"san francisco chronicle," november 21, 2006. whereas on december 6, 2006, speaker nancy pelosi stated, quote, we promised the american people we would have the most honest and open government and we will, unquote. whereas, on december 17, 2006, "the washington post" reported that, quote, after a decade of bitter partisanship that has all but crippled efforts to deal with major national problems, pelosi is determined to try to return the house to what it was in an earlier era where you debated ideas and listened to each other's arguments, unquote. "the washington post," december 17, 2006. whereas, on december 5, 2006, majority leader steny hoyer, stated, quote, we intend to have a rules committee that gives opposition voices and alternative proposals the ability to be heard and considered on the floor of the house, unquote. "congress daily" december 5, 2006. whereas, during debate on june 14, 2005, in the congressional record on page h-4410 chairwoman louise slaughter of the house rules committee stated, quote, if we want to fost

francisco. jerry brown served as governor in the 1970's and 1980's. and a story in a lot of attention, the headline from the state newspaper in south carolina. it says sanford a wall -- who is in charge? john o'connor said south carolina gov. staff said the governor is taking on appellation trout, ending four days in which the staff and state officials say they have not heard from him. night in his office or the state law enforcement division that provides security had been able to reach him since he left the mansion thursday in a black suburban as uv assigned to his security detail, according to three people according to the -- familiar with the situation. the government spokesman did not disclose the trailer was hiking nor revealed whether he was hiking alone. his last known location was near atlanta late last week. a mobile telephone tower picked

in san francisco, for example, we have a 311 system. it is about, well, you see and pothole, you can get it fixed. what they are announcing in san francisco, it is monday, but it has to do with the integration of 311 happening right now with twitter. the deal is, you see a pothole, utah border -- you twitter it to the system. in britain, there is a iphone app. you take a photograph, you geo targetarget, and it goes. the arc of the universe is long, but it bends towards justice. i figured the energies i have should be channeled towards making sure that really happens, towards nurturing that trend, and as an inpatient guy, i went to accelerate it. >> what does that mean -- i wanted to accelerate it. >> i went to find the people and supporting them -- i want to accelerate it. i want to find the people and support them. as a nerd and former engineer, i am used to being the person who does stuff, a thing doer, and now, they tell me my great value is the person who talks about the great value of what other people do, and if that is what it ta

francisco. would you have coming out this fall? >> will come of this fall we have a couple books coming out from angela davis. we have a collection of essays. it is our first book that has been published in about four years that covers the emcee is particularly interested in, racism, sexism, the prison industrial complex and particularly interesting but we are publishing with angela is a new edition of the narrative of the life of frederick douglass and american slave which contains douglas's narrative as well as essays by davis that were part of a course that she todd at the ucla in the 70's. so, it really brings to life that essay and we will also include a new as they ridden by heard this year, so we are hoping that people who have read the narrative before take a look at this but as it is going to be enriched by the new and old work. we are also publishing the awakening, a long awaited memoir by hilbun leaver about her life with jack kerouac, of lenny bruce, allen ginsburg in greenwich villa

san francisco won tonight, in a 2-1 ballgame. again, that reflects their anemic offense. >> gary: runners on first and second base. holliday in the dirt. wieters picking that one up on the one hop. the count will go to 3-2. all of a sudden, mark hendrickson, looks like he is running out of gas here. >> buck: he does not have the same command that we saw when he first came on. this is the 4th inning that he has worked. he got the last out in this inning, three one, three one. 3-2, runners are going and ouch. >> buck: ball right in on his hands. he is getting on top of that. he gets that foot down and that ball hits right on the top of his left foo foot. >> gary: holliday will walk that off. for hendricks son, the innings pitch high came in hip pril, 5 1/3 against tampa bay. that's the longest outing for the left hander. runners are going, kennedy at second, cust at first. nobody out. 23bz count, runners going. foul ball again. >> buck: it's kind of interesting. you are always risking the possibility of a trip will play if the ball

he should pitch well at san francisco. finally, why can't joe saunders get any love? the lefty did win 17 games with a 3.41 e.r.a. last season and he's on pace for a similar campaign this year. why is he available in a third of espn leagues? i don't know. saunders and his 2.74 home e.r.a. this season will be on display friday against the dodgers. pick him up and keep him around. espn.com -- the best place for fantasy analysis on the web. check out our articles, videos, podcasts and chats. do better in your league. >> michael cuddyer does a little yard work -- justin morneau going the opposite way. 1-0 minnesota. we go to the bottom of the sixth. here is michael cuddyer. he gets every bit of this one. gone. into center field. that one off zach duke. twins win by the final count of 5-1 as they end up getting the save in the top of the ninth. beautiful stab right there to morneau. we love how these things work out, j-dub, nick blackburn, first career complete game, 4-0 with a 1.84 e.r.a. over the last eight starts. >> rockies beat the rays. 15-5 under jim tracy. last mid

