. >> mha's contact for the hoarding and cluttering is john franklin and the website is mentalhealthsf.org. >> could you repeat that? >> the website is mentalhealthsf.org. >> the phone number is 415-421-2926 and hoarding and cluttering team contact is john franklin at extension 314. >> okay. are there any members of the public who would like to comment or ask questions regarding this topic? >> is it hoarding or cluttering or anything? >> anything. >> david elliot lewis, mental health board and i want to express my gratitude for these presentations. i hope the public was watching on sfgovtv and i think it was a really helpful session today. so thank you. >> thank you very much. >> roland? >> i'm sorry, oh, okay. >> my name is tony robles with senior and disability action and very moved by the comments that were made. you know, really about stigma and the fact that there are inroads that are being made in the media, because the media perpetrates so much of that stigma and knowing that i think it was united press or one of the news services has made a move to remove some of that stigma by cha

started the support group or i joined the support group as a participant and then one evening, john franklin, our team leader came in and said there was a peer responder position open and i just thought that is for me. so i got it and here i am and it seems like it was just the right fit and it seems like i have been here for a long time. but we do -- the peer responders, we do one-on-one home visits. that is one of the primary things that we do is we go to people's homes. we kind of give them an assessment; they know it's a peer, someone who also lives with these challenges. so we're a safe person to let into their home, who isn't going to judge them. we can assess the situation, help them strategize where would they like to start? where would they like to go? how do they see their life happening? and give them tools that we have to deal with the clutter, and we tend to -- we're available on a weekly basic. we like to encourage them to become self-sufficient at some point. but there are varying levels of clutter. so some people need more help than others. and we also offer the treasurer's c

and ann coulter and john franklin stevens. a couple notes on that, mr.enegger said to twitter he was on a plane, this what is he said to palin, looking everywhere but can't see russia from here. palin came back with a retort that wasn't that great, she said arnold should have landed i could have explained our multibillion surplus in energy efforts. what's he up to. i thought the keith olbermann and piers morgan was fun. >> i did see that. >> and ann coulter and john franklin stevens, didn't know what that was, she made comments, he stepped up. you can look at twitter forever and watch these go through. >> pulling back from it. i feel like i'm getting too addicted to it. and then it's like, you know, sometimes you do stuff or have an interview that doesn't -- people don't take to or whatever, and -- >> twitter is a dangerous place. >> have you noticed sometimes, you know, you look at people's profiles, right, just to see like -- people write the nastiest stuff and when you look at their profiles they always have like open-minded, world needs more love, mo

franklins procedure as a scientist made him an advocate for the american cause. many of you may be from a with the book about john adams which was made into a film. franklin is in france, the revolution is on going. he is representing the american cause, trying to get the french to come around with more money and eventually with military support. adams is sent over there and he is furious. what's franklin to? he's sleeping late, eating enormous meals, drinking wine, going to dinner and these floating with all the rich women. adams is apoplectic. you got to be doing something. what he didn't understand was that franklin was, in fact performing very effective diplomatic act. how was he doing that? he was already a scientist of enormous reputation in france and now he is coupled it was sort of the examples that he was an american stage, a wise man, and carry enormous weight with leaders of french public opinion and eventually with the court. but it deeply upset adams wrote to his wife who said when this is all of people say the history of the american revolution was franklin with his lightning rods and george washin

. >> john: on the website since ben franklin the post office has changed with america.nge. you are a government monopoly, you barely change. >> 200,000 less employees than we had. >> big government media would say things like that? >> they are hell bent on seeing the u.s. postal service die. >> john: so the managers wait for workers to quit or retire. attrition is kinder, is that why you do it? >> we have union contracts and in no layoff provisions. >> john: how can you run a business that way? >> that is how the cookie crumbles. >> john: that is your tax money. >> private delivery services continue to thrive while the postal service. >> fed ex and ups make billions because they innovate and cut costs. postal officials like mickey try to do that, try to close money losers like these. >> john: why weren't they closed long ago? >> political pressure. >> john: congress can do any major change, save billions by adjusting benefit payments? not a chance. >> so the politicians aren't dumb, what are they thinking? >> they are thinking about reelection. >> john: they are suppose

