matter who is in office, what stance should be a commission process best served by and led by the citizenry. with that in hand, i will look for your support. supervisor campos: thank you. colleagues, any other comments or questions? i see we have the president of the commission. do you want to add anything to what has been said? thank you. why don't we open up to public comment. if there is a member of the public that would like to speak on this item, please come forward. >> good morning, supervisors. thank you for this charter amendments. by opening of the recreation and parks commission to a wider variety of appointments, this will lead to a more widespread support for the department and its programs. this amendment moves us to more transparency in government and a more open and successful and balanced rec and parks commission. >> thank you. next speaker please. >> my name is owen o'donnell and i think this is a terrible idea. if this passes and wind in november and we get a progressive mayor, i will predict in 2012 there will be an item on the ballot to reverse this. this does not work.

you have 2/3 of the citizenry that our attendance, and that is not reflected in the rent board. you also have a situation where one branch of government -- in this case the executive is the one that makes the appointment. reform of this body is something that must happen. the measure is a very modest attempt to do that, because there are many examples where you have elected boards, which we were to do that in san francisco, we would most certainly have a different makeup of this body. the measure is to strike a balance between the concerns of tenants and landlords, and the measure was amended along the lines suggested by one of the representatives of people that were opposed to the measure. if anything is clear during the proceedings, it is that the folks who have been against this have been speaking out of both sides of their mouths. they have on one hand said they were against the original measure. much has been said about discussing charterers and the concept of the budget. the motion i am about to make is a motion i am prepared to do today. this is simply about trying to fig

looking for this to be anything more than a collaborative strategy and vehicle for law enforcement and citizenry, and that is why i feel we are at a tipping point in institutionalizing something that is not well-grounded that can guarantee or help guarantee community policing. and yet i am inspired that they will make every effort to affectuate the things they have spoken about. but no matter how modern our department becomes, and they need to be with the deficiencies they have suffered, that while they strive to become a system-oriented police department, nothing will ever, ever replace a people-oriented department, and that strategy is really what i think is commensurate with what makes san francisco so special, which is why make references to push buttons, but we are a world famous city, but also rather small in a way that makes us accessible and special. geographically because of 47.5 miles, but also because of how unique our individual district supervisors are. and that merits sensitivity and tailoring of a public safety strategy, and i do believe in this iteration they also want to see it

have had in committees about set by laws, foot patrols and everything else, where the people, the citizenry is really demanding a greater level of engagement in their thinking in many of the areas that have been suppressed, it has to do with narcotics, often related to our products, that this seems to be a contrarian moves or removed in the opposite direction this is more of a sideline point, but it just comes to mind that there are people who are clamoring for a certain level of attention and enforcement, but it sounds like we are reducing enforcement. >> i do not know that we are reducing enforcement as much as we are reducing the testing of the tests. we are still arresting people for narcotics violations, but the issue of those television shows that we watched, the juries often demand that we test, in essence, when it comes to the dna, we need to see whether it came back positive or not. then they will ask us why we did not test it. in certain cases we need to test it to make sure that we exhaust investigative leads. i still feel we are arresting people for narcotics violations, we are

and so i don't want to participate in that, in the de-intellectualization of our citizenry, you know? the book you wrote with ben stiller, feel this book, which is largely kind of a parody of self-help books, also had nuggets like this: is that--it also kind of drives your career, doesn't it? you're not doing the predictable. well, see, here's the thing, though. thank you for saying that i'm not doing something predictable, because i take it as a compliment, but true radicals probably see me as the biggest, like, sellout. like, "oh, my god, that's why she's on the show, because she's the most palatable radical." do you know what i'm saying? sure. and, really, what is so radical about me? because i'm fat, you know what i mean, like, and i'm trying to be in tv? like, you know what i mean? like, or i have corduroys and sneakers on when i went to the emmys, you know what i mean? like that makes me a radical. and true radicals and true activists and true people that are out there in the trenches probably see me as, like, "that is so infuriating "that you're holding her up as some kind of l

