and he lay on the tracks of the georgia road cradled by the rails.eart stopped. >> all railroad abandoned. between across ties. trees grow. a fairel pig roots below branches. [applause]. >> poem is about a ham. >> uncle john. that was the year grand daddy thomas died. left the family worse than broke. uncle john stole a ham from the meat market. he was 17. lost his taste for it locked up 14 years. ham, cured and earth bred sliced with the fat hanging on. yellow sunshine on a white plate. the ham bone cuts crosswise. a dark eye all in the skillet making aggressive for grits. lost his taste for all things salt much the ocean he has not seen. woman and man. he don't ever want to see no more ham on his plate. hates pigs. hard for him. time off for good behavior. they didn't hold him to the last 6. he is a hog farmer. only eats beef and chicken and turkey. fish, turtle and rabbit. squirrel, possum and coon and seasons greens with smoked ox tails. can't raise white folks for slaughter. [applause] >> for those of you who have not heard this in person a big

the federal government and the state of georgia not raising taxes but the state of georgia taxes havedeclined. when you increase taxes, the productivity, consumption, decrease and it's more damaging to the economy. mr. akin: how do you explain that? because i give some of these talks to my constituents and one of the ways i try to explain it is, let's say you're king for a day and your job is to tax a l oaf of bread and get as much tax revenue as you can by taxing bread. so you go through this little exercise in your mind and say i could tax the bread $10 a loaf or one penny. no one would notice and i would get a penny times all those. but if i got $10 a loaf, i could make a lot of money, but no one would buy the bread. somewhere between a penny and $10, you are going to come to a place where people will keep on buying bread. if you increase it, you lose revenue. so there is a spot. and what's happening is, the government is taxing people so much that by increases the taxes, it stalls the economy and so the revenue drops. if i was a happy socialist and one of these guys who wants the

georgia, the gentleman from georgia's state, $565 million to $2.1 billion, a 265% increase, not private sector, state liability. so why do we want to do this? because quite honestly the purpose of insurance is that people pay their premium, they live the way they're supposed to but they want the certainty that if something bad happens to them they're going to get paid. secondly, why should the nation do it? because it would break any one of these states. the chances of every coastal county in mississippi getting hit in the same day has happened three times in my lifetime. florida had four catastrophic storms, hit almost every square inch of the state. but the chances of the same storm hitting every state on the same day is miniscule. and if it does happen, don't worry about paying claims, just call it armageddon. so what we are proposing is a program that instead of letting the private sector collect the premiums and the nation pay the bill would allow people to, as an extension, as an option to their flood insurance, pay for a wind option and that way they come home to nothing, if they

gingrey of georgia. the chair: pursuant to house resolution 1559, the gentleman from georgia, mr. gingrey, and a member opposed, each will control five minutes. the chair recognizes the gentleman from georgia. mr. gingrey: madam chairman, thank you. my amendment would prohibit funds in the bill from being used to exercise eminent domain without just compensation to the individuals involved. this is necessary because the keylo vs. the city of london supreme court decision expanded the so-called public use provision of the takings clause of the fifth amendment. this decision allows state and local governments to practice eminent domain for the benefit of one private party over another. in this specific case, madam chairman, the city of new london, connecticut, used its eminent domain authority to actually seize private property to sell to private developers in order to aid a struggling economy in the name of economic development but not specifically in the traditional interpretation of public use. justice john paul stevens' majority opinion states that the fifth amendment does not r

georgia. london's christie's auction house is insisting the painting it sold to a russian billionaire is authentic it's been reportedly sued by businessman victor who claims the artwork he bought is a fake berg allegedly splashed out nearly three million dollars when this painting called design two thousand and five it's called police so closely by the russian artist. but experts in russia have taken a closer look and they're now convinced it's been forged. cashback damages christie's took another look at the painting and say it is genuine but want more research to be done well now let's talk to james he's a russian collector joining us in london it's an intriguing story what do you think is it a fake. it's always dangerous to put one's reputation on the line in such circumstances my opinion is based purely on the opinion of others who know more about the subject than i do mr and mrs who clearly know more about this that i do so i can only say that i would agree with their opinion but how long

