i may child of the post office. ew up in the time when post offices were very excite in places because we got our mail and that changed our lives. because i grew up in a british colony, it was also the place that controlled cables and telegrams. i was a junior, junior, 4 -- correspond when i was 16 and my assignment came by cable which i got in a box at the post office or went sometimes five times per day to see if there was some excitement from london or new york, something to be doing. this was in africa. i kept in that sense of magic and excitement and life changing. i was not somebody who's only telegram was to announce a death. in the united states, the telegraph and telegrams, cables etc were run by western union, not the post office but still the post office was what anchored a small town and was a source of lovely things like magazines, like changing letters, correspondence, wondrous things -- a very special place for the post office and for the unfailingly nice people who carried the mail. the letter carrier

>> look, you can't just junk the post office. it is value in what the post office has. s worth a lot. you can't just junk it you get a christmas card every year. the union contracts are a problem. you need to rip them up. but not junk the post office. >> you can send christmas cards for free on the internet. >> it is not the same. >> according to mickey. >> no, it is not the same. you will not stamp out the post office. but we should privatize the post office so it does compete and remove the monopoly on first class. and what happened with the s&l. they allowed them to go to businesses and taxpayers were stuck with a loss. >> gen. privatize the post office. >> no, i don't think the answer is in congress. the inspector general said that congress overcharged the united states postal service for retirement benefits. why not pay it back. it would solve the problem. >> the post office needs to be privatized and david, you made a mistake. brains and autobail outs in the same segment. >> fordepive me. >> this guy is coming in to save union jobs. general motors is the bottom of

post knobs. this happened on a last week's flight from al salvador. they cut a notch in the bed post and found half a pound of coke worth $17,000. we are learning more about the woman accused of stabbing another woman outside a target store in mitchellville and her past is pretty sorted. a similar accident back in 2005. and in that case, she served 16 months after chasing several women inside the montgomery county nordstroms and stabbing two of them. police tell us the victim in today's case is in stable condition. >>> women at the suitland metro station are breathing a lot easier tonight after they made an arrest in connection with the two recent sex assaults near that station. the two attacks both happened early in the morning. the two female victims were both headed to the metro when they were robbed at gunpoint and then sexually assaulted. the suspect, 30-year-old phillip flemming is now being held without bond. >> friends of a gaithersburg man who died mysteriously in rockville earlier this month say they want to make sure no foul play was involved. 37-year-old benoit h

because unions are not increasing the cost and when you go into a post on this gotten you never had to wade into this or do always know you has the most obvious would have a lot of billion dollars surplus it in the black every year until this happened in tel they put this in since one nine hundred seventy three when they changed the law saying the post office from fund itself through postal stamps has been in the black and in two thousand and seven the first year that this law was in effect they were in the red for the first time ever in that period they have been in the black and they've it nobody ever thought but the post office they could make it through rain sleet or snow would be tripped up and killed off by the republican party if it's in the constitution well i mean the only authority we have to build roads is because they can have the money was a huge postal strike with a national guard was. every male and that's why nixon in congress had to take it sort of out of its constitutional place where it was no longer a cabinet position and it has been changed since then that that ref

join the post season debate at mlb fan cave.com and follow the action on twitter, hashtag post seasons are born in october. rick porcello trying to throw his name on that list with a job he is doing here tonight. the bottom two in the line-up. david murphy first up. murphy doubles. his first time up. 1-1. in the air to left. murphy is 2-2. so the lead-off man is on. the number nine man, yorvit torrealba walks in. >> joe: tying run at the plate. torrealba pops it up. santiago has the one out. [ applause ] now back to the top of the order and ian kinsler. here is the night for kinsler. grounded to third. grounded to short. great news from california. bryan stow, the firefighter who was beaten at dodger stadium at the beginning of the season was released from the hospital. he was put in rehab facility, so he is making progress. >> tim: that is wonderful. >> joe: that story gets better and better. an awful situation. a shot down the line. off the bat o of kinsler. murphy digs and comes to the plate. delmon young trouble in the corner. it's 2-1. >> tim: that is a great play by third base c

