charles salter did another study dated september 7th, 2012 as followup. also part of the condition of approval. they measured the fixed noise sources and found that the noise sources were in compliance with san francisco noise ordinance. as this is an informational presentation there is no required commission action. staff is asking planning commission for direction on how to proceed with the next steps. this concludes my presentation. i'm available to answer questions. >> commissioners, as staff has asked you for how to proceed, i need to remind you this is not on your calendar for action. you can verbally state what you'd like staff to do but you may not as a commission take an action and direct staff to do that. >> thank you. project sponsor. >> overhead, please. thank you. commissioners, good afternoon. phillip lesser, merchants association and representing tacolicious. so you can physically see the building, i believe most of the people who will be speaking with complaints live on the second floor and tacolicious is on the ground floor. i'm not going

former top john mccain aide mark salter calling the attack unfair and hyperbolic in its timing. peggy noonan urging toward mr. romney toward cool words or no words in this crisis. the republican party decided overnight despite how mitt romney screwed this up, he is their candidate so they better get onboard with him? there was rob portman on the cbs morning show. i didn't know what i was saying was inaccurate, i stand by it anyway. then there was john mccain on the "today" show and john mccain again on msnbc this morning and republican congressman pete hoekstra and jon kyl with an amazingly off color analogy and george w. bush u.n. ambassador in the "washington post" and rumsfeld on twitter saying we're onboard with the way mitt romney is handling this which might make sense in terms of short-term strategy, in terms of trying to get their guy elected, right? but whether or not their guy is elected, all of these folks have now committed themselves and their reputations forever to siding with the guy whose campaign previewed a mitt romney presidency in which an american ambassador

mark salter described mr. romney's comments today as unfair and hyperbolic, as well as unseemly in its timing. one senior republican foreign policy adviser telling buzz feed today, they were just trying to score a cheap news cycle hit based on the embassy statement and now it's just completely blown up. it's an utter disaster. another republican telling buzz feed, quote, they're incompetent at talking effectively about foreign policy. this is just unbelievable. those are the republicans. to give you a sense of the magnitude of this as a screwup, even must generic mainstream journalists and commentators who are not plainly for mitt romney or against him, people who aren't on one side or the other, people whose job it is to observe and therefore in some ways create the norms of politics, even they were shocked by how far this was outside what is considered to be responsible by anyone who wants to be taken seriously in american politics, let alone anyone who wants to be considered for a job as serious as the pres

longtime mccain adviser mark salter wrote, the rush by republicans, including mitt romney, sarah palin and scores of other conservative critics -- to condemn president obama for policies they claim helped precipitate the attacks, is as tortured in its reasoning as it is unseemly in its timing. this was the "wall street journal"'s peggy noonan. >> romney looked weak today, i'm absorbing it myself. one point he had a certain slight grimace on his face taking tough questions from the reporters and i thought he looks like richard nixon. >> but as the dust settles, gop pundits and commentators are today trying to brush past the nakedly political aspects of romney's criticism and instead turn the dialogue towards a broader criticism of the president's foreign policy plan. >> they were testing us with the initial attacks and we -- what did they get back from the obama administration? a complaint about -- about -- about film that insulted the little darlings feelings. >> the leader defended the united states of america and said there will be consequences if you attack this country. >> weekly s

list of conservatives cyst criticizing him for his libyan comments include -- peggy noonan, mark salter008 mccain senior adviser steve schmidt. governor romney defended his decision to speak out on libya saying his position was no different than the president's. >> by the way, what i said was exactly the same thing the white house reached, which was that the statement was inappropriate and why they backed away from it as well. >> in the same interview with abc, romney tried to stake out a position on iran by planting a flag right next to president obama. >> president obama said exactly the same thing. he said it's unacceptable for iran to have a nuclear weapon. your red line is the same as his. >> i laid out what i would do to keep iran from reaching that red line. >> your red line going forward is the same. >> yes. and recognize, that when one says it's unacceptable to the united states of america, that means what it says. >> in that almost palin-esque pretzel, romney seems to be saying while he and the president are saying the same thing, he's the one who really means it. not content

would salter up the aisle -- saunter up the aisle hesitating only long enough to feel scalia's glare. roberts would then explain to the ladies and gentlemen of the jury, justice antonin scalia should have been kicked off the court ten years ago. when he was a lawyer in the reagan white house 22 years before he joined the supremes, john roberts argued on behalf of a 15-year term limit for supreme court justices. as he saw it, the founders, quote: adopted life tenure at a time when people simply did not live as long as they do now, unquote. a judge insulated from the normal currents of life for 25 or 30 years was a rarity then but is becoming common place today. setting a term of, say, 15 years would insure that federal judges would not lose all touch with, quote, reality through decades of ivory tower existence. it is an indictment of lifetime tenure too compelling to ignore. as i finish explaining, one thing is clear: scalia knew nothing of this. have i outlawyered the longest-serving justice of the supreme court? [laughter] really, he thought that? yes, i say, pausing a beat for dram

that's from mark salter. >> we disagree from time to time.wn by the embassy because it was clearly not strong enough concerning what was happening at the embassy. now the tick tock back and forth is something, frankly, i didn't pay attention to. i do know this. americans are outraged when our embassy is attacked and the egyptian government does not take the proper measures to protect it. how much that affects our relationship with egypt, i think, is something we have to carefully calibrate, recognizing how important a role egypt is in e entire middle east. >> how much of the tick tock, really, sir, should mitt romney play a part in? in moments like this, as you point out, losing an american hero, should he not have remained above the political fray? >> look, i believe that there are so many things that the obama administration is not doing, including my outrage that president obama has not spoken up for 209,000 people that have been massacred in syria that we sit back and watch murdered, rapes, gang rapes in syria. iraq is unraveling because

mark salter wrote, "this is hardly the issue or the moment to demonstrate a greater resolve to take the fight to the president. four good americans brave and true just died in service to their country. they were killed because some of the libyans who fought a civil war for freedom pretended freedom was their cause do not approve or understand freedom's values. nothing said or done by the president or anyone in the u.s. government is responsible to the violence." john sununu said the camp probably should have -- the romney camp should have waited. peter king said the same thing. and let's listen. here's our dear friend peggy noonan. she was on fox news yesterday. and this is what peggy had to say. >> i don't feel that mr. romney has been doing himself any favors, say, in the past few hours, perhaps since last night. sometimes when really bad things happen, when hot things happen, cool words or no words is the way to go. >> okay. >> you know, "the washington post" also weighed in in a piece titled "mr. romney's rhetoric on embassy attacks discredits his campaign," and they called his appr