1902. no voter ever saw his name on a ballot. he was elected to the senate the old-fashioned way, in a way the founders thought senators should be elected. a state legislature chose and voted for reed smoot to go to the united states senate to represent the state of utah. in his 30 year career as a senator, reed smoot rose to the most powerful chairmanship in the senate, chairman of the senate finance committee with jurisdiction over the federal government ways of raising revenue, bringing money into the treasury. taxation and tariffs. with the stock market crashing in 1929 and the country and during the great depression, reed smoot had the worst idea any chairman of the senate finance committee ever had. it was an idea that would end his career in the senate. the house ways and means committee had the same jurisdiction in the house that the finance committee has in the senate. taxation and tariffs. the chairman of the house ways and means committee loved reed smoot s very ba
Whereas al qaeda, their theme has been islam is under attack, isis theme is that islam is on the attack. That is very attractive to thousands of young people around the world. Of social as the use media, how does that work on a daytoday level for isis. Isis is a very sophisticated operation with a few people at the top giving orders. It is very much a topdown kind of operation. Lots of people are doing it. For example, there is an just and peace Washington Post recently about how during one of these horrible executions extravaganzas that they do, they cameras doingwith video. Cameras doing video. That video then went to several other people who edited the video, and put it online. They have probably 50,000 twitter accounts. Network. Ast it does not appeal to all that many people around the world, but it is used mainly for recruiting purposes. Has twoi put it is isis different approaches. Propagandass approach, which is not all that in sophistication from what hitler used. The second th
The information, it will not do them any good. Host got you. That is terry and alabama. A headline saying, for our safety, our future Chris Christie for president. That is the New Hampshire union leader, Chris Christie is their endorsement. Lets go to jean. Caller good morning, pedro. Just on,eman who was he is on point. Never have a card with large sums of money on it, where is someone gets a hold of it, they can use it. As americans, we have gotten lazy, where we want all the convenience, but along with the convenience comes the danger of other people, or bad people, doing things that are not good. The internet is a wonderful thing. There is no such thing as security on the internet. I used to work for for ricin. I worked for them for 33 years. I did network administration, system administration. The name of the is if you can get access, anyone, and does not necessarily have to be some criminal on the street stealing your credit card. There are people who are trafficking information.
Well, tonight weve got it for you. Decades from now our descendants will look at this one image and know what it was like to live in america in the year 2020. We will show it to you in just a second. But first, some context. Gavin newsom is the governor of california, our largest and for a long time are most prosperous state. About 40 Million People lived in california. So far two of them under the age of 18 have died of the covid19 virus, so naturally gavin newsom has shut down the entire state. Businesses are shuttered, people wear masks even as they eat. Large groups are forbidden to congregate. Thanksgiving itself is on its way to being canceled. Its a tough boy to live, but californians have no choice. This is science, people and gavin newsom is californias epidemiologist in chief. He commands obedience and the serfs obey. With that in mind, the chronicle broker Pretty Amazing story this week. The governor recently attended a Birthday Dinner up in one country at the fresh laundry,
What picture tells our story . Tonight weve got it for you. Decades from now our descendants will look at this one image and know what it was like to live in america in the year 2020. We will show it to you in just a second. But first, some context. Gavin newsom is the governor of california, our largest and for a long time are most prosperous state. About 40 Million People lived in california. So far two of them under the age virus, so naturally gavin newsom has shut down the entire state. Businesses are shuttered, people wear masks even as they eat. Large groups are forbidden to congregate. Thanksgiving itself is on its way to being canceled. Ia its a tough way to live, but californians have no choice. This is science, people and gavin newsom is californias epidemiologist in chief. Ihe commands obedience and the serfs obey. With that in mind, the chronicle iebroker Pretty Amazing story ts week. The governor recently attended a Birthday Dinner up in wine country at the fresh laundry o