the private insurers and big pharma to vote for a ted kennedy amendment to whatever bill taken to the florida. that was reich. we only need a courageous few in the house and courageous few in the senate to take this turkey. call your member of congress and your senator. the switchboard for a number of congress is 20,222,453,021. tel dan the democratic bill is a bailout of the health insurance industry. tell them to join with massa and kucinich and vote against the 2,000 page obama bill, passed the symbol 30 page bill instead, h.r. 676, health care as a human right. everybody in, nobody out. join us in this historic movement to defeat the democratic bill. start from scratch and pass single payer. synnott at singlepayeraction.org, on what to the single payer. thank you. >> good morning. can you hear me okay? i'm dr. margaret speed, a pediatrician and congressional fellow for physicians for national health program. i also serve on the steering committee of the leadership conference for guaranteed health care and i am on the board of health care now, which is a national symbol pay grassroots orga

gulf breeze, florida. caller: however you this morning? i am a retired crewmember. i have been out for about 15 years. i was wondering with this new bill they are talking about, but 24/7 role -- the 24/7 rule, that crewmembers have to have 24 at the home base. guest: sir, that is one of the things that is being looked at. the fda -- f a a will release an of this year or early next year a note of proposed rulemaking. at this point they completed aviation rule making committee and they are writing the rules but we have not seen it yet. we have advocated for certainly more time, more recuperative rest time at home than just 24 hours every seven days. but again, more of the complex matrix. but we believe those rest periods have to be protected and certainly expanded in this case. host: is the stronger regulations regarding the number of hours pilots work and fast turnaround? is there concern about reduction in pay? they are paid by air time. guest: it is something we will probably have to address. but we expect the pay hours will be roughly the same as they are today. i

petersburg, florida. caller: the message that needs to be delivered to the senate is that the bill needs to be killed and they need to go back to the drawing board. if we simply put all of the money into the hands of government and corporations and somehow trust them, the message is that we will somehow get something better. sadly, each analysis of each bill has shown that health insurance costs are going to go up. barack obama and congress do not solve the problem, they make insurance more expensive. the young and healthy will be paying even more for health insurance. i am a doctor from st. petersburg, florida. they get right into the middle of the doctor patient relationship. i will be penalized if i go over budget, they will tell me that i spent too much money on my patient, even though the patient needed it. what needs that happen is we need to stop this madness and kill these bills. we need to let these senators know that you not only oppose it, but that you will work to defeat them in the next elect

and you could see just this tiny little bit of west florida just nearest the white bit of the map. that is what wilkinson conquered. it was the only territorial gain in the war of 1812 and he was promoted to being -- to command a second attempt to invade canada and this one was a total disaster. a third of his men died of disease. he was again forced to resign. and his military career ended then. and after that, his life really sort of declined very rapidly. he tried to grow cotton in the south. didn't really succeed. he was never really good as a businessman so he went to mexico and tried to gain lands there. but really the -- there was very little to wilkinson in the end. who was he? nobody really knew. the one thing that really was remained constant in his life was this extraordinary obsession with jefferson. wanting jefferson to give approval. and he wrote repeatedly to jefferson asking him -- just saying just send me a letter. that is all need to do and reply. and they piled up and you can see jefferson received them clearly by 1820s which is when we're talking about, 1824 jef

and you will see this tiny little bit of west florida just nearest the white bit of the map. that is what wilkinson concord. it was the only territorial gain during the war of 1812. and on the basis of that he was promoted to be, to command, and this one was total disaster. the third was a man died of disease and he was again forced to resign and his military career. and after that his life declined very rapidly. he tried to grow cotton in the south, didn't really succeed. he was never good as a businessman said he went to mexico, and he tried to gain land there. but really there was very little to wilkinson in the and who was he? nobody really knew of the one thing that really was made constant in his life was this extraordinary obsession with jefferson, wanting jefferson's approval. and he broke repeatedly to jefferson asking him just send me a pleasure. that is all, just reply to my letters. and they piled up and you can see them, see jefferson did receive them because clearly by 18 twenties, which is when we are talking about, 1824, jefferson is very old indeed and do can

>> the situation we have seen in the south florida is not unique. i was in san diego which is a place i had grown up thinking of being almost a model community and in the recent years they have flown into the same corruption pet to that we are facing in this community. parts of it is a function of what we were talking to rotor the year which is the mobility of the transitory nature of the population and people who do not frequently know the candidates they are approaching four and they can be persuaded to vote for someone who is clint and attractive on television but may not how much moral foundation and underneath. again, that goes back to journalists that play a key role in giving this is a sense the information that they can try to sort that out. investigative journalism is important is that it what keeps public officials on their toes. if you think nobody cares what you will do and nobody will report what you will do it creates an environment that can be addictive to inappropriate behavior. third, we have to encourage more good people to feel th