. >> john: on the website since ben franklin the pos office has changed with america.e. you are a government monopoly, you barely change. >> 200,000 less employees than we had. >> big government media would say things like that? >> they are hell bent on seeing the u.s. postal service die. >> john: so the managers wait for workers to quit or retire. attrition is kinder, is that why you do it? >> we have union contracts and in no layoff provisions. john: how can you run a business tha way? >> that is how the cookie crumbles. >> john: that is your tax money. >> private delivery services continue to thrive while the postal service. >> fed ex and ups make billions because they innovate and cut costs. postal officials like mickey try to do that, try to close money losers like thes >> john: why weren't they closed long ago? >> political pressure. >> john: congress can do any major change, save billions by adjusting benefit payments? not a chance. >> so the politicians aren't dumb, what are they thinking? >> they are thinking about reelection. >> john: they are supposed to be

i can't imagine franklin roosevelt, harry truman, john kennedy, dwight eisenhower doing this at a time of war. >> the president was also asked about health care, obama care and continued republican opposition to it. let me play part of what the president said. >> my friends in the other party have made the idea of preventing these people from getting health care their holy grail. their number one priority. the one unifying principle in the republican party at the moment is making sure that 30 million people don't have health care. >> so the president suggested your party's one unifying principle is appealing obama care. is that a fair statement first of all? and then let me ask you do you think that the effort to repeal obama care is a waste of time? >> i believe we should be attempting to repeal obama care. let me make it clear, i don't believe -- one of the questions was about shutting down the government, the debt ceiling, whatever. i don't believe the republican party should be using the threat of shutting down the government as a way to shut down obama care. i think we should cont

the quaker family, john bartram, who i introduced earlier, together with franklin proposed the first american society in 1743. however, it took a number of decades for the idea to truly bear fruit. at one point franklin writes to a friend, the gentlemen are very idle, they will take no pains. now, john bartram blamed it up on propensity of his fellow members to sit in the t.a.r.p.es and play dice. now, the example set by philadelphia with its lively intellectual scene spurred a number of imitators, and eventually the movement would take home in washington which was now the new national capital, trenton, new jersey, albany, new york, alexandria, virginia, and as far south as carolina and montana and as far west as kentucky. improvements in agriculture, the study of natural history, there was even a military philosophy society founded at west point, these all appeared as well. these groups were invariably local or regional in scope, and if you look at the names, they almost always have at least a town or city associated with them and often a province. it was very specific. so the early

john and mary akin. mary was jane pierce's sister. they were very close friends throughout life. and mary was there for jane at all of her most important times in her life. jane and franklin came to andover to visit the family them. came here with their son, benny, to visit the cousins, mary and john had children and franklin and jane became very close and attached to those children after their son passed away. the family stayed at 48 central street which is referred to as the summer white house. it's called that because franklin pierce would come visit his wife in andover. jane would stay with her sister, mary, at 48 central street, and he would come visit them in the summers in particular. it was believed that the administrative staff stayed just across the road from them. jane and franklin were staying in andover because there had been a death in the family. jane's uncle, amos lawrence had, died. so they went to boston to attend that funeral. they returned to andover so they could pack their things and head where they could get ready to move to the white house. unfortunately the train ride was very devastating for the family. they were about a mile outside of andover,

"usa today" is remibdsing us this morning franklin roosevelt was criticized for spending time on his yacht. john adams spent seven months in quincy, massachusetts, on his farm in 1797 and actually accused of abdicating his office and that criticism didn't help his bid for the second term. now, for republicans who are ready to pounce, let's look at this by the numbers. the president is going off on vacation but the last commander in chief, george w. bush, also took his share of r and r. at this point in george w. bush's presidency, mark knoller with cbs figured this out, george w. bush had spent 367 days at his ranch in texas or at his family's compound in kennebunkport, maine. that, of course, according to mark knoller who says also, that president obama, who doesn't own a vacation home or have a family compound, has only spent 92 days of his presidency on vacation and before he heads out of town he's going to make more news. the president will be holding a news conference at the white house at 3:00 p.m. and, you know, i just got to say, and i always go back, ed rendell, to a maureen dowd column

mary and john had children. franklin and jane became very close and attached to those children after their son passed away. this is referred to as the summer white house. it is called that, because franklin pierce would come visit his wife in andover. he would visit them in the summers, in particular. it is believed the administrative staff stayed just across the road from them. jane and franklin were staying in and -- andover because there had been a death in the family. their uncle, james laurnts lawrence had died. they returned to andover where they could get ready to move to the white house. unfortunately the train ride was devastating for the family. they were about a mile mile out of andover. an axelrod broke on the frane train. as i understand it, benny was a baby, moving about, and when the train rolled down, he was hit in the back of his head very severely. he did not survive the crash. mary rvices took place at acres' house. jane did not attend. she could not make it to the final procession of the funeral. jane