posing as a police officer and perhaps making traffic stops or engaged in illegal conduct with our citizenry, and we're very interested in getting information from the public and determining whether we do have victims out there. >> police believe there may be victims in santa clara county. also found inside the car, a loaded pistol, hand cuffs, multiple badges and a police baton. >>> cruiser scrambling this morning in the gulf coast, they are evacuating near the broken oil rig ahead of tropical storm bonnie. officials say the leaky cap is working well enough to leave it closed and in place for the storm. there are several ships and crews near that well working to collect oil and drill the permanent relief well, but they have to leave because the storm will bring rough seas and dangerous weather. it could take 10 to 14 days to restart the operations. >>> more than 100 hotel workers are free after spending time in a san francisco jail. they were demonstrating outside the hyatt on stockton street thursday. protests backed up traffic in union square for hours during rush hour. officers arrested

but i think our policies ought to be, are our involvement in novastan going to make the novastani citizenry better off-- healthier, wealthier? and that may differ. the policies-- the actual implementation may turn out to be different in novastan than it's going to be in india and so forth. but we do not want to set a floor. because their floor may be so much lower than that. but the floor should be something making a substantial improvement in the lives of people there. - smith: right. - krugman: substantial. i'd like to challenge one point, if i heard you right-- we should be improving the quality of the life of those people. and as a public corporation for profit, we have to develop a set of business principles and business ethics. but we're not in business philosophically to raise social standards. we're in business to have business that makes profit for our owners, and the way to do that for the long term is to have good business ethics in all your various constituencies, but not to be a social cause-- - krugman: but there's a corporate reputation-- - --that raises levels. this is why n

you can run the agriculture and deprived even the free citizenry of all the nutrition that they need. you can mangle your foreign policy and do a deal with adolf hitler and prepare your country for war in 1941 and you have to evacuate territories where the germans will enter and kill even more people. in this respect, the number can be even higher than the one that you just mentioned. >> let's go to the end of his life. lenin is buried in the tomb in red square. stalin's ashes are there. trotsky is in mexico. what was the end of stalin's life like? >> stalin was exhausted by his involvement in the second world war. he was an old man before he was old. he had to russian his interventions in politics. one of the reasons he was so deliberately terrified to his associates was that he could not afford to keep intervening on a daily basis with the intensity that he had done in the 1930's and 1940's. he spent his holidays in the south of the country. these are like medieval fortresses. these were gigantic fortresses. he got on the telephone to his subordinates and the concentrated on the gui

you can ruin the agriculture and deprive even the free citizenry of all of the nutrition that they need. you can so mangle your foreign policy as to do a deal with adolf hitler and ill prepare your country for war in 1941 so that you have to evacuate territory where the germans then enter and kill even more people. in this respect then, the number could be even higher than the one that you just mentioned. >> let's go to the end of his life. lenin buried there in the tomb in red square. stalin's ashes there. trotsky in mexico. but go to the end of his -- what was the end of stalin's life like? >> stalin was exhausted by his involvement in the second world war. he was an old man before he was old. he had to ration his interventions in politics. one of the reasons he was so deliberately terrifying to his associates was that he couldn't afford to keep intervening on a daily basis with the intensity that he had done in the 1930s and 1940s. so he took lots of holidays down in the south of the country, in the south caucuses, in abkhazia. i've been round these dutchies, they're like medieval fo

so how is the fine citizenry of bell take the news is dave brian shows us not sitting down. [ screamingreporter: an incensed crowd of hundreds of local residents, perhaps 1,000 at its peak shouted its anger over revelations that some top official in the city of bell are making huge salaries, nearly $800,000 a year in the case of the city's chief administrative officer. that's nearly twice the president's salary to run a city that's small. >> you cannot justify it for a city this size. impossible. you cannot justify a police chief that probably makes more than the head of the fbi. >> and these people here we elected to represent us turn our backs and steal money from ourselves, you know, we're all mad and the bottom is we're here to have him removed and kicked out. >> reporter: in english and spanish, the crowd which rally outside of bell city council meeting declared its full throated anger evening warning president obama that greedy city officials might take his salary, too. [ chanting ] >> reporter: the bell police chief form early the chief in former chief in glendale makes more than

