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Genda Minoru
http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/looters-shake-iraqi-cities-chaos-troops-watch-2655886.php
SFGATE
Looters shake Iraqi cities / CHAOS: Troops watch as Baghdad is ransacked
Robert Collier, Chronicle Staff Writer Published 4:00 am, Saturday, April 12, 2003
2003-04-12 04:00:00 PDT Baghdad -- A frenzy of looting swept across Baghdad on Friday as mobs stripped bare the interiors of government offices, cultural institutions and embassies and U.S. troops mostly did not intervene.
The looting, which on Thursday had been aimed chiefly at targets connected to Saddam Hussein's regime, accelerated throughout the city Friday in an alarming outburst of street anarchy.
Everything from high-tech government laboratories to university labs to foreign embassies were methodically sacked by thieves who, in some cases, loaded their trucks with stolen goods in front of U.S. soldiers.
The destruction appeared to cause a strong backlash from many Baghdad residents who feel thankful for the U.S. troops liberating them from a cruel dictatorship but are angry at the apparent American inaction toward looters.
"Is this freedom?" asked an irate Abbas Yaccouby as crowds sacked a large complex of government laboratories near the campus of Baghdad University. "The Americans promised us liberation, not this."
It was a dramatic reversal of public sentiment from the jubilant scenes of the first U.S. entry into Baghdad.
"Iraq is not Rwanda or Burundi, where people do such things," said Faisal Al-Khudairy, one of Iraq's wealthiest private businessmen, who lives near Yaccouby opposite the laboratory complex. "We are a developed nation, and what you see here is simply a crime," he said.
http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?date=19990707&slug=2970522
The Seattle Times
Wednesday, July 7, 1999
Business Briefs
George W. Bush Names Herbold To High-Tech Panel
Seattle Times Staff: Seattle Times News Services
AUSTIN, Texas - Republican presidential frontrunner George W. Bush today named Bob Herbold, executive vice president of Microsoft, to his nine-member advisory council on high technology.
Herbold has been a vocal supporter of Bush and will host Bush's visit to Microsoft's campus tomorrow.
From 8/28/1963 ( the Martin Luther King Jr "I Have a Dream" ) To 7/7/1999 is 13097 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 9/11/2001 ( the scheduled terrorist attack by force of violence to destroy the New York City World Trade Center and the Headquarters of the United States Department of Defense "The Pentagon" by Bill Gates-Microsoft-Corbis-George Bush the cowardly violent criminal with massive fatalities and destruction ) is 13097 days
From 3/24/1987 ( premiere US film "Blind Date" ) To 7/7/1999 is 4488 days
4488 = 2244 + 2244
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 12/25/1971 ( George Walker Bush the purveyor of illegal drugs strictly for his personal profit including the trafficking of massive amounts of cocaine into the United States confined to federal prison in Mexico for illegally smuggling narcotics in Mexico ) is 2244 days
From 1/1/1943 ( premiere US film "They Stooge to Conga" ) To 9/4/1976 ( George Walker Bush the purveyor of illegal drugs strictly for his personal profit including the trafficking of massive amounts of cocaine into the United States arrested again by police in the United States ) is 12300 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 7/7/1999 is 12300 days
From 4/28/1933 ( Wolfgang Köhler "Conversations in Germany" ) To 7/7/1999 is 24176 days
24176 = 12088 + 12088
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 12/7/1998 ( my first day working at Microsoft Corporation as the known official Chief Deputy United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and the active duty United States Marine Corps lieutenant colonel circa 1998 ) is 12088 days
From 6/29/1995 ( the Mir space station docking of the United States space shuttle Atlantis orbiter vehicle mission STS-71 includes my biological brother United States Navy Fleet Admiral Thomas Reagan the spacecraft and mission commander and me Kerry Wayne Burgess the United States Marine Corps officer and United States STS-71 pilot astronaut ) To 7/7/1999 is 1469 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 11/10/1969 ( premiere US film "Marooned" ) is 1469 days
From 3/24/1947 ( Christine Gregoire ) To 7/7/1999 is 19098 days
19098 = 9549 + 9549
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 12/25/1991 ( as United States Marine Corps chief warrant officer Kerry Wayne Burgess I was prisoner of war in Croatia ) is 9549 days
From 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 ) To 7/7/1999 is 3035 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 2/23/1974 ( Richard Nixon - Radio Address About the American Right of Privacy ) is 3035 days
From 7/12/1957 ( Rick Douglas Husband ) 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 12300 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 7/7/1999 is 12300 days
From 7/12/1957 ( Dwight Eisenhower takes first presidential ride in a helicopter ) 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 12300 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 7/7/1999 is 12300 days
From 2/5/1949 ( premiere US film "Tarzan's Magic Fountain" ) To 7/7/1999 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 also known as Matthew Kline for official duty and also known as Wayne Newman for official duty ) is 9207 days
From 2/5/1949 ( premiere US film "Tarzan's Magic Fountain" ) To 7/7/1999 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
From 4/7/1962 ( premiere US TV series episode "Perry Mason"::"The Case of the Angry Astronaut" ) To 7/7/1999 is 13605 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 2/1/2003 ( the scheduled terrorist attack by Bill Gates-Nazi-Microsoft-NASA-George Bush the cowardly violent criminal reportedly destroying the United States space shuttle Columbia killing all United States and foreign national astronauts onboard United States Columbia spacecraft but I suspect that was all an elaborate hoax by NASA and those people are hiding somewhere to this day and probably in hiding somewhere with Saddam Hussein the material witness against George Herbert Walker Bush and George Walker Bush and their criminal co-conspirators against the United States of America ) is 13605 days
http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?date=19990707&slug=2970522
The Seattle Times
Wednesday, July 7, 1999
Business Briefs
George W. Bush Names Herbold To High-Tech Panel
Seattle Times Staff: Seattle Times News Services
AUSTIN, Texas - Republican presidential frontrunner George W. Bush today named Bob Herbold, executive vice president of Microsoft, to his nine-member advisory council on high technology.
