mark twain famously said there are three kinds of lies. lies, damn uh lies and statistics. right now the market is reacting to the third kind of untruth with statistics like today's drop in retail sales. a number that helped send averages lower with the dow sinking 50 points and the nasdaq sliding .40%. here's the problem. if retail sales are that bad, if the consumer is so tight-fisted then how the heck can target, walmart, and costco be hitting their 52-week highs as they have over multiple days in the last week? can aggregate retail sales be that terrible when you have robust numbers at these stores? who's more likely to lie with statistics? the commerce department or a chain like target where the controls are superb and the numbers aren't subject to interpretation? who's giving you the real skinny? a government department that may be using probably not the technology near what the private sector uses to compile data or a store like walmart where 140 million people shop each week. does costco have a better handle on retail sales than the government given they have the sa

i was reminded of one of my favorite quotes from mark twain among many. it's difference of opinion. what occurred to me about that and i thought that was applicable here except for one significant thing. the difference of opinion is that the finish line. there is no finish line. we can talk about this endlessly and that's why want to get through these remarks so we can get to the questions and discussion. so i begin with the disparities. there are some examples of offering up and talk about some of them, may be in the question-and-answer, but some in this talk. president said the voters and historians considered in a negative light grant, harding, coolidge. we could also include in that, i and reagan because especially eisenhower and reagan, but eisenhower came in after his presidency in the first poll after arthur schlesinger junior in 1962 with a terrible rating. he was merely down there with arthur -- [laughter] and first johnson -- andrew johnson, chet arthur was a non-entity in and andrew johnson lost control of the government in a country he was supposed to leave. i thought th

this is all subjects to mark twain's dictum about difference of opinion. john adams and grover cleveland. grover cleveland is my greatest example. in the first academic poll that happened in 1948 cleveland was ranked eighth. john adams was ranked ninth. cleveland, as we all know, we don't know much about cleveland. i didn't before i started this. to be honest with you, i still don't, but i know enough to talk about it a little bit. what we know about him, he is the only president to serve to nine consecutive terms. less known as the fact that after each of those terms his party was tossed out of the white house. the first time was him on the ticket, and the second time after is party have basically said we don't want you on the ticket voters still tossed out the democrats under william jennings bryan and broaden william mckinley. so he representative -- he is the only two-time one-term presidents ira street. so my question is, how on the world, if you think that voters are not totally stupid, helen the world can he considered number eight? i didn't think h

mark twain, i dreamed i was born and grew up and the dream goes on and on and on and sometimes seems zero so real i almost believe it is real, i wonder if it is. and mick jagger, i shouted out who killed the kennedys, when after all, it was you and me. that's the book on a nutshell. >> that's it. >> kind of. no, i always loved that woods worth quote he wrote that about his youth as a brit looking on the french revolution, which of course didn't, you know, didn't work out entirely well for everyone. and then -- >> rose: well, some lost their heads. >> exactly, and the mark twain quote was new to me, i don't know where i came across that and i kept it thinking i will use that some time. >> rose: and the mil mick jagger quote? >> that is one of the classic quotes from that song, in the 1960s, sort of suggesting that the times and all of us together are, share some responsibility for the madness that happened. >> rose: when we meet karen, your character and your narrator, she is about to remove herself from consideration for nomination to the supreme court? >> yes. >> rose: and do what.

in old san francisco once said in an old san francisco republic newspaper, samuel clemens, mark twain said statistics are lies. remember that in keep in mind the numbers. sometimes there is perception. that is what the numbers are. you can have all of the tackles and the world, but if you do not have a championship, it does not matter. then we have car sectors and foot beats in the area. we have the library one. we just added that last year at the library. we upgraded the security based upon the public library monday- friday because there are lots of kids programs. we were pretty much underutilized. it has done very well. it caused a displacement. sometimes those things happen. as i mentioned, the old station was that the hibernia bank at #one jones. new station in 2000. this is at 30180. it has a community room and station on this side. that was the old wagner auto body repair station. the building was built in 1927. and we have reduced crime rate. i will not go through every one of them, but i will briefly touch on them. quality of life isn't older term. you have the option now of i

to >> i know data points -- you talked about the mark twain reference. just to follow up on the commissioner kingsley reference, in six months there is seven rape calls, 3 arrests. aggravated assaults, 146 and 81. and with having the team here and inspectors at the station and great collaboration, have you found having the inspectors and investigators your help to investigate and clear those cases? is there an improvement and the clearance numbers, and if not, what do we need to do more to help you with that? >> it is in flux on what you want to do at the station level. it is good to have the contact. they can follow up with the victim better. that is why our number of arrests are 41%. we can follow up with the victim more. my little brothers and inspectors -- he had to go down the hall. that is a daunting task for someone to leave the area and go down the hall. now we have the centralization where they can follow up with the station and go out right away. they can get up to the victim quicker. i know when m.j. had her arm injured the first time. she sen

