This Is What I Think.

Sunday, October 04, 2009

Sparrows




http://www.cswap.com/1988/The_Seventh_Sign/cap/en/25fps/a/00_52

The Seventh Sign


:52:21
"In Judeo-Christian mythology,
The Guf is the Hall of Souls.

:52:24
"Every time an infant is born,
this is where its soul comes from.

:52:29
"Folklore says sparrows can see the soul`s
descent and this explains their song.

:52:33
"But a day will come
when the sparrow sings no more...

:52:38
"...because there are only
a finite number of souls in The Guf.

:52:44
"It`s when the last soul is used, and
The Guf is empty, that the world will end.

:52:50
"The first infant born without a soul...

:52:56
"...born dead as a soulless child
must be, heralds...

:52:59
"...the death of the world,
and so is called...

:53:03
"...The Final Sign."










>>>>>JOURNAL ARCHIVE: 03/17/07 2:08 AM
God what a f---ed up dream. Makes me think of being tortured. They put you into a machine and you have to wriggle your way out, centimeter by centimeter and it is beyond claustrophobic and they look for your worst fears and every day they have a new day to exploit your worst fears and this g--damned doesn't even come close - not even g--damned close - to describing how bad it is.

JOURNAL ARCHIVE: 03/17/07 2:12 AM
They don't torture you with primarily physical pain, such as beatings, etc. Physical torture is easy to resist. For a while at least. If you are good, you can resist it for a long time. Depends on how far they take it though. But the real bastards look to get in your head and really screw with you. And they have weeks and months and years to just screw with your head and screw with your head because they are lunatics and this doesn't come goddamned close to describing how bad it was.

JOURNAL ARCHIVE: 03/17/07 8:55 AM
I woke up this time thinking, partially visualizing, flying an F-14 Tomcat over the ocean somewhere. I can almost visualize another F-14 flying on my wing. Suddenly, the other F-14 exploded but I can't actually visualize that part. I think both people parachuted out of that aircraft. Apparently another missile hit my aircraft, blew off the canopy, and knocked me unconscious. Then I can almost see us traveling straight down towards the ocean surface and the RIO in the seat behind me was yelling at me to wake up. I pulled up and engaged the two aircraft that fired at us. One was hit by my Sparrow but the other Sparrow missed. I went in and finished off the other one up close. I returned to the carrier and landed safely, and then passed out from a moderate concussion with blood running out from underneath my cracked helmet.

JOURNAL ARCHIVE: 03/17/07 9:00 AM
Or the RIO had been knocked out to from the explosion that tore off the canopy. What I was hearing was someone on the carrier yelling at me over the radio to pull up before I crashed into the ocean.

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>>>>>JOURNAL ARCHIVE: 03/17/07 9:45 AM
In my "memory" of that time in that Mustang, the guy sitting asleep all the time in the back seat of the car might actually represent that the RIO had been killed in the explosion that blew off the canopy of my F-14. The guy in the seat to the right of my might have been a pilot in another F-14 guiding me back to the carrier because I was suffering from a concussion.

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>>>>>JOURNAL ARCHIVE: 03/17/07 9:49 AM
How I managed to shoot down those two enemy fighters is beyond me. I imagine or remember that I left a wake on the ocean surface I came so close to it before I recovered control after the initial missile volley they sent at us. They got off another volley but none of those detonated around me.

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>>>>>JOURNAL ARCHIVE: 03/17/07 2:15 PM
I have this "memory" of a guy I was riding with when we first starting going to fox hunt competition in Ben Lomond. I was riding with him because we were field judges and I hadn't got to the point of operating on my own as a field judge. He was telling me that he sang well when music was playing but he didn't sound so good without the music. I didn't think he sang well either way.

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>>>>>JOURNAL ARCHIVE: 03/17/07 10:43 PM
Somehow, someone is influencing it all. I just don't know how. It could be that I was programmed 9 years ago with the process they use now to influence what I think after I wake up. I wrote that I might have an implant in my head, but I don't find that very interesting. It could be a simple implant and nothing really overly science-fiction-ish. Someone just figured out how to stimulate a certain nerve impulse in the brain with an implant. The electronic implant does nothing other than sort of a morse code type of communication. I have been trained to subconsciously process those morse code signals.

