See the Man Run

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lend-Lease


Lend-Lease

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Lend-Lease (Pub.L. 77–11, H.R. 1776, 55 Stat. 3034, enacted March 11, 1941) was a program under which the United States supplied Great Britain, the USSR, Republic of China, Free France, and others Allied nations with materiel between 1941 and August 1945. It was signed into law on March 11, 1941, a year and a half after the outbreak of World War II in Europe in September 1939. This was nine months before the U.S. entered the war in December 1941. Formally titled An Act to Further Promote the Defense of the United States, the Act effectively ended the United States' pretense of neutrality.

A total of $50.1 billion (equivalent to $650 billion today) worth of supplies were shipped. That represented 17% of the total war expenditures of the U.S. In all, $31.4 billion went to Britain


Historical background

Following the surrender of France in June 1940, Britain and its Commonwealth were the forces engaged in war against Nazi Germany. Britain had been paying for its material in gold under "cash and carry," as required by the US Neutrality Acts of the 1930s, but by 1941 it had liquidated so many assets that it was running short of cash.

During this same period, the U.S. government began to mobilize for a war, instituting the first-ever peacetime draft and a fivefold increase in the defense budget (from $2 billion to $10 billion). In the meantime, as the British began running short of money, arms, and other supplies, Prime Minister Winston Churchill pressed President Franklin D. Roosevelt for American help. Sympathetic to the British plight but hampered by the Neutrality Acts, which forbade arms sales on credit or the loaning of money to belligerent nations, Roosevelt eventually came up with the idea of "Lend-Lease." As one Roosevelt biographer has characterized it: "If there was no practical alternative, there was certainly no moral one either. Britain and the Commonwealth were carrying the battle for all civilization, and the overwhelming majority of Americans, led in the late election by their president, wished to help them." As the President himself put it, “There can be no reasoning with incendiary bombs.”










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Tailhook scandal

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The Tailhook scandal refers to a series of incidents where more than 100 U.S. Navy and United States Marine Corps aviation officers were alleged to have sexually assaulted at least 83 women and 7 men, or otherwise engaged in "improper and indecent" conduct at the Las Vegas Hilton in Las Vegas, Nevada. The events took place at the 35th Annual Tailhook Association Symposium from September 8 to 12, 1991.










http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080736/quotes

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The Final Countdown (1980)

Quotes


Pilot: [the Corsair is inbound to the Nimitz before the first time storm] Nimitz, this is 412, I have an unsafe hook indicator, over.

Air Boss: 412, roger unsafe hook. Recycle your hook.

Pilot: Negative, I've tried that.

Air Ops Officer: 412, your transmission's poor, say your fuel state.

Air Boss: [over the intercom to the bridge] Captain, Boss, that Corsair's in real trouble, can't get his tailhook down.










http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?date=19911205&slug=1321162

Thursday, December 5, 1991

Patty Murray Vs. Adams -- State Lawmaker Is First Democrat To Go For Senate Seat

By Jim Simon

OLYMPIA - State Sen. Patty Murray, who made her political entrance just four years ago with an upset election to the Legislature, now has a loftier goal: toppling fellow Democrat Sen. Brock Adams.

Murray, who represents the Shoreline area north of Seattle, said yesterday she will run for the U.S. Senate in 1992 as a self-styled "voice for middle-class families."


"It's not just Brock, it's the whole U.S. Senate," she said. "It's very clear there is a void back there and I'm going to fill it. Nobody back there represents the interests of ordinary families, who are in big trouble."










1980 film "The Final Countdown" DVD video:

00:16:03

US Navy Captain Matthew Yelland - USS Nimitz CVN 68 commanding officer: Black Cloud, you've been doing unauthorized rain dances again.

US Navy lieutenant commander Black Cloud - USS Nimitz CVN 68 meteorological officer: Take a look at the scope, sir.










http://history.house.gov/Exhibitions-and-Publications/Electronic-Technology/Television/

History, Art & Archives

UNITED STATES HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES


Speaker Martin's Television Debut: The House and Television

Nearly a half century elapsed from the invention of television to the broadcasting of House Floor proceedings. During the 1920s and 1930s, technological innovations allowed the transmission of images via radio waves. Television receivers first were sold to the public in 1939—though regular network programming did not begin for another decade. The first live television broadcast coverage of a congressional proceeding occurred on January 3, 1947, when cameras were allowed into the House Chamber to telecast the opening of the 80th Congress. It also was the last such broadcast for more than three decades, despite the fact that television became a major cultural phenomenon. Between 1949 and 1962, for instance, the percentage of American homes with television sets sky rocketed from about two percent to 90 percent.










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HISTORY


Voting Age Lowered (0:32) TV-Y

On July 5, 1971, Richard Nixon formally certified the 26th Amendment, which granted 18 year olds the right to vote. The voting age had been 21 in a majority of the states










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Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid (1973)

Release Info

USA 23 May 1973 (New York City, New York)










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Freud (1962)

Release Info

USA 12 December 1962



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Freud (1962)

Full Cast & Crew


Montgomery Clift ... Sigmund Freud










From 12/12/1962 ( premiere US film "Freud" ) To 12/4/1991 ( RACKETEER INFLUENCED AND CORRUPT ORGANIZATIONS US Title 18 - Patty Murray announces candidacy for United States Senate from the State of Washington as scheduled severe criminal activity against the United States of America ) is 10584 days

From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official Deputy United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 10/25/1994 ( Susan Smith kills her two children and dumps them in her car in the John D. Long Lake near Union South Carolina ) is 10584 days



From 12/4/1991 ( RACKETEER INFLUENCED AND CORRUPT ORGANIZATIONS US Title 18 - Patty Murray announces candidacy for United States Senate from the State of Washington as scheduled severe criminal activity against the United States of America ) To 10/25/1994 ( Susan Smith kills her two children and dumps them in her car in the John D. Long Lake near Union South Carolina ) is 1056 days

From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official Deputy United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 9/23/1968 ( premiere US TV series "Mayberry R.F.D." ) is 1056 days



From 9/26/1971 ( Susan Smith ) To 12/4/1991 ( RACKETEER INFLUENCED AND CORRUPT ORGANIZATIONS US Title 18 - Patty Murray announces candidacy for United States Senate from the State of Washington as scheduled severe criminal activity against the United States of America ) is 7374 days

From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official Deputy United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 1/10/1986 ( premiere US TV series "He's the Mayor" ) is 7374 days



From 10/28/1955 ( Microsoft Bill Gates the transvestite and 100% female gender as born and the Soviet Union prostitute and the cowardly International Terrorist violently against the United States of America actively instigates insurrection and subversive activity against the USA and United Nations chartered allies ) To 11/28/1981 ( premiere US TV movie "Dream House" ) is 9528 days

From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official Deputy United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 12/4/1991 ( RACKETEER INFLUENCED AND CORRUPT ORGANIZATIONS US Title 18 - Patty Murray announces candidacy for United States Senate from the State of Washington as scheduled severe criminal activity against the United States of America ) is 9528 days



From 10/3/1978 ( Stephen King "The Stand" ) To 12/4/1991 ( RACKETEER INFLUENCED AND CORRUPT ORGANIZATIONS US Title 18 - Patty Murray announces candidacy for United States Senate from the State of Washington as scheduled severe criminal activity against the United States of America ) is 4810 days

From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official Deputy United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 1/3/1979 ( Conrad Hilton deceased ) is 4810 days



From 9/7/1944 ( premiere US film "The Impatient Years" ) To 12/4/1991 ( RACKETEER INFLUENCED AND CORRUPT ORGANIZATIONS US Title 18 - Patty Murray announces candidacy for United States Senate from the State of Washington as scheduled severe criminal activity against the United States of America ) is 17254 days

17254 = 8627 + 8627

From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official Deputy United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 6/16/1989 ( RACKETEER INFLUENCED AND CORRUPT ORGANIZATIONS US Title 18 - premiere US film "Ghostbusters II" ) is 8627 days



From 9/7/1944 ( premiere US film "The War Speeds Up" ) To 12/4/1991 ( RACKETEER INFLUENCED AND CORRUPT ORGANIZATIONS US Title 18 - Patty Murray announces candidacy for United States Senate from the State of Washington as scheduled severe criminal activity against the United States of America ) is 17254 days

17254 = 8627 + 8627

From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official Deputy United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 6/16/1989 ( RACKETEER INFLUENCED AND CORRUPT ORGANIZATIONS US Title 18 - premiere US film "Ghostbusters II" ) is 8627 days



From 3/23/1942 ( premiere US film "The Battle for Oil" ) To 4/23/1968 ( Timothy James McVeigh ) is 9528 days

From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official Deputy United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 12/4/1991 ( RACKETEER INFLUENCED AND CORRUPT ORGANIZATIONS US Title 18 - Patty Murray announces candidacy for United States Senate from the State of Washington as scheduled severe criminal activity against the United States of America ) is 9528 days



From 12/11/1971 ( premiere US TV movie "See the Man Run" ) To 12/4/1991 ( RACKETEER INFLUENCED AND CORRUPT ORGANIZATIONS US Title 18 - Patty Murray announces candidacy for United States Senate from the State of Washington as scheduled severe criminal activity against the United States of America ) is 7298 days

7298 = 3649 + 3649

From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official Deputy United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 10/30/1975 ( Alfred P. Murrah deceased ) is 3649 days