. >> rob: san francisco the same thing. san francisco, it could be 80 during the day and 40 at night. >> jim p.: how about right center in the new ballpark. >> rob: you can't hit it out. >> jim p.: with nolan reimold, you figure the way this young man has been hitting, that you're one swing away from tying it up. controlled aggression. >> bob: he's been on base seven times. four hits and three walks. >> rob: i think he's like any young hitter. the key is to get ahead, then try oh get him out by making him expand. you can't do that when you're behind him. >> bob: he tries to put it under his hands. >> jim p.: it was like the perfect 1-2 pitch and he took it. >> bob: another one. >> jim p.: i asked wade boggs, how do you end, i'm sure every hitter has a little different dif advice, how do you know if the ball's inside. he said, where i hold my hands. if the ball's inside that, i know it's off the plate. so they have a guideline. >> bob: huff on the move. shallow right field for elijah dukes, lannan pulling the string on a 3-2

there was one year we went to san francisco, that's when you played the same team in your division 18 times, a nice play by ryan zimmerman, tough hop off the dirt in front of home plate, plenty of time. >> johnny: boy, zimmerman just having another tremendous year. especially that hitting streak he had where nobody could get him out. >> rob: 30 straight games is just a phenomenal hitting streak, and it wasn't just a cheapy, 1 for 4 every night, the last 10 games he raised his batting average 60 points and he was hitting the heck out of the ball right at the end. and getting back to your, the reds having trouble here, we were 0-9 in three different trips into san francisco at candlestick park. so sometimes it's just, you know, certain ball park, a certain team has your number, right now they don't play the nationals a lot and dusty baker trying to change things. a different ball club, much better pitching than he has had in the past. >> johnny: johnny hairston jr. led the reds, 25 runs scored, comments in with a batting average of .252, stole four bases, one down, johnny holiday in for

every time on a land at san francisco, every time the plane hits the taxi way i start thinking about these chinese dumplings. [laughter] the plan has to land in the taxi and i start thinking this place in the food court has these -- if i could only make it to the baggage claim it is out of my working memory. and i'm walking down the street in san francisco and start thinking about chocolate covered pretzels. why? because six months earlier i had been on that street, powell street and i went into a place and why it forgotten all about it but just the location, that fought entered my mind and of those thoughts of wanting so we did in this experiment is we took people who have loss of control, cc asian and preoccupation with food and scanned their brain. first we cued them, we just gave them the smell. you can give them the smell, the site, sometimes the location, just getting in your car can be a cue. the car drives -- because you've driven past and once you get in the car you start thinking about what you're going to eat because you've been there. there's always a past experience that

she is also work for the "washington journal", legal times and the san francisco reader. kepler's books in menlo park, california hosted the event. for more information visit kepler's.com. the brecht forum held a benefit and celebration of the 40th anniversary publication of noam chomsky first political book, "american power and the new mandarins". event took place at the riverside church in new york city, and lasts an hour and half. >> it is such a great honor to be here tonight to make this interjection. as we're standing here i was thinking that 14 years ago it was 1995, it was november. there was a forum on globalization that was taking place here at riverside and it was there that i've heard the announcement that nine activists had been executed in nigeria. in the writer is environmentalist to had dared to take on the nexus of a corporate and military power, the military dictatorship of nigeria and shell corporation, which had crisscrossed his land in the niger delta with gas pipelines above the ground, burning off gas and flares the size of apartment buildings. the

but the wealthier areas, areas around the coast of san francisco, san diego and los angeles have adjusted maybe 20% declines but haven't seen their full decline because they haven't had this for closure. but it doesn't mean they won't adjust. they had the largest appreciation, the neighborhoods had the biggest percentage increase. they saw 500% appreciation the last 15 years, so the

he was -- i personally am grateful to him for transforming san francisco's former army base. he was very much a part of doing that. the proceeding into one of our nation's parks and we have honored him on many occasions in san francisco. most recently as fort baker. i also -- none of cuss come together and talk about ralph regula -- can come -- none of us can come together and talk about ralph regula without talking about mary regula. it was the loven of mary and their three children and four grandchildren who made his leadership possible and we all know that mary is the one who made a decision that we would have a first lady -- a national first lady's library in canton, ohio, to honor the contribution to our nation of the first ladies of america. it's a phenomenal thing. she had an idea, she executed it and now people can visit and see that important part of american history. thanks to mary regula. today we honor a great congressional leader, great friend to all of us and a great man. i urge all of my colleagues to understand the privilege that we have of expressing our appr

