well, that's a big disappointment, frank. oh, well.cause, she said, regretting it already, i was rather hoping you'd make the keynote speech. really? absolutely. i can say with total honesty, frank, that no one gives a speech like you. i really don't know what to say. in that case... i'd love to come. good. good. but you know, i can't think when i've been so honored. i can think of five occasions when i was almost as honored. after the suez crisis, i-- stop right there, mister! you've got to get home straight away and finish that speech, haven't you? off you go. try to make it shorter than the domesday book. yes. ha, ha, ha. yes. i've got to escape. nothing is ever going to change in this village. i have got to escape. david: good evening, vicar. merry christmas. i think you're in for a very special evening. ah, good. oh, interesting banner. "ten glorious ears." yeah, the "y" fell off. i was hoping you wouldn't notice. shall we go in? well, alice is just bringing the children down. they wanted to say congratulations, but they're only l

even on the well. whenever government says they're going to keep you safe get ready because you get their freedom. well it's that time of year again when millions of americans raced to the malls in search of the hottest trends last minute shopping seems to be on the minds of many people around washington d.c. today the average american spends about six hundred fifty bucks during the holiday season that's according to the american research group that amount is down just a smidge from last year but not much the hard ticket item this season nike's new air jordan price at one hundred eighty bucks a pop and the release of those shoes caused quite a frenzy among shoppers across the country and seattle police broke up a fight by dousing over one hundred shoppers with pepper spray the all too familiar scene similar to last month's black friday sales but as a mare millions of americans that line up for a pair of kicks there's another line growing packed with the same sense of desperation but for a hot meal peop

workshop as well. the third one with wiggle i think is a quite interesting one. we don't have a wiggle in the netherlands. we don't need a wiggle in the netherlands. but i -- i thought what an interesting word that is, wiggle. where does it come from? is it a san francisco-invented word? so i looked it up yesterday in the oxford dictionary. to my surprise i found the origin of the word "wiggle" is in dutch. sorry about that. it's to wiggle. to move to left to right. that's something we do in the netherlands. in politics as well. and even i find out that the name beggler, somebody who wiggles, is a common name in the netherlands and in the dutch translation of harry potter, the lady who writes all the booklets for the school in the harry potter school is madam wiggli. i thought it might be good to contact her to get some additional support for this workshop and then i find there's no need for it because we have tall resources here. you could look at the dutch team and all the professionals here in san f

well there's been some talk here in the u.s. on how effective occupy wall street has been and getting their message out well maybe they should be taking some notes from ukrainian they're letting it all hang out in the name of women's rights and finding that taking their tops off is trash attracting a lot of attention well we've all heard that sex sells but do the same rules apply to protesting r.c. followed some of these ladies to find out. oh yes. on a chilly morning in kiev half naked women in racing outfits drink champagne and chant slogans this is how the feminine movement celebrated the resignation of silvio berlusconi several days prior to that that very same ladies were in rome voicing their support to the anti berlusconi protest we've given them until we had staged a lot of protests against berlusconi and his sexual adventures here and here and we are really happy his political career has finished this inhibition interrupted the last couple somebody who came to tell an embassy not only to celebrate but the say that he ne

well, here.ause ] ♪ >> this is for the children. ♪ my daughter lucille asked if santa was real with hopefulness in her eyes ♪ ♪ so i went into town and put my money down and bought me a santa disguise ♪ ♪ then i went down to the bus station and befriended a drifter named steve ♪ ♪ named steve i told him i'd give him 100 bucks to come my chimney on christmas eve ♪ ♪ he made good on the deal and me and lucille watched as he filled the stockings ♪ ♪ now that my daughter believes i had to kill steve to keep the drifter from talking ♪ [ laughter ] >> merry christmas. [ cheers and applause ] >> jay: just -- just -- it's too much. i know. i mean -- just left out that stanza about killing the drifter, i think it would have been fine. now, the "twilight" series is been one of the most successful movie franchises in years. just huge. now, they recently tried to release a holiday version of "twilight," and i think -- i don't think this works. i think it was -- well, i can't -- [ light laughter ] ♪ >> i, bel

