{"id":152111,"date":"2024-01-20T07:00:46","date_gmt":"2024-01-20T12:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=152111"},"modified":"2024-01-19T14:59:10","modified_gmt":"2024-01-19T19:59:10","slug":"you-would-think-i-would-run-out-of-material","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=152111","title":{"rendered":"You would think I would run out of material"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Not gonna happen. Not under the current system of two supposedly separate parties. But today we’re just gonna look at the current administration…the one that doesn’t care which party holds the White House or Congress.<\/p>\n

Treasury is being investigated by a Senate committee for asking banks to provide details on certain keyword transactions in the wake of January 6.<\/p>\n

The House Judiciary Committee also obtained documents revealing that FinCEN warned financial institutions that an “extremism indicator” could be “the purchase of books (including religious texts),” like the Bible, and subscriptions to certain media “containing extremist views.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

After all, we know any religion other than wokethink is wrongthink, right?<\/p>\n

Apparently other key words were flagged, like “MAGA”. My favorite was, besides targetting Bass Pro Shops and Cabela’s, Dick’s sporting Goods\u00a0 was also on the list. Didn’t they notice that several years ago Dick’s famously climbed onto the anti-gun bandwagon, contributes to their cause, and their web site doesn’t even allow you to ORDER guns?\u00a0 I guess they were afraid a Dick’s customer could order one of them assault fly rods?<\/p>\n

The top Republican on the Senate Banking Committee is demanding answers from the Treasury Department and its financial crimes enforcement division after revelations the agencies urged private financial institutions to “surveil” private transactions using “politically charged search terms” to flag customer profiles to federal law enforcement.<\/p>\n

Sen. Tim Scott<\/span><\/span>, R-S.C., penned a letter to Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen and FinCEN Director Andrea Gacki on Friday after Fox News Digital exclusively reported that the agency suggested in January 2021 that banks use specific search terms to query transactions, including “MAGA,” “Trump<\/span><\/span>,” “Biden” and more, along with merchant codes from specific sporting goods stores.\u00a0 Fox News<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Wonder if they looked for keyword “Brandon”?<\/p>\n

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Next up is the Supreme Court getting to set to rule on the Chevron decision. Back in 1984 (how apropos.) Chevron essentially ruled that when there was:<\/p>\n

“a legal theory established in the ’80s that says anytime a federal regulation is challenged, the courts should defer to the agency\u2019s interpretation of whether Congress granted them authority to issue the rule.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It is the bedrock of much of the agency overreach of the last 40 years. Think EPA deciding a tiny fish was more important than people, the ATFtrying to\u00a0 redefine steel ingots as guns, or any other agency overreach you can name – Chevron is probably what allowed it.<\/p>\n

On Wednesday morning, the high court heard a set of two cases stemming from lawsuits brought by New Jersey fishermen and herring fishermen from Rhode Island who argued that a regulation issued by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) requiring them to pay $700 a day for an “at-sea monitor” is out of the bounds Congress set for the federal agency.\u00a0\u00a0 Fox News II<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So in this case fishermen were required to abide by rules. So far, so good. Then they had to allow observers to monitor them – getting a little dicey.\u00a0 AND PAY FOR THEM. The article cites $700 a day as their pay – knowing that fishing is not a 8-hour-and-done job, that works out at say, 10 hours a day, to $70\/hour – about what many of these fishing boats earn. Me, I think you want an observer, pay for him yourself or go pound sand. But really, how this wasn’t struck down years ago (say, on 3rd Amendment grounds) is beyond me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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