.: martis looking for his first win since the game against san francisco, san francisco traded him to the nationals for a left-handed pitcher mike stanton. >> rob: he's pitched 39 innings since then, 29 runs have scored and he's walked 19. given up 37 hits. he just has not been as sharp, and it's almost like he won five of his first seven starts and he started thinking about it. hey, i'm tops among rookies in wins. well, he's been at five for six weeks. you and i talked about this the last time we worked together. job one for a starting pitcher, go six or seven innings, nowadays, back in your day it was a complete game. try to give your team an opportunity to win. some starting pitchers have lost that kind of focus where my first job is to the team, to get to the sixth and seventh inning, be the bridge to the bullpen and not blow number the first few innings. >> jim h.: ripped to right field, down the line, fair or foul? it is a home run! it got out, just by the foul pole. gregg zaun stays hot, the orioles get on the board. >> jim p.: it got around that foul pole pretty quickly. he pu

and they are getting a new respect for what san francisco and the bay area is all about, because angel island is where their ancestors came before they went out into the communities. and i will yield back the rest of my time. the chair: the gentlewoman yields the balance of her time. the question is on the amendment offered by the gentleman from california. those in favor say aye. those opposed, no.. in the opinion of the chair, the noes have it. the amendment is not agreed to. mr. campbell: madam chair, on that i would request a recorded vote. the chair: the gentleman requests a recorded vote. pursuant to clause 6 of rule 18, further proceedings on the amendment offered by the gentleman from california will be postponed. for what purpose does the gentleman from california rise? mr. campbell: madam chair, i rise as the designee of the the gentleman from arizona, mr. flake, with his amendment number 25. the chair: the clerk will designate the amendment. the clerk: part b, amendment number 4 printed in house report 111-184 offered by mr. campbell of california. the chair: pursuant to hou

he's a tough street guy from san francisco, hockey player background. he's really late to baseball, and that's why his age of 28, going to be 29 in a couple of days didn't bother me so much because we feel this guy even at 29 has an upside because he's got a lot of baseball in him. >> mike, before i let you go, let me make one comment to you. i think now as ray and i look at this ball club that you and stan kasten assembled from manny acta managed, you have a nice mix of young guys, some veteran guys, certainly nyjer is going to bring tremendous enthusiasm to this ball club. i'm really excited about the second half of this season and look forward to this ball club winning a lot of ballgames. >> well, you know, we're going to be an exciting team to watch. we've gotten better over the course of the season. the bullpen has kind of stablized a little bit. we're going to -- we've got a good, young stable of starting pitchers. we need good defense to help those young guys out to keep their pitch counts down. we'll be a team that plays hard, works hard and we'

beautiful day on san francisco bay and the athletics have the lead. if you're at a party. or, playing golf. like those guys. or, in a bar. [ old timey western bar music ] draw another door. don't say draw. never filling, always refreshing. bud light. the difference is drinkability. seven aces. >> jim: athletics with three in the bottom of the first. first thousand fans 15 and over will receive a mallet sent presented by old bay, with this set you can combine two of bird lands favorite summer tradition, steamed crabs an orioles baseball. tickets start as low as $9. get your tickets, 888-848-bird or online at orioles.com. new first baseman jack hannahan takes over for crosby. and here is ty wigginton -- brian taking over for ty wigginton. the numbers for brian roberts on the trip, just 2 out of 21. caed 2-1.>> buck: of cour this n'fit pinch hit appearance of the season. 2-2.his is one of those tcwhe if brian would bunt everonce a whe,you mighbe able if doesever try on a bunt for a base hit. 2-2, he got him. and roberts down on strikes. gwgy&rinumber four for mazzaro. >

which will go to san francisco to los angeles. this will eventually connect three major western metropolitan megaregions. each project meeting the criteria set out by our commission and the g.a.o. for being corridors of being 500 miles or less. this strigs is one that takes leadership and courage to get it done. it can be done and it should be done. i know having grown up in sioux falls, south dakota, it would have been nice too take a trip to minneapolis for a vikings game. but i was at home stuck in a blizzard because we had to travel by car. yes, these systems will be costly to design, fund and construct, but we can do this. this is the united states of america. mr. chairman, i have three policy changes for this committee to consider in the new authorization. first, we must agree upon a bold new vision and make the cultural shift in the h in the way we do transportation. a vision they can invest in and believe in, connecting america much like the eisenhower highway system did. we must do today what our parents and our grandpare

. >> rob: how much fun was it ding in san francisco? that's where it was. >> johnny: that's right. nothing like it. every team's dream. >> rob: did you get to see jim morrisson? >> johnny: i did not. i used to play light my fire in el paso back to back with a bridge over troubled waters. i could be in my car and across the golden gate bridge by the time that play finished. >> rob: you also need to take a bathroom break and play a long song. >> johnny: two minute records went to five minute and six minutes. here we have a 2-2 ballgame. phillips at 1st base. >> rob: did you ever meet grateful dead? >> johnny: sure. garcia. >> rob: deadhead. me and my wife. that's when i knew i loved her. >> johnny: nix goes down swinging. >> rob: here's macdougal challenging him. nice pitch there. >> johnny: talking about getting the job done. the bullpen is really, the last 16 ballgames, 2.7 era for this bullpen. down from 6.65 the first 40 games of the year. macdougal delivers to hernandez having to play 1st these days. >> rob: you want to time his home plate. >> johnny: phillips at 1st. 1-2 ballga

