Custer

As best I recall sitting here now in front of my uncomfortable temporary computer set-up I have never before in my life watch a motion picture starring Ronald Reagan. I have just started watching the 1940 film "Santa Fe Trail", referenced by me on this blog before several times but I had never tried to watch it until now this morning. I have the poor-quality video paused in the first few minutes and I noted that Ronald Reagan had just introduced himself in his portrayal of George Armstrong Custer. I have the video paused at that point. That's at the two minute point and that 1940 film is almost two hours long so I don't know how much I am going to be able to sit through because the video quality isn't that great. I might watch the entire video though.










JOURNAL ARCHIVE: From: Kerry Burgess

Sent: Saturday, May 27, 2006 2:55 PM

To: Kerry Burgess

Subject: what the hell is it about this song that haunts me?


Lights go out and I can’t be saved
Tides that I tried to swim against
Brought me down upon my knees
Oh I beg, I beg and plead

Singin’, come out if things aren’t said
Shoot an apple off my head


[JOURNAL ARCHIVE 27 May 2006 excerpt ends]













JOURNAL ARCHIVE: From: Kerry Burgess

Sent: Sunday, May 21, 2006 7:33 PM

To: Kerry Burgess

Subject: Re: Journal May 21, 2006, Supplemental


Kerry Burgess wrote:


Was I a musician? I can remember in that period following my return from the PG in 1988, I was writing code to produce some music I thought of as Classical.


[JOURNAL ARCHIVE 21 May 2006 excerpt ends]





http://www.snpp.com/episodes/3F16.html

The Day the Violence Died

Original Airdate in N.A.: 17-Mar-96


Bart asks him to show some respect to the man who created Itchy and Scratchy.

Chester: He didn't create Itchy: I did.

Bart: Huh?





http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0107048/quotes

IMDb


Memorable quotes for

Groundhog Day (1993)


Piano Teacher: Not bad... Mr. Connors, you say this is your first lesson?

Phil: Yes, but my father was a piano *mover*, so...










http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0107048/quotes

IMDb


Memorable quotes for

Groundhog Day (1993)


Phil: What would you do if you were stuck in one place and every day was exactly the same, and nothing that you did mattered?

Ralph: That about sums it up for me.










http://www.azlyrics.com/c/coldplay.html

AZ LYRICS UNIVERSE


COLDPLAY


album: "A Rush Of Blood To The Head" (2002)



http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/coldplay/clocks.html


COLDPLAY


"Clocks"


The lights go out and I can't be saved
Tides that I tried to swim against
Have brought me down upon my knees
Oh I beg, I beg and plead, singing

Come out of things unsaid
Shoot an apple off my head and a
Trouble that can't be named
A tiger's waiting to be tamed, singing

You are
You are

Confusion never stops
Closing walls and ticking clocks
Gonna come back and take you home
I could not stop that you now know, singing

Come out upon my seas
Cursed missed opportunities
Am I a part of the cure?
Or am I part of the disease? Singing

You are, you are, you are
You are, you are, you are

And nothing else compares
Oh nothing else compares
And nothing else compares

You are
You are

Home, home where I wanted to go
Home, home where I wanted to go
Home, home where I wanted to go
Home, home where I wanted to go










From 12/13/1940 ( premiere US film "Santa Fe Trail" ) To 5/14/1991 ( RACKETEER INFLUENCED AND CORRUPT ORGANIZATIONS US Title 18 - the George Herbert Walker Bush nomination Robert Gates ) is 18414 days

18414 = 9207 + 9207

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 1/17/1991 ( the date of record of my United States Navy Medal of Honor as Kerry Wayne Burgess chief warrant officer United States Marine Corps circa 1991 ) is 9207 days



From 12/13/1940 ( premiere US film "Santa Fe Trail" ) To 5/14/1991 ( RACKETEER INFLUENCED AND CORRUPT ORGANIZATIONS US Title 18 - the George Herbert Walker Bush nomination Robert Gates ) is 18414 days

18414 = 9207 + 9207

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 1/17/1991 ( RACKETEER INFLUENCED AND CORRUPT ORGANIZATIONS US Title 18 - the Persian Gulf War begins as scheduled severe criminal activity against the United States of America ) is 9207 days





http://bushlibrary.tamu.edu/research/public_papers.php?id=2979&year=1991&month=5

George Bush [ RACKETEER INFLUENCED AND CORRUPT ORGANIZATIONS US Title 18 ]

