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Morning on the way into the courthouse today. he said show of hands if you plan on testifying today and hell his hand up, he said im testifying. even though they probably wont get to him for a couple of days. all of the trial observers looking at this case believe if he gets up on the stand and repeats what he has said to the tv cameras so many times now that he was only working in the best interests of the people of illinois, all of the mountains of testimony and tape will come down to haunt hi...

Weeks in the summer. theyre important for the rest of the year. >> marie, youre with a vacation rental company. have you seen an up-tick? >> we have seen an up-tick since the cap was secured. our sales are up 20%. in the last few days. >> thats encouraging. >> very encouraging. >> mike foster, you are with marketing here. you are the person who sells the gulf shore area to the rest of the world. >> absolutely. >> how hard a sell job is it right now? >> its our job to sell. the remarkable thing i...

Time whether they agreed or disagreed with the policy. the family feeling, the klan loyalty, the fanatic independency, the desire for a hand up and not a handout. the willingness to fight when put into a corner, that has often knot the people from whom senator byrd and i sprang in trouble because we didnt keep learning and growing that all o africans that were left up and left down and lived to go to church, and live to see a better deal and have their children sign up for the military when they...

>> the volunteer work might be priceless. but when you hear someone say, you can start your own business, sometimes that also means a little capital. and if you dont have any money, how do you find that seed money to get started? >> thats where im calling on the baby boomers to give a hand up, not a handout to these teenagers. we talked early in your show about microlending in the third-world countries. lets do some microlending here in america. help that young person. we have a program here in ...

Saying whatever he has to. and tacking on "and cap-and-trade." another thing, has anyone noticed despite all of the progressivism we have had in the last 100 years people arent lifted out of poverty. ever. ever. tell me about progressives in philadelphia. tell me about the progressives in detroit. look what they have done to that city. its because you cant lift people out of poverty. they need to achieve it themselves. they need a hand-up, not a hand-out. the government can be a last resort, but...

Its a hand-up, not a handout. and it starts with job training. there are dozens of courses. from what ive heard from all of you, this really has been a total second chance? >> absolutely. >> completing these classes is a way i see that -- with the green and the new movement thats coming up that i want to be a part of that. i dont want to go back to just being a maintenance worker. >> its like planning for our kids. what were learning now we can pass on to our kids to make it a better world. >> r...

Sure exactly how until this weekend. faith, hope and charity. if you are going to destroy america, if you are going to heal something, how the do youo it? if you are going to destroy something -- this administration is saddling our country with more debt, more entitlement programs, more spending than you can imagine! it is clear we are becoming something we are not. weve never been a nation that jams it through no matter what public says, weve never been a nation that asked for a free lunch or a...

Care reform is going to mean to them and how theyre going to get by, if they can get by. roberta grats owns a business in long island, metal fabrication, 20 employees writes this -- if we close, the workers will probably never again earn the same living wage and benefits, not in a back office, a hotel and surely not in a retail store. and our company will never be able to reassemble the cumulated experience and knowledge we have lost. in recent years the city has overdefined itself by wall stree...

Asked for his fare ticket and we talked to him and he had his fare and we walked away from him, and, next train was coming southbound and we were going to hop on the train, my partner and i, and the train was approaching the platform and, it usually rings bells and rings the horn saying hes come and the gentleman in the chair stumbled and then all of a sudden took a huge dump and fell head first into the tracks and without thinking we just, my partner and i sprinted down the tracks. got to the i...

Into public office in the first place. and so as we think about moving forward, i hope we dont lose sight of why were here. weve got to finish the job on health care. weve got to finish the job on financial regulatory reform. weve got to finish the job -- weve got to finish the job, even though its hard. and im absolutely confident that if we do so in an open way, in a transparent way, in a spirit that says to our political opponents that we welcome their ideas, we are open to compromise but wha...