>> this is called rah, rah, rah ♪ (applause). >> thanks everybody.ake sure you come even when there is not a band here. ♪ >> the person i am excited to meet her. her book is called, my miserable, lonely lesbian pregnancy. please, partake our free pens. andrea. >> thank you for wearing my buttons. it comforts me to see sad faces. my miserable, lonly lesbian pregnancy. tonight i am going to read, to snip or not to snip. >> conception. i drive to the california cryo bank. there's no waiting room. just a glass window. a woman changes me $350. a vile half the size of my pinkie encased. this way up. i head to the clinic. i carry the sperm box inside. it's unwieldy. this is my second attempt. so i know the routine. the first time, i brought my friend. even some crouch shots. most people don't get good shots of conception. i feel confident this time, like i'm doing my part in the world. the war in iraq started. may be this kid will be a piece maker, a modern day jesus christ as this jew understands jesus. i don't know what does. week 21, everyone thinks i'm

and maybe this time the corps pock rah si won't be able to take over and hijack this thing, and people will be able to use the internet. and by the way, all these other cost, too, you could have a radio station with a web site, you can make movies now with little cheap cameras that look pretty good, you know? maybe find that the cartels won't run things. >> a fabulous question. and in some ways that is the big question at the center of this book. you know? is the history destiny, or is it, can in some ways things be different? my point would be not assume things are going to be different because some things have changed, and some things haven't. some of the things that have changed are that the internet itself is fundamentally a communications network. the protocols are opened, they're not owned by anybody. investment structures are different, challengers of the monopolists can get funding from the industry, and as you write about, often credit was used to starve challengers. and i don't think we also just socially have the same worship of size. you know, i think in certain periods of

the huge cuts coming to the troubled social networking site when we come back. ,,,,,,,, complex in rah ey.. >>> welcome back. 4:41. we have breaking news. these are live pictures of a massive fire at a condominium complex in new jersey t broke out early this morning at a three-story building. firefighters are having difficulty attack the flames. you can see the top of the structure completely engulfed. the fire closed part of route 27. no injuries record but calls of the smoke smell were coming as far as manhattan. again, this is in new jersey. a huge condominium fire right there. >>> 4:42. controversial smartmeters are on the agenda today for the marin county board of supervisors. the board is considering a one- year moratorium on smartmeters installation. now, this comes after dozens of neighbors in west marin protested the wireless meters last week. two women were arrested for blocking the road to inverness preventing smartmeters trucks from getting in. protestors say the health effects of the meter are untested. >>> seven insurance companies are suing toyota to try to recover damag

question, and i think that the courts are going to be the ultimate arbiters, of course, they usually rah. and i find it very interesting that both congress and the administration tend to ignore the courts a little bit until they're pretty far down the road and the courts come down with a hammer. so, you know, for instance, that's, you know, a very important question when it comes to net neutrality. as i said, we're going to be going to the courts over that issue. i think it'll be, you know, interesting to see how it comes out. i'm not so sure the courts are going to give the fcc what they want. >> guest: before i went to congress i actually worked at the fcc, so i took to heart the provision in the commune caigs act that basically says the fcc can do whatever it wants in order to regulate interstate communications. and, of course, then i went up to congress, and it's a different story. the congress committees are actually unusual committees if this that their role is spelled out this constitution which is not very typical. but the ability to regulate interstate commerce is spelled out in

>> well, they knew clap rah tiff tension -- collaborative tension, and we know collaborative tension. [laughter] but it's a good thing. madison was less easily upset than jefferson was. jefferson, you see the emotionality in his correspondence. sometimes madison had to quiet him down. madison had one particular dislike. he generally, like will rogers, didn't dislike people, but there was one particular dislike, and that was john adams. he detested adams for years and years, and this was the one cantankerous member of the founding generation who jefferson was always ready to make amends with. so there's another interesting triangular relationship there. >> yeah, i think in terms of madison's views toward the people, i mean, i think this is one of the things we have trouble understanding. he wasn't anticipating democracy. and, you know, one of the debates that he carries on in the federalist papers has to, there's an anonymous writer in new york known as brutus who really believes the representatives have to be closely influenced by their constituency. madison was uncomfortable with tha

