and this is racism and one uncle thomas and saying if that was offensive, i didn't know what uncle thomas meant. >> so what did it mean? what did he think it meant. he went to harvard. >> he was a history major. >> does did he not go to literature. >> justice thomas turned his back on american rights. >> i meant he was a racist and not a racist. i am glad he clarified. >> it is unbelievable how justice thomas gets every time he issues a decision that the left think is not fair. >> and the immigration bill tomorrow. and senators have yet to read

thomas to discuss the case. we believe we have made some extent moot some of the penalties that are here in this appeal. the one thing that we are confused about and we are having difficulty with were illustrated by some of the exhibits in the packet. i have pulled them out separately for your examination. i will show what you they are. basically, on one of the items that's involved in the appeal here, it's called violation 241 because those of the last two digits of the complaint numbers. this is involving the stairs of the subject property. this is in march of 2011. the building owner took the steps to fix that by getting a building permit and paid $2300. in january of this year, this work was approved and is cleared and got a certificate of completion. two months after that, this permit approval was revoked which means penalties continue to accumulate on this even though the work has been done and an approved and the reason why because of the gerard unit is on appeal. >> thank you. >> there is no question fro

thomas doesn't resist t. drive back to the station uneventful, except for one brief exchange. >> at some point in that time frame, mr. thomas made a comment, i can smell the fear on you. officer witt replies with i'm not afraid of you. >> witt, a 17-year-old veteran doesn't think much of the comment. >> it's not uncommon for someone we are going to arrest to act tough and want to say things while they're in handcuffs and you take the handcuffs off of them like you would do in the booking area and rarely follow through with everything. >> after removing the cuffs, the officer moves behind the counter. what happens next catches witt off guard. >> he jumps over the counter right at officer witt. >> leaping nearly 4-feet in the air. he attacks mr. witt. >> he resecures his pants, moves back to get himself in position to go over the counter. so it's clearly thought about. it's not just something that happened. >> officer witt fends off his assailants a slams him down on the floor. >> he pushes his hands forward to

i thought it all went well, i know we'll have an item for meredith thomas, and so i will withhold my comments about that until then and that concludes my comments. >> is there any public comment on this item? being none, public comment is closed and we're on item , the general manager's report. >> good morning, commissioners, today is a busy day for the recreation and park department at city hall and in addition to today's commission meeting we're presenting our budget downstairs. and a number of other items, pieces of legislation, associated with the budget. so if i get up in the middle of this report, because i have been summoned down there. before i start, i want to wish you actually an early happy recreation and parks month. as you know, july is recreation and parks month in the united states of america. since 1985 america has celebrated july as the official recreation and parks month and we want everyone in san francisco talking about what they love about their recreation and parks and why it's so vital in their lives. so not only hosting the most exciting events of the year, am

today thomas got a chance to absolutely unleash on race-based college admissions. he wrote a hung dinger of concurring opinion that basically compares anyone who supports affirmative action with the worst racists and white supremacists in our history. "slave holders argue that slavery was a positive good that civilized blacks and elevated them in every dimension of life. a century later segregationists similarly asserted that segregation was not only benign, but good for black students. the university's professed food intentions cannot excuse its outright racial discrimination any more than such intentions justified the now denounced arguments of slave holders and segregationists." so while today was not the day in which the supreme court killed off affirmative action higher education, it was the day in which one of the court's most conservative justices made it plainly clear how determined he is to end the practice. and keep in mind, he has allies both on this report, and as we reported here in the greater conservative legal movement. joining me to discuss, the di

thomas was not hurt. many years leader thomas's son, abraham comer risen higher in the world than any member of the lincoln plan could never have dared imagine what call this story the legend more strongly than all others in printed upon my mind and memory. abraham lincoln namesake of his murdered grandfather would never say much about his own early years in kentucky and embarrassed into a lifetime of silence by his family's shiftless less than the poverty come in yet this story of his grandfather killed by indians was told often enough in enough detail but indians longtime partner collecting books worth of reminiscences of the late president was able to record no fewer than six versions from four different colors all second and third hand accounts tracing back to thomas or mordecai. like so many pieces of frontier color, the tale of death and the attempted abduction was the story of the westward expansion. tightly intertwined with breathless assumptions about the savagery of indians and the march of civi