hundreds of alligators swarm a georgia waterway for cw time. captions paid for by nbc-universal television >>> hello and good morning. welcome to our viewers across the nation, including the pacific time zone. i'm lynn berry. >>> and today, we begin with struck down. a federal judge in arizona has backed the obama administration's high-stakes challenge of arizona's controversial immigration law just hours before it was set to become law. while some provisions still go into effect today, key parts of this new legislation have been blocked, setting the stage for a lengthy court battle with arizona's governor already saying she plans to appeal. nbc's tracie potts is in washington with that story. tracie, good morning. >> reporter: lynn, good morning. arizona was ready for this fight. they have been ready for a few months now. and now a federal judge has weighed in. so, the law is in effect. it is now the law of the land in arizona, but not quite as tough as it was intended to be. >> what do we want? legalization! when do we want it? now! >> report

the gentleman from georgia is recognized. mr. gingrey: madam speaker, thank you. i rise not really in opposition to h.r. is 96, the -- 1796, the residential carbon monoxide poison prevention act. parts of this legislation i'm very much in favor of. particularly regarding the encouragement in the grant program to try to help people to know what the gentleman from maryland just said in regard to the danger of carbon monoxide, which is colorless, and odorless. and it causes far too many poisons. and indeed death, i think 170 americans each year. one would be too many, madam speaker. i question somewhat the necessity of making the standards for the detectors going from a voluntary standard to a mandatory standard. but in regard to encouraging widespread use of the detectors, not only in places of business but absolutely in a home setting where a lot of times you got these generators because of a power outage or camping equipment that is misused or malfunctions and you -- it leads to these tragedies that we are trying to avoid. absolu

and senator saxby chambliss from georgia. before i begin my remarks, i would like to take a moment to a knowledge the passing of a colleague -- and to robert byrd, the longest-serving senator ever. he had the greatest respect for the rules and traditions of the senate and for all three branches of government. he defended them with passion and bigger -- vigor. i extend my deepest sympathies to his family. tomorrow is the fourth of july. from the village squares of new england to the pomp france -- to the palm beaches of california, to georgia, to the prairies and beyond, americans are gathering to celebrate our nation's birthday. amid the red, white, b and blueunting, -- and blue, many of us will listen to the words of a document that urged americans to throw off the yoke of a cane and make their own destiny as an independent nation -- of a king make their own destiny as an independent nation and a free people. signing the declaration of independence was a brave move. by embarking on such a bold experiment, they risked life an

the court that made me realize that i wanted to write a book was in green county, georgia. it was a beautiful place. president bush vacationed there three times during his presidency. i walked up the stairs and i saw the public defender there and he is a man named robert who sa major character in chapter one and he has tons of people swarming around him and they are waving papers trying to get about two minutes with him before their cases are going to be called before the judge. now this is the way it worked here in green county. he would call their anytime. john smith, are you here? and then john smith would come and be told what the prosecutor was offering and people had called and not heard back. they didn't get any attention to the individual circumstances of their cases. instead, they were called before the judge and another attorney who even left about the case would stand there almost like a piece of cardboard and the people would plead guilty. now it was incredibly obvious in court that day that people had no idea what was happening to them. people started to cry in

, chose to live in georgia, whose father was killed by a white person, no one was ever prosecuted for it, she has had crosses burned in front of her house, her husband has been pushed down the stairs trying to vote. this woman literally ought to be enraged so to speak. that's the normal reaction. but not here. >> what is the lesson that we all should learn from this? >> for openers we should learn that it ain't necessarily what you see. i don't think the white house and the administration reacted to this issue on the basis of her utterances. i think she has been a thorn in the side of the department of agriculture in georgia for a long time. those bureaucrats needed to get rid of her and they have been looking for an opportunity to get rid of her. >> but she comes through this -- she has a great story, two questions. when does she go on oprah and get the book contract? >> i don't know if she will do either. she was not that kind of woman. she might sue the blogger. she may very well do that. and she may advocate to replace the secretary of agriculture. >> this ever happened to you? >>

happened on the trans caucasian highway connecting russia's republic of north sh here with south georgia the driver is in a critical condition. teen age would be so sad boma goals were among eight people arrested and a counter terror operation in the southern russian republic of dagestan guns grenades and lost whales were among items found by russian security services with

georgia. and let's go back now to our top story the international conference taking place in the afghan capital kabul the events expected to produce an agreement for foreign force. is to hand power back to afghans as security in the region remains fragile now we can talk live show correspondent who's following developments for us there at the conference hello tina tell you so tell us a bit more about this event what is so special about a why is it such a big deal. well marina like you just said this conference is basically all about making sure the power is being shifted over to the afghan forces the plan that will set for that during the last conference on afghanistan which took place in london earlier this year is now being implemented and today here representatives from over seventy countries are making sure that everything is going. by the plan of course other issues such as drug trafficking proving. standards of living here in afghanistan as well as state regulations and human rights issu

