{"id":150246,"date":"2023-12-01T07:00:12","date_gmt":"2023-12-01T12:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=150246"},"modified":"2023-11-29T19:48:44","modified_gmt":"2023-11-30T00:48:44","slug":"fox-news-friday-biden-homeless-tree-and-one-helluva-prostate-massage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=150246","title":{"rendered":"Fox News Friday: Biden,  Homeless, Tree, and one helluva prostate massage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-110568 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/wind-300x170.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"170\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/wind-300x170.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/wind-768x434.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/wind-500x283.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/wind.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>When the government contracts out big projects, one of the requirements is that developers pay development fees.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Federal statute mandates that developers pay that fee prior to construction on their lease, a potentially hefty fee designed to guarantee federal property is returned to its original state after a lessee departs its lease.<\/p>\n<p>The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) informed Vineyard Wind that it had waived a financial assurance for decommissioning costs fee in a June 15, 2021, letter obtained by watchdog group Protect the Public&#8217;s Trust (PPT).<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;At the same time the Department of the Interior was looking at forcing greater and more expensive bonding requirements on holders of long-standing oil and gas leases, they were relaxing these requirements on the nation&#8217;s first utility-scale offshore wind energy producer, one that just coincidentally happened to be a client of their incoming #2,&#8221; PPT Director Michael Chamberlain told Fox News Digital.<\/p>\n<p>Chamberlain noted that former Deputy Interior Secretary Tommy Beadreau, the second-highest ranked official at the Department of the Interior (DOI) which houses BOEM, had, according to his 2021 financial disclosure form, previously represented Vineyard Wind on legal matters while serving as a partner at the firm Latham &amp; Watkins.<\/p>\n<p>Just one week after BOEM approved Vineyard Wind&#8217;s request to waive the development fee, Beaudreau departed Latham &amp; Watkins and was sworn in at DOI. <a href=\"https:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/internal-docs-show-biden-admin-090041981.html\">Fox News<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Not sure whether the conflict of interest or the two-faced application of the fees is more worrisome. I keep wondering if Richard Daley or Huey Long tutored these guys?<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-85042 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Homeless-Veterans-640x480-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And California&#8217;s taxpayers are going to get a $300,000,000 anal injection from their governor.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>California Gov. <span class=\"caas-xray-inline caas-xray-entity caas-xray-pill rapid-nonanchor-lt\" tabindex=\"0\" data-entity-id=\"Gavin_Newsom\" data-ylk=\"cid:Gavin_Newsom;pos:1;elmt:wiki;sec:pill-inline-entity;elm:pill-inline-text;itc:1;cat:Politician;\" aria-haspopup=\"dialog\">Gavin Newsom<\/span> on Monday said the state will make nearly $300 million available to local municipalities to clear out homeless encampments and move the homeless into housing.<\/p>\n<p>California state Sen. Brian Dahle, a Republican, pushed back on statements by Newsom that he cleared more than 5,600 homeless encampments across the state.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The governor didn\u2019t clear these homeless encampments; they just moved them down the street,&#8221; he said. &#8220;California spends more tax dollars per homeless person than we do on our students.<\/p>\n<p>San Francisco recently removed homeless camps around the city ahead of the U.S.-China summit in which President Biden met with Chinese President Xi Jinping earlier this month.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/california-pay-millions-clear-homeless-012516049.html\">Fox News II<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Gotta make it look nice for the boss, eh Joe?<\/p>\n<p>How&#8217;s that sanctuary state thing workin&#8217; out for you now?<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-150247 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/FALLEN-CHRISTMAS-TREE-2029696925-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/FALLEN-CHRISTMAS-TREE-2029696925-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/FALLEN-CHRISTMAS-TREE-2029696925-500x281.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/FALLEN-CHRISTMAS-TREE-2029696925-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/FALLEN-CHRISTMAS-TREE-2029696925.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The National Christmas Tree, a 40 foot Norway Spruce from West Virginia, took a header Tuesday in high winds.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;National Christmas tree falls DOWN,&#8221; the Republican House Committee on the Judiciary wrote in a post on X, formerly Twitter. &#8220;Perfectly summing up Joe Biden&#8217;s presidency.&#8221;\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/national-christmas-tree-topples-ground-013249264.html\">Fox News III<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>What can you add to that?<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-150248 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/th-1389965914-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/th-1389965914-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/th-1389965914.jpg 474w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In closing &#8211; an Indiana prisoner had an interesting night Monday.\u00a0\u00a0 No, he won&#8217;t pass go &#8211; or collect $200.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Christopher Boyd, 32, was a passenger riding in a vehicle that police pulled over in the city of Evansville on Monday at about 2 a.m. for an obscured license plate.<\/p>\n<p>But when officers patted down Boyd, they discovered &#8220;a small bag with multiple pills&#8221; in his right sock, according to a police report obtained by The Smoking Gun. Boyd claimed the pills were Percocets that he had received from his &#8220;Aunt Trish&#8221; to help with the pain from having a &#8220;bullet lodged in his spine.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>To make a long story short&#8230;noticing Boyd was &#8216;walking funny&#8217;, next the cops found marijuana bags in his groin. When Boyd refused the cavity search, cops found a SW&amp;W Bodyguard .380 hidden up the old poop chute. Now, on its best day, that gun is gonna go a non-negotiable\u00a0 4&#8243; at the smallest. I&#8217;m guessing that Boyd, whose career includes convictions for attempted murder, burglary and domestic battery\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/indiana-man-found-handgun-hidden-081548495.html\">Fox News IV, <\/a>was NOT the winner of &#8220;you wanna be the husband or you wanna be the wife?&#8221; and was successfully turned from a tight end into a wide receiver. &#8216;Bout\u00a0 4 inches wide.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When the government contracts out big projects, one of the requirements is that developers pay development &hellip; <a title=\"Fox News Friday: Biden,  Homeless, Tree, and one helluva prostate massage\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=150246\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Fox News Friday: Biden,  Homeless, Tree, and one helluva prostate massage<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":668,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[213,518,185,227,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-150246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-your-tax-dollars-at-work","category-biden","category-crime","category-police","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/668"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=150246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150246\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=150246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=150246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=150246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}