This Is What I Think.

Monday, November 03, 2014

The Stand




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


Stephen King

The Stand - The Complete & Uncut Edition


Chapter 43


They slept in a barn three miles north of Pratt that evening, and Tom kept waking up with nightmares and then waking Nick to be reassured. They reached Iuka the next morning around eleven, and found two good bicycles in a shop called Sport and Cycle World. Nick, who was beginning to recover at last from the encounter with Julie, thought they could finish re-outfitting themselves in Great Bend, which they should reach by the fourteenth at the latest.

But at just about quarter to three on the afternoon of July 12, he saw a twinkle in the rearview mirror mounted near his left handgrip. He stopped (Tom, who was riding behind him and woolgathering, ran over his foot but Nick barely noticed) and looked back over his shoulder. The twinkle that had risen over the hill directly behind them like a daystar pleased and dazzled his eye—he could hardly believe it. It was a Chevy pickup of an ancient vintage, good old Detroit rolling iron, picking its way slowly, slaloming from one lane of US 281 to the other, avoiding a scatter of stalled vehicles.

It pulled up beside them (Tom was waving wildly, but Nick could only stand with his legs apart and his bike’s crossbar between them, frozen) and came to a stop. Nick’s last thought before the driver’s head appeared was that it would be Julie Lawry, smiling her vicious, triumphant smile. She would have the gun with which she had tried to kill them before, and at a range this close, there would be no chance she would miss. Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned.

But the face that appeared belonged to a fortyish man wearing a straw hat with a feather cocked into the blue velvet band at a rakish angle, and when he grinned, his face became a dry-wash of agreeable sunwrinkles.

And what he said was: “Holy Christ on a carousel, am I glad to see you boys? I guess I am. Climb on up here and let’s see where we’re going.”

That was how Nick and Tom met Ralph Brentner.










JOURNAL ARCHIVE: - posted by H.V.O.M - Kerry Wayne Burgess 12:24 PM Pacific Time Spokane Valley Washington USA Thursday 31 July 2014 - http://hvom.blogspot.com/2014/07/hangman-creek.html


Hangman Creek



JOURNAL ARCHIVE: Posted by H.V.O.M at 7:55 PM Thursday, December 08, 2011


What that part makes me think about is how in that dream, I am thinking about as I write these paragraphs, for the first time I can ever recall I actually had a vivid dream where I was talking in person to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II and the person I was talking to, I was very certain in the dream, was literally Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II.

I can still remember that I had brought to her a couple of items and I was feeling apologetic because I had not included those items, and this part has always been vague, in some kind of report. But what is not vague is that I saw a brief smile from her, which I thought of because I might have been feeling apologetic perhaps for overlooking something earlier, which was the reason I was talking to her again and with those two items in hands, one of which was a pair of wire cutters and the other was a non-conductive tool that I remember from using to adjust certain variable electronic components as potentiometers and similar items that are soldered to printed circuit boards, and so apparently those two items were part of a collection that was being put together and I came back to her and told her we needed to add those items to the collection. Reinforcing the notion that we were all moving somewhere, which is vague now in sequence because I cannot recall which happened first, is the scene with the lawn mower. But I wasn't using a lawn mower but I was using a device for trimming grass. I think the actual product name is Weed Eater. Similar to 'Jet Ski' I think that product name has become synonymous with products that fulfill a similar purpose. So anyway, at some point in the dream and the sequence of events in the dream is now lost in my mind, or maybe not, I had arrived at a place where two streams converged and that place seemed to be a destination. There might have been people there already but I keep wanting to say that I was part of a group that was moving to that location and that was someplace uninhabited. I saw the streams converging and one stream was smaller and it looked kind of polluted. I was left with the sense that it was not really an ideal place to go to. I did see some signs of civilization there such as next to the stream was paved roads and I could see the metal shoulder barriers of the road. There was high weeds on the banks of the streams and I was using a weed trimmer to cut it down but I stopped perhaps half way through. Other people were around but that is vague.


[JOURNAL ARCHIVE 08 December 2011 excerpt ends]
[JOURNAL ARCHIVE 31 July 2014 excerpt ends]










http://www.springfieldspringfield.co.uk/view_episode_scripts.php?tv-show=the-simpsons&episode=s07e08

Springfield! Springfield!


The Simpsons

Mother Simpson


My germs! My precious germs! They never harmed a soul.
They never even had a chance.
Whoever did this will never get past me.
You poor man.
Let me help you up.
You just made a very big mistake.
You'll spend the rest of your life in pri- My asthma's gone! Listen to me breathe.
From that moment on, my life as I knew it was over.
Only one member of the Springfield Seven was identified.
She's been described as a woman in her early 30s yellow complexion and may be extremely helpful.










http://www.tv.com/shows/the-simpsons/mother-simpson-1421/trivia/

tv.com


The Simpsons Season 7 Episode 8

Mother Simpson

Aired Sunday 8:00 PM Nov 19, 1995 on FOX

Quotes


Marge: Mother Simpson, we'd like to ask you a few questions about your past.