georgia. a home in the crimea is about to get even hotter this is. gearing up for its annual international falling show featuring the kremlin crim of the world. in the long journey team ukraine for the event which kicks off on friday thousands are expected to attend the three day metal and leather extravaganza organizers have gone all out to buy something with a mix by composition and a whole array of stunts and special effects. coming away with done away. welcome to business the former international air show has opened with a flurry of orders the two biggest manufacturers boeing and airbus have taken the law and share but there's also been plenty of business for russian companies our correspondent reports. airplanes of all shapes and sizes are taking to the skies over the south of england this week as farm bray international ash brings technology to life russia's biggest aviation industry players are represented at farnborough not just aeroflot and sukhoi superjet but also titanium make. the russian defense super corp defense important export compan

it seems there is something in the air in the mountains of georgia living to over ninety is nothing out of the ordinary here but making it to hundred thirty is still something pretty special the secret could be in the simple rural life or the d.n.a. of the local population or as some have suggested a mix of what the documents or maybe is the combination of all three that keeps people like and going strong for years relatives a city and to say used to smoke cigarettes doesn't eat meat but doesn't joy having a drink every now and then to suspend all of her life in the village she was born in she didn't have much of an official education and doesn't know how to read or write her passport says she was born in one thousand a.d. but independently that the communication cannot be verified without auntie says last birth certificate but several other documents and testimonies from her neighbors say i'm definitely over a century old. which is pretty. sure. which is creating very discouraging their own digital shows which are always poor we need. documents in order to establish the fact that this

georgia. and then forget to log on to our website our teacher conference any of the stories that we cover every year there are always more stuff for you and alice is on blogs but he. there are some that mad about i catch your eye. driven into action russian ecologists battle to save the forests which is being felled to make way for a new bosco to sink that is bird motorway. and moscow has high hopes for hosting a grand prix in two thousand and twelve after a major as one show on the capital streets this weekend drew thousands of spectators. and the flying donkey that could land at parasailing company responsible in hot water after its stand in southern russia is investigated for animal cruelty. brings out today and business is on its way to you with shortly. here every month we give you the future we'll do you understand how we'll get there and what tomorrow brings the best in science and technology from across russia and around the world to join us. on our. mine. would be soon which would bri

>> she's a lifelong rural development expert from southwest georgia. who gave a very remarkable speech to an naacp group in march in which she argued that it's poverty, not skin color, that divides americans. which was also then twisted by a conservative website. into making her seem like a racist. and when word of that doctored video reached the white house earlier this week, someone there, we're not sure her, who, seemed to move with unusual dispatch to make sure that people at the usda fired her that day. later that night as she drove home from work she pulled over to the side of the road and resigned by email. the next morning, it's only tuesday, when the full context of that speech to the naacp became known it was clear that she was anything but a racist. and the apologies began. and until yesterday, they were still continuing. it was a ghastly 48 to 72 hours in which no one looked good and proved that an environment that's already pretty toxic politically and an attitude to shoot first and ask questions later can take the career of someone who ha

the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from georgia. mr. johnson: i will reserve the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman reserves. the gentleman from florida. mr. rooney: mr. speaker, we would yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from florida yields back. the gentleman from georgia is recognized. mr. johnson: mr. speaker, i'll yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from georgia yields back. the question is will the house suspend the rules and pass h.r. 5281 as amended. those in favor say aye. those opposed, no. in the opinion of the chair, 2/3 of those voting having responded in the affirmative, the rules are suspended, the bill is passed and without objection the motion to reconsider is laid on the table. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from virginia seek recognition? >> meeb, i move to suspend the rules -- mr. speaker, i move to suspend the rules and pass the bill as amended. the speaker pro tempore: the clerk will r

it's where the university of georgia is. it's a very liberal county. i did a americaspeakingout town hall meeting there. i told anybody to come because i wanted to hear. that's what americaspeakingout's all about. we want to hear what america thinks we should be dealing with here in congress. and offer suggestions of how to create jobs. we're asking, where are the jobs? the policies that's being brought by the democratic majority are taking away jobs. i already told you how obamacare will eventually put over five million americans out of work, mr. speaker just because of that one bill. the stimulus bill is going to put people out of work. it's put a few people to work. more government employees than private sector employees. but we're asking america to speak out, to go on americaspeakingout.com, tell us what we should be doing here in congress today, to offer suggestions, to vote on suggestions that are already made or comments already made. america can make their own comments. these are just some of the things that -- these are sheets, actually, that

