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>https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/editorials/the-petty-tyrants-in-your-shower

When President Trump objected to federal regulations of shower heads and when the Department of Energy this week proposed to undo President Barack Obama’s shower rules, Trump’s critics decried the actions as petty and the subject matter as too picayune.

But Trump's critics are the ones with a question to answer: If the flow of a person’s shower head is too petty to be deregulated, then how was it momentous enough to be regulated in the first place?

The story of how Washington got into our showers started in 1992, but the real action took place in 2010.

A Democratic Congress passed and Republican President George H.W. Bush signed the Energy Policy Act of 1992, which dictated the maximum flow rates on “showerheads, faucets, water closets, and urinals.”

The law banned any shower head that allowed water to flow out at a greater rate than 2.5 gallons per minute (which comes out to 5.3 ounces per second) “when measured at a flowing water pressure of 80 pounds per square inch.”

This was an overreach. People pay for their own water. If a family wants a lower water bill, it can always buy a low-flow shower head. Why Congress thinks it has the authority to make showers weak is a question each "aye" vote back in 1992 should have to answer for.

But even this intrusion into the most personal moments of a person's day was not enough for Obama. He wanted to make sure that no showers, including those with more than one shower head, ever spat out more than that congressionally mandated 5.3 ounces per second. Obama could have accomplished this crackdown on multihead showers by pushing legislation to that effect through Congress, where his party controlled both chambers.

But outlawing people’s showers isn’t terribly popular, so Obama opted to use regulatory means. He rewrote the language to redefine “shower head.”

You may think you know what a shower head is. It’s a fitting on the end of a pipe that disperses water into a spray in your shower. But Obama’s Energy Department decided that the term no longer meant that. What you call a shower head, Obama declared, is now a “nozzle.” A multihead shower was now a multinozzle shower head. And thus, if each “nozzle” is pumping out the legal maximum of 2.5 gallons per minute, then under Obama's redefinition, you are taking an illegal shower.

Trump's Energy Department did not propose to change the 1992 law, as reporters are now wrongly claiming, but to revert to the 1992 law. And when reporters tell you that Trump “wants to change the definition of a shower head,” they are telling you half the truth. He wants to change it back to what everyone thinks it always was.

You may think the federal government shouldn't be tinkering with the definition or the flow of a shower head. We couldn't agree more, and that's why Trump's action here is the right one.

https://www.wthr.com/article/news/crime/michigan-sheriffs-office-sweep-finds-7-missing-kids-including-16-year-old-victim-of-human-trafficking/531-dc2995d1-cc52-4443-b0cd-ec011cc51fdf

Michigan sheriff's office sweep finds 7 missing kids, including 16-year-old victim of human trafficking

The Genesee County Sheriff's Office conducted a sweep with the Genesee Human Oppression Strike Team, searching for 27 missing children who had "fallen off the grid."

https://nbc25news.com/news/local/sheriff-swanson-16-year-old-rescued-from-human-trafficking-was-locked-in-a-barn

Sheriff Swanson: 16-year-old rescued from human trafficking was locked in Montrose barn

FLINT, Mich - Genesee County Sheriff Chris Swanson and deputies went throughout Genesee County on Friday searching for 27 children who have been missing and off the grid.

Swanson says seven four-man teams went all over the county to search for the children.

Swanson says seven of the 27 children were found.

Sheriff Swanson says in one case a 16-year-old girl was found locked in a barn in Montrose.

Swanson says the barn was surrounded by barbed wire and says it appears as if the girl had been trafficked.

The man who is accused in this human trafficking incident has been arrested and is awaiting arraignment in the Genesee County Jail.

The discovery came amid a rescue operation that focused on wellness checks of at-risk kids ages 17 and under that had been reported by schools, courts or individuals as “off the grid.”

There had been six other operations that were stings that stretched from March through through mid-August.

Swanson says those involved decoys on social media talking with 2,000 people who were seeking sexual relations with teens ages 15 and under.

He says that that led to the arrest of 17 people who showed up in person to engage in the acts.

Swanson said human traffickers often lure their victims with promises and grooming techniques.

“So, it’s the promise of something better. If someone’s seeking love, they promise them love. If someone’s seeking shelter, they promise them shelter. Whatever it is, they groom them. It could happen at a school like this, or it could happen on the side of the road. So, that’s the sign you need to see. Who is lacking and who’s providing? And once they lock on, then they become property; and they become very possessive to the point where they see them as property, and they could kill them in a minute.

Swanson says individuals who busted during the sting operations traveled from across the area, including who arrived at the meet-up spots with drugs and weapons.

Swanson said investigations are ongoing and that more information would soon emerge about the case involving the 16-year-old girl.

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>Swanson says those involved decoys on social media talking with 2,000 people who were seeking sexual relations with teens ages 15 and under. He says that that led to the arrest of 17 people who showed up in person to engage in the acts.

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>>10306088

>Cristinel Luigi Popescu