nation under god? >> guest: that's a great question. it depends on who you ask. a lot of people believe we been a nation under god. recent polls show 55% of americans have believed that from the get-go. for the way to think about whether we're a christian nation, the center point to come in the ceremonies we invoke a recent inventions. not from the founding fathers, but her own grandfathers in the lake were really invented in the revolutionary era, but the era of the cold war. all the things we take for granted now. national day of prayer, national prayer breakfast pledge of allegiance, in god we trust, all of those are inventions of the 19th east. why? >> as we were fighting the godless communists in the soviet union and america got religion. so just invented all of these new phrases and mottos and slogans that distinguished it as an atheist of the soviet union. there is a factor but it's a minor one. the new story takes place in the foreign policy but domestic policy of the 1930s. it comes from not foreign-policy issues, but domestic politics for a revolt agains

his book one nation under god. as he concludes in the book history reminds us ever legend is in large member and invention of the modern era purpose of this is booktv on c-span2. >> of vampires and citizens pro-american democracy or none at all. professor of politics at princeton professor start with a question that you risk on the back of this book which is why has democracy been slow in the middle east and arab world? to make it tackles the question head on i try to take on those academic explanations as well as the more popular explanations of why it. but start with a popular explanation. people say there's something unique about the religion or culture of islam that has prevented true democracy in the region but i engaged this seriously in the book there is some truth to that a look at the record but that the number of muslim countries worldwide outside the middle east easily 60% have democratized. >> host: give me an example. >> turkey, indonesia, their muslim majority countries but when you look at countries

and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god indivisible with liberty and just as for all. [cheers and applause] >> thank you. thank you for the sacrifices you've made.

nation under god? >> guest: that's a great question. depends on who you ask and in what sense. a lot of people believe we have been nation under god from the very beginning. recent poll show that 55% of americans have believed that from the get-go. we have been a christian nation. the ways in which we think.whether or not we are a christian nation, the signs we point to the symbols think ceremonies we invoke, those are actually recent inventions. they come not from the founding fathers but from our our grandfathers and grandmothers and fathers and mothers. they were invenned in the ear raf to the cold war. all the thing wes take for granted now know national day of prayer the national prayer breakfast, the addition of "hurt god" the he pledge of allegiance and in galled we trust. all inventions of the 1950s. >> host: why? >> guest: the original thought is it was about the cold war that america got religion fighting the god laws communist so invented new phrases and mottos and slowing ganz to distinguish us from the athiests of the soviet union. the fact is -- the real story is a

devices may we all rise for the pledge of allegiance and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all madam president i'd like to take roll and please do inspector. >> commissioner president loftus commissioner turman commissioner marshall commissioner dejesus is in route

>> america and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. >> roll call commissioner president scott commissioner lim sfgovtv.org supervisor farrell commissioner ferrigno we have quorum oh, commissioner shlain is excused we have quorum thank you secretary now have action item one. >> thank you i had to turn on the microphone it item one approve the minutes so on and so forth below regular meeting of march 12 special closed session appeal on april 2, 2015. >> i would ask the board any amendments or edits or changes to the minutes as distributed. >> i hopeful to approve is interest a second. >> second. >> public comment? we're ready to proceed to the vote all opposed by the same sign opposed? and so ordered a we're now ready for action item number two. >> two. >> item two discussion item general public comment not appearing on today is agenda is there must be comment. >> good afternoon, commissioners excuse my voice it's allergy we know know this is an item stone the agenda having to with the ma pd plan i've been getting calls

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gentlemen, please join us in the pledge of allegiance and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all okay. >> madam clerk any communication. >> yes. madam president two communications dated march twhith one from supervisor yee they'll not been able to attend and request to be excuses eye is there a motion to excuse supervisor mar and supervisor yee we'll take that without objection. those two are excused okay and colleagues before we move on supervisor christensen i see you think the roster supervisor christensen do you have comments. >> no. >> colleagues, any changes to the march 24th seeing no changes a motion by supervisor farrell and seconded by supervisor campos we'll take that without objection. those minutes will be approved after the minutes public comment. >> after public comment. >> madam clerk call the first item. >> item one an issuance to amend the administrative review for the balboa rectify to advise the mayor and board for any promoted development burglary the public lafrndz and setting forgot the duties of advising commi

