that started with coach auriemma, pat summitt, lisa leslie, cheryl. those guys really paved the way. we've been able to benefit from the groundwork they laid down, and now women do have an opportunity to go overseas and make some pretty good money. with candace parker coming out and the popularity she's given the game, and it's all about players getting better, and when we can get better to that level, then the game will keep growing. >> phoenix at san antonio, 7:30 tonight, espn 2. diana taurasi, thanks, as always. we'll catch up with you soon. >> no problem. go, manny. >> and manny ramirez, this just moments ago at the batting cage in isotopes park. he will start his rehab stnt tonight, a week and a half away from being eligible to return to the major leagues. >> if i can interject, it's amazing to me, we just heard diana taurasi. the last thing she said is, "go, manny." it's amazing his popularity. a 50-game suspension for performance-enhancing drugs. maybe that's where we're at now with baseball in the steroid era, but it just doesn't seem that th

i know sleep won't come again more what i want on leslie in the face-to-face with saddam disjointed through my brain like experimental movie, the penetrating eyes of my passionate and cruel father, the war of of my grandmother's edna grayson, the solo, the stench of the trophied to desert, the adobe between my fingers in a refugee camp in saudi arabia, the bustle of the jfk airport as i first set foot in the united states. a lovely melancholy of mexico's onset. a taste of steaming maxwell street polish sausage loaded with on the ends on a snowy chicago sunday, the train ride to my brother's house in detroit after i learned of our brothers def and the rate of a moment that brought me here to this one-room helm. i grew up in a city of the shiite muslim in iraq 10 kilometers from of chief we played with ancient civilization steadied by the lights of the historic mosque from the summer heat to the shrine to power its behind it. said the pilgrim from across the middle east were for every day child who had trials and chileans of my siblings and me. my family was characterized by a passionate for

some legitimate concerns of private insurers about if any public plan is subsidized by taxpayers and leslie, overtime, they cannot compete with the government printing money. there are going to be some legitimate debates to be had about how this plan will take shape. but the notion that all of these insurance companies who say they are giving consumers the best possible deal, but they cannot compete against a public plan as one option, with consumers making the decision, that it defies logic. that is why i think you see in the polling data overwhelming support for a public plan. >> some republicans have set that up to this point, your response on iran has been timid and weak. today it sounded stronger. it sounds like the speech that john mccain has been urging you to give. you referred to an iron fist in iran. were you influence by john mccain accusing you of being timid or week? >> what do you think? [laughter] i think john mccain has genuine passion about many of these international issues. i think all of us share a belief that we want justice to prevail. only i am the president of the un

regional carriers are smaller companies having substantial difficulty, isn't it likely you will have leslie experience an airplane, you are paying lower salaries and so on. doesn't have an impact on the capability of the airplane to fly through difficult since under circumstances? >> the airline industry has created for the most part in this country to different systems. one is a hub and spoke system and the other is flying between city pairs with cost carriers. in a hub and spoke system, in the old days a northwest airlines would serve my state would fly if the jet carriers into that city, one of four cities in north dakota with 720 sevens, had a pilot and copilot and flight engineer your and i assume the pilots that have been on those routes were probably pilots with less time in the company then somebody who'd been on a san francisco two-door reda root. so i understand that there are longer routes and bigger planes and so on are going to get the pilots with more expats. it just seems to me that the way this hub and spoke system has morphed is that the network carriers have decided, you k

caller: take chris matthews, he hammers sarah palin and leslie, day after day. you know why?ecause they are afraid of this conservative woman. another thing, this david letterman comment about sarah palin is the daughter be knocked up a ball game. if it had been obama's daughter he would have been fired the next day. i guarantee you that letterman would have been out there the following day. host: here is another message from twitter about the media. the supreme court watch this week, we take the final release coming out this week. the washington post has this photo of a judge sotomayor meeting with senators. the headline says that most americans want her on the court. the poll indicates that 62% think that the federal judge should be confirmed by the senate. this is an abc news poll in conjunction with "the washington post." in the philadelphia paper, sotomayor role feels interest in a court battle. it concerns the new haven connecticut firefighters. it says that new haven through out a set of it 2003 promotion exams because not enough minority candidates qualify. a group of

we leslie this provision is a lemon according to a june 13th 2000 article from the l.a.es that stated critics say the improvement required in the trade as little as 1 mile per gallon for certain light trucks. in other words, trade in your zero light truck and buy another one is 1 mile per gallon more fuel-efficient bois, will swap so you can swap one gas guzzlers for another paris over $1 billion this provision doesn't achieve in the environmental goals is author set forth in either. or my colleagues, senators feinstein and collins argued in an opinion piece published in "the wall street journal" on june 11th, 2009 also ruled that this provision quote to being pushed by the auto industry is simply bad policy and designed to provide detroit won last windfall in selling off gas-guzzlers' currently sitting on dealers' lots because there are not a smart buy. this unrelated provision is an unwise use of taxpayers' money in bad environmental policy, doesn't belong in this bill and i strongly disagree with its inclusion. there's a few more earmarks of like to highlight -- $2.2

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if i had to as hazard a guess my prediction would be that judge sotomayor will fit in fairly seem leslie as a replacement for justice sooter in terms of her ideology and approach to the law there bhay some differences on individual issues, but i don't think

leslie mr. chairman i am appreciative to you and mr. dingell and others for including in this bill several aspects of the work that my colleague in connecticut's chairwoman of the agricultural subcommittee of the appropriations committee rose said the lore has been working on this issue. parts of this bill relative to inspection frequency for the riskiest foods out there, enforceable standards for foodborne pathogens, are parts of her efforts inc. in the underlying bill and i appreciate you paying attention to her work here as well. i look forward to your testimony, thank you for being here. >> thank you, the gentlewoman from california, ms. castor. >> thank you mr. chairman and kudos as well to rosa delauro and chairman stupak and john dingell who have worked for many years to improve food safety in america and welcome to dr. hamburg, based upon your background obviously you enjoy a challenge. the food safety is an important challenge for our country. of all the issues we deal with in this subcommittee food is the most ubiquitous and r