avenue residents, they will help to make sure that they do well. this is a victory. i want to thank the staff from dpw, the project manager, and all the landscape architects who worked hard to make this a huge success. i am from the neighborhood, so i am looking forward to seeing many of these streets become more sustainable and enjoyable. thank you. [applause] >> thank you. the sfpuc is a leader in environmental stewardship, at the forefront of environmental practices, pushing us to adopt stormwater management guidelines, clean energy. this street is a physical manifestation of the hard work from the residence and a great partnership with city departments, including sfpuc general manager ed harrington. >> [applause] it is a wonderful day touk% here. when we do these kinds of programs, we have to have folks that will take care of them. the neighborhood taking care of it is important to us. stunning to see all of this cooperation. as we rebuild our water system in san francisco, we cannot just build bigger treatment plants. we need permeable pavemen

rather well. granted we live in new york and i think that that creates a certain selection bias because another number of great bookstore's especially my chosen seemed to be doing very well. they carried their selections the very selectively, and as a result i think they've really understand what their customers want but they don't try to necessarily overreach. another example i think is what the best-selling writer and maddock patches is doing. when she went on book tour for her novel state of law under which did well and garnered rave reviews she talked about what her next project would be which is to open an independent bookstore in tennessee which lost a number of different stores both big box jeans as well as independent. ferc sable the hideous kids store whose parent company filed for bankruptcy and even though his kid was doing well because the company was what they went out of business. so, just a few weeks ago in conjunction with random house sales representative and karen hayne is open t

well. of course, amazon will not tell anybody how many it's sold. that's a party line they adhered to after introducing the kindle four years ago, and they'll stick with that because they make so much money. they clearly feel they can get away with not exactly imparting sales figureses, but in this case, the kindle fire has received somewhat mixed review, and a a lot of people like it because it's a media consumption device where you play video games, watch movyings, and get access to various things through amazon's prime service paying $79 and things are shipped in two days, and a whole bunch of other things, but there are also people who are like it's too slow, it's lagging. it's interesting to see if the projections -- i think one analyst says they will ship about 4 million units between november and the end of the year. the christmas holiday is going to be a really big factor as to how it will do. it will be interesting to see if that holds into the new year. amazon 1 not just about dev

>> well, well, i think it's -- it was purely a political statement. but i think it demonstrates my point and makes my position very clear. hat, there all the harm done is not only on one side, and that fight has been going on in that part of the world f a long time. and i remember so clearly what ronald reagan said when he got messed up in lebanon. he said that if he had been more neutral, and folwed neutrality and had not put thearines in there, ose marines would still be alive. in other words, he's saying the politics of tt region, these were his words, the politicsre irrational. the irrationity of the politics there. and that's why i think it's such a wise thing to do, to follow our founders, and not pretend the know who the bad ppl are, and who's saying the bad things, and one side perfectlre, and the other side are only theterrorists. a lot of people die over there. a lot of people die on both sides. and i don't think we have the wisdom to sort atout, nor do we have the authority to sort that out, and so put our will. i think that region should b

>> well, you know, it's such a hypothetical. i'm talking -- >> well, not really.ause you said lots of gay people go to your church. so it might happen. >> well, i haven't been to any weddings lately to begin with, but i'm talking about somebody that was, you know, dear to us. i'm not going to disrespect somebody that's dear to us and say, you know what? you're not good enough for us or something like that. that's the way i would see it. now, i'm not going to just run off and go attend, you know, certain marriages just to make a statement because that's not who i am and that's not what i stand for. and again, i don't look down on those people. >> we'll have another break. let's talk a little more about politics. i know it's a bit of a minefield for you. i'm curious what you think of all the republican runners and writers at the moment, who's been catching your eye as potentially a leader for america. [ female announcer ] instantly smooth wrinkles with a shot? wait a second... with olay challenge that. new regenerist wrinkle revolution... relaxes the look of wrinkle