. >> i covered the last lynching in three states, north carolina, south carolina, and georgia.one was in smithfield, north carolina. a black was accused of stealing some hound dogs, and when he was discovered with the dogs, a posse was developed, and the interesting thing about it was that they allowed the youngest one in the posse the honor of shooting the black person who was accused of taking the dogs. in south carolina, the will earl case--will earl was a young black. 31 taxicab drivers took him out and lynched him. montgomery county, georgia, isaiah nixon was accused of voting a--voting registration, getting blacks signed up to vote, and they-- a mob went to his home and asked his wife where he was, and she said, "he's in the house." and she said--the mob said, "tell him to come out." and as soon as he got out and got on the ground, they shot him dead. and she said it was in the presence of his children, and they scattered like a covey of birds. >> narrator: these articles boosted the circulation of the pittsburgh courier. >> 14 editions across the country and in the carib

dean reynolds, cbs news, greensboro, georgia. >> couric: in washington, after a long investigation, the house ethics committee today charged congressman charles rangel with a variety of ethics violations. and another house panel will now put him on trial. if convicted, the new york democrat, who was forced to give up the chairmanship of the ways and means committee, could be censured or expelled. now the battle over arizona's new immigration law. justice department lawyers asked a federal judge in phoenix today to block it before it takes effect next thursday. some proponents of the law say illegal immigration leads to more crime. but does it? bill whitaker takes a closer look. >> reporter: pima county, arizona. sheriffs deputies on patrol for people crossing the border illegally from mexico. >> we are encountering folks who have warrants out for their arrest, deported felons and things like that. >> reporter: it's a fact of life here that frightens and infuriates many arizonans. >> i've had illegals knocking on my front door, i've had drug runners in my backyard. >> you get jumpy when

happened on the trans caucasian highway connecting russia's republic of north and south ossetia and georgia the russian emergencies ministry's the bus plunged over sixty meters the driver is among those injured and he's in critical condition it's not clear at this stage what caused the crash this week russian security services broke up a suspected terrorist cell in the southern republican dagestan in the homes of six arrested women one of them just fifteen years old they found suicide belts disguises and wills two men were also detained one of whom is linked to the deadly moscow metro blasts in march. this report. so young but deemed old enough one of the alleged terrorists in the russian republic of the good stuff is just fifteen years old that according to officials did not stop her from taking part in planning terrorist attacks she and the other woman were allegedly trained by their husbands. my late husband left the guns here i've held a gun i know how to fire one but i've never done it i know how to use a grenade to. it's hello i'm fifteen years old and you go guns in the house i even

to lead a georgia woman who claims to be one hundred thirty years old find out who she is and what's stopping her from claiming the title of the oldest living person on earth later in the program. the united nations says plans by the world's wealthiest nations to cut spending on aids could jeopardize recent progress in fighting the disease the warning came at an international aids conference which is underway in vienna as activists are demanding treatment for all r.t. sarah ferguson is in the austrian capital for us. it's the third day of the aids two thousand and ten conference here in vienna and already we've seen some controversy in the days leading up to the official conference we heard from a greek who challenging many of the fundamental assumptions that a lot of us told about hatred b. and about the forms of treatment no though their views were met by many of the mainstream scientists with widespread criticism that has been a lot of debating here at the official conference itself to do with funding and treatment strategies that we heard yesterday from bill gates and bill clinto

>> in georgia. and he was a georgian. >> what's the difference? >> the difference is the difference between let's say, an englishman and an albanian. the georgians were a small -- are a small nation to the south of the caucasus mountain range. they speak an entirely different language from the russians. and this was one of the reasons why the other communist leaders rather looked down on stalin because russian wasn't his first language, and he was always making slight mistakes, and he had a heavy accent. >> and trotsky was born where? >> trotsky was born in the south of what we would now call ukraine to a very wealthy farming family. he tended to play down on a lot of aspects of his early life. he tended to draw a veil over the enormous commercial success that his extraordinary father had in building up this farm in the south of the country. his father was jewish. that wasn't the most convenient national or religious group to belong to in the russian empire. trotsky father tramped over all of the obstacles in his path. he built up a huge farm. >>

