. ♪ ♪ the angel came from heaven ♪ his wings drifted ♪ his eyes ♪ mary ♪ most highly feared ♪ gloriarations ♪ emanuel ♪ gloria ♪ gloria ♪ ♪ the gentle mayory bowed her head ♪ ♪ to me it pleases god ♪ she said ♪ may soul shall defy us ♪ most highly favored ♪ gloria ♪ gloria ♪ the angel gabriel from heaven came ♪ ♪ his wings drifted ♪ ♪ glor why ♪ gloria ♪ [ applause ] >> larry: to american classic. you will be hard-pressed to find a better one this one. andrea bocelli's unmatched voice. the famous composer, david foster on piano. and the man who wrote it, irving berlin. from bocelli's new album "my christmas." "white christmas." ♪ i'm dreaming of a white christmas ♪ ♪ just like the ones i used to know ♪ where the treetops glisten and children listen to hear sleigh bells in the snow ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ i'm dreaming of a white christmas just like the ones i used to know ♪ ♪ where the treetops glisten and children listen to hear sleigh bells in the snow ♪ ♪ i'm dreaming of a white christmas with every christmas card i write ♪ ♪ may your days be merry and bright and may all your christmases may all y

>> i believe he's in heaven. >> larry: what is heaven?aven, i believe is a place of love a place of beauty. heaven, you know, the scripture describes as a place that, you know, it's where god is. and god is, you know, the opposite of hate and anger and sickness and disease. >> larry: is he in a physical form? >> i don't think it's a physical form. we live inside our body and this is the house we live in and one day you're going to live on. when you know kries, you go to be with him in heaven. >> larry: and you believe the same thing? >> i do. >> larry: was that emotional for you to have that blessing from him? >> it really was. of course, growing up, we watched him. being a preacher's kid, we watched him on television. he was one of the heroes of faith. i went to his school. he was always bigger than life. when i went to visit him at 91, he's just so kind. still sharp as a tack. >> larry: do you believe he healed? >> he prayed for people and god heals. he just had that ministry -- you know, his path that god put in him was to help the hur

. >> who is dying for heaven? people diver heaven the feel like they don't belong, and they improve themselves and ordered to belong. the group that tells them that they are going to heaven is usually a religious group. but the problems they have to begin with is not a religious one. the problem they have is that they don't belong and that is what is happening around the middle east and in asia today, that too many people no longer belong in any recognizable group. that is why do you see all of the violence there and not here. >> how did you come up with your theories? >> i have been doing psychology and religion for over 20 years and i have studied the other cases, people injuring themselves or religion. for example rites of passage for pilgrimmage, where the pilgrims walked on their knees or initiations and so forth. we have all seen moms who were whipping themselves and that sort of thing, so i am an expert on fire religious people feel that they need to hurt themselves in order to get what they want, which is

>> i believe he's in heaven. >> larry: what is heaven?> i believe it's a place of love, a place of beauty. heaven, you know, the scripture describes as a place that, you know, it's where god is, and god is, you know, the opposite of hate and anger and sickness and disease. so i -- >> larry: do you see him in a physical form? >> i don't think it's physical. i believe that we are -- we live inside of our body. this is sort of our house, and one day we live on. i believe when you know christ that you go to be with him in heaven. >> larry: you believe the same thing? >> i do. >> larry: was that emotional for you, to have that blessing from him? >> it really was. it really was, because, of course, you know, growing up we watched him. being a preacher's kid we watched him on the television, and he was one of the heroes of faith. i went to his school, and he was always bigger than life. when i went to visit him at 91, he's so kind. he was still sharp as a tack. >> larry: do you believe he heal s healed? >> i believe he prayed for people. he had

. ♪ ♪ the angel gabriel from heaven came ♪ ♪ his wings as drifted snow ♪ his eyes as flame ♪ all hail♪ most highly favored maid gloria ♪ ♪ gloria ♪ gloria ♪ for the blessed above shouts be ♪ ♪ oh generations ♪ ♪ by some shall be emmanuel ♪ foreseers foretold ♪ most highly favored lady ♪ gloria ♪ gloria ♪ ♪ the gentle mary meekly bowed her head ♪ ♪ ♪ to me be as it pleases god she said ♪ ♪ my soul shall laud and magnify his holy name ♪ ♪ most highly favored lady ♪ gloria ♪ gloria ♪ the angel gabriel from heaven came ♪ ♪ his wings as drifted snow ♪ his eyes of flame ♪ all hail said he thou lowly mary ♪ ♪ most highly favored lady ♪ gloria ♪ gloria [ applause ] >> larry: we go now from bask hymn to american classic. "white christmas" has had many incarnations, but you'll be hard pressed to find a better one than this one. andrea bocelli's unmatched voice. the famous composer, david foster, is on piano. and the man who wrote it, irving berlin. from bocelli's new album "my christmas." here now is "white christmas." ♪ i'm dreaming of a white christmas ♪ ♪ just like the ones i used to know ♪

