i traveled around the marine corps.n fact this morning i was on a vtc with commander on the ground in helmand province. i'm looking specifically for issues that might arise coming out of the tier two and tier three training. to be honest with you, chairman, we've not seen it. i mean, there's questions about billeting from marines. the kinds of questions you would expect. there hasn't been the recalcitrant pushback. there's not been the anxiety over it from the forces in the field. i will tell you that i asked specifically this morning from major general, i said, john, what are you seeing in the young marines out there. he said, sir, quite honestly they are focused on the enemy. maybe they will have questions when they get back to the united states of america but right now they are focused. he doesn't think it's an issue. >> mr. schwarz. >> i'm not prepared to fall off my assessment of moderate risk either. but we have trained 100,000 airmen to date. the way we have approached this and the reaction we have experienced th

it's the standard mari corps leadership. i'm confident of that. >> and the rights of the person asking for the accommodation to be moved, those rights will be respected as well. is that correct? >> they will. each case will be unique. each case will be handled uniquely by that leader. each case will no doubt be different. but there will be a common thread that respecting the rights of both marines will be nored. >> the backdrop of this, though, at least for us, i think for all of us, is that we're not trying to change anybody's beliefs or their belief system. but we do and will mandate a standard of conduct. >> thank you all for your testimony. thank you, mr. chairman. >> thank you. thank you. mr. franks. >> thank you, mr. chairman. gentlemen, i'm coming in here pretty late. i know you've probably covered a lot of areas that may be having some redundancy here. but first thank you for your service. i try to say every time when people, officers, other of leadership in our armed forces come forward, we know you've given profoun

the marine corps may have abandoned common sense least a few years before this particular case where you're the marine both in the army so i do things the easy way when you can do them the marine corps way exactly but you know since then i mean there's been so much. there was a search was going on back then you had all this kind of stuff going on and then all of a sudden it stopped for a little while as people were like whoa we're going to got to we got to watch what we do a little bit and there's a backlash to like for our case look at it making them really really bad but marine corps looked horrible even the v.f.w. went after them after and then they came on the v.s.e. on my side as an anti war veteran and you know they don't think they had to do it because you know it just kind of i think everybody knew the marine corps just finally took that step too far and what happened was it went on for a little bit little ebbs and flows and obama became president and there was a very big law and kind of the free speech issues the surge was over it was like ok iraq is going to end pretty soon

i traveled around the marine corps.n fact this morning i was on a vtc with commander on the ground in helmand province. i'm looking specifically for issues that might arise coming out of the tier two and tier three training. to be honest with you, chairman, we've not seen it. i mean, there's questions about billeting from marines. the kinds of questions you would expect. there hasn't been the recalcitrant pushback. there's not been the anxiety over it from the forces in the field. i will tell you that i asked specifically this morning from major general, i said, john, what are you seeing in the young marines out there. he said, sir, quite honestly they are focused on the enemy. maybe they will have questions when they get back to the united states of america but right now they are focused. he doesn't think it's an issue. >> mr. schwarz. >> i'm not prepared to fall off my assessment of moderate risk either. but we have trained 100,000 airmen to date. the way we have approached this and the reaction we have experienced th

they didn't like what the corps had predicted. the science fiction writer ray bradbury says the purpose of science fiction isn't to predict the future, it's to prevent the future that's described. i don't think the corps of engineers intended this report to fall into the category of great science fikds, but that's what happened. the present day bay looks more like this. bcdc was created to stop the uncontrolled filling of the bay and we've done that. in fact, we've reversed the shrinking of the bay. it's now 8,000 acres larger than it was 40 years ago and the conversion of salt ponds in the north and south bay to wetlands will make it another 26,000 acres larger. we are very proud of what we have accomplished. not all government agencies know what they are supposed to do. fewer even do it. we do. well, our smug self-aduration was interrupted last year in march when the california climate change center published a report titled, changing climate, assessing the risk to california. the report looked at 3 scenarios for cutting the amo