Mother Simpson: Can't reminisce. Sleeping. (starts snoring)










http://www.tv.com/shows/the-simpsons/mother-simpson-1421/trivia/

tv.com


The Simpsons Season 7 Episode 8

Mother Simpson

Aired Sunday 8:00 PM Nov 19, 1995 on FOX

Quotes


Man: Yep, I saw her. That is to say, I seen her. She seemed like a nice lady.

Mr. Burns: Well, that nice lady set the cause of biological warfare back thirty years!

Smithers: We're only now finally caught up.










http://www.springfieldspringfield.co.uk/view_episode_scripts.php?tv-show=the-simpsons&episode=s07e08

Springfield! Springfield!


The Simpsons

Mother Simpson


Homer.
I'll miss you, Homer.
I thought I dreamed that kiss.
I'm so sorry I misjudged you, Mom.
You had to leave to protect your family.










http://www.chakoteya.net/movies/movie7.html

Star Trek Generations


RIKER: He'll never make it. No one ever has.

(Worf jumps, grabs the hat and lands safely back on the plank)

PICARD: If there's one thing I've learnt over the years, is never to underestimate a Klingon.










From 11/13/1960 ( premiere US film "Hell Is a City" ) To 6/13/2005 is 16283 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 6/2/2010 is 16283 days



From 2/12/1941 ( premiere US film "Father's Son" ) To 6/2/2010 is 25312 days

25312 = 12656 + 12656

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 6/27/2000 ( premiere US film "The Patriot" ) is 12656 days



From 6/29/1995 ( the Mir space station docking of the US space shuttle Atlantis orbiter vehicle mission STS-71 includes my biological brother US Navy Fleet Admiral Thomas Reagan the spacecraft and mission commander and me Kerry Wayne Burgess the US Marine Corps officer and STS-71 pilot astronaut ) To 6/2/2010 is 5452 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 10/6/1980 ( premiere US TV movie "To Find My Son" ) is 5452 days



From 11/18/1996 ( premiere US film "Star Trek: First Contact" ) To 6/2/2010 is 4944 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 5/17/1979 ( premiere US TV series episode "Family"::"From Russia with Love" ) is 4944 days



From 10/17/1972 ( Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II visits Yugoslavia ) To 6/2/2010 is 13742 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 6/18/2003 ( premiere US film "Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle" ) is 13742 days



From 4/19/1950 ( premiere US film "Wagon Master" ) To 11/17/1994 ( premiere US film "Star Trek Generations" ) is 16283 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 6/2/2010 is 16283 days



From 9/8/1959 ( premiere US TV series "Tightrope" ) To 6/2/2010 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 ( 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 5/22/1950 ( premiere US film "The Savage Horde" ) To 12/20/1994 ( in Bosnia as Kerry Wayne Burgess the United States Marine Corps captain this day is my United States Navy Cross medal date of record ) is 16283 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 6/2/2010 is 16283 days



[ See also: http://hvom.blogspot.com/2014/08/have-you-ever-been-ashamed-of-your.html ]
[ See also: http://hvom.blogspot.com/2014/11/the-stand.html ]


http://www.ci.seattle.wa.us/news/detail.asp?ID=10789&Dept=28

SEATTLE.GOV

City of Seattle

Seattle City Council

NEWS ADVISORY

SUBJECT: Police chief candidates to come before City Council

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

6/1/2010 2:33:00 PM


Council President Richard Conlin
Councilmember Sally Bagshaw
Councilmember Tim Burgess
Councilmember Sally J. Clark
Councilmember Jean Godden
Councilmember Bruce Harrell
Councilmember Nick Licata
Councilmember Mike O’Brien
Councilmember Tom Rasmussen

Police chief candidates to come before City Council

Finalists to give presentation and answer questions

EVENT DATE: Wednesday, June 2, 2010

SEATTLE – All three candidates for Seattle’s police chief will appear before the City Council's Public Safety and Education Committee at City Hall Wednesday morning.

WHAT: Public Safety and Education Committee meeting

WHEN: Wednesday, June 2, 2010, 9:30 a.m.

WHERE: Seattle City Hall, 600 Fourth Avenue, Council Chambers, 2nd floor

Sacramento Police Chief found Rick Braziel, East Palo Alto Police Chief Ronald Davis and current interim Seattle Police Chief John Diaz will give short presentations and answer questions from Councilmembers. Preceding their presentations will be an overview of the selection process by Police Chief Search Committee Co-Chairs Kate Joncas and Charles Rolland.










http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0053900/releaseinfo

IMDb


Hell Is a City (1960)

Release Info

USA 13 November 1960



































DSC05925.JPG



































DSC05926.JPG



































DSC05927.JPG



































DSC05928.JPG










JOURNAL ARCHIVE: Posted by H.V.O.M at 1:41 AM Sunday, February 19, 2012


"The Stand"





A short while ago I made some profound observations after I decided to select for viewing the season four episode titled "No Exit" from the 13 February 2009 of the "Battlestar Galactica" television series.