well, well, that's very sweet of you to say to me.th french, actually, as it turns out, i mean, i thought-- italian. do you use italian more? no? well, i used it when i was a reporter on, you know, news programs and newsnight and things, but no, not that much. not that much. i'm sure it's helpful to have it, though, wasn't it? it was helpful to have it. it was helpful to have it. a wide culture, and all that. how amazing to see you. oxford provides. it does. i've got a little confession, actually, which just comes to mind now that i've seen you. i remember once-- 'cause you were so kind when i was a student, and i remember in my first term, i hadn't done my essay, and i was really upset about it, and i went in and i was a bit tearful, and you said-- you were so nice-- you said, "is it problems at home?" and i remember thinking, that sounds better than "i haven't done my essay", so i said, "yes, it is." i see. and i felt guilty about it ever since. well, i-- i remember that you suggested the college should have a woman's tutor who look

life and live how you want if it was for you well. suppose you go on a real mission on you or you have to send the guys on a real mission five hundred days in outer space what would be your decision to send the whole male crew or to mix sexes. i think it would be interesting to make a more experiment with sexist to see how it got works out i think it could be a good idea if there is a good bones and you know. i think you look for an all male crew let's start a little me where i feel i. see your. real space why your need to use only my oh grow ok would you yourself any of you or maybe if you talked to your friends after you made this experiment choose to go on a real mission to mars or this was an earth. on the radio yeah yeah when i finally go you know dark and you are here so i want to try. what about the medics didn't the medics have to do all those experiments have to you out of there did they find any negative results of this experiment. during commission the way medical examination but. not find. very different very dangerous. ch

if being well prepared is a must and if you're lucky enough. you'll never forget your experience only nice them a screen that's going to be heaven. in the flight see up close and below the ice on our t.v. . movie . just sleep. just sleep. on. the phone. without the locker must go on rule research showing as we are ticking down the final hours of two thousand and eleven we do look back at the year that ushered in protests civil war and regime change uprisings in the arab world as well as public fury in america and all across europe these dominating the headlines for two thousand and ten that. syria's opposition to unite against the government and with a new wave of violence which is reportedly left doesn't.

>> well, i like him.ould have to say i probably -- i have another guy in mind. >> okay. >> also. so i have not decided who it's going to be. >> so you're an undecided? >> i am an undecided. >> and when do you think you'll decide? >> i think i'll probably decide january 3rd, whenever i'm in my precinct. >> i liked what he said. i believe that he's intelligent. i believe he's principled. and he has a lot of good thoughts on what would strengthen the united states. >> is he your guy? >> i wouldn't say that yet. i listened to romney yesterday. and romney has a broader view of the world. and i really think that he is more focused internally and we need somebody with more leadership. being the governor is more about leading a diverse group than leading a committee in congress. >> sure. what did you think about what you heard? >> i liked what i heard. i came in here undecided, and now i'm really leaning heavily toward rick santorum.ç >> that impressive? >> yes. >> is a social conservative very important to you

alvarez, as well. thank you for your presentation. >> good morning today also from the housing authority. you have heard a lot about what we're already doing. we have been communicating with our colleagues and with the city family about our ability to put families in permanent housing situations. we have approximately 115 vacant units at the moment, and we're going to expedite and tuck these families in the city shelter and expedite those units so that we can get those families housed. our commitment is to try to do that before the holidays. it will mean moving resources from things that we were doing to this particular priority. i think rather than revisit all the things we have already heard, it may be more expedient to more interesting for everyone to simply entertain your questions. i think he clearly articulated what we're doing together collectively. as the dialogue continues, i think we will get a better understanding of the housing authority's operations and what is that we're able to do and ar

well it looks as though according to polls that u.s. has a bronco obama will possibly most likely secure a second term and there are two. candidates that he should be obviously paying much attention to and i would say that would be mitt romney and ron paul because those are the two republican candidates that are leading the polls in iowa where the first us caucus will take place on january third so there is competition for us president barack obama it's not a landslide by any means. but he does at least almost half of the country's approval rating so going into a second term a possible second term that doesn't look so bad but it will be a fierce election one we will be reporting on and paying attention to you in the meantime happy new year's to the both of you guys there in moscow. do as well of course you'll be seated in a couple of. live from new york which as i said to ring in the new year which comes in just under nine zero zero that's right. ok well thing with us now we can cross to boston present inside and pinion from one rock ob