it is not rubio in florida who is dividing the party, it is this other guy who basically, imagine if barack obama got up in the morning today and said, i got a great idea, george bush's tax cuts are terrific, we need more of those. what would happen to the democratic party. that's what a crist did, but -- that's the big story, that's by the way, what just won the middle, in tuesday's elections. and there's been a road test. and -- and i think if an -- in addition to that republicans can actually demonstrate a little more positive vision it'll work real well. but i think the biggest danger, we're -- republicans aren't split right now at all. >> quev had this bizarre conversation and haven't mentioned afghanistan. the -- let me tell you a sad story. a sad story. we did a small american outpost and that outpostwas out gunned and we lost eight soldiers in one encounter. i was doing tracking after the health care speech and we this that enormously sad video of dead american soldiers being dragged through the streets and the president's approval rating dropped 12 point the in one night. th

they did in florida because it was a foregone conclusion. do we want a government where the candidate -- the electorate are foregone conclusions because nobody else has a chance to run? i don't think so. >> one last question. the gentleman here, and then we will go to lunch. wait for the microphone, please. >> my name is arnold and i live in maryland a one-party state. i would like to thank you all for having this discussion because it is a very interesting discussion. my question is what can we do to get politicians to understand the election process? a number were -- in other words how can we get the election process in the 21st century because there are a lot of states that have to many, in the northeast they have a political party, in the south they have another party and so on, so forth. thank you. >> jim, comment? >> i think i outlined the fact what we need to do is remove impediments to participation. and of the main impediment is ballot access law in making it easy for people to get on the ballot, have a free-for-all, you know, the m

i think fundamentally, all of the talk that it was created from the 537 vote differences in florida. a lot of people -- it's a good thing when people started paying attention to what was going on in their boards of elections. they started thinking about, how do we register people to vote? why is it that we have an opt-in system? way that the local voter will still match the ones in the state capitals? why is it that there is chaos and everything is done at the last minute to enter new registered voters? why don't we have same-day registration? what is this system into his being attention? why do we have uniform standards of what counts as a vote? is in a ridiculous we have to be holding up punchcards delight in seeing if it has two hanging chad or three dimple or pregnant or whatever? and it was really almost a mockery of our system of governance that people looked at all around the world, say what are they doing there in the united states? how come they can't determine what the vote? alchemy can determine who is registered to vote? how come they can't determine what grounds count as

they were a florida powerhouse together. they will help nebraska in the big 12 season they're about to embark on. >> steve: and the big 12 does not have one losing team. they have oklahoma, right now, at 12. they're 3-3. and one for eight. nebraska is one for eight shooting free throws tonight. >> marques: a nightmarish afternoon at the line for nebraska. >> steve: johnson, a beautiful shot. misses it. henry tries to save it. taps it to jeter. and lance is knocked down winding. he is fouled by alex stepheson at the free-throw line. >> marques: his momentum was carrying him toward the defensive end. wasn't where he was trying to push lance jeter out of bounds. but the activity on the offensive glass. vucevic in there. johnson in there. alex stepheson tapped the head. and nice -- and made a play on the basketball. >> steve: jeter made six of eight from the foul line. just their second free throws of the day. two for nine at the line. >> marques: and it's a 41-41 tie. you miss zen free throws out of nine. you're blowing a golde

i live in pensacola, florida. when i was on "scarborough country" at night, we started going over, the morning after hurricane katrina hit, we ran over to buloxi and over to new orleans, and i did my show there that night and my wife came back crying, because there was no water. we saw babies wandering around with their parents in diapers, two-three days old, so we immediately to our shores and through my tv show started raising money we boug. we started noticing, even though fema was up there and the state was not there, and even though the red cross was not there, we started noticing young kids showing up. after about the third day, my wife said, quote are you? you are the only other people here. they said, we come from pat robertson posted group, operation blessing. it was unbelievable. and it struck me that i did not hear that in the mainstream media, other than an hour show. through the years, people are trying to find something controversial but pat might say so they can talk about it for weeks. [no audio] >

i live up the road in hollywood, florida. i wrote a book called hollywood gambler thomas story about the unsolved murder of dust gus guo. we all now know there were no massive weapons of mass destruction. i would like to comment on your experience and how that may relate to our current conflict in afghanistan. >> as i indicated, i was chairman of the intelligence committee at this time and beginning in the late part of 2001 with our counterparts in the house we lost a congressional inquiry into 9/11. that had been all-consuming through the summer of 2002. at that point it became obvious that the administration was starting to sound the drumbeats for of war in iraq. the president had made a very highly publicized speech in cincinnati. the vice president had been speaking before every group that would invite him to say bad things about saddam hussein. so we put aside for three weeks 9/11 and held a series of closed-door sessions on the situation in iraq. the head of the cia at that time was george tenant. george presented us wi