. >> san francisco giants looking for the errors. jonathan sanchez, bottom third. justin up and outton. number 12 on the year. d-backs win a pitching duel. 2-1 is your final. his longest outing of his career, four starts this season. allowing no earned runs. jonathan out for him. 0-6 on the road this season. he is 2-0 at home. >> still to come, the world's best soccer player may have a brand-new team. you won't believe how many millions ofs it might take to millions ofs it might take to get him there. this is matt. last year, matt went on the bud light port paradise cruise. it was awesome. for four days and three nights, matt soaked it all in. ( whooping, cheering ) i had the ship up to like 100, 100 miles an hour. and matt learned a lot about cruise ship protocol. for obvious reasons, we're protecting matt's identity. i didn't invite my girlfriend. sorry, tracey. you're an idiot. yep. bud light port paradise. it's the most fun you might never want to talk about. vo: geico powersportsusic vo: we feel your passion >> major soccer news. real madrid breaking the bank

. >> san francisco, a game and a half lead in the wild card race over st. louis. how about tim. what a night he would have facing pujols, bottom of the first. went down swinging. that would be the theme. bottom of the fifth, jason flared over the mound. athletic. makes the great catch, throws to it first. bottom of the eighth inning, 10-0 giants. the pitcher still on the mound. larue, down swinging, 8 ks, bottom of the ninth, mark derosa, flies out, 95 pitches, a complete game. 2:06. lincecum improves to 5-0. the giants continue to win without big offense. they score in double digits for the first time since may 11. but lincecum has been unbelievable in his last four starts. he's been limiting opponents to just a .197 batting average. >> the rays and blue jays opening a series north of the border. rays have won five straight. halladay returning to the mound after spending time on the dl with a groin injury. 2-3 on the night. pitching well for the braves. gets scott to ground into a double play. niemann gets the win. unbeaten in five june starts. halladay had won his last seven d

or the islands off of san francisco, and these are all t.r. last one, roosevelt in hawaii, look to the west of hawaii heading to asia. roosevelt saved all of that for bird sanctuaries. and not just that, he threatened war with japan, when they tried to kill birds on the islands. and he threatened war, and roosevelt heard that a group of japanese field hunters came on american seals, and he would not, he was gearing up for war if need be with japan over seals. when i use the title "wilderness warrior." this was a whole other thing. you can't understand the essence of theodore roosevelt if you don't understand darwin and the understanding of america. >> who introduced roosevelt to darwin? >> it's interesting, roosevelt's father was an early reader of darwin. t.r. when 14 or 15, he was in egypt and he writes about darwin. in fact, brian, in my book he draws out how we evolved from the stork. roosevelt has himself evolving from an stork. and draws pictures from it and shows his brother evolving from apes. darwin's species came out in 1858. and by

there's a big difference between san francisco and the heartland. some members still remember his btu tax from 1993 where he tried this idea of imposing this tax on all btu pros's used in the country. it is no surprise. it seems that he was disinvited rather quickly. mark my words. the american people will remember this vote. this will be a defining moment and a dividing -- and a defining vote in the congress. house republicans have the better plan. it will produce more energy, more green energy, lower energy prices, and actually do more to clean up their than having the some giant government bureaucracy as suggested by our friends across the aisle. on health care, the president, again, last night, attended to sell the government takeover of our health-care system. he is backtracking on his claim that americans can keep the benefits that they have. the kennedy bill may clear that 33 million americans will lose coverage under his proposal. we have not seen that on the studios were on how many americans will lose. i suspect it will be higher. an indep

he gave the speech in san francisco. he started out quoting teddy roosevelt. he went on to cite how the department was engaged with the issue of politically abusive conduct. a junket had been arranged, taking members of congress to play golf at st. andrews. it was arranged by a man and he said this had been fully investigated. i subsequently discovered that my friend mr. mukasey did not know that one of the participants in this golf junkets that he cited was his predecessor, john ashcroft. the week he gave that speech, the single most prominent report in the american press of corruption related to the united states department of justice. it was a no bid consultancy contract, multimillion-dollar consulting contract awarded by the u.s. attorney in new jersey, then preparing his candidacy to be governor, to the same john ashcroft. never investigated or addressed internally by the department of justice. in the speech, i think, judge mukasey went on to say, "let me be clear. politics has no world in the investigation or prosecution of political corruption or any ot

