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Target “shit and dabbled in it”.

This should be a lesson to them and every other Corp in America, but they will not learn anything from it. As Corp America continues to hire woke assholes that make woke decisions, their failures will epic and costly.
apparently target has been donating to a grooming group for years.

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Exclusive–Rail Industry-Backed Ted Cruz Privately Lobbies House GOP to Tank Bipartisan ‘Railway Safety Act’
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/...se-gop-to-tank-bipartisan-railway-safety-act/

What are your thoughts @Redmanss?
The best form of regulation is self regulation, because profits are harmed when they fuck up. The derailment in East Palestine cost NS a metric fuck ton of money and all the other Class I RRs are watching. Big Brother .gov stepping into mandate more bullshit is not going to fix anything. Shit, the NTSB hasn't even held the hearing on the derailment and Congress is trying to pass the fixes already? How "Never let a crisis go to waste" of them...

One of the main things in the bill they're trying to mandate (wayside detectors) have been in use for decades at the RR's own cost because they're far cheaper than derailments. Now the feds want to force it and make their implementation overkill? Where the fuck have they been for the last thirty-plus years? Ignoring it, that's where, because it didn't matter because they didn't have campaign money coming from the makers of those detectors but they did have it coming from the American Association of Railroads (AAR) and the RRs themselves.

Regulation in the private industry is always bureaucratic red tape that will cost companies more, which will cost customers more, which as always in the end, costs the consumers more.

My assessment? It's going to get watered down a bit more, but it's going to happen.
 
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The best form of regulation is self regulation, because profits are harmed when they fuck up. The derailment in East Palestine cost NS a metric fuck ton of money and all the other Class I RRs are watching. Big Brother .gov stepping into mandate more bullshit is not going to fix anything. Shit, the NTSB hasn't even held the hearing on the derailment and Congress is trying to pass the fixes already? How "Never let a crisis go to waste" of them...

One of the main things in the bill they're trying to mandate (wayside detectors) have been in use for decades at the RR's own cost because they're far cheaper than derailments. Now the feds want to force it and make their implementation overkill? Where the fuck have they been for the last thirty-plus years? Ignoring it, that's where, because it didn't matter because they didn't have campaign money coming from the makers of those detectors but they did have it coming from the American Association of Railroads (AAR) and the RRs themselves.

Regulation in the private industry is always bureaucratic red tape that will cost companies more, which will cost customers more, which as always in the end, costs the consumers more.

My assessment? It's going to get watered down a bit more, but it's going to happen.
I’m spending hours a day now trying to track down “conflict minerals” compliance docs to give Raytheon the warm and fuzzies that their missiles are not made with minerals from a conflict region.

I think ISO certifications are bullshit letting someone else interfere with your shit also.
 
At about 1 minute into the embedded video in the article, look at the illustration behind the Obrador. Pancho Villa was a villain.

The article below is one of the best summaries that I've read. Also note that the Democratic President Wilson didn't help matters much as he always seemed to back the wrong guy. I'll extend Wilson a little bit of grace as there is probably never a "nice guy" as a Mexican President - which is much like some US presidents.

So it's very little comfort that we can take knowing that our neighbor celebrates a killer.


This is also how many Mexicans view the Southwest United States.

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I’m spending hours a day now trying to track down “conflict minerals” compliance docs to give Raytheon the warm and fuzzies that their missiles are not made with minerals from a conflict region.

I think ISO certifications are bullshit letting someone else interfere with your shit also.
ISO is one thing, we have an entire federal agency dedicated to enforcing regulations on our industry.
 
I’m spending hours a day now trying to track down “conflict minerals” compliance docs to give Raytheon the warm and fuzzies that their missiles are not made with minerals from a conflict region.

I think ISO certifications are bullshit letting someone else interfere with your shit also.
Before the recent unpleasantness, I was in the diamond industry employed by the name everyone knows. The compliance processes are all an orchestrated scam fir the benefit of the big players.
 
Before the recent unpleasantness, I was in the diamond industry employed by the name everyone knows. The compliance processes are all an orchestrated scam fir the benefit of the big players.
Exactly.

Small independent business where the owner runs a lathe doesn’t have time to track all the compliance BS.

It’s how they got rid of GP doctors that worked on the first floor of the Victorian while living on the second……bury him in paperwork so he gives up or goes into the big mega health care provider.
 

And that's why they are going after Paxton HARD.

 
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I’m spending hours a day now trying to track down “conflict minerals” compliance docs to give Raytheon the warm and fuzzies that their missiles are not made with minerals from a conflict region.

I think ISO certifications are bullshit letting someone else interfere with your shit also.
Welcome to the "Private Sector"...........;):rolleyes:
 

Yes it is. Some know I work for a an addiction treatment facility. It has solidified some of my ideas about addicts and torn down others. While I don’t excuse one bit of the personal responsibility aspect of life, heartbreaking doesn’t come close to describing the reality of addiction.