thomas powers. our focus is on virtual retreats. tell us what that would be like. >> the jesuit retreat center is specific speciality and it's difficult to pinpoint it to a few words. they said find god in all things. so ron, his whole focus was to not have people just be private prayers but people who prayed and went out into the world to do good. >> i mentioned to you our retreat tmethodist men, we wanted to be active in our world along with the spiritual growth. >> right. jesuit spirituality, it's meaning less if you go and nothing happens that you take with you when you leave the property, when you leave the retreat. you come on the retreat to recrate, refresh, to become more centered, to be more in touch with god. >> all of that has to be a focus to go out into the world. >> do you know about the spiritual retreats of sainting nachos. in its primary form it would be a 30 day silent retreat. i've done it twice so i can tell you it's not impossible. that's not checking your e-mail too. when we do the spiritual exercises at the je

thomas and thank you mr. rose for being here. we have an agreement for the department. motion to accept mr. rose's -- >> i may ask that we add and the department include language and provide a copy of the contract when it becomes final. >> we can do so. any comments from the department about that. i assume that's a standard procedure. we can add an additional amendment. so we can do mr. rose's an amendments and the amendments articulated by the clerk. >> before we -- >> we can accept those oppositions without move. >> i actually -- i appreciate the last comments from mr. giver and from mr. rose as well. i do not believe we have a real modified emergency here especially because of lag time that came between discovery and when emergency was really declared and when work was actually performed. i think there was probably assessments made by not work. and an emergency would require something a that would be much more immediate in the response from the city. so i just want to make sure -- i'm not sure how we beef up our abilities to -- when we declare -- from the time when w

simply build better whistleblowers one of those men he mentioned is actually joining us right now thomas drake former n.s.a. senior executive and whistleblower of warrantless spying along with just one radar whistleblower and national security director for the government accountability project thank you so much both of you for taking the time thank you for so have not it's been a whirlwind couple of weeks for you guys and thomas i'll start with you daniel ellsberg of course with the most famous whistleblowers of all time said that this was the most important week in american history do you agree with that sentiment just sort of why because we're seeing the contours of an extraordinary systemic leviathan surveillance system that is now worldwide in scope. and how is prism different than true blaser of the program that you expose in two thousand and nine that actually you were charging the espionage act for well prism none of this is surprising me but prism is an extraordinary revelation in terms of actually seeing a document that demonstrates that there is a collusion between the u.s. gov

thomas sowell where are clusters -- intellectuals clustered now? all differences between groups or presumptively by others and it is impervious to evidence but the housing situation, when they discovered for prime mortgage loans were turned down come instantly to the media decided that if you look at the same data from blacks and whites for asian-americans and undermines it so completely. for example, when blacks were turned down at a rate nearly double of whites, at the very some time white to return dawn double that of asian-americans. moreover, black owned banks turndown blacks at a higher rate than the white banks see find it very hard to reconcile with what they believe but there is a tendency for the intellectual to find numbers they don't go any further. which undermines the whole argument. >> host: in your book you talk about the factor of the motion to talk about race. how do you get rid of that factor or can you? >> guest: you can to a great extent so one thing i have noticed around the world is people of different races get along togethe

msnbc's thomas roberts has been digging in. thomas, what's coming up? >> reporter: well, that is a great question about that super bowl ring and vladamir putin is the subject of a lot of breaking news this afternoon, especially concerning the private meeting he's having with the president right now concerning syria. putin backs bashar al assad. the president now saying he'll send weapons to the opposition. we'll break down that meeting, and what else is going on at the g-8 summit in northern ireland? ♪ [ engine revs ] ♪ [ male announcer ] just when you thought you had experienced performance, a new ride comes along and changes everything. ♪ the 2013 lexus gs, with a dynamically tuned suspension and adjustable drive modes. because the ultimate expression of power is control. this is the pursuit of perfection. [ roars ] ♪ [ roars ] ♪ [ roars ] ♪ [ roars ] ♪ [ male announcer ] universal studios summer of survival. ♪ >>> welcome back to this special edition of "street signs." let kick it over to msnbc's thomas roberts for a look at what's making headlines a