i traveled around the marine corps. in fact this morning i was on a vtc with commander on the ground in helmand province. i'm looking specifically for issues that might arise coming out of the tier two and tier three training. to be honest with you, chairman, we've not seen it. i mean, there's questions about billeting from marines. the kinds of questions you would expect. there hasn't been the recalcitrant pushback. there's not been the anxiety over it from the forces in the field. i will tell you that i asked specifically this morning from major general, i said, john, what are you seeing in the young marines out there. he said, sir, quite honestly they are focused on the enemy. maybe they will have questions when they get back to the united states of america but right now they are focused. he doesn't think it's an issue. >> mr. schwarz. >> i'm not prepared to fall off my assessment of moderate risk either. but we have trained 100,000 airmen to date. the way we have approached this and the reaction we have experienced

today peace corp. workers brought their message of volunteerism to stanford students. stanford ranks 15th in the country for the number of students who have joined the peace corp. uc berkeley is number one. >> peace corp. is as relevant today as it was when john f. kennedy started the organization 50 years ago. we have a 40 year high in the number of volunteers. the requests are great overseas. >> one speaker at tomorrow's event will be mike honda who was a peace corp. volunteer in el salvador during the 60s. >>> and thieves are targeting one san francisco neighborhood. here they broke down this door. we asked san francisco police what they are doing about it. >>> it's way up there, 500 feet above the bay, a new piece of the bay bridge tower is being put into place. a key piece and a high place and we'll show you what it's taking. >>> it's been happening over and over. someone breaking into stores in one part of san francisco. today we talked to one store owner who's business was hit about how it happened. rob roth tells us what she said and also what business owners a

>> yes, mercy corps does, too. >> perhaps to other questions. one is we talked a lot about the commendable fact it seems to me that the vast majority i think 90% is the figure i heard from you of your employees on the ground in the field or local afghan nationals in the case of afghanistan that having been said it is also the case that there can be a rather large percentage of local nationals employed by contractors by aid etc commesso can you tell us what difference is if any there are in terms of practices and insurance issues causey comer raÚl, etc., what is it let's say the percentage is basically the same in a given area for the purposes of comparison was the differentiating factor would you say any of you? >> in our experience we tend to hire people fairly young. a lot of our staff we don't pay as much as a contractor or the u.s. government so people come to us often out of college and the first job in 2002 they are still working with us because we place an incredible emphasis internally the same as externally all the capacity and so that

he has been almost a year at the marine corps base in washington. but i think in some ways the pentagon is denying the criticism, i think what happened is that it is much more about the treatment of this one individual, bradley manning, than about the serious charges that he is facing. >> a plane carrying the first lady michelle obama got too close to a military cargo jet. it came within three miles of the jet. federal aviation administration said the planes were never in danger and landed safely. you are watching bbc news. one happy couple, 1,900 guests and 5,000 plors. security strategy for britain's royal wedding. police in scotland are investigating a sending of parcel bombs. he has previously been threatened by protestant extremists. james cook reports. >> this is a story that the police asked media organizations, including the bbc not to report while they tried to catch the people involved. we are able to now report the details and say that parcel bombs were sent on three separate occasions to the manager of celtic football club, a former memb

. >> it seems to me that one of the best ideas of the 60's as the peace corps. one of the ways in which the idealism still in doers -- and i wonder if any of you consider that option for yourself and what you think the influence of the peace corps has been. >> you mean back then? now, back in the peace corps was just another ploy of the imperialists to control and dominate the world. that's all. later i learned that people who went to the peace corps came back having learned an awful lot about the world and benefited themselves, and that is the best thing. i often tell young people now, joined the peace corps for what it can do for you. >> and to me one of the most important experiences for a gang person raised in our middle class american culture is to recognize that how life is here is not how life is. one of the tragedies of american life, i would say, is the extraordinarily arrogant notion that you can know everything you need to know about the world by going to disney world, including the lack of need to learn another language, which is unique to americans.