i was chairman of the florida committee on education. we were holding our pre legislative session hearings in schools around the state. on this particular day we were at wilson high school in jacksonville. no family relationship. when students were asked if they would like to come and tell us anything they came in large numbers. they had a complaint, and it probably was a complaint that many of you experienced. that was battered in the cafeteria. i wasn't surprised that the food was bad. i was surprised that they came to the state legislature to get a solution. i asked them, will we be the first people you talk to? and they said, no, you are actually the third. that made me feel better that they had exhausted the more obvious efforts and had turned to us in despair. well, i asked, who was one into? number one was a man named bandstands were. he said, i agree that the food is probably bad, but it's not my responsibility as mayor. the next person was dealt person who was the sheriff. he said the food is no doubt that, but it is not crimina

a lot of this has to do with what happened down in florida. realistically, what we need to do is deregulate the election process, get government out of politics. first, repeal all ballot access laws. modern technology it seems to me can cope with many candidates. in the unlikely event that suddenly everyone wants to run for the presidency of the public office, we could set reasonable limits for ballot access, say, you had to get 500 signatures and have a modest filing fee, say $2500 or so and had the filing fee refundable if you get say, a thousand votes or whatever. repeal sore loser and intuition laws. three, repeal all restrictions on campaign finance. all donations would be legal, you know, despite the source of the amount. but i would suggest we require prompt and public disclosure on the internet. under my scheme of politicians to still be bought with at least know who was doing the buying. and all party subsidies for the taxpayer. and i think bill redpath, in his afterword has a wonderful idea about initiating instant runoff voting. ins

florida. john. caller: good morning. and curious to find out if you have done any homework on [no audio] host: are you there? caller: yes. what was the response when the lawyers of collied shaped, -- will years of khalid sheikh mohammad subpoena thaed the president? that should be interesting, as we have given terrorists more rights than americans. everyone keeps saying that we have to protect the military. wake up for a second, the military is protecting us. give them the things they need. let obama, who as a senator fought president bush for four years, harder than he thought terrorists. it is a bad day in america when we let a guy like obama run the country into the ground. essentially you are watching the growth of hitler here in america. essentially tell all your neighbors, if you want to cut me off that is fine. if you do not want to hear the truth, that is unfortunate. host: you have major point, we will move on. this is from twitter -- so easy to comment on being president when they do not have to make the decisi

another young man was in jail from florida 38 years. years longer than mandela. was freed by d.n.a. so we still have the right to fight the right without being manipulated into different than the president's position. of course we'll have different positions. we are free to have positions that enhance the environment that even he operates in. to put this another way, representative lee, when our college sweetheart, valedictorian, brilliant sister, she graduated and got a job as a flight attendant for eastern airlines. it was a big deal. it made front page of our school paper, the local paper. she was a flight attendant, eastern airlines. another brother got a job who used to be with us, a ball player, as a driver for trailways bus. like that was moving on up the road. and then another brother got a job as an airline pilot. united airline. he could fly a plane. and there was great excitement. because we finally had a pilot. but let me tell you. his being a pilot did not make him the comptroller of an airline. it did not affect the price of gas. it didn't affect the safety of the plan

they did that in florida because it was a foregone conclusion. do we really want the government were the electorate are foregone conclusions because nobody else has a chance to run? i don't think so. >> one last question. the gentleman here and then we will go to lunch. just mate-- just wait for the microphone. >> my name is arnold king and i live in a one-party state. i would like to thank you for having this discussion. my question is, what can we do to get-- to understand the election process? in other words understand their rules and procedures? also how can we get the electorate process working in the 21st century because allowing the state-- when in the self they had another party and so forth. thank you. >> thank you. >> jim, comments? >> well, i think that line the fact that we need to do is remove the impediments to participation and the main impediment is ballot access laws and making it easy for people to get on the ballot, have a free-for-all. you know, the more the merrier kind of thing and have it sorted out. by the american people.

lot of this has to do with what happened down in florida. realistically what we need to do is to regulate the elections process and get government out of politics. first, repeal of ballot access laws for the modern technology can cope with many candidates in the unlikely event that suddenly everybody wants to run for the presidency, we can set reasonable limits they have to get 500 signatures and have a modest filing fee of $2,500 and have a refundable if you get 1,000 votes or whatever. repeal of the sore loser lot. number three, repeal of restrictions on campaign finance for all donations are illegal despite the source, but i would suggest we require prompt and public disclosure on the internet. politicians can still be bought but at least we would know who is doing the buying and all parties subsidies for the taxpayer. i think a bill read pathe has a wonderful idea about initiating instant runoff voting nassetta picking one candidate voters would express preference by ranking 12 or three their resolve said it would be transferred this wou

another young man was in jail from florida 38 years. years longer than mandela. was freed by d.n.a. so we still have the right to fight the right without being manipulated into different than the president's position. of course we'll have different positions. we are free to have positions that enhance the environment that even he operates in. to put this another way, representative lee, when our college sweetheart, valedictorian, brilliant sister, she graduated and got a job as a flight attendant for eastern airlines. it was a big deal. it made front page of our school paper, the local paper. she was a flight attendant, eastern airlines. another brother got a job who used to be with us, a ball player, as a driver for trailways bus. like that was moving on up the road. and then another brother got a job as an airline pilot. united airline. he could fly a plane. and there was great excitement. because we finally had a pilot. but let me tell you. his being a pilot did not make him the comptroller of an airline. it did not affect the price of gas. it didn't affect the safety of the plan