JOURNAL ARCHIVE: 03/17/07 10:46 PM
My brain processes the signals better when I am asleep.

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>>>>>JOURNAL ARCHIVE: 03/18/07 3:12 PM
I wonder if the day I wrote about recently, where the F-14 on my wing exploded from a missile hit and my canopy was shattered by another one, was when President Reagan was listening in to us from the White House, for some reason. I'm not sure why he was listening in to our communications, but I am thinking that it was because he was listening that we were jumped. One notion is that my wingman and I were observing a Soviet bomber and their fighter escort went hostile.

I have also been wondering if that photo on my instrument panel that brought me back to consciousness as the controllers were yelling at me to pull up

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>>>>>JOURNAL ARCHIVE: 03/21/07 2:32 PM
All right. So it appears my work wasn't finished when I walked out of Microsoft and I was loaned to the U.S. Congress.

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http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=38671

Address at the United States Naval Academy Commencement Exercises in Annapolis, Maryland

May 22nd, 1985


One man who sat where you do now and graduated from the Naval Academy in 1968 is another member of our administration-Assistant Secretary of Defense James Webb, the most decorated member of his class. James' gallantry as a marine officer in Vietnam won him the Navy Cross and other decorations, including two Purple Hearts. James wrote several books about American service men and women. In his book, "A Sense of Honor," he describes the life that you have chosen. He wrote:

"Servicemen are always in motion, in the air at more than the speed of sound, underwater at depths whales could only dream of, on the surface of the water cruising at 30 miles an hour through crashing seas with another ship almost touching theirs . . . replenishing their oil supplies. Or they are on the ground, in the dirt, testing and training weapons that may someday kill others but today may deal them that same irony. The smallest margin of error separates a live man from a dead man. And in war, of course, they are the first and usually the only ones to pay. The President and the Congress may suffer bad news stories. The military man suffers the deaths of his friends, early and often." End quote.










http://www.cswap.com/1991/Flight_of_the_Intruder/cap/en/2_Parts/a/00_14

Flight of the Intruder


:14:19
Dear Sharon,

:14:21
By now you've been notified
that Morgan is gone.

:14:24
He was killed over Vietnam
flying a night strike

:14:26
and... I wish I could say
that his death was necessary,

:14:30
but... it wasn't.

:14:34
The target we were bombing
was nonexistent,

:14:36
and the mission was useless.

:14:39
Too many good men have died like
Morgan these past two years.

:14:43
I guess I knew him as well
as any man could know another.

:14:47
He was... he was my best friend.

:14:51
I know how heavy a burden

:14:53
his loss is to you
and little Bobby,

:14:55
and... and I know
how much he loved you.

:14:58
Somehow I wish
there was something,

:15:00
just one thing I could do

:15:02
to make up for such a loss
as Morgan.

:15:05
I go on, as Tennyson said,

:15:07
and the world darkens around me,










http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=35638&st=&st1=

Proclamation 5788—National Former Prisoners of War Recognition Day, 1988

April 1st, 1988


It is truly fitting that America observe April 9 in recognition of our former prisoners of war; that date is the 46th anniversary of the day in 1942 when U.S. forces holding out on the Bataan Peninsula in the Philippines were captured. Later, as prisoners of war, these gallant Americans were subjected to the infamous Bataan Death March and to other inhumane treatment that killed thousands of them before they could be liberated. In every conflict, brutality has invariably been meted out to American prisoners of war; on April 9 and every day, we must remember with solemn pride and gratitude that valor and tenacity have ever been our prisoners' response.

That is clear from the words of then-Captain Jeremiah Denton, USN, when he and other U.S. prisoners of war were freed in 1973 after years of captivity in North Vietnam. "We are honored to have had the opportunity to serve our country under these difficult circumstances," Captain Denton said. Implacable and incredible courage, endurance, faith, and patriotism were behind those words—eloquent and immortal testimony to the spirit of America's Armed Forces in the Vietnam War and throughout our history.

The term "difficult circumstances" referred to nothing less than physical and mental torture, starvation, disease, separation from loved ones, and deprivation of medical treatment—an ordeal that for some, in every conflict, did not end until death. To their brave families we offer solace and salute. To our former prisoners of war who endured so much, we say that with your example and with God's help we will seek to meet the standards of devotion you have set; we will never forget your service or your sacrifice.