well, maybe i don't wanna wait a couple of years. well, that's what lou and i were talking about.ing about something else, 'cause nobody's putting motor homes on my land. what happened to you not being so involved? i'm working on it. sure as hell not making it easy for me. that's not bad. you learn anything about your horse yet? you know, i know this isn't actually about me watching my horse. it's about my horse getting used to me. you know, for a 10-year-old, you're pretty smart. if i'm so smart, why am i sitting here? yeah, well, just make sure you're smart enough to stay on this side of the stall. and i'm going to have to reschedule you for next tuesday. [knocks] yes. yes, i understand rearing is a serious issue. i'm sure little trigger is a lovely horse. look, we--why don't you let me see what i can do, and i'll call you back. thanks. ok. hi. you know, amy thinks there's nothing wrong with taylor's horse. [telephone rings] why doesn't she tell me that so i can stop juggling all the bookings? you want me to get that? no. just let it go to message. all i'm saying is that it migh

as a company as well. showcasing our expense celebrating culture is also important to the soul and important to bridge the gaps of understanding between all of us. that makes starter community. we also care about the community because wells fargo as a lot of team members here tonight. they also live and work and raise our families in the same local communities. the wells fargo team members, can you raise your hands. great, they are around the room here. [applause] because they also work and live and raise their family here. that is why it is important for us to support the community. the local approach has guided wells fargo and lot of ways for how we do our business. wells fargo is the number one public giver among all the financial services company in the bay area. i think a lot of our friends are here. a lot of my friends are here to you can feel this, and i know. for this year, we also are making milestones in many different ways. we contributed last year almost $21 million. $20.7 million to the local

this did quite well. it got notable on several different lists. >> guest: and nominated for the national book award. to my mind how can you not win by combining the story of calm marks and his wife against the larger backdrop of the changing economic times, is serious about socialism which led to communism. contrasting love and money is a great way to find a way into a biography. sounds like gabriel spent a great deal of time parsing everything about the marxist relationship but also what karl marx look on and it is a thorough volume as a result. >> host: we only have a few minutes left and i wanted to look ahead to 2012. here are some of the titles that booktv is tracking coming out in the next couple of months including south carolina governor nicky haley, kent is not an option:my american story. that is being published by sentinel press. neel digressed tyson coming out with space chronicles in february. strategic vision:america and the crisis of global power, robert caro coming out with the years of ly

well with the. technology innovation all the developments around russia we've got the future covered. welcome back to the kaiser report america's are with states dinner time to find out what your predictions were at facebook dot com forward max kaiser says you never max the most popular of the sixty four predictions made by viewers of this program was from ash braised merkel and sarkozy to release a sex tape while they worked for paris hilton. and i mean if they were to release a six day i'm sure you've got a tremendous amount of views on you tube but speaking of releasing tapes online i want to ask you about this what you see for two thousand and twelve on the online distribution market because there's a very interesting story that broke at the end of the year and that was louis c.k. i am giving away half of one million dollars from live show so this is comedian louis c.k. and he announced he was giving away the lion's share is actually seventy five percent because he himself is only taking two hun

anyway, i'm eating well, drinking far too well. get out there and do our bit. how's hastings? strange to think of you so far away and on your own. but hopefully, i'll get a bit of leave before my wings exam, and we can go out and catch a trout or two. look after yourself, dad. as always, andrew. [sighs] next time on foyle's war... i am a politician, mr. foyle. i admit, i went to the white feather to kill guy spencer. and the way you've treated me, i think you've forgotten that i am the leader of a legitimate organization. i'm not gonna be pushed around by some bloody stuffed shirt, i want to leave. how do you expect me to go on living, when everything i care about has been taken away from me? yes, but we'll fight on. that is what mr. churchill says and i believe him. she said i'd be put in a camp. that she wanted to look after me, but first i'd have to prove myself. lying is never very clever, but lying to a police officer is a very serious offense. barnes and noble is pleased to support foyle's war on public television. experience

