. >> may have a motion to excuse commissioners maher and cohen. >> she will come and i will go back to land use. >> ok. why don't we go ahead and excuse right now without objection. madam clerk, item number two. any discussion on minutes? any public comment? seeing none, public comment is closed. we will take this without objection. >> item passes. >> would you please reads item three and four. >> chair's report and item four, executive director's report. >> i have a brief report today colleagues. this month was our leadership roundtable on the sustainable community strategy on may 5th held at the authority's offices. it was an opportunity for elected officials representing san francisco on the boards of the regional agencies to meet with management and provide feedback from the vision scenario which is an important first step in the process for developing sustainable community strategy and eventually the new regional transportation plan. i was joined for this event by commissioners scott wiener and david comps on who also represent us on the m.t.c. we also have representatives from th

and then lastly, to the supervisor maher, in terms of culture preservation, not quite historic preservation, there's been work going on as you probably know in japan town and also in western soma. perhaps some time we can have a discussion about that too. >> thank you very much. i have chris yrki, if i'm pronouncing that and finally, don't know if this is for treasure island or historic preservation, but claire, who may have spoken already. i'm not sure. >> thank you. it's been stated by a few people i know what a landmark looks like. i would say i don't and none of us do but we're learning. we share the city with different social and culture groups and they're introducing what a landmark is to us every year and that's the exciting park about san francisco. but unfortunately, sometimes people are focusing on the city as a play of profit, of money making and not as a resident. i think the question raised in north beach question is interesting in illustrating. by voting to go ahead with a proposed library, you opened up other preservation questions, the view corridor, baseball field. what are

>> that was quite rambunctious on "the bill maher show," but i got it out. basically it was a cia official just left the agency involved in the hunt for bin laden and their gut or her gut was telling her that, frankly, to be able to put out those videos, to be able to put out all those audio, nothing about him told her that he was living in a care, somewhere where he had access to people, to technology. >> and she was absolutely right and, christiane, before we leave i want to say happy mother's day to you. i hope you have a great day with your family and obviously you've got a busy show coming up, as well. christiane will be sitting down with the president's national security adviser as well as condoleezza rice. >> dan? >> amazing she made that prediction back in 2008. >>> now we are going to move to what they're calling a slow-motion disaster along the mississippi river. take a look at the map. it shows where flooding is forecast to hit in the coming days, south from tennessee to mississippi then down to louisiana. thousands of the 4 million people who liv

>> on october 3 2008, chriiane amanpour, now with abc news, was appearing on "real time with bill maher"and she said she talked to a knowledgeable source w who said that osama bin laden was in a comfortable villa, and not a cave. >> i want to point out to you one thing. a year ago, eric holder appeared before some coressional committee, and some senators said -- and he said, "we are going to capture him." somebody said, "are you going to give him his miranda rights?" eric hder centcom "if we get him, we will be giving miranda rights -- eric holder said, "if we get them, we will be giving miranda rights to a court." >> how did the leading republicans react to this, mark? >> you have to give credit to the president who was there who made the call, who put lives at risk and his own political fortunes at risk. by my reckoning, mitt romney did, so did tim pawlenty, former governor of minnesota. palin did not, and gingrich did not, and surprisingly to me huckabee did not. mitch daniels did -- >> dick cheney didid. >> it is kind of fascinating, because the base of the party do not want to give cre

christiane amanpour, now with abc news, was a bearing on "-- was appearing on "real time with bill maher," saying she was talking to a source who said that osama bin laden was in a comfortable villa. >> a year ago, eric holder appeared before a congressional committee, and some senators said to him, and he said, "we are going to capture him." some senators said, "you will give him a miranda rights," said that if "we get him -- and eric holder said it "if we get him, we will give miranda rights to record." -- to a court." >> you have to give president -- you have to give credit to the president was there, who made the call, but not only lives at risk, but his own political fortune at risk. by my reckoning, mitt romney did in his statement, so did tim pawlenty, former governor of minnesota. mrs. palin did not, mr. gingrich did not, surprising to me, mr. huckaby did not. mitch daniels did -- >> dick cheney did. >> the base of your party does not want to give credit to the president of the other party at any time. the one to say that it george bush even cared about his daughter -- you don't

. >> thank you, supervisor wiener, chair maher and supervisor cohen. how to get to balance? supervisor wiener aunts the balance between the other pollingsies but if he wants state laws and enforcement, is it a suggestion to look the other way? as a certified local government, how does the city achieve that for taking grant funds for survey? how is it achieved as responsible to the state agency to the state for environmental reviews. the purpose for historic resources inventory are surveyed is to assemble information about buildings in the study area and local neighborhood plan and determine which of those buildings have specific and special historic culture oork tech churl significance. these planning tools facilitate permit applications. the determination of whether a property is historic, culture or architectural value is based tonight factual documentation in the public record, with or without a survey, california state regulations require the planning department to make a determination on the status when almost any application is submitted. how do you propose the city do