it's been tight and rah cheted up.here's such a high level of ocean mowingses -- emotions on this after every level. even on capitol hill, lawmakers are intalking about introducing various bills to -- to you know, the larger ellipse that can hold bullets that had been banned up until 2004. they are looking for that, not only personal -- in addition to the personal security for the family of congress. >> i'm sore for mispronouncing your name earlier. thank you for that report. >>> secretary of state hillary clinton arrived in yemen. her announced visit is designed to strengthen american ties with a fragile ally that's fastly becoming the focus of counterterrorism attacks. >>> and today, vice president joe biden is still in afghanistan. he's making a stop at a military training center in kabul. the vice president is reviewing the efforts to prepare afghan forces to take over from the u.s.-led coalition in afghanistan. >>> earlier the vice president met with general david petraeus. biden arrived there secretly yesterday.

otherwise you look up and you have a rah rah moment because you got somebody black in the white house but your economic conditions did not improve. your social condition did not approve. so the president has work to do, but i am also hopeful that with two more years ago he can get something done. >> i am from the university of san diego. i know john boehner and the republican party mention that there would try to make congress more transparent to the american people. i was wondering if you think this transparency would affect the relationships between congressmen and the policies they choose to pursue? guest: i hope so. you can never ever have enough transparency in government, especially in democracy, and especially the way our government works. so much that happens in washington is unknown by the american people. i heard speaker boehner say that. it is a good idea for government to be more transparent for us, but i laugh at the number of people in washington who vote for legislation that they have not read. they do not know the details in the legislation their passing. it is not jus

. >>> in san francisco, police rah investigate -- are investigating the fatal stabbing of a man on markettreet. they were called to market street yesterday afternoon. the victim, an unidentified 5 had-year-old man, was rushed -- 54-year-old man was rushed to hospital but he passed a way from his injuries last night. police arrested his roommate, an unidentified man in his 40s. he reportedly confessed to the stabbing. no word on what triggered the incident. >>> we're also getting new details about the man and woman whose bodies were found inside this house on saratoga's w allbrook drive. the bodies were found during a welfare check just before 1:00 yesterday afternoon. the names of the victims have not been release. but neighbors say they were quiet and they kept to themselves. how the couple died. that's still being investigated. santa clara county authorities say there's no threat to public safety. >>> it's 8:32. in just about half an hour, phase ii of a major renovation project will begin around the cable car line in san francisco. crews will begin upgrading the aging system under the c

it seems to me that's a huge change there the spirit of the neuter rah which was i -- era which was i am the leader of this, i'm going to centralize powers in the speaker's office. frankly, this freshman class wouldn't put up with it, and john boehner knows it. >> ken, one of the things people are talking about is this visual that's going to happen during the presidential state of the union address in january when a republican house which in all likelihood will have voted to repeal his health insurance reform will be sitting in the audience while he delivers the state of the union address. does this signal a kind of hostility that's going to prevail, do you think, or is there some basis for agreement? >> right. well, from the white house perspective i was actually here covering the white house during that period gail was talking about when the democrats lost control of the house and senate, and then president clinton had to deal with the opposition party. just a moment on that. that was the era when clinton had to decide whether he was going to go back to what he campaigned as which w

communities along the borders are highly militarized as we know that in abyei, but also the baa forward rahre highly militarized. they have been used, abused during the last wars. militias, popular defense forces, and they were, like, the front line of the regime the last 20 years in fighting the war against the south. highly militarized. so this kind of policies in the last weeks meant some people and analysts in sudan to describe like this kind of policy direction from the ncp rather than from the government. it's a sort of like soft touch or the freshest steps to sort of on ethnic cleansing. and now it is debatable because that's a legal term. but when you deny your own citizens the right which is actually in the constitution of sudan, it says that sudan allows dual citizenship. sudanese can have citizenship of other countries and can even the president does not have the right to remove the citizenship of a person even by internationalization. and international law also doesn't accept that. so what i think it is important now for the north and south is to secure that strategic relationsh