you know the american revolution john and abigail adams and benjamin franklin and george washington and you learned all that in school but are you really know the story? that is when i hit the ground running with this and getting into the heads of these characters. you know who they are but did you know what it was like for benjamin franklin when he literally seduces king louis the 16th into coming into the war on our side and saving us. the british were winning. the finest army and navy in the world. there were defeating us until the french came in and joined us in the french bailed us out and enabled us to win the revolution. that's a story most people really don't know. of course we returned the favor from time to the french after that which is a story most of us do know. the point is when i began to hear from audiences and people saying to me i didn't know that, that's fun. i'm thinking what story don't you know? how about world war i and? most americans get their history from hollywood which is a sad statement to make that if you think about world war ii versus world war i they are

. >> ben franklin said they who give up essential liberties to obtain a little temporary safety. >> those who choose to trade liberty for security will find they have neither. >> john: side note. it turns out watching c-span with binoculars is exactly as boring as watching c-span without binoculars. so, look, that's great news for this building because we all know if you can get bipartisan support for something it's going to pass. unless another bipartisan group emerges to fight it. but there's no way that's going to happen. is there in roll the tape. >> the top three republicans in the house oppose the measure. >> a top republican and democrat of the committee released a joint statement calling it unwise. a white house released a statement urging the house to reject it. >> john: john boehner and president obama agree on something. the only other things they've ever agreed on were, one, estimation you need a good cry. two, michael keaton is is a best batman and three, brazil nuts are nothing more than packing material for all the other nuts in the mix. so they got a four. nothing shows though just how weird these coalitions have become than the fact that the presid

john: i agree with you. this weekend governor walker did something that even surprised me. he compared himself to franklinoosevelt. really quick do you know what that is somebody? >> scott walker is not that wealthy, so maybe it's an aspirational goal on his part. but he was trying to justify his anti-public employee initiatives by suggesting that roosevelt was anti-employ union as well. but he took one line written in a letter by roosevelt, but failed to read the whole letter. the letter is on the wall at the national federation of federal employees, i believe, the union that the letter was written to. and the union people celebrate it as a pro-union letter. but president roosevelt said that collective bargaining was going to be different at the federal government level than the private sector. an honest statement but scott walker has tried to blow it way out of proportion, and it really blew up on him, because roosevelt's grandson wrote a great op-ed saying i can tell you for sure my grandfather was not scott walker. >> john: as you know another potential gop hopeful is senator rand paul of kentucky. ju

john kerry at the state department. carol and i went to that ceremony in the benjamin franklin room.ery beautiful room up on the 8th floor of the state department building. i tweeted out a couple of photos. that's another reason to follow us on twitter. never know what's going to pop up there at bpshow. and then last night, good friend of his gave a party for him in nearby potomac, maryland. lynda carter. yes, one and the same. >> you mean -- >> bill: wonder woman! >> wonder woman? >> bill: yes, wonder woman's house and also tweeted out a photo of wonder woman. a big day and congratulations, john goes back to los angeles today. a week from now, he and his family will be heading to berlin and be our new ambassador there. can't wait to visit him at the german embassy. dan, you have to tell your brother he can go by and say hello to our new ambassador. >> go up to berlin. >> bill: john also speaks fluent german. he studied as a student. >> i would imagen if you're going to be the ambassador, you would need to speak german. >> bill: that's not always the case. >> you would think you woul

john or ringo. while you're out throwing away your ringo solo records, cannabis has been here longer than white people. washington and jefferson grew it. it was used as a painkiller. ben franklinarted the first colonial printing paper using hemp paper. legendary industrialist william randolph hurst didn't like the competition from more natural hemp paper. dupont chemical was threatened by the natural properties. hurst papers began using the spanish slang term marijuana to capitalize on the anti-mexican racism. it was made illegal back in 1937. in '70, president nixon signed the controlled substance act making cannabis a schedule one controlled substance alongside drugs like heroin and pcp gaining to be be more harmful than cocaine. the prison industrial complex has benefited mightily from locking up thousands of nonviolent drug offenders for possession. more recently, michael phelps proved if an autograph's photographed with a bong, it is a scandal. i'm talking to you, president obama because i know you watch current. medical marijuana is at 75% approval. 76% among doctors. you, mr. president are at 49% approval. when you ran, you promised to leave california's clinics alone.