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MItt Romney: Town Hall 12/13/07

2008-09-06T14:43:59Z

Mitt Romney
Town Hall
Bettendorf, IA 12/13/07

TRANSCRIPT:
"QUESTIONER: What are you gonna do to improve veteran's benefits particularly what this administration has done, which really hasn't been very admirable, such as spending bills to gentlemen that had been wounded in Iraq, that they didn't fulfill their commitment. I hope this type of routine would not continue on...

ROMNEY: Kinda hard to believe isn't it?

QUESTIONER: Its almost sick....

ROMNEY: I must admit, when I heard the story... that people who had been in Iraq, that had let's say a one-year commitment to follow through in order to get certain benefits. They got injured and were sent home because they got badly injured, and then they're told ok, because you didn't fulfill your one-year commitment, you're not gonna get benefits... That makes no sense at all... That's your government at work...

QUESTIONER: But that's done by this administration...

ROMNEY: That's done by government bureaucrats...

LABEL: MR IA 12-13 (GR#15) SHI -- ClipA

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John McCain: Town Hall Meeting 06/04/08

2008-06-30T22:56:53Z

John McCain
Town Hall
Baton Rouge, LA 06/04/08

TRANSCRIPT:
QUESTIONER: There's a new GI Bill that's being proposed, I wondered what your opposition was to it.

JOHN MCCAIN: There's a, there's, first of all, we need to increase the educational benefits for a veterans. We all know that. The educational benefits have not kept up with the costs of education in America. And so we're going to have to dramatically increase it. There's some people in this room that recall, and know, that the GI Bill, following World War II was probably one of the most beneficial programs, not only for the veterans that took advantage of it, but also for America because we educated an entire generation of Americans. I want two things to happen. One, is that once a person has remained in the military for a period of time, then that person can transfer those educational benefits to a spouse or family member. Because, as you know, a lot of military people, most of them now have families. And they want to educate their children and their spouses and their families may seek education. So we want to have a point where they can transfer those benefits to family members and to their children. The other thing is, I think my fellow veterans would agree, the great strength of the American military is not so much our officer corps, of which we are proud, but the great strength of the American military is our noncommissioned officer. [applause] They're the ones that—they're the leaders and the ones that do the sacrificing and I'll say it with all due respect ot the officer corps but it's the noncommissioned officer that almost makes the British military and the American military unique in the world because they're the true leadership and background. So I want to increase those educational benefits as the members of the military stay in and remain in the military so we will retain this core of vital leadership. And right now, the legislation has no incentive to do so. You get the same benefits after like three years as you do after twelve years or more. Um, I respect Sen. Webb a great deal, he is a combat veteran and a person who sacrificed a lot for our country. I believe we can sit down together and give transferability of these educational benefits and also increase retention of these very, let's be very clear, it's very expensive these days to train a member of the military with the equipment and the technology that we have to train them in and so that we can keep more people in. There's a study that shows that retention would drop by 16% if we didn't put incentives for people remain in the military. I want to work on, I've offered to sit down with Sen. Webb and others and there's no reason why we shouldn't be able to work this out. And I hope that you will support our position on both transferability of educational benefits as well as incentives to retain people in the military so they can make a career out of an honorable profession.

LABEL: JM LA 6-4 (EW#12) SUF -- Clip C

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Sam Harris "Goes to Rio" with Desert AIDS Project - PART 1

2008-06-15T21:29:53Z

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Sam hosted the Steve Chase Awards in Palm Springs, honoring his friend Judith Light for her humanitarian efforts on behalf of AIDS. America Ferrera presented. It was a great evening and raised a lot of money for the organization.

In this vlog, Sam shows a movie he made that introduced his opening number. You also learn what a Manzilian wax is... ouch! Watch and laugh!

The spoken section in the middle of the song is:

PASSPORT READY - GOT MY SHOTS
SUNSCREEN SPREAD, DON'T MISS A SPOT
GOT MY FROMMER'S, GOT MY MAPS
GOT MY CAMERA TO GET MY SNAPS

TRIED MOJITOS, ATE POLENTA
BOOKED A MOTORBIKE TO RENTA
ON THE BEACH I'LL BE THE TEASE
WITH NATIVE TONGUE IN PORTUGUESE

IPANEMA! CARNIVALE!
I WON'T MISS L.A. AT ALL
SO MR. BILL JONES THANKS A MILLION
I'M SHOWING OFF MY NEW MANZILIAN!!!

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Anna Quindlen - Excerpt from "Rise and Shine"

2008-06-07T09:34:10Z

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Author and Newsweek columnist Anna Quindlen reads an excerpt from her novel, "Rise and Shine."

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Meghan, host of the highest-rated morning talk show, utters profanity on the air and is suddenly dealing with a halt in her career. It's the end of an era, not only for Meghan, but also for her sister Bridget, who has always lived in Meghan's long shadow. The effect of the on-air truth telling reverberates through both their lives, affecting Meghan's family, friends and fans. -- Book Passage

Anna Quindlen is the author of five novels (Blessings, Object Lessons, One True Thing, Black and Blue, Rise and Shine), and six nonfiction books (Being Perfect, Loud & Clear, A Short Guide to a Happy Life, Living Out Loud, Thinking Out Loud, How Reading Changed My Life). She has also written two children's books (The Tree That Came to Stay, Happily Ever After). Her New York Times column "Public and Private" won the Pulitzer Prize in 1992. Her column now appears every other week in Newsweek.

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