our father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name, by kingdom come, that will be done, on earth asve us this day our daily bread and forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us, and lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil. and now i will say again the prairies that his eminence -- prayers is evidence, because they are fitting for this moment as well. before we go separate ways let us take leave of our brother ted. make our farewell express our affection for him. make it easy our sadness and strengthen our hope. one day we shall joyfully greet him again when the love of christ which conquers all things, and destroys even death itself. into your hands, father of mercies, we commend our brother ted in the short answer and hope that together with all who have died in christ we will -- he will rise with them on the last day. we give you thanks for the blessings you bestowed upon him on this life. they are signs to us of your goodness and our fellowship with the saints in christ. merciful lord, turned toward us and listen to our prayers, open the ga

some point, i mea what germany under adolph hitr and the third like did cs to heav in -- reich ys to heaven for vennce and will never be forgotten by anybodwalking this earth. but after three generations it is time to lookt germany with fresh eyes. >> ba about the germans. >> that is the thi. i think we trust the germans. think successful add american administratio have asked them toake more gressive roles he, use their por in former yuing laughia, et cetera, et cetera. but cultures jt movely. and the germans themselve does not seem to be ere, especially the ones who ar western rman. and so cultus, the 65 years ter a trauma like world war ii oworld war i that is the blink of aeye. and we shouldn't rh them tohere they as a people are t willing to go. an65 years is just not a a long time. >> lehrer: new subject e senate democratic compromise on alth-care rerm what do you make of it? >> as so as we know what it is. >> lehrer: a you really getting piy, aren't you. >> i was there wednesd after noon tryinto find out again what it is. and loand behold senators off e record would admit they didn't

>> martyrdom was never meant to go guess what, i am going to die and go to heaven. trying to live through it and achieve victory is life. if, in the process, you die unwillingly, you are a mortar. that is the difference between martyrdom and suicide. suicide means i am fed up with it. i do not care about this life anymore. they are so bad, i am going to blow myself up on them and kill them and myself mortem is i stand up for justice -- myself. martyrdom is i stand up for justice. this is not only in a fighting situation. in life. a great mortar is one who goes to an impressive ruler and says, you are an oppressor. he was not going to die. he was going to advise the ruler not to be an oppressor. if, in the process, he dies, god bless them. that is different from let me wrap the things around my belt and let me go because tomorrow i will be in heaven. [applause] we have to be aware of these differences and we have a terrible crisis of definitions. i am blaming probably the intelligentsia in general. but muslim scholars should come with an inventory of definition. what

please, father in heaven. please, father in heaven. oh, my god. >> what do you make of that, ben? is an extremely touching and overwhelming, just overwhelming. i say it is overwhelming. >> larry: tanya, different age we live in? >> absolutely. my god, just the fact that she had such conscience over somebody breaking into her house. >> larry: penn, talk about reality show. >> is heartbreaking, i don't know if it shows anything about our times changing, it is -- i think horrible things like this have always happened and it is very hard to listen to. >> yeah. >> larry: but we can now, stephanie, play a 911 tape. >> well, you know, it reminds me of those pictures of the president at dover air force base. i think it is always a good moment when we can really think about the cost of a human life, whatever the situation is. >> larry: ben, you're a speechwriter, we got about 20 seconds, do you expect a great speech in oslo? >> i think a very good speech. his last speech about afghanistan was his best speech and i expect this one to be better. >> larry: thank you vet. sting hari

our father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name, by kingdom come, that will be done, on earth asur daily bread and forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us, and lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil. and now i will say again the prairies that his eminence -- prayers is evidence, because they are fitting for this moment as well. before we go separate ways let us take leave of our brother ted. make our farewell express our affection for him. make it easy our sadness and strengthen our hope. one day we shall joyfully greet him again when the love of christ which conquers all things, and destroys even death itself. into your hands, father of mercies, we commend our brother ted in the short answer and hope that together with all who have died in christ we will -- he will rise with them on the last day. we give you thanks for the blessings you bestowed upon him on this life. they are signs to us of your goodness and our fellowship with the saints in christ. merciful lord, turned toward us and listen to our prayers, open the gates of paradise

