Senator Feinstein and her husband, Richard Blum, stand to make a fortune from the sale of USPS Properties

The US has entered into a contract with a real estate firm to sell 56
buildings that currently house U.S. Post Offices. The government has decided it no longer needs these buildings, many of which are located on prime land in towns and cities across the country. The sale of these properties will fetch billions of dollars and a handsome 6% commission to the company handling the sales. Richard Blum is Chairman of the Board  since September 2001.Why the husband of Senator Dianne Feinstein, that's who.

Senator Feinstein and her husband, Richard Blum, stand to make a
fortune. His firm, C.R. I., is the sole real estate company offering these properties for
sale. Of course, C.R.I. will be making a 6% commission on the sale of each and every one of these postal properties. They were purchased with U.S. taxpayers dollars, and they are allowed free and clear by the U.S.P.S. The only cost to keep them is the cost to actually keep the doors open and the heat and lights on. The United States Postal Service doesn't even have to pay property taxes on these subject properties.
How does a powerful U.S. Senator from San Francisco manage to get away
with such a sweet deal? A powerful United States Senator's husband is standing by, all ready to make millions from a U.S. taxpayer funded enterprise.

No one in the mainstream media is even raising an eyebrow over his 6%
commission on the sale of hundreds of millions of dollar's worth of quasi-public assets

Source
USPS Buildings
CBRE Group
Richard C. Blum
Robert E. Sulentic
Public Company

113th Congress The Leader's Daily Schedule - 5/23/13

THURSDAY, MAY 23RD

On Thursday, the House will meet at 9:00 a.m. for legislative business.

First votes expected: 10:30 - 11:00 a.m. Last votes expected: 12:00 - 1:00 p.m.

One Minute Speeches
H.R. 1911 - Smarter Solutions for Students Act, Rules Committee Print (Closed Rule, One Hour of Debate) (Sponsored by Rep. John Kline / Education and the Workforce Committee)
Special Order Speeches

COMMITTEE ACTIVITY OF THE DAY

Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution and Civil Justice hearing on “H.R. 1797 - The District of Columbia Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act" (Thursday, May 23rd, at 10:00 a.m.)

Front Pages Of UK Tomorrow's Newspapers Today Are Horrific

Jihadists Suspected in Shocking Daylight Attack Outside London

UK newspapers are covering the stunning beheading of a UK soldier via a crazed machete wielder.A British soldier is dead, and two suspected terrorists were shot in a shocking daylight attack outside London Wednesday.
Some accounts say the soldier was shot, while other witnesses described the attack as a "beheading," the London Telegraph reports. ITV News obtained video of a man with bloody hands carrying knives and a meat cleaver and warning "you people will never be safe" and saying "We swear by almighty Allah we will never stop fighting you."

Conservative Commentator Bill Whittle made a whirlwind tour of Phoenix and Tucson speaking against Medicaid Expansion and Obamacare

Thousands Hear Conservative Bill Whittle In Arizona

Bill Whittle, left, and A. J. LaFaro, Maricopa County Republican Committee Chairman

Thousands heard Conservative Commentator Bill Whittle during his recent whirlwind tour of Phoenix and Tucson, according to Maricopa County Republican Chairman A J LaFaro. The nationally recognized Whittle made appearances in Tucson on May 14 and in the Phoenix metro area on May 15, including several radio interviews and a stop at the State Capitol to speak  in opposition to ObamaCare and Medicaid expansion.

Whittle warned that “ObamaCare and Medicaid expansion will bankrupt states and the country.”  He went on to say “Arizona shouldn’t follow in the footsteps of his home state of California and its ‘ruinous’ policies.”

            Whittle further warned, “Be careful about going down a road that you cannot come back out from. Be careful about accepting this federal program that once you are in you will not get back out of. You still have a choice to make an individual decision for the citizens of Arizona, and you have a choice to look to the west at California, or you can look to the east at Texas and decide whether or not you want to go bankrupt as a society.”

LaFaro said, “Bill’s speaking tour was a tremendous success. It was a real honor and privilege to cosponsor the tour along with the Arizona Conservative Coalition, Arizona Conservative Educators and Arizona Conservative Consultants.”