that the military is a specialized society, subject to special laws that would not apply to the citizenry at large. those who don't understand the special nature of the military should not be handed authority to make importance decisions that affect it, and i question whether miss kagan has consi consistently applied her principles against homosexuals. her principles did not come to play when president clinton spoke at harvard's commencement or when a member of the saudi ruling family, a person in a position to influence theolicy in saudi arabia which executes homosexuals oped a school on campus and miss kagan did not lift her voice against that. lastly, i would think that a person so opposed to rules governing the military as miss kagan would encourage rather than hinder participation in the military by her graduates. so they might be part of the composition of the military's leadership and thus would influence military policy. it is unfortunate that miss kagan has the wisdom to demand the military to accept professed homosexuals. in my view she has neither the experience o which to base

posing as a police officer and perhaps making traffic stops or engaged in illegal conduct with our citizenry, and we're very interested in getting information from the public and determining whether we do have victims out there. >> police also found a loaded pistol, hand cuffs, multiple badges and a police baton in the car. >>> two suspects who shot and killed a tourist from virginia may be linked to a string of robberies in downtown oakland. police say these photos of a man and a woman shown walking near the scene of the murder, we'll show them shortly hopefully, match the suspect descriptions given by a witness in the oakland crimes. now, you saw them briefly there. computer engineer, gene hong kang was here for a job interview when though asked for money on webster street late sunday night. these are the photos that police want to find. police say kang was randomly targeted and the motive was robbery. the suspects robbed the man of $17 before they pulled the trigger. >>> we expect to find out today when home-run champ barry bonds will go on trial for perjury. a federal judge will set the

provisions in all of them berman told statutes and the citizenry of 150,000 regulations 30,000 pagespa regulations. each one of those regulations can be enforced generally by citizens so what is happening is you are not just handing the authority over to regulators, the way the laws are structured, you are are then emboldening this new industry so you are getting it several ways. you are getting opposed from the regulators themselves and the bureaucracy and then anyone who is really upset with it has able to sue and then we go in-- i know the congresswoman lewis is going to go and then you have the payments under the judgment act and the equal access to justice, and that completely undisclosed set of revenues that if you want to know was something you should find out, you need to find out what is being paid. >> we are at least creating a growth area in litigation. >> you certainly are. >> we do have the video ready to go with voices from people around the rocky mountain west and we will take a couple of seconds to look at it. >> our health care has gone up 25%. our workman's comp, al

decides to do something about it, which will consistently have this problem, exporting the mexican citizenry to the united states. guest: our focus is to deal with individuals who are homeless and try to exit on business. in the obama administration has called for congress to -- i know the obama administration has called for congress to adopt comprehensive immigration reform policies and that is where we are at this time. host: next call is john, and i understand you are homeless? caller: yes, ma'am. i'm a vietnam veteran, and i have a job. and i am being treated, don't get me wrong. but my problem is, i can afford rent, but they want a deposit. but the time he paid a deposit -- by the time you pay the deposit, you just don't have the money. host: 10 i asked you how you are listening today? -- can i ask you how you are listening today? caller: i borrowed the phone from somebody. i'm staying at the salvation army shelter. guest: first of all, thank you for your service. we definitely appreciate that. last year, the obama administration provided $1.5 billion to communities for the homeless pre

it is about teaching and educated citizenry that can make rational decisions, that is not swayed by a pre-word phrase or something that becomes a new campaign. we are pleased to have a run for our department a number of years. it is about the contacts and the research focus, about all the things that can be done. more than anything else, though, as kunin said it is true that we moved away from teaching certain basic values, and i do not mean in terms of right or wrong, democrat or republican, but issues that should be considered about what an enlightened citizen is all about. -- it will cut billions and billions no matter what. i would offer if we cut higher educations at the levels being discussed, we may survive a couple years of fiscal crisis but we will set back our individual ann collective -- immensely. at some point, we have to come in and say what we do about that? my last factor is to simply participate. work in advisories or committees. i started out that way, and a goals committee is appointed by all local government -- a vision-type committee. it was my first foray into po

