{"id":168865,"date":"2025-04-25T07:00:52","date_gmt":"2025-04-25T11:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=168865"},"modified":"2025-04-24T17:47:14","modified_gmt":"2025-04-24T21:47:14","slug":"enough-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=168865","title":{"rendered":"Enough politics?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Well, tough. Today is updates.<\/p>\n

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First up – Molly Kaptur of Ohio (a D) just won re-election for the 22nd time. I suspect she thinks of the House as a relatively low-stress job, as she has only introduced a whopping 5 bills in 41 years. (Ironically, the same number as of bills Trump has signed in his first 100 days, a new record low. ) Her margin of re-election was less than 1% and she is seen as vulnerable. Enter today’s first subject:\u00a0 Alea Nadeen, a Toledo native, a Republican, of Iraqi descent – and a Air National Guard commander and intelligence officer. Perhaps some of you may know the good lieutenant colonel?<\/p>\n

Nadeem serves as the commander of the 150th Security Forces Squadron at the 150th Special Operations Wing, Kirtland Air Force Base, New Mexico. Before joining the Special Operations Wing, Nadeem was a congressional budget and appropriations liaison to the Senate Appropriations Committee, assigned to the Secretary of the Air Force, Financial Management and Comptroller at the Pentagon. She previously served as a policy advisor on the National Security Council policy advisor, working in the Executive Office of the President at the White House.\u00a0 Air Force Academy News<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

One hopes after all the anti-DEI stuff her info is still available.\u00a0 Interesting background, which rings a bell: her father took her from her mother to Iraq when she was 8 and it took 4 years to get her back here. She enlisted after 9\/11 as soon as she graduated high school, did her 20,\u00a0 and left active duty a year and a half ago.<\/p>\n

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Zachary Young, who successfully took CNN to the legal woodshed over their defamatory coverage at Kabul, is looking to increase his body count. He is also suing US News & World Report,\u00a0 Puck, and the Associated Press.\u00a0 Capitalism Institute<\/a>\u00a0 Essentially, anyone who followd on CNN’s characterization of him as “smuggling” is going to get hit. We discusssed him recently, with several doubting that the simple use of “smuggling” will be sufficient for a jury to decide in his favor. Stay tuned.<\/p>\n

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And, as he seems to have done several times since he took office (tariffs? No tariffs? Zillionaire tax increase? Decrease?) President Trump is backpedaling on another campaign issue, getting rid of Daylight Savings Time. In December 2024 he told Congress it should go. Now, maybe not.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe House and Senate should push hard for more Daylight at the end of a day,\u201d Trump wrote on Truth Social. \u201cVery popular and, most importantly, no more changing of the clocks, a big inconvenience and, for our government, A VERY COSTLY EVENT!!!\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Interestingly, leisure providers like golf courses are in favor\u00a0 of permanent DST\u00a0 as they perceive better operating hours are in the offing. Me, I suspect most folks would adapt – there are other countries who don’t even differentiate between time zones and they manage to survive OK. Just pick a time and live with it.<\/p>\n

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Last but not least, we’re told to drill and become energy\/job independent, right? Be a petroleum engineer and safely be in demand? Think the big multinational oil companies support that?<\/p>\n

Competition for engineering and geologist jobs in the oil-and-gas sector was fierce prior to Trump\u2019s tariffs, Collin Eaton of The Wall Street Journal reports. Now, companies such as Chevron (CVX<\/span>), BP<\/span> (BP), and other oil companies are offshoring more specialized white-collar positions and related work to lower-cost labor pools in countries such as India, while cutting jobs elsewhere. The shift has thinned the companies\u2019 ranks of skilled U.S. workers. Other companies in the space who are or have shifted much of their workforce to India include Exxon Mobil (XOM<\/span>), Shell (SHEL<\/span>), and TotalEnergies (TTE<\/span>).\u00a0\u00a0 WSJ via Market Insider<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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