the army corps of engineer said it may have to purposely break another missouri levee to ease high water down the river but that would swamp farmland and the state has sued to stop the effort. >>> president obama will officially announce his new national security team this afternoon. defense secretary robert gates, who plans to leave this summer, will be replaced as the top man at the pentagon by current cia director leon panetta. panetta will be replaced by the top u.s. general in afghanistan, david petraeus. general john allen will take petraeus' place. >>> it was an unprecedented move. the president of the united states producing a detailed birth certificate to prove he was born in the united states. the president says it's time to move on. but the issue is still not resolved for some so-called birthers. susan mcginnis is in washington

because i love the fact i'm a former peace corps volunteer. i just had a general sense you reach people and listen to people and are doing more of what they need but there are criticisms, and one of them is how we measure some of what we ask you to do is hard to measure even though you're involved in capacity building and the democracy training, institutional, getting people to realize they can put their head out of the ground and make a suggestion and it will be ripped off and they can ask their neighbors what they think and even build consensus. that's something we intuitively do but overseas and in some places that's for and so you do that but how we measure it? >> we have a fair request of the sessions of metrics on how we do that at mercy corps and we are amply that on the global level with all of our field missions. there's always donor reporting. they like to see output and results. rarely do they ask what the impact is. it's the impact most of us with character will try to achieve because that's where you see the long standing sustaina

i am calling item number6, housing corp. inc. vs. the department of building inspection for a property at 281 church street protesting the issuance to a drug, permit to alter a building, remodel, upgrade the electrical, partition walls, all work at commercial unit. jurisdiction was granted on june 30th, 2010. this is on calendar for rehearing. the public hearing was held in closed on october 6th, 2010. motion to grant the appeal conditioned upon adoption of finding was approved on october 13th, 2010. motion to reopen the public hearing and receive additional evidence was approved on december 15th, 2010. on january 19th, 2011, the board voted to deny the appeal and uphold the permit. on march 23rd, 2011, the board voted to grant the rehearing request and to set the rehearing for today. >> i apologize. there is another item i need to address before you began speaking. commissioners, the permit holder has requested that we designate the court reporter's transcript for this matter as the official record for this proceeding and we need a

but she was friends with the older nurses who were in the nurse corps. because she was a german national, she was not thrown into the camp, and she had a lot of money. when she realized her friends are in there, she started to send them money, clothes and food. she was their fairy godmother. she would come once a week in a limousine with a parasol, and she'd have her servants bring the nurses things, very much a lifesaver. but the younger nurses would laugh at her 'cause she had a big picture hat and a parasol, and here they are in a prison camp, and -- and ida was every much a -- a lady. g-2 investigated ida after the war. they wanted to know--they thought she might have been a collaborator, but they were never able to prove anything. and she wanted to get to the states. they wouldn't let her, and she died in manila, one of the many, many unsung heroines of the war. c-span: how many other books have you written? >> guest: i've wri -- i wrote one book prior to this called "women at war," the story of 50 military nurses who served in vietnam. c-span: same

it's the standard marine corps leadership. i'm confident of that. >> and the rights of the person asking for the accommodation to be moved, those rights will be respected as well. is that correct? >> they will. each case will be unique. each case will be handled uniquely by that leader. each case will no doubt be different. but there will be a common thread that respecting the rights of both marines will be honored. >> the backdrop of this, though, at least for us, i think for all of us, is that we're not trying to change anybody's beliefs or their belief system. but we do and will mandate a standard of conduct. >> thank you all for your testimony. thank you, mr. chairman. >> thank you. thank you. mr. franks. >> thank you, mr. chairman. gentlemen, i'm coming in here pretty late. i know you've probably covered a lot of areas that may be having some redundancy here. but first thank you for your service. i try to say every time when people, officers, other of leadership in our armed forces come forward, we know you've given profo

corp.. this is completely true. in a series of rulings in the late 1880s and on the court struck down attempts to regulate commerce without any intention to discriminate. what they set up for black americans was not for corporations. how can a corporation be granted fourteenth amendment rights? it can. in order to do it you just make a person. in santa clara county versus of and pacific railroad co. chief justice weight asserted half the court does not have the provision of the fourteenth amendment to the constitution which forbids the state to deny any person the equal protection of the laws applied to these corporations. we are all of the opinion that it does. what we had was you couldn't set rates, you couldn't tax. you couldn't -- minnesota tried -- they were being gouged on milk. when they transported milk. all of these were struck down on the fourteenth amendment grounds. in 896 it all came together. the rights of human need had been disposed of and the rights of inanimate objects had been upheld. the conferen