no at-bats in the post season and you have yorvit torrealba on the bench, 4-12 in the post season. three catchers. that was an opportunity for ron washington to tie the ballgame. he wasn't able to do it. >> a.j.: you make great points about the bench. we talked about the bullpen and starting pitching and which would use the starting pitching. chris carpenter quality starts. six innings, two runs. we talked off-camera earlier, this was huge for the cardinals. why? they have their ace on the mound and he did it tonight. he was awesome. chris carpenter you stepped up big-time and got a win if the team and for the st. louis cardinals. tomorrow it's on jaime garcia to continue. if cardinals lose tonight, they are in serious trouble but they won. we'll have a great series now. >> chris: the bullpen was huge. five games came out of the pen. three scoreless innings, allowed one hit. a few moments ago, our ken rosenthal caught up with the new version of the beard in the 2011 playoffs, jason motte. >> ken: thanks. jason motte, first world series, first world series save. what was it like bei

and again at the bottom, is that printed from the post office 94133. and my friend even put the last four digits and that still did not give it to me any sooner. i would really appreciate clearing this up. because it causes a lot of problems. there are a couple other cards and never received, and i suppose they're floating around there someplace. it would be great to have this straightened out. thank you. >> to get afternoon, supervisors. my name is ray stewart. i live on the great highway and have been there since september 1989. briefly, i want to run through six items that i hope will help you make a decision to go forward with the change to great highway. there is a long-term precedent that has been established by the u.s. postal service in terms of delivering mail their. up until 2008, all of my mail was delivered to me at the great highway address. after that, the post office spent me a notice about changing and started this whole process. so the u.s. ps has established a precedent already, and they're the ones initiating the change at this point

the 1-1. strike two. kinsler meanwhile has five rbis this post season. e run. >> tim: a home run in clincher against tampa bay where adrian beltre hit three home runs. the 1-2. >> joe: a high hop. gets the out. another ground-out. good start for porcello. back to the hill and harrison. bottom of the third. no score. [ engine sputtering ] ♪ ♪ [ dennis ] allstate wants everyone to be protected on the road, whether you're an allstate customer or not. ♪ all you have to do is call. [ female announcer ] call allstate now and you'll get a free lifetime membership in good hands roadside assistance. [ dennis ] shop less. get more. make one call to an allstate agent. some vehicles sacrifice luxury to improve fuel efficiency. but the jeep grand cherokee uses advanced technology. like the quadra-lift air suspension that lowers the vehicle at highway speeds to improve aerodynamics and deliver a more than 540 mile driving range. so you can raise your standards while lowering your fuel consumption. ♪ deep voice: ♪ i love that talk ♪ when you talk like that so, yes? ♪ ho

the post-racial does not exist. applause] post-racial suggests race does not matter or maybe it suggests that racism is behind us, that sort of thing. this does not exist in so the word for something that's not really does not exist. post-blackness deals with the complexity of what it means to be black. i think occasionally use the post-racial and art. it does not exist in the real world, but an art. we see an example of gray's anatomy were black, latina, asian, white, but she can switch any characters in it wouldn't matter. race doesn't matter in that little world. but in the world like chapelle show, which is dealing much more with what the real world is all about, race matters deeply and you see the complexity of modern race at play. >> you say in the book and for those of you haven't read it, she gives an entire chapter to dave chapelle and the chapelle show and it's the clearest example of post-blackness on television. >> it's an incredibly complex show. we see the racial morphine in the real world. we see multi

. >> jonathan capehart of the "washington post" and msnbc. thanks very much for joining us tonight. >> thanks, lawrence. >>> the rachel maddow show is up next. >> good evening, lawrence. thank you. thanks to you for staying with us the next hour. if you have the kind of job where you have to ask for your days off a long time in advance or need to make family travel plans for next year, i have good news from today's news. we can get your election year calendar locked down. now, on friday, as we reported on friday, the state of florida decided to move its republican primary up. they're moving it up really early to january 31st. then after florida made that announcement, like dominos falling right into your winter plans, the other early primary and other caucus states have followed suit and moved up their likely election dates as well. here's how it looks right now if you want to make a note of it. the iowa caucuses are mostly going to be held on either january 2nd or january 3rd. the new hampshire primary will probably be held on january 10th. n