graves: georgia's 9th congressional district which is north georgia, north georgia mountains. mr. akin: blue ridge mountains. mr. graves: i love in the small town of ranger, little bitty town. mr. akin: how close is it from the river? my brother was a ram brooklyn wreck from georgia tech. he got into that country and the citizens are wise to have elected you. we enjoyed the conversation last week. i would like you to jump in as to how this thing was going going. i heard the president screaming and yelling at republicans about the fact that we didn't want to continue paying year after year for people not working and that we are insensitive to the job situation. i'm thinking this guy has done to do more to destroy jobs in america than anybody and he has the gall to say that and it's so simple i don't know how people could miss it. if you hammer businesses, you aren't going to have jobs. jobs come from companies. and if you hate companies and you hate the private sector, then how are you going to have jobs? and how can you complain about jobs when you are trying to destroy the compan

certainly the state of georgia. have heard both republican and democratic candidates for governor say they endorse the arizona law. i certainly do. it it will wind its way through the federal court system. i feel confident that arizona and its governor will appeal the ruling. i hope this does not mean programs like the 287g per gram, that allows my county, and the sheriff, a great friend, in the county of 650 dozen people -- has instituted a program so that anyone incarcerated for breaking the law in the jail system of our country, found to be an illegal immigrant, there will at least be reported to i.c.e. if they will be given the opportunity to handle those cases as they see fit. host: upper marlboro, md., lydia. caller: the hypocrisy of the republican party never ceases to amaze me. when george bush came into office he had a balanced budget, a surplus. where was all the outrage of the big spending in the first six years of his administration? he wasted the stimulus. he borrowed billions to give tax cuts to the ri

the relationship with georgia, for example, remains very strained. host: adam, democrat, you are on with david kramer. caller: i have more of a comment than a question. ededed -- unfortunately, i smell a reality show from ms. chapman, the spy that invaded manhattan. caller: taw, you obviously gave up a lot. please explain a little about fair. i think your audience can go on line and read a lot about t the other thing they ought to know is, you can't work up there at the local russian embassy, but yet our embassy in moscow, we let anybody and everybody work there. it is a little awkward, if you will. guest: any american, foreign or national, has to register with the u.s. authorities, has to register with the justice department. that is one of the major charges against these individuals, that they were working on behalf of a foreign cost and simply did not register. it involves americans, too, who may be lobbying on behalf of foreign governments. if they work on behalf of governments in a lobbying capacity, they, too, have to register with the u.s. jus

georgia i do not like being called an act visit. i cannot be considered a vegetarian. i will give my ass up and like it. i would be inspired. i may value peace, but will not use a pen to unleash my anger. i am not a poet. i am not dying. weight loss can still be a choice. i am not a poet. i don't care much for. i don't spend me weekends read anything writing. i like to have cocktails but i do not have a drinking problem regardless of what state i wake up in. i don't need drugs to open up my imagination. i am not a poet. i can tolerate half an hour of spoken word poetry. what my cats are up to. i always carry my business cards. i am not a poet, i only write to masture bait my mind. i am trying to convince myself that poetry it save lives. it's the dust of art. and i am going to close with to poet. americano. i look at myself in the mirror. trying to figure out what makes me an american. i see chickens. practicing religions without a roof. i see my own blood. proud american blue genes labels. i see them sits outside with the eyes of an alley cat. i see myself trying to b

in georgia we call that a bald-faced lie. but the promise we had that people who made under $250,000 would not be taxed is totally wrong. and knew it. it was, as i say in georgia, people just say it's a faled--- a bald-faced law lie, meaning he knew very well he was not telling the truth when he said that. mr. akin: the funny thing is we need to learn something from history and the democrats got someone they could learn from, henry morgenthau, the secretary of the treasury under f.d.r. they had a recession and under his policies they turned it into the great depression, and after eight years of government spending which is what we've seen he makes f.d.r. look like a piker, makes george bush look like ebenezer scrooge. so here's henry morgenthau before the house committee on ways and means and he says, we have tried spending money, we are spending more than we have ever spent before and it does not work. i say after eight years of the administration we have just as much unemployment as when we started, and an enormous debt to

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and i yield back to my friend from georgia. mr. graves: what is so exciting about this america speaking out program. we are getting ideas from americans that are sitting around the kitchen table and talking about what they would do if they were in charge and making these decisions. as they are watching the tv and oftentimes discussing what comes out of washington, d.c., the ideas they have proposed and the thousands of connections that have been made. and i took that to my district. and someone implemented a program much like that and developed an economic advisory council of business and community leaders from each and every county in my district to tear down that wall because washington hasn't been listening. we took that wall down and we said we want your ideas and present them to the full house as the ideas from main street itself, not from capitol hill, but we need the hills from north georgia or where the ideas come from. but balancing the budget is a great start. every american family has to balance their checkbook, but righ