matthew corrigan in jacksonville, florida the author of american royalty, the bush and clinton families and the danger to the american presidency. so come and ways the bush-clinton dominance of the presidency a danger to american democracy? >> it really goes back to the founding of the country. if you look at some of the documents from our founding, especially the debates during the constitution and whether the constitution was going to be ratified or adopted, if you really have a strong current of two things going on. when, the country needed a strong executive after the failures of the articles of confederation and two, also want to make sure we did not return to a monarchies like we had broken away from england, so we have this to current colliding. so, a lot of the founders of the constitution wanted to make sure that the executive did not become so powerful that we would establish another monarchy. there are some exceptions to this, the adams family of is the did not have a problem with family power but george washington himself made sure we would not have earl tea, not of the king

. >> joe: saw it in florida in the southeast division battle. lapierre, looking for pyatt. found pyatt. posted up against schultz. schultz flushes him out into the corner. ryan white is next in line, looks down as green puts pressure on him. mike green waiting for it. with schultz tonight, still no shaone morrisonn in the lineup. without tom poti as well in the back end. missing the services of lang and knuble and alex seem minute up front as well as gordon. gordon has missed 18 of the last 19 with that back problem. brooks laich digging for it. brendan morrison joining him on the hunt. even and full strength below six minutes to go in the third. washington needs one to tie in the white sweaters. laich good look. erskine wrister turned away. >> craig: canadiens have shortened the bench. cammalleri is just about playing every second shift here in the 3rd period. >> joe: bruce boudreau who coached him in the american league says cammalleri has a great hockey iq. can play in all these situations. erskine, wrister on the way, wide of carey price. he reacted pretty late. this on

. >> craig: joe for the next five again away from home monday at carolina versus florida, then again a three gamer at philadelphia at tampa bay, at buffalo. looking forward to seeing our friends down in carolina come monday. >> joe: haven't seen them in >> while. giroux had a great chance. price made a pad save. alexandre giroux all those goals at the american hockey league level. 60 during the regular year, 75 total. what is the difference for a goal scorer at that level and this level. >> craig: goalies and defense are the difference and time, obviously. you don't have the time at the nhl level. i said it before when he got called up. he is the best screener in the world. i mean he can step in in any situation, and i mean he's either an nhl guy or american hockey league and he is right in between. he's successful at the hl and also at the ahl and give you good minute. >> joe: bruce boudreau giving him a top line assignment tonight with nick backstrom and alex ovechkin. point position bergeron shuttles this one for plekanec. plekanec going the wrap around pass and varlamov had his g

we played 3 here in south florida. the fourth quarter coming up the fourth quarter coming up when learn more at supportyourvet.org. >> steve: sony pictures, armorred in theaters december 4th, in theaters. five-year, 100,000 mile power train warranty at chevy first.com. third quarter goes to miami. they hold the wizards to 14 points, outscored washington 22- 14. morgan franklin pivotal play, antawn jamison i boykins gets in the paint. you can see jamison attack the basket and jermaine o'neal. look who is at the game supporting the wizards and watching the team here tonight. behind that gentleman who is standing up is mayor adrian fenty, washington mayor adrian fendy at the game tonight. here is o'neal. good defense by oberto but a better shot by o'neal >> phil: that's what he wanted to do, get him to shoot the fadeaway and had his hand in his face >> steve: again, washington by 1. miami led briefly by 2 and then went up by as many as 11. blatche, strong move, gets it to go one handed. 4 point, 7 rebounds for ann andray

the sophomore from miami, florida, right here, so fast that jevan snead could not even get rid of the football. once he turns the corner against bobby macy, the freshman right tackle, he is on the back of jevan snead. third town. again, snead hit as he throws. third down. you you've got guys in there just pinning their ears back and turning the corner on jevan snead. you have to go for it here with 5:47, i don't think there's any question. >> andre: kind of surprised there with as aggressive an approach as the bulldogs have taken. defensively, thought you run a nice little draw to mccluster. now you're forced to throw the football. >> dave: andthey'vee getting the pressure put just the front four. >> dave: pass is caught at the 41. city that's a first down! wow, what a throw and catch, and the rebels are still in business! >> andre: boy, a big cushion given up by anderson, the sophomore corner to that side, and you can't give shay hodge that much room. >> dave: snead there throw it again. picked off by broomfield. stays on his feet! touchdown! that's the ball game! >> dave: 64-yard in