are sponsoring the second annual cal day concert, where they're celebrating 50 years of the peace corpsals of uc berkeley say they have sent more graduates to the peace corps than any other public university in the country. >>> the sharks are getting ready to play tonight. lauren scott is there with a preview for us. >>> we're getting a little dramatic here tonight as the sharks and kings get ready for game two of their playoff ri ires. we'll have talk about the game and so much more coming up in sports. es >>> good evening, laurence scott outside the sharks locker room. we're doing something different to get you ready for game two against the l.a. kings. the first game was a real toe-to-toe battle, it went into overtime. the sharks arriving tonight cool, calm, collected, ready to get down to business. here's how we got to this point. >> game one, the kings came ready to make it a brawl with the sharks. you hardly see this in the postseason. ben eager going at it. he's been suspended for one game and will not play tonight for the kings. the stars rookie will likely be the nhl rookie of

before we break, the 2008 campaign captured the imagination of many in the press corps. here is how "saturday night live" handled it. >> like nearly every of -- every one of us in the news media, the three of us are totally in the tank for more? observe. -- for senator obama. >> i travel around the the country and hear this from every journalist i meet. for too long, people in the country have been hearing just give us the news, not your personal opinion and they're tired of hearing you journalists have to be neutral, you can't openly take sides in a political campaign and they're saying yes, we can. [laughter] yes, we can take sides. yes, we can. [laughter] >> barak? barack? >> bull's-eye. nothing but net. chris: when we come back, we're going to talk about the real-life flip side to what you just saw. the republicans do not trust the so-called mainstream media and have urged kds not to talk to the big networks. votes like? chris: welcome back. polls show that only one third of republicans trust what some right of center politicians call the mainstream media. mccain did

because i love the fact -- i'm a former peace corps volunteer.t have a general sense that you reach people, you listen to people, you're doing more what they need. but there are criticisms. and one of them is how, how do we measure? some of what we ask you to do is hard to measure even though you're involved in capacity building, i mean, empowerment, democracy training, institutionalizing, getting people to realize they can poke their head out of the ground and make a suggestion, and it won't be ripped off, and can they can ask their neighbors what they think, and you can build consensus. that's something we spew tyly do -- intuitively do, but overseas in some places that's foreign. but you do it. how do away measure it? mr. bowers, how do we measure itsome. >> we have a very clear set of definitions of metrics on how we do that at mercy corps, and, in fact, we're employing that on a global level. there is always donor reporting. donors like to see outputs, donors like to see results. rarely do they ask what the impact is. it's the impact that mo

so whenever somebody wore a sneaker that was quite dirty, oh, you're wearing the sneaker peace corps style or american style. [laughter] >> my father also worked for the american mining company that was in the south of sierra leone, a very remote area where i grew up and this is where i was introduced to american popular culture. one of them was american hip hop music that was on television. we didn't have electricity but we went to the company's headquarters and we would listen -- we would watch the television and i saw some of these things and i was introduced to this culture when we grow up. when the war came into my life it disrupted the simple and remarkable life that i had and at the age of 12, i started running from the war. between 12 and 13, i lost everything that was dear to me. so my immediate family was killed. i was second boy in a family of three so my older brother were killed and my younger brother were killed and my mother and father were killed in the war. this happened to hundreds of thousands of other children in sierra leone. i was eventually dragged in the war t

the war corps of $5 billion isn't going to do as much as the peace corps. thank you. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. the gentleman from kentucky is recognized. mr. rogers: i yield two minutes to the distinguished chairwoman of the financial services subcommittee on appropriations, the gentlelady from missouri, mrs. emerson. the chair: the gentlelady from missouri is recognized for two minutes. mrs. emerson: thank you, mr. chairman. madam speaker, when i took hold of the gavel of the subcommittee on financial services and general government, i took to heart the responsibility to reduce federal spending on behalf of future generations of americans. the financial services section of this act provides a total of $22 billion. $2.4 billion or 10% reduction from fiscal year 2010 levels and reduction of 3.4 billion or 14% from the preeze's fiscal year 2011 request. deciding how to apply these deductions was challenging. our propensity to spend now and repay with interest has saddled our children and grandchildren with $14 billion of

