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Jon thats our show. Here it is your moment of zen. I think everyone will agree its been a wonderful inaugural ceremony, a delicious lunch, but its now time to head to the next happy stop, the captioning sponsored by Comedy Central [the colbert report theme music playing] [cheers and applause] stephen boom thank you so much. [cheers and applause] welcome to the report begun everybody. Thank you for joining us. [crowd chanting stephen] what are you going to do with these people . Good for you. Sit...

I guess my jokes could be better, but im not willing to put the work in. Plus Comedy Central wont put enough money into the bits we do, so the production value sucks. And finally, its [bleep] impossible to clear a lot of the clips that we want to put on air. Not everything can be fair used, you know . Was that over 140 characters . [exhales] [applause] why have you stopped showing vomiting in each episode . It adds a lot of character to the show. [retching] [audience oohs] youre welcome. Why is ...

Why are we not also taking to the streets is the question. And i want us to. You wrote if youre not outraged, youre not paying attention. So are we not paying attention . We are paying attention to the wrong things. We are paying attention to infotainment, which is being spoonfed to us and sadly, frankly, we are enabling because we love the stuff. The infotainment narrative of life in america, you call. Yes. The tragedy of journalism now is that it is demand driven. And when you ask people what ...

Make more profits moving overseas and not pay their fair share of taxes. So we have an Economic Situation where people dont have jobs. People are losing their homes. People are hungry. So thinking about cutting social programs, which are going to help people who a, do not have jobs anymore and losing things and continue the same program of corporate corporations, large corporations not paying their fair share, how does that work . How is that helping the American People . Well, i think it probab...

Mass society requires the expenditure of money from the humblest hand bill to leaflets to political ads run during prime time on tv, radio and other mass media to putting up billboards, putting up yard signs or in the modern internet age putting up a website all of that costs money. And, you know, the days when you could stand on a soap box in the Boston Common and speak politically to get people to accept your ideas or to vote for you as a candidate are long gone and, frankly, even then you wan...

Jon thats our show. Here it is your moment of zen. I think everyone will agree its been a wonderful inaugural ceremony, a delicious lunch, but its now time to head to the next happy stop, the captioning sponsored by Comedy Central [the colbert report theme music playing] [cheers and applause] stephen boom thank you so much. [cheers and applause] welcome to the report begun everybody. Thank you for joining us. [crowd chanting stephen] what are you going to do with these people . Good for you. Sit...

Yes. Unanimous. Thank you. Next item is lets see, informational items. Initial proposals. I announce the signing of the following two proposals. 201213 initial proposal for a successor collective Bargaining Agreement from the San Francisco unified School District, and 201313 initial proposal for a successor collective bargain agreement, both will be held on january 22, 2013. Discussion of other educational, issues none. And item n, none. Item o, we will vote on the calendar for one item that was...

Twoyear agreement. And both years have oneandahalf of forced closure days. The half closure day is on the last day of school, noted on may 30. And then june 2 is the professional Development Day which also is a forced closure for our teachers. Thats a furlough day. So we are pleased that in the school year is 179. 5 days for the 1314 year. And again those forced closure days may be revisited in the course based on the district and finances. Okay. Its very timely as i got an email today from some...

Here. Commissioner obrien. Here. Commissioner ortizcartagena. Here. Commissioner cartagena . Here. Commissioner riley . Here. Commissioners that brings you to item number two, Public Comment . Do we have any members of the public who would like to make comment on any item that is not on todays agenda . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed, next item. The general Public Comment, sir . Okay. General Public Comment will be limited to three minutes. If you can please state your name clearly. Sure. ...

Next item is lets see, informational items. Initial proposals. I announce the signing of the following two proposals. 201213 initial proposal for a successor collective Bargaining Agreement from the San Francisco unified School District, and 201313 initial proposal for a successor collective bargain agreement, both will be held on january 22, 2013. Discussion of other educational, issues none. And item n, none. Item o, we will vote on the calendar for one item that was severed. Roll call. Ly. Ye...