communities along the borders are highly militarized as we know that in aei, but also the baa forward rah e highly militarized. they have been used, ased dung the last wars. militias, popular defense forces, and they were, like, the front line of the regime the last 20 years in fighting the war against the south. highly militarized. so this kind of policies in the last weeks meant some people and analysts in sudan to describe like this kind of policy diction from the ncp rather than from the government. it's a sort of like soft touch or the freshest steps to sort of on ethnic cleansin and now it is debatable because that's a legal term. but when you deny your own citizens the right which is actually in the constitution of sudan, it says that sudan allows dual citizenship. sudanese can have citizenship of other countries and can even the president does not have the right to remove the citizenship of a person even by internationalization. and international law also doesn't accept that. so what i think it is important now for the north and south is to secure that strategic relationship to ge

communities along the borders are highly militarized as we know that in abyei, but also the baa forward rah are highly militarized. they have been used, abused during the last wars. militias, popular defense forces, and they were, like, the front line of the regime the last 20 years in fighting the war against the south. highly militarized. so this kind of policies in the last weeks meant some people and analysts in sudan to describe like this kind of policy direction from the ncp rather than from the government. it's a sort of like soft touch or the freshest steps to sort of on ethnic cleansing. and now it is debatable because that's a legal term. but when you deny your own citizens the right which is actually in the constitution of sudan, it says that sudan allows dual citizenship. sudanese can have citizenship of other countries and can even the president does not have the right to remove the citizenship of a person even by internationalization. and international law also doesn't accept that. so what i think it is important now for the north and south is to secure that strategic relation

communities along the borders are highly militarized as we know that in abyei, but also the baa forward rah are highly militarized. they have been used, abused during the last wars. militias, popular defense forces, and they were, like, the front line of the regime the last 20 years in fighting the war against the south. highly militarized. so this kind of policies in the last weeks meant some people and analysts in sudan to describe like this kind of policy direction from the ncp rather than from the government. it's a sort of like soft touch or the freshest steps to sort of on ethnic cleansing. and now it is debatable because that's a legal term. but when you deny your own citizens the right which is actually in the constitution of sudan, it says that sudan allows dual citizenship. sudanese can have citizenship of other countries and can even the president does not have the right to remove the citizenship of a person even by internationalization. and international law also doesn't accept that. so what i think it is important now for the north and south is to secure that strategic relation

another thing expected today is an honor of bar rah mcculls kentucky. a headline today, the senator is now the longest-serving senator. there's an expectation she'll be honored as such on the senate floor today. we have about five of six minutes until we bring you live coverage from the floor of the houps. on the phone with us is a gentleman by the name of bill jarle. when the republicans took control the last time around in the 1994 election was very instrumental in helping them understand all the things necessary for transfer of power. he's on the line with us right now. thank you for your time. guest: thank you. you're doing a great job today. host: what do people need to know about the orderly transfer of power in the house of representatives? guest: it's very historical, a peaceful transfer of power and the one difference between this year and 1994 is that you have a very experienced speaker coming in who went through many of the ups and downs of minority and majority, remember in 1995, folk nickly, when we came in, we hadn't been in power over 40

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. ♪ ♪ >> this is called rah, rah, rah ♪ (applause). >> thanks everybody.sure you come even when there is not a band here. ♪ >> [applause]. we have a very special guest. [inaudible] is here with us tonight. [inaudible] dancing. step dancing which we are familiar with. you may have seen this before. this will be a treat. [applause]. >> someone once told me this was from scandanavia. this is a different version. about 2 sisters that fall in love with the same guy. it didn't work out too well. one of the sisters throws another one into the raging water. he fashions her body into a fiddle, into a violin. this is the actual violin. i love her so much. [singing] [music playing] [applause] [music playing]

. ♪ ♪ >> this is called rah, rah, rah ♪ (applause). >> thanks everybody. you come even when there is not a band here. ♪ >> welcome to "culturewire." for the past year, the arts commission has been participating in the city's effort to revitalize the central market street corridor. in addition to the thursday arts market and are in store front, the art commission recently launched the artery project. for the next year, the artery project will bring energy and excitement to market street, recalling the st.'s heyday as san francisco's vibrant and bustling theater district. >> un.n plaza during business hours seize hundreds of passing office workers and students, but the activity winds down at 5:00 every day. theater productions bring some but traffic, but central market is more of a thoroughfare than a destination after the sun goes down. on december 9, the artery project's launch brought a party atmosphere to market street, led by mayor gavin newsom, city officials flipped the switch on three new art installations that light up the st.'s architecture. a loop