decides to do something about it, which will consistently have this problem, exporting the mexican citizenry to the united states. guest: our focus is to deal with individuals who are homeless and try to exit on business. in the obama administration has called for congress to -- i know the obama administration has called for congress to adopt comprehensive immigration reform policies and that is where we are at this time. host: next call is john, and i understand you are homeless? caller: yes, ma'am. i'm a vietnam veteran, and i have a job. and i am being treated, don't get me wrong. but my problem is, i can afford rent, but they want a deposit. but the time he paid a deposit -- by the time you pay the deposit, you just don't have the money. host: 10 i asked you how you are listening today? -- can i ask you how you are listening today? caller: i borrowed the phone from somebody. i'm staying at the salvation army shelter. guest: first of all, thank you for your service. we definitely appreciate that. last year, the obama administration provided $1.5 billion to communities for the homeless pre

it is about teaching and educated citizenry that can make rational decisions, that is not swayed by a pre-word phrase or something that becomes a new campaign. we are pleased to have a run for our department a number of years. it is about the contacts and the research focus, about all the things that can be done. more than anything else, though, as kunin said it is true that we moved away from teaching certain basic values, and i do not mean in terms of right or wrong, democrat or republican, but issues that should be considered about what an enlightened citizen is all about. -- it will cut billions and billions no matter what. i would off if we cut higher educations at the levels being discussed, we may survive a couple years of fiscal crisis but we will set back our individual ann collective -- immensely. at some point, we have to come in and say what we do about that? my last factor is to simply participate. work in advisories or committees. i started out that way, and a goals committee is appointed by all local government- a vision-type committee. it was my first foray into politi

the american citizenry understands that if we do not pay our taxes, you'll come and get us. we believe that we have to commit whatever resources are necessary to secure the border. that does not mean to close the border, but it does need to have control over the border, to have control over who comes in and who goes out. a statement was made earlier that it is immoral -- some people argue that it is immoral to enforce our nation's laws. i do not think that is fair or right. what is immoral is to not have forced the nation's laws for over two decades. then to say, now we're going to enforce the law and we are going to enforce it retroactively. it would be like if the government sent a letter to every driver in america and said, but the way, for the last 24 years we have been conducting surveillance by satellite on the interstate and up until now we have not had the ability to ticket you for all of the times you have exceeded the speed limit, but we do now. so now, we're going to send you a ticket for every time you exceeded the speed limit, retroactively, alas 24 years. i do

under the law, equal access to the law and the fair distribution of burdens and benefits across the citizenry were advanced by dean kagan's support and interest in clinical programs. concrete people and institutions were provided with legal services and her efforts as dean demonstrated a firm commitment to these values. significantly, the student body responded to her leadership. the number of students participating in clinical programs grew by an astounding 240%. likewise, the number of hours students dedicated to pro bono work rose by 158%. i know from personal experience the kind of impact that pro bono work can have on one's professional career as my exposure to pro bono work while a student at harvard law school shaped my choice to serve the underserved and indigent with the best legal training that the country had to offer. expertise that my former clients when i was a public defender right here in d.c. would never have been able to afford. clinical work done at harvard and supported by then dean kagan is not merely another line added to a student's resume. rather, clinical work is the

than less, and certainly the supreme court is an important institution and one that the american citizenry has every right to know about and understand, and i also think that it would be a good thing for the court itself, that that greater understanding of the court i think would benefit from its own advantage. from all perspectives i think that televising would be a good idea. i realize some justices have views to the contrary, and i would want to hear those views and to think about those views but that's sort of my going in thought. >> i will put into the record what the justices have had to say. i've questioned almost everybody about this subject, and i've had the opportunity to question all of the people on the court now, but there's a lot -- there are a lot of those who have been favorably disposed to it or at least acknowledge its inevitability and remind them if they all appeared on television this year on c-span, and many of them have appeared over the years selling books and being -- in a variety of situations. >> it means i'd have to get my hair done more often, senator specter.