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Why? Lots of people work in both those positions. And people think very highly of Johnson and Johnson, because of it's behavior in the past. It would be hard to let go and realize you were working for scoundrels after all.

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you're right; people stopped mining asbestos, and all the employees of the company got crewed over, but the company owners had numerous other mining interests that they moved to the new company (or companies, as I recall). It was a newsworthy at the time, but this was decades ago.

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Is it going to end up clean? I'm so curious about these Superfund sites-- if they can be rehabilitated really. It's really really hard for me to believe it's too late to speak to Dow Chemical about it, since Dow Chemical is still somewhere or other coining it. Right? It hasn't denied it used to be in the harbor in Portland?

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Yes, I know when it was. It's not within the powers of the courts to attack them on other subjects than their asbestos crimes probably. Maybe you don't realize how miraculous it was-- being the first time ever the producers of a raw material were punished for the harm it did.

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Wow. Just Wow. I thought I was making a little joke. Shit's for real.

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That was not J&J. As far as I know, the person that poisoned the Tylenol has never been found.

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mesothelioma.com is a creation of the lawyers making money off of the litigation. Not a source I'd cite for "evidence".

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He was found and convicted. He'd poisoned his wife, and tried to make it look like she was a random victim.

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Sure, fine. Google mesothelioma for other more reputable sources. The point will be the same there.

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OMG, we laughed so much at those.

Daughter in ad: "Mom, sometimes I just don't feel fresh! What can I do?"

Mom of Prickly: "Try washing your ass, dear."

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The "Mesothelioma Babies" shall never be forgotten. Just like the "Bowling Green Massacre"

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Don't bother. The lawsuits are absolute bullshit.

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So, corporate overlords get all the money and the little people are left to fight over the crumbs.

Sounds like a Monday in ‘Merica.

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As told me by a former Soviet citizen: It's not the fuckup but the coverup where most people die.

Corporations, however, are the same everywhere. I remember a sex scandal in the NY HQ of one of the banks my MSP is tasked with servicing - a managing director locked a new intern into his office after hours and definitely manhandled her - for which the bank of course responded swiftly by... booting the intern and working to destroy her character and career.

Until her fellow interns taught the bank the magic of the internet, dripfeeding salacious details of the encounter to the finance blogs and industry papers until the bank was forced to reverse its original "investigation" and boot the managing director - even going so far as to name him so he'd show up in LexisNexis forever more.

Of course, China makes sure the internet doesn't work that way there, but I suspect that's only making Chinese really adept at VPNs.

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And, besides, the New York Jets suck.

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Hugs to you too, BosGrl!

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