. >> flag of the united states of america and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. >> welcome everyone roll call commissioner makras commissioner cohen commissioner meiberger commissioner stansbury we have quorum is present. >> great, thank you i'll open up for public comment. >> good morning commissioner i'm patrick shaw i'd like to wish you a happy first anniversary the first conflict of interest ethnics complaints against wendy commissioner paskin-jordan was filed on april 3rd, 2014, i've wondered lastly about filing a missing persons report against board he's not investigated her conflict of interest commissioner paskin-jordan said into a video youtube she's aggregated fund with her firm to reach the $10 million threshold for her gm o investment and the ethnics complaint alleged who emotional did they aggregate funds from f is this board allowing a miss b of a commissioner to go unchecked that will be viewed as an enforcements of misconduct truly commissioner matthew's understand this commissioner paskin-jordan lan

you please join me of the united states of america and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all tonight we have a very full agenda and the board has a closed session meeting following the full board meeting i'm going to limit the public comment to no more than 10 minutes total and each individual speaker no more than one anyone minute per persons for 10 persons to address the agenda items and for the issue of teach for america i'd like to allocate 10 minutes per side with one minute per person i apologize to those who are not compromised to public comment you've welcome to provide our written statements to the clerk and i want to remind members of the public if you wish to speak tonight you are asked to complete a speaker card prior to when the item is called and provide to the executive assistant speaker cards will not be accepted think an item before the board a couple of changes the authors in the district e equity assignment it will be held at a future meeting and we have an agenda item renaming the wing of sunny elementary to r

allegiance to the flag of the united states of america and to the republic, for which it stands, one nation, under godsible, with liberty and justice for all . thank you madam clerk are there muneications? >> no communications. ei would like to acknowledge we are joined are by supervisor kim and cohen. can you please reads the agenda >> item 1-6 are considered rutune unless a member objects a item may be removed and considered separately >> any other items from the consent agenda? seeing none. call athe roll >> 1-6 supervisor tang. aye. supervisor wiener aye. supervisor yee. aye. supervise rb [inaudible] supervisor christensen aye. supervisor co00, aye. supervisor ferrule. eye. supervisor kim. aye. supervisor mar. aye. mar aye. there are 11 aye's >> thete items are passed and approved >> item 7 is ordinance to authorize the department ofnology to enter into agreement of the city and att of suvss of extending the agreement to the nob nub 98 million >> colleagues can key take this item same house and call? >> this item is finally passed. >> item 8 is a ordinance to amend to code for provide procedures f

you please see rise for the pledge of allegiance and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all madam president i'd like to call roll. >> mr. do. >> commissioner president loftus commissioner turman is excused commissioner marshall is in route arrest commissioner dejesus is excused commissioner mazzucco commissioner hwang commissioner melara we have quorum madam president also is the chief chief greg suhr. >> do we have a representative from the office of complaints. >> take a look around. >> welcome everyone to the mark 25 police commission i see a lot of folks from the neighborhood wanted to well, you all we had this meeting every fourth wednesday we go out to a different station we're going to talk about what we do we don't do that normally in city hall but we have have day jobs and people that care about public safety so thank you all for being here i'm going to start off by telling my commissioners he at the conclusion of that meeting saddling i'll ask we adjourn in member of santa fe police officer michael johnson was killed t

devices may we all rise for the pledge of allegiance and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all madam president i'd like to take roll and please do inspector. >> commissioner president loftus commissioner turman commissioner marshall commissioner dejesus is in route commissioner mazzucco commissioner president fong commissioner melara madam president you have a quorum and with us is the chief of police kwhoufr and joyce hicks. >> good evening to everyone and those watching welcome to the april 8, 2015, police commission meeting inspector the first line item. >> the consent calendar received and file action. >> request of the chief of police to accept a donation of 25 hundreds from boston properties for the special partitioned bureau request the chief of police to accept a 10 year old quarter hours for booze utilization by the mounting unit. >> colleagues you'll see two items for consideration on the consent calendar which the inspector has laid out i'll note not bans of caution one of the donation is signatory is john laughing ton t