I wanted to stop to transcribe the profound parts, because I am giving the informed public notice about severe criminal activity that is present in their midst, because that is my responsibility in my role as a legitimate law enforcement officer of the United States of America federal government, but I decided to wait until sometime later to describe the relevant details. It's not as though people are going to jump off their chairs any time soon and haul their fat asses down to make arrests of the racketeering organization that created the Nazi propaganda "Battlestar Galactica" television series.

So I started out tonight to watch all of those final episodes, as "No Exit" is the fifth episode before the series finale titled "Daybreak" of the severe racketeering organization the "Battlestar Galactica" television series. After watching "No Exit" I decided I did not want to watch the following episodes though and so I decided, with some reluctance, to watch at least part of the DVD I got recently for the severe racketeering production the Stephen King "The Stand" television miniseries.

The reason I have paused the DVD is because some dialog reminds me of a dream I had about a day or two ago. That might have been the dream I awoke from the last time and got up out of bed to sit down at my desk and then think about for a while and while I was working on other public notices I generate.

Only just now watching the scene did I think the dream could have been about the scene I have just now watched.

Now, that might seem to be a normal dream. I have often written about how I dream about work. I have written several times about how my dreams sometimes are based on the work I do during my waking hours.

But the question I am asking myself now is about the triviality of the details that seems to be connected to what I have just watched on DVD and the details I saw in that recent dream when I was sleeping.

The first detail that seems trivial is about how I have watched that DVD only one time and that was awhile ago. A brief search through my journal on this public blog indicates I first watched that DVD back on Tuesday, December 06, 2011.

So why would I dream such a trivial detail as I write about here? The detail is that I saw a man in my dream and I was outrunning him in an Ironman triathlon. I vaguely considered, about twelve hours ago, the notion that the man, who was the leader of the competitors, was a man with dark skin. At least once during the past day, I thought about the most vague of thoughts that I had thought during the dream that he was "flagging" on the run course and that detail is very vague but that particular thought did cause me to think it might be something to do with "The Stand" but I didn't even begin to think about anything even remotely similar to the scene I reference now with "Campion." I also did not even consider the possibility of watching again the DVD until just a very short while ago.

The dream was great because I was a competitor in an Ironman triathlon and I was actually winning the race. I started becoming the winner because I overtook the lead runner and I can still visualize that detail to some degree. Some other details I remember, as though I had been talking to someone at some point, is that I was talking about how I was winning the race but I had not even been training. I was left with the sense that I had gone out in my overweight condition of 265 pounds and I had completed the Ironman triathlon swim course of 2.4 miles and then I had completed the Ironman triathlon bicycle course of 112 miles and then there I was on the 26.2 mile running course and I had just overtaken the lead runner and I was winning the race.

I can still visualize the marathon course and it sort of reminds me of the marathon course that I completed in the year 2004 for the Ironman triathlon in Coeur d'Alene Idaho. But not quite. It also reminds me of the turn-around point on the marathon course of the Seattle Marathon that I finished back in 2003. I think it is the evergreen trees.

So anyway, I had reached the top of a hill. I am aware of crushed rock that is minimally the road surface. I am not aware of asphalt, but then it is a dream.

I am standing at that point on top of that hill, that had been climb that I had not been aware of, and I am lost. I don't know where to go from there. I have a map and I can still visualize the details to some degree as I look at the map and I can visualize how I looked at the small map and I can see the lines representing the swim course and the other lines from the other courses but I cannot figure it out. I am going to lose the race because I can't read the map. I was waiting for some other competitors to catch up with me and so I could find out from them where to go from there, and I can visualize one woman from a group of an unknown number and I think I was talking to them. The dream seemed to end there and I never did see that former lead runner again.


[JOURNAL ARCHIVE 19 February 2012 excerpt ends]





JOURNAL ARCHIVE: Posted by H.V.O.M at 1:41 AM Sunday, February 19, 2012



1994 television miniseries "The Stand" DVD video:

00:10:05


Charlie Campion: Sally and the baby, they were - they were sick since Salt Lake City. But I felt fine till this morning and, boy. Are you sure Sally and my baby are okay? Huh?

Stu Redman: Yeah.

Charlie Campion: There was a man with us some of the time. He was a dark man. He - I was looking through the rear-view mirror and I'd see him just sitting there grinning at me. I thought I could outrun him. [ laughing briefly ] You can't outrun the dark man.


[JOURNAL ARCHIVE 19 February 2012 excerpt ends]










http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/10/29/chris-christie-ebola-nurse-whatever_n_6067342.html

HUFF POST


Chris Christie To Nurse Who May Sue Him: 'Whatever. Get In Line.'

The Huffington Post By Igor Bobic

Posted: 10/29/2014 9:37 am EDT Updated: 10/29/2014 9:59 am EDT


Christie said he had no qualms over her quarantine, which included a tent with no shower or flushable toilet.

"Neither did the [Centers for Disease Control and Prevention], who was on the ground in University Hospital monitoring the conditions she was in," he said of the hospital environment. "She had access to the Internet and we brought her takeout food."



- posted by H.V.O.M - Kerry Wayne Burgess 5:53 PM Pacific Time Spokane Valley Washington USA Monday 03 November 2014