. >> mark twain used to say there's lies, damn lies, and statistics. >> please come forward. >> good evening. i am the area director for boys and girls clubs of san francisco. i supervise the tenderloin and treasure island clubhouses. i was clubhouse's director here for four years and live in the community. i am part of the safe passage steering committee, which is a very community-base program. i believe we have the highest concentration of children in the city. many people do not know the -- that. because everything is so small year, a lot of our kids are constantly walking in the neighborhood. during the school day, you may have hundreds of kids at given times coming from the feeder schools in the community as well as between different programs, either to use the park -- one school brings their kids over to salvation army, etc., etc. the reason they started it was to have a role in keeping our kids say. i wanted to acknowledge all the mothers. we have young people, service providers, schools, parks. everybody has been getting involved. if you do not have the right captain who is t

-- we met in washington, d.c., when a steve martin -- in 2005 or to adults and six, he won the mark twain award -- it thousand five or 2006. there was a big show. i was one of the presenters. alan was a waiter. no. [laughter] no, alan was a writer. >> i helped larry david wright his speech. >> when we were far away from larry david, he says he wrote his speech. anyway, we like each other. we became friends and saw each other off and on over the next few years at conferences and stuff like that. alan kept saying -- >> we should do something together. >> i did not know what he meant. [laughter] he was very vague. he is kind of in the film-tv world, and people always say they want to do something. i said, ok, let's do something together. but i do not think we would. then he had this idea. >> his daughter played soccer. she was 11 years old. i had three children, all of whom spate -- played sports, little league, whatever. but he was 1,600 miles away from me. i was in new jersey. he was in florida. i can give you his home number later if you wish. [laughter] i said, listen, why don't we make

mark twain and "life on the mississippi" gives you an idea of what those were like a couple decades later. travel times and transportation costs were being hugely reduced, and internal trade hugely increased. it's hard to overestimate the difference that it made. i mean, new york was closer in travel time to europe than it was to my home state of michigan before the the completion of e erie canal. suddenly products, goods produced in michigan can be transport today new york where they could be disseminated around the east coast and to different domestic markets or shipped abroad at hugely decreased costs. so you're spreading capitalist economic activity across the country. and the internal trade in the country is hugely increased. the frontier farmers or people near that are no longer living in a situation where they can expect to be totally self-sufficient in goods and services their whole lives. they're being part of an economy that's being knit together. at the same time, american merchants were plying the atlantic carrying on the whaling trade. american vessels were pursuing their tra

baltimore in ohio railroad were laid down and steam boats were plowing down the mississippi river and mark twain gives an idea of what it was like decades level and transportation costs were being hugely reduced and it's hard to overestimate the difference that it made. new york was closer in travel time to europe than my home state before the completion of the erie canal. after the erie canal and it traveled through lake erie and it could be transported to new york where they could be disseminated around the east coast into different domestic markets or shipped abroad and spreading economic activity across the country and the internal trade in the country is hugely increased. the frontier farmers are no longer living in a situation where they can expect to be totally self-sufficient in goods and services their whole lives and they're being part of an economy that's being knit together. at the same time, american merchants were plowing the atlantic and american whaling vessels were pursuing their prey in the south pacific. you can read "moby dick" about that and don't skip the whale chapters and

as mark twain wrote "it is hopeless for the occasional visitor to try to keep up with chicago.a novelty, never the chicago you saw when you pass through the last time." that's the "cbs evening news" for tonight with thanks to the folks here at wbvm t.v. for their hospitality and for all of us at cbs news all around the world. good night. captioning sponsored by cbs quick how many devices in your home use the internet? you're still counting aren't you? today we live online and in a few years the number of devices in your home will double. some networks can't handle it, but verizon fios is 100% fiber optic so it's faster and can handle it, and now a revolution in speed is here -- fios quantum speed, more than twice as fast as america has ever seen. to find out more about fios quantum go to verizon.com/fiosquantum. call the verizon center for customers with disabilities at 800-974-6006 tty/v. real big deals of the week. or how to get great prices on things you need. we know you look around for the best deals. that's why we give you real big club card deals each week. right now, fr

weather service also sent a helicopter to new york to check out reports of a tornado back at the mark twain summer retreat. buildings were damaged, hospital, hospitals were placed on disaster status. you can see the power of the storm, lightning arcing across the sky took out power to thousands of residents. >> i hear there is a storm moving through gilroy >> it is a storm of the lawrence karnow of variety. i was it going at the garlic festival? >> they're lighting things up this morning and if you cannot smell it already will this weekend, the gilroy garlic festival 2012 and what a weekend it will be. if you like garlic and you like to have a good time, and this is the place to come. hugh davis is the president of the festival, what you expect this weekend? >> we expect great weather, it has been holding out with a nice breeze in the afternoon and a lot of people are coming through, we expect 100-110,000 hungry and thirsty people. >> he will be moving all lot of people throughout but a lot of this goes to charity. >> it does, at the end of the festival we get together after we pay the bill