From 12/4/1991 ( RACKETEER INFLUENCED AND CORRUPT ORGANIZATIONS US Title 18 - Patty Murray announces candidacy for United States Senate from the State of Washington as scheduled severe criminal activity against the United States of America ) To 4/19/1995 ( Bill Gates-Nazi-Microsoft-Corbis-George Bush the cowardly violent criminal in a scheduled terrorist attack destroys the Oklahoma City Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building with many fatalities and massive destruction to the United States of America Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building and the local area ) is 1232 days

From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official Deputy United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 3/18/1969 ( Operation Breakfast begins - the secret United States bombing of Cambodia ) is 1232 days



From 8/31/1979 ( premiere US film "Time After Time" ) To 12/4/1991 ( RACKETEER INFLUENCED AND CORRUPT ORGANIZATIONS US Title 18 - Patty Murray announces candidacy for United States Senate from the State of Washington as scheduled severe criminal activity against the United States of America ) is 4478 days

4478 = 2239 + 2239

From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official Deputy United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 12/20/1971 ( Roy Disney dead ) is 2239 days



From 8/17/1960 ( premiere US film "The Time Machine" ) To 9/18/1986 ( premiere US TV series "Crime Story" ) is 9528 days

From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official Deputy United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 12/4/1991 ( RACKETEER INFLUENCED AND CORRUPT ORGANIZATIONS US Title 18 - Patty Murray announces candidacy for United States Senate from the State of Washington as scheduled severe criminal activity against the United States of America ) is 9528 days



From 8/17/1960 ( the Soviet Union trial of the United States Central Intelligence Agency pilot Gary Powers begins in Moscow Russia Soviet Union ) To 9/18/1986 ( premiere US TV series "Crime Story" ) is 9528 days

From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official Deputy United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 12/4/1991 ( RACKETEER INFLUENCED AND CORRUPT ORGANIZATIONS US Title 18 - Patty Murray announces candidacy for United States Senate from the State of Washington as scheduled severe criminal activity against the United States of America ) is 9528 days



From 7/3/1958 ( premiere US film "Fiend Without a Face" ) To 8/3/1984 ( RACKETEER INFLUENCED AND CORRUPT ORGANIZATIONS US Title 18 - premiere US film "The Philadelphia Experiment" ) is 9528 days

From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official Deputy United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 12/4/1991 ( RACKETEER INFLUENCED AND CORRUPT ORGANIZATIONS US Title 18 - Patty Murray announces candidacy for United States Senate from the State of Washington as scheduled severe criminal activity against the United States of America ) is 9528 days



From 1/24/1985 ( the United States Navy submarine warship USS George Washington SSN 598 formerly SSBN 598 decommissioned from United States Navy active service - my biological brother United States Navy Fleet Admiral Thomas Reagan serving as General of the Armies of the United States is the final commanding officer of USS George Washington SSN 598 the active fleet platform ) To 12/4/1991 ( RACKETEER INFLUENCED AND CORRUPT ORGANIZATIONS US Title 18 - Patty Murray announces candidacy for United States Senate from the State of Washington as scheduled severe criminal activity against the United States of America ) is 2505 days

From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official Deputy United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 9/11/1972 ( premiere US TV series "The Rookies" ) is 2505 days



From 8/1/1980 ( premiere US film "The Final Countdown" ) To 12/4/1991 ( RACKETEER INFLUENCED AND CORRUPT ORGANIZATIONS US Title 18 - Patty Murray announces candidacy for United States Senate from the State of Washington as scheduled severe criminal activity against the United States of America ) is 4142 days

4142 = 2071 + 2071

From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official Deputy United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 7/5/1971 ( the voting age lowered in the United States ) is 2071 days



From 5/15/1984 ( as Kerry Wayne Burgess I began active service for an enlistment period of six years as a United States Navy enlisted sailor and circa 2012 my United States of America military service continues as Kerry Wayne Burgess the United States Marine Corps lieutenant general ) To 12/4/1991 ( RACKETEER INFLUENCED AND CORRUPT ORGANIZATIONS US Title 18 - Patty Murray announces candidacy for United States Senate from the State of Washington as scheduled severe criminal activity against the United States of America ) is 2759 days

From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official Deputy United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 5/23/1973 ( premiere US film "Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid" ) is 2759 days



From 7/19/1989 ( Bill Gates-Microsoft-George Bush kills 111 passengers and crew of United Airlines Flight 232 and destroys the United Airlines Flight 232 aircraft because I was a passenger of United Airlines Flight 232 as United States Navy Petty Officer Second Class Kerry Wayne Burgess and I was assigned to maintain custody of a non-violent offender military prisoner of the United States ) To 12/4/1991 ( RACKETEER INFLUENCED AND CORRUPT ORGANIZATIONS US Title 18 - Patty Murray announces candidacy for United States Senate from the State of Washington as scheduled severe criminal activity against the United States of America ) is 868 days

868 = 434 + 434

From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official Deputy United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 1/10/1967 ( premiere US TV series pilot "The Invaders"::"Beachhead" ) is 434 days



From 10/28/1937 ( premiere US film "Victoria the Great" ) To 12/4/1991 ( RACKETEER INFLUENCED AND CORRUPT ORGANIZATIONS US Title 18 - Patty Murray announces candidacy for United States Senate from the State of Washington as scheduled severe criminal activity against the United States of America ) is 19760 days

19760 = 9880 + 9880

From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official Deputy United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 11/20/1992 ( the scheduled terrorist attack by force of violence by Bill Gates-Nazi-Microsoft-George Bush the International War Criminal and the cowardly violent criminal to destroy Her Majesty's Windsor Castle London England ) is 9880 days



From 12/4/1991 ( RACKETEER INFLUENCED AND CORRUPT ORGANIZATIONS US Title 18 - Patty Murray announces candidacy for United States Senate from the State of Washington as scheduled severe criminal activity against the United States of America ) To 11/20/1992 ( the scheduled terrorist attack by force of violence by Bill Gates-Nazi-Microsoft-George Bush the International War Criminal and the cowardly violent criminal to destroy Her Majesty's Windsor Castle London England ) is 352 days

From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official Deputy United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 10/20/1966 ( premiere US TV series episode "Star Trek"::"What Are Little Girls Made Of?" ) is 352 days



From 12/4/1991 ( RACKETEER INFLUENCED AND CORRUPT ORGANIZATIONS US Title 18 - Patty Murray announces candidacy for United States Senate from the State of Washington as scheduled severe criminal activity against the United States of America ) To 2/26/1993 ( the scheduled terrorist attack by force of violence by Bill Gates-Microsoft-Corbis-George Bush the cowardly violent criminal to destroy the World Trade Center New York ) is 450 days

From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official Deputy United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 1/26/1967 ( premiere US TV series episode "Star Trek"::"Tomorrow Is Yesterday" ) is 450 days



From 10/9/1941 ( Trent Lott ) To 11/10/1967 ( premiere US TV series episode "Star Trek"::"Metamorphosis" ) is 9528 days

From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official Deputy United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 12/4/1991 ( RACKETEER INFLUENCED AND CORRUPT ORGANIZATIONS US Title 18 - Patty Murray announces candidacy for United States Senate from the State of Washington as scheduled severe criminal activity against the United States of America ) is 9528 days



From 7/5/1927 ( Albrecht Kossel deceased ) To 8/5/1953 ( premiere US film "From Here to Eternity" ) is 9528 days

From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official Deputy United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 12/4/1991 ( RACKETEER INFLUENCED AND CORRUPT ORGANIZATIONS US Title 18 - Patty Murray announces candidacy for United States Senate from the State of Washington as scheduled severe criminal activity against the United States of America ) is 9528 days



From 3/16/1991 ( date hijacked from me:my first successful major test of my ultraspace matter transportation device as Kerry Wayne Burgess the successful Ph.D. graduate Columbia South Carolina ) To 12/4/1991 ( RACKETEER INFLUENCED AND CORRUPT ORGANIZATIONS US Title 18 - Patty Murray announces candidacy for United States Senate from the State of Washington as scheduled severe criminal activity against the United States of America ) is 263 days

From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official Deputy United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 7/23/1966 ( Montgomery Clift deceased ) is 263 days



From 3/11/1941 ( Franklin Roosevelt signs Lend-Lease ) To 12/4/1991 ( RACKETEER INFLUENCED AND CORRUPT ORGANIZATIONS US Title 18 - Patty Murray announces candidacy for United States Senate from the State of Washington as scheduled severe criminal activity against the United States of America ) is 18530 days

18530 = 9265 + 9265

From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official Deputy United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 3/16/1991 ( date hijacked from me:my first successful major test of my ultraspace matter transportation device as Kerry Wayne Burgess the successful Ph.D. graduate Columbia South Carolina ) is 9265 days



From 1/3/1947 ( the first live television coverage of proceedings of the United States Congress ) To 12/4/1991 ( RACKETEER INFLUENCED AND CORRUPT ORGANIZATIONS US Title 18 - Patty Murray announces candidacy for United States Senate from the State of Washington as scheduled severe criminal activity against the United States of America ) is 16406 days

16406 = 8203 + 8203

From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official Deputy United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 4/18/1988 ( the United States Navy Operation Praying Mantis - my biological brother US Navy Fleet Admiral Thomas Reagan and I US Navy FC2 Kerry Wayne Burgess are both at the same time onboard the United States Navy warship USS Wainwright CG 28 when it evaded a Harpoon anti-ship missile from hostile Iran-Bill Gates-Microsoft-George Bush-Axis of Evil-Soviet Union-Communist forces but 2 United States Marine Corps aviators launched from USS Wainwright CG 28 killed this day ) is 8203 days



From 1/17/1991 ( RACKETEER INFLUENCED AND CORRUPT ORGANIZATIONS US Title 18 - the Persian Gulf War begins as scheduled severe criminal activity against the United States of America ) To 12/4/1991 ( RACKETEER INFLUENCED AND CORRUPT ORGANIZATIONS US Title 18 - Patty Murray announces candidacy for United States Senate from the State of Washington as scheduled severe criminal activity against the United States of America ) is 321 days

From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official Deputy United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 9/19/1966 ( Eric Robert Rudolph ) is 321 days



From 11/20/1951 ( premiere US film "Fixed Bayonets!" ) To 12/21/1977 ( premiere US film "The Gauntlet" ) is 9528 days

From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official Deputy United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 12/4/1991 ( RACKETEER INFLUENCED AND CORRUPT ORGANIZATIONS US Title 18 - Patty Murray announces candidacy for United States Senate from the State of Washington as scheduled severe criminal activity against the United States of America ) is 9528 days


http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?date=19911205&slug=1321162

The Seattle Times


Thursday, December 5, 1991


Patty Murray Vs. Adams -- State Lawmaker Is First Democrat To Go For Senate Seat

By Jim Simon

OLYMPIA - State Sen. Patty Murray, who made her political entrance just four years ago with an upset election to the Legislature, now has a loftier goal: toppling fellow Democrat Sen. Brock Adams.

