LOL, I do know that ... but I find it useful to convey the explicit outrage for the slower among us who actually think this is somehow different.

Far too many people act as if it's really OK because we're the good guys, and miss the entire point.

Even with the relatively high value of the cargo, it is still hard to see how the person who delivered it could reasonably expect to be paid for it.

You don't watch many movies, do you? Or missed the whole thing where the Mexican cartel guy had a tunnel excavated under the prison and "nobody noticed"?

As much as it sounds like a Hollywood fantasy, it's not like people in prison have no contact with the outside world, and don't have a lot of time on their hands to come up with new ways to work around the system.

Hell, you could do a Tarantino plot about the shit you could drop into a prison yard to create unrest.

Hell, have one drone drop in a bag of weapons and have another with a long zoom televise the the gladiatorial games which ensue.

It really was only a matter of time until drugs and other stuff started getting dropped into prisons. People have been doing low tech versions of this for decades, if not centuries.

Well, that's where the regulatory capture comes in. For some, it's a stated goal.

In case you haven't been paying attention, it's already happened.

Lobbyists work for government long enough to stack the deck before they return to being lobbyists. Corporations write the laws which give them the best deal.

Lather, rinse, repeat.

So, it's good because it's only fascism-lite for now?

Because, honestly, the fact that it's stepping all over the law and the Constitution to do it tells me there should be a lot more outrage than there is.

You know, like the nationally endorsed perjury they call "parallel construction" and the police forces which want to hide the fact they illegally use surveillance technology without a warrant?

I have yet to be convinced they actually only target individuals. In fact, I'm pretty sure what they do amounts to general warrants.

But, no, let's keep pretending our own governments aren't trying to do the same exact thing and that it's only a little illegal curtailing of our rights and a tiny amount of ignoring due process of law.

I'm not a cow and neither are you.

It's still easier for me to eat meat or cheese than any plant product. That's not even getting into people that might not even be able to eat one particular thing or another.

Full throttle omnivorism is the only sensible approach.

Anything else and you are likely to miss something or fail to "complement" something properly.

I'm not a dirt poor 3rd world person. I don't have to punish myself and pretend I wasn't born in the 1st world.

Besides, my own dietary requirements right now likely could not be sustained without animal products. Although I am certainly a corner case.

Don't be a moron. The "completely legal" medical services probably refer to pap smears, condoms, and pre-natal vitamins.

Planned Parenthood does a lot more than abortions.

This is a little fact that gets glossed over by the extremist crusaders trying to suppress their political rivals by any means necessary.

It's much like burning down all the Targets because they sell birth control pills.

And we're supposed to think this is different from Western governments demanding crypto backdoors, the ability to intercept at the data center, and secret warrants allowing them to demand all info in secret?

Sorry, but all governments are trending towards fascism, that China is doing this surprises me not even a little.

What we should be outraged at is the fact the governments of "free" countries are half way to doing the same fucking thing.

Sure, it's not outright censorship yet ... but give it time.

The difference is I don't need to give a fuck what the Chinese government does. I have no ability to stop the US government or other western governments doing the same thing, and that does affect me.

I am sure ANY business is capable of keeping funds separate.

This is just basic accounting.

You sound like trailer trash that has never been responsible for anything, not even a decent family budget.

Babies are born. In that respect, they are covered by the 14th Amendment.

Fetuses are not babies and never have been. Even born babies haven't always had completely human status. In many societies they aren't even named until it's shown that they will survive.

If anything, newborns are little more than external fetuses that are highly dependent and terribly fragile. They're nothing like any of their counterparts in the rest of the animal kingdom.

If it can't survive without the mothership then how can you really call it a separate legal entity?

...and that's ultimately the way it needs to stay.

The gestation of a fetus is a non-delegable act that can easily be fucked up. It requires considerable commitment. It requires far more commitment than random busybodies are willing to offer.

Pragmatically, it can only be up to the mother and at that point we should all be willing to assist her in ensuring success.

If anything, the religious fringe wants to do nothing but punish the offending mother and child in a blatantly un-Christ-like fashion.

If he were here, he would slap the whole lot of you for gross callous disregard of the children you would force into the world.

I regret to inform there was only 1 issue ... the readers kept applying the advice (*shock*) and thus was no demand for future issues.

How to live a meaningful life

Vol. 1, Issue 1.

Far too many people waste away their life complaining about X. They are unaware there are only 2 types of people:

1. Achievers: The ones making an effort to live their dreams one step at a time , and
2. Dreams: Everyone else, who complains that they never have enough time, money, or excuse ___ of the month. They spend the majority of the time wasting away their life watching other famous people.

The secret to living a meaningful life starts with a Healthy Body and Healthy Mind.

1. Quit filling your mind up with junk
Limit mindless entertainment to a few hours a week. Be it TV, movies, games, News, etc. Seriously, knowing which Hollywood actor divorced who, or who slept with who, does fuck all for your life.

2. Watching documentaries or TED is a great way to keep the mind up-to-date with meaningful content.

3. With all the free extra time you because you cut out all the crap in your life
- pursue hobbies
- spend more time outside
- spend more actual face time with loved ones, family, parents, friends
- read more
- exercise more
- bicycle more
- walk more

4. Holy Trinity of Exercise
The 3 disciplines of: Yoga, Martial Arts, Weight Lifting complement each other very well. If you can't do all 3, pick one.

5. Diet
As we get older we get fatter and slower. Cut out all High Fructose Corn Syrup. Read all ingredients to see if it is the first one. If mouthwash has alcohol skip it. Favor natural and organic products to "plastic" food. Try Raw. Limit fatty foods.

6. Practice Spirituality
Whatever path you take, Theism, or Atheism, is largely irrelevant because they are both incomplete. All that matters is that you always keep seeking -- learning and applying your philosophy in all areas of your life.

7. Secret to Happiness
Remove False Expectations

8. Keep pondering the big stuff, and enjoy the little moments.

9. Smile, Laugh, and Love more. It is the world's best medicine and miracle.

10. Remove negative influences, and focus on the positive.
Replace your vocabulary of "problem" with "opportunity"

11. Enjoy *your* life, not other's fake life.

Even if they were you would still need to establish legal language just like you would for the real law.

IOW, abortion is not legally murder. This is just something that a small religious fringe conflates together. Furthermore, that religious fringe didn't even hold such a belief until the Regan era.

Before that time, Catholics were pretty much alone in defining abortion as murder.

The 10 commandments aren't enough. You need the Talmud to go along with it. It's very much like the US Code in that respect.

> As I've heard absolutely ZERO people saying that the full length video says something totally different who has provided specific examples

Like I said. You're a partisan that won't let facts get in the way of your crusade.

FactCheck.org has a nice article on this where they reference a number of legitimate same collection companies and researchers.

The unedited remarks include phrases like "breaking even" and "not impacting care of patients".

Clearly you are a moron with no experience with medical procedures, insurance, or medical billing.

You can't blow your nose in a medical facility without spending $30 - $100.

Either that or you're just s shameless partisan who doesn't actually care about facts and won't let them get in the way of a good crusade.