>> in october 2008, christiane amanpour, now with abc news, was appearing on "real time with bill maher," saying if she had a source who said that osama bin laden was living in comfortable villa. >> a year ago, eric holder appeared before some congressional committee, and some senators said to him -- he said, "we are going to capture him." somebody said, but what are you going to give him his miranda rights?" eric holder said, "if we get him, we will give miranda rights to a court." >> how did the leading republicans react to all this, mark? >> always fascinating, a time like this. you have to give credit to the president who is there, who made the call, who put not only lives at risk but his own political fortune at risk. met ronnie did in his statement, so did tim pawlenty -- mr. romney did in his statement, asserted tim pawlenty. mrs. mayland did not, mr. gingrich did not, -- palin did not, mr. gingrich did not, a surprising to me,. huckabee. >> dick cheney did. >> the base of your party, you don't want to give credit to the president at any other time. no one would say that george b

. >> may have a motion to excuse commissioners maher and cohen. >> she will come and i will go back to land use. >> ok. why don't we go ahead and excuse right now without objection. madam clerk, item number two. any discussion on minutes? any public comment? seeing none, public comment is closed. we will take this without objection.

and then lastly, to the supervisor maher, in terms of culture preservation, not quite historic preservation, there's been work going on as you probably know in japan town and also in western soma. perhaps some time we can have a discussion about that too. >> thank you very much. i have chris yrki, if i'm pronouncing that and finally, don't know if this is for treasure island or historic preservation, but claire, who may have spoken already. i'm not sure. >> thank you.

in his life maher caliph a prominent human rights lawyer and all the necessity of a buddha by a freelance reporter of for nobody has yet to die killer was sentenced to a maximum prison term that is a lot of imprisonment now he's associated and girlfriend evanier hass is who is strong guilty of acting as an accomplice to the murder of markelov she was sentenced to eighteen years in prison now that's a big lauzon the prosecution was asking for but that's still quite a lengthy prison term now the niece really planned to kill only as the new software caliph was a very well known human rights lawyer here in russia he was walking down a street towards and here is a mattress station and does the above compliment him to ask a couple of questions and that was one both of them were. taken out and killed in broad daylight in a very cold blooded manner. files were from seized in the raid that killed osama bin laden suggests that he remain closely involved. it's one of the trust occasions from the u.s. government over its. killing. explains the violent questioning of terror suspects is also being a mo

tory is a cost center website it's a known mouthpiece for al qaida linked to terrorist leader example maher who is on the un's most wanted list trial had nothing to do with any of the suspected brains to international terrorism however it is pastor you have the lhari recently trying to draw attention to the chechen extremist threat if i am self prosecuted and defrocked by the authorities in a human rights activist your own bafflement says it reveals a murky pro terror game at play in finland. process against me cause to show in finland was a trial. prosecutor didn't want to send them to see a movie they wanted to only to give some kind of for justification for going for the second t.v. thing as well he's an activist who is actively promoting islamist terrorism against russia he has several websites he has an all face and he's a representative officially. in finland and he's an extremely dangerous individual and i'm very sure of that and he has very strong political support in finland of course not by the unfinished business but by several influential finnish political figures. well let's ta

who was found guilty of acting as an accomplice to the murder of maher caliph she was sentenced to eighteen years in prison now that's a bit less than the prosecution was asking for but that's still quite a lengthy prison term now be initially planned to kill only mark caliph was a very well known human rights lord in russia she was walking down the street to resign numerous natural station and i suppose the above were kompany came to ask a couple of questions and that was one both of them were approached by and killed in broad daylight in a very cold blooded manner now the only point i would like to add is that despite being called the russian born in quiet and they actually use these the moment private behavior during the trial of it shows a lot of her faction for each other holding hands kissing sharing job but this was very painful for the families of the victims and they ever really asked the media not to remember surprise these crimes because they if these two vigils despite all the affection for each other actually killed very bright people and they committed a crime in a very callou