thank heavens, there were many of them. well, throughout the constantine period which went on for centuries. i call that the age of belief, because that's a period in which being a christian meant subscribing to a creed. that's what constantine did to christianity. and in my view, very damaging. here's the creed. his own accord theologian wrote it. he did know very much about theology. by his own court theologian wrote this great that everybody had to subscribe to it. the few bishops at the council where was adopted at his summer palace where he whines and dying the bishops, the ones who wouldn't sign on the dotted line simply set out into the hinterlands can something like maybe north dakota. [laughter] >> no offense. i guess we're reaching north dakota. i understand it's lovely in north dakota. [laughter] >> so this period of what i called the age of belief, we had a hard time getting through that. there was created after creed after creed. when i was in the seminary we had whole books of these, one creed displacing anoth

if you go to heaven and meet your relatives, will you meet the person with alzheimer's who died at thege of 100 or meet the young teenager? there is no such thing in the deeper reality as a constant entity called a person. when he says 6,000 traffic jam, this that and the other, it's all nonsense. it's a primitive way of looking at it. >> michael, i have a question. why not believe? why are you focusing so much -- because if you're wrong -- >> because his neural networks will not allow him to. >> the question i'm getting at is -- >> bad for the heart as well. bad for you, michael, to be so skeptical. >> i'm not really worried about it. here's why. i think that we would like to believe things that are actually true and although i can't disprove the afterlife, neither can the other side prove it. i think the preponderance of evidence, our brains create these things. consider the god helmet michael persinger's lab i went up and did and had an out of body experience. generated nothing by mall netic fields. you can create these artificially in the lab. >> i think that's a fallacy. experienc

heaven help the american taxpayer. heaven help the american entrepreneur. heaven help freedom for our people and the sake of the continueance of the constitution of these great united states. and i yield back to mr. garrett of new jersey. mr. garrett: i yield two minutes to the the gentleman from minnesota. mr. paulsen: this bill only continues the culture of bailouts and encourages firms to engage in risky behavior. as far as i'm concerned it will remove the element of surprise with the first amount of selective bailouts and this is not the right way to go. just look what it would do. the bill before us has provisions that take away capital needed by firms to help expand businesses, increase investments and ultimately create jobs. estimates show that the size of the fund could be more than $200 billion. this money has to come from somewhere and this will place a significant burden not only on these firms but also on credit that will get dried up. during these economic times with record unemployment at 10%, why would we make it more difficult for getting cr

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i thought i died and gone to heaven. i couldn't quite believe i was there.kid from pittsburgh is there directing this iconic major actor and daniel, i couldn't believe it. >> larry: what was it like for you, daniel, to work with one of the grand dames? >> i shall treasure it forever. every single moment i spent with that wonderful woman i will treasure it. we would go around in circles pretty much all day long. and a huge crowd turned out to see sophia. she turned to me at one point and said all these people think that the reason we're doing it again and again is because we are so stupid that we just can't get it right. [ speaking italian ] >> larry: do you ever get used, penelope, doing it again and again? let's do another take? let's do another take. >> i always get thrown out of the set asking for too many takes. >> larry: you like takes? >> i have a problem with that. i cannot let go. okay, now we can stop and move to the next thing. >> we had to call security. >> i drive everybody crazy. i always want to do one more. >> larry: penelope's sexy rope dance

faced the gender norms of her time in not only gave herself a second marriage with a has been from heaven. paul taylor the professor exhibited only pride and encouragement for her ambition never for a moment thought she should stay home and mind of the children and of so we thought she was a genius and adored her for it. another unique been on women's emancipation is find the right has been. now with the politics of gender and the federal government in her government job and the struggles of the point*. these are images of two new deal barrels. they're typical. that is why i chose them if they reflect visually what i am about to say about policy which is virtually every new deal program rested on conservative assumptions of gender. even the emergency relief program either excluded women wore excluded them from public jobs and had tiny relief payments or they limited the end to selling mattresses and federal sweatshops. social security, wagner labor relations act it excluded from coverage almost all men of color and women of all races. lange's employer was one of the most discriminatory ag