it tears you apart. >> reporter: even corps archaeologist sonny trimble struggled with p.t.s.d. >> you't realize that what the war has done is kind of whittled you away. it's kind of sanded you away like with fine sandpaper. and you can't do a lot of the things you could do in the past. i wouldn't come out of my house on the weekend for over a year. that's probably the first time i've said that to anybody besides my family. >> reporter: is it illegitimate, then, for employers to harbor some fear of worst-case scenarios like flashbacks or becoming violent, "going postal"? >> the military doesn't have a problem with us being postal, and we carry guns! >> as far as p.t.s.d. goes, are employers asking the same questions if someone is blind? you know, p.t.s.d.-- it's an illness, but it's manageable. >> reporter: the vets told us they're grateful for the program. >> i was pretty much feeling like i was going to hit rock bottom. and then this came along. >> i was on the verge of being homeless. me, my family were about to be out on the streets. once they hired me, i was able to, you know, wor

the war corps of $5 billion isn't going to do as much as the peace corps. thank you. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. the gentleman from kentucky is recognized. mr. rogers: i yield two minutes to the distinguished chairwoman of the financial services subcommittee on appropriations, the gentlelady from missouri, mrs. emerson. the chair: the gentlelady from missouri is recognized for two minutes. mrs. emerson: thank you, mr. chairman. madam speaker, when i took hold of the gavel of the subcommittee on financial services and general government, i took to heart the responsibility to reduce federal spending on behalf of future generations of americans. the financial services section of this act provides a total of $22 billion. $2.4 billion or 10% reduction from fiscal year 2010 levels and reduction of 3.4 billion or 14% from the preeze's fiscal year 2011 request. deciding how to apply these deductions was challenging. our propensity to spend now and repay with interest has saddled our children and grandchildren with $14 billion of

if -- he worked in veterinary medicine and he joined the marine corps and then they looked.y father and relatives on my mother's side, everyone had pets. i think it instilled in me a sense of compassion and respect for all living creatures, but i did not live on a farm or anything, so we just had the household pets. tavis: since you mention your father and changing of careers, i have been dying to ask you, you graduate as the valedictorian of your high school class. >> yes, i did. tavis: are you still proud of that? >> it was something. i was so obsessed with studying. i don't think i really learned anything, but i got good grades. tavis: i will come back to that, i promise. you graduate of valedictorian from your high-school class, go off to college, and then you at some point have to tell your parents that you are dropping out of school, after being the valedictorian, to pursue your music career. what did your mom and dad say about that? >> my parents were not very happy. there were very worried about me pursuing a career that even if i had talent might not give me the hap

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overseas private investment corp.provide up to $2 billion to encourage investments across the middle east and north africa, especially for small enterprises. we look forward to working with congress to establish enterprise funds for egypt and tunisia that will support competitive markets and provide small businesses with access to blow past capital -- a low-cost capital. we want to improve and expand the investment funds which allow egyptian companies to send exports to the ad states of duty-free. we are working with partners for a new beginning. an organization led by madeleine albright and walter isaacson of the aspen institute. it was formed after president obama's cairo speech and includes the ceos of companies like intel and morgan stanley. these leaders will convene at a summit at the end of may to conduct american investors with partners in the region's transition of democracies. under the auspices of partners for new beginnings, the north africa partnership for economic opportunity is building a network of pub

officials at uc berkeley say they have sent more graduates to the peace corps than any other public university in the country. >>> it was rough seas last weekend that likely capsized a boat off san francisco's ocean beach and now authorities are determining whether a body that washed ashore today is one of the men who was on that boat. a person walking her dog discovered the body around 7:00 this morning. the san francisco medical examiner is working to identify the man and determine a cause of death. >>> last weekend two men in their 50s were thrown into the water near the cliff house when their boat capsized. one of the men was rescued but the other was presumed dead after a search turned up nothing but an empty life jacket. >>> a teenager who has been in a coma for months in the south bay after a hit-and-run is reportedly starting to improve a bit. police, though, are still trying to track down the driver who hit her. 15-year-old shea shaw was with her boyfriend back in january when a car plowed into her at the intersection of camden and bascom in san jose. she suffered a skull fracture and