every vote seemed to matter, and it came down to 535 votes in florida. obviously the outcome of the election was very important. there are changing attitudes about politics, filled with a number indicators' to suggest more trust and efficacy in the system, and i think it is also worth exploring the declining number of press winnable voters. 33% in 2004. only about 2% of voters made up their mind on election day of 2004, 2%. it had traditionally been 10%. i believe as there are fewer and fewer persuade voters, organizations turned to mobilizing traditional nonvoters, and of course that would be young voters. there is still another possibility, and that is the party organizations made a difference. perhaps the activities of these revivalist parties that paul tarp about actually have happened. there is some evidence to suggest but that is happening. then of course there's the obama ground war. the reasonable guess is that the obama team had four times as many ground troops as did john kerry and al gore. this was especially true in swing states. for example,

tim tebow ready to go as he wraps up his senior season and his career there at florida's locker room, get yourself points and get right back in this football game and then play s e sound defense. >> andre: right now, they are ahead of the chains at 2nd . >> andre: second down and8. >> dave: endaround. big play by jamar, as he wraps up grande. jamar chaney playing in his final game as a bulldog. he originally signed with georgia. wasn't able to accept him for some reasons, so called mississippi state and told them he had a great player. how good as mcphee been this year in. >> andre: he has been outstanding. basically played one year of high school football, two years of junior college, and now starting in the sec. he has been great for this defense. >> dave: two-time college all american. led jc players, all of them, the last two years in stats in his junior college career. tyler campbell punts it away, but flagsen down. i believe that was a delay of game. >> reporter: before the 123457, delay of game, 97 on the offense. five-yard penalty. still fourth down. >> andre: this is one of t

florida state against florida. lsu hosting arkansas at 7:00 on espn. tennessee and kentucky, a fun one at 7:00 eastern. coming up later, the sec says good-bye to tim tebow. there's a lot of head coaches who will pat him on the back and say good riddance, move on. but what impact has this guy had on college football when it's all said and done do you think? >> just the run that they've been able to put together. this is the most accomplished senior class in the history of the southeastern conference with the number of wins that they've peopled up. steve spurrier talked about tim tebow and what he means to this football team. he said his ability to make plays in critical moments and convert third downs, and he looked that's tape of that sec championship game last year and the national championship against oklahoma when tim tebow had he ball if his hands in critical situations. >> same steve spurrier who initially did not vote for tim tebow as the sec preseason number one quarterback, but it's not just tim tebow, it's the whole cast of seniors. >> the rec

they would get that with a win over in-state rival florida state. number 15lsu hosting arkansas at 7:00 on espn, and tennessee and kentucky, you're thinking that's the outback bowl preliminary game. >> who would have thought we would have been talking about the vols and wildcats, but sure enough, the win her have the second space slot. >> and georgia, their conference record very low compared to to the other teams in the sec west, they take on georgia tech in atlanta. georgia tech the highest ranked bcs team with one loss. both of these teams pretty much predicated on running the ball. >> yeah, this is clean old- fashioned hate. it's pivotal for them, kind of paints the entire season. georgia tech has had a great year, if they lose to georgia, it won't be a victorious one, the fans won't be happy. >> in our household, we teach that we don't use the word hate. >> w yelling at mom for some deal. shay hodge and ole miss next. >>> t.j. fuller returned the opening kickoff for clemson but not getting better for the game cocks at home. garcia rolls to his

snee >>> espn's game day crew in gainsville, florida today for fsu at number one-florida. the mascot mover, the crudest over the gators. please, everyone, tim tebow has pleased a lot of folks in gatorland through his wonderful >>> tim tebow in pursuit of a second heisman trophy. he is the sec leader in touchdowns. he'll be honored by the fans today have whoa have been asked to

host: the last call from some -- last call comes from florida. caller: that was a very good point you made on the pipeline and connecting the jobs market to the educational market. one comment i would like to make is i feel people talk about how we will create jobs. it seems really macro-oriented. with the new administration only having 10% of the cabinet with business experience, they sometimes forget the basics are to create jobs, especially in the private sector, a person deciding we have a way to make a profit. we have been on the bandwagon the last 10 months about how that profit is. when you demonize profit, jobs go away. entrepreneurs do not get up in the morning and say how well i create a job? they wonder how they can make money, how can i provide security for my family? johns also created because they need people to help them do things they want to do. -- jobs are also created. i never hear a economists talk about profit and how important that is for opportunity. guest: scott raises a number of important issues. during a downturn everyb

a >>> a thanksgiving tragedy in jupiter, florida. a man is accused of opening fire during a family celebration killing four family members. the man's twin sisters, aunt and 6-year-old cousin was killed. one of the twins was pregnant. 17 relatives were in the house at the time. 6-year-old michaela was shot as she slept in bed. >> she's in heaven. we know where she is. that's all the reason i can stantdz here today is because -- stand here today is because god has blessed us with a beautiful girl and he just took her home a little earlier than we wanted. >> two other people were hurt in the shooting. no word on a motive. police are still looking for the suspect. >>> to russia now where a railroad company in moscow says a deadly derailment there may have been the result of sabotage, even terrorism. the derailment has killed at least 25 people. dozens more are hurt. the train was carrying hundreds of people from moscow to st. petersburg. >>> a d.c. restaurant owner strangled inside her apartment in northwest. nearly a month later police