Murray, who represents the Shoreline area north of Seattle, said yesterday she will run for the U.S. Senate in 1992 as a self-styled "voice for middle-class families."

She said she would file election papers next week, making her the first Democrat to jump in against Adams. She probably won't be the last.

Former U.S. Rep. Mike Lowry of Seattle, who has a large and loyal following among party liberals, also is expected to run in what is shaping up to be a bruising Democratic primary. Lowry says he won't officially announce his 1992 election plans until after New Year's Day.

But he said he would drop a broad hint tonight when he mails out a fund-raising letter to 25,000 supporters in which "I try to remove any questions about when and if I run, what I will run for."

Several Democratic insiders say Lowry has, in fact, made up his mind to seek the Senate seat that has eluded him in two previous races.

Murray said her candidacy would stress family issues: improving schools, better access to health care and higher education, and tax relief for the middle class.

"It's not just Brock, it's the whole U.S. Senate," she said. "It's very clear there is a void back there and I'm going to fill it. Nobody back there represents the interests of ordinary families, who are in big trouble."

She also is counting on benefiting from being - so far, at least - the only woman in the field, particularly after the way male senators handled the recent Anita Hill-Clarence Thomas hearings.

"Watching those hearings," Murray said, "people were overwhelmingly conscious of the fact that there are only two women in the whole Senate. It's time to put a mom's voice in there."

But Adams' forces blasted the gender card as hogwash. They say the incumbent has long backed women's health-care programs and other matters important to women, winning him the support of most women's groups.

"We're disappointed by Patty's decision," said an Adams spokesman, Peter Hereford, who dismissed Murray as a political neophyte. "What we don't understand is why she's entering this race. There's no difference between Patty Murray and Brock Adams on issues she cares about. The fact that he's a man and she's a woman is irrelevant."

In truth, it's Adams perceived vulnerability - not his gender - that's drawing a crowd of challengers.

Various polls from both parties show the incumbent with dismal re-election prospects.

That's attracted four Republicans: U.S. Rep. Rod Chandler of Bellevue, state Lands Commissioner Brian Boyle, state Sen. Leo Thorsness of Renton and King County Executive Tim Hill.

On the Democratic side, most observers give Lowry a much better shot of knocking off the incumbent than Murray. All three, though, will be trying to attract votes from the same slice of voters: liberals, labor and women's groups.

Murray, 41, doesn't have the usual pedigree for Senate hopefuls. She taught parent-education classes for a community-college preschool program and was a member of the Shoreline School Board for five years before being swept into the Legislature with the backing of a parents group.

While Murray garnered high marks in Olympia as a freshman for her forceful advocacy for education and requiring businesses to provide family leave for employees, her colleagues are skeptical about whether she can raise the kind of big money needed for a Senate race.

Some counseled Murray to create an exploratory committee, rather than jump into the race immediately, as a way of keeping her options open - particularly if Lowry enters the fray.

"I just don't see where the support is coming from and nobody else does, either," said one prominent Democrat. "The concern isn't to prevent a primary fight. It's for Patty's future - that the day after the primary she'll be sitting on the sidewalk with nothing."

Murray professes to be unfazed by the gamble.

"I've done a lot of things without knowing exactly what I was jumping into," she said. "It's not that daunting."










http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0076070/quotes

IMDb


The Gauntlet (1977)

Quotes


Ben Shockley: Exactly. Reasonable suspicion.










http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=l000447

Biographical Directory of the United States Congress


LOTT, Chester Trent, (1941 - )

Senate Years of Service: 1989-2007


LOTT, Chester Trent, a Representative and a Senator from Mississippi; born in Grenada, Grenada County, Miss., October 9, 1941


elected as a Republican to the Ninety-third and to the seven succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1973-January 3, 1989); minority whip (1981-1989); elected to the United States Senate in 1988 and reelected in 1994, 2000, and again in 2006 and served from January 3, 1989, until his resignation on December 18, 2007; Republican party whip (1995-1996, 2007); majority leader (1996-January 3, 2001, January 20-June 6, 2001); minority leader (January 3-20, 2001; June 6, 2001-January 6, 2003); chair, Committee on Rules and Administration (One Hundred Eighth and One Hundred Ninth Congresses).










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Tom Clancy

Rainbow Six


CHAPTER 9

STALKERS


So long, Chester, Killgore thought.










http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?date=19911205&slug=1321162

The Seattle Times


Thursday, December 5, 1991


Murray said her candidacy would stress family issues: improving schools, better access to health care and higher education, and tax relief for the middle class.

"It's not just Brock, it's the whole U.S. Senate," she said. "It's very clear there is a void back there and I'm going to fill it. Nobody back there represents the interests of ordinary families, who are in big trouble."










http://www.chakoteya.net/StarTrek/31.htm

Metamorphosis

Stardate: Unknown

Original Airdate: Nov 10, 1967


COCHRANE: Captain, don't tell them about me.

KIRK: Not a word, Mister Cochrane.

MCCOY: Jim, what about that war on Epsilon Canaris Three?

KIRK: Well, I'm sure the Federation can find another woman somewhere who'll stop that war.










http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/laureates/1910/kossel-facts.html

Nobelprize.org

The Official Web Site of the Nobel Prize

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1910

Albrecht Kossel


Albrecht Kossel

Born: 16 September 1853, Rostock, Mecklenburg (now Germany)

Died: 5 July 1927, Heidelberg, Germany

Affiliation at the time of the award: University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

Prize motivation: "in recognition of the contributions to our knowledge of cell chemistry made through his work on proteins, including the nucleic substances"

Field: biochemistry, cell physiology, chemistry



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

Albrecht Kossel

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Ludwig Karl Martin Leonhard Albrecht Kossel (16 September 1853 – 5 July 1927) was a German biochemist and pioneer in the study of genetics. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1910 for his work in determining the chemical composition of nucleic acids, the genetic substance of biological cells.

Kossel isolated and described the five organic compounds that are present in nucleic acid: adenine, cytosine, guanine, thymine, and uracil. These compounds were later shown to be nucleobases, and are key in the formation of DNA and RNA, the genetic material found in all living cells.










http://www.chakoteya.net/StarTrek/31.htm

Metamorphosis

Stardate: Unknown

Original Airdate: Nov 10, 1967


COCHRANE: Believe me, Captain, immortality consists largely of boredom. What's it like out there in the galaxy?










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From Here to Eternity (1953)

Release Info

USA 5 August 1953 (New York City, New York) (premiere)



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From Here to Eternity (1953)

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Montgomery Clift ... Robert E. Lee Prewitt










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From Here to Eternity (1953)

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Captain Dana Holmes: You know why you were assigned to G Company?

Robert E. Lee "Prew' Prewitt: No, sir.

Captain Dana Holmes: I pulled a few strings. I'm the regimental boxing coach, you know.

Robert E. Lee "Prew' Prewitt: Yes, sir.

Captain Dana Holmes: I saw your fight with Connors in the Bowl, year before last. You should've won it.

Robert E. Lee "Prew' Prewitt: Thank you, sir.

Captain Dana Holmes: Our regiment got beaten in the finals last December, but I mean to win this year. All I've needed is a top middleweight.

Robert E. Lee "Prew' Prewitt: I'm sorry, sir. I quit fighting.

Captain Dana Holmes: Quit fighting? When? What for?

Robert E. Lee "Prew' Prewitt: Well, over a year ago. Maybe you heard about what happened with Dixie Wells?

Captain Dana Holmes: You mean that fellow that got hurt?

Robert E. Lee "Prew' Prewitt: Yes sir.

Captain Dana Holmes: Yes, I heard about that. It's too bad. I can understand how you feel, but those things happen.

Robert E. Lee "Prew' Prewitt: That's WHY I decided I would quit, sir.

Captain Dana Holmes: You might as well say stop war because one man got killed!










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Star Trek Season 2 Episode 9

Metamorphosis

AIRED: 11/10/67










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The Battle for Oil (1942)

Release Info

USA 23 March 1942










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Timothy McVeigh

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Timothy McVeigh, in full Timothy James McVeigh (born April 23, 1968, Pendleton, N.Y., U.S.—died June 11, 2001, Terre Haute, Ind.)