he resigned from the post in august. he was a world renowned charismatic manager who was responsible for the success of best-selling products like the iphone and the ipad. >>> one of the most powerful politicians in japan is going on trial in an hr. former democratic party leader ichiro ozawa is facing criminal charges in connection with a political funding scandal. it's extremely rare for a powerful politician in japan to face criminal charges in court. security is tight in and around the tokyo district court. in a park next to the building, many people gathered for the chance to win seats for the public gallery. ozawa is accused of falsifying financial reports. the charges are in connection with a $5.2 million land purchase made by his political funding organization. three of his former secretaries includiing tomorrow o hiro ishikawa were also caught up in the scandal. a lower court found them guilty last month. the case is focused on whether ozawa conspired with and gave instructions to his former aides. he's consisten

no at-bats in the post season and you have yorvit torrealba on the bench, 4-12 in the post season. e wasn't able to do it. >> a.j.: you make great points about the bench. we talked about the bullpen and starting pitching and which would use the starting pitching. chris carpenter quality starts. six innings, two runs. we talked off-camera earlier, this was huge for the cardinals. why? they have their ace on the mound and he did it tonight. he was awesome. chris carpenter you stepped up big-time and got a win if the team and for the st. louis cardinals. tomorrow it's on jaime garcia to continue. if cardinals lose tonight, they are in serious trouble but they won. we'll have a great series now. >> chris: the bullpen was huge. five games came out of the pen. three scoreless innings, allowed one hit. a few moments ago, our ken rosenthal caught up with the new version of the beard in the 2011 playoffs, jason motte. >> ken: thanks. jason motte, first world series, first world series save. what was it like being out there on the mound? >> player: awesome and even better to get the win. just

i think the post ended up with kind of a black eye on this one. >> bill: okay. now, we have seen this with john mccain in 2008 where the "new york times" blew up this lobbist relationship that he had and, of course, nothing came of that now we are seeing the "the washington post" with rubio and this and that. so, you know. viewers might say, look, it's a liberal play to get the conservative. and you say? >> well, what i would say about that is, you know, that's not exactly how any of them want to express it to each other, the "new york times" or the "the washington post." a reporter gets a tip on a story like this. this guy rubio is flying pretty high and playing up do you cuban background and trying to make out his family fled castro and that's a big part you can sort of argue to himself of his whole image and whole persona. here are facts that dispute that. that's pretty interesting stuff. it would appeal to you. if you heard the same story about somebody who you were sort of personally nor sympathetic too, it might not sound as good a story. bias is insidious

howard fineman of "the huffington post" and john heilman of "new york" magazine. thanks for joining me tonight. >> thanks, lawrence. >>> coming up, rick perry's new campaign crisis. could the title written on a rock at the entrance of a ranch be the end of a presidential campaign? >>> and later the occupy wall street protesters spread across the country. in new york demonstrators got a visit from the former chief economist of the world bank. the nobel prize winning professor joseph stiglitz. he will join me later to explain what has those protesters out there in the street. that's coming up. >>> coming up, race and politics. texas governor rick perry has knocked off whatever he thinks his message is while trying to explain away the racist name of the ranch his family leased. jim moore joins me. >>> and later, herman cain gets another straw poll win over the weekend. where does he go to celebrate? yes. trump towers. "hey wrinkle face!" that's what people could say if you're still using a liquid foundation that can settle into your lines and wrinkles and make you loo

howard fineman of "the huffington post" and john heilman of "new york" magazine. thanks for joining me tonight. >> thanks, lawrence. >>> coming up, rick perry's new campaign crisis. could the title written on a rock at the entrance of a ranch be the end of a presidential campaign? >>> and later the occupy wall street protesters spread across the country. in new york demonstrators got a visit from the former chief economist of the world bank. the nobel prize winning professor joseph stiglitz. he will join me later to explain what has those protesters out there in the street. that's coming up. the postal service is critical to our economy-- delivering mail, medicine and packages. yet they're closing thousands of offices, slashing service, and want to lay off over 100,000 workers. the postal service is recording financial losses, but not for reasons you might think. the problem ? a burden no other agency or company bears. a 2006 law that drains 5 billion a year from post-office revenue while the postal service is forced to overpay billions more into federal accounts.