francisco. he served as commissioner of u.s. food and drug administration under presidents george h. w. bush and bill clinton from 1990 to 1997. dr. kessler is a graduate of amherst college, harvard medical school and university of chicago law school. rodale is the publisher. to find out more, visit rodale.com. .. >> host: we are here with one of the authors i am have admired my whole life, eduardo galeano. eduardo galeano board in the uruguay i mentioned to him i have had his books in my head for decades. one of the reasons i became involved in latin america and studies about latin america was because of your work spur it is really a great pleasure for me to be here with you. >> thank you. >> host: you have been in the states for a while? how long? >> guest: it 10 minutes. i just arrived. >> host: i know you are going to york. >> guest: and then other cities. >> my new baby. >> this is the book, at "mirrors" stories of almost everyone but of course, i checked out the spanish title title, [speak

went the san francisco, colorado, the cubs, pittsburgh, the cardinals, the red sox, the braves, milwaukee and he is still pitching. and still pitching effectively. grounded to second. alberto gonzalez an to first and there's one away -- on to first and there's one away in the 8th. follow the nats with our i touch. it features video aye lights and live -- highlights and audio broadcasts. visit nationals.com on your iphone on the ipod touch to purchase. a lot of nationals fans hanging around to see if this ball club can pull this out, tying it up for a run and take the lead and snap this three-game losing streak. brandon phillips against tavarez and takes a strike. >> rob: think about tavarez over 17 years. you have to keep yourself in great physical condition. the arm is one thing but you need strong legs and a strong trunk. a lot of ab work. >> johnny: tavarez, one major league active pitchers when he came in the season this year, 4th among career holds, 150. arthur rhodes of the red has 193. he has been around a couple of years. >> rob: just a few. >> johnny: i think thinking when they a

francisco what do you have coming out this fall? >> we have a couple of books from angela davis. a collection of essays it is our first book that has been published in about four years that covers things that she is particularly interested been the, racism, sexism the prison industrial complex and particularly interesting thing that we're publishing with angela is a new edition of a narrative of the life of frederick douglass which contains douglas's narrative as well as essays by davis that were part of a course that she talked at ucla in the '70s. and it really brings two life that sa and will include a new essay written by her this year. we're hoping people who have read the narrative before they will be enriched by the new and the old works. we're also publishing the awaken her the long awaited a memoir by hellman weaver it is about her life with jack kerouac and greenwich village in the fifties and is also involved in the publishing scene in the '50s so it is more than focusing just on jack kerouac but a bigger and literary lif

francisco chronicle" and happily the "los angeles times." he's alsok# been publishing ess in the american scholar and he teaches writing and -- teaches in the writing and the film departments at johns hopkins. he's, i'm told, at work -- just written a new novel and a work on a second and in search of another biographical book. finally, richard reeves who probably needs no introduction to any of you. richard is the senior lecturer at the annenberg school of communication at usc. he's probably best known for his presidential biographies of john kennedy, richard nixon and ronald reagan. his latest book, however, was a biography of new zealand physicist ernest rutherford in which he repeated the experiments that lead to the atom. he describes that as a labor of love designed to show his graduates that he was not as dumb as he thought he was. [laughter] >> so to begin, i wanted to invite each of our panelists to make some -- to offer some opening thoughts. and sort of thought we'd start with the question of, you know -- we're here today to talk

. >> all right, the san francisco giants looking for a sweep of the arizona diamondbacks. that's one of the few mistakes that jonathan sanchez made. cost him. d'backs win, 2-1. 7 and #/3. striking out six for a win. the win snaps a three-game home losing streak for the diamondbacks. jonathan sanchez continues to struggle on the road, falling to 0-6 away from home. >> the brett favre athon continues in minnesota. favre isn't there. he's still rehabbing his surgically repaired right shoulder. now there is a he said who said? going on between the media and brad childress who insists the team did not give favre a deadline to show up. espn is standing by the story that the team did exactly that. childress seemed to leave the door open for favre to come to town at some point. >> i think we're anxious to see favre throw the ball, is that where you're standing to see him throw before you make any concrete decision on that? >> no. i'm not that anxious. no. i'm not on mood elevators or anything like that. but you always want to see that happen. >> is the plan for you to see him thro

she is someone from san francisco who has been a big environmentalist all of her career. they rarely faced opposition. this is poised to be the first vote on cap and trade legislation. for nancy pelosi, this is one of her biggest issues. >> the climate change bill itself, cap and trade, and what else of the key aspects of this bill? >> cap and trade is probably the biggest piece. it allows companies to buy and sell permits that allow them to pollute more than they are required to and other companies that are cleaning up market to sell to other companies. the major position -- another major provision will push the united states to try to get as much clean energy from solar and wind over the next 15 or 20 years. there is some wiggle room that allows some states to do more and other states to do less. there has been a whole bunch of other added mandates over the last couple of weeks and months, including some green building incentives and some promotion to get greener jobs and those that have lost their jobs to transition into a green economy. >> we have heard from a number

that is a majority of the voters of san francisco voted no. now, one of the challenges the republican party is are we prepared to be inclusive and not exclusive? let me be clear. [applause] >> and i say this having been active in thinking about this party and thinking about governing this country for 51 years. i am happy that dick cheney is republican. i am also happy that colin powell is a republican. [applause] >> a majority republican party will have lots of debates within the party. that is the nature of majorities. remember, reagan carried 49 states in 1984, and a lot of them were not hard-core conservatives. reagan won in 1980 by appealing to independent and unhappy democrats. there's not a single reagan speech where he doesn't say, "my fellow republicans and those independents and democrats who are looking for a better future." there were not enough republicans to win in 1980. there were not enough republicans to wind during that time. it was about 21% of believe. inclusion does not mean lack of principles.