The Congress, by Public Law 100-269, has designated April 9, 1988, as "National Former Prisoners of War Recognition Day" and authorized and requested the President to issue a proclamation in observance of this event.

Now, Therefore, I, Ronald Reagan, President of the United States of America, do hereby proclaim April 9, 1988, as National Former Prisoners of War Recognition Day, and I urge all Americans to observe this day of remembrance with appropriate ceremonies and activities.

In Witness Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand this first day of April, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and eightyeight, and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and twelfth.

RONALD REAGAN










http://www.cswap.com/1988/The_Seventh_Sign/cap/en/25fps/a/01_28

The Seventh Sign


1:28:55
The Hall of Souls is full again.

1:29:02
It was you, Abby.

1:29:06
Just the one person with hope enough
for the whole world.

1:29:34
Remember it all.

1:29:37
Write it down.

1:29:39
Tell it...

1:29:42
...so people will use the chance
she has given them.










http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=36729&st=&st1=

Remarks on the Observance of National Philanthropy Day

November 14th, 1986

Thank you very much. I have just read a clipping this morning from the United Press that shows how the private sector is spreading and things of this kind in philanthropy; that the First Lady of the Soviet Union has been named to the board of directors of a private, and privately financed, group in the Soviet Union. But I appreciate this opportunity to be with you today in recognition of one of America's greatest national treasures: the spirit of philanthropy that is so evident among our people.

When I was a lad growing up in the Midwest in Dixon, Illinois, we took this to he Americanism. And each and every one of us knew what kind of town we had and what kind of country we had. And it was all up to us. And although we were not as well off as many in town, my mother was always involved in projects for the less fortunate. She could always find somebody that was worse off than we were. I can still remember her doing a little baking of pies and cakes, and then finding out with quite some disappointment that they were for the sick lady down the street. [Laughter]

Just like every other kid in our town, I was a beneficiary of this spirit of community. I did a lot of talking about this out on the campaign. Part of it for me meant being a member of the YMCA Boys Band; I was the drum major. And during the recent election there'd be some high school bands at the political rallies, and I would tell some of these young people the story about what happened to me in that band. We were invited to go to a smaller town nearby on Memorial Day and to march in the parade. And we found out that we were at the head of the parade. The only thing in front of us was the parade marshal on a big white horse. And we started off down the street; and I'm with that baton, which was bigger than I was. And suddenly, he rode back down the parade line to make sure that everything was coming along all right. And I'm going down the street, leading the band and the music began to sound a little faint. [Laughter] And I sneaked a glance back. He had caught up with the front of the parade just in time to turn the band down an intersection, and I was walking up the street all by myself. [Laughter] I cut across backyards and so forth and scrambled to get in front of the band about another block away.










http://www.online-literature.com/bible/Revelation/

Literature Network>The Holy Bible>Revelation

Revelation

Revelations


11:14 The second woe is past; and, behold, the third woe cometh quickly.










http://www.cswap.com/1994/Star_Trek:_Generations/cap/en/25fps/a/01_27

Star Trek: Generations


1:27:39
What are you talking about?
The future?

1:27:44
This is the past. Nine years ago.

1:28:05
The day I told her
I was going back to Starfleet.










http://www.cswap.com/1988/The_Seventh_Sign/cap/en/25fps/a/00_59

The Seventh Sign


:59:01
-Then you do see it?
-With perfect clarity.

:59:06
I see a young man
with a very large imagination.

:59:10
What you`re forgetting is that
the prophetic signs are signs.

:59:13
They`re symbols.
They`re not meant to be taken literally.

:59:16
They`re poetry written to describe
the concept of greater divine judgement...

:59:21
...not to be checked off like a laundry list.

:59:25
So the moon and the fish?

:59:27
Coincidence. You`re forgetting
the most important aspect of eschatology.

:59:32
That when the end comes,
with it comes eternal life...

:59:36
...for those of us who are saved.