the eighth home run this post season. for nelson cruz. a 6-4 lead in the seventh. >> joe: that ties a single post-season record with number eight. here is beltre's shot to right center. napoli. strike one. >> tim: hanging breaking ball to nelson cruz. hit in the third deck here at busch. >> joe: one ball, one strike on napoli. back-to-back home runs against lance lynn to start the seventh. the rangers have their biggest lead in the night. >> joe: here is a 1-2. napoli takes inside. 2-2. now this post season, eight home runs, that ties the record. barry bonds in front of beltre. bonds in '02. beltran in '04. >> joe: on the outside corner, one away. >> tim: good part of the plate to get napoli. two-seam fastball. lynn finally has been out in the seventh. >> joe: now murph murphy. >> joe: bounces in. ball one. >> joe: darren oliver is the left-hander. goes up on the count, 2-0 -- murphy goes up on the count, 2-0. derek holland who got out of the bases loaded jam in the bottom of the sixth inning by getting jon jay on deck. that's ball three.

we are outside the main d.c. postwhere an elderly woman tried repeatedly to get a refund for a money order that may have been stolen by a postal employee. it appears now she will get the refund. >> i trusted the post office. i did not think they would treat me this way. >> last year, the 87-year-old wanted to send a $120 money order to were grandson. she went to the post office in southeast and says she bought it filled it out. >> i asked her if she would mail it for me. i wanted to go out the same day. >> she had to pay $5 to trace its. >> if you want the truth i think the money order was cashed by someone in the post office. >> despite the documentation when she went back -- >> the manager told me i could not do anything about it. i lost $120. >> when we ask postal officials about it, a spokesman said, no comment. there was an active investigation. the postal service says she will get a refund. why has it taken so long? >> i have been researching that today and i cannot give you a definitive answer. the good news is

governor perry told the "post" his parents painted over the rock. quoting now, perry's version event differs from different people who spoke in detail of their memories of seeing the rock with the name at various points in which perry was associated with the property. what did perry's campaign do? they said more or less the same thing to the rest of the press governor perry told the "post" in the first place. maybe they were hoping governor perry's plan for invading mexico would take over the mood cycle instead and everybody would forget about the racial slur ranch thingy. >> it may require our military in mexico working in concert with them to kill these drug cartels and to keep them off of our border and to destroy their networks. >> while the invasion of mexico thing is a bold, bold plan, did not make the entirety of the beltway media forget about the giant "washington post" story about the perry hunting camp with the racist name painted on the rock. one of the governor's rivals for the republican nomination, herman cain, was a guest on a couple

yeah. >> tim: we welcome you to the jeep post game show. d the game you just saw, auburn beat south carolina. what an upset. and spencer, this really opens the door for georgia as a possible championship opportunity in the east. and florida in the mix, but the loss for south carolina puts them in a position, they could lose another game. they have to go to tennessee and arkansas and you think about that, here's georgia. >> spencer: and all made possible by michael dyer, 141 yards. and lutzenkirchen with the big play in the end. and "big plays, big daze" that's what they got. >> tim: and lutzenkirchen, you mentioned him in the pregame and he was huge. and reminder, alabama and 12th ranked florida. >> the rival over the past few years has been as heated as any rival in sports. >> anything can happen. they make big plays and we do and it's a crazy game. it's the s.e.c. showdown. >> the two programs have wonderful traditions, both. they go way back and have had really, really great football games, especially the two that we had in the s.e.c. cha

"the washington post" with "for gadhafi, a bloody end in libya." e "chicago tribune" went, "with gadhafi gone, libya exhales." the always tasteful "new york post" had "gadhafi killed by yankee fan," gunman had more hits than a-rod. and it showed gadhafi's killer wearing a yankees cap. it's all true. there were still questions about the sequence of events that lead to gadhafi's death. many are handing credit to this 20-year-old member of the rebel forces. there he is. and now for the big number. did you notice that each of those headlines went with a different spelling for the former libya leader's name. does it start with an "a," a "k," a "g" or a "q"? and does it end with a "y" or is it an "i"? and there's quite an arrange of options for his first name as well. in his 40 years as dictator how many english translations of moammar gadhafi's name have popped up? 112. that's just in the english translations. the library of congress alone lists 72 of them. 112 right ways or wrong ways to spell moammar gadhafi. that's tonight's big number. that's "hardba