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soft and lovable like other women and that's what she says and they fall into each other's arms and heaven bless hashish if it's dreams like this. [laughter] >> she does say she use it is in a novel also. and she says no one who has used it can describe what it's like. yes, she was addicted to opium at various times. any other questions? i think we should wrap it up. marta, what do you think? another question? last question. >> okay. well, if your curiosity is satisfied, thank you very much for bearing with me. [applause] >> i've been at this game for two weeks. for two weeks so i'm really a neophyte. >> and there are books available in the back. once again, thank you very much. >> thank you. >> hairot reisen has written documentaries, for more information go to alcottfilm.com the book. >> we're here with james reston book. he has a new book called "defenders of the faith," let's start with the basic question. who was charles the v. >> he was the holy roman emperor. and sula was the tenth sultan of the ottoman empire and they come together in a clash. and it really was a clash of empires a

. >> guest: there may be some -- i mean, heaven forbid but there could be a plague. we could lose hundreds of thousands of people. it's been predicted. with the superbugs, because we misuse antibiotics because we keep animals in unlawful -- awful conditions, and we have to feed them antibiotics all the team, and people have already died from a scratch because there wasn't a strong much antibiotic. so we don't know what's going to happen. so we have to be prepared for it to turn around in favor of the environment in the future for our children. >> host: i want to go back to a more respectful form of the gene question we talked about. and that is related though fact -- related to the fact that you're one of the first women in your field, and now it's a field that in which women are much more involved, and much more accomplished, and it appears to be wide open in that respect. how do you feel about that? you're a hero to many field biology gists who happen to be female that i know. >> guest: well, it's exciting because i have worked with young women who go to places lik

clearly, to love his fellow man sincerely, to act from hornest motives purely and to trust in god and heaven securely and on the other side was a seven-point creed and these things dad said, son, try to live up to these. that's all 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.

it's on the internet, for heaven's sakes, that there was a real problem. this was the same thing we saw 8 1/2 years ago on september 11th, 2001. we weren't even sure who these people were. some had visas, some did not. whenever you rely on a named-based system, which is what the watch list is, that can also be circumstance crumb 70ed by phony documents and trading off documents once you're in a sterile area. >> david schanzer, seems like a lot of costs we're talking about here. the cost of the actual physical equipment, of getting the money. the cost of what you give up once you agree to this sort of -- what some people consider to be an invasive technology. what would you say the costs are? >> well, you've named some of them. the fact of the matter is we live in a world of limited resources. so we have to make tradeoffs and choices about which set of policies and which sets of technologies we want to deploy. your other guest mentioned four different types of machines. well, i don't think we're going to be able to deploy four different new types of machine

as for the files, well, i note it is my-- minear personality disorder but my idea of real heaven is being placed in the building as big as this or even bigger, the whole thing full of files and i'm just landing in the middle of it and i am told to work out what is going on. that is why it was just incredible fun. it really was. i became a cheerful person while i was doing this. so how did life more seriously work it out? you have to prioritize so i had a part-time research team which consisted of people from outside as well as inside but the three approaches that i took were the following. first i looked at the files, which i identified mi5's relationship with government in the form of not only ten downing street but also with the health secretary at the home office which has day-to-day control. what does tell you is what was thought sufficiently important by mi5 and what mi5 thug was sufficiently important. secondly if you know how people are spending money and it doesn't matter if someone is talking about the individual if you know how the resources are being spent. the other thing of c

. >> guest: there may be heaven forbid there could be a play to affect we could lose hundreds of those of people. it's always been predicted with the super bugs because we misused and because we keep animals in these awful conditions for intensive farming so we have to feed them antibiotics regularly to keep them alive so the bugs are building up resistance. it's out in the food chain. and people have already died from scratches because it wasn't a strong enough antibiotic. so we don't know what's going to happen and we've got to be prepared for it to turnaround in the favor of the environment and the animals in the future of our own great-grandchildren. >> host: i want to go back to a more respectful form of the question that we talked about, and that's related to the fact that you are/word one of the famous women in your field and now it is a field in which women are much more involved and much more accomplished and it appears to be wide open in that respect. how do you feel about that? you are a hero to many biologists who happen to be female that i know. >> guest: it's exciting bec

he said that was like going to heaven. [laughter] he had never been arrested. he knew he was part of the movement when he was arrested in nashville. but anyway, when conner brought these people from birmingham up to ardmore, he and kathryn, you saw the picture of catherine, started talking about western movies. and the way it ended as she was getting out of the car she asked about the movie negative noon and he said yes i'm very familiar. so she said we will see you at high noon. we will be back in birmingham. she didn't know how she was going to come back that she had faith. they would pick them up and we had already sent the second wave, so when the first wave got back to birmingham the numbers had increased 23 riders. when they went into couldn't find a driver and bobby kennedy said call mr. greyhound, see if he can drive the bus. because they couldn't get a driver to drive from montgomery to -- i'm sorry, from montgomery to birmingham. when the bus pulled in as you already heard the streets were clear. it was like midnight in the daytime. wasn't anybody on

