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  The U.S. government will pay $1 million to the family of Anastacio Hernandez, who was beat to death by border control agents in 2010.

• Brexit is officially in motion: On Wednesday, U.K. Home Secretary Theresa May sent notice to the European Union that Britain is out, starting (as The New York Times puts it) "a tortuous two-year divorce littered with pitfalls for both sides."
• The two men behind a series of undercover videos featuring Planned Parenthood executives were indicted in California Tuesday on 14 felony counts of unlawfully recording people without permission and one count of conspiracy to invade privacy.
• A resolution to repeal Internet privacy protections approved by the Federal Communications Commission in 2016 has passed the U.S. Senate and House and now heads to Donald Trump's desk.
• European Catholics and feminists are teaming up to try and outlaw surrogacy.

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Comments

[Fist of Etiquette]

Are the comment trains running on time yet?

[Anomalous]

Fascist!

[Zeb]

No, but predictably late, at least.

[gaoxiaen]

Testing, 1, 2, 3...

[Fist of Etiquette]

European Catholics and feminists are teaming up to try and outlaw surrogacy.

Now there's a match made in heaven.

[Bee Tagger]

Brexit is officially in motion

On a brecycle built for 1

[Fist of Etiquette]

Give me your referendum do.

[Scarecrow Repair & Chippering]

I'm half crazy, over the dislike of you

[Hank Phillips]

Brilliant. I'm gonna tell my friends I made that one up, thanks!

[Fist of Etiquette]

The U.S. government will pay $1 million to the family of Anastacio Hernandez, who was beat to death by border control agents in 2010.

Nieto can expect a bill from Trump, though.

[$park? leftist poser]

European Catholics and feminists are teaming up to try and outlaw surrogacy.

You mean try to outlaw surrogacy, right?

[Fist of Etiquette]

THANK YOU

[mad.casual]

cough, cough*,* and cough

[Zeb]

Does Reason even have a style manual?

[Bee Tagger]

one count of conspiracy to invade privacy.

Look out government, even thinking about using my samsung tv to spy on me is against the law!

[Conchfritters]

Tell that to the judge in the secret court with no oversight who issues a warrant to snoop on any Samsung tv on the east coast (or where ever you live) because of threatz

[Fist of Etiquette]

The two men behind a series of undercover videos featuring Planned Parenthood executives were indicted in California Tuesday on 14 felony counts of unlawfully recording people without permission and one count of conspiracy to invade privacy.

Sounds like a certain prosecutor has designs on higher office in Cali.

[dantheserene]

Has this ever not been true? climbing to higher office on the backs of your victims is a well established path.

[gaoxiaen]

Preeet has a sad.

[Bee Tagger]

A resolution to repeal Internet privacy protections

The downside to legislating things, just as emphasis, things that should already be guaranteed us.

[CharlesWT]

..., U.K. Home Secretary Theresa May...

The current Home Secretary is Amber Rudd. Theresa May is the Prime Minister.

[Fist of Etiquette]

A resolution to repeal Internet privacy protections approved by the Federal Communications Commission in 2016 has passed the U.S. Senate and House and now heads to Donald Trump's desk.

Internet privacy protections? Is that really whatever's being repealed does? Let's read up and find out.

[Rhywun]

No but let's run with the grossly mendacious CNN headline anyway!

[John Thacker]

on 14 felony counts of unlawfully recording people without permission and one count of conspiracy to invade privacy.

I don't fully understand the mindset that cheers on these types of charges but gets understandably upset about "ag-gag" laws and the like. I understand that the Food Lion case protects traditional media from lying about their names and lying on job applications, but the ag-gag laws and such tend to be aimed at the same sort of activist groups as here, such as PETA.

[mad.casual]

I don't fully understand the mindset that cheers on these types of charges but gets understandably upset about "ag-gag" laws and the like.

Especially considering that, from the top down, one is courtesy or catering to consumers, the other is fraud. If you work on a farm and have (lots of) extra animal parts for sale, you've done your job superlatively. If you work for planned parenthood and you've got (lots of) extra baby parts for sale, you've failed at your job multiple times over and on several levels.

I think it's possible we are living out the prequel to soylent green.

[Zeb]

I'm having a really hard time understanding this comment.

