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Maybe They Can Have a Bake Sale?
- Donald R. McClarey
Donald R. McClarey
Cradle Catholic. Active in the pro-life movement since 1973. Father of three, one in Heaven, and happily married for 43 years. Small town lawyer and amateur historian. Former president of the board of directors of the local crisis pregnancy center for a decade.
And they should defund the National People’s Radio (NPR.)
I posted the following on Elon Musk’s Twitter / X timeliness. It’s not related to Planned Parenthood, but it is related to fixing wasteful government bureaucracy.
Mr. Musk, I hope that you and Mr. Vivek will please read this. Let me give you both an example of NRC regulatory strangulation from my own little world of digital instrumentation and controls. BTW, this is my PERSONAL opinion; I speak for NO company or corporation.
The NRC in the regulatory guides for safety-related digital I&C often endorses antiquated industry standards that don’t address modern digital technology like FPGAs, CPLDs, and ASICs.
While RG-1.152 was updated to endorse IEEE Std. 7-4.3.2-2016 on criteria for digital computers in safety systems, it still invokes IEEE Std. 603-1991 instead of the more recent version because that standard (603-1991) is ossified into 10 CFR 50.55a, and the NRC doesn’t want to go through the pain of changing a CFR.
RG-1.168 still endorses the out of date IEEE Std. 1012-2004 on SW V&V planning and IEEE Std. 1028-2008 on SW reviews and audits instead of the more recent standards that embrace current digital technology.
RG-1.169 still endorses IEEE Std. 828-2005 on SW configuration management instead of more recent standards, and there are more modern ways of doing SW configuation management than what exist in the 2005 version of the standard.
RG-1.170 endorses IEEE Std. 829-2008 on System and SW Test Documentation which is out of date. Think about the documentation protocol this standard prescribes –> test plans, test design specs, test cases, test procedures, test logs, test anomaly reports, test summary reports for unit or component testing, integration testing, system testing, acceptance testing. It’s a documentation nightmare!
RG-1.171 endorses IEEE Std. 1008-1987 (almost 30 years old!) on SW unit testing which has no applicability to FPGA and CPLD technology.
RG-1.172 still endorses IEEE Std. 830-1998 on SW requirements specs which really doesn’t apply to current digital I&C technology.
RG-1.173 endorses IEEE Std. 1074-2006 on SW life cycle processes which also is out of date, and the waterfall IEEE way of doing SW development is so clunky and cumbersome that it makes the whole development process a frustrating inefficiency of human performance errors, the very thing it is intended to prevent.
There has been a plan to modernize digital I&C regulations since 2015 or 2016, but we still have regulatory guidance that endorses standards for digital I&C engineering that are decades out of date. And the NRC has been loathe to embrace (with a few exceptions like RG-1.250 on using IEC safety integrity level qualification for commercial grade dedication of digital I&C) international standards (like those from IEC). How can we possibly modernize commercial nuclear power if the NRC (by the glacial path of its modernization) is keeping us stuck in 80s and 90s? Think about it! The standards to which the NRC commits the industry for software unit testing in digital I&C is a 1987 standard! NYes,the NRC web site said in 2023 that all of these were up for revision. Why does it take YEARS to do the common sense thing and endorse what other safety industries like petrochemical, aerospace, etc. have embraced?
Yours Truly,
A Very Frustrated Payer of Taxes and Electric Bills
Yes! 💃 If they pull this off watch the trigger effect globally! God-willing.
CCHD is having a bake sale. PP will have to do something else.
Is it just me or is it getting harder and harder to distinguish between PP and CCHD?
IMO, nonprofits might place sealed bids for government contracts, receive re-imbursement when a patron has paid for their services by choice with a government issued voucher, and receive re-imbursement when a patron has made use of their services by choice financed by government-issued insurance. They should not, however, receive government grants bar in exigent circumstances during natural disasters and the like. The same applies to individual persons with institutional addresses. Ditto commercial corporations.
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In regard to the largesse of the federal government, the foregoing principle should extend to government corporations erected by state and local authorities as well and those persons whose institutional address is there. Federal agencies and licensed to make payments to corporate bodies or individual households for anything but employee compensation and services rendered under contract should be few.
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It’s not just Planned Parenthood and public television which should see the grant money faucet shut off for good. Pretty much everyone should.
Although I wholeheartedly believe that the federal government is a blubbery whale, wearing a fat suit ! I think that if this is pursued in berserker fashion, we conservatives will lose the edge we fought tooth and nail for.
