[Hot Air] Exactly 5 months ago I wrote about Patrick Wojahn,
...out and proud friend of dear little Pete Buttigieg...
the (now) former Mayor of College Park Maryland
...that’s in Prince George’s County, for those interested in a proper geographical orientation...
getting arrested for possessing kiddie porn.
It was another example of the non-existent QAnon conspiracy "there is no pedophilic sex trafficking and no, liberals aren’t sexualizing kids really" phenomenon.
Really, there isn’t. All that Sound of Freedom stuff is a myth. It is perfectly normal to talk to kids about sex, give them pornographic books that explain bizarre sexual practices, and instruct them on how to use gay dating apps like Grindr.
Wojahn was a proud progressive and hence well respected in College Park. He served on the City Council and then was elected Mayor in 2015. He had all the right opinions, abased himself for BLM, and just pled guilty to possessing and distributing kiddie porn.
#7
The kids are revictimized every time those images are viewed. Life sentence no parole. There doesn’t seem to be a need for higher level sentence for distribution as there seems to be no dudes who look at that evil stuff who don’t share it around. Trump is right about killing the traffickers.
Posted by: Super Hose ||
08/06/2023 13:19 Comments ||
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#8
You can call me a right wing Qanon conspiracy theorist. My batting average is almost perfect, and I'm on the side of protecting kids, not exploiting them... I hope they teach him a life ending lesson in prison...
Posted by: 49 Pan ||
08/06/2023 16:34 Comments ||
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[FoxNews] It's not just stoves, Biden is going after air conditioners and other home appliances.
We have seen a big consumer backlash in 2023 over Biden administration bureaucrats targeting gas stoves, but that could pale in comparison to the coming anger over costly air conditioning regulations.
In fact, that has already begun, making this unusually hot summer even more unpleasant for homeowners needing air conditioner repairs. And things could get downright ugly starting next summer.
The Environmental Protect Agency (EPA) just announced a 40% production cut in 2024 for hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), the widely used class of refrigerants being targeted for their claimed contribution to climate change. As it is, the modest 10% cut in force today has already caused many HFCs to triple in price, including HFC-410a which is used in most home air conditioners.
As a result, replacing refrigerant lost from a leak has cost millions of homeowners at least $150-$200 more than it used to. But next summer, stricter production quotas will be in effect, likely sending refrigerant costs through the roof — and repair costs with them.
EPA regulators are targeting new systems too. A pending rule would outlaw all but the most climate-friendly, new central air-conditioners by 2025. Doing so is strongly supported by the air conditioning equipment makers who see an opportunity to skew the market towards their pricier models.
It would be bad enough if EPA were the only federal agency that has it in for affordable air conditioning, but the Department of Energy (DOE) is just as bad. DOE has a track record for concocting energy efficiency regulations for air conditioners and other appliances that boost a homeowner’s up-front cost so much that it may never get earned back in the form of energy savings.
Perhaps the worst of them, created at the end of the Obama administration and taking effect on January 1 of this year, has caused prices for new central air conditioning systems to spike by up to $1,000, according to several installers.
And the agency is already in the early stages of devising an even tougher rule. Separate rulemakings also target window unit air conditioners and other categories of cooling systems.
What explains the anti-homeowner tilt? Like much of the nonsense coming from Washington these days, it’s based on the Energy Department's "need to confront the global climate crisis."
Indeed, beyond air conditioners and stoves, Biden’s regulators are going after furnaces, incandescent light bulbs, washing machines, refrigerators, dishwashers, ceiling fans, water heaters and other home appliances.
Hardly any room in your house will be spared, and each proposed new regulation asserts that the climate-related benefits help justify the extra cost. All of this meddling is bad news for consumers, but the measures targeting air conditioners will likely prove to be the worst of the bunch.
The one-two punch of both EPA and DOE aiming their red tape at air conditioners has already boosted the cost of staying cool this summer, and starting next year the homeowner pain could be every bit as unbearable as the heat.
[ZERO] US Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm, whose catastrophic handling of US energy policy will be one of the most memorable and dire consequences of the Biden era, engaged in multiple conversations with the Chinese government's top energy official just days before the Biden administration announced it would tap the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) to combat high gas prices in 2021, the same China whose Hunter Biden-linked energy giant Unipec, which we previously learned had bought millions of barrels from the SPR release.
Granholm called China National Energy Administration Chairman Zhang Jianhua, a longstanding senior member of the Chinese Communist Party, for a half-hour one-on-one conversation on Nov. 21, 2021. Granholm’s calendar also shows an earlier phone call had been scheduled with Jianhua for Nov. 19 but a rep for the former Michigan governor said the first call never took place. Then, on Nov. 23, 2021, the White House announced a release of 50 million barrels of oil from the SPR, the largest release of its kind in U.S. history at the time.
According to Fox News, Granholm's previously-undisclosed talks with China National Energy Administration Chairman Zhang Jianhua — revealed in internal Energy Department calendars obtained by Americans for Public Trust (APT) and shared with Fox News Digital — reveal that the Biden administration likely discussed its plans to release oil from the SPR with China before its public announcement in the US: yes, China's Communist Party learned what Biden would be doing before the US did.
"Secretary Granholm's multiple closed-door meetings with a CCP-connected energy official raise serious questions about the level of Chinese influence on the Biden administration’s energy agenda," APT Executive Director Caitlin Sutherland told Fox News Digital, an "energy agenda" that can be summarized with just one chart:
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[Hot Air] Exactly 5 months ago I wrote about 
Wojahn was a proud progressive and hence well respected in College Park. He served on the City Council and then was elected Mayor in 2015. He had all the right opinions, abased himself for BLM, and just pled guilty to possessing and distributing kiddie porn.
