i like orson and/orson hates me. i don't know whether he hates me.s at me a little bit like this. >> reporter: voila. he's play say, expects preferential treatment. if he doesn't know you, he'd just as soon not know you. this, mon ami, is a parisienne. he lives in the dog's friendlyiest city on earth. my friend is the proceed brightor of fish, where just a few years ago i saw a dog join his master for a plate of pasta. >> the other day when he finally got the pasta he asked for parmesan because the dog wouldn't eat it without parmesan. >> reporter: don't get the impression that paris gives carte blanche to dog owners. they are supposed to pick up after their animals. >> there are poop-and-scoop laws here but it depends on who is enforcing them. >> reporter: wendy lynn edits a blog called the paris kitchen. after living here for 22 years, she can tell you.... >> there's a place in paris called cafe d. >> reporter: d for dog. >> which is the legal way of breaking laws. >> reporter: on the one hand their legal code dates back to no pole i don't know. on

they thought they could do an orson wells-type scare. who was on the spacecraft?sized aviators. that's what is most disturbing about my book. i hope you start at page one. >> jon: you really should because you don't want to start with the disturbing parts, like someone i know did. >> but it was in 1947 that stalin sent this craft. and it really did land in new mexico according to my source who received the equipment at area 51. >> jon: and the two brothers that found this craft... >> the two brothers who designed it were former german aerospace... they used to work for hitler, as a lot of our scientists did. >> jon: sure. we all worked for hitler at some point. >> they certainly did. but the horton brothers created this flying disk originally for the third reich, and then stalin stepped in and took away a lot of their scientists and the united states' government took a lot of the third reich scientists for us. and so what went on, a lot of what went on at area 51 was this intense scientific pushing science to the great extreme. that's what i write about. >> jon: a

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course msks a task force area which is 3rd street, 4th street, that particular area where 25 loss orson, those businesses they would not be able to apply for a permit. >> right. thank you. >> yes? joseph. >> so i guess my question to this -- it's clear that you say no d.j.'s so no dance clubs would come of this at all, correct? >> i heard the first part. >> no d.j.'s. >> correct. it's no d.j.'s it's live music. i just want to bring to -- to -- to light to my commissioners, we had just two examples. we had catch restaurant on market street that had a piano player for years and now that space where the piano was which is above is empty because they can't -- they just couldn't afford to do it with the permit. but they did have a piano player. and then the revolution cafe, i don't know if commissioners -- commissioner micko you may remember this. permitting this little bitty coffee shop on mission and they had a guy show up with the cello playing jazz. they needed a full board entertainment permit. and it was -- it was very onerous on them to -- to apply for that. i for one want to say i am

. >> i think he has a deeper voice than orson wells personally. there's something about him. what i was happy with, he brought up something quite interesting, he's calling on the private sector to take over and give the economy a boost. why? because gretchen, is this administration out of bullets? the stimulus package, the financial reform, have they already played all of their cards? >> i kind of took it as blaming the private sector. why haven't you stepped up to the plate earlier to provide jobs and i think people in the private sector, people running private businesses would say because we feel like our arms are tied based on we don't know what's going to happen to taxes, etc. take a look at this chart right here, the unemployment rate is not helping the situation at all. remember, this is last year, but we just reported last week that it was back up, kicking back up to 9.1% and at this point, you know, what is austin goolsbee going to say? he has to say this one month situation is maybe a blip in the road. come on, the chief economist for the president of the united stat