            Whittle is an American conservative blogger, political commentator, director, screen writer, editor, pilot, and author. He is best known for his PJ Media internet videos and short films, one of which, "Three and a Half Days", has been viewed more than 2.5 million times on YouTube. He is currently the presenter of Afterburner and The Firewall, and co-hosts Trifecta with Stephen Green and Scott Ott.  Whittle’s Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) speech was called “The Best Speech of 2012″ by David Horowitz, who defined him as “One of the best conservative speakers of our time!”

"Let Them Eat Cake" Michelle Obama said to be eyeing an extended vacation this summer on Martha's Vineyard

While the unemployed an most Americans will not be able to afford a vacation, let alone hobnobbing with the rich and famous that doesn't deter the Obama's from spending tax dollars lavishly on themselves. 

According to the Boston Globe Obama's looking at Farm Neck vacation on Martha's Vineyard?
 If they choose Farm Neck, the president will have easy access to the lovely Farm Neck Golf Club and Cafe.

Between Benghazi, the IRS badgering the Tea Party, and assorted other brush fires, it’s hard to imagine President Obama will have time for a vacation this summer. But apparently he will. There’s been no official word from the White House, but we’re hearing the Obamas have their eyes on a house in Farm Neck on Martha’s Vineyard. During three previous visits, POTUS and FLOTUS and their daughters Malia and Sasha stayed at Blue Heron Farm in Chilmark. But British architect Norman Foster has since bought the place for $21.9 million. Farm Neck is secluded and, most importantly for the president, has a nice golf club. 

We’re told first lady Michelle Obama and the children may be on the island for an extended period, with the president joining them on occasional weekends and for two weeks at the end of August.

Yesterday Tea Parties protest at IRS offices around the Nation

Tea Party groups from around the country gathered at IRS office buildings to protest the government for targeting their organizations

Margaret Biller, of Mesa, Ariz., at Phoenix IRS Office smiles and waves at a person driving by honking 

their horn, as she joins several dozen tea party activists and other concerned citizens, waving signs and small 

American flags as they march outside the main Internal Revenue Service office on Tuesday, May 21, 2013, in 

Phoenix. The rally was one of many around the country after IRS officials acknowledged that some conservative 

groups received inappropriate attention and questioning. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)

Over 500 here now more coming," noted Ann Becker in Cincinnati.

IRSProtest Houston getting tons of support from passing cars!

"Tea Party preps for #IRS protest in front of the Federal building in downtown Nash" - Carley Gordon.

"Large Crowds in Atlanta." - Tea Party Patriots

"Small tea party protest outside IRS headquarters in DC. "- Ben Nuckols

"Woah!! Armed DHS guards outside #IRS building in St Louis!!" - Jim Hoft at Gateway Pundit

"Dept. of Homeland Security in Cincinnati."  - via Adriana Inman

"Kansas City tea partiers protest the #IRS." - @NiceDeb

"Good group at IRS OFFICE DAYTONA BEACH today" - Pace A. Allen

On Tuesday, an estimated 175 Tea Party activists protested outside the IRS office in the suburban Chicago community of Downers Grove. Here's a report from someone who attended the event:

What surprised many was a Homeland Security vehicle came past the protest twice. As you can see from the picture, the vehicle had tinted windows so we are unsure if there were any cameras inside. Were pictures taken of the attendees? Will any of the attendees now be further targeted by the IRS or Homeland Security?

Downers Grove, Illinois was not the only Tea Party protest at IRS offices that experienced scrutiny from federal authorities on Tuesday.
At the IRS offices in St. Louis, the Department of Homeland Security stationed a fleet of vehicles and several armed guards to keep a watchful eye over the St. Louis Tea Party protest.
In Los Angeles, one eyewitness (as reported by Gateway Pundit) described Department of Homeland Security efforts to intimidate Tea Party protesters, which apparently included observation by overhead helicopters:

Many of our 300 tea party folks were approached immediately by Homeland Security and told they could not be on federal property. My lawyer told me as long as I didn’t block passage we were OK. Many Homeland Security trucks and a helicopter above us scared many patriots so most of group went to public side walk to rally.
However, I stayed at IRS entrance telling Homeland Security it is my right to be there.
Then as I was leaving, carrying, my sign a woman jumped out of her car in IRS parking lot and started threatening me, “I am with ICE!”