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Stephen King

The Stand - The Complete & Uncut Edition [ RACKETEER INFLUENCED AND CORRUPT ORGANIZATIONS US Title 18 ]


Chapter 48

He came staggering and flapping up a long upgrade, the heat of the sun stewing his stomach and baking his brains. The interstate shimmered with reflected radiant heat. He had been Donald Merwin Elbert once, now he was Trashcan Man forever and ever, and he beheld the fabled City, Seven-in-One, Cibola.

How long had he been traveling west? How long since The Kid? God might know; Trashcan Man did not. It had been days. Nights. Oh, he remembered the nights!

He stood, swaying in his rags, looking down at Cibola, the City that is Promised, the City of Dreams. He was a wreck. The wrist that he had broken when he leaped the railing of the stairway bolted to the Cheery Oil tank had not healed right, and that wrist was a grotesque lump wrapped in a dirty, unraveling Ace bandage. All the bones in the fingers of that hand had pulled up somehow, turning the hand into a Quasimodo claw. His left arm was a slowly healing mass of burn tissue from elbow to shoulder. It no longer smelled bad and suppurated, but the new flesh was hairless and pink, like the skin of a cheap doll. His grinning, mad face was sunburned, peeling, scruffy-bearded, and covered with scabs from the header he had taken when the front wheel of his bike had parted company from the frame. He wore a faded blue J.C. Penney workshirt that was marked with expanding rings of sweatstain and a dirty pair of corduroy trousers. His pack, which had been new not so long ago, had now taken on the style and substance of its owner—one strap had broken, Trash had knotted it as best he could, and the pack now hung askew on his back like a shutter on a haunted house. It was dusty, its creases filled with desert sand. On his feet were Keds now bound together with hanks of twine, and from them his scratched and sand-chafed ankles rose innocent of socks.

He stared at the city far ahead and below. He turned his face up to the savage gunmetal sky and to the sun that blared down, coating him with furnace heat. He screamed. It was a savage, triumphant scream, very much like the one Susan Stern had uttered when she split Roger Rabbit’s skull with the butt of his own shotgun.

He began to do a shuffling, victorious dance on the hot, shimmering surface of Interstate 15 while the desert sirocco blew sand across the highway and the blue peaks of the Pahranagat and Spotted ranges sawed their teeth indifferently at the brilliant sky as they had done for millennia. Off the other side of the highway, a Lincoln Continental and a T-Bird were now almost buried in sand, their occupants mummified behind safety glass. Up ahead on Trashcan’s side was an overturned pickup, everything covered but the wheels and the rocker panels.

He danced. His feet, clad in the lashed and bulging Keds, bumped up and down on the highway in a drunken sort of hornpipe. The tattered tail of his shirt flapped. His canteen clunked against his pack. The unraveling ends of the Ace bandage fluttered in the hot breath of the wind. Pink, smooth burn tissue gleamed rawly. Clocksprings of veins bulged at his temples. He had been in God’s frying pan for a week now, moving southwest across Utah, the tip of Arizona, and then into Nevada, and he was just as mad as a hatter.

As he danced, he sang monotonously, the same words over and over, to a tune that had been popular when he was in the Terre Haute institution, a song called “Down to the Nightclub” that had been done by a black group called Tower of Power. But the words were his own. He sang:

“Ci-a-bola, Ci-a-bola, bump-ty, bump-ty, bump! Ci-a-bola, Ci-a-bola, bump-ty, bump-ty, bump! ” Each final “bump! ” was followed by a little skipping leap until the heat made everything swim and the harsh bright sky went twilight gray and he collapsed on the road, half fainting, his taxed heart thundering crazily in his arid chest. With the last of his strength, blubbering and grinning, he pulled himself over the overturned pickup truck and lay in its diminishing shade, shivering in the heat and panting.

“Cibola!” He croaked. “Bumpty-bumpty-bump! ”

He fumbled his canteen off his shoulder with his claw hand and shook it. The canteen was nearly empty. Didn’t matter. He would drink every single drop and lay up here until the sun went down, and then he would walk down the highway and into Cibola, fabled City. Seven-in-One. Tonight he would drink from ever-springing fountains faced in gold. But not until the killer sun went down. God was the greatest firebug of them all. A long time ago a boy named Donald Merwin Elbert had burned up old lady Semple’s pension check. That same boy had torched the Methodist Church in Powtanville, and if there had been anything left of Donald Merwin Elbert in this shell, it had surely been cremated with the oiltanks in Gary, Indiana. Over nine dozen of them, and they had gone up like a walloping string of firecrackers. Just in time for the Fourth of July, too. Nice. And in the wake of that conflagration, only the Trashcan Man had been left, his left arm a cracked and boiling stew, a fire inside his body that was never going to go out… at least not until his body was so much blackened charcoal.

And tonight he would drink the water of Cibola, yes, and it would taste like wine.

He upended the canteen and his throat worked as the last of his water, pisswarm, gurgled down into his belly. When it was gone, he threw the canteen out into the desert. Sweat had broken on his forehead like dew. He lay shivering deliciously with water cramps.

“Cibola!” He muttered. “Cibola! I’m coming! I’m coming! I’ll do whatever you want! My life for you!










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Chicago Tribune


Car Bomb Blamed For N.y. Blast

5 Killed, 500 Hurt At World Trade Center

February 27, 1993 By Janet Cawley and Lisa Anderson, Chicago Tribune. Tribune correspondent Mike Dorning contributed to this report.

NEW YORK — A gigantic underground explosion believed caused by a car bomb rocked the 110-story World Trade Center on Friday, killing at least five people, injuring more than 500 and leaving a four-story crater beneath the world's second-tallest building.

Lower Manhattan was transformed into gridlocked chaos as emergency vehicles filled the streets and shards of glass from windows broken by panicked upper-floor workers showered the area.

Survivors, their faces and clothes covered with soot, groped their way down smoke-filled staircases and out of One World Trade Center. Those working in the center's twin tower were stranded as well when power was cut.

About 50,000 people work in the two buildings and more than 200,000 visit daily.

Even in a city used to the unexpected and dreadful, this was an urban nightmare; those who had thought they were safely at work found themselves frightfully vulnerable.

About four hours after the 12:18 p.m. (EST) explosion, the Empire State Building was evacuated as a precaution, reportedly after police received a call saying a bomb had been planted at that landmark.

The New York area's three major airports reportedly also were placed on alert in case the blast was part of a larger terrorist plan.

Frank McCarton, a spokesman for New York's Emergency Medical Service, said that as of Friday evening there were five dead, 518 treated and transported to area hospitals and another 213 treated at the scene and released. He said an emergency unit had been established on the 43rd floor of the tower.

There was no indication some sort of accident caused the mammoth blast and two-hour fire in the second sublevel of an underground parking garage. At least two people were killed there, fire officials said.

New York Gov. Mario Cuomo, in a telephone interview on the "Larry King Live" television show, said late Friday that it has "been established that it was a bomb placed on the floor of the parking garage."

"Where the damage is, there is no transformer or other equipment that could have exploded with such magnitude," said Charles Maikish, director of the World Trade Center.

Local news reports said that 15 minutes before the explosion, a man with a heavy foreign accent called 911 and said a bomb would go off near the World Trade Center. He reportedly said he was a member of a former Yugoslav republic, but did not specify which one.

James Fox, assistant director of the New York FBI office, told The New York Times that a joint terrorist task force of federal agents and city detectives had examined the wreckage and believed that a car bomb had caused the explosion, but this was not confirmed by local authorities.

"We have not determined the origin of the explosion," Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly said. He said there had been at least seven calls claiming responsibility for the blast.

A deputy fire commissioner, however, was quoted as saying that officials believe as much as 200 pounds of explosives hidden in a car in the underground garage triggered the explosion.

Many reportedly were victims of smoke inhalation.

Among those stranded for several hours were two kindergarten classes visiting from Brooklyn.

As survivors stumbled out of the buildings into freezing temperatures, they told harrowing tales of groping their way down as many as 100 flights of stairs, often unable to see due to the dense smoke.

"I heard a boom and the power went off and came on again," said Masayo Kaneko, an executive with Sumitomo Bank on the 96th floor. "My friend and I went out to the elevator area and it was all smoky already, only three minutes later.

"I'm so tired," said Kaneko, 47, who spent two hours creeping down the smoky stairway.

"I was scared because as we went down, the smoke was worse and worse. But everyone said, `Calm down, calm down. Don't push.' Everyone was kind."

Said Donna Olsen, a futures trading specialist on the 37th floor: "I saw a huge explosion from my window. It was a huge, black flash. . . . We just got our stuff and got out. . . . The stairs were packed with people."

Firefighters reported the explosion blew a crater at least 50 feet wide and 50 feet deep in the reinforced concrete floor of the second basement level between the 23-year-old towers. The site of the blast contained a Port Authority maintenance office, locker room, cafeteria and operations center.

The blast also blew out the ceiling of an underground Port Authority Trans-Hudson (PATH) train station taking passengers to and from New Jersey.

"Whatever it was, it was powerful enough that you can't imagine the devastation," said Hank Molle, a firefighter with Rescue One.

"Walls were down, ceilings were down, there were computers everywhere-one office looked completely devastated. We could hear voices at one point."










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Star Trek Season 1 Episode 19

Tomorrow is Yesterday

Aired Unknown Jan 26, 1967 on NBC

The Enterprise narrowly avoids a collision with a black hole and is thrown back to Earth in the 20th century, where they must find a way back and erase any trace of their presence. Matters become complicated when they rescue an Air Force pilot and cannot return him without changing history...but if he disappears that will change history as well.

