{"id":167597,"date":"2025-03-19T07:00:51","date_gmt":"2025-03-19T11:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=167597"},"modified":"2025-03-18T18:50:42","modified_gmt":"2025-03-18T22:50:42","slug":"monday-mini-rants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=167597","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday Mini-rants"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A little DOGE:<\/p>\n

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TSA K-9 bomb sniffer dog units have become the latest victims of the so-called Department of Government Efficiency, just as the White House celebrated a national day honoring the heroic animals.<\/p>\n

Workers at the TSA were informed via email that \u201cnew guidance\u201d meant that requests for costs including vet visits, kenneling and dog food, had been put on hold effective immediately, according to Fox News. Fox News<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

A little overreach on someone’s<\/em> part. I propose a ‘Parachute riggers’ solution – if one of your chutes did not function right, three random chutes get pulled from stocks and YOU jump them. Tends to keep you focused on the job, right? All those who support defunding bomb-sniffing dogs get to all fly on an airplane whose baggage can only be searched by other means. We’ll see how much faith you have in two-legged TSA screeners then.<\/p>\n

Oh, and this came out hours after Trump reposted a pic of himself with …yep…a famous bomb-sniffing dog.<\/p>\n

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Moving along – CNN published a poll (and if it’s CNN, it’s unbiased, right?) so bad that it admits the Democrats’ general approval polling stands at just 29%, the lowest since Bush Senior was still President. Mostly, they feel the Dem leadership should be taking a stand and resisting Republicans, instead of voting for their stop-gap funding like you, Chuckie. Kiss that Presidential bid idea good-bye, buddy.<\/p>\n

Just 63% of Democrats and Democratic-leaning independents report a favorable view of their own party, a dip from 72% in January and 81% at the start of President Joe Biden\u2019s administration.<\/p>\n

By contrast, 79% of Republicans and Republican leaners currently take a positive view of the GOP. Political independents as a group take dim views of both parties, with 19% rating the Democrats favorably and 20% saying the same of the Republicans.\u00a0 CNN<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Wonder if this is the sort of thing that makes people think as they do?<\/p>\n

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The House of Representatives passed a bill aimed at cracking down on Mexican cartels’ use of tunnels underneath the southwestern border to smuggle illegal immigrants and illicit items the U.S.<\/p>\n

The bill passed with overwhelming bipartisan support in a 402 to 1 vote \u2013 with the lone dissenter being Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich. Fox News Digital reached out to her office for comment but did not immediately hear back.\u00a0 Fox News II<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Any NCO knows there’s always that one a**hole that screws it up for everyone else. Ms. Tlaib…you’re it.<\/p>\n

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And we’ll close with some course material from Pearl-Clutching 101. Seems that Louisiana has plans to execute a Jessie Hoffman by nitrogen hypoxia. It was going to be nitrogen’s coming-out party in Louisiana, which hasn’t executed anyone in 15 years. Mr. Hoffman stands convicted of murdering a Mary Elliott in 1996.\u00a0 (3\/18 NOTE – this was originally written 3\/16, and as I write this comment Mr. Hoffman is scheduled to go away in the next three hours unless he gets official intervention.)<\/p>\n

But a federal judge this week halted the execution, finding Hoffman had shown the method \u2013 which involves depriving an inmate of oxygen by forcing him to breathe pure nitrogen \u2013 would cause him \u201cpsychological pain, suffering, and terror\u201d and possibly violate Eighth Amendment protections against cruel and unusual punishment.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The suit was supported by the ACLU, and in their dozens (small group) by:<\/p>\n

Jews Against Gassing Coalition, a New Orleans-area group decrying the state\u2019s efforts to use nitrogen gas to execute death row inmates because, members say, such a method echoes the Holocaust, when 6 million Jews were murdered by Nazi Germany.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut to use a method that was a form of state-sanctioned murder and genocide of literally millions of people \u2026 to re-implement that as a form of justice in 21st-century Louisiana seems to us equally abhorrent,\u201d said Naomi Yavneh Klos, a member of the group and a professor at Loyola University New Orleans, \u201cbecause of the way that method of execution is so horribly and intrinsically linked to the decimation of our people.\u201dCNN II<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Given that WW II Jews were also executed by exhaust gas, why not protest cars? There is a huge difference between passing out from hypoxia and a cyanide-based agent like Zyklon-B. Not to mention the intent of the gasser, right?<\/p>\n

Again on 3\/18: Seems Hoffman took up Buddhism whilst incarcerated, and his lawyers now say his ‘freedom of religion’ is being compromised because his meditative breathing will be compromised by the nitrogen gas. Not it ya just beathe deep and slow like the meditation says you should….<\/p>\n

Me, I think there is an obvious solution: we’ve confiscated literally TONS of fentanyl, an extremely toxic opioid. It’s lethal, it’s free, and there are a variety of ways to ingest a lethal dose.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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