that was attorney thomas wilner. while one of the most fundamental rights our founding fathers considered sacred in the u.s. is of course the first amendment but our nation's history is filled with one example of another of these rights being limited constrained questioned or downright ignored for one set as sample the residents laurie harvest. last year a twenty two year old man from connecticut named william barboza was caught speeding in the village of liberty new york he wasn't so happy about it but he pled guilty to the speeding ticket and mails and it's fine to express his unhappiness so he included a note with his payment which had a few swear words on it i can't tell you exactly what he wrote but it amounted to i put your expletive down expletive event crossed off the town's name of liberty and wrote in tyrannies as a result the county that issued the ticket rejected his payment and guilty plea and ordered barboza to appear in a liberty court so he traveled from his home in connecticut to show up back at libe

but justice clarence thomas, he came out.ith a written opinion where he actually compared affirmative action to segregation. he wrote, and i'm quoting from his writings, the university's professed good intentions cannot excuse its outright racial discrimination anymore than such intentions justified the now denounced arguments of slave holders and segregationism. judge clarence thomas compared people that supported affirmative action to slave holders and segregationists, jeff. >> he did. it's a remarkable opinion, and it's not the first time he has made this comparison. in previous decisions he said i believe there is a moral and constitutional equivalent because the arguments for affirmative action and the arguments for slavery and segregation. what does he mean by this? he says that the segregationists also said that segregation was good for african-americans, would avoid racial tension, would prepare african-americans to be leaders. and he said these are just the same arguments people are making for affirmative action toda

thomas drake and william binney. in 2010, the obama administration charged drake with violating the espionage act after was accused of leaking classified information to the press about waste and mismanagement of the agency but the charges were later dropped. william binney worked for almost four years at the nsa. he resigned shortly after the september 11 attacks. he was concerned increasing surveillance of americans. we are joined in studio by shena. first, can you talk about the significance of what has just been revealed? >> we it had stories including one in usa today in may 2006 that says the government is collecting basically all of the phone records from large telephone companies. what is significant about yesterday it is the first time we've seen the order to really appreciate the sort of staggering and broad scope of what was approved and the first time we cannot confirm this was under section 215 of the patriot act, which has been dubbed the library because people were most worried about the idea they could

and if you want more detail, we have the engineers from matt thomas here that can answer na question if you like. on april 30th, the successor agency's board ~ approved an moa with the authority for conducting the completion of the design and for reimbursing the authority for this work. ~ na, that and this amendment is required under that contract to add the $123,000 and extend to july 2014 completion of the project. as mentioned earlier, all the costs of the project will be reimbursed by the successor agency so it's no prop k money, no authority money will be used for this on this project. and finally, this contract has a 235% dbi goal and this has exceeded that at 28%. so, that concludes my presentation. i'm happy to answer any questions. there are representatives from mark thomas here and also the redevelopment agency or the successor agency to the redevelopment agency to answer any questions you may have. >> i have a question for the representative from the successor agency. thank you. hi, how are you? >> hi. >> maybe you can describe to me a little about the financing. i underst

i don't mean to lump thomas hardy in with these other people. he didn't have some sort of weird fetish about a celebrity body part. he actually had a serious scientific purpose, to figure out what made einstein very smart. first thing he did, he took out of the brain and he waited and that is where the first disappointment started because the average human brain waves are around 49, 50 ounces, something like that. einstein's a great weight in at 43 ounces so he was actually about two standard deviations below normal for of human brain size, had a very small brain. thomas hardy kept going, took a lot of black and white pictures of it and talked of rain up into little pieces. you can see some examples right there and put them in kind of this hard plastic coating, basically shellacked them to preserve them for future generations and when he have all the pieces, he started putting them in mayonnaise jars and mailed them out to neurologists around the country and asked them to examine them and so he wanted to know what made einstein special, what set

letter from marolyn allen & thomas church, requestors, asking that the board take jurisdiction over bpa nos. 2007/12/12/0282 and 2007/12/12/0285, which were both issued on april 24, 2012. the appeal periods ended on may 09, 2013, and the jurisdiction requests were filed at the board office on may 29, 2013. permit holder: adil shaikh. project, 1st permit: demolition of one-story, single-family dwelling. project, 2nd permit: construction of four-story building with four-dwelling units. >> item 4b: jurisdiction requests: subject property at 353-355-357-359 san jose avenue. letter from marolyn allen & thomas church, requestors, asking that the board take jurisdiction over bpa nos. 2007/12/12/0282 and 2007/12/12/0285, which were both issued on april 24, 2012. the appeal periods ended on may 09, 2013, and the jurisdiction requests were filed at the board office on may 29, 2013. permit holder: adil shaikh. project, 1st permit: demolition of one-story, single-family dwelling. project, 2nd permit: construction of four-story building with >> item 4b: jurisdiction requests: subject property at 353

