they look a little odd, kind of like an alien marking. it looks like a bar code on steroids, but it is actually called a qr code, it stands for quick response. designed to give people a fast way to access information on the web by using cell phones. i m joined now by sam little. good morning. good morning. i want to show you what sam brought. he brought a magazine. take a look at this. you see it there, see the little bar code there. there it is right there. that s what you would do. the way i got word of this is i have a business card here from a friend of mine who has a start-up company helping women recovering from breast cancer, a very cool thing. she hands this to me and i go, what is that? so here s what the symbol looks like when it is blown up. i m going to have my director put that up. if you point, as i understand it, you point like an iphone or something that reads this you need a special app for your phone, but they are free and there are a million different kinds o
economy to tank to walk right into the white house come 2012. i don t think anybody wants the economy to tank. we all lose if the economy tanks and we all win if the economy gets stronger. clearly the fact that the economy, whatever is being done by this current administration, isn t helping. so because of that people are saying, whoever it is that can give me an answer, i m willing to listen to. you have a lot of independents, democrats and republicans say put me back to work, give me what i need to work. for small business people, they are saying, for god sakes, don t raise my taxes. joe, wait a second. you keep using that line, and i know all republicans have. let s be clear when it comes to small businesses. democrats have been lowering taxes on small businesses for the last two years and republicans were the ones standing in the way of it. this conversation we are having right now about the deficit has nothing to do with families and small businesses. we are talking about the
and my guess is that we re going to probably have something in the middle. we re not going to have a super, super catastrophic situation, things aren t going to be completely free flowing, either. we re going to wind up somewhere in the middle. okay. and they want celebrities to tweet about it to make sure word gets out? they re not asking lady gaga to give directions around the 405. i hope they re not asking lady gaga to give directions around the 405. i think they re just trying to get the word out as best they can. they ve got eric estrada, ashton kuchar sent out an interesting tweet about this. they ve got it on bill boards from the california border with oregon, all the way down south. we re getting word out, you re getting word out. i m going to be out there next weekend. so i m going to call in and talk
america. we would have to hire so many more federal agents to accomplish that if a way that actually works and right now, t.s.a. is looking to unionize and the secretary is open to doing so, and i am sure government unions would love this but it is not effective way to use our resources in homeland security. trace: is that the answer? the answer is, sorry, we can t, we would love to improve security on trains and subways but, you know what, we can t? guest: no, the answer is we use as much intelligence-gathering and sharing as possible to make sure we stop them abroad. this administration hasn t been willing to use the term global war on terror, the last two years. they keep ratcheting up our security measures and down playing the threat but we need to actually understand there is a real threat, put resources into intelligence gathering. last week the director of national intelligence did not know of a blot that happened 24 hours beforehand that was recorded on fox news. i think we
storm did not occur the day before christmas to affect the last minute rush by the last minute shoppers. trace: is that a silver lining or more good news? reporter: the silver lining is for online retailers. if folks are stuck at home and the stores are closed and they want to use a different card or something like that, online, this is the week after christmas is a big time for exchanges, returns, and gift cards because they are very go deals there, retailers are offering discounts to clear out the christmas inventory, they also are offering the discounts online, so, if you cannot use your gift card at the store you can use it online or shop to your heart s content on the sprpt by sitting at home right next to the fire. trace: which is the best way. what about the overall holiday shopping season, how was it? reporter: the national retail federation said this would be projected to be the best holiday shopping season