makes me feel a little less bad about screwing up. apparently set up a website asking people to join their team. ads on mobile phones. that does it for us tonight. we ll see you again tomorrow. count do countdown with keith o starts right now. have a good one. which of these stories will you be talking about tomorrow? medicare for everybody. like i said, medicare for more, anyway. democrats ponder lowering medicare eligibility to age 60 or even 55 or offering the public the same plan the senate and house get. or a new secret mutation of the public option not being discussed in public, but by ten democrats running from feingold to landrum. sarah from alaska. the neutral book quoting sister sarah s father on why she bailed out of hawaii pacific university. there were too many asians and pacific islanders. quoting chuck heath, they were a minority type thing and it wasn t glamorous, so she came home. the mystery suicide at george bush s gitmo. three detainees dead on
annelise will talk about ronald reagan s approach to the cold war and foreign policy in their book. washington journal is up next. host: welcome, on this sunday, august 16, 2009. today, the president and his family will tour the national park at the grand canyon. our guest is martin crutsinger. several events have happened to suggest that we might be in a turnaround mode. what are the indicators? guest: the gdp for the second quarter was down, but not as much. it was a big change from the first quarter when it was 6.4% at an annual rate. unemployment actually dropped after it has been rising for over one year. but it is still 9.4%, very high. the number of layoffs were down to about one-third from where they were at the peak in january. there are some things that seem to show that the economy after the nosedive late last year seems to be host: stabilizing how significant are these indicators? guest: these other big things that economists watch. the fact that they are show
where the paved road ended. oh, my gosh, he said, they re busting somebody. as charlie was flying over the scene on the road, you saw a big helicopter come whopping over the hill with more ninja warriors. thomas told me at some point that he thought this was a chinook which is the big tandem rotor jobs. it seems very unlikely but that s what he says he saw. he could take they could take and hold an entire community with this much firepower. helicopter charlie spent spent a lot of time protecting applegate and he take kind to this scene and he was airborne not long after. what he told carlie a couple days after he started buzzing the chopper. he was buzzing all over it. he was under it, over it, he was flipping the guys off. he was holding the controls between his legs and do the double bird at them. he was laughing at them. he chased the helicopter back and saw them go over the mountain to medford. one of the residents of the little applegate
ladies and gentlemen of the jury, we re gathered here in this great sovereign state of nevada to decide the fate of our economy in the trial of the century. in this hearing, we hope to discover those responsible for the financial crisis our great nation has gone through, the worst financial collapse since the great depression, that has affected us all, even us in the great city of las vegas, the entertainment capital of the world. before this court, the prosecution accuses free market capitalism and its co-defendants, deregulation, tax cuts, unregulated layregulated d other forms of reagan economics as the principal causes of the financial collapse of commercial banks, insurance companies and real estate investment trusts, massive losses in 401(k) and pension plans, the highest unemployment rate in decades, and pain and suffering of average citizens throughout the world. now, that s just the indictment. that s the other side s opening statement. we re not there yet. yo
they have donated bats and batting gloves and fielding gloves and claets for the entire iraqi national team. we didn t ask for help. they saw our segment on iraqi baseball and called us. they called us and asked if they could make this donation. so did a seattle based company that called us after they saw our segment on the iraqi team. ebbets asked us to ask the team what they wanted for jerseys. the iraqi team requested blue jerseys with the post saddam iraqi flag on the front and iraqi baseball written on the back above the numbers. ebbets field flanls recreates historically accurate vintage jerseys and will make the iraq team jerseys free of charge and they re throwing in pants and hats as well. so we re sending this stuff now. we re going to send the uniforms when they re ready. how are we shipping this stuff to iraq? i m glad you asked. an international trade company based in ashland, ohio with experience in exports, imports, customs and all the other things you need to