well san francisco would make you get like that. >> rob: okay. were you dr. johnniy holiday. >> johnny: no, master johnny holiday. three balls two strikes to ryan zimmerman, you can see he caught it for strike three. you can see the frustration for ryan as the nationals retire the top of the fourth cincinnati up 1-0. ♪ (tucci) more bars in more places. at&t. the best coverage worldwide. buy the lg xenon messaging phone for 99.99 after mail-in rebate and get one free after mail-in-rebate. . >> johnny: it's a 1-0 bal game, cincinnati with a run there in the top of the second as you can see. boat clubs with two hits, a 1-0 lead. we go to the top of the fourth, look who is coming along. >> rob: that's med wick. >> johnny: aflac. >> rob: the last draft pick to go directly to the majors? chip has been waiting all year for this, huh? >> rob: that's a great question. >> johnny: i know dibs will come up with an answer for this one. ramon hernandez having the first-base duties tonight. >> rob: was he their first overall pick? randy johnson. no, he didn't go dir

francisco and it showed that black or hispanic physicians were three times more likely to establish their practices in black or hispanic areas. the health care in their communities improved. one might say that this is not due to bias in the system, but i think that depends on how you define that. i think -- i do not refute the fact that when one looks very closely at a lot of kattegat's, you may not find differences if you look very finely, but there are gross discrepancies in the health-care system that have an impact on people's lives. i think it is important that, as we are working to improve the health of americans, that we do not dispose of those factors that have a system that makes it difficult for a growing sector of a population to receive the care that they need. one of the challenges that we face as a society is a growing health burden as well as problems in our educational system. if they are not addressed, over time, that will erode the strength of our country. i think we have to look as broadly as we need to, but not dismiss those systemic problems that appear with the

francisco. what is coming out this fall? >>guest: a couple of bucks coming ounce, we have a collection of essays and it is the first book published in about four years that covers things she is particularly interested and, racism, sexism, industrial complex, it is interesting publishing with angela, a new edition of a narrative of the life of frederick r. glass which contains his narrative as well as essays by davis that were part of a course that she taught at ucla and the 70 is. is it really brings to life at sa and we will also include a new essay written by her this year. we're hoping people who have read the narrative before take a look at this book as it will be enriched by the nol and the old. we're also publishing the way kenner, it is long awaited by helen weaver. she is also involved in the publishing scheme in the fifties it really presents a bigger picture of literary life in new york in the '50s in greenwich village which continues to always seem to be of interest and we are excited

francisco reader. kepler's books hosted the event. for more information visit keplers.com. >> what is a demagogue? >> there are the book offers, 4 part definition which is one of the few times anyone has defined demagogue for a while. i barrault elements from an 1838 essay by james fennel or cooper. there are 4 characteristics, a man of the people, person of the people is how they identify. the second, they trigger great emotional reactions from people. they use those irrational -- emotional reactions for political benefits and the most important one, they bend or break established rules of governance or law. >> who would you define as an american demagogued? >> q long was the quintessential american demagogue. there have been many other examples from daniel shea, a revolutionary during the time of the constitutional convention. joseph mccarthy, george wallace, david duke has a burst, in louisiana, was a demagogue. and in history, when i talk about -- is beneficial, paradoxically you can have a demagog

host: san francisco, a republican, hi. caller: we should keep everything private. do not involve the government. it is not 22 million people like canada. we're not a small country. we are the world's third largest country. right note we 0 $36 trillion for medicare. we cannot run everything. we do not have the money. we owe china summit millions now, close to $1 trillion in. we have to find a way to pay for things. if we get into this we have to build more buildings and bureaucracy. more pensions for eternity. we have to find a way to stay private. if there is an emergency, then the government can come in and help like with the swine flu. but let's take care of this by ourselves. what the private insurance companies help us find a way to lower rates for those who are extremely poor. let's not put in people who are illegal because that is 12 million up to 20 million people we do not need to do this for. if we could keep quality and have an attitude of helping each other along with charities -- but there is no reason to put government in that could one day be an extre