one issue is that people were using the post office box, and listing the post -- post office box as anit, rather than an actual address. there were incidents where we found that the address -- after the investigation we saw this was a post office box. in time could be said for the business owners. >> thank you. seeing no questions, we will openness for public comment. >> good afternoon. ♪ ask a parking patrolman. i don't want to pay that fee. can't you see. i want to park this car but you can do something in between parking patrolman, i'd like to park my car. you can ask supervisor eric mar. beep beep beep beep yeah beep beep thank you ♪ >> is there anyone else from the public to would like to speak? public comment is closed. can we move this forward without objection. and are there any other items before us? the meeting is adjourned. >> sfgtv, we are ready to begin. >> good morning today is wednesday, october 19, 2011. this is a regular meeting of the building inspection commission. at this time, i would like to remind everyone to please turn off all electronic devices the first item

now, the "huffington post" has in the terror deuced a new platform written by and for baby boomers. 50 launched today and joined now by the co-founder and editor-in-chief of the "huffington post," arianna huffing ton, of course, editor at large of huff post 50,ing an tore and producer, rita willson. rita, you say in your first editorial, if you reading this without glasses, consider yourself lucky. what is it about everything that happens to us after 50? >> well, that's true. i don't know anyone who has been blessed to not need any kind of glasses after the able of 40. but i think that's humorous because it is something that people have in common. but arianna is -- and very had a really great time coming up with the many ideas that we will have on here. because look, in my parents' generation, after 50, you were winding down. and everybody i know seems to be winding up. there's just so much to do and so much to explore. and so many interesting ways to reinvent yourself. >> you say you chose rita wilson to be your editor there, arianna, saw her at aim 49, the first time, singing and d

and in washington, eric wepple, reporter and media critic for the "washington post." message saying the reason i didn't talk about this on last week's program was my corporate overlords prohibited it. i wasn't sure it was that big a deal. were the media too slow to pick up on the sfloifts. >> right. i argue that they weren't. that a protest needs to prove itself. >> there are protests all the time. >> right. these protesters, happened to their credit, to be savvy on social networks. they're able to build their own protests. the media can come in. i don't see a huge problem the way keith olberman did and others did with the media blackout. i didn't see a huge problem with the protest, proves itself, generates headlines, doing thing that turns some heads. then the media can jump in. i think that's the system working, not the system broken. >> sharon when we come backman, i've read various manifestows that purport to describe what the protesters want. they're against corporate greed and corrupt milk ruining -- setting the policies of the nation. i think people are confus

yesterday, "the washington post" revealed that the hunting camp was, quote, a place known by the namearge flat rock standing upright at its gated entrance. now, because of our standards and practices here at nbc, we are not allowed to actually speak that word. i wouldn't want to speak that word. we're not even allowed to show it to you in print in its entirety although it does appear in print in its entirety in "the washington post" on sunday and in "the new york times" today. it's very easy to find this word out there. the revelation has rocked the presidential campaign. here's republican presidential candidate herman cain on fox news sunday. >> that isn't a more vile, negative word than the "n" word. and for him to leave it there before they finally painted over it is just plain insensitive to a lot of black people in this country. >> perry's campaign immediately replied with this -- mr. cain is wrong about the perry family's quick action to eliminate the word on the rock, but is right the word written by others long ago is insensitive and offensive. that is why the perrys took quic

the eighth home run this post season. for nelson cruz. s have a 6-4 lead in the seventh. >> joe: that ties a single post-season record with number eight. here is beltre's shot to right center. napoli. strike one. >> tim: hanging breaking ball to nelson cruz. hit in the third deck here at busch. >> joe: one ball, one strike on napoli. back-to-back home runs against lance lynn to start the seventh. the rangers have their biggest lead in the night. >> joe: here is a 1-2. napoli takes inside. 2-2. now this post season, eight home runs, that ties the record. barry bonds in front of beltre. bonds in '02. beltran in '04. >> joe: on the outside corner, one away. >> tim: good part of the plate to get napoli. two-seam fastball. lynn finally has been out in the seventh. >> joe: now murph murphy. >> joe: bounces in. ball one. >> joe: darren oliver is the left-hander. goes up on the count, 2-0 -- murphy goes up on the count, 2-0. derek holland who got out of the bases loaded jam in the bottom of the sixth inning by getting jon jay on deck. that's ball