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also, tiger woods, the golf superstar crashes his suv right outside his florida home. how did it happen and why? what is the real story here? we have a live report from the scene, the police chief also joining us this hour. those stories and much more ahead tonight on "360." ♪ way out here, they got name for wind and rain and fire ♪ ♪ the rain is test the fire is joe ♪ ♪ and they call the wind mariah ♪ >> where's the rest? ♪ mariah, mariah, they call -- i got a bad cold. ♪ they call the wind mariah >> and i would join in with you but i haven't slept since 1823 so -- >> larry: they call the wind mariah. an e-mail question from seth in boston. which tells us a little bit about where your future is going. you mentioned you're recording a christmas duet with your mother. the opera singer, patricia carey. can we expect another christmas album from you? >> yes, you can. >> larry: when. >> very soon. >> larry: this christmas? >> it's not going to make it for this christmas, because i'm barely -- we're like thanksgiving now. i'm getting my skills together for m

the next call from west palm beach, florida. please go ahead. >> caller: i'm calling because i have a sister who is gay, and our parents are tolerant and not accepting. i think we both have children. how would you suggest for us to introduce it to our kids to where they are more accepted, our parents? >> guest: i guess i don't understand your question. make you more accepting? >> caller: our parents. i think you are not accepting we have young children. >> guest: i see. yeah, that's another one of those arvind ledges that somehow gay people are somehow unsafe around children. unfortunately, that's one of the stories come i can't remember who quoted, it was absolutely not the truth. gay people, they are just people who love someone different. the only thing that is different about their lives at all. they let children the same way that straight people love children. they have their own families. it's not indicative of who they're going to be. you don't teach someone to be gay. you don't recruit them. you can't make them what they

tampa, florida. caller: i believe the government is going in the wrong direction in trying to support a buying howells is. they should support building -- buying houses. they should support new industry and giving jobs to americans and not giving us all of this free money to buy foreign goods with. the jobs will only go to aliens and cheap labor. why are we concentrating on houses? guest: a lot of economists feel the same way. it is the housing market that got us into trouble. the housing market does benefit more than just a cheap labor. you get a lot of financing that goes into it, a lot of wall street money goes into it. it does have the net effect of benefiting a number of different sectors. and the ripple benefit is even further than that. a lot of economists agreed that the focus should be on creating other types of jobs and not so much emphasis on housing. host: when should we get a clearer picture? what is a good time frame to look at the numbers of home sales and seeing where we really are wi

. >> dell from florida, the government is advocating meatless mondays in schools because animals emit methane. >> well, if methane comes from other sources, too. rice patties emit a lot of methane, landfills emit a lot of methane. there are some ways to, you know, feed cattle differently so they don't emit so much methane but there's other sources of methane out there that are way, way greater than livestock. >> many doctors advocate going to a vegan lifestyle as the best way to combat heart disease and cancer. >> well, i think the important thing of combating cancer is eating lots of veggies. people that tend to eat a high meat diet tend to just eat potatoes and meat and they don't eat a lot of fruits and veggies and they have a lot of beneficial things in them. you got to separate meat-eating out from a lack of fruits and vegetables. i'm one of the kind of genetics cannot function on a vegan diet. i get light headed and the old thing about the blood timing and i went to have my blood type tested just recently. i said to my doctor, i just want to politically find out what my blood ty

for what purpose does the gentleman from florida rise? >> to address the house for one minute. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the gentleman is recognized for one minute. mr. diaz-balart: mr. speaker, last week the speaker introduced her so-called health care reform bill that will cost over $1.2 trillion and will be paid for by massive new taxes on small businesses and cuts to medicare. with unemployment at 10% and small businesses throughout the country struggling to survive, it is irresponsible to pass legislation that will place a higher tax burden on small businesses. and president obama has pledged to let the bush tax cuts expire. so small business can expect at least two tax hits in two years. a radio journalist from back home asked me this morning if measures are being taken in congress to alleviate unemployment. my reply was, no. unfortunately there is a kind of war on free enterprise going on in washington now. and i'm told that war has ended. unemployment will not drop. we should be be encouraging job growth and not destroying jobs with bills like this so-

from new mexico to maine, from florida to minnesota. from new york to kansas. i put a lot of miles on my car. you know, spent a lot of time in the airports doing this and it really was truly a fascinating study to be involved in. what we found was that the young people sort of -- in many ways, sorted themselves out to various screws. those who leave, those who say, and those who come back. so levers, stayers, and retirees. a believer groups there are two main groups called the achievers. and achievers are young people who are motivated to beat because of mainly opportunities. they are people who normally attend four-year colleges, get to bas. they are people who go on and succeed elsewhere. for the most part, it chivers leave and don't come back. the second group of levers are seekers. they're not quite as academically oriented as the achievers or don't have may be the same opportunities as these issues. and the seekers use the military as a way to leave and go and see the wide world that's out there. the stayers are young people who never leaves small towns. t

