i appreciate them and my favorite book is the bible. and every time i read it i learn something new about it. so it's new to me in this time of year fori would like to say jesus was conceived in december and conceived in september. i was a farmer for many years and in the wintertime we didn't put our sheep out on the side of the hills to grace, we took entered the barn so that might be something you might be interested in studying there. post up a couple of the political books of the many and by the way over the last 11 years c-span has covered some 9000 book events. this year one of them in the age of reagan 1982 m-mike 1980 name by steven hayward. also looking back a couple of presidencies we covered the book h.w. ray and his perpetrator to his class. here's portsmouth, virginia. this is cliff on a democrat plan. >> caller: good morning. a good book came out in 2009, but it's one of my favorites. it's been said bugliosi's book, how to prosecute george w. bush for murder. now you can extend the policies in this book and prosecution to

the bible is true. i tried to conform to its spirit as near as possible. upon that sacred volume i rest my hope for eternal salvation through the merits and blood of our blessed lord and savior, jesus christ. that was andrew jackson, just a few weeks before his death, may 29, 1845. daniel webster consider -- daniel webster, considered the greatest orator of all time in this country, served in the house, served in the senate, thought perhaps he might be president one day, but he urged a compromise which cost him the election, whether he was right or wrong he believed if we didn't have the compromise of 1850, then the nation was doomed. that there'd be a civil war in 1850 from which the nation may not survive. so he did a very selfless thing and stood up and urged the compromise of 1850, knowing that he would loos his base, but he believed it was to save the country. that's daniel webster. he said in 1852, if we in our posterity shall be true to the christian religion, if we and they shall live always in the fear of god and shall respect his commandments, we

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once again, the way the bible does it. it's the parts of the bible that works because there's wonderful stories that tell you the moral lessons in a subtle way. after all, it's one of the great leads of all-time, "in the beginning," and tells you the power of chronological story telling. so that's what dr. percy taught me, too, and so as a journalist, i was able to just tells' tales. my first day on the job i had to cover the murder of a small child. i was there with the police. this is the days before black berries and e-mails and everything else. so i went to the corner drug store, put in my dime and called the newspaper to dictate the story to the rewrite desk, and the rewrite guy was named billy, and after i dictated it, he said what did the parents say? i said, didn't talk to the panders. he said, go back in there and talk to the parents. i was appalled at that nos. but i got up my courage, knocked on the door, and i discovered the next lesson of writing, which is people want to talk, and i got invited in. they wanted

i appreciate them and my favorite book is the bible in every time i read it i read something new about a so it's new to me at this time of year our savior's dearth it is a good time to read it and i would like to say that jesus was conceived in december and born in september. it might be something somebody wants to study but i was a farmer who for many years and in the wintertime we didn't put our sheep on the side of the hills to graze. we took them to the barn that might be something you are interested in studying. >> host: a couple political books of the many political books, and by the way the past 11 years c-span's covered some 9,000 book even one of the and the age of reagan, 1980 to '89 by steven hayward. also, looking back a couple of presidency's we covered the book hw bram, his book trader to his class. here is portsmouth virginia and this is cliff on the democratic swing. go ahead >> caller: good morning. >> host: good morning. >> caller: i'm not sure if this cannot interpose a mine or not but it's vincent bucha rios book how to prosecute george w. bush for murder. you can e

my favorite nonfiction book has been and always will be the bible. host: thank you. jim on our independent line. caller: good morning. is "american bloomsbury" based on the literary community they gathered in concord, massachusetts. hawthorne, you know, and amazoe merson. it was just a delight. i don't read much nonfiction. host: sandra, your favorite nonfiction book of the year. caller: the book of a late senator ted kennedy. host: harold evans and his book, here is some of his comments. >> this should be a celebration of reporting. that is what my book is about. it is about what newspapers can achieve. not what an editor can achieve. but what reporters on the ground cannot achieve patrick's host. host: that was harold evans. caller: it is an amazing book. it gives great insight into what happens in washington. it is interesting because this talks about all the corruption and has existed before with obama and all of the people he has brought with him. somebody remarked earlier about rahm emanuel. that is detailed in this book. but when you read this book, it makes y

