. >> howard, followed by jerald. >> good afternoon again, howard stressner. i was glad that the sales tax was covered. no one figured out how to tax me. the school department does a good job. that wasn't included. the tax comes even so. ha happens -- when you have a go bond, my neighbors pay twice as much as i do, but sometimes ten times as i do on the same house because you've owned our house over 40 years so that's not equitable. we can't get around prop 13, but here we use parcel tax. that works for a schools. no one yells and screams about it because the bank of america doesn't pay anymore than i do. they give a 50 percent discount for the seniors. no one screams about it, but it can raise a method of the amount of money every year and people might people comfortable in san francisco paying for the schools and they might feel comfortable paying for their transportation. that's my only thought for today. >> next speaker. >> jerald coffin. >> i was going to talk about comparing what you and your director put out early this year with the break down today. bu

. >> hi, i'm jerald banks. i got a chance and i got to meet the manager of the alliance 6 he gave a great presentation and i know it would be great he did reach out on gary street down towards market where i live. so i would ask you to give him his entertainment permit >> thank you. next up kevin carol. >> good evening. i'm the executive director of the hotel council it's nice to be here again. the hotel is a member of our organization. you can see by the presentation that michael made he's someone that works with the community. michael has that hotel is assisting the committee and they've hosted other events recognizing our employees in the hotel industry. we recently finished an impact report and 70 percent of our employees live and work in the city. and the hotels support the economy there that as well. michael serves on the hotel and foundation board that raises money for hospitalized pistol and a sclarpdz michael is the president and he's about that a leader. as michael mentioned the hospitality industry i

. >> hello supervisors i'm jerald banks. i'm one of the lucky ones i guess you can say utilize and really get a lot out of the program through the vocal. i went on disability for stress and other things i went through as a eternal and it didn't effect me until years later. so i'm lucky enough to go through an agency citywide they're helping me to get back into the job pool. when it did they help me with resumes. they helped me to find a way in all united states community activities in my neighborhood focus on that. i'm close to getting a job thanks to citywide working on the hotdog cater but i think it should be taken a step forward. barbara garcia does a terrific job but when it comes down to make sure that everyone wants to get into a rehabilitation it should start at the s r os because they have support staff. what the support staff does i don't know. but i happen to live in one of the buildings. one of the agencies come into the s r os give support and let people know we're here north america in case you want to go back

credit payments which means the interest rates are about to go through the roof the trends journal jerald so lent a manager he warns of a grave consequences. the only reason there's any recovery going on in the united states or for that matter the europeans is that interest rates are at record lows so as i mentioned you could buy an automobile with zero percent and what they go it what's going to happen when interest rates go up the housing market again collapses the auto market collapses and worse than that the bond market collapses and so you're going to start seeing a decline again in people paying mortgages more foreclosures happening and that's when interest rates go up because when interest rates go up this phony recovery we have in the housing market is going to stop and a lot of the new people that got into the market on going to have trouble paying off their mortgages are no web scene was lined up plenty of stories for you on the web site this hour including the black hole in of russia has to sleet check it out in fact it's a brand new submarine it's been dubbed with this name be

. >> jerald we appreciate you joining us tonight. we want to discuss this more. lisa wayne is a defense attorney and joins us from denver col. and michael smith who has are written extensively about racial issues. lisa you have had a lot of high profile cases. what do you think about the likelihood of this case, mr. wafer sleeping, and she was knocking or bapging -- banging, different reports on that. his lawyers say ranisha's condition will be a factor, the fact that she was bo intoxicated. >> that is a fact of the case. if she was twice the legal limit of intoxicat intoxication, we're talking about a quick moment between two people that don't know each other and the response based upon that moment in time. so it's a fair question to raise. it's fair for a juror a judge to know -- jury, or a judge, to know how is she acting, how is he acting, did he respond in an honest and reasonable fashion. >> as a defense attorney how would you defend him if these reports are true that he first told police it was an accident? >> he may have responded with a gun in his hand a

jerald, can first to you, this unbelievable approval rating for the late president.hat do you make of that? >> it's because kennedy was all about the unfulfilled promise of what his presidency would have been. cut down only 2 1/2 years into his presidency. everybody looks and says if he had stayed for another 5 1/2 it, 6 1/2 years he would have done civil rights like lbj, ended veet fam on a quick note. that's what we thought at that time. that's the hope that was cut down by the assassin's bullet. >> 90% approval is unbelievable, when you think about it, david. historians at the time, journalists, folks at the time, certainly nowhere near that kind of approval. but 50 years later, people look back and obviously like him and admire him. >> well, i think he stands for his generation. the gi generation, the greatest generation. he stands for a different time. american politics and in american life which in many i was now looks like an acge of innocence in which we all shared a belief in the ideals of america both at home and abroad. he embodied that. he desperately wan

. >> jerald jensen joined the army when he was 34. much older than the average recruit. he was called to duty by 9/11, says his wife robin and deployed to iraq in 2006. sergeant jensen was the driver for a commander in his unit and by all accounts he was an exemplary soldier. in the fall of 2007 jensen's patrol was attacked, an explosive ripped through his huh hum vee, drove away from the attack saving his commander. that incident brought him a purple heart. >> you can see the stitching and then it goes all the way around. this was two months after that. and you can see he's had another surgery. >> doctors rebuilt his jaw with titanium. after two years and 16 surgeries, jensen volunteered for a second combat tour, this time in afghanistan. he was assigned to a remote outpost that faced nearly daily attacks from the taliban. soldiers called it barrel -- barely alive. six months later jensen fell and rebroke his jaw. doctors did their best to patch him up a second time. >> so they redid all the titanium. and before it was like right to here. >> half his face was permanentl

john fits jerald kennedy is a -- fitzgerald kennedy is a hero for all time. and for those who believe in the promise of america because he elevated what it means to serve in government on behalf of the people. he made elected office whether it be serving as a house clerk andn the peace corps, noble honorable pursuits. he made poetry and literature and the arts in general a part of the fabric of our everyday life, and he did it all, he did and the h the ease grace and wit and humor and understated elegance that exuded the confidence of the nation he d and further ennobled his countrymen. for those that listened, he speaks to us still. this thanksgiving as we pause, let us remember and be grateful .or the great gift he gave us for that one bright shining moment that there came the hero and let us use that light to enlighten not only this chamber but the world. and as president kennedy would say so often, thenet us go forward -- then let us go forward to lead the land we love, asking god's blessing, but knowing here on earth his work is our own. thank you, mr. s