:59:39
Well, who`ll be saved, Reverend?










http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=36729&st=&st1=

Remarks on the Observance of National Philanthropy Day

November 14th, 1986

Thank you very much. I have just read a clipping this morning from the United Press that shows how the private sector is spreading and things of this kind in philanthropy; that the First Lady of the Soviet Union has been named to the board of directors of a private, and privately financed, group in the Soviet Union. But I appreciate this opportunity to be with you today in recognition of one of America's greatest national treasures: the spirit of philanthropy that is so evident among our people.

When I was a lad growing up in the Midwest in Dixon, Illinois, we took this to he Americanism. And each and every one of us knew what kind of town we had and what kind of country we had. And it was all up to us.










>>>>>JOURNAL ARCHIVE: Re: Journal June 12, 2006

Early this morning, I suffered through about the first half-hour of Fast Times At Ridgemont High until I got bored and changed it.

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http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096073/quotes

Memorable quotes for

The Seventh Sign (1988)


[while watching the news]

David Bannon: So much misery, man against man. They kill each other. They have no faith. I used to think the world would change. But it hasn't.

Abby: No, I guess it hasn't.










http://www.online-literature.com/bible/Revelation/

Literature Network>The Holy Bible>Revelation

Revelation

Revelations


7:13 And one of the elders answered, saying unto me, What are these which are arrayed in white robes? and whence came they? 7:14 And I said unto him, Sir, thou knowest. And he said to me, These are they which came out of great tribulation, and have washed their robes, and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.

7:15 Therefore are they before the throne of God, and serve him day and night in his temple: and he that sitteth on the throne shall dwell among them.

7:16 They shall hunger no more, neither thirst any more; neither shall the sun light on them, nor any heat.

7:17 For the Lamb which is in the midst of the throne shall feed them, and shall lead them unto living fountains of waters: and God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes.

8:1 And when he had opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven about the space of half an hour.










>>>>>JOURNAL ARCHIVE: 05/07/07 3:57 AM

How long have you called me "Buster"?

I find it rather endearing, actually, if it is something you have done for a long time.

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>>>>>JOURNAL ARCHIVE: 05/07/07 9:54 AM

It just makes no sense to me why we have to spend another lousy minute apart.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buster

Buster

Buster may refer to:


Buster, a fighter pilot brevity code signaling an aircraft to use maximum continuous power










http://www.cswap.com/1980/The_Final_Countdown/cap/en/2_Parts/b/00_40

The Final Countdown


:40:10
Scrub the mission.
Get those planes back.

:40:21
Your signal is Buster.
I say again, your signal is Buster.

:40:24
Read you loud and clear.

:40:26
Strike Force,
this is Strike Leader.

:40:29
Return to base.










"Space: Above And Beyond"

"Mutiny"

October 15, 1995

Episode 4 DVD:

00:39:37


Lt. Colonel McQueen: West. Launching the cargo haulers was a great countermeasure. [ gives him back the photo of his girlfriend ]I thought I had to make a point.

1LT Nathan West: No. You were right. What I did - going after her - was selfish.










http://www.cswap.com/1980/The_Final_Countdown/cap/en/2_Parts/a/00_37

The Final Countdown


:37:43
Sir, C.I.C. reports two bogeys
at low altitude. Distance, 125 miles.

:37:47
- Have our fighters take an I.D. pass.
- Aye, Captain.

:37:55
Have our fighters investigate and
identify the contact 090, signal Buster.

:37:59
Aye, sir. Alert 1,
this is Eagle Control.

:38:02
Vector 210 for the bogeys.
Bogeys low and slow.

:38:06
Your signal is Buster.
I say again, your signal is Buster.

:38:09
Roger, Eagle Control.
Alert 2 now completing its fueling.

:38:12
Vectoring 210. Out.










"Space: Above And Beyond"

"The Farthest Man From Home"

October 1, 1995

Episode 2 DVD:

00:17:06


Lt. Colonel McQueen: West! What the hell are you doin'?

1LT Shane Vansen: He's overriden the system.

Lt. Colonel McQueen: You are one dead marine if you don't stop right now. Think about it, West. Where the hell do you think you're going, soldier? You have a mission to fly.
Drop that cockpit and you are gone! Gone! This is the dumbest move I've ever seen, West. Tellus is hot. The aliens owns it. You'll be BOLO'd before entry. Now you turn 'em and burn 'em right back here.