allegiance, to the flag of the united states of america and to the republic for which stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. >> thank you everyone. madam clerk, are there any communications. >> today we have communication dated yesterday from supervisor john avalos. stated he will not be in attendance today and request to be accused. >> is there a motion to excuse avalos. without objection, supervisor avalos is excused from today's meeting. madam clerk, are there any changes to the agenda? >> i have no changes. >> can you please rate the consent agenda. >> items 1 through 12 comprised consent calen der. >> supervisor campos. >> thank you, i like to remove item 10. >> okay. seeing no other names on the roster, please call the roll on remaining items. >> supervisor campos. >> aye. >> supervisor christensen? >> aye. >> supervisor cohen. >> aye. >> supervisor farrell. >> aye. >> supervisor kim >> aye. >> supervisor tang. >> aye. >> supervisor breed. >> aye. >> these items are passed unanimously. madam clerk read item number ten. >> it's an ordinance to modify the

allegiance to the flag to the united states of america and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. >> thank you very much. madam clerk are there any communications? >> there are none today madam president. >> colleagues any changes to the board minutes? so seeing no changes do we have a motion to approve. moved by supervisor kim and seconded by supervisor tang with no objection and those will be approved after public comment. madam clerk will you read the consent agenda. >> items 1-3 are considered routine unless a member maybe removed and considered separately. >> colleagues anyone want to remove any items from consent? seeing none madam clerk can you call the roll on the consent agenda. >> on items 1-3. supervisor yee. >> aye. >> supervisor avalos. >> aye. >> supervisor breed. >> aye. >> supervisor campos. >> aye. >> supervisor christensen. >> aye. >> supervisor cohen. >> aye. >> supervisor farrell. >> aye. >> supervisor kim. >> aye. >> supervisor mar. >> aye. >> supervisor tang. >> aye. >> supervisor wiener. >> aye. >> there are 11

you please see rise for the pledge of allegiance and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under godd justice for all madam president

one nation, under god, indivisible with liberty and justice for all. i respectfully said to you that on this past friday that liberty was compromised. snatched away. for a person of the dr. q like yours truly. at 2:15 pm in the afternoon, at a solemn sacred and sad moment when deacons of officers of 3rd baptist church recessed out of the sanctuary 2 of your officers came to our fellowship called hall after they had told one of my deacons -- and here's her tonight forgot begin fred thomas he can stand up there in the back -- and said, we got a complaint. that you are drummers are making too much noise. it has come to the point in this town that certain people can have their chinese new year and there's no pejorative statement against the chinese they drums, firecrackers, and noise everywhere. when the -- have their event the inconvenience us in our sacred worship. when you have the gay pride parades, the same is done. when we have fleet week airplanes are flying all over the place keeping out noise but at 215 p.m. when people are in a state of sadness an

allegiance to the flag of the united states of america, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible with liberty and justice for all. >> please be adviced that the ringing of and use of cell phones, pagers and similar sound-producing electronic devices is prohibited at these meeting. please be advised the chair may order the removal from the meeting room any person responsible for the ringing of a cell phone, pager or other similar electronic device. please be advised a member of the public has 3 minutes to make pertinent public comments on each agenda item unless the chairman orders a shorter time. open for public comment. anyone wishes to comment please come forward. seeing none, public comment is now closed. >> item 9 a, executive director's report. >> good afternoon, commissioners, port staff, members of the public, thank you for joining us here today. it's a beautiful day and hopefully a wonderful giant's game this evening. i have a few items to report. the first is that on march 26, just last month, the port, together with the iwu and a number of beloved friends a

. >> flag of the united states of america and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under goddivisible, with liberty and justice for all. >> welcome everyone roll call commissioner makras commissioner cohen commissioner meiberger

allegiance to the flag to the united states of america and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. >> supervisors -- [gavel] ,. [gavel] you're out of order ma'am. you're out of order. we are conducting a meeting. you're out of order. >> [inaudible] >> sheriff, deputies, can you please clear the room. we will take a five minute recess. [gavel] ,. [gavel] >> thank you everybody. colleagues. thank you for your patience. we're back in session. welcome to the members of the public and we got as far as the pledge of allegiance and now bee will move on to communications. madam clerk are there any communications? >> i have no communications madam president. >> okay. colleagues at this time are there any changes to the minutes of march 10? seeing no changes i do have a motion to approve the minutes? moved by supervisor tang. seconded by supervisor campos. without objection these meeting minutes will be approved after public comment. [gavel] madam clerk can you please read consent. >> items 1-4 are considered routine unless a member objects and