- well, that is quite a serve, but hold on.out that ball? ha ha! there's nothing funny about that ball. - the ball is so not funny. - it's actually so funny that i'm gonna just draw a smiley face on it. say good-bye to your tricked-out ping pong ball, manny. look at that. how about we use this ball instead? go ahead. serve it up, manny. - all right. [clears throat] - heh heh heh. - and you rig it? not in my house! - ha ha ha! - aah! mine. this is all you. me. touchdown. touchdown. - yaah! - that was close. - mine. get-- ok. hold. - hah! hah! - hi-yah! - hey! [whistle blows] - well, kids, it's finally settled. hector and danny will represent the neighborhood in the big tournament. whoo! congratulations, guys. - well, hector, i hope you're prepared to take this tournament very seriously. - i can do it. danny, let me do it. i'll take it really seriously. heh. but, danny... i'm your friend. - ha ha ha! ha ha ha! - ha ha ha! - no, really. you tried to cheat me out of my place in the tournament. that's not being a friend. a friend is

well no unless of course you're delusional well more importantly the actual according to doctors like the head of doctors without borders a vaccine that works only half the time is not a shot in the arm malaria needs anything lower than seventy percent in terms of immunity is considered a failure and in this case doctors up without borders are saying that it actually is only immunizing thirty percent of children against severe malaria the form that kills the bill gates needs to inoculate himself against himself. but it also goes with what you see happening so we started the show with all these bankers claiming that they're the victims but they have such a powerful seat they have so much power that they can sit down with obama and dictate what the policy is so that they are not victims of the bottom ninety nine percent here we have the same thing that since bill gates became involved in malaria ten billion dollars has been donated and dedicated to the fight against malaria this is one hundred fold increase in the last ten years but it's going to in a business model applied to a situati

well yeah well that shows you the mentality of the people who are supposed to be the custodian of your precious metal they think paper is equivalent to metal number two this only adds credence to those who say that the comix b.m.a. don't have the physical server number three if you have a receipt at the comix it's worthless garbage you need actual metal in a vault but here's an issue of this gold and silver property being sold off and you're getting a discount but what's to say that couldn't be applied to the whole property market in the united states what if somebody just shows up at your house and they've sold it because they said oh you know bank of america went bust what if they seize bank of america mortgage holders what if they have to sell their houses in order to make good on all the bad debts of bank of america that's exactly what's coming and shows you that the derivatives traders principally these banks including bank of america and other banks have senior claim over you even though you might have a receipt or you might have a segregated account and combine that with the bom

>> well, how much will hurt him? >> you know, because he has this ability to, you know, do a jedi mind trick if you will over the people, i don't think it's going to hurt him the way that it should. i'll put it that way. i think people are still frustrated with obama, so they'll put their energy behind anybody they think can beat obama, even though the candidates continue to show just how flawed they are. >> well, will, what do you think about this virginia situation for gingrich? >> well, i think it's what happens when your book tour accidentally turns into a presidential campaign. we have seen that happen with herman cain as well. look, at first you look at this iowa thing and think, look, five out of seven republican nominees aren't getting on the ballot. something is amiss here. only ron paul and mitt romney can get on the ballot. but that being said, you know, four years ago, people like fred thompson got to the ballot in virginia. and dennis kucinich got in on the democratic side. so the rules are tough, but th

>> well, i... look, there's... there are scenes in the this movie that are beyond imagination in terms of what you have to... i mean, and the audience... the audience experienced this movie very differently than the people in it and the people watching it being made. they see it and it's very kind of compressed and reduced and heightened. they're hearing music. so you have to be... as difficult as it was often and we had... there are scenes in the movie where the crew was... literally peop were not watching. they just didn't want to watch. and you have to be careful about how you present that to an audience. although i feel violence and especially violence toward women has to be presented in a way. somebody said "oh, god that scene is offensive." well, it should be offensive. it's a rape. rape is an offensive idea. i want that to be the takeaway but you can also... you can rub people's noses in it. >> rose: tell me what you mean, christopher, by taste. >> well, exactly what i say. he doesn't go in for the sensation