as mark twain wrote " it is hopeless for the occasional visitor to try and keep up with chicago, shevelty, never the chicago that you saw when you pass through the last time ". that is the cbs evening news before tonight with thanks to wbbm tv for their hospitality and from all us all run the world from cbs news, good night. >> good evening i am alan martin >> i am dana king. state and federal officials in oakland touting job creation. >> governor brown basking in the victory of the legislature approval of funds to circling the state's high speed rail system. but political reporter grace lee shows us that the victory could come at a price. >> we did have high level officials here, as you mentioned, the governor as well as a federal secretary of transportation. they were here to talk about the $15 million of federal money that they will be getting at the port of oakland but the subject turned to high-speed rail. both men back and each other up saying that this is a smart long-term investment. >> high-speed rail is coming to america, and real high-speed rail, 200 mi. per hour trains, w

as mark twain wrote "it is hopeless for the occasional visitor to try to keep up with chicago.a novelty, never the chicago you saw when you pass through the last time." that's the "cbs evening news" for tonight with thanks to the folks here at wbvm t.v. for their hospitality and for all of us at cbs news all around the world. good night. >>> this is 9 news now. >> for a second straight week some folks in the d.c. area are spending their monday cleaning up after a round of overnight storms pounded the region. we now know from the national weather service that the damage we just saw in fredericksburg was caused by straight line winds and not a tornado, but it was still powerful enough to rip apart parts of buildings and to send two people to the hospital. peggy fox caught up with some of the survivors. >> it was so scary like i didn't even know what was going on. >> reporter: 15 girls were practicing their stunts when the lights went out. moments later most of the cheer fusion cinderblock building they were in came crashing down. >> it was unbelievable. i didn't think it was real

but how are other americans and people such as mark twain per seeping the statue that had yet to be realized? what was some of the other buzz on the american scene? >> yeah. there was a fair amount of skepticism about the statue. i said the editorial in the "new york times," and there were certain religious figures who thought that the statue of liberty was a pagan image and so they -- they worried about that, and -- and there were a lot of others who just didn't understand why you would build a classical greek goddess in new york harbor. americans in the 19th century didn't do that sort of thing. they didn't build big monuments. this was a country whose economy was just beginning to develop in the second half of the 19th century was exploding. but this was a practical place where people were incredibly hard at work building an economy from scratch, and they weren't stopping to commemorate things, and when they -- when they did, it took a long time, and it was a hard process. it took something like 40 years to build the washington monument, and this was to the greatest hero in american histo

your mark twain summer retreat. buildings were damaged and hospitals were put on disaster status. to see how bad it was, look at this video. thousands had to break out candles when lightning cut power to their homes. utility crews are working hard to turn electricity back on. >> after spending the entire morning at the gilroy garlic festival at think we will be able to smell him when he gets back >> the one day i forgot my breath mints. it is all about the garlic here, if you want to head out to the festival there should actually be some really nice weather. very cloudy headed out the door this morning. bristle at the coast line with temperature's mainly in the fifties. in the afternoon, rather mild temperatures for this time of year. '50s and '60s with patchy fog out the coastline but it should be a great time out here. look what liam has just given me. you are safe, i have minutes ready to go. >> we have been doing great with the traffic this morning. so far, no metering lights and no delays so obviously a lot of people are sleeping in or taking today off because there is no tra

mark twain famously said there are three kinds of lies. lies, damned lies and statistics. reacting to the third kind of untruth with statistics like today's drop in retail sales. a numb

>> governor, i want to read this mark twain quote.d of clark, he has said to have bought legislatures and judges by other food. by his example, he has so excused and sweetened corruption that in main tanna, it no longer has an offensive smell. >> good old days. >> that's mark twain on senator william corporal. but i guess the question here is how much of that was the context of the time? you made a key point that gets into the discussion we're having. he went to the senate and the senate refused to see him and, of course, all those other senators bribed their way into the senate, as well, though with slightly more obscure and tactical means. i think the debate we're having at the table is precitizens united to post-citizens united is it a difference in degree or a difference -- >> guilded age? you're calling that the guilded age and this is not? they were pipers compared to what we're doing now. in 1977 congress passed legislation the ford act. walmart got into big trouble because they went down to mexic could build a walmart where pe