one was that the florida courtroom at the time was covered with the con and peanut shows, that the people were just rapidly jewelling on them and throwing their shells on the floor and you would walk across the floor it would sound like you were walking on broken glass, and i don't know whether this reporter from the newspaper made that story up or whether it was really true. it was not in the other newspapers. yes sir, go ahead. [applause] [applause] show we go to the signing table? >> thank you mr. mcginty. he will be delighted to sign your book if you care to purchase one and the historical society is selling books this evening and of course mr. mcginty will be at harpers ferry at the conference tomorrow. maybe you will have a chance to catch him there. the humanities council, we thank you all for being here and we certainly thank brian mcginty for an excellent speech this evening. thank you, sir. [applause] >> brian mcginty is the author of "lincoln & the court," october 16th marked the 150 anniversary. for more information visit john brown radke.org. from the 2009 southern festival o

i live in pensacola, florida. we started going over, my wife and i, the morning after hurricane katrina hit, we ran over to new orleans. i did my show there that night. my wife came back crying because there was no water. we saw babies wandering around with parents in diapers to 03 days old. we immediately started raising money. we started noticing, even though fema was no there, even though the state was not there, and even though the red cross was not there, we started noticing these young kids show up prett. they said they came from pat robertson's group. it was unbelievable. it just struck me that i did not hear that in the mainstream media other than on our show. through the years, people were always trying to find a controversial that pat robertson might say so they could talk about it. when you are work saves lives, when you give a cup of water, when you feed the poor, when you close those that have no clothes, when you are matthew 25 christians, nobody takes note. my family did, and we are proud to be here

mortgage prices that i think is overlooked is why there is a lot of focus on the condos sitting empty and florida branches in california, this is primarily the epicenter of the crisis in urban america. and these are minority neighborhoods in new york and cleveland and los angeles and elsewhere, the epicenters of the financial crisis. >> host: in means they have been foreclosed on. >> guest: the race are five to six times the rate has tracked the old some irony that people whose organizations have the iron triangle you explain to the viewers but the people of this supposedly were trying to be held the most now have very bad credit ratings and now they're sitting in the midst of foreclosure. hands that is a part of all this money that is being bailed out and again if you have joined us late my name is congresswoman michele bachmann from the great state of minnesota and i want to give a shout out to mr. peter schweizer is joining us here today, the author of "architects of ruin". this book that's been out for a few weeks now, about 40,000 copies. go to his website peterschweizer.com for more informa

we have people in the town and in 15 different states from new mexico to main to florida and minnesota. from new york to kansas. i put a lot of miles in my car. spend a lot of time in the air and airports. it really was a fascinating study to be involved in. what we found was young people in many ways sort themselves out into various groups, those who leave, those who stay, and those who come back. there are two main groups. one is the achievers. the achievers are young people who are motivated to leave because mainly of opportunity. colleges. people who go on and succeed elsewhere. for the most part achievers leave and don't come back. the second group are seekers who are not quite as academically oriented as the achievers or don't have the same opportunity of the cheevers. the secrecy of the military as a way to see the wide world. young people who never leave our stares, have no idea to go beyond the confines of a small town, for whom life is just fine where they are. who is working lives start early and revolve around these small towns. of the returners there are two groups. one we

we will move on to florida, on the independent line. caller: good morning. i am very thankful for brian lamb and i hope that mr. icahn the thankful for seeing the vote tally board in the house. host: here is a front-page article. it says that the administration's decision to identify a series of goals including cutting emissions over the next decade in the range of 17% is a calculated risk given that congress has never set mandatory limits on greenhouse gases. president obama will go to copenhagen on december 9. he will be there at the beginning of negotiations. the white house also said they are putting forth a target at about 17%. it is a 5.5% cut below the 1990 levels. this sunday for cs brands "newsmakers" we sat down with steven chu about the president's role there. >> i think the intent of the president's visit to copenhagen and followed up by many cabinet president's is to show first that he is very serious about the energy and climate issue. number two, copenhagen, since congress will not be able to address the energy and climb a bill until after cop

even though you may be looking at somebody from california or florida. they are hearing the same thing. going back to the 2004 race, bush was out in utah and did some statements. yes, but it was on cable. you do not do something just in utah and assume it will stay there. it goes everywhere. the second thing that has been a surprise to a lot of folks has been met and main idea of when the story hits, it really permeates. when you take a look at supreme court nominees, all week into their nomination process, their name recognition is in the mid- 80's. and the third thing is that paid me get used to be your delivery system and used to be where you emphasize the message. i think you have now seen at moved to earn media. you're director of communications is a critical personal. >> how has the process of placing a story or shaping a story changed in all this? where does the story began it, if you have it -- the beginning on a blog now? do you begin it in print? does it matter? how does that change the front end of this? >> i think it used to be a direct proce