that is the choice. >> well -- well, i don't quite agree with that. the choice is clear for many republicans who call themselves conservatives that it is newt gingrich, but the problem is that he cannot beat obama. >> absolutely not. one of the favorite gospel songs is as you know "he looked past my sins and saw the best in me" and they are -- >> are we going to church today? >> we are going to church, because they are look past his sins in just seeing the best in him. he is not consistently conservative, and if they were just going for the conservative credentials, you would be looking at michele bachmann or santorum, but you would not be looking at newt gingrich. >> and fern you are standi ing next to chris, i am looking like a dark skinned person, and i am just saying he looks conservative next to mitt romney. >> anybody looks consistently conservative next to mitt romney, because he is all over the map. but that is not the point. it is like anti-mitts all over the place like whack a mole, because anybody next to mitt seems more conservative. >> th

well. science technology innovation all the developments from around russia we've got the future covered. welcome back to the cause. as a report imax guys are time now to go to iceland type with yon thorson of the hill the answer to the out there is that a lot of back to the kaiser report for your guys are excellent so yahoo is eva jolie and why is an institute named after her emotionally. for marie oh investigative church from france and she came to iceland in two thousand and nine to take part in the investigation into the fallen banks i think she was a great inspiration for a seat in iceland you know sees somebody who. stands up for democracy freedom and transparency and has been fighting corruption. for the last thirty years based on her example we decided because she has now left the investigation because of her up because it's in france and we decided that we wanted to keep her inspiration and build on it and. so we have set up this institute with the aim of we're fighting for these i

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can measure well being and quality of life. and right now the british government and the united nations, the chinese government, the brazilian government, and i could name more, are very interested in implementing wielding metrics, or happiness metrics in their policy. in fact, the british government just completed its first round survey where it concluded happiness metrics in its national statistics speak what is a happiness metrics? >> is a measure of, we measure well being more generally. happiness is a colloquial term, but we take measures of how people, how satisfied people are with their lives in general, how they experience the day before. in other words, much shorter term daily experience kind of measure, and in how people evaluate their lives as a whole. .. that doesn't mean growth is an import to the long run, but rapid growth and that china and brazil kind of setting can be very unsettling for people because there's a lot of uncertainty, a lot of inequality. we also find that income matters very much to people's happ

well all prosper well i think it's all preparation before the n.b.a. you know the c.w.a. it's a huge. leap for the students where all the young talents grow up to be. you know as best as they can be and joining and be a right after the great great using. proven and they've grown up getting you know muscles and fighting so hard. unfortunately there's not a lot of good steering basketball guys who was very talented fifteen sixteen years old they have to play for the for the senior teams and they also become because for the states for americans basketball is. just like football for brazilians is like a religion as well a lot of a lot of countries have a basketball as a religion likely to any serbia but. those those america have all the steps and the you know the little kid having a great talent he comes to school then he comes to the coach then he comes to the n.b.a. . those three steps you know that's why they become such a complete players in europe unfortunately you know after right after school players have to go to the professional team and they skip that part. with the

i hope you've enjoyed it as well. in a few days they'll be gone, gone to where the stories takes them next. happening next. been a great hour. a remarkable year. a remarkable year. thanks for watching. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com >>> tonight, last time he was here he made headlines by saying this -- >> homosexuality is a sin in your eyes? >> yeah, the scriptures show it's a sin. >> and he'll be back and answering some more tough questions. how do you explain that a just god can allow these kind of atrocities to happen? >> the world we live in is not a perfect world. >> what is your view of state execution? >> i'm for second chances and mercy. yet, there's consequences for what we have done. >> if i ask you about abortion, what would you say? >> every baby should live. >> do you like interviewing or do you find it a mine field? >> i like it. >> tonight, the olesteens. >> we're still praying for you. >>> my favorite guest, never afraid to tackle the tough questions. such a lively conversation the first them th

well... c-span: we'll just go all the way through and come back... >> guest: the basis of our civilization... c-span: ...we'll come back to locke and then marx, the bible... >> guest: the bible; plato, 28; shakespeare, 24; lenin, 21; aristotle, homer, malcolm x... c-span: these are mentions. >> guest: ...adam smith, virginia woolf--yeah. c-span: thucydides, hegel... >> guest: oh, thucydides, six. we got--we're heading down towards the bottom here. cicero--well, that's understandable. voltaire, calvin... c-span: and the--these names are mentioned... >> guest: oh, nietzsche--now that's a surprise. c-span: yeah, it's low. >> guest: hannah arendt, goethe, hobbes, montaigne--well, we'll get montaigne in there again. c-span: let's go back to locke--john locke. >> guest: yeah. c-span: he's number one, far and away, more than anybody else. >> guest: how interesting. well, locke, 17th century british philosopher, wrote a treatise of government--second treatise of government, the one we read, a small b