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c-span: why the saturday evening post? and, you know, it's now still around, and it's--i think they even still call it the curtis publishing company based in indianapolis, but it's a monthly and it doesn't have anything close to the circulation it used to have. >> guest: well, you mean, why did he choose the post or why was it so viable then? c-span: how did that work out and what happened to the--what happened to the--you know, at what time was it a prominent magazine? >> guest: right. c-span: and what happened to it? >> guest: around the time that rockwell was born in 1896, the post had--it had been struggling, and it actually started out as benjamin franklin's gazette--pennsylvania gazette back in the 1700s. and at this point, when rockwell was born, it was struggling for its very existence and curtis--cyrus curtis brought in someone else, george horace lorimer, who took it over and revitalized it. c-span: where was it based? >> guest: it was based in philadelphia--in philadelphia at this point. so about--it's important

post-blackness is dealing with the complexity of what it means to be black. i think occasionally you see post-racial in art. it does not exist in the real world, but in art. so you see an example of it in grey's anatomy. but you could switch any of those characters' races and the storylines would be the same. it doesn't matter that -- >> race doesn't matter. >> race doesn't matter in that little world. but in a world like chapelle's show which is dealing much more with what the real world is all about, race matters deeply, and you see the complexity of modern race at play. >> and you say in the book, you devote -- for those of you who vice president read it -- haven't read it, you devote an entire chapter to dave chapelle, and you say it is the clearest example of post-blackness -- >> on television. >> on television. >> yeah, yeah. it's an incredibly complex show. we see multiple ways of performing blackness within one person. because a lot of times in television they'll present a hoodie black person and a preppy black person, and they present the two modes of

he has been good out of the pen this post season. here is victor martinez. >> joe: swing on a borderline pitch over the inside corner. hit .500 this year with the bases loaded. >> terry: you can see he doesn't want to throw the fastball. he wants it to have some kind of cut to it. >> joe: detroit down by two. fifth inning. game one. strike two. [ applause ] >> terry: got to believe he's pitching right now to save the game. he has to be one hitter away from just -- with righties on deck, they've got to be thinking about going to ogand ogando. >> joe: bases loaded, one out. that gets away. here comes austin jackson to make it a one-run game. 3-2, as that one got away from the catcher napoli. >> terry: that changes the sequence. where is the infield play? you have good speed to third. >> joe: it's scored a wild pitch. that ball hit the glove before it hit the dirt. one run game, second and third, one out and a 1-2 count. >> terry: even though victor is down in the count, this is where he is so good. he puts the ball in play here. >> joe:

congress acted and passed the post-katrina emergency management reform act. ive years after the passage of that legislation, think we can all agree that fema's implementation of the legislation is a mixed bag. improvements were made but challenges remain. i'm pleased that administrative view cadiz here today to report on both the improvements and the remaining challenges. i look forward to hearing his testimony. but before we get to mr. fugate i want to take this opportunity to talk about disaster relief. and i hope that we can all agree that funding for disaster relief should never be held hostage to local ideology. when hurricanes, wildfires strike a community, it does not ask about party affiliation. this is why i was troubled to read that some on the other side of the aisle are now accusing this administration of using the federal disaster declaration process as a way to turn low-cost storms into federal disasters. instead of addressing the underlying needs to assure adequate money in the disaster relief fund claims are being made that they act of declarin

new tv commercials for the u.s. postr carriers are reliable and that paper mail can't be hacked like an e-mail. the ads will run at the same time as the current comic tv campaign for shipping with the post office. >> what is it? just return it. returning gifts is easier than ever with priority rate boxes. if it fits, it ships anywhere in the country for a low flat rate. plus i can pick it up for free. >> perfect, because we have to get that out of this house. >> come on. it's not that bad. oh, yeah, that's got to go. >> joining me from washington is ed o'keefe who covers the postal service and other stories. ed, good morning to you. >> good to see you, alec. >> you as well. why do they need the commercials right now? they come at a price. >> they do come at a price. only about $145 million a year they spend on -- research suggests that there are people out there who still very much value snail mail and the security and reliability it provides. so what they believe is that if they start writing these ads which are in a se

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