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. >> san francisco giants looking for a sweep of the diamondbacks. on third, no score for justin upton! >> opposite field, number 12 on the year. diamondbacks win 2-1. 7 and 2/3 striking out six for the win. jonathan sanchez continues to struggle on the road. falling to 0-6 away from home. >> favre isn't actually there. he's still rehabbing his surgically repaired right shoulder. espn is standing by the story that the team did exactly that a. today, childress talked about favre, and seemed to leave the door wide open. >> i think we're anxious to see favre throw the ball. is that where you stand to see him throw before you make any concrete decision on that? >> no. i'm not that anxious. no, i'm not. but, you know you always want to see that. >> is the plan for you to see him throw at some point? does that leave the door open for you? >> i don't know. that's down the road stuff. the guy's retired right now. we have to talk to him about that. is it something that can extend to the week before training camp? into july? is that something you need clarity

. >> gary: day game today, th angels beat san francisco 4-3. as lincecum started the ballgame and lost it. he gave up four runs, eight hits over eight innings. gibson got the win for the angels in relief. ishikawa -- ishikawa had the only home run. >> jim: lincecum doesn't lose very often. >> gary: strike taken by luke scott, designated hitter. five game hit streak for luke. those numbers tend to get lost a bit in the shuffle, but those are tremendous numbers. he continues as dh's in the american league. he's third in average, third in rbi's and first in dh home runs. >> jim: and he's nine behind the home run total last year when he had problems with the achilles tendon in his back foot. i just realize, seems to me a different stance this year, a healthier luke scott. second year with terry crowley, and he's learned the lead. he can hit the fastball. >> gary: that will be inside. tim redding on the mound for the mets. redding has actually faced the orioles before, but way back when he pitched for houston in 03. and he was nondecisioned in the b

francisco has millions of documents and they are wonderful to read. excuse me. how do i get to this? amount of things the tobacco industry did was published their own journals, newspapers, magazines a meeting of policymakers and scientists and physicians and they said focus on controversy, anything there raises a question about studies or what you should promote and dialing to them all to our website and it is worth reading because it is remarkable. there was extraordinary successful campaign for many, many years and hilt went on to market their expertise much more widely this is what is more well known of the '70s and '80s and '90s when different industries and corporations faced a crisis surrounding fermenta zero exposures, hill & nolten said we can help you. i was able to obtain documents i worked at the energy permit which was the primary user for release and but essentially hill & nolten described how they were successfully able to help not only the tobacco industry but how they helped other industries here is one on fluorocarbons or freon and oz

francisco two-door reda root. so i understand that there are longer routes and bigger planes and so on are going to get the pilots with more expats. it just seems to me that the way this hub and spoke system has morphed is that the network carriers have decided, you know what, we're going to move a lot of these spokes onto a commuter carrier and that commuter carrier is going to be out there with smaller planes, in most cases. it's going to cost us less, although they're going to wear our name on the fuselage, but it's going to cost us a lot less because, frankly, they can be a carrier that we have perhaps 100% ownership of or substantial ownership but not the same contracts we have. so it will have pilots with less expense that they can hire for an entry-level of $18000 a year. it seems to me just inevitably that you do have been, again without demeaning a pilot or the pilots ability, you do have the potential of a separate standard of capability. i'm not talking about training to safety minim standard i'm talkin

the decision may help jerry brown more than gavin newsom, who is the mayor of san francisco. he served as the governor of california in the 1970's and is now the attorney general. also, a story that has been getting a lot of attention in south carolina. it says sanford awol, who is in charge? the south carolina staff saying the governor is hiking, ending four days in which officials say they had not heard from him. neither his office nor the state law enforcement staff had been able to reach him since he left thursday in a black suburban s tv -- a black suburban suv. that is according to one staff official. he would not reveal whether he was hiking alone. his last known location was near a lanham late last week. -- he was near atlanta late last week. more details on available from the state newspaper. scott is on the phone from long island. are there mixed signals in the economy? if so, where are we heading? caller: i don't know where we are heading. thanks for c-span. i am baffled sometimes that the american people, how long has it taken us to get into this position and peop

he says some people leave their hearts in san francisco, some leave their appendix. pitch is taken outside for a ball. felix pie will try to resume here. he's at bat with a 2-2 count. cahill tossed a couple while waiting there. the delivery is swung out and miss. cahill off to a start here as he's got three strikeouts already. one down in the 3rd inning. >> buck: that's a pretty good combination. that looked like a fastball that just got up and away from pie. with two strikes he chased and couldn't make contact. >> gary: the orioles struck out nine times in last night's game without getting a walk as we were talking about earlier. both sides of the coin have changed for the o's as they were not striking out at all. in fact they were leading the american league in fewest strikeouts. they are striking out and they are not getting walks. he knows he's going to be in the line up now on a daily basis until izturis can get back. he played outstanding defense in the ball game last night. batting is just .239. 0-3 at the plate. cahill's pitch is in there for a strike. 2-1. o