>> it works very well. i'm going to get in trouble for saying this because -- >> how do you -- explore this technique for me. what is the technique of letting them chase you? how do you make yourself known as potentially available? >> just don't do it. don't -- you know, you meet a lady, you express to her how wonderful she looks or how you respond to the way she looks or whatever it is and then go on about your business. >> and does it ever -- >> they like horses in the pasture sometime. you walk into a pasture and the horse sees you, he's coming over to investigate. and if you see a lady and you don't go, drooling all over her she's going to want to know why. >> so basically a lifetime of non-drooling has been a successful strategy? >> yeah. it works fine. >> any other tips? >> you need to have a large amount of respect for ladies. they respond very well to that. >> how are you dealing with being a single man again after a long time married? >> this has happened before. what happens generally is that -- s

>> well, i think it's both, really.d for romney, the challenge is to be more like gingrich, to be someone who can show that forcefulness against the president. he actually does it on the stump pretty well. but right now, he's no match for gingrich. i think newt gingrich needs to get over that hump on the economy and to be seen as a plausible president. the endorsement of the union leader was one little building block. polls showing him doing better, head to head, than he's been doing against the president. but he needs to convince a group of voters, particularly in the establishment, that he is going to be credible in the economy. the voters want both. >> i think the right wing wants to put an s.o.b. in the ring with the president, they hate him so much. they want a fellow hater, who can gas the president with hatred in his face, and romney doesn't have the ea=6oly12zi that.{ politico reports, "they'll point out gingrich's past policy shifts, which can protect them from attacks against romney's own inconsistencies. the

say that well they missed the boat because they didn't predict the breakup with the soviet union well those of us working in our embassy and in the sate of our or products of that program and if we had not been we would not have been able to understand that the changes were real it was the people who were not soviet ologists who kept looking at the soviet union as if it had not changed did you notice did you manage to wound the miracle government against wrong decisions at least during this period of perestroika in the collapse of the us we try to in many ways you know the thing is we had. if you look at any of these problems you have to realize that we were dealing with all of them simultaneously and things were happening on both sides that affected them domestic politics on both sides affected them but. when us did i sent my first message warning the iran states government that the soviet union could break up in july one thousand nine hundred ninety eighteen months before it happened at a time when most of our specialists are homes at all that's impossible. and the reason i did was

well, um, mr. monk, he said-- oh, well, we can't all live by mr. monk's rules now.you're perfect. well, these are for you. oh, thank you. and, uh-- oh--oh, gosh. [laughing] sorry. give me a little time. work in progress. yeah, well, you take all the time you want. come on in. okay, thank you. uh, is that monk? adrian. did you get my message? hey, doc. i meant to call you. i'm not much of a golfer, but thanks for the invite. oh, psh. hey, what are you cooking? maybe we should stay in tonight. really, i don't mind. no, no, no, no, no, no. you go have fun. you go out. go, go, go, go, go. well-- whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. i've got a little bit of a cold. i'd hate for you to catch it, and i just mopped the floor. i got a little bit of a cold. cold? [coughing] and i just mopped the floor. yeah, okay. i'll, uh, i'll catch you next time. catch you next time. okay. all right. oh, aaron, i want you to meet somebody. this is julie. oh. it's a pleasure to meet you. it's nice to meet you, too. i've heard a lot about you. [giggles] yeah. [dr. polanski chuckles] thank you. well

he thinks he should be on the ballot and i think rightfully so he's polled well enough he's had enough opportunity to present his case to the voters and a national platform is certainly not a fringe candidate i mean is a legitimate candidate that most republican voters in virginia are going to expand on the ballot he got ten thousand signatures for and they were all registered republicans but under virginia's new restrictive voting laws apparently if you live at seven seven seven twenty second a.v. in your voter registration card and avenue in the form you filled out you can vote for there's no question that the that the laws in virginia when it comes to actually getting on to the ballot as a republican candidate are needlessly onerous i mean the republican party you know this is the way the republican party up until now never even bothered to cross check and then this guy who was an independent sued and said the republican party doesn't cross check but i'm an independent and i have to cross-check i have to go but this the by the by the regular developers second or whatever the date is