last night once again it was sort of the way the bible does it. the parts of the bible that work are those wonderful storytellers, stories that tell you the moral lessons in a subtle way. i mean, after all it's one of the great leap of all-time, in the beginning, and it tells you the power of chronological storytelling. so that's what dr. percy taught me, too. and so, as a journalist i was able to just tell tales. i remember the first day i was on the job and i had the worst of all possible stories you could be assigned to cover. it was the murder of a very small child. i went to carlton avenue and was there with the police, and these were the days before blackberries and e-mails and cell phones were available. so i went to the corner drugstore, put in my diet and called the newspaper to dictate the story to the rewrite desk. and the rewrite man with a grizzled old guy named billy rainey and after he dictated that i had come he said well what do the parents say? i said i didn't talk to the parents. so go back in there, knock on the door, and talk

keystone, cornerstone, of all of those beliefs was of course, the inerrancy of every syllable in the bible, whether it had to do with paleontology or cosmology or history or whatever. the verbal inerrancy of scripture, that's really what fundamentalism means that however, the term was then taken and applied sometimes a little bit too broadly to movements in other religions. for example, the jewish settlers on the west bank who are one of the major obstacles to peace in the middle east now, who claim that the bible, indeed, it's the book of joshua, tells them that they should be conquering and settling all of the land which god gave their forefathers, and they are insisting on the actual proof of this. the islamic movement, which the so-called -- muslim fundamentalist movements are very badly missed name. nonetheless, they are also, i am claiming here, on good evidence i think, in decline. and we have to be aware of that. that our major -- the major opposition, for example, in afghanistan, we know from those on the spot and you have a speaker coming in this series i think on afghanistan, th

the bible says that faith is the substance of things hoped for.hat's why we try to put hope in people. we try to get people to look at the future in a good sense and not in a bad sense. like joel was saying not to get bitter, and not to just buckle down and say nothing good's going to happen me. but to say what if tomorrow is a better today? what if it does happen to me? that brings hope, and when you have hope, the bible talks that your faith is increased. faith is what moves god to act. >> our guests are the osteens. his book is "it's your time." more after this. i have asthma. and when my symptoms-the coughing, wheezing, tightness in my chest came back- i knew i had to see my doctor. he told me i had choices in controller medicines. we chose symbicort. symbicort starts to improve my lung function within 15 minutes. that's important to me because i know the two medicines in symbicort are beginning to treat my symptoms and helping me take control of my asthma. and that makes symbicort a good choice for me. symbicort will not replace a rescue inha

in the hands of someone down there that they denied this inmate a bible. so we're promoting religious freedom to the people that are there and giving them all of the trappings they require with arrows to pray for and korans and skull caps and prayer rugs, but if there's a christian in the mix, they're denied their equal rights, their right to faith and religion and the temperature is set for the cultural temperature at 75. that's guantanamo bay. perfectly set up, though, to try these enemy combatants to house them and some of them need to be locked up for life and some of them need to be executed. but we can't get there because the world has said we think that you were hard on these prisoners down there. so we're adjusting american policy because of critics in places like europe, critics that are air national -- let's see. what do we have? amnesty international and other global websites that allege the united states is cruel and inhuman. no one could be any less cruel or any more inhuman than the detainees in the united states that we have. and i have gone

so this much critical spirit which, you know, exist certainly in the bible. yes, abraham argues that god, moses argues with god, job argues with god. but most academic people, students i know will not even argue with her professors. because because they agree about everything. [applause] >> i mean, i think this is a demonstrable truth. i went to columbia in 1946 under 17% quota. nobody admitted the quota existed. harvard had a big one but it wasn't as afraid of being overridden by jews as columbia was. and in those days, the affect that the sociologist i am referring to ascribed to college education did actually occur. i mean, i was totally transformed by my four years at columbia, having come from a slum in brooklyn. but i don't see that columbia itself, for most of the major universities, have that character any longer. i find them conformists, slavishly conformist. and tolerant, incapable of entertaining positions on the other side, and dogmatic about their beliefs rather than critical. and i think that has been well documented by studies of the contempora

it was a country church that had all the bible phrases plastic in the wall. this was in austin. one of my cousins whispered in my yeaear. he said that god did not have a committee. [laughter] young people, you have as much people. volunteer, be a big brother or big sister and teach for america and volunteering can help you transform somebody's life but help inform you in a good way for the rest of your life. >> he helped up bring up wendy copp so that is why he get that plug in. thank you. [laughter] what is the role of government in sparring civic involvement or service? >> we have a volunteer military. the government is in the business of encouraging people to volunteer to serve the nation. we create incentives for that. i think it has to take into consideration the first priority of any government and that is to protect our nation. as i look at the opportunity for national service, i joined a number of people in the late 1980's in sponsoring one of the first national service act, the heart of it was how we conduct military recruit and why we engage broadly in civic service. t

