And try to watch them all the way through without stopping to make any relevant statements about those racketeering productions. I mean, why should I even bother anymore? They believe it. Why should I care what they're trying to get away with.
I cannot recall when I last watched that 1986 film "Highlander," or even the first time I watched it, although I might have seen it when it premiered but that is just a guess, but I can still recall that scene where he, or at least I guess I can recall it correctly, where he is on the bottom of the lake and he is chopping down the long stalks of the water plants on the bottom of the lake with his sword. I thought of that before, well maybe not the context of "Highlander," but there was always something creepy to me about seeing those similar water plants at the bottom of the lake in Coeur d'Alene when I was swimming the 2.4 mile course for that Ironman triathlon they have out there every year since 2003.
JOURNAL ARCHIVE: From: Kerry Burgess
Sent: Tuesday, June 06, 2006 7:44 PM
To: Kerry Burgess
Subject: Re: Journal June 6, 2006
I wonder why I have these memories of two particular training exercises on the Taylor. One was that simulator where the locked us into a ship compartment, banged on the bulkhead to simulate a missile hit, and then flooded the room with cold river water as we were supposed to fix the hole. The compartment would have flooded if I hadn't open a porthole in the bulkhead. Before that was the boiler room simulator where I was the Number 1 hose man and had to go into the building with the water covered with burning oil under the deck grating. I had to push the flames back with the hose and I was so close to hyperventilating that I was breaking the face mask seal of my breathing apparatus. It was also so dark I couldn't see a single thing. I had no idea the fire was even out.
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JOURNAL ARCHIVE: 06/11/07 11:30 PM
DAMN!!! The name of the character Phoebe portrays is "Amanda" in this movie. That was the name of my girlfriend in 1988. Amanda Busch, from Aberdeen, Scotland. Still haven't quite figured out what Aberdeen means. Phoebe portrays the wife of the star of the movie.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0094799/
Bright Lights, Big City (1988)
Release Date: 1 April 1988 (USA)
Plot Outline: A disillusioned young writer living in New York City turns to drugs and drinking to block out the memories of his dead mother and estranged wife.
Phoebe Cates ... Amanda
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http://www.admiralstockdale.us
ADMIRAL STOCKDALE
James Bond Stockdale 1923-2005
On September 9, 1965 at the age of 40, Stockdale, Commanding Officer, VF51 and Carrier Air Group Commander (CAG-16) was catapulted from the deck of the USS Oriskany for what would be the final mission. While returning from the target area, his A-4 Skyhawk was hit by anti-aircraft fire. Stockdale ejected, breaking a bone in his back. Upon landing in a small village
Stockdale wound up in Hoa Lo Prison, the infamous "Hanoi Hilton", where he spent the next seven years as the highest ranking naval officer and leader of American resistance against Vietnamese attempts to use prisoners for propaganda purposes. Despite being kept in solitary confinement for four years, in leg irons for two years, physically tortured more than 15 times, denied medical care and malnourished, Stockdale organized a system of communication and developed a cohesive set of rules governing prisoner behavior. Codified in the acronym BACK U.S. (Unity over Self), these rules gave prisoners a sense of hope and empowerment, which many credited with giving them the strength to endure their lengthy ordeal. Drawing largely from principles of stoic philosophy, notably Epictetus' The Enchiridion, Stockdale's courage and decisive leadership was an inspiration to POWs.
http://www.history.army.mil/html/moh/vietnam-m-z.html
Center of Military History
United States Army
Medal of Honor Recipients
Vietnam
STOCKDALE, JAMES B.
Rank and organization: Rear Admiral (then Captain), U.S. Navy. Place and date: Hoa Lo prison, Hanoi, North Vietnam, 4 September 1969. Entered service at: Abingdon, Ill. Born: 23 December 1923, Abingdon, Ill.. Citation: For conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of his life above and beyond the call of duty while senior naval officer in the Prisoner of War camps of North Vietnam. Recognized by his captors as the leader in the Prisoners' of War resistance to interrogation and in their refusal to participate in propaganda exploitation, Rear Adm. Stockdale was singled out for interrogation and attendant torture after he was detected in a covert communications attempt. Sensing the start of another purge, and aware that his earlier efforts at self-disfiguration to dissuade his captors from exploiting him for propaganda purposes had resulted in cruel and agonizing punishment, Rear Adm. Stockdale resolved to make himself a symbol of resistance regardless of personal sacrifice. He deliberately inflicted a near-mortal wound to his person in order to convince his captors of his willingness to give up his life rather than capitulate. He was subsequently discovered and revived by the North Vietnamese who, convinced of his indomitable spirit, abated in their employment of excessive harassment and torture toward all of the Prisoners of War. By his heroic action, at great peril to himself, he earned the everlasting gratitude of his fellow prisoners and of his country. Rear Adm. Stockdale's valiant leadership and extraordinary courage in a hostile environment sustain and enhance the finest traditions of the U.S. Naval Service.