[Citizen X - #6]

It's made of people.

[Not a True MJG]

I think we're supposed to blame PP if someone neglects to use birth control, or if that birth control fails.

[Philadelphia Collins]

Genocide is never blameless.

[Anomalous]

What's with the picture of Zooey Deschanel?

[Crusty Juggler - #2]

I'd wrap myself in her flag, if you know what I mean.

[Queen of Planet Fuckwit (KK)]

She's an anti-gunner whose family directly benefited from the 2A. I can't look at her without getting into a hypocrite-induced rage.

[Not a True MJG]

Siri, is that Brexit?

Or something.

[Fist of Etiquette]

...a tortuous two-year divorce littered with pitfalls for both sides.

Who are the metaphoric kids being fought over here? Immigrants? Regulations? Trade?

[A Cynic's Guide to Zen]

Better tortuous than tortious.

[Crusty Juggler - #2]

A Doomsday Library Now Exists In Norway, So Your Fave Lit May Survive The Apocalypse

In anticipation of "nuclear war or some other grim apocalypse," a Doomsday Library has been set up in Norway. Officially known as the World Arctic Archive, the Doomsday Library is buried in the permafrost of Svalbard, Norway, near the Global Seed Vault.

Countries and people groups around the world are invited to place digitized versions of their most precious texts inside the World Arctic Archive, as Brazil and Mexico have already done. The Sun reports that the Doomsday Library "uses film to store the data, rather than unreliable hard drives or other storage mediums."

The World Arctic Archive isn't the only Doomsday Library out there. For years, a North Carolina IT professional named Rocky Rawlins has been updating his Survivor Library: "a collection of about 7,000 books in PDF format that teach people how to rebuild civilization." Rawlins' collection includes entries on mathematics, veterinary medicine, astronomy, and embalming, among other subjects.

Fun fact: The Global Seed Vault rejected my contribution.

[A Cynic's Guide to Zen]

The Global Seed Vault was my nickname is college.

[Adans smith]

Let us hoe they don't save Crusty's seed.

[B.P.]

So you're a, um, catcher then?

NTTAWWT

[$park? leftist poser]

buried in the permafrost of Svalbard, Norway,

And protected by a tribe of polar bear warriors.

[Conchfritters]

Uff da

[Crusty Juggler - #2]

Lena Dunham on What Access to Birth Control Means to Her: It 'Makes Me Feel Really Safe'

With the Trump administration looking to cut off funding for Planned Parenthood, Lena Dunham is talking about why access to birth control is important to her.

The writer and actress shares her history with various forms of birth control, particularly as someone with endometriosis.

"I've been on the birth-control pill on and off for almost fifteen years. It's the only thing that can control my endometriosis pain, and it's made my skin clearer, my moods more even, and my life altogether finer," Dunham, 30, writes in the latest Lenny Letter.

Fun fact: We all feel really safe that you're taking birth control, LD.
Funner fact: The linked website is ridic.

[Get To Da Chippah]

A bullet to the head would clear her endometriosis pain too.

[Citizen X - #6]

I'm sure that Lena Dunham is completely reliant on Planned Parenthood for access to birth control.

[Cyto]

And birth control pills for the control of endometriosis would be medically necessary treatment, not birth control.

[Zeb]

Great, then keep taking birth control. No one is trying to stop you.

[Red Rocks Baiting n Inciting]

As if her emasculated boyfriend has the sperm count to ever get her pregnant in the first place.

[Zeb]

With his dick and balls removed it would be rather difficult.

[Anomalous]

Not even with Tony's dick.

[B.P.]

"...my moods more even..."

[citation needed]

[Crusty Juggler - #2]

Ethiopian tribesmen compete to get as fat as possible by drinking only cow milk and blood for six months while confining themselves to their mud huts

The competition is on between tribesmen in a remote valley in Ethiopa - to get as fat as they can in the space of six month.

For half a year members of the Bodi tribe will drink nothing but fresh milk and blood from cows in order to pile on the pounds.

During this time they are not allowed to have sex, or even leave their hut.

Women and girls deliver milk and blood each morning in pots or bamboos. Although there is no prize for becoming the biggest competitor, there is a lot of pride up for grabs, and a large waistline is considered attractive by women in the tribe.