>> why can't the samet simply stand down a filibuster and let the guy read the phone book and the bible and the odyssey or whatever? >> good question. why can't the senate, why can't they make them filibuster their filibuster liken mr. smith goes to washington? i think they should do that. i guess the underlying question is why do senators like filibuster's so much? why do even minority -- why do the majority centers like it? why is it hard to get rid of? the main reason is a durham powers the higher the threshold that's 60 vote threshold gives individual senators enormous power, and this would decrease their individual power to do it. still there was a time when this was a big public issue for democrats, this was something. joe lieberman for example when he was a freshman senator was signed on to a campaign to abolish the filibuster. i think that that senators attachment to the filibuster could be overcome by a concerted campaign to persuade them to do eight. >> there was also a time it was 66 votes were i think required instead of 67 would be a further argument. i have a small questio

my favorite nonfiction book has been and always will be the bible. host: thank you. jim on our independent line. caller: good morning. is "american bloomsbury" based on the literary community they gathered in concord, massachusetts. hawthorne, you know, and amazoe merson. it was just a delight. i don't read much nonfiction. host: sandra, your favorite nonfiction book of the year. caller: the book of a late senator ted kennedy. host: harold evans and his book, here is some of his comments. >> this should be a celebration of reporting. that is what my book is about. it is about what newspapers can achieve. not what an editor can achieve. but what reporters on the ground cannot achieve patrick's host. host: that was harold evans. caller: it is an amazing book. it gives great insight into what happens in washington. it is interesting because this talks about all the corruption and has existed before with obama and all of the people he has brought with him. somebody remarked earlier about rahm emanuel. that is detailed in this book. but when you read this book, it makes y

he said and one was be true to yourself, help others, drink deeply from good books, especially the bible, make friendship of fine art, work at it, make each day your masterpiece and build a shelter against a rainy day and give thanks for your blessings and pray for guidance every day. >> michael: a three-time all state high school basketball player, wooden atended purdue university with his eyes not on xs and os but on bridges and tunnels. >> i went to purdue university to become a civil engineer. i didn't know that you had to go to civil camp every summer, and there were no athletic scholarships in those days and my parents had no financial means and i would have to work in the summers so i need immediately i was going to be a teacher so after my freshman year i majored in english and knew that's what i was going to do. you think things would have been different. didn't make a difference if things would be different or not. i'm grateful for the way things out, and i hope i would have been happy wherever i was. mr. lincoln, you know, my favorite american said people are about as happy as

we all, mom l obama likes to qu áhe bible. about daniel, i was born inside my mother's womb or quote about john the baptist when it says that the holy spirit will be within him inside the womb. which show this are human beings. um... - he is a coward. host: bob is next supporting legislation and calling us from virginia. bob, your on the air. caller: good morning. i spu supported the bill all the time and made numerous calls to pitch #or it but i'm disappointed that the public option is probably not going to be in it. and the medicine deal where we should have been able to buy the medical part of it from whatever, and aláz i think that women that pay taxes that are going to be paying for this ought to be able to have abortions if that's what you know, they pay taxes like everybody else and i don't feel sorry for no (202) 737-0001s this morning. they're happier than the democrats probably because they'rq pockets are bulgeing with special interest money. chamber of commerce spend billions. thanks for the call this morning. host:

we all, mom l obama likes to qu áhe bible.ut daniel, i was born inside my mother's womb or quote about john the baptist when it says that the holy spirit will be within him inside the womb. which show this are human beings. um... - he is a coward. host: bob is next supporting legislation and calling us from virginia. bob, your on the air. caller: good morning. i spu supported the bill all the time and made numerous calls to pitch #or it but i'm disappointed that the public option is probably not going to be in it. and the medicine deal where we should have been able to buy the medical part of it from whatever, and aláz i think that women that pay taxes that are going to be paying for this ought to be able to have abortions if that's what you know, they pay taxes like everybody else and i don't feel sorry for no (202) 737-0001s this morning. they're happier than the democrats probably because they'rq pockets are bulgeing with special interest money. chamber of commerce spend billions. thanks for the call this morning. host: bar