CENTRIST DEMOCRAT ERIC GARCETTI WINS LOS ANGELES MAYORS RACE

In Shocker, Technocratic Centrist-Democrat Elected Mayor of Large City

City Councilman Eric Garcetti won the race for mayor of Los Angeles last night, defeating his opponent, city controller Wendy Greuel, by a margin of eight percent.

Arizona Lawmaker Juan Mendez (D-Tempe) In Charge of House Prayer is an Atheist

AZ Lawmaker Juan Mendez  In Charge of House Prayer Tells Colleagues He's an Atheist

USA Today says Juan Mendez (D-Tempe) put in a request to have Secular Coalition of Arizona director Serah Blain speak before the house during yesterday's "prayer time," but his request was somehow misplaced, so he decided to address the House in her stead.

"Most prayers in this room begin with a request to bow your heads. I would like to ask you not to bow your heads," Mendez told his fellow legislators at the start of yesterday's invocation. "I would like to ask that you take a moment to look around the room at all of the men and women here, in this moment, sharing together this extraordinary experience of being alive and of dedicating ourselves to working toward improving the lives of the people of our state."

This room in which there are many challenging debates, many moments of tension, of ideological division, of frustration. But this is also a room where, as my Secular Humanist tradition stresses, by the very fact of being human, we have much more in common than we have differences. We share the same spectrum of potential for care, for compassion, for fear, for joy, for love.

Carl Sagan once wrote, “For small creatures such as we, the vastness is bearable only through love.” There is, in the political process, much to bear. In this room, let us cherish and celebrate our shared humanness, our shared capacity for reason and compassion, our shared love for the people of our state, for our Constitution and for our democracy - and let us root our policymaking process in these values that are relevant to all Arizonans regardless of religious belief or nonbelief. In gratitude and in love, in reason and in compassion, let us work together for a better Arizona.

Mendez went on to point out several Secular Coalition for Arizona members watching from the House gallery, and said he hoped Arizona's non-believers would now be able to "feel as welcome and valued here as believers."

The Phoenix New Times reports that one of the Coalition members in attendance "said she was 'witnessing history.'"

In related news, the Supreme Court this week announced its plans to review the constitutionality of holding prayer sessions at legislative meetings.

Rafsanjani, Mashaei banned from presidential bid in Iran

Top news: A governing body of the Iranian government issued its list of approved presidential candidates and excluded two leading contenders --

Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani and Esfandiar Rahim Mashaei -- a decision that all but guarantees that the next Iranian president will be drawn from a conservatives slate of candidates considered close to Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
Rafsanjani, who served as president from 1989 to 1997, is seen as a favorite among centrist, urban youth and as someone who might be wiling to introduce some liberal economic reforms and allow more personal freedoms. Mashaei, who has been endorsed by current President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, fell out with the ruling clerics over his more liberal interpretation of Islam. Neither man is an out and out reformer, but the two men with significant popular followings of their own at least represent a challenge to the ruling establishment's choke-hold on power.
Their exclusion now puts the spotlight on a group of eight men approved as candidates by the Guardian Council that includes Saeed Jalili, Iran's top nuclear negotiator; Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf, the mayor of Tehran; Ali Akbar Velayati, the Ayatollah's foreign policy advisor; and Hassan Rowhani, a former nuclear negotiator. Of these men, only Rowhani has shown a willingness -- and a mild one at that -- to break with the regime

PHOENIX ARIZONA ONE OF 15 WORST HOUSING MARKETS IN THE NATION FOR NEXT FIVE YEARS

Phoenix-Mesa-Glendale, Arizona

AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin

Annualized expected growth from Q4 2012 - Q4 2017:
0.8%

Home prices in the Phoenix-Mesa-Glendale metro area have plunged 45.0% since they peaked in Q2 2006. It has a median home price of $185,000.

The metro has a population of 4.26 million, an unemployment rate of 6.7%, and a median family income of $60,600. Other 14 Markets