AIRED: 1/26/67










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Victoria the Great (1937)

Release Info

USA 28 October 1937



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Victoria the Great (1937)

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Anna Neagle ... Queen Victoria










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Star Trek Season 1 Episode 7

What Are Little Girls Made Of?

Aired Unknown Oct 20, 1966 on NBC

AIRED: 10/20/66










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The War Speeds Up (1944)

Release Info

USA 7 September 1944



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The War Speeds Up (1944)

Documentary short film explaining the need for increased production of war materials such as artillery shells and bullets as the pace of the Allied war effort increases.










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HISTORY


THIS DAY IN HISTORY


Mar 11, 1941:

FDR signs Lend-Lease

On this day, President Franklin D. Roosevelt's Lend-Lease program, which provides money and materials for allies in the war, goes into effect.

The Lend-Lease program was devised by Roosevelt as a means of aiding Great Britain in its war effort against the Germans, by giving the chief executive the power to "sell, transfer title to, exchange, lease, lend, or otherwise dispose of" any military resources the president deemed ultimately in the interest of the defense of the United States. The reasoning was that if a neighbor was successful in defending his home, the security of your home would be enhanced. It also served to bolster British morale by giving them the sense that they were no longer alone in their struggle against Hitler.

The program was finally authorized by Congress and signed into effect on March 11, 1941. By November, after much heated debate, Congress extended the terms of Lend-Lease to the Soviet Union, even though the USSR had already been the recipient of American military weapons and had been promised $1 billion in financial aid. By the end of the war, more than $50 billion in funds, weapons, aircraft, and ships had been distributed to 44 countries. After the war, the Lend-Lease program morphed into the Marshall Plan, which allocated funds for the revitalization of "friendly" democratic nations-even if they were former enemies.










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a prefix occurring originally in loanwords from Latin, with the basic meaning “on the far side of, beyond.” In relation to the base to which it is prefixed, ultra- has the senses “located beyond, on the far side of”



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the unlimited or incalculably great three-dimensional realm or expanse in which all material objects are located and all events occur.










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The Stand - The Complete & Uncut Edition [ RACKETEER INFLUENCED AND CORRUPT ORGANIZATIONS US Title 18 ]


Chapter 53


The planchette began to move more rapidly, tracing out the letters A, T, H, E, and R.

“Father dear, your baby’s here,” a girl named Patty something-or-other said, and giggled. “It must be my father, he died of a heart attack when I was three.”

“It’s writing some more,” Sandy said.

S, A, Y, S, the planchette spelled laboriously.

“What’s going on?” Nadine whispered to a tall, horse-faced girl she didn’t know. The horse-faced girl was looking on with her hands in her pockets and a disgusted look on her face.

“A bunch of girls playing games with something they don’t understand,” the horse-faced girl said. “That’s what’s going on.” She spoke in an even lower whisper.

“FATHER SAYS PATTY,” Sandy quoted. “It’s your dear old dad, all right, Pats.”

Another burst of giggles.

The horse-faced girl was wearing spectacles. Now she took her hands out of the pockets of the overalls she was wearing and used them to remove the spectacles from her face. She polished them and explained further to Nadine, still in a whisper. “The planchette is a tool used by psychics and mediums. Kinestheologists—”

“What ologists?”

“Scientists who study movement, and the interaction of muscles and nerves.”

“Oh.”

“They claim that the planchette is actually responding to tiny muscle movements, probably guided by the subconscious rather than the conscious mind. Of course, mediums and psychics claim that the planchette is moved by entities from the spirit world—”

Another burst of hysterical laughter came from the girls clustered around the board. Nadine looked over the horse-faced girl’s shoulder and saw the message now read, FATHER SAYS PATTY SHOULD STOP GOING.

“—to the bathroom so much,” another girl in the circle of spectators suggested, and everyone laughed some more.

“Either way, they’re just fooling with it,” the horse-faced girl said with a disdainful sniff. “It’s very unwise. Both mediums and scientists agree that automatic writing can be dangerous.”

“The spirits are unfriendly tonight, you think?” Nadine asked lightly.

“Perhaps the spirits are always unfriendly,” the horse-faced girl said, giving her a sharp look. “Or you might get a message from your subconscious mind which you were totally unprepared to receive. There are documented cases of automatic writing getting entirely out of control, you know. People have gone mad.”

“Oh, that seems awfully farfetched. It’s just a game.”

“Games have a way of turning serious sometimes.”

The loudest burst of laughter yet tacked a period to the horse-faced girl’s comment before Nadine could reply. The girl named Patty something-or-other had fallen off the bed and lay on the floor, holding her stomach and laughing and kicking her feet weakly. The completed message read, FATHER SAYS PATTY SHOULD STOP GOING TO THE SUBMARINE RACES WITH LEONARD KATZ.










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The Final Countdown (1980)

Quotes


Air Boss: [Over PA to flight deck crew] On the flight deck, we have an A-7 Corsiar in trouble, can't get his tail hook down. This is not a drill, repeat, this is not a drill. Now, rig the barricade! Foul deck, foul deck, this is no drill!










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Stephen King

The Stand - The Complete & Uncut Edition [ RACKETEER INFLUENCED AND CORRUPT ORGANIZATIONS US Title 18 ]


Chapter 53


Stu brought his gavel doyen half a dozen times for order.

He planned this, Stu thought. These people are going to elect us, but it’s Harold they’ll remember. Still, he got to the root of the thing in a way none of us thought of, not even Glen. It was pretty damn near a stroke of genius. So why should he be so upset? Was he jealous, maybe? Were his good resolutions about Harold, made only the day before yesterday, already going by the boards?

“There’s a motion on the floor,” he blared into the mike, ignoring the feedback whine this time. “Motion on the floor, folks!” He pounded the gavel and they quieted to a low babble. “It’s been moved and seconded that we accept the ad hoc committee just as it stands as the Permanent Free Zone Committee. Before we go to a discussion of the motion or to a vote, I ought to ask if anyone now serving on the committee has an objection or would like to step down.”

Silence from the floor.

“Very well,” Stu said. “Discussion of the motion?”

“I don’t think we need any, Stu,” Dick Ellis said. “It’s a grand idea. Let’s vote!”

Applause greeted this, and Stu needed no further urging. Charlie Impening was waving his hand to be recognized, but Stu ignored him—a good case of selective perception, Glen Bateman would have said—and called the question.

“Those in favor of Harold Lauder’s motion please signify by saying aye.”

“Aye!! ” they bellowed, sending the barnswallows into another frenzy.

“Opposed?”

But no one was, not even Charlie Impening—at least, vocally. There was not a nay in the chamber. So Stu pushed on to the next item of business, feeling slightly dazed, as if someone—namely, Harold Lauder—had crept up behind him and clopped him one on the head with a large sledgehammer made out of Silly Putty.

“Let’s get off and push them awhile, want to?” Fran asked. She sounded tired.

“Sure.” He got off his bike and walked along beside her. “You okay, Fran? The baby bothering?”

“No. I’m just tired. It’s quarter of one in the morning, or hadn’t you noticed?”

“Yeah, it’s late,” Stu agreed, and they pushed their bikes side by side in companionable silence. The meeting had gone on until an hour ago, most of the discussion centering on the search-party for Mother Abagail. The other items had all passed with a minimum of discussion, although Judge Farris had provided a fascinating piece of information that explained why there were so relatively few bodies in Boulder. According to the last four issues of the Camera, Boulder’s daily newspaper, a wild rumor had swept the community, a rumor that the superflu had originated in the Boulder Air Testing facility on Broadway. Spokesmen for the center—the few still on their feet—protested that it was utter nonsense, and anyone who doubted it was free to tour the facility, where they would find nothing more dangerous than air pollution indicators and wind-vectoring devices. In spite of this, the rumor persisted, probably fed by the hysterical temper of those terrible days in late June. The Air Testing Center had been either bombed or burned, and much of Boulder’s population had fled.

Both the Burial Committee and the Power Committee had been passed with an amendment from Harold Lauder—who had seemed almost awesomely prepared for the meeting—to the effect that each committee be increased by two for each increase of one hundred in the total Free Zone population.

The Search Committee was also voted with no opposition, but the discussion of Mother Abagail’s disappearance had been a protracted one. Glen had advised Stu before the meeting not to limit discussion on this topic unless absolutely necessary; it was worrying all of them, especially the idea that their spiritual leader believed she had committed some sort of sin. Best to let them get it off their chests.

On the back of her note, the old woman had scrawled two biblical references: Proverbs II: 1–3, and Proverbs 21:28-31. Judge Farris had searched these out with the careful diligence of a lawyer preparing a brief, and at the beginning of the discussion, he rose and read them in his cracked and apocalyptic old man’s voice. The verses in the eleventh chapter of Proverbs stated, “A false balance is an abomination of the Lord: but a just weight is his delight. When pride cometh, then cometh shame: but with the lowly is wisdom. The integrity of the upright shall guide them: but the perverseness of transgressors shall destroy them.” The quotation from the twenty-first chapter was in a similar vein: “A false witness shall perish, but the man that heareth speaketh constantly. A wicked man hardeneth his face, but as for the upright, he directeth his way. There is no wisdom nor understanding nor counsel against the Lord. The horse is prepared against the day of battle: but safety is of the Lord.”