even in the bible it's an age-old question, the tarnished city arose from the faithful city. god calls upon the counselors and the lawyers to restore that city because the city has become aer who. everybody's taking a bribe, everyone is abandoning the orphans and the widows. so this is an age-old problem. it's like going to the gym, you have to stay in shape. and to stay in shape you need a strong government that is able to enforce the rules of ethics. we saw what happened here in wall street in new york today. there was no oversight. and you need strong organizations like judicial watch and freedom watch that i founded to be able to serve as watch dogs to reveal what's going on, to demand training and to bring lawsuits where necessary and to try to make a peaceful second american revolution. i don't think anybody can dispute that we are in a severe crisis today. >> host: you write in your book a good deal about transparency or lack of in the government, the administration, the obama administration has been, has made a big deal out of transparency in government. what would th

caller: my question is what do you feel the effect of the statement of clinging to the bible and gunshe topic? thank you. host: hudson, florida, ron on the independent line. caller: good morning. the real terrorists in this world of the united states and israel. -- are the united states and israel. you know, when you remove the democratically elected government and install a dictator and support the dictator with money and weapons, and people fight back against that, you call that terrorism. i have known people that have been to gaza that have seen firsthand the oppression -- israelis won't even let them have enough food. they have to smuggle food in to feed people. if people fight against that, you call the terrorism. israel has over 250 nuclear- weapons. host: thanks for the input. you mentioned earlier that issues like guantanamo are not necessarily the driving force behind radicalization of american muslims. guest: what i said was that they are not the only thing. people plugging local grievances into this larger global grievance. not to say that people are not motivated by the pl

it is in the bible, people. check it out. thank you very much.et journal" this morning -- "prime minister vladimir putin says that russia will build new weapons to offset the u.s. missile defense system and urged washington to share detailed data about its missile shield under a new arms control deal. moscow and washington had hoped to strike a deal before the end of the year." that is from the associated press. california. this is our coastline. jeff is on it. -- oppose line. jeff is on it. caller: i do oppose it, and i would like to bring up a single payer. that is where we should be going. we have negotiated our way out of that. there are a lot of people who watch may be the fox network who don't think the way i do. i guess it is because they watch people like glenbrçmnn beck. i am similar tao glenn beck in that i'm a visual guide. he sees socialism in every part architecture prepa. our ic in -- i see in fox -- aetna. and a big zero in the contents of his mind. why do they get their health care information from these folks? host: about the ne

if you read the bible, the bible is quite clear about that. hello? >> yeah, all right.u want to comment on that? >> no. obviously to me the obama administration is doing a range of things on the domestic front to try to address jobs, health, et cetera. my place in the government is really to try more globally to address some of those same issues by creating a stronger democratic institutions in other countries. >> in the article in last tuesday's "new york times," they talkbo

. >> when you took your hand and put it on the bible for the oath, what was your sense of the responsibilities that you were taking up on yourself? >> that i had an important job to do. i was very grateful that i had eight colleagues. we share the burden and responsibility is -- and responsibilities. i was very excited. we were hearing cases that day. divestiture was in the morning and we had cases right away. i was anxious to get to work. >> the court is in the process of preparing for a new member. can you give us a sense of what that is like, saying goodbye to an old colleague? >> to some extent, it is unsettling. you see the court as being composed of these members and it is hard to see it involving someone else. you do get new arrivals in both those situations. it is a tremendous sense of loss. justice souter is there a wonderful colleague -- is a wonderful colleague. that is part of the process of the evolution of the court. we will welcome the new member with open arms and the court will be richer and the course of history. but you do get used to seeing the same people every day and you