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i'm speaking of course of bill maher.entire movie in which he blamed all the troubles in the world on our faith in god. you may not have read this. the trade paper reports god is currently working on a film called "oh bill, you are in such deep, deep trouble" which may have a longer running time than the original film. some of you may remember how earlier this year, the left wing media made a -- about which maher speaks in the typically measured statesman like way we have come to expect. >> do it because it will make rush limbaugh explode like a bag full of -- [laughter] it will make sarah palin go rogue in her pants. when we see crazy senseless deaths like this, we can only ask why, why, why, couldn't it have been glen beck? >> sarah palin talking about death panels? if we were killing off useless people, you would be the first to know. >> settle down you people. come on. our third and final nomination for "i'm not a political genius but i play one on tv award" goes to meathead. rob reiner played meathead in the 1970's.

crime the world dignitaries and members of the european parliament insist he did not commit the reason maher uses in jail now is because he was free some argue these convictions are simply the most known cases of a systematic attempt to silence those seen as a threat to the establishment. and it struck me as a little bit strange that jon stewart and bill o'reilly in some ways the ideological figureheads of the mainstream left and right we're talking about peltier and mahler's of there are cases where i don't know as i won't go in as leaders drug problems or charlie sheen for that matter the fact of the matter is that mainstream news jon stewart o'reilly all of them included too often devolves into a meaningless echo chamber fanning the flames of whatever pointless controversy that's dominating that day now this network has been accused of many things critics say that by questioning the status quo by discussing uncomfortable problems facing this country like i don't know soaring incarceration rates flaws in the justice system the erosion of civil liberties the economy by doing all this this n

jets have had a number of targets in libya's capital tripoli including a compound owned by khadafi maher all men visiting professor of international relations at bill kent university in turkey tells r t russia's mediation may help but believes the alliance wants to carry on through with its campaign to the end. but the rebels feel they have the support of the nato countries some are believe some of the arab states actually have a british and much interest in. communion and i suspect unless countries decided they were might flee next month also to achieve a military victory but major countries may decide perhaps we'll have some kind of compromise in russia to act as a mediation but i suspect that the moment trees the aim of the nation needs they've said gadhafi has. to go where can you can to say it's true or death for him maybe death is more likely put more the less we brought a close to his options which makes interviews very very difficult to imagine. coming away in a few minutes we'll look at whether some recent catastrophes are making more people think about the future i think we're

bill maher, spike lee? look who the media puts on a pedestal, lindsay lohan? charlie sheen? these people aren't winners. they're losers. [applause] but enough of the negative words in my political dictionary. let's look at a few of our positives. here's the next word, success. success is a favorable or desired outcome and you've achieved a lot of it. we have worker protection laws in 13 states, emergency power laws in 30 states, and statewide preems laws in 48 states and friends, there's nothing more important than your right to self-defense. thanks to you, right to carry is now a right restored in more than 40 states and counting. and last month, wyoming restored your right to carry without a permit. what that means is from vermont to alaska and arizona to wyoming, you don't need anyone's permission to protect yourself and that's the way it should be. [applause] i think it's morally reprehensible for any politician to say how, when, or where an honest person can defend themselves. it's your god-given right to defend yourself and that's a big reason why the castle doctrine i

that's a fact you can make let's see in the days after nine eleven bush rejected a deal by more law maher that would have turned bin laden over to a third party to trial he rejected the advice of his intelligence advisors who said we had bin laden cornered in tora bora and thousand marines could get in and of course book bush rejected the intelligence memo before nine eleven and said bin laden was determined to hijack planes and crash them into american built not only do i think president obama would have got better results than bush i think a toddler got letters and that's very very. it only took two days for fox news to go death or and fox's judge an apology hano the guy who's likely to replace and back is leading the pack. the on the issue of whether the government is telling us the truth or pulling a fast one to save obama's lousy presidency is the issue of the lawful power of the president to order someone killed i don't know if you don't show the face then you know who's to say what was in that bag do you believe he's dead that really you want some more evidence a photograph a testi

the group the george bush the forty million dollars to just stop the opium poppies they did it all maher took the forty million dollars in march of two thousand and one and burned to the fields and you can see the cia right on their website you can see the drop in opium poppy production don't you think that if he had said help us with this police operation was five hundred million dollars i was fined and well more would a chunk of it were harboring terrorists i mean they were harboring al qaeda they were harboring osama bin laden in their country feel free to jump in guys and when i would say you know i am i and one of my favorite previous jobs i worked as a counterterrorism role player for their partner homeland security and one thing we learned about al qaeda is that they're everywhere they're everywhere in cells they're in seventy or eighty countries putting one hundred thousand troops in a country spending one hundred billion dollars a year killing great deal number of civilians that antagonizing a large part of the population getting involved in domestic political problems the talib