The talk following the Judge’s oration (it could be called nothing else) of these two Scriptural tidbits had ranged over far-reaching—and often comical—ground. One man stated ominously that if the chapter numbers were added, you came out with thirty-one, the number of chapters in the Book of Revelations. Judge Farris rose again to say that the Book of Revelations had only twenty-two chapters, at least in his Bible, and that, in any case, twenty-one and eleven added up to thirty-two, not thirty-one. The aspiring numerologist muttered but said no more.

Another fellow stated that he had seen lights in the sky the night before Mother Abagail’s disappearance and that the Prophet Isaiah had confirmed the existence of flying saucers… so they’d better put that in their collective pipe and smoke it, hadn’t they? Judge Farris rose once more, this time to point out that the previous gentleman had mistaken Isaiah for Ezekiel, that the exact reference was not to flying saucers but to “a wheel within a wheel,” and that the Judge himself was of the opinion that the only flying saucers yet proven were those that sometimes flew during marital spats.










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Ghostbusters II (1989)

Quotes


Elaine: According to my source, the end of the world will be on February 14th, in the year two thousand and sixteen.

Peter Venkman: Valentine's day. Bummer. Where'd you get your date, Elaine?

Elaine: I received this information from an alien. As I told my husband, it was in the Paramus Holiday Inn, I was having a drink at the bar, alone, and this alien approached me. He started talking to me. He bought me a drink, and then I think he must have used some kind of a ray or a mind control device because he forced me to follow him to his room and that's where he told me about the end of the world.

Peter Venkman: So your alien had a room at the Holiday Inn, Paramus?

Elaine: It could have been a room on the spaceship made to look like the hotel. I can't be sure about that, Peter.










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amazon


The Stand Hardcover – October 3, 1978

by Stephen King (Author)


Product Details

Hardcover: 823 pages

Publisher: Doubleday; 1st edition (October 3, 1978)

Language: English

ISBN-10: 0385121687
ISBN-13: 978-0385121682



http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1360681.The_Stand

goodreads


The Stand

by Stephen King (Goodreads Author)

This is the way the world ends: with a nanosecond of computer error in a Defense Department laboratory and a million casual contacts that form the links in a chain letter of death.

And here is the bleak new world of the day after: a world stripped of its institutions and emptied of 99 percent of its people. A world in which a handful of panicky survivors choose sides


Hardcover, 1st Edition, 823 pages

Published October 3rd 1978 by Doubleday & Company, Inc. (first published 1978)

original title The Stand

ISBN 0385121687 (ISBN13: 9780385121682)










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Conrad Hilton

Conrad Hilton, in full Conrad Nicholson Hilton (born Dec. 25, 1887, San Antonio, N.M., U.S.—died Jan. 3, 1979, Santa Monica, Calif.), American businessman and founder of one of the world’s largest hotel organizations.










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The Impatient Years (1944)

Release Info

USA 7 September 1944 (premiere)










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Ghostbusters II (1989)

Release Info

USA 16 June 1989










http://www.e-reading.org.ua/bookreader.php/80261/King_-_The_Stand.html


Stephen King

The Stand - The Complete & Uncut Edition [ RACKETEER INFLUENCED AND CORRUPT ORGANIZATIONS US Title 18 ]


Chapter 44


Suddenly there was a fourth voice, highpitched and choking with emotion, as startling as the voice of God.

“Thank heaven!” it cried. “Oh thank heaven!”

They stood up and looked at the woman who was now half running up the street toward them. She was smiling and crying at the same time.

“Glad to see you,” she said. “I’m so glad to see you, thank heaven—”

She swayed and might have fainted if Larry hadn’t been there to steady her until her dizziness passed. He guessed her age at about twenty-five. She was dressed in bluejeans and a plain white cotton blouse. Her face was pale, her blue eyes unnaturally fixed. Those eyes stared at Larry as if trying to convince the brain behind them that this was not a hallucination, that the three people she saw were really here.

“I’m Larry Underwood,” he said. “The lady is Nadine Cross. The boy is Joe. We’re very happy to meet you.”

The woman continued to stare at him wordlessly for a moment, and then walked slowly away from him and toward Nadine.

“I’m so pleased…” she began, “… so pleased to meet you.” She stumbled a little. “Oh my God, are you really people?”

“Yes,” Nadine said.

The woman put her arms around Nadine and sobbed. Nadine held her. Joe stood in the street by a stalled pickup truck, his guitar case in one hand, his free thumb in his mouth. At last he went to Larry and looked up at him. Larry held his hand. The two of them stood that way and watched the women solemnly. And that was how they met Lucy Swann.

She was eager to go with them when they told her where they were headed, and that they had reason to believe there were at least two other people there, and possibly more. Larry found a medium-sized knapsack for her in the Enfield Sporting Goods, and Nadine went down to her house on the outskirts of town to help her pack… two changes of clothes, some underwear, an extra pair of shoes, a raincoat. And pictures of her late husband and daughter.

They camped that night in a town called Quechee, now over the state line and into Vermont. Lucy Swann told a tale which was short and simple and not much different from the others they would hear. The grief came built-in, and the shock, which had driven her at least within hailing distance of madness.

Her husband had sickened on the twenty-fifth of June, her daughter the next day. She had nursed them as well as she had been able, fully expecting to come down with the rales, as they were calling the sickness in her corner of New England, herself. By the twenty-seventh, when her husband had gone into a coma, Enfield was pretty much cut off from the outside world. Television reception had become spotty and queer. People were dying like flies. During the previous week they had seen extraordinary movements of army troops along the turnpike, but none of them had business in such a little place as Enfield, New Hampshire. In the early morning hours of June twenty-eighth, her husband had died. Her daughter had seemed a little bit better for a while on the twenty-ninth, and then had taken an abrupt turn for the worst that evening. She had died around eleven o’clock. By July 3, everyone in Enfield except her and an old man named Bill Dadds had died. Bill had been sick, Lucy said, but he seemed to have thrown it off entirely. Then, on the morning of Independence Day, she had found Bill dead on Main Street, swollen up and black, like everyone else.

“So I buried my people, and Bill too,” she said as they sat around the crackling fire. “It took all of one day, but I put them to rest. And then I thought that I better go on down to Concord, where my mother and father live. But I just… never got around to it.” She looked at them appealingly. “Was it so wrong? Do you think they would have been alive?”

“No,” Larry said. “The immunity sure wasn’t hereditary in any direct way. My mother…” He looked into the fire.

“Wes and me, we had to get married,” Lucy said. “That was the summer after I graduated high school—1984. My mom and dad didn’t want me to marry him. They wanted me to go away to have the baby and just give her up. But I wouldn’t. My mom said it would end in divorce. My dad said Wes was a no-account man and he’d always be shiftless. I just said, ‘That may be, but we’ll see what happens.’ I just wanted to take the chance. You know?”

“Yes,” Nadine said. She was sitting next to Lucy, looking at her with great compassion.

“We had a nice little home, and I sure never thought it would end like this,” Lucy said with a sigh that was half a sob. “We settled down real good, the three of us. It was more Marcy than me that settled Wes down. He thought the sun rose and set on that baby. He thought…”

“Don’t,” Nadine said. “All that was before.”

That word again, Larry thought. That little two-syllable word.

“Yes. It’s gone now. And I guess I could have gotten along. I was, anyway, until I started to have all those bad dreams.”

Larry’s head jerked up. “Dreams?”










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IMDb


See the Man Run (1971 TV Movie)

Release Info

USA 11 December 1971










http://www.nvr.navy.mil/nvrships/details/SSN598.htm

NVR

Naval Vessel Register

GEORGE WASHINGTON (SSN 598)
(ex-SSBN 598)
SUBMARINE (NUCLEAR-POWERED)
Class: SSN 598

Award Date: 12/31/1957
Keel Date: 11/01/1957
Launch Date: 06/09/1959
Commission Date: 12/30/1959
Decommission Date: 01/24/1985



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USS George Washington (SSBN 598)

USS GEORGE WASHINGTON was the Navy's first nuclear-powered fleet ballistic missile submarine.










http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0688438/releaseinfo

IMDb


The Rookies (TV Series)

Concrete Valley, Neon Sky (1972)

Release Info


USA 11 September 1972


http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0688438/

IMDb


The Rookies: Season 1, Episode 1

Concrete Valley, Neon Sky (11 Sep. 1972)


Release Date: 11 September 1972 (USA)










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IMDb


The Philadelphia Experiment (1984)

Release Info

USA 3 August 1984










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Stephen King

The Stand - The Complete & Uncut Edition [ RACKETEER INFLUENCED AND CORRUPT ORGANIZATIONS US Title 18 ]


Chapter 23

Randall Flagg, the dark man, strode south on US 51, listening to the nightsounds that pressed close on both sides of this narrow road that would take him sooner or later out of Idaho and into Nevada. From Nevada he might go anywhere. From New Orleans to Nogales, from Portland, Oregon, to Portland, Maine, it was his country, and none knew or loved it better. He knew where the roads went, and he walked them at night. Now, an hour before dawn, he was somewhere between Grasmere and Riddle, west of Twin Falls, still north of the Duck Valley Reservation that spreads across two states. And wasn’t it fine?

He walked rapidly, rundown bootheels clocking against the paved surface of the road, and if car lights showed on the horizon he faded back and back, down over the soft shoulder to the high grass where the night bugs made their homes… and the car would pass him, the driver perhaps feeling a slight chill as if he had driven through an air pocket, his sleeping wife and children stirring uneasily, as if all had been touched with a bad dream at the same instant.