but before that to, i had an encounter with the united states because costs the peace corps used to me verytron strong so one of the first americans ever encountered was the peace corpsers volunteer whoa lived in my village to teach english. our idea of the united states or america was based on how this fellow be caved. we thought this is how americans are. for example, he would wear auld sneaker he never washed and mr. d. of the time so we thought this is how americans lowered theirns shoes so anybody wore aaker sneaker that was 30 we said it was peace corps style or american-style. [laughter] my father worked for a mining company a very remote to area and through this that i was introduced to american popular culture. also have hip-hop music that was on television we did not have electricity but we went to the headquarters to listen lowered to watch the television and saw these things.ened i was introduced to this culture growing up. when the war came into my life is disrupted the simple and remarkable life that i had had. at the age of 12 i started to run from the war between 12 and

i mean, it is a good opportunity. >> i'm from the treasure island job corps, and the treasure island project will open up our jobs. >> good afternoon. i'm excited for the project, and i think that it would open up a lot of opportunities for jobs and housing for the younger generation. i just wanted to say thanks for the time. >> good afternoon, commissioners. we are very much in favor of this project moving forward. there are very many positive aspects of the project, from the sustainability, the affordable housing, the immediate jobs this project will create, and the open space. with regard to the affordability, the affordable housing, i think 25% is still really a very good number. i think it is a number that the city of san francisco can be very proud of. out of the 420 acres of development, 300 acres of designated open space, and out of the 300 acres, 40 acres have been set aside -- approximately 40 acres, four regional sports fields and local sports fields. i think this is so important to the city, to treasure island, the city. the city is in dire need of quality playing field a

control is what they have first they go in and they bought our seeds stay seeds stock producer holden's corp i believe out of iowa and after that they have holdings has like a whole family or group of seed growers and the rule was that in ninety five they said in five years and after they told them you will be selling ninety percent monsanto product or you will not be in business selling seed so if they did not push monsanto is product on the farmers they would be out of business and so that's what all the seed growers did they pushed the product on the farmers so that they could stay in business. because if they were did not have holdings to grow their spread their seed stock they would not have anything to sell they had it all changed it all changed overnight one thousand nine hundred ninety six it all changed and it's interesting that the way monsanto seems to enforce this saying is they go into the countryside and they try to determine who is clean in their own seed saving and cleaning your own seed for replaying the next years is a perfectly legal activity. but over the course the last

>> yes. >> yes, mercy corp.does too. >> one question is we talked about the commendable fact, it seems to me, that the vast majority, 98% is the figure i heard from you ms. richard, from the applies on the ground are local afghan officials in afghanistan, and has been said it can be the case that there's a large percentage of local nationals employed by contractors, by aid, ect., ect.. can you tell us what differences, if any there are in terms of labor practices, pay differences, insurance issues, safety, moral, ect.? what's the differentiating factor would you say? any of you. >> i mean, in our experience, you know, we tend to hire people fairly young. i mean, a lot of our staff we don't pay as much as a contractor or the u.s. government so people come to us often straight out of college. we have people who came to us, first job back in 2002 and are still working with us because we place an incredible emphasis internally the same as externally in capacity. we have staff who, you know, english teachers on site

and there the recruitment of pastuns of the officer corps, especially a general officer corps is a concern for the -- those leaders of the northern groups that are thinking about the possibility of having to fight another civil war against the taliban, which would be serving again as a proxy for the pakistan army. and that is that they don't want to build a coup in the army in advance of such a conflict so they're going to be very cautious about which pastun officers they allow to rise up inside the army and to build internal networks among officers. and i think -- that doesn't mean no pastun. if you're them, you want the broadest possible front to defend against a second war against pakistan essentially which would be one way to think of it structurally. they're going to have partners in that war. india is going to be much better resourced than in the 1990s and russia and iran will be supportive. they have strategic depth that they didn't have in the 1990s and they have a pole politic including a young generation of afghans that are going to resist the taliban in such a setting. so they c