Presidential Library and Museum

Public Papers - 1991 - May

Remarks Announcing the Nomination of Robert M. Gates To Be Director of the Central Intelligence Agency and a News Conference

1991-05-14

The President. Well, I'm pleased to nominate Robert Gates to be the Director of Central Intelligence.










http://www.chakoteya.net/movies/movie8.html

Star Trek: First Contact [ RACKETEER INFLUENCED AND CORRUPT ORGANIZATIONS US Title 18 ]


RIKER: Someone once said 'Don't try to be a great man. Just be a man, and let history make it's own judgements'.

COCHRANE: Rhetorical nonsense. Who said that?

RIKER: You did, ten years from now.










http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0033021/quotes

IMDb


Santa Fe Trail (1940)

Quotes


George Armstrong Custer: They're running! They're getting away!

James Ewell Brown 'Jeb' Stuart: No they're not. We're going after them!

George Armstrong Custer: Hey, wait a minute! They outnumber us three to one!

James Ewell Brown 'Jeb' Stuart: Well, if it makes you nervous, don't count 'em.










http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0033021/releaseinfo

IMDb


Santa Fe Trail (1940)

Release Info

USA 13 December 1940 (Santa Fe, New Mexico) (premiere)



http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0033021/fullcredits

IMDb


Santa Fe Trail (1940)

Full Cast & Crew


Ronald Reagan ... George Custer










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


Stephen King

The Stand - The Complete & Uncut Edition


“But I didn’t know—”

“Just a babe in the woods, yeah.”










http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=19583


George Bush


Toasts at the State Dinner for Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom

May 14, 1991


Queen Elizabeth II. Mr. President, I must first thank you for your characteristically generous words of welcome. I was delighted to be able to accept your invitation to pay this state visit to Washington










http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1991-05-14/news/9102120677_1_buckingham-palace-visit-royal

Chicago Tribune


Queen Embarks On U.s. `Friendship` Tour

May 14, 1991 By Michael Kilian, Chicago Tribune.

WASHINGTON — Britain`s Queen Elizabeth II arrives here Tuesday for a nine-day royal visit that her aides say will underscore the ``bonds of friendship`` that led to the U.S. and Britain fighting side by side in the Persian Gulf war.

Only the third state visit that Elizabeth has made to the U.S. since she was crowned in 1953, it will include the first address in history by a British monarch to a joint session of Congress.

The queen and her husband, Prince Philip, also are said to be looking forward to meeting Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf, commander of allied forces in Operation Desert Storm. Buckingham Palace officials declined to comment on rumors that the queen might bestow on the four-star general an honorary knighthood such as that she accorded Caspar Weinberger, defense secretary in the Reagan administration.










http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/D?r102:5:./temp/~r102jv3tTf::

The LIBRARY of CONGRESS THOMAS


Congressional Record

102nd Congress (1991-1992)


ADDRESS BY HER MAJESTY QUEEN ELIZABETH II OF THE UNITED KINGDOM OF GREAT BRITAIN AND NORTHERN IRELAND (House of Representatives - May 16, 1991)

[Page: H3154]

HER MAJESTY ELIZABETH II. I do hope you can see me today.

Mr. Speaker, Mr. President, distinguished Members of Congress, I know what a rare privilege it is to address a joint meeting of your two Houses. Thank you for inviting me.

The concept, so simply described by Abraham Lincoln as `government by the people, of the people, for the people,' is fundamental to our two nations. Your Congress and our Parliament are the twin pillars of our civilisations and the chief among the many treasures that we have inherited from our predecessors.

We, like you, are staunch believers in the freedom of the individual and the rule of a fair and just law. These principles are shared with our European partners and with the wider Atlantic community. They are the bedrock of the Western World.

Some people believe that power grows from the barrel of a gun. So it can, but history shows that it never grows well nor for very long. Force, in the end, is sterile. We have gone a better way; our societies rest on mutual agreement, on contract and on consensus. A significant part of your social contract is written down in your Constitution. Ours rest on custom and will. The spirit behind both, however, is precisely the same. It is the spirit of democracy.