this toad came over from south america, they brought him from southern florida. dog dogs had death and these are poison glands back here. >> get away from me. ahhhh! >> larry: it's okay. >> it's a toad. i don't blame you. chance, i don't like them either. chance is good. get him out of here! that's historic, folks. bring on the cockroaches. >> put that on larry's jacket. that's a nice one there. don't let him get in your hair, because he'll lay eggs. but he's okay right now. he won't lay eggs unless he gets around hair. >> larry: he will lay eggs? >> that's a she. you've got the male. >> larry: how can you tell? >> let him go down his shirt, he's all right. he's gone now. that's pretty cool. >> larry: where he is? >> he's down your shirt. >> larry: get him out of my shirt. >> just reach down his jacket there. don't be bashful. reach down and get the thing. you got him? oh, good. >> larry: i didn't want to go home with that. >> your wife wouldn't like it. >> larry: cockroaches, they are unusual, right? >> they say they could attack nuclear attacks but this is from

scully, the previous caller i think hit the nail on the head -- and a pharmacist in the state of florida. i am a republican. i am soon going to change my political persuasion. in bell law that you and george bush signed in as the drug plan you make it illegal for a bidding process. that is why the democrats did not vote for it. i said that is unconscionable when i saw it, for republicans to believe in free enterprise -- medicare part d is astounding to me. you know as well as i do that hospitals have a formulary which goes out to the me-too drugs like the cholesterol-lowering drugs, whoever gives them the best deal, the doctor writes for that particular manufacturers struggle -- why shouldn't that be available to the american people? the republicans signed the bill to make it look good. in the outgoing years that program will be so stunningly expensive that it will be republicans politically can say here is another cost-ineffective government-run program. as a pharmacist i believe that americans deserve health care. medication is one of the easiest pro-active ways to reduce medical costs

interestingly, florida is one of those where when you look at both reading and math you see substantial progress for all groups of kids over the last eight or ten years, but much faster progress for latino and african-american kids than for white kids. which means basically the gaps are narrowing. the state of virginia has made substantial progress, the state of maryland has made substantial progress. again, these are states you see all the kids coming up the rate of progress faster for latino and african-american kids which is exactly what we want to see, everybody gaining but kids that have been behind gaining faster. >> [inaudible] >> i think there are a combination of approaches. but one of them that is horrible important is providing lots more guidance teachers about what to teach. one of the worries that parents and others have is our teachers just teaching to the text. what we are finding is that when districts and states provide more help to teachers, more guidance about how to teach the standards more curriculum, more assignments, that helps them and hire and because basic prob

even though you may be looking at somebody from california or florida. they are hearing the same thing. going back to the 2004 race, bush was out in utah and did some statements. yes, but it was on cable. you do not do something just in utah and assume it will stay there. it goes everywhere. the second thing that has been a surprise to a lot of folks has been met and main idea of when the story hits, it really permeates. when you take a look at supreme court nominees, all week into their nomination process, their name recognition is in the mid- 80's. and the third thing is that paid me get used to be your delivery system and used to be where you emphasize the message. i think you have now seen at moved to earn media. you're director of communications is a critical personal. >> how has the process of placing a story or shaping a story changed in all this? where does the story began it, if you have it -- the beginning on a blog now? do you begin it in print? does it matter? how does that change the front end of this? >> i think it used to be a direct proce

the gentleman from florida to you seek recognition? gence auman bilirakis is recognized. >> the idea that increased travel would have an impact on openness think you but is misguided. castro is the problem, not american policies. we should not be in the business of perpetuating the castro regime propaganda apparatus that blames the west or the island suffering. lifting travel restriction would directly provide tourist dollars to the marxist regime in order to fund its tools of oppression. there is no free market in cuba, just a giant money laundering machine for soviet era policies that otherwise met their demise with the fall of the berlin wall 20 years ago. we must maintain travel restrictions to prevent the regime from using tourists dollars to further oppress the cuban people. thank you mr. chairman. i yield back the balance of my time. >> the time of the gentleman has expired. the gentlelady from california, ms. lee. >> cuba is then the only nation in the world where americans are forbidden to-- traveling to afghanistan, or burma.

i yield back the balance of my time. >> thank you, the gentleman from florida, ms. castor. >> thank you, chairman, and good morning to our witnesses. the cdc and secretary sibelius and all of you have done exceptionally well in your public health outreach. you have kept americans informed about the risk in basic prevention methods to combat the spread of the virus such as hand washing and the use of alcohol base sanitizers and i appreciate secretary sibelius' visit to florida last week. she visited the east manatee family health care central and printing, florida and we met personally with representatives from the health department community health centers and other providers to add the area to review local distribution of the vaccine particularly to people in high-risk categories like pregnant women and young children and others with asthma and diabetes. my greatest concern right now it is the spread of misinformation. especially on the internet. just over the past weekend i was talking with a doctor who i know who is also -- you were said tampa general hospital, i