they were treated so well themselves one question means one career you ask one question. and you might or might not be able to publish it but that's the end of your career. playing it in. the end. and if you want to. welcome back to cross talk i'm bitterly about remind you we're talking about the credit rating agencies. and kicking. ok carrie and i to go back to you in philadelphia one observation is going on here because we've seen the standard and poor's and the other agencies in the in the news in a big way particularly the euro crisis but it's kind of interesting to point out is that governments particularly in the european union really don't have an idea how to get out of this mess here and the rating agencies are really stepping up to the plate in a big way and giving direction i mean what's wrong with the radiations he's saying you know we see systemic danger in the eurozone and there is some mean obviously and there's nothing wrong maybe somebody has to say to the european leaders you better do something because you keep kicking the can down the road. i you know i

well let's move on to the m.f. global fraud and see some of the victims there because a lot of people have no sympathy they're saying that these are just the gambling sort they shouldn't bet money they can't lose and here n.p.r. speaks to a rancher to ski who is a rancher a small rancher has a cattle ranch and here is his story rancher discusses losing money with m.f. global the bankruptcy of m.f. global and the mismanagement of his clients' money is causing trouble for a lot of ranchers and farmers they were major clients of m.f. global buying futures contracts to hedge against swings in the value of their crops and livestock this is why to risk he says it's the opposite of gambling it was actually being more prudent in protecting his income so here that n.p.r. asked how do you feel about investing in the futures market now or have no problems whatsoever you know and i don't see how anybody could because basically what i openly on is that i had a segregated account with m.f. global they were the brokerage with the

well nato made it a priority as well at their summit in lisbon last november this was a new addition to their kind of mission statement and now starting today data will collect bids from some of the world's top defense companies that is lockheed martin northrop grumman or some that were cited to expand the alliance's cyber security abilities now the article pointed out wall street journal that forty two million dollars is the contract ok valued at less than the price of one jet fighter but hey more lucrative contract will be sure to follow so is it just you know and one mission q one other for the military industrial complex world the nations that are part of nato you know in the military as they get together with these these contractors with these military companies if you drink to decide you know what are we going to work under reagan invade next and what weapons there were nearly three former you know roughing up if you dream i'm going to have your out who they're going to go to war with hey if there's no one on the roster we need a new threads i really think it's as if there's no

rather well. now, granted, i live in new york, and i think that that creates a certain selection bias because there are a number of great independent bookstores, especially in brook run, and they -- brooklyn, and they all seem to be doing very well. they cure rate their selections very select i havely, and as a result i think they really understand what their customers want, but they don't try to necessarily overreach. another example, i think, is what the best selling writer ann patchett is doing. when she went out on book tour for her newest novel, "state of wonder," which did very well and garnered a great many great reviews, she talked about her next project which is to open an independent bookstore in tennessee which had lost a whole number of different stores, both big box chains as well as independents. for example, they had a davis kids store whose parent company filed for bankruptcy, and even though davis was doing well because the parent company was not, they went out of business. so jus

well, here's a landmark case.supreme court ruled that a woman can trade sex for sports tickets as long as it's not a business. so, guys, if your wife or girlfriend gives you season tickets to the lakers as a a christmas gift, don't even ask. [ laughter ] just say thank you. thank you very much. hey, what do you think of this? the time warner cable company is now getting into the home security business. oh, please. how about getting into the reliable cable business first? do that one. learn that one. then you get something else. [ applause ] well, here's a sign of the times. the washington state ferry service has had to reduce the capacity of its ferry system because americans have gotten so much fatter over the last 20 years. they can no longer fit as many people on the ferry boat. even how bad it's gotten -- a lot of americans now just swim along side and eat plankton. [ light laughter ] eat some plankton. and 104-year-old greek man has become the world's oldest facebook user. he says, "you're never too late too