These ideals are clear enough, but they must never be taken for granted. They have to be protected and nurtured through every change and fluctuation. I want to take this opportunity to express the gratitude of the British people to the people of the United States of America for their steadfast loyalty to our common enterprise throughout this turbulent century. The future is, as ever, obscure. The only certainty is that it will present the world with new and daunting problems, but if we continue to stick to our fundamental ideals, I have every confidence that we can resolve them.

Recent events in the gulf have proved that it is possible to do just that. Both our countries saw the invasion of Kuwait in just the same terms; an outrage to be reversed, both for the people of Kuwait and for the sake of the principle that naked aggression should not prevail. Our views were identical and so were our responses. That response was not without risk, but we have both learned from history that we must not allow aggression to succeed.

I salute the outstanding leadership of your President, and the courage and prowess of the Armed Forces of the United States. I know that the servicemen and servicewomen of Britain, and of all the members of the coalition, were proud to act in a just cause alongside their American comrades.

Unfortunately, experience shows that great enterprises seldom end with a tidy and satisfactory flourish. Together, we are doing our best to reestablish peace and civil order in the region, and to help those members of ethnic and religious minorities who continue to suffer through no fault of their own. If we succeed, our military success will have achieved its true objective.

For all that uncertainty, it would be a mistake to make the picture look too gloomy. The swift and dramatic changes in Eastern Europe in the last decade have opened up great opportunities for the people of those countries. They are finding their own paths to freedom. But the paths would have been blocked if the Atlantic Alliance had not stood together--if your country and mine had not stood together. Let us never forget that lesson.

Britain is at the heart of a growing movement toward greater cohesion within Europe, and within the European Community in particular. This is going to mean radical economic, social, and political evolution. NATO, too, is adapting to the new realities in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union, and to changing attitudes in the West. It is Britain's prime concern to ensure that the new Europe is open and liberal and that it works in growing harmony with the United States and the other members of the Atlantic community. All our history in this and earlier centuries underlines the basic point that the best progress is made when Europeans and Americans act in concert. We must not allow ourselves to be enticed into a form of continental insularity.

I believe this is particularly important now, at a time of major social, environmental, and economic changes in your continent, and in Asia and Africa. We must make sure that those changes do not become convulsions. For the primary interest of our societies is not domination but stability; stability so that ordinary men and women everywhere can get on with their lives in confidence.

Our two countries have a special advantage in seeking to guide the process of change because of the rich ethnic and cultural diversity of both our societies. Stability in our own countries depends on tolerance and understanding between different communities. Perhaps we can, together, build on our experience to spread the message we have learned at home to those regions where it has yet to be absorbed.

Whether we will be able to realise our hopes will depend on the maintenance of an acceptable degree of international order. In this we see the United Nations as the essential instrument in the promotion of peace and cooperation. We look to its Charter as the guardian of civilised conduct between nations.

In 1941 President Roosevelt spoke of `Freedom of speech and expression--everywhere in the world * * * freedom of every person to worship God in their own way--everywhere in the world * * * Freedom from want and * * * Freedom from fear.' Just as our societies have prospered through their reliance on contract, not force, so too will the world be a better place for the spread of that mutual respect and good faith which are so fundamental to our way of life. Freedom under the rule of law is an international, as well as a national, concern.

That thought might be in the minds of those of you attending the 50th Anniversary Meeting of the British-American Parliamentary Group in July. Both our Houses are eager to greet you. They will, I know, tell you that our aim, as Britons and Europeans, is to celebrate and nurture our long-standing friendship with the people of the United States. We want to build on that foundation and to do better. And, if the going gets rough, I hope you can still agree with your poet Emerson, who wrote in 1847 `I feel, in regard to this aged England, with a kind of instinct, that she sees a little better on a cloudy day, and that, in storm of battle and calamity, she has a secret vigour and a pulse like a cannon.' You will find us worthy partners, and we are proud to have you as our friends.

May God bless America.

[Applause, the Members rising.]

At 11 o'clock and 55 minutes a.m., Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, accompanied by the committee of escort, retired from the Hall of the House of Representatives.



- posted by H.V.O.M - Kerry Wayne Burgess 03:03 AM Pacific Time somewhere near Seattle Washington USA Friday 07 March 2014