Herbold has been a vocal supporter of Bush and will host Bush's visit to Microsoft's campus tomorrow. Bush named Michael Dell, chairman of Dell Computer, the nation's largest direct seller of computers, as chairman of the high-tech panel.
The Texas governor has called for freeing Internet sales from duties and tariffs, and for creating a permanent federal research and development tax credit. He has pledged not to raise federal personal or corporate taxes.
Bush has proposed intensifying efforts to combat intellectual piracy and called for lifting the cap on the number of high-skilled workers allowed into the country under so-called H-1B visas.
Also named to the advisory council were Tom Engibous, president of Texas Instruments; James Barksdale, managing partner at The Barksdale Group; Carol Bartz, chief executive officer of Autodesk; John Chambers, president and CEO of Cisco Systems; Richard Egan, founder of EMC; Ray Lane, president of Oracle; and Steve Papermaster, head of Agillon.
http://news.cnet.com/Bush-forms-high-tech-advisory-council/2100-1023_3-228143.html
cnet
July 7, 1999 6:05 PM PDT
Bush forms high-tech advisory council
By Courtney Macavinta
Staff Writer, CNET News
In his latest move to court the high-tech vote, presidential candidate and Texas Gov. George W. Bush today said he will work with a group of New Economy heavyweights to develop policies to bolster the industry.
The Republican candidate's Information Technology Advisory Council will direct him on high-tech issues and help him recruit other industry supporters.
Michael Dell, CEO of Dell Computer, will chair the group. Other key executives who are members include former Netscape Communications chief executive Jim Barksdale, who today also joined Sun Microsystems' board; Carol Bartz of Autodesk; John Chambers of Cisco Systems; Richard Egan of EMC Corporation; Tom Engibous of Texas Instruments; Robert Herbold of Microsoft; and Ray Lane of Oracle.
Bush has set three goals in the high-tech arena: to lift regulatory barriers to innovation; to prepare an educated workforce; and to encourage research and development. Those goals also are being pushed by his main Democratic opponent for the White House in 2000, Vice President Al Gore.
Gore and other presidential contenders haven't wasted any time hitting up Silicon Valley for campaign contributions and support.
Gore has held more than 40 fund-raisers in the Bay Area, and former New Jersey Sen. Bill Bradley, who also is vying for the Democratic nomination, collected $1.1 million in pledged donations from a May fund-raiser in San Francisco.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092666/releaseinfo
IMDb
Blind Date (1987)
Release Info
USA 24 March 1987 (Beverly Hills, California) (premiere)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0036429/releaseinfo
IMDb
They Stooge to Conga (1943)
Release Info
USA 1 January 1943
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0036429/fullcredits
IMDb
They Stooge to Conga (1943)
Full Cast & Crew
Curly Howard ... Curly (as Curly)
Larry Fine ... Larry (as Larry)
Moe Howard ... Moe (as Moe)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0036429/plotsummary
IMDb
They Stooge to Conga (1943)
Plot Summary
The stooges are repairmen who get a job fixing the doorbell in large house which is the secret headquarters of some Nazi spies. They manage to ruin most of the house while working on the wiring and then subdue the spies and sink an enemy submarine by remote control.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0036429/quotes
IMDb
They Stooge to Conga (1943)
Quotes
Curly: Quit that double talk, I want to hear the Lone Ranger!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_1933
April 1933
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
April 28, 1933 (Friday)
The Berlin edition of Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung published what would prove to be the last newspaper article in Germany that openly criticized the ruling Nazi government. Wolfgang Köhler, a well-respected psychologist and a professor at Humboldt University of Berlin, wrote "Gespräche in Deutchland" ("Conversations in Germany"), denouncing the injustice of the firing of Jewish professionals. Among his comments were that people who refused to join the Nazi Party "feel a moral imposition ... They believe that only the quality of a human being should determine his worth, that intellectual achievement, character, and obvious contributions to German culture retain their significance whether a person is Jewish or not." Köhler fully expected to be arrested for his defiance. Surprisingly, he was allowed to continue teaching, and was allowed to leave Germany in 1935.
http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-3-0348-9008-3_13
Springer Link
Wolfgang Köhler: Conversations in Germany [April 28, 1933]
Abstract
The powerful men now governing Germany have inquired on more than one occasion about the other Germans, who are now standing on the sidelines and whom it would surely be worth winning over. Anyone wanting to win them over must know why they are distancing themselves. And if they really are worthy, it becