[Texascavers] Fwd: Sale of US Post Office Buildings around the U.S.
This post is not necessarily meant to be political but educational to inform tax paying citizens of what is going on in our nation and government. If this is indeed true, it should not be allowed but should be negotiated with brokers in the areas of the buildings to be sold. We're the active post office properties privately owned more people would be employed and property taxes would be paid. Just my opinion. Fritz Sent from my iPhone Subject: Fwd: Sale of US Post Office Buildings around the U.S. Subj: Sale of US Post Office Buildings around the U.S. It isn't always what you know that pays big dividends . . . . . . The U.S. 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, most of which are located on prime land in towns and cities across the country. The sale of these properties will fetch about $19 billion. A regular real estate commission will be paid to the company that was given the exclusive listing for handling the sales. That company is CRI and it belongs to a man named Richard Blum. Richard Blum is the husband of Senator Dianne Feinstein. (Most voters and many of the government people who approved the deal have not made the connection between the two because they have different last names). Senator Feinstein and her husband stand to make a fortune (EST at between $950 million and $1.1 billion!!) from these transactions. His company is the sole real estate on the sale. CRI will be making a minimum of 3% and as much as 6% commission on each and every sale. All of the properties that are being sold are all fully paid for. They were purchased with U.S. taxpayers dollars. The U.S.P.S. is allowed free and clear, tax exempt use. The only cost to keep them open 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 county property taxes on these subject properties. Would you put your house in foreclosure just because you couldn't afford to pay the electric bill? Well, the folks in Washington have given the Post Office the OK to do it! Worse yet,most of the net proceeds of the sales will go back to the U.S.P.S, an organization that is so poorly managed that they have lost $117 billion dollars in the past 10 years! No one in the mainstream media is even raising an eyebrow over the conflict of interest and on the possibility of corruption on the sale of billions of dollars worth of public assets. How does a U.S. Senator from San Francisco manage to get away with organizing and lobbying such a sweet deal? Has our government become so elitist that they have no fear of oversight? And it's no mere coincidence that these two public service crooks have different last names; a feeble attempt at avoiding transparency in these type of transactions. Pass this info on before it's pulled from the Internet. Verified on Snopes: http://www.snopes.com/politics/business/blum.asp EMAIL ETIQUETTE: If you forward my email message, please, delete my email address, use bcc, and thereby, avoid spam. Thank you! 8^) =
texascavers Digest 5 Nov 2013 15:13:11 -0000 Issue 1880
texascavers Digest 5 Nov 2013 15:13:11 - Issue 1880 Topics (messages 23014 through 23019): Re: Li- ion cordless drill battery 23014 by: Pete Lindsley New cave snail species found in Croaria 23015 by: Lee H. Skinner [ I need help ] 23016 by: Don Arburn UT Grotto Meeting November 6 23017 by: Andrea Croskrey Palmito 23018 by: Nico Escamilla Re: Sale of US Post Office Buildings around the U.S. 23019 by: Fritz Holt Administrivia: To subscribe to the digest, e-mail: texascavers-digest-subscr...@texascavers.com To unsubscribe from the digest, e-mail: texascavers-digest-unsubscr...@texascavers.com To post to the list, e-mail: texascavers@texascavers.com -- ---BeginMessage--- You can also have your batteries rebuilt. A 36V Hilti NiCad battery rebuild costs about $108 via the internet, and I found a local Interstate Battery store that said they would do it for ~$80. An 18 V battery would run half that. Li-ion batteries are more expensive (if you can even find a rebuilder) and they take a special charger. (I am using a Hilti hammer drill with tapered bull pins for digging projects here in NM. But if you get a cheap one off the internet count on it needing a new battery soon.) - Pete On Nov 3, 2013, at 6:10 PM, Tom Rogers wrote: Don't dispose of your bad cordless batteries. Take them apart and you can harvest 5- 10 18650 batts of which one or two might be shorted out. I had three bad 18 volt batts. Now I have more caving batteries than I can keep up with. Someone with more electrical knowledge might even be able to fix the cordless batteries, which was my original intention. Till I discovered that they were filled with 18650's. Tom ---End Message--- ---BeginMessage--- https://www.sciencenews.org/article/clearly-new-snail Lee ---End Message--- ---BeginMessage--- Cavers, due to unforeseen circumstances I must move out of my ranch house, in Bee County, by Friday. I am moving from there to my home in South San Antonio and/or a storage facility near my house. I need manpower, I will provide food, fuel beer. I have two pickups and 3 trailers. This is an emergency. I realize most all of you work regular hours and can't. But at this point I am doing it alone. It's mostly a workshop and a few household items. Please!? Thank you. Sent cellularly. -Don Arburn---End Message--- ---BeginMessage--- Howdy Texas Cavers, UT Grotto meeting this week! Come see the last presentation in our Pre and Post Trips of the 2013 International Congress of Speleology series. David Ochel, Jean Krejca, and Andrea Croskrey will be sharing photos and tales of exploration and recreational caving with Matt Covington in Slovenia. Hope to see you there! I'd also like to remind people that the room location for the UT Grotto meetings has changed. We will now be in *Burdine 134*. Follow this link to a map of where the building is located on the University of Texas campus: http://www.utexas.edu/maps/main/buildings/bur.html For information on Underground Texas Grotto activities, please see www.utgrotto.org Before the meeting, take advantage of Sao Paulo www.saopaulos.net for happy hour specials. This area is the best place to park and meet folks walking over to the meeting. Then after the official meeting, we continue with the decades long tradition to reconvene for burgers, beer, and tall tales of caving at Posse East. www.posse-east.com Cavingly, Andrea Croskrey UT Grotto Vice Chair ---End Message--- ---BeginMessage--- I think the restoration project needs to be resurrected. Thoughts? Nico ---End Message--- ---BeginMessage--- This post is not necessarily meant to be political but educational to inform tax paying citizens of what is going on in our nation and government. If this is indeed true, it should not be allowed but should be negotiated with brokers in the areas of the buildings to be sold. We're the active post office properties privately owned more people would be employed and property taxes would be paid. Just my opinion. Fritz Sent from my iPhone Subject: Fwd: Sale of US Post Office Buildings around the U.S. Subj: Sale of US Post Office Buildings around the U.S. It isn't always what you know that pays big dividends . . . . . . The U.S. 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, most of which are located on prime land in towns and cities across the country. The sale of these properties will fetch about $19 billion. A regular real estate commission will be paid to the company that was given the exclusive listing for handling the sales. That company is CRI and it belongs to a man named Richard Blum. Richard Blum is the husband of Senator Dianne Feinstein. (Most voters and
[Texascavers] Re: Palmito
Theres still graffiti to be removed and while there may not be as much trash as there used to theres still some scattered stuff here and there Nico El martes, 5 de noviembre de 2013, Diana Tomchick escribió: What prompts you to think there is a need for restoration in Palmitos? Diana * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Diana R. Tomchick Professor University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center Department of Biophysics 5323 Harry Hines Blvd. Rm. ND10.214A Dallas, TX 75390-8816, U.S.A. Email: diana.tomch...@utsouthwestern.edu 214-645-6383 (phone) 214-645-6353 (fax) On Nov 4, 2013, at 10:36 PM, Nico Escamilla wrote: I think the restoration project needs to be resurrected. Thoughts? Nico UT Southwestern Medical Center The future of medicine, today.
[SWR] NSS BOG meeting changes
Dear Friends, If you attending the National Speleological Society's Board of Governors meeting this Saturday and plan to attend either the Friday evening and/or Saturday evening party, please go the following link: http://www.caves.org/region/swr/docs/Fall 2013 NSS BOG Registration formV2.pdfhttp://www.caves.org/region/swr/docs/Fall%202013%20NSS%20BOG%20Registration%20form.pdf This PDF is the registration form but also contains information about the meeting and parties. Unfortunately, we just learned that the party locations need to be switched. The Friday evening party will now be hosted by Pat Seiser and the Saturday evening party by Danielle Stewart, instead of the other way around as previously announced. Also, there is a $20 fee to cover the food costs for both parties (of course there is no fee for attending the Board meeting). If you will be attending only one party, you only need to pay $10. We apologize for the confusion. Please share this information with anyone who may be interested or affected. Thank you, George George Veni, Ph.D. Executive Director National Cave and Karst Research Institute 400-1 Cascades Avenue Carlsbad, New Mexico 88220-6215 USA Office: 575-887-5517 Mobile: 210-863-5919 Fax: 575-887-5523 gv...@nckri.org www.nckri.org ___ SWR mailing list s...@caver.net http://lists.caver.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/swr ___ This list is provided free as a courtesy of CAVERNET
[Texascavers] NSS-CDS Cave Diver Training: A Brief Overview, by Jim Wyatt (NSS#56713) - Autoforwarded
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