garvin thomas has the story that will make you bay area proud. >> reporter: to tell the story of the saving of jack london state historic park, one needs to start on a horse. one that, in the late 1980s, carried chuck levine on his first visit to the park, on his second date, with his future wife. >> i remember the trail up to the lake was a beautiful trail. i remember the historic buildings and being amazed at the architecture. >> reporter: it was the beginning, it turns out, of two long-term relationships. chuck eventually retiring from a high-flying career in the telecommunications industry to a home right next to the park. >> we spent a tremendous amount of time in the park. i'm probably in the park at least four or five days a week. when i'm in town probably seven days a week i'm in the park. >> reporter: jack became a member of the valley of the moon natural history association. a friends of the park, if you will. although when news hit in 2011 that jack london was one of 70 parks the state planned to shut for budget reasons, the park needed more than just a friend. >> there wa

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thomas, you have benefited so much from a program over time.want to deny so many other people the same benefits of that. and quite frankly, i think it's a fair question. >> a fascinating read. thanks to the panel today. great to have all three of you here. >>> a new republican led push to ban abortions at 20 weeks hits the house. we'll get reaction from congresswoman jackie speier who talked about her own abortion two years ago. >>> and the woman that edward snowden left behind, she calls the self described nsa leaker a man of mystery on her blog and it seems to be accurate. can his girlfriend help provide any answers. how many simple ingredients does your dog food have? 30? 20? new purina one beyond has 9. the simplified purina one beyond. learn more about these wholesome ingredients at purinaone.com the day building a play set begins with a surprise twinge of back pain... and a choice. take up to 4 advil in a day or 2 aleve for all day relief. [ male announcer ] that's handy. ♪ >>> the republican led push to ban abortions at 20 weeks have onc

simply build better whistleblowers one of those many you mention is actually joining us right now thomas drake former n.s.a. senior executive and whistleblower of warrantless spying along with just a whistleblower and national security director for the government accountability project thank you so much both of you for taking the time to shoot it thank you for which i have not it's been a whirlwind couple of weeks for you guys and thomas i'll start with you daniel ellsberg of course when the most famous whistleblowers of all time said that this was the most important leak in american history do you agree with that sentiment that sort of life because we're seeing the contours of an extraordinary systemic all of our survey. system that is now world wide in scope. and how is prism different than true blaser of the program that you expose in two thousand and nine that actually you were charging the espionage act for well prism none of this is surprising me but there's an extraordinary revelation in terms of actually seeing a document that demonstrates that there is a collusion between the u.

thomas you've only got a 3 unit building here this permit says 4 units. oh, my god i thought it was resolved. this is going to a legal unit and maybe somebody didn't get the memo. so any way i you can help me i appreciate it >> can i just clarify one thing i released that the lawsuit the code enforcement in my office was taking care of that. >> i think we have a comment from the deputy. >> there is a standard for - the appellant could go to the fourth floor and do a 3 hour report and he could a appeal the 3 unit and heel meet with a member of staff that will be on the 3rd floor. that member of staff will make the determination of how many units and if we agree with him there's evidence of the fourth unit i'll go to planning and that's how the process works. and he'll get a clear process of how many units there are >> that's what the appellant did do. >> so obviously - i would like to make a motion to continue this for one month and just vote on that. if we have to vote let's vote and i second that motion >> on the question what is to happen in this one mo

thomas, let me start with you. when the news broke that the agency you used to work for, the nsa, was spying on its own citizens and collecting massive amounts of data, everything from our phone calls and photos that we take on our iphone, everything, how surprised were you? >> not at all. >> you were not surprised. >> no. it's become routine. we now have a systemic institutionalized surveillance system on an industrial scale. >> so this massive collection of data, we're told, don't worry about it, nobody's actually looking at all that stuff. how confident are you that nobody is looking? or let me ask you this, can they look at it if they just wanted to one day? >> yes. because they've collected it. >> so it's collected, it's stored. if somebody wants to say, wonder what old mike huckabee's been googling one day, they can find out? >> it's extremely tempting to do so especially when you have everything about you in your entire life. an index of your digital life. >> who can keep someone from going in and looking at