they really do call the commerce department statistics into question and do seem to go with the mark twain thesis. the scandal of the whale that swallowed jamie, as in jamie dimon, dominated the report from jpmorgan. i would rather focus on the credit card and a small business and medium businesses were. the amazing part came from the commentary about the strength jpmorgan saw here during the month of june. i thought june was terrible. retail spending and lending were the bright spots and the numbers were even more spectacular when you consider how weak investment banking and m & a were. jpmorgan saw strong sales in the areas that would most impact consumer spending. the most remarkable quarter came from wells fargo. now the largest and most aggressive lender in the united states. it's got the pulse of the consumer like no other single most important sales category out there. that's the sale of homes. do you know wells fargo has more than 30% of the mortgage market? that's unheard of in a company where the limit for one bank's tentacles in housing. we never let a bank get this powerful. th

with your father, there is, there are a couple of points in the book where you are that kind of mark twain experience where your father got a lot smarter between your ages of 17 and 21, right? >> right. >> and i think one of them is your father was cautioning that during the political changes when there was, there were glimpses of openness from the communist authorities, your father was cautioning you not to jump in. and i think the translation was something like the first bullet hits the head of the flock or something like that. >> right. >> so talk a little bit about that, how you changed your view of your father during the writing of the book. >> yes. that, actually, when, during the writing of the book my views toward my father, including my grandmother and mother, changed dramatically. that's something i really didn't expect. it's like a therapy session. when you walk in there, you have one set of views, and by the time the book ended, i just totally saw things differently. like originally i saw, when i was trying to write the book, i just saw my father as a very tragic figure because

it turns out as mark twain said, the reports of the deaths of boeing, caterpillar, broadcom, pepsico,anera, whole foods -- they were indeed greatly exaggerated. let's take a question. >> a big biting phils back to you from huntington valley, p-a! [ applause ] >> that could be my long-time friend steve-arino. thanks, steve. >> could a change in washington in november end splitting up the big banks trump the europe debacle and move the markets up? >> i don't think splitting up the big banks would do anything. the banks we like, steve, are the regionals. the other guy is not that consequential. yes, if we got anything but stalemate in washington, any sort of compromise, i have to tell you, we'll go to new highs so fast your head will spin which is a reason i don't want people to sell everything. stranger things have happened than politicians getting together to do the right thing but it seems like a long shot. thank you, steve. yes, sir? >> hey there, jim. a big back to you to you. question, molly corp. spiralled out of control. is it going to rebound? >> that's a rare earth company and

six houses were evacuated near the mark twain national forest. crews rushed to put out the flames. the christian county fire sparked yesterday as a grass fire and quickly spread to trees. the blaze appeared to be out this morning. but fire personnel are remaining at the site to monitor that area. >>> a public transportation bus plows into a line of cars in texas. take a look. the startling video shows the bus for disabled passengers, slamming into five parked cars on the dallas north tollway. two people are recovering in the hospital with nonlife- threatening injuries. the driver is facing charges and is on paid administrative leave. police are investigating. >>> a hospital is putting a hold on organ transplants after a serious mistake. methodist dallas medical center, accidentally gave a patient who was not next in line, a new kidney. apparently, it was an radmin -- administrative error, by a long- time employee. more than 200 patients are on the texas hospital's kidney and pancreas transplant list. >>> in tonight's wjz healthwatch, millions of

. >> and missouri, the city of hannibal, once home in mark twain, celebrating national tom sawyer dayfestivities including fence painting and frog jumping just like in the classic novel. whoa, kids trying to make their frogs jump as far as they can, one making it eight feet. that's a fox watch across america. we are told it's the next best thing to being there. nasa releasing breath taking photos, the first of its kind to mars and australia is facing backlash, after dropping god and to the pledge of allegiance. >> it's a christian nation and we largely support our government and should be replacing that in their oath. at tends to stay at rest... while a body in motion tends to stay in motion. staying active can actually ease arthritis sympto. but if you have arthritis, staying active can be difficult. prescription celebrex can help relieve arthritis pain so your body can stay in motion. because just one 200mg celebrex a day can provide 24 hour relief for many with arthritis pain and inflammation. plus, in clinical studies, celebrex is proven to improve daily physical function so movin

. >> in huckleberry finn, mark twain wrote about the stars.p at them and discuss whether they was made or just happened. why is it important to understand the universe? >> well, on a day-to-day basis it is not. we can live our lives, you can be born, live your whole life, and die not knowing anything about what a star is, what a galaxy is, there are planets going around the sun. you would be fine. people do that for hundreds of thousands of years. man kind is a curious beast. what its our place? how do we fit in? what makes this whole thing tick? how does it change with time? at least i want to know those things. i can't believe people aren't curious and dying to know why we're here. >> reporter: the telescopes, high in the chilean dertz asert in a place named by the ancient. the people used to come and pray to the earth mother. and this is the place where their dreams and prayers took flight. socrates said man must rise above the earth to the top of the atmosphere and beyond. for only thus will he fully understand the world in which he lives.

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