and then we find out there are other sweetheart deals which make this thing begin to stink to high heaven. things like special legislative language saying the state of nebraska, the state of nebraska gets a special pass from new medicaid mandates. vermont and massachusetts have special deals. and then there's a $100 million earmark for an unknown hospital. oh, i can't wait to find out what that's about. and those are just some of the sweetheart deals we know are in these bills, and i'm sure there are more that we will find out about. this process has just gone too fast and gone too far off track. it reminds me of what rahm emanuel, the president's chief of staff said, when they jammed through the stimulus bill earlier this year. they said, a crisis is a terrible thing to waste. well, it's one thing if we were acting in response to a crisis in a responsible manner, but what this is going to do is to make it even worse, as the senator from wyoming pointed o out. well, i think people listening, the 56% and growing number of americans who are concerned about this deal, they're wondering, are

i did not look up into the heavens and say, and i will walk on the moon one day. mama would have dropped a net on me and sent me to the psychiatric hospital. but i did have heroes from the great generation of world war ii. now we have that opportunity to inspire kids of the world to dream in the same high. -- to dream and a high -- and aim high. the second for us would be humorous because john and i had a good time. my third would be scary and there was only one moment when i had a scary incident. it was doing something i should not have been doing, so kids, hear this, you always get in trouble you were not supposed to do. we were going to set the high jump record on the mound. [laughter] my backpack wait 155 pounds which is what i weighed. when i jumped i went backwards. i had a moment of fear it there because i was falling on my back and the backpack is not designed for that. fortunately i was able to break my fault, but that ended the moon olympics. [laughter] >> for now. >> mission control was very upset. they thought they lost somebody. >> he did not try to b

former secretary-general of the united nations said that un was not created to take humanity to heavenunited states is now paying its bills to the un. it is joining various committe committees, and exceeding important conventions. international standards are again respected. torture is forbidden. the president is doing what he can to close guantÁnamo. human rights and international law are guiding principles. this is why this years laureate has earned the praise of leaders and international institutions, new opportunity has been created. your majesties, mr. president, your royal highnesses, ladies and gentlemen, the world free from nuclear weapons, and arms control negotiations, under obama's leadership, the united nations security council gave its unanimous support to the reason of the world without nuclear weapons. the new administration has reconsidered the deployment and eastern europe or the planned antimissile defense, and is instead looking at other unilateral options to secure the region. this has contributed to an improved atmosphere in the negotiations of strategic nuclear we

i know billy joe doherty is in heaven. and he's looking down on us and thinking two things. first of all, he's saying if you only knew, if you only knew what i know now. and then you have to keep in mind the other thing that billy joe was in a different time zone now so he doesn't think in the same times. he said in just a wink of time, just a wink of time, we'll all be together again. and i have every expectation that that will happen. so i say to you now that this is not goodbye, billy joe doherty. this is so long, we'll see you soon. i yield the floor. the presiding officer: under the previous order, the senate stands adjourned until 9:30 a.m. >> more work on health care tomorrow. we're going live now to west point, new york. president obama is addressing the nation on his afghanistan war strategy. he started talking about 12 minutes ago. president obama: because we know that al qaeda and other extremist seek nuclear weapons. we have every reason to believe that they would use them. these facts tell us to act with our friends. our overarching goal remains the same. to dis

that the committee has set is to get out beyond low earth orbit, that nasa ought to be exploring the heavens with the human space program. and that in the meantime we've got to worry about the workforce. so i want to pick up on those three games, which i think are going to be the major things that the president is going to have to make his decision on. now, you came up with this idea of 3 billion a year. if you had additional resources, what would you do? >> beyond the 3 billion? the primary things that we think need to be done in the near future are largely covered in the 3 billion figure. if you had additional funds, you would be able to probably move forward, somewhat, some of the work on some of the work on ares i eric but i think it would be a modest amount that you could accelerate that. you could clearly move ares v forward, or an alternative to ares v, which would be very important because that really is the long pole in our space exploration can't. >> is the ares v? >> is the heavy lift capability. ares v is a good example. >> so you have come up with the idea of consensus that you