. >> when you put your hand on the bible and took the oath, what was your sense of -- i mean, there have only been 16 people before you to hold this job. what was your sense of the responsibilitys that you were taking upon yourself? >> that i had an important job to do. that i was very grateful that i had eight colleagues. if i had to make these decisions on my organization i think it would be paralyzing. but we share the burden. we share the responsibilities. and we help each other out in discharging that process. but obviously, i was very exciting. we were hearing cases that day. i had cases right away. >> i was anxious to get to work. >> the court is in the process of preparing for a new member. can you give us a sense of what's that like? saying good-bye to a new member. >> to some extent, it's unsettling. it becomes kind of hard to think of it as involving anyone else. it's like the way people look at their families. how could it be different. but you do get new arrivals in both of those situations. it's a tremendous sense of loss. justice souter is a wonderful colleague. we will mi

so the desire to learn how to read the bible was very strong. schools thought that he was very good at that. and he later went with the hampton institute down in north folk -- north took -- norfolk. at the age of 25, he went off to alabama to start a school. there were no buildings, notebooks, nothing. so he started from scratch and brought in at tuskegee institute in that region, and he became a famous educator, but he was also a politician and an advisor on republican matters to several republican presidents, including theodore roosevelt. >> the story of the speech. how did it happen? and there was a fragment in the process before we get to the other line of speech which got our attention for some reason. build up to that. >> to was a good orator. but he really wanted to reach the white crowds with his message. so he was given an opportunity one time up in boston, and he got on the train, went back to alabama, and a speech that lasted two diplomats. he got on the next train back. he talks about how he traveled on thousand miles to give a two-

then they drew on one of the great sailing stories in the bible.late, but subject to swallow. there was storm. he was a daredevil on the sea. they did not like that. but the lesson he ultimately taught them, he did what no sailor. can do ,he calk -- what no sailor i know can do. he calmed the storm. to be the least nervous person in the boat can be the gift. we look at the events of the world and the conditions of the day and it makes us anxious. occasionally, someone comes along and says i have dug and look for the truth and have witnessed it to you. in the end, all will be well if we did for the truth. -- if we did g for the truth. is, as paul said, our ability to show the truth with love -- let love be genuine. hate what is evil. do not claim to be wiser than you are. amen. now, where you stand, please? -- now, will you stand, please? >> with the assurance given in live at baptism, let us say, i believe in god, the father almighty, creator of heaven and earth. i believe in jesus christ, his only son, our lord. he was conceived by the power of th

in terms of bible and guns, i do not think that is useful.n using words like crusade clearly feeds into our adversaries conception of who we are. we need to be careful -- killing >> we're leaving this now to go to the u.s. house. members are about to gavel in for the morning hour of speeches. legislative work will begin at 2:00 p.m. among today's bills, one manager of federal grants and the grant process. another congratulating this year's major league soccer champions. now live to the u.s. house floor. ommercial purposes is expressly prohibited by the u.s. house of representatives.] the speaker pro tempore: the house will be in order. the chair lays before the house a communication from the speaker. the clerk: the speaker's room, washington, december 14, 2009. i hereby appoint the honorable donna f. edwards to act as speaker pro tempore on this day. signed, nancy pelosi, speaker of the house of representatives. the speaker pro tempore: the chair will receive a message. the messenger: madam speaker, a message from the senate. the secretary: m

you can read his bible in in its entirety. he is the editor of the muslim observer newspaper. he is the trustee of the american federation of muslims of indian origin. he is the author of 11 books and over 700 papers and articles. he is a very prolific writer, obviously. he has spoken often on national and local media. he is the former vice chairman of impact. he has a longstanding connection with impact. i want to welcome to the panel. we just had remarks about the framework of the discussion, whether it makes sense to speak in terms of the u.s.-muslim relations foor muslim nations. >> thank you very much. i am sorry that i am late. the notion that the u.s. shooting did with the muslim world precisely because of 9/11 or what happened after that is probably not very well founded in history because there was a relationship with the muslim world that is over two hundred years old. we have had a least 56 times one in military. we have had at least three major wars in the region with states for independence with tripoli, algiers, and morocco. the memories of those kinds of relatio

it was a country church that had all the bible phrases plastic in the wall. this was in austin.my cousins whispered in my yeaear. he said that god did not have a committee. [laughter] young people, you have as much people. volunteer, be a big brother or big sister and teach for america and volunteering can help you transform somebody's life but help inform you in a good way for the rest of your life. >> he helped up bring up wendy copp so that is why he get that plug in. thank you. [laughter] what is the role of government in sparring civic involvement or service? >> we have a volunteer military. the government is in the business of encouraging people to volunteer to serve the nation. we create incentives for that. i think it has to take into consideration the first priority of any government and that is to protect our nation. as i look at the opportunity for national service, i joined a number of people in the late 1980's in sponsoring one of the first national service act, the heart of it was how we conduct military recruit and why we engage broadly in civic service. this is s