Jealous, Reason commenters?

[A Cynic's Guide to Zen]

How dare Ethiopians appropriate American culture!

[$park? leftist poser]

I think it's great that this exists in the same world as smartphones and the Internet.

[Mickey Rat]

How in the world did they finagle that arrangement?

[Crusty Juggler - #2]

Karen Pence is the vice president's 'prayer warrior,' gut check and shield

Friends and aides, meanwhile, say she is the Pence family "prayer warrior," a woman so inextricably bound to her husband that even then-candidate Trump understood her importance and consulted her in critical campaign moments.

When Trump called to offer Mike Pence the No. 2 slot, the businessman knew Karen Pence was by his side and asked, "I hear Karen is there, too? Can I talk to her?" And nearly three months later, when an Access Hollywood tape revealed Trump talking crudely about women, Trump called his running mate to apologize and then asked him to hand the phone to his wife, so he could apologize personally to her, too.

Summary: Pence is totes whipped. Totes.

[Crusty Juggler - #2]

In 2002, Mike Pence told the Hill that he never eats alone with a woman other than his wife and that he won't attend events featuring alcohol without her by his side, either.

[$park? leftist poser]

Does this mean they're tuppence?

[yet another dave]

No a Pence and 3/4, get woke bro!

[double ham fisted]

Clearly a philandering alcoholic of the highest degree who believes his wife will not give him another chance.

[Zeb]

That's what leaped to my mind as well.

[Zeb]

I'm just amused that Trump called Pence to apologize about that.

[Not a True MJG]

They both sound whipped. Possible cucks, too.

[Gene]

Inspector General says DOJ has used civil forfeiture to seize $28 billion over the past decade; 80% of that was done by the DEA.

[Crusty Juggler - #2]

Land of the free.

[Gene]

Yep good time to be part of a fed agency, their freedom is rarely curtailed.

[A Cynic's Guide to Zen]

"Hell kid, back in my day the comments were plentiful. Banter-berries grew from every post, the trolls were quarantined and all our glorious freedom was preserved."

"But then the dark times began. Post-crops failed, or didn't make it to market in time. People got angry, there was a split. And now we are left with the dust bowl."

"Maybe one day Reason will be healthy again. Who knows? Remember; there ain't no sin and there ain't no virtue. There's just stuff people do."

[Zeb]

It's a shame. The articles and posts have been pretty good lately and sort of back to normal.

[Citizen X - #6]

[ties Zeb to a pole on the front of souped-up monster truck, drives off into the wasteland]

[Stormy Dragon]

Hell kid, back in my day the comments were plentiful.

More comments != More comments worth reading.

[Citizen X - #6]

+70 DanO/dajjal/AddictionMyth "contributions"

[A Cynic's Guide to Zen]

Coke; RC Cola; "Sam's Choice"

[Stormy Dragon]

After crippling cost overruns, Toshiba's Westinghouse files for bankruptcy

US taxpayers on the hook for $9.8 billion in government backed loans on half constructed nuclear plants Westinghouse was building.

[Diane Reynolds (Paul.)]

Huh.

However, the rush to develop new nuclear power projects began to stall by the end of 2011 as technological advances brought a flood of cheap natural gas and the United States failed to adopt legislation curbing carbon emissions

[Hank Phillips]

European Catholics and Protestants once joined forces to outlaw all things jewish in an effort to make the world safe for altruism. That crusade didn't pan out as intended.

[Joshua]

I need a non-hystrionic take on the congress -> FCC -> ISP selling our privacy down the river story. The only problem I see with it is that ISPs don't have any real competition. I think the FCC and the FTC should regulate the shit out of any ISP that has a municipal monopoly, until there's a real market.

[Diane Reynolds (Paul.)]

"a tortuous two-year divorce littered with pitfalls for both sides."

Well, that's marriage for you. Think harder before you engage in the next one.

[Diane Reynolds (Paul.)]

European Catholics and feminists are teaming up to try and outlaw surrogacy.

My body my choi... oh wait, sorry?

Fuck, I just MADE that sign!

[Intelligent Mr Toad]

RE: "The two men behind a series of undercover videos featuring Planned Parenthood executives were indicted in California Tuesday"

No sir. Not two men. One man and one woman.