He's beyond insubordination. He's on the brink of desertion. He's out there operating with no regard for good order or proper conduct. He thinks he's only putting himself in danger but by bailing out of the mission, he puts all of your lives on the line! He threatens every grunt that hits the beach who relies on our recon. This war wasn't made just for Nathan West! Every life in this war is tied together!

1LT Shane Vansen: Sir! It wasn't a selfish act. It was a selfless one.

1LT Cooper Hawkes: He believes people are alive on Tellus.

1LT Shane Vansen: He went out after someone.

Lt. Colonel McQueen: That someone better be worth dying for 'cause that's what's going to happen to him if no one does anything about it.










>>>>>JOURNAL ARCHIVE: From: Kerry Burgess

To: Kerry Burgess

Sent: Friday, March 3, 2006 3:22:01 PM

Subject: Rise Above


This was a pleasant surprise. I was disappointed though when I first saw them that they were preparing to leave. I think this is the one at the link below. I love these ships. Who needs a parade when you can watch a U.S. Navy warship getting underway? If I could choose any ship I wanted for a personal yacht, it would be a Burke-class destroyer.

http://www.momsen.navy.mil/

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"Space: Above And Beyond"

"Sugar Dirt"

April 20, 1996

Episode 21 DVD:

00:27:59


1LT Vanessa Damphousse: Foot powder. Finally luck in on a supply drop. All we get is foot powder.










http://www.cswap.com/1988/The_Seventh_Sign/cap/en/25fps/a/01_04

The Seventh Sign


1:04:10
Abby?

1:04:18
Why is this happening?

1:04:21
God`s grace is empty.

1:04:23
There`s nothing I can do.

1:04:26
The signs have begun.
As each passes, the end grows closer.

1:04:32
Then why are you here?

1:04:34
I`m its deliverer. I`m its witness.

1:04:41
What if a sign didn`t happen?

1:04:44
What if a sign could be stopped before
my baby comes? What would happen?

1:04:49
Please, tell me.

1:04:52
Then the chain would be broken.

1:04:57
But it would take something
you don`t have.

1:05:00
Hope.

1:05:12
How can someone who cared
so little for life...

1:05:16
...give life to the world?

1:05:18
I do care.

1:05:29
I`m going to try.

1:05:33
I`m going to try.










http://www.twiztv.com/scripts/battlestar/season3/galactica-317.htm

BATTLESTAR GALACTICA

3X17 - MAELSTROM

Original Airdate (SciFi): 04-MAR-2007


Starbuck: Previously, on Battlestar Galactica...

"Flesh & Bone"


Adama: Leoben's a very clever Cylon. He's gonna try to get into your head.


Leoben: This is has happened before, and all of it will happen again. Your destiny's already been written.



"The Farm"

Simon: I saw your x-rays. A lot of old fractures from childhood... Children of abusive parents often fear passing along that abuse to their own children.

Starbuck: Get out!



New Caprica Detention Center

Leoben: I'm trying to help you, Kara. I only want you see the truth of your life. The reason why you suffered, the reason why you've struggled for so long.










>>>>>JOURNAL ARCHIVE: From: Kerry Burgess

To: Katie W

Cc: Kerry Burgess

Sent: Sunday, June 18, 2006 9:32:04 PM


Kerry Burgess wrote:

Katie,

My appointment at the VA is July 18th.

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7-20-06

Kerry,

you have been

OK'd to move into

the vet. center

tomorrow at 11 a.m.










From 7/21/1969 ( I was Apollo 11 Eagle astronaut walking on Earth's moon ) To 3/19/2004 ( premiere US film "Dawn of the Dead" ) is 12660 days

12660 = 6330 + 6330

From 3/4/1959 ( my birth date UK ) To 7/2/1976 ( I intercepted Comet Lucifer in the outer solar system and set to work at diverting it ) is 6330 days



From 11/26/1976 ( my first landing Jupiter moon Callisto ) To 3/19/2004 ( premiere US film "Dawn of the Dead" ) is 9975 days

From 3/4/1959 ( my birth date UK ) To 6/25/1986 ( U.S. President Ronald Reagan : Proclamation 5506—National Homelessness Awareness Week 1986 ) is 9975 days


http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0363547/

Dawn of the Dead (2004)

Release Date: 19 March 2004 (USA)