if you read the bible, it's clear on that.te a stronger institution in those countries the state department has cut funding for several non-profit groups. others say these groups have little to do with advancing dem crassy there. can you tell us about that situation? guest: it's very challenging to figure out how to best influence change. change is clear liqueuring there. there is a growing disseaks with the government after the elections earlier this year. there were street demonstrations those condition. we've done a range of things quietly to support those pushing for change without becoming so pup lick about it that we become part of the government's story. the government would like to demonize the united states and say everybody who is opposing its policy is a tool of the united states. we don't subscribe to that. it's not true. one of the things we've done in particular is to work with those trying to use the new media, the internet, et cetera. one of those thing sthazz when people were texting each other using twitter.

bankrupt people like the gentlemen said before and he says, one that's called republicans evil and bible pears. well, i hope he stands on judgement day for his accusations against people he doesn't each know. that's not right. thank you very much. host: randy, independent in harper, kansas. what's your thoughts on healthcare? caller: good morning, how are you? i have no health insurance. however, my son and daughter are on the health wave in kansas program and i'm a 44 year old veteran, but i do not think we need to be without healthcare, but however i believe we should not bring healthcare into the country at the cost of my freedom and i think from what - i can't run a computer but i have a friend that gets on there for me and he showed me some things and want to say real quick, after they sign up into the new world order i don't think any of this is going to matter but i think that's what's going on in copenhagen and hou(áq dean is right. thank you c-span. have a nice day and god bless. host: perry called himself krupy on twitter. americans have been sold out to the insurance corporati

we read on page one of the bible that we are supposed to eat every sea bearing plant and there are four. so we look at drugs and say cannabas is supposed to have thousands of uses to replace pollution. we are not talking about crack or coke. those are all chemically induced products. we are talking about cannabis and the fact that it is a gift from god and because we called it a drug we have incarcerated people and violated the first amendment, trashed the constitution, we have a drug state, a police state. violent and crime, trplgs of dollars wasted doing nothing. the d.e. afpa. spends $1.5 bill and you make a big bust but the amount on cannabis alone each year is like $20 billion. you can't have a pitcher system based on justice and truth unless you go back to the original laws and say we need to look at what plants are plants and produce things and are good for people and not just do the same old thing saying it is a dr drug. the only thing that is different from crack, coke and cigarette is smoking cannabis which comes from god. so unless you address that issue you are going to be b

a lot of people are talking about the bible. he is now credited with calling the bubble.he is now running around saying the world is going to and again. once someone gets credit for something, people listen to him for ever. it is like a cult with people waiting for the world to end and it does not. host: we're going to ask our viewers about the fed and whether it has to much power in a minute. guest: it does not >> while members of congress are back in their home states for a holiday break, work on health- care legislation continues. max baucus of montana said he expects talks on a compromise to the house and senate versions to becombegin by phone. leadership hopes to have many of the major points of disagreement worked out, according to the chairman. the house returns january 12 and the senate will be back on january 20. >>n tonight, expanding broadband to rural and under certain areas of the country. an update from bleier lovaine -- blair levin. >> president obama made it remarks on the attempted bombing of a northwest airlines flight on christmas day. he spoke from a w

a lot of people are talking about the bible. he is now credited with calling the bubble. he is now running around saying the world is going to and again. once someone gets credit for something, people listen to him for ever. it is like a cult with people waiting for the world to end and it does not. host: we're going to ask our viewers about the fed and whether it has to much power in a minute. guest: it does not have too much power, but it did not use it effectively. guest: it needs more congressional oversight. host: thank you both. we will be back to ask you if the federal reserve has too much power. first, an update from c-span radio. >> the british home secretary it says the 22-year-old was placed on the united kingdom watch list after he was refused a student visa. secretary johnson says people on the list can travel through the u.k. but cannot enter the country. he added that u.s. authorities should have been told that he had been placed on the watch list. there's violence today in pakistan. a top official says an attack has killed 20 people and wounded 60. many of