guest: we e on scholarship with the atlas corps. we are serving with the public policy organization. host: what are you learning? guest: we're learning whatever we can get our hands on. i have a chance to share my experience in my field with the organization i am serving with. i have been learning about policy-making, advocacy lobbying, networking. a big thing in this city is networking, meeting people, discussions. host: are you finding that what you are learning here will translate back ingypt or is similar to the way business is done in egypt? guest: it is not the same way. there are many differences here. i like the approach. there are things we may not replicate it should inspire us to create a subtle network in the country. host: mirette bahgat, what are you working on? guest: i am working on civic enterprises. i am focusing on educational public policies and international service. i am learning a lot. i was working also on education back in egypt. for me,t is useful to be working on t educational policies here in the u.s. i a

the platoon commander wants to stand not to duty in the marine corps.they also lost to others and made others evacuated. so 12 out of 40 were gone when i got there and all they want to do every day was go out and stick it to the enemy and make a difference is what they were doing. they were also scratching on the wall the difference they were making, which is what you have to expect when they are out there fighting and they have their flag on the other side. but that causes me to believe that we have this core group

army corps of engineers. we issued a review of the asset transfer process and found that hundreds of projects were being unilaterally transferred and not being adequately sustained. as the commission addressed, as we've repeatedly said, significant waste can occur if projects we effectively built are not sustained by the iraqis. the audits we'll issue will find that the corps has dramatically improved its asset transfer process and has a system now functioning in iraq that will ensure that the remainder of its projects will be effectively transferred to iraqi control. there is a continuing challenge, though, regarding whether the iraqis will sustain them. >> mr. blair. >> one of the things that we noted in some of the work we did in iraq was related to the area of asset accountability. i know that's not the cost issue you asked about, but with asset accountability, we found there was a good handle on some of the equipment, but one of the things that comes to mind in the whole idea of transforming a culture in

. >> i think closest analogy i could come up with was the marine corps. [laughter] tough to get in, and then they send you to really nasty places. [laughter] right? and i was wondering, you know, how in the movies there's always that moment where the one tough guy meets the other tough guy, and they're about to get in a fight, and the one guy says, wait, were you in nam. yeah, i was in nam. and they go, semperfy. [laughter] i wondered, is there an analogous moment when two teaching alums get together and say, where'd you serve? south bronx, and then they show each other their teach for america tattoos. [laughter] but there is this -- i mean, i'm joking, but there is a kind of -- you are creating a kind of movement. i mean, the marine corps alumni represent a kind of movement representing a certain attitude toward or the world's -- >> this is exactly the idea. i mean, this is the big idea, you know? and teach for america really isn't about -- we are about teachers are critical, but teach for america is about building a movement among our country's future l

and on the top bank of new york mellon corp citigroup j.p. morgan chase morgan stanley goldman sachs wells fargo bank of america a.i.g. the big banks of america now these people in between are the interlocking boards of directors stephen hall and martin feldstein and who is on a john chen those goes on and on and on without we don't really need the names but what you see is that there is there are direct links between the boards of each one of these banks and each one of these media companies so you wonder why was it so easy when george w. bush went to the media and said you know the big banks need some help well i'll players these connections it's all about connections and maybe we should be thinking about legislation that says you can only serve on the board of one company . time for our daily poll your chance to tell us what you think here's today's question s. and p. is warning about a new five trillion dollar big bank meltdown will the u.s. taxpayers with this bill your choices are a yes we'll do it on the back of the new deal dubai's so

a picture that said you know written on a locker and said you know america's not at war the marine corps is what it says they're calling out to us and saying look we need your support we need you at our back to be able to do what we're doing but we also need you to be sharing that sacrifice and be here with us or bring us home and what because they've been out there and what it's lame and what side of the illogical spectrum has been with the troops for the last eight years was it harry reid who said the war is lost was it was a or was that the american right there conservatives who constantly do fundraisers for the troops concert is it is the left like john kerry and harry reid and dick durbin and dick durbin who compared the troops the cold and the tongue in guantanamo bay and you don't have to prove your patriotism to me no i don't approve of you're not reading citizen and i think we all believe in a healthy and secure america god no that's not true but not every american doesn't one thing you don't i'm saying that every american does but. it's been the american left it's harry reid ha