He walked south, south on US 51, the worn heels of his sharp-toed cowboy boots clocking on the pavement; a tall man of no age in faded, pegged jeans and a denim jacket. His pockets were stuffed with fifty different kinds of conflicting literature—pamphlets for all seasons, rhetoric for all reasons. When this man handed you a tract you took it no matter what the subject: the dangers of atomic power plants, the role played by the International Jewish Cartel in the overthrow of friendly governments, the CIA-Contra-cocaine connection, the farm workers’ unions, the Jehovah’s Witnesses (If You Can Answer These Ten Questions “Yes,” You Have Been SAVED!), the Blacks for Militant Equality, the Kode of the Klan. He had them all, and more, too. There was a button on each breast of his denim jacket. On the right, a yellow smile-face. On the left, a pig wearing a policeman’s cap. The legend was written beneath in red letters which dripped to simulate blood: HOW’S YOUR PORK?

He moved on, not pausing, not slowing, but alive to the night. His eyes seemed almost frantic with the night’s possibilities. There was a Boy Scout knapsack on his back, old and battered. There was a dark hilarity in his face, and perhaps in his heart, too, you would think—and you would be right. It was the face of a hatefully happy man, a face that radiated a horrible handsome warmth, a face to make waterglasses shatter in the hands of tired truck-stop waitresses, to make small children crash their trikes into board fences and then run wailing to their mommies with stake-shaped splinters sticking out of their knees. It was a face guaranteed to make barroom arguments over batting averages turn bloody.

He moved on south, somewhere on US 51 between Grasmere and Riddle, now closer to Nevada. Soon he would camp and sleep the day away, waking up as evening drew on. He would read as his supper cooked over a small, smokeless campfire, it didn’t matter what: words from some battered and coverless paperback porno novel, or maybe Mein Kampf, or an R. Crumb comic book, or one of the baying reactionary position papers from the America Firsters or the Sons of the Patriots. When it came to the printed word, Flagg was an equal opportunity reader.

After supper he would commence walking again, walking south on this excellent two-lane highway cutting through this godforsaken wilderness, watching and smelling and listening as the climate grew more arid, strangling everything down to sagebrush and tumbleweed, watching as the mountains began to poke out of the earth like dinosaur spines. By dawn tomorrow or the day after that he would pass into Nevada, striking Owyhee first and then Mountain City, and in Mountain City there was a man named Christopher Bradenton who would see that he had a clean car and some clean papers and then the country would come alive in all its glorious possibilities, a body politic with its network of roads embedded in its skin like marvelous capillaries, ready to take him, the dark speck of foreign matter, anywhere or everywhere—heart, liver, lights, brain. He was a clot looking for a place to happen, a splinter of bone hunting a soft organ to puncture, a lonely lunatic cell looking for a mate—they would set up housekeeping and raise themselves a cozy little malignant tumor.

He hammered along, arms swinging by his sides. He was known, well known, along the highways in hiding that are traveled by the poor and the mad, by the professional revolutionaries and by those who have been taught to hate so well that their hate shows on their faces like harelips and they are unwanted except by others like them, who welcome them to cheap rooms with slogans and posters on the walls, to basements where lengths of sawed-off pipe are held in padded vises while they are stuffed with high explosives, to back rooms where lunatic plans are laid: to kill a Cabinet member, to kidnap the child of a visiting dignitary, or to break into a boardroom meeting of Standard Oil with grenades and machine guns and murder in the name of the people. He was known there, and even the maddest of them could only gaze upon his dark and grinning face at an oblique angle. The women he took to bed with him, even if they reduced intercourse to something as casual as getting a snack from the refrigerator, accepted him with a stiffening of the body, a turning away of countenance. They took him the way they might take a ram with golden eyes or a black dog—and when it was done they were cold, so cold, it seemed impossible they could ever be warm again. When he walked into a meeting the hysterical babble ceased—the backbiting, recriminations, accusations, the ideological rhetoric. For a moment there would be dead silence and they would start to turn to him and then turn away, as if he had come to them with some old and terrible engine of destruction cradled in his arms, something a thousand times worse than the plastic explosive made in the basement labs of renegade chemistry students or the black market arms obtained from some greedy army post supply sergeant. It seemed that he had come to them with a device gone rusty with blood and packed for centuries in the Cosmoline of screams but now ready again, carried to their meeting like some infernal gift, a birthday cake with nitroglycerine candles. And when the talk began again it would be rational and disciplined—as rational and disciplined as madmen can make it—and things would be agreed upon.

He rocked along, his feet easy in the boots, which were comfortably sprung in all the right places. His feet and these boots were old lovers. Christopher Bradenton in Mountain City knew him as Richard Fry. Bradenton was a conductor on one of the underground railway systems by which fugitives moved. Half a dozen different organizations, from the Weathermen to the Guevara Brigade, saw that Bradenton had money. He was a poet who sometimes taught Free University classes or traveled in the western states of Utah, Nevada, and Arizona, speaking to high school English classes, stunning middle-class boys and girls (he hoped) with the news that poetry was alive—narcoleptic, to be sure, but still possessed of a certain hideous vitality. He was in his late fifties now, but Bradenton had been dismissed from one California college twenty-some years ago for getting too chummy with the SDS. He had been busted in The Great Chicago Pig Convention of 1968, formed his ties to one radical group after another, first embracing the craziness of these groups, then being swallowed whole.










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Fiend Without a Face (1958)

Release Info

USA 3 July 1958 (New York City, New York)










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The Philadelphia Experiment (1984)

Quotes


David Herdeg: [to transvestite] What the hell are you dressed like that for?










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Biography for

Bill Gates [ RACKETEER INFLUENCED AND CORRUPT ORGANIZATIONS US Title 18 ]

Date of Birth

28 October 1955, Seattle, Washington, USA

Birth Name

William Henry Gates III [ RACKETEER INFLUENCED AND CORRUPT ORGANIZATIONS US Title 18 ]


Spouse

Melinda Gates (1 January 1994 - present) 3 children [ RACKETEER INFLUENCED AND CORRUPT ORGANIZATIONS US Title 18 ]


Children: Jennifer Katharine (26 April 1996), son Rory John (23 May 1999), Phoebe Adele (14 September 2002)





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transvestite


A person who dresses and acts in a style or manner traditionally associated with the opposite sex.

someone who adopts the dress or manner or sexual role of the opposite sex










From 10/28/1955 ( Microsoft Bill Gates the transvestite and 100% female gender as born and the Soviet Union prostitute and the cowardly International Terrorist violently against the United States of America actively instigates insurrection and subversive activity against the USA and United Nations chartered allies ) To 9/24/1975 ( premiere US film "Three Days of the Condor" ) is 7271 days

From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official Deputy United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 9/29/1985 ( RACKETEER INFLUENCED AND CORRUPT ORGANIZATIONS US Title 18 - premiere US TV series "MacGyver" ) is 7271 days



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tv.com


MacGyver Season 1 Episode 1

Pilot


AIRED: 9/29/85










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STARGATE WIKI


SGU 1.01 "Air Part 1" Transcript [ RACKETEER INFLUENCED AND CORRUPT ORGANIZATIONS US Title 18 ]


INT—WALLACE HOME, ENTRANCE

[There is a knock at the front door. Eli, munching on a snack, opens it to find a three star general, Lt. General Jack O'Neill, standing at the entrance.]

O'NEILL
Eli Wallace?

WALLACE
(trying not to choke)
Actually, uh, Eli's not here right now…

[O'Neill turns around and gestures for someone else to approach.]

ELI
(quickly protesting)
Okay, okay…whatever you guys think that I did, I swear you got the wrong guy.

[Rush gets out of an SUV at the street and starts up the walk.]

O'NEILL
Do I look like someone who'd be standing here if I didn't already know everything there is to know about you?










http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/1995-07-25/news/9507250225_1_susan-smith-deceit-nine-days


OrlandoSentinel


Ponder Smith's Deceit, Jury Told

The Jury That Convicted Susan Smith Of Murder Listened To Arguments On Deciding Her Punishment.


By New York Times


UNION, S.C. — While the authorities searched for her young sons, Susan Smith watched herself lie to the nation on a taped television newscast, and even smiled at the television screen, a counselor who had come to help her testified Monday in the penalty phase of Smith's capital murder trial.

The counselor, Margaret Frierson, recalled that Smith's incongruous smile occurred during the final days of her nine days of lies, as news reporters were beginning to speculate that Smith might be involved in the disappearance that she had blamed on a carjacker.

''The family was outraged,'' said Frierson, who works in the Columbia, S.C., office of the Adam Walsh Foundation, a center for missing and exploited children. ''I just seemed to notice Susan smiling to herself as she watched herself on television.''










http://www.tv.com/shows/hes-the-mayor/the-honeymoons-over-365448/

tv.com


He's The Mayor Season 1 Episode 1

The Honeymoon's Over

Aired Friday 9:30 PM Jan 10, 1986 on ABC

AIRED: 1/10/86










http://www.e-reading.org.ua/bookreader.php/80261/King_-_The_Stand.html


Stephen King

The Stand - The Complete & Uncut Edition [ RACKETEER INFLUENCED AND CORRUPT ORGANIZATIONS US Title 18 ]


Chapter 45

She tottered out onto her porch at twenty to eleven on the morning of July 20, carrying her coffee and her toast with her as she did every day that the Coca-Cola thermometer outside the sink window read over fifty degrees. It was high summer, the finest summer Mother Abagail could recollect since 1955 the year her mother had died at the goodish age of ninety-three. Too bad there ain’t more folks around to enjoy it, she thought as she sat carefully down in her armless rocking chair. But did they ever enjoy it? Some did, of course; young folks in love did, and old folks whose bones remembered so clearly what the death-clutch of winter was. Now most of the young folks and old folks were gone, and most of those in between. God had brought down a harsh judgment on the human race.