LCQ’s letter is an example of what we need. Such people know where indisputably wasteful or constricting government exists so it can be rooted out.
If Trump starts attacking programs that the libs can drum up sympathy for, we create trouble for ourselves and Vance in 28.
Example, as soon as anybody makes a move on PBS, expect a TV spot or set of internet videos featuring sad muppets. Are PBS and NPR in keeping with the founders ideas of limited government? NO However, we did not spend our way into this system in four years. It will take a long time to get out of it and you have to be in power to accomplish anything.
I am hoping that he will make some inroads on the massive amounts of regulation *that were never voted on* that cost businesses money. Relatively safe politically and will fuel the economy.
As long as DOGE attempts to target specific programs/agencies whose functions are no longer needed or can be handled elsewhere, rather than arbitrarily setting a target number or percentage of regulations to be cut, I think it will serve a good purpose.
My day job involves reviewing state regulations and the problem is not “too many” rules per se, it’s too many rules that are: poorly written, riddled with legalese and terms that are not clearly defined, go beyond statutory authority, don’t have due process provisions for persons adversely affected (e.g., an appeal provision for someone whose application for a license or permit is rejected), or give the agency blanket discretion to make decisions without specifying the criteria they need to consider.
I’d prefer a regulatory regime which did not assume that distinctions between intra-state and inter-state commerce were factitious.
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Posit a federal labor code which concerns itself with (1) circumstances under which foreigners can take employment in the United States, (2) employment standards for itinerant workers, (3) employment standards in firms which employ people outside the jurisdiction in which the parent company is chartered, and (4) internal governance of unions which enroll workers in multiple states.
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Posit a commercial code &c which concerns (1) transportation of persons across jurisdictional lines, (2) merchandise shipped over jurisdictional lines, (3) agreements to perform services between a party in one jurisdiction and a party in another, (4) transactions between service providers and travelers, and (5) transfer of funds from one jurisdiction to another.
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Posit financial sector supervision which leaves small and geographically self-limited institutions (banks, credit unions, pawn brokers, bail bondsmen, pay-day lenders, real estate agencies, insurance agencies, accounting firms, investment counselors of various sorts, tax preparers) to state regulators.
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Posit health and safety regulations which are limited to effluvia in rivers, coastal waters, in upper air currents, or falling on federal property; chemical and nuclear waste, conveyances traveling over jurisdictional lines, merchandise shipped across state lines, and the worksites of employers who post employees outside the jurisdiction which issued the charter of the parent company.
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Property registration limited to abstract items like patents, trademarks, copyrights, domain names, &c.
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Conservation regimes limited to the coasts, rivers, federal property, migratory species &c.
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Appended to that federal corporation taxes limited to firms which employed people outside the jurisdiction wherein the charter of the parent company was issued.
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Appended to that federal penal codes which limited their concerns to (1) common crimes (trespass, burglary, theft, fraud, vandalism) against the federal government as a corporation, (2) assaults on federal employees at work, (3) defiance of federal courts and police (resisting arrest, bail jumping, escape, contempt of courts), (4) corruption of procedures (perjury, jury tampering, bribery, extortion), (5) impeding federal employees from working (e.g filing false reports or having demonstrations in public buildings); (6) malfeasance, misfeasance, and non-feasance by public officials; (7) offenses in the service and violations of military discipline, (8) tax evasion; (9) treason, treachery, espionage, and insurrection; (10) offenses wherein traveling across jurisdictional lines, shepherding persons across jurisdictional lines, shipping or transporting merchandise across jurisdictional lines, contracting for services between persons in different jurisdictions, providing services for travelers, or transferring funds from one jurisdiction to another were integral (not incidental) to the offense. Trafficking in street drugs and other contraband across state lines, multi-state fraud schemes, and multi-state racketeering should be of interest to federal prosecutors. Remember Jared Fogle, the Subway pitchman? The excuse for trying him in federal court was that his confederate had used a digital camera with parts produced out of state. You recall that synagogue in Pittsburgh shot up by a murderous loon? Federal prosecutors instituted years of delay insisting the man be prosecuted for ‘hate crimes’.
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While we’re at it, technical assistance to local law enforcement is properly the domain of state police. Make it the rule that requests for assistance go from local departments to the state, then from the state to federal agencies.
Saturday Feb. 11th, 2017
We haven’t stop praying…
…and we won’t until it’s defunded.
Make it so in 2025.
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