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exploring the heavens with the human space program.hat nasa ought to be exploring the heavens with the human space program. and in the meantime we have to worry about the work force. i want to pick up on those three teams, which i think are going to be the major themes that the president is going to have to make his decision on. you came up with this idea of $3 billion per year. if you had additional resources, what would you do? >> beyond the $3 billion ta? the primary things that we think need to be done in the near qsfuture are largely covered in the $3 billion figure. if you had a additional funds, you would be able to probably move forward somewhat. some of the work on on -- some of the worker on areas one, but i think it would be a modest amount that you could accelerate that. you could move areas of 5 forward, or an alternative areas 5, which would be very important because beverley is the long pole in our space exploration tent. -- because that is the long pole in our space exploration tent. >> so, you have come up with the ide

-- that she is smiling down from heaven and reminding me not to get a big head.ank all senators, i thank all west virginians. may the great god almighty continue to bless these united states of america, and may he keep her forever free. madam president, i yield the floor. press after senator byrd spoke about surpassing the record for longest serving congressional member, several others spoke of his long career. we will begin with long island senator jack reed, followed by west virginia's junior senator jay rockefeller, and mitch mcconnell and john kyl. this is 25 minutes. rising to pay tribute to my chairman and longest-serving senator in the history of this country, the senior senator from west virginia, robert c. byrd. he has reached a milestone among many in his career. it is an extraordinary record of service and dedication an patriotism to the country and reflects the values of the people of west virginia and the people of this great nation. extraordinary service measured not just in length, but accomplishment. but the length is impressive, indeed. 20,744 da

how in the name of heaven should the well-being of our troops be sacrificed for one hour when they are sacrificing so much for us day after day? now, there are those who are going to argue that the end that they seek, the delay of the health care reform bill, justifies the means that they are using. holding hostage the critical funding to support our troops and their families. i couldn't disagree more. the lesson that our troops are going to take from the filibusters tonight is that those who are filibustering this bill think that a short-term political objective is more important than a prompt vote of support and confidence for our military members and their families. just yesterday the ranking member -- the ranking republican member of the appropriations committee said the following: this appropriations bill, this defense appropriations bill -- quote -- "ought to be passed, and it ought to be passed as soon as possible," he said, "in recognition of our respect for service members and their families." close quote. well, our our respect for our s and the sacrifice that they and their f

i did not look up into the heavens and say, and i will walk on the moon one day. mama would have dropped a net on me and sent me to the psychiatric hospital. but i did have heroes from the great generation of world war ii. now we have that opportunity to inspire kids of the world to dream in the same high. -- to dream and a high -- and aim high. the second for us would be humorous because john and i had a good time. my third would be scary and there was only one moment when i had a scary incident. it was doing something i should not have been doing, so kids, hear this, you always get in trouble you were not supposed to do. we were going to set the high jump record on the mound. [laughter] my backpack wait 155 pounds which is what i weighed. when i jumped i went backwards. i had a moment of fear it there because i was falling on my back and the backpack is not designed for that. fortunately i was able to break my fault, but that ended the moon olympics. [laughter] >> for now. >> mission control was very upset. they thought they lost somebody. >> he did not try to b

this may, heaven forbid, lead me to financial ruin if i get sick. this is my situation. i want to say to mr. kim, help is on the way. this is not a lead foot rubs companies are all californians, my constituents. i recently turned 25 and lost my health coverage. i attempted to get health care under blue cross plans created for young people my age but because i had taken medication i was denied. i applied again for another plan, was offered a plan with a 3000-dollar.apple deductible and was $300 a month on top of that. as a young person working in a restaurant, repaying student loans and trying to make it on my own, this is a huge financial burden. i cannot afford an insurance that charges me so much and won't be any benefit for me and so i shelled out a huge portion of my income. to madeleine, i say help is on the way if we can break the republican filibuster. mr. john higdon wrote, as a self-employed person i have a pacemaker implanted. the cost was borne entirely by me at prices much higher than any insurance company would've had to pay. that was a wake-up call to get h

they think that they die they get 72 virgins and gold the and go to their heaven. even know what the koran stands for. host: leave it there. baltimore sun, what's happening right behind us in the senate. health bill clock ticks is the headline. story in the tribune by janet hook and leavey write with a critical vote looming. harry reed struggled friday to convince alone democrat hold out to back the bill. ben nelson over the sensitive issue of abortion. the article goes on to say nelson emerged from reid's office friday night wráhout a deal saying he needed to review a new propose toll ensure no federal funding could be used to pay for elective abortions. this is a discussion on-going. there's a lu of different moving parts. san diego, california on the line for democrats. go ahead. caller: how you doing? host: what do you think about the proposal and what it'j going to accomplish? caller: well i would like to say most of the american public is educated through propaganda and why do i say that? we have people that are incarcerated at guantanamo yet we don't know wh