Some might argue with such a harsh judgment, but Mother Abagail was not among their number. He had done it once with water, and sometime further along, He would do it with fire. Her place was not to judge God, although she wished He hadn’t seen fit to set the cup before her lips that He had. But when it came to matters of judgment, she was satisfied with the answer God had given Moses from the burning bush when Moses had seen fit to question. Who are you? Mose asks, and God comes back from that bush just as pert as you like: I Am, Who I AM. In other words, Mose, stop beatin around this here bush and get your old ass in gear.

She wheezed laughter and nodded her head and dipped her toast into the wide mouth of her coffee cup until it was soft enough to chew. It had been sixteen years since she had bid hail and farewell to her last tooth. Toothless she had come from her mother’s womb, and toothless she would go into her own grave. Molly, her great-granddaughter, and her husband had given her a set of false teeth for Mother’s Day just a year later, the year she herself had been ninety-three, but they hurt her gums and now she only wore them when she knew Molly and Jim were coming. Then she would take them from the box in the drawer and rinse them off good and stick them in. And if she had time before Molly and Jim came, she would make faces at herself in the spotty kitchen mirror and growl through all those big white fake teeth and laugh fit to split. She looked like an old black Everglades gator.

She was old and feeble, but her mind was pretty much in order. Abagail Freemantle was her name born in 1882 and with the birth certificate to prove it. She’d seen a heap during her time on the earth, but nothing to match the goings-on of the last month or so. No, there never had been such a thing, and now her time was coming to be a part of it and she hated it. She was old. She wanted to rest and enjoy the cycle of the seasons between now and whenever God got tired of watching her make her daily round and decided to call her home to Glory. But what happened when you questioned God? The answer you got was I Am, Who I AM, and that was the end. When His own Son prayed that the cup be taken from His lips, God never even answered… and she wasn’t up to that snuff, no how, no way. Just an ordinary sinner was all she was, and at night when the wind came up and blew through the corn it frightened her to think that God had looked down at a little baby girl poking out between her mother’s legs back in early 1882 and had said to Himself: I got to keep her around a goodish time. She’s got work in 1990, on the other side of a whole heap of calendar pages.

Her time here in Hemingford Home was coming to an end, and her final season of work lay ahead of her in the West, near the Rocky Mountains. He had sent Moses to mountain-climbing and Noah to boatbuilding; He had seen His own Son nailed up on a Tree. What did He care how miserably afraid Abby Freemantle was of the man with no face, he who stalked her dreams?

She never saw him; she didn’t have to see him. He was a shadow passing through the corn at noon, a cold pocket of air, a gore-crew peering down at you from the phone lines. His voice called to her in all the sounds that had ever frightened her—spoken soft, it was the tick of a deathwatch beetle under the stairs, telling that someone loved would soon pass over; spoken loud it was the afternoon thunder rolling amid the clouds that came out of the west like boiling Armageddon. And sometimes there was no sound at all but the lonely rustle of the nightwind in the corn but she would know he was there and that was the worst of all, because then the man with no face seemed only a little less than God Himself; at those times it seemed that she was within touching distance of the dark angel that had flown silently over Egypt, killing the firstborn of every house where the door post wasn’t daubed with blood. That frightened her most of all. She became a child again in her fear and knew that while others knew of him and were frightened by him, only she had been given a clear vision of his terrible power.

“Welladay,” she said, and popped the last bite of toast into her mouth. She rocked back and forth, drinking her coffee. This was a bright, fine day, and no part of her body was giving her particular misery, and she offered up a brief prayer of thanksgiving for what she had got. God is great, God is good; the littlest child could learn those words, and they encompassed the whole world and all the world held, good and evil.

“God is great,” Mother Abagail said, “God is good. Thank You for the sunshine. For the coffee. For the fine BM I had last night, You was right, those dates turned the trick, but my God, they taste nasty to me. Ain’t I the one? God is great…”

Her coffee was about gone. She set the cup down and rocked, her face turned up to the sun like some strange living rockface, seamed with veins of coal. She dozed, then slept. Her heart, its walls now almost as thin as tissue paper, beat on and on as it had every minute for the last 39,630 days. Like a baby in a crib, you would have had to put your hand on her chest to assure yourself that she was breathing at all.

But the smile stayed on.

Things had surely changed in all the years since she had been a girl. The Freemantles had come to Nebraska as freed slaves, and Abagail’s own great-granddaughter Molly laughed in a nasty, cynical way and suggested the money Abby’s father had used to buy the home place—money paid to him by Sam Freemantle of Lewis, South Carolina, as wages for the eight years her daddy and his brothers had stayed on after the States War had ended—had been “conscience money.” Abagail had held her tongue when Molly said that—Molly and Jim and the others were young and didn’t understand anything but the veriest good and the veriest bad—but inside she had rolled her eyes and said to herself: Conscience money? Well, is there any money cleaner than that?

So the Freemantles had settled in Hemingford Home










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The Seattle Times


Thursday, December 5, 1991


Patty Murray Vs. Adams -- State Lawmaker Is First Democrat To Go For Senate Seat

By Jim Simon

OLYMPIA - State Sen. Patty Murray, who made her political entrance just four years ago with an upset election to the Legislature, now has a loftier goal: toppling fellow Democrat Sen. Brock Adams.

Murray, who represents the Shoreline area north of Seattle, said yesterday she will run for the U.S. Senate in 1992 as a self-styled "voice for middle-class families."



http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/226865/Bill-Gates

Encyclopædia Britannica


Bill Gates

Bill Gates, in full William Henry Gates III (born October 28, 1955, Seattle, Washington, U.S.)



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IMDb


Dream House (1981 TV Movie)

Release Info

USA 28 November 1981










http://www.e-reading.org.ua/bookreader.php/80261/King_-_The_Stand.html


Stephen King

The Stand - The Complete & Uncut Edition [ RACKETEER INFLUENCED AND CORRUPT ORGANIZATIONS US Title 18 ]


Chapter 45


Nick wrote briefly and Ralph read it aloud, as he continued to do.

“It was my idea to come up this way, yes. About being in charge, I don’t know.”

“We met June and Olivia about ninety miles south of here,” Ralph said. “Day before yesterday, wasn’t it, Nick?”

Nick nodded.

“We was on our way to you even then, Mother. The women were headed north, too. So was Dick. We all just threw in together.”

“Have you seen any other folks?” she asked.

“No,” Nick wrote. “But I’ve had a feeling—Ralph has, too—that there are other people hiding, watching us. Afraid, I guess. Still getting over the shock of what’s happened.”

She nodded.

“Dick said that the day before he joined us, he heard a motorcycle somewhere south. So there are other people around. I think what scares them is seeing a fairly big group all together.”

“Why did you come here?” Her eyes, caught in their nets of wrinkles, stared at him keenly.

Nick wrote: “I have dreamed of you. Dick Ellis says he has once. And the little girl, Gina, was calling you ‘grammylady’ long before we got here. She described your place. The tire swing.”

“Bless the child,” Mother Abagail said absently. She looked at Ralph. “You?”

“Once or twice, ma’am,” Ralph said. He wet his lips. “Mostly what I dreamed about was just… just that other fella.”

“What other fella?”

Nick wrote. Circled what he had written. Handed it to her directly. Her eyes were not much good for close work without her specs or the lighted magnifying glass she’d gotten in Hemingford Center last year, but she could read this. It was writ large, like the writing God had put on the wall of Belshazzar’s palace. Circled, it gave her a cold chill just looking at it. She thought of weasels squirming across the road on their bellies, yanking at her towsack with their needle-sharp killers’ teeth. She thought of a single red eye opening, disclosing itself in the darkness, looking, searching, now not just for an old woman but a whole party of men and women… and one little girl.

The two circled words were: dark man.

“I’ve been told,” she said, folding the paper, straightening it, then folding it again, for the time being unmindful of the misery of her arthritis, “that we’re to go west. I’ve been told in a dream, by the Lord God. I didn’t want to listen. I’m an old woman, and all I want to do is die on this little piece of land. It’s been my family’s freehold for a hundred and twelve years, but I wasn’t meant to die here any more than Moses was meant to go over into Canaan with the Children of Israel.”

She paused. The two men watched her soberly in the lamplight, and outside the rain continued to fall, slow and ceaseless. There was no more thunder. Lord, she thought, these dentures hurt my mouth. I want to take them out and go to bed.

“I started having dreams two years before this plague ever fell. I’ve always dreamed, and sometimes my dreams have come true. Prophecy is the gift of God and everyone has a smidge of it. My own grandmother used to call it the shining lamp of God, sometimes just the shine. In my dreams I saw myself going west. At first with just a few people, then a few more, then a few more. West, always west, until I could see the Rocky Mountains. It got so there was a whole caravan of us, two hundred or more. And there would be signs… no, not signs from God but regular road-signs, and every one of them saying things like BOULDER, COLORADO, 609 MILES or THIS WAY TO BOULDER.”

She paused.

“Those dreams, they scared me. I never told a soul I was havin em, that’s how scared I was. I felt the way I guess Job must have felt when God spoke to him out of the whirlwind. I even tried to pretend they was just dreams, foolish old woman runnin from God the way Jonah did. But the big fish has swallowed us up just the same, you see! And if God says to Abby, You got to tell, then tell I must. And I always felt like someone would come to me, someone special, and that’s how I’d be in the way of knowin the time had come.”



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