i am speaking, of course, bill maher.ovie called "religulious" which blamed all the troubles of the world on our faith on god. you may not have read this but "variety" reported that god has a film saying, "oh, bill, you are in deep, deep trouble." you may have remembered that there was hate speech. we can learn from maher about civil discourse. we have three clips which maher speaks to conservatives in a statesman-like way with words from the left. >> do it because it will make rush limbaugh explode like a bad -- [applause] [inaudible] it will make sarah palin go rogue in her pants. >> when we see crazy, senseless guests like this we can only ask, why, why couldn't it have been glen beck? sarah palin screaming about death panels? you know what, sarah, if we were killing off useless people you would be the first to know. >> he's a brain. he's a brain. settle down, you hateful people. come on. our third and final nomination for the i'm not a political genius but i play one on tv award goes to meat head. that's rob rymer, of

i want you -- but i want to play this clip from bill maher last night and then we'll talk about it. >d, of course, this, to them, has nothing to do with the fact that he's black. you have to feel bad for people like karl rove and matt drudge and andrew bright bart, it's so hard to live in a color blind society when all the bad people are black. it's just hard for them. >> so, listen, i know that, you know, fox will play this and say, look what cnn did, they invited these people on and what have you, just asking the questions. is there some racial undertones here? >> well, there's a racial disparity in the way that a lot of white folks view hip hop as opposed to country music where you have artists for years, i live in nashville, tennessee, there are folks that made their living, johnny cash, some of the earlier work porter wagner did when he talked about killing his ex-wife and burying her in the forest, no one said, oh, my god, we can't talk about porter wagner or johnny cash. there's a definite racial disparity in the treatment of different types of music. i think the reason is for

from hbo's "realtime with bill maher" aired back in october of 2008 it features our very own christianedian gary shanley. >> so isn't osama bin laden laughing his ass off? you've met him. >> i haven't met him. i wish i had met him. i wish i had done an interview. no, i wish. >> in a cave somewhere? >> i talked to somebody very knowledgeable. well, she doesn't think -- this woman -- >> by the way, sarah palin -- >> kabul? >> christiane has good sources. oh, by the way, a team of scientists and students at ucla also came close to predicting bin laden's whereabouts. in 2009 using some satellite imagery and other technology they said he was likely in a walled compound in a pakistani city. but their predicted location turned out to be about 300 miles off. >> can you believe that? that was back in 2008 that episode. interesting. >>> we're learning also more about that devoted wife who was with bin laden at the time of his death. the young woman is now getting medical treatment after being shot in the leg during the raid. here is brian ross. >> reporter: bin laden's family occupied the second

he said maher do want to do me a favor? give me a demolition permit.i said you would not tear the theater down. he looked at me and he said have you ever heard of the rko? i tore that went down. i said you mean business so i convinced him to come to my office on monday. his lawyer was -- and i said we can put dario in the same room with bill miller and these people because they hated each other. so, he said okay, so he won over negotiated the deal the city ended up putting a lot of money at that we didn't know we were going to do that much at that time. we finally agreed. at ario was sitting in my office and i was entertaining him. finally they all said yes. and then dario said to me after we agreed on the price of the deal is going to be done, dario said what about my other $40,000, speaking in broken english. i said what $40,000? he said they promised me $1000 a day to negotiate and it has been 40 days. i picked up the phone and called miller. i never heard miller swear in my life except in. forget about it, forget i even call. the deal is off. i wil

. >> reporter: when bill maher went on letterman. >> why are we listening to this curiosity. >> right disagreed on whether trump is serious. >> with you he is really running. >> no, he's absolutely not running. >> reporter: even bet on it. >> let's wager a week's pay. mine against yours. >> reporter: now that probably wasn't serious. did you have a favorite high point or low point of the trump noncampaign campaign? >> i just turned him off, i put him on mute. >> reporter: and it will be a muted presidential race without the donald throwing his hair into the ring. jeanne moos, cn

bill maher? spike lee? and look at who the media puts up on a pedestal. lindsay lohan?people aren't winners, they're losers. [applause] but enough of the negative words in my political dictionary. let's look at a few of the positive. here's our next word: success. finish success is a favorable or desired outcome, and you've achieved a lot of it. we now have worker protection laws in this 13 states, emergency power laws in 30 states and statewide preemption laws in 48 states. and, friends, there's nothing more important than your right to self-defense. thanks to you, right to carry is now a right restored in more than 40 states and counting. and last month wyoming restored your right to carry without a permit. what that means is from vermont to alaska and arizona to wyoming you don't need anyone's permission to protect yourself, and that's the way it should be. [applause] i think it's morally reprehensible for any politician to say how, when or where an honest person can defend themself. it's your god-given right to defend yourself. and that's a big reason why the castle