and heaven forbid if in the future another superfund site like libby emerges, the bill before us today will allow the secretary to use the authorities in this provision to fulfill our commitment to provide health care services for those residents as well. but i can never talk about libby without remembering my friend, les gramsted. i mentioned his name a few moments ago. i first met les in the year 2000 at the home of gayla benefeld. les was there, gayla was there, lots of other miners were there, pleading for help, some attention. we're dying. somebody pay attention to us. we're an isolated community up here in northeastern montana -- northwestern montana. please, someone pay attention to us. man, oh, man, did this get my attention. i was just stunned with the stories they told. and i -- talking to les over coffee and huckleberry pie. that's a real popular pie up in libby. les was watching me very closely, very closely as i said you bet i would help, i would help to do something about this. he was very, very wary. after his neighbors and friends had finished telling me their stories,

and i had many amendments to examine those because heaven knows they weren't being examined in the appropriations committees sufficiently. we had story after story and a cloud hanging over this body, investigations going on. the ethics committee have seen fit to investigate the relationship between earmarks and campaign contributions, and yet we say that many of these amendments are not serious amendments. who has to decide that? why don't we let the body here decide and allow us to come to the floor? and the gentleman from massachusetts mentioned that we have to have this level of funding because of years and years of neglect. i would submit that we would do well to have a little more neglect on the taxpayers' behalf if what we are funding in this bill, and we are, is nearly $200,000 to renovate a building in massachusetts to attract private capital investment. $700,000 for an arts pavilion in mississippi. i think the taxpayers would be happy for a little more neglect by the federal government. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. the gentleman from massachuse

my heavens. keep in mind that this theory that man kind-made co-2 emotions is driving the temperature upwards is just that. it's a theory. these researchers have built these models to try to replicate the planet's temperature mechanism, and all these models show the temperature going up. but that's the conclusion that the modelers want. it is not factually correct to say the temperature is going up. it's factually correct to say that the modelers who want the temperatures to go up are putting variables and assumptions in these models to drive them up, but apparently don't have the data to back that up. let's go to number six. this is again from mr. jones to a gentleman named gavin schmidt, concerning the revised version of something called the wengen paper. it says, all of our freedom of information officers have be using the same exceptions not to respond. the advice they got from the information commissioner. the freedom of information line that we're using is, that the i.p.c. -- the ipcc, keep

but the christians pressed on and the conviction that they were a colony of heaven called to obey god rather than man, called small in number, they were big in commitment. they were too god intoxicated to be astronomically intimidated. powerful, powerful words, martin luther king. well, in -- i think it's worth noting also, we have an original copy of the treaty of paris, 1783, located in the department of state in a glass case. i didn't realize how that started until i saw that copy there. but it made sense once i saw it, in big bold letters at the top of the treaty of paris, this is the one that was negotiated in paris, 1783, after sir to get england to sign on a athletey indicating they would -- treaty indicating they would observe the united states' right to exist as an independent nation. it starts out big block bold letters, in the name of the most holy and undivided trinity. when i first saw that i thought, i wonder why it started like that. and then you realize, you're asking the nation of england to sign a treaty and pledging not -- no not to ever attack or fail to recognize

the first volume with aristotle and you start off with genesis and the beginning god created the heaven and also about hindu and some religious text. >> guest: in those are telling us who we are and give us a place in the universe but they have day story for their place in the anniversary and understand at and balance it with whatever religious beliefs we have, but science with the big bang we certainly proved it. science is constantly changing it is the story of the evolution of the universe is exciting stuff. weighed down know it is 13. 7 billion years old the earth is only 5 billion years and we have these stories. i am now right thing about the making of earth's itself. they're all of these articles hits each other and they congealed into there versus 10 a great big huge asteroid came careening toward earth and if it was a head on hit it would have been the end. that it had to add an angle. fad is why we're at a tilt and that was the moon and add of the debris they recreated in it themselves. >> host: is there a place for religion in science? >> guest: but coexisted in most of us ha