they operate in major financial centers including london, chicago, hong kong, and san francisco. serves as vice-chairman of the chicago public education fund. our next witness is robert pickle. the executive director and chief executive officer of the international swaps and derivative associations the global trade association for over-the-counter derivatives. previously he was the general counsel of isda since 1997. prior to joining isda he was in the legal department of an international oil and gas company from 1919 to 1997 -- 1991 do 1997. our fourth witness is christopher whalen, but mr. whalen is a proud resident of hudson, new york. they provide consulting services for audit tore, regular laters and he consults with global companies on a variety of financial and regulatory issues and the regional director of the professional risk managers international association and is a board adviser to a global business security risk in asia. -- huh, hu, would you please begin. >> mr. chairman and distinguished members, thank you for this opportunity. i teach at the university of texas

she's someone from san francisco who's been a big environmentalist her whole career. this is an issue that environmentalists have been trying to get on the agenda on capitol hill for a long time, for many many years. and they've faced opposition for eight years under the bush administration. this is poised to be the first ever house floor vote on cap and see -- cap-and-trade bill. >> the climate change bill itself, cap-and-trade and what else are the key aspects of this bill? >> cap-and-trade is probably the biggest piece. it's an overall cap on united states greenhouse gas emissions, the declines over the next 40 years allows companies to buy and sell permits that allow them to pollute more than they're required to and other companies that are cleaning up more get to sell to the dirtier companies. the other major provision of this bill is a renewable electricity standard that would push the united states to try and get as much clean energy from solar and 20 years -- and wind over the next 15 to 20 years. there's some wiggle room there that allows some states to do mo

that's actually pretty high humiddity for the san francisco bay area. just a slight chance of rain tonight as the orioles and the athletics open up this three- game weekend series. takeing a look at the line-up. roberts, adam jones and markakis up top. adam still hitting very well with runners in scoring position, .447, still fourth best in the american league. huff, mora and scott who is in left field. myreimold starting tonight. with cesar izturis about to under go apen appendectomy. >> luke scott already in 50 games so far has five homeruns against left handed pitchers. now, in order to get comfortable, you have to play against them. the skipper gives him a chance to play against left handers and he has produced right off the bat. what an unbelievable week we have seen out of him. he got seven homeruns. i think in his last eight games and 17 rbis. he is carrying the ball club right now. they are just not getting enough people on base in front of him to make it work. >> the other night in seattle, the orioles scored two runs and he drove both of them

president obama said in january of 2008 to the "san francisco chronicle" and i think i have it memorized -- he said if my cap and trade bill becomes law, utility rates would necessarily skyrocket. he said that will cost money and today, referring to utility companies, they would pass that along to consumers. so there is a debate over the amount of money. the congressional budget office said the gross increase to households would be $1,400. but they mitigated by the expectation that the government programs and revenues that would offset the. we have stuck with $3,100. the heritage foundation projected more than four thousand dollars. but i prefer to stay where the president is -- utility rates would skyrocket, to use his phrase, and that would be passed along to consumers. my sense is most americans understand that and they know that, particularly in the midwest where we rely on more than 90% of our electricity in indiana coming from coal-burning power plants. testimony at one hearing we had from richmond power and light suggested a 40% increase in home electric utility rates overnight if

beautiful view from the san francisco side looking back over to oakland. one of the great shipping ports still in the nation. aubrey huff will stand in. mora and zaun to follow. cahill on the mound. 2-5 record. retire 65% of lead off batters. pitch is on the inside corner for a strike. lefties have good numbers off cahill. .311. right handers .226. and eight of the nine home runs he's given up hit by lefty. that one cut off and hannahan make the throw and one out. orioles have just announced an exciting new ticket offer. for a limited time the rookie flex pack. tickets to four games of your choice including a prime game. first 500 fans who purchase two seats will receive an autographed photo. celebrating the walk off home run he hit. you get the autographed picture of weiters getting his home run hit. melvin mora 1-3 in the game last night. down low for a ball. >> buck: when you shake up the line up and everybody gets pushed down a little bit should make the line up better overall once everybody gets back to their approach. >> gary: 2-0. >> buck: one thing

the oregon coast, it was a battle of their to save the islands off a san francisco, also. roosevelt in hawaii, if you grab a map of hawaii and see the hawaiian islands, look to the west of hawaii going towards asia midway. roosevelt saved all of that bird sanctuaries. when -- he threatened war with japan when japan would try to kill birds on that island. he threatened war with japan. an alaska chain where he saved seals, roosevelt heard a group of japanese seal hunters came to an american archipelago and killed americans seals, he was gearing up for, if need be, with japan over seals. this wilderness warrior, it was not just a policy for him. you cannot understand the essence of their roosevelt if you don't understand his relationship with dahlin, ornithology, and with the big game and forestry of america. >> what about darwin? >> roosevelt's father was an early reader of darwin. we don't know exact moment teddy discovered darwin, but the when he was 14 years old or 15 he was in egypt. he writes about darwin at 14. brian, in my book he draws out how we evolve from the stor