dee dee do you believe that karen thomas wasclarence thomas was the most qualified judge when they nominated. >> the most amazing thing that happened in that courtroom today if you were able to see any accounts that took place was justice alito when justice ginsberg read her dis dissent. he was sitting there laughing at her. justices don't act like junior high kids in the court. >> john: we see this from alito. >> never have we seen a justice do this in court. >> because's rude doesn't mean he isn't right. >> john: let me play devil's advocates because what she said is what many americans believe. we have a black president. racism was killed in the 20th century. rick as a white male how do you respond. >> i think affirmative action has a place particularly in academic institutions. the day will come, hopefully that we move to a point that we don't need it. i think we're closer than 20 years ago but i don't think we're there yet. >> if a corporation has two-ply can'ttwoapplicants who are equally qualified. >> it's difficult for two candidates to be equally qualified. it shouldn't be on skin c

i'm thomas roberts and topping the agenda, spying on your e-mails and internet searches and you name it, the nsa can see it, and now we are learning that they have direct access to nine major internet companies including google, facebook and apple. it is part of the top secret program code named prism. these companies deny knowledge of the nsa's operation, and apple saying it has neverç hea of it, and facebook, we do not provide any governmental organization with access and google saying it does not have a backdoor for the government, and here is the guardian's glenn greenwald who broke the story. >> there is a massive state that the u.s. government has built up that has extraordinary imxlagsings for how we live as americans and in the country. >> james clapper reacting with this quote, information collected under this program is among the most important and valuable foreign intelligence information that we collect. and this is senator angus king on "morning joe." >> we ought to have an open debate and people should have a general idea of what is going on and argue about it in wheth

. >> item 4, [speaker not understood] services contract with mark thomas and company incorporated 123,0 70 to a total amount ton exceed [speaker not understood] for the folsom street off ramp realignment project and authorizing the executive director to modify noncontract terms and condition. this is an action item. >> great, thank you very much. good morning. >> good morning, chair cohen, commissioners. my name is luis [speaker not understood], project management consultant to the authority. the folsom rams project is a project that is part of the transbay redevelopment program. the purpose of the project is to realign the off ramp at folsom and fremont. as you see in this -- as you see in this drawing, the ramp on the right side crosses the whole block 8, making it hard to develop that block. and, so, the purpose of this project is basically to realign the ramp, having the ramp that now goes to folsom run parallel to the one on fremont. [speaker not understood] as shown in this drawing. in september 2007, the san francisco redevelopment agency entered into an agreement with the author

>> this video captured by mark andrew thomas. the fellow are you looking at is george. a 12-foot alligator, a local favorite with tourists in the arthur marshall animal rescue in florida. george comes to this area, waits for fishermen to throw him fish. he doesn't even hunt. people will just feed me. when another alligator wanders into the area, watch what happens. >> what? >> oh, good. that wasn't the other guy under the water, it was him under the water. they all look alike. >> george, see his eyeballs. >> dips your honor tunder the w. >> this other one not looking around. peacefully laying there and boom! >> came up from him junior neath him. >> george does this quite a bit. doesn't eat them, doesn't bite them, just surprises them. pranks them. >> scares the alligator tail off of him. >> he sure does. >> funny that even other alligators are afraid of the alligator. the big 12-foot alligator. >> tell how much big george is. >> i love this sneak attack. you see their eyes, go your honor watunder water. something you could see in a disney movie. >>> a pair of videos tha

thomas, let me start with you.n the news broke that the agency you used to work for, the nsa, was spying on its own citizens and collecting massive amounts of data, everything from our phone calls and photos that we take on our iphone, everything, how surprised were you? >> not at all. >> you were not surprised. >> no. it's become routine. we now have a systemic institutionalized surveillance system on an industrial scale. >> so this massive collection of data, we're told, don't worry about it, nobody's actually looking at all that stuff. how confident are you that nobody is looking? or let me ask you this, can they look at it if they just wanted to one day? >> yes. because they've collected it. >> so it's collected, it's stored. if somebody wants to say, wonder what old mike huckabee's been googling one day, they can find out? >> it's extremely tempting to do so especially when you have everything about you in your entire life. an index of your digital life. >> who can keep someone from going in and looking at tho