http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F20615F73E551A7493C7A91789D85F478785F9
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Wives Waiting for P.O.W.'s With Hope and Anxiety; Wives Are Awaiting the Arrival of P. O. W.'s With Hope and Joy, Anxiety and Fear Aware She's Changed Divided Loyalties
By STEVEN V. ROBERTSSpecial to The New York Times ();
February 05, 1973,
, Section , Page 1, Column , words
[ DISPLAYING ABSTRACT ]
Sybil Stockdale bought a new Persian rug last year on her 25th wedding anniversary, but she has not put it down yet. She is waiting for her husband, Capt. James Bond Stockdale, who has been a prisoner in North Vietnam for almost eight years.
http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F30A1EFB3C5C147A93CAA81789D85F478785F9
The New York Times
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Thoughts On Reentering 'The World'; Prisoners
STEVEN V. ROBERTS ();
February 18, 1973,
, Section WR, Page 246, Column , words
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TRAVIS AIR FORCE BASE, Calif.--Capt. James Bond Stockdale returned to American soil last week after more than seven years as a prisoner in North Vietnam. His hair was grayer than when he left, and a stiff leg dragged a bit as he stepped off an airplane here and thanked the waiting crowds for their loyalty.
[ Bill Gates-Microsoft-Corbis-Nazi the cowardly International Terrorist Organization violently against the United States of America actively instigate insurrection and subversive activity against the United States of America with all Bill Gates-Microsoft-Corbis-Nazi staff partners contributors employees contractors lawyers managers of any capacity as severely treasonous criminal accomplices and that are active unlawful obstructions, combinations, or assemblages, or rebellion against the authority of the United States that actively make it impracticable to enforce the laws of the United States in the United States and in the Severely Treasonous and Criminally Rebellious State of Washington by the ordinary course of judicial proceedings ]
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091203/quotes
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Memorable quotes for
Highlander (1986)
Connor MacLeod: You're a liar!
Ramirez: You have the manners of a goat. And you smell like a dung-heap! And you have no knowledge whatsoever of your potential! Now.
[shouts]
Ramirez: Get out!
[rocks the boat, sending MacLeod into the lake]
Connor MacLeod: [as Ramirez rows away] Help me, I'm drowning!
Ramirez: You can't drown, you fool, you're immortal!
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Release dates for
Highlander (1986)
Country Date
USA 7 March 1986
UK 29 August 1986
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0102034/quotes
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Memorable quotes for
Highlander II: The Quickening (1991) [ RACKETEER INFLUENCED AND CORRUPT ORGANIZATIONS US Title 18 ]
[U.S. Cable-TV Version]
Louise Marcus: Okay, now let me just see if I can get this straight. You come from another planet, and you're mortal there, but you're immortal here until you kill all the guys from there who have come here... and then you're mortal here... unless you go back there, or some more guys from there came here, in which case you become immortal here... again.
Conner MacLeod: Something like that.
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Release dates for
Highlander II: The Quickening (1991)
Country Date
USA 1 November 1991
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P.O.W. Wives Await Peace With Joy and Dread; P.O.W. Wives Await Peace With Joy and Fear
By NAN ROBERTSONSpecial to The New York Times ();
December 06, 1972,
, Section NEW JERSEY, Page 97, Column , words
[ DISPLAYING ABSTRACT ]
WASHINGTON, Dec. 5 -- The knowledge that a cease-fire in Southeast Asia may truly be at hand has thrown the families of the 1,268 missing Americans and 554 prisoners of war onto the cruelest of roller-coasters, swooping between exhilaration and dread.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0031731/releaseinfo
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Release dates for
North Sea Patrol (1938)
Luck of the Navy (original title)
Country Date
USA 28 December 1939
2008 TV miniseries "The Andromeda Strain" Part 1 DVD video: [ RACKETEER INFLUENCED AND CORRUPT ORGANIZATIONS US Title 18 ]
01:11:54
Jack Nash: [ telephone ] Nash.
Dr. Jeremy Stone: [ telephone ] Jeremy Stone.
Jack Nash: [ telephone ] Stone! I've been trying to reach you, man. Where the hell are you? You sound like you're at the bottom of a well.
Dr. Jeremy Stone: [ telephone ] You can say that.
- posted by H.V.O.M - Kerry Wayne Burgess 3:27 PM Pacific Time USA Saturday 07 April 2012
