Im italian, or im an italianamerican and many of my fellow italianamericans get defensive about Christopher Columbus. Im not sure why. First of all, he was working for spain. He wasnt yvoneven working for italy. Second, never even got to north america. He was never here. Did you know that . The closest he got was the bahamas. He died thinking he went to india and found a trade route to china. He did neither one of those things. This was a guy with three boats and a bad sense of direction. [ laughter ] columbus is basically the 1492 version of the people who write first in the youtube comments section. [ laughter ] but for some reason italians think its an insult to you are our ancestry to say no to columbus. Columbus missed india by 9,000 miles and still decided to call everyone he met indians anyway. [ laughter ] you know, Leonardo Da Vinci invented the helicopter in 1493. He drew a helicopter. Why dont we celebrate him . There are 100 maybe 500 more deserving italians we could be cel
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Good morning, everyone. This is october 9, 2019, regular meeting of the budget and finance committee. Our clerk is ms. Linda wong. I would like to thank those from s. F. Gov tv for broadcasting. Can we excuse supervisor fewer. Please make sure to silence all cellphones and electronic devices. Completed copies of any documents to be included as part of the file should be submitted to the clerk. Items will appear on the next minutes. Can you please call item number 1. Clerk lease amendment lexington lion San Francisco, lp 350 rhode island streetnorth 2,600,000 rent credit. I would like to make a motion petitioner this to be continued for one more week. Before that i will take Public Comment. Are there any members of the public who would like to comment on item 1, seeing none, that item is closed. I would like to make a motion to continue the item to october 16. Clerk item 2 is resolution retroactively authorizing the department of Public Health, Behavioral Health services to enter into a
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Please call the role. [roll call] [roll call] thank you both. Good evening ladies and gentlemen. I would like to welcome all of you here this evening for the special joint hearing hosted by the Human Rights Commission. I would like to welcome our human rights of commissioners. Thank you for joining us this evening, on behalf of my colleagues we are delighted to be cohosting this hearing with you. We look forward to a good, and open conversation this evening. We have some excellent speaker testimony that we are looking forward to gathering. We very much look forward to hearing from members of the community on the issue of the border crisis, our first order of business to are there any announcements . Thank you. Office of Civic Engagement and veterans affairs. To members of the public, this is special joint meeting at the San Francisco immigrant rights commandant commission on the Human Rights Commission cosponsored by yee and ronan. Please silence all cell phones so speakers are commiss