burn away the barriers to unity so that your will can be done on earth, even as it is done in heaven. we pray in your soverign name. amen. the presiding officer: please join me in reciting the pledge of allegiance to the flag. i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. the presiding officer: the clerk will read a communication to the senate. the clerk: washington d.c., december 16, 2009. to the senate: under the provisions of rule 1, paragraph 3, of the standing rules of the senate, i hereby appoint the honorable tom udall, a senator from the state of new mexico, to perform the duties of the chair. signed: robert c. byrd, presidet pro tempore. mr. reid: mr. president? the presiding officer: the majority leader is recognized. mr. reid: i note the absence of a quorum. the presiding officer: the clerk will call the roll. quorum call: mr. reid: mr. president? the presiding officer: the majority leader is recognized. mr. reid: i ask consent the call of the quor

our father in heaven, you know all the roads by which each of us has come to serve in our government's legislative branch. you know the pathway our feet now are treading and what the future holds, for you are the architect of our destinies. give our senators strength sufficient for this day. remind them that their times are in your hands. infuse them with the blessed assurance that you are the love that never forgets, the light that never fails, and the life that never ends. keep them close to you and open to each other, as they do the tasks that preserve our freedoms. we pray in your sovereign name. amen. the presiding officer: please join me in reciting the pledge of allegiance to the flag. i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. the presiding officer: the clerk will read a communication to the senate. the clerk: washington d.c., december 3, 2009. to the senate: under the provisions of rule 1, paragraph 3, of the standing rules of the senate, i hereby

former secretary general of the united nations said that the un was not created to take humanity to heaventhe united states is now paying its bill to the un. it is joining various committees and international standards are respected. torture is forbidden. the president is doing what he can to close guantanamo bay and human-rights our guiding principles. this is why this year's laureates as new opportunities. nor majesties, mr. president, your royal highnesses, ladies and gentleman, the vision of a world free from nuclear weapons has publicly be stimulated parliament. under his leadership, united nations security council did this -- gave its unanimous support for a world without nuclear weapons. the new administration in washington has considered the deployment in eastern europe. it is looking at other multilateral options to secure the region. this has contributed to an improved atmosphere. a new agreement between them will, we hope, soon be on the table. we can see how the vision of a world without nuclear weapons is encouraging. we can certainly not prevent the spread of nuclear arms to

that shows just what can happen in this part of the world when extremist have breathing space, safe heavenssupportive of their mission. less than five years after the last soviet tank crossed out of afghanistan new jersey 1993, islamic militants launched they're first attack on the world trade center in new york. we cannot afford to make a similar mistakes again. stable security situation in afghanistan and pakistan is sustainable over the long-term by their governs is vital to the national government. the current status quo in afghanistan. the slow but steady deterioration of security situation and growing influence of taliban is unacceptable and so too is the status quo. a largely ungoverned region controlled by extremist in which the united states had little ability to gain access on the ground. the president's new strategic concept wants to reduce it's strength while providing the time and spaceness for the afghans to develop enough security and government capacity to stabilize their own country. afghans to develop enough security and governance capacity to stabilize their own country.

but it's unlikely that you'll have the heavens fall on your head the next time you appear because there usually won't be a next time. but for the solicitor general and members of his or her staff, having credibility with the court is critical, it is key to the effectiveness of the office before the supreme court. .. 2 officer whoever is occupying the officer and those who serve under her leadership and in the article 3 judiciary. but obviously particularly the supreme court of the united states. and one way to think about it, perhaps in an overly high level of abstraction is that there's a conversation that's continually underway. and the advantage that having a single officer, the office of the solicitor general, in charge of the executive branch's part of the conversation is that the solicitor general has very elaborate ways developed over time, extraordinarily efficient, of inviting different people into the conversation. it's not simply as mrs. marshall knows, when he serves as solicitor general, it's what solicitor general thurgood marshall thought because he in all his wisdom was

business had two drives and when my boss got me a 10 mb hard drive i thought i had died and got to heavencompany and month -- budget decisions was buying more space. space was expensive. buying a huge hard drive would usually be a unit to connect your servers. of 54 gigabyte hard drive for pittance and it is getting bigger. now we are talking in terms of terabytes. storage is no longer the expensive item it used to be added helped the process quickly. people get into it without being involved. it has changed very rapidly. i am sure all of you are better on your laptops than i ever will be. i watch my son navigate and i venture to say that your children will blow you away with what they do with their laptops. it is a changing and exciting world to be involved in. data will always be necessary. you still want to have direct communication with individual voters based on what you know about them and that is what this is about. you have some sense of how you are getting a hold of it. any other questions? >> thank you very much. [applause] >> we will be back at 9:00. anyone want to talk to erni