then they drew on one of the great sailing stories in the bible.t to swallow. there was storm. he was a daredevil on the sea. they did not like that. but the lesson he ultimately taught them, he did what no sailor. can do ,he calk -- what no sailor i know can do. he calmed the storm. to be the least nervous person in the boat can be the gift. we look at the events of the world and the conditions of the day and it makes us anxious. occasionally, someone comes along and says i have dug and look for the truth and have witnessed it to you. in the end, all will be well if we did for the truth. -- if we did g for the truth. is, as paul said, our ability to show the truth with love -- let love be genuine. hate what is evil. do not claim to be wiser than you are. amen. now, where you stand, please? -- now, will you stand, please? >> with the assurance given in live at baptism, let us say, i believe in god, the father almighty, creator of heaven and earth. i believe in jesus christ, his only son, our lord. he was conceived by the power of the holy spirit an

we read on page one of the bible that we are supposed to eat every sea bearing plant and there are four. so we look at drugs and say cannabas is supposed to have thousands of uses to replace pollution. we are not talking about crack or coke. those are all chemically induced products. we are talking about cannabis and the fact that it is a gift from god and because we called it a drug we have incarcerated people and violated the first amendment, trashed the constitution, we have a drug state, a police state. violent and crime, trplgs of dollars wasted doing nothing. the d.e. afpa. spends $1.5 bill and you make a big bust but the amount on cannabis alone each year is like $20 billion. you can't have a pitcher system based on justice and truth unless you go back to the original laws and say we need to look at what plants are plants and produce things and are good for people and not just do the same old thing saying it is a dr drug. the only thing that is different from crack, coke and cigarette is smoking cannabis which comes from god. so unless you address that issue you are going to be b

my recommendation is for treasury to account for loans surfaced in the bible states and midwest economic states such as ohio and michigan. in short of calling in loans and nebraska's likely to be far easier than modifying loans in arizona, nevada and empire. one reason we should consider is allowing financial institutions rather than take immediate hits to the capitol when we have a modification or default about them to amortize their losses over five year program that would enable sales in some of these distressed assets as t.a.r.p. was originally intended to do and allow other participants jumped into the market to be more innovative programs like short pay off a short sales, foreclosures, conversions to leases which fannie mae is considering and brought loan modifications that a particular sense. particularly in the vacancy rates in many states in the housing market conversions make some sense when the comparatively low rental rates compared to mortgage payments. i welcome any opportunities and appreciate the opportunity to speak with you. >> thank you, sir. the chair appreciates the

just for some historical, we started when the president as mentioned last night put his hand on the bible in january 20. we had roughly 32,000 men and women in uniform in afghanistan. right. that has increased to roughly 68,000 by the end of the summer of 2009. . believe it's achievable in the time frame that the president enuciated last night. >> we've seen the president in the past when he rolls out any new initiative whether it's health care or stimulus, he always takes it on the road to really sell it to the american people. he's not doing anything today or this week. is he going to push this new strategy? >> yeah. obviously, we got an important event tomorrow in jobs forum. we have activities on friday in allentown to talk about jobs and the economy. i anticipate -- that schedule is largely obviously set. i anticipate that the president -- i think you've seen him say this. i think the president understands explaining why we're there, why the decision was made, how we came to that decision and what it means for both the american people and the afghan people is not a one-shot deal. tha

that is the situation that in their wisdom they will find a political bible to raise taxes. >> i wasn'tere yesterday so it is hard for me to turn back. my thought is number one, whenever the gdp gets above 60%, i think that there will be a need, if we don't turn this 11% annual deficit down and get back to sustainable even 3%, i don't want to go to the taxes because i don't think it is a tax problem as much as it is a spending problem. the discussion we just had, unless you are in that box, i need to save this. if it is taken off the table through this health-care reform, i don't care. there is only so much you can get out here. i have to tell you i am afraid in this country. that is an open end -- i am up into the 30% range gdp. >> anybody else? >> we have a tax increase coming next year. it is sitting there for the president. all he has to do is veto it. it is a couple hundred billion bucks a year. >> that doesn't get us where we need to be. >> if you don't do that the question is from the republican side if you are going to sit down you have to talk about the spending side. there is

