People will overwhelmingly approve it. I thought it wouldve approved in 2000 or 2008. Im not sure about the palestinians. I have to be honest about that. I hope it would be the case they would support it as well. Asking the impossible conundrum. , i wroteof years ago an oped in the wall street journal. Was about the birth of it was about the book of jonas. Who the story of a profit say if you dond not repent, you will be destroyed. He realizes this is a nowin situation. If he tells them to repent and they do repent, three years later, they will say, why do we have to repent . Nothing happened. Or if he goes and they do not repent, then he is a false prophet. That is the paradox of prophecy. It is a nowin situation. You can house the same question about the maintenance of american hegemony in the middle east. If america had not maintained hegemony over 50 years, it may be nothing wouldve happened to the u. S. If america had let its guard something worse than 9 11 happened, and the parad
So i got the impression theyre going to the world series was the single most exciting thing that any human being could do. Ive always ate to go to the world serve. Of all the things i wanted to do, going to the world series was the most important thing to me. I never got to go. I had all these other wonderful experiences. I was sent to the olympics in 2000, and they went to the soccer world cup in korea and japan and lots of other important global sporting events. I was delighted to go to. But the one thing that bothered me was the world series. It so happens that almost exactly 10 years ago, 2003 season was coming to an end, a very good friend of mine, a guy named Keith Blackmore was a Sports Editor called me up at home. I was living in england. He said, have you been following whats going on in baseball . I said, have i ever . Because what was happening as the 2003 season was coming to close was that the two teams that have the most momentum going into the playoffs period with the ch
Especially public figures that have spent millions of dollars creating their own image. And so i think it is valuable sometimes to go behind that. So usually i am the one who is trying to get behind that and tell you what is going on. President ial history and american culture, kitty kelley sits down for your calls and comments live for three hours beginning at noon eastern, sunday on booktvs in depth. And look for other guests, including this feminism critic, Christina Hoff sommers and mark levine. This fall, booktv is marking the 15th anniversary and we look back at 2007. They have a legacy of ashes and the history of the cia. And this was given to Angela Roberts for the history of the englishspeaking peoples since 1900. She recounted her familys immigration to the United States on booktv. It was difficult to register an emotional voicebox, but uncle frank said he thought he was caught up in something he had no way of understanding and it is not true, they can put you in prison, you
In difficult times, with many forces and interests demandsing their attention. In these days, give wisdom to all the members that they might execute their responsibilities to the benefit of all americans. And may their constituents understand as well that many in this country have interests at odds with their own. And that the task entrusted to their representatives is extremely complex. Bless us, o god, and be with us all this day and every day to calm. May all that is done be for your greater honor and glory, amen. The speaker pro tempore amen. The chairs examined the journal of the last days proceedings and announces to the house his approval thereof. Pursuant to clause 1 of rule 1, the journal stands approved. For what purpose does the gentleman from South Carolina seek recognition . Mr. Wilson mr. Speaker, i demand a vote on agreeing to the speakers approval of the journal. The speaker pro tempore the question is on agreeing to the speakers approval of the journal. Those in favor
Can you comment on that . I would be happy to. Its been our experience whenever federal money has come the date has stepped up to issues and made additional money available as well. In kentucky we have been able to do a lot of the Major Projects through that whole mechanism. But the one thing i would say about 45 on average the money that states have to work to build projects is federal funding and of that 45 it constitutes more of the larger projects that we actually build and so its a critical piece of where we are. The states are doing a lot and we have seen that in a number of states enacting new funding mechanisms and so forth. We applaud the state could have done that and we are certainly encouraging everyone to do what they must find th to find the mt is necessary to invest. But youre right it is a difficult advance with the state budget and so forth but we found a lot of our colleagues that are interested in spending more on transportation. You made a great point about the hars