each one of us comes to this floor after we're elected, we raise our right hand, put our hand on the bible and take an oath to defend and protect the constitution of the united states. we in no way take an oath to reform health care or do anything else that we think is good to do, anything on health care or any other good provision that we want to do around here has to fit within the powers that are listed within the constitution of the united states. that's the oath, the solem oath that each and every senator takes. and that's what each and every one of us needs to think about when we're voting on this constitutional point of order. i want to make a couple of points very briefly of where i -- one area where i think on the individual mandate, how this bill violates the united states constitution. nowhere, at no time has this government, this federal government ever passed a law that tells somebody what to do when they're not doing something. in other words, today if you choose in this bill, or after this bill passes -- if it passes -- if you choose not to buy health insurance, this bill re

constitution, in my opinion, is arguably the most sought-after piece of literature in its time behind the bible. by new ambitions seeking freedom, liberty and endless possibility or by rogue, spiteful nations that feel threatened by it and want it destroyed by any means. the united states constitution was written by americans and for americans. it was intended for the protection of the nation and it people. it is a set of guidelines that we are expected to uphold. i say we because i am speaking as we, the people. the fact that ksm and his cohorts are about to get what they asked for by the graces of attorney general eric holder is an outrage. attorney general holder is granting enemy combatants that are now called unprivileged enemy belligerents as per the military commissions of 2009, granting enemy combatants a hearing in a civilian courtroom in the united states of america. in the history of this great country, this has never been done before. why are we starting now? what is the benefit of this? this administration has still not explained in any manner the reason for any of this. what i got

we must do everything we can to make full use of this bible scientific tool. -- of this valuable scientificool. >> thank you. thank you for your courage in coming here to speak. this gives more power to the statistics and bring it to the reality. those of us who had the privilege to serve as prosecutors before we were here in the senate know what these cases are like. we see the personal side of it and not just statistics. their argument faces on crimes, the victim's, the families, the community'ies, and what both of you do in speaking out to tell all us what that is. i want to ask a question of questionsoiloff, and a niece present national institute of justice they said that one key obstacle to reducing the backlog of break from the country is to get the evidence of the police department to the lab. the study recommended additional training of law enforcement personnel, the creation of uniform procedures by submitting evidence as well as improved training for police officers on the use of forensic analysis per . what role has training played in educating law enforcement personnel about the

the rising before the gathering storm report has been the bible for those of us who want to promotesience education, now, engineers to graduate from our colleges. we thank you for that. we have done a great study about -- you have done a great study about the future of nasa and space exploration. i want to commend you. now that it was senator nelson and myself who had the space station designated as a national laboratory. we did that because we saw so many funding shortages, and in new if we had it designated in that way, -- and we knew if we have it designated in that way, others to come in and do research. universities, federal agencies, corporations in the future. that is beginning to happen. we are on the cusp now of realizing the capabilities of this enormous investment we've been making in the international space station, and we're just beginning to realize it. and yet, now we are talking about shutting down the shuttle's and not being able to fully equipped -- shutting down the shuttles and not being able to fully but with the space station. i commend you for the report that s

like the old man in the bible that god said was going to be the father of a great people as numerous as the stars. so that is his birth. i'm going to jump ahead eight years. so his cousin, darnell, is now -- he was 4-years-old at his birth and is eight years later cities now 12 come and darnell just got beat up that and his decision to defend himself he has decided to work out all the time so he has just come back. it's like the late spring. it's june. abraham is eight and darnell is 14, 12, sorry, bad at math. he's 12 and has just come back to the apartment after running up and down the stairs with bricks in his hands to sort of build up his strength. and the electricity is out in the apartment and abraham has been sitting in the kitchen with his mother doing his homework in the dark except for when the electricity is out in the apartment the grand ma has those candles you can get at the corner store, the 99-cent campbells with all the patron saints so she's sitting in the kitchen giving his homework by candlelight and darnell has just come home and told him that someone put one of

of the rising above the gathering storm report has been the bible for those of us that want to promote science education, mass, engineers to graduate from colleges. we thank you for that. now, you have done a great study about the future of nasa and space exploration. i just want to commend you. it was centered to nelson and myself who have the space station designated as a national laboratory and we did that because we saw so many funding shortages and we knew that if we had designated in that way, others could do research. universities, federal agencies, corporations, and, in fact, that is beginning to happen. we are just on the cusp of realizing the capabilities of these abilities of the united states space station. now we are talking about shutting down the shuttles and not being able to fully equipped the space station. i commend you for the report and we must utilize this in order to have the investment pay off that we have made in this space station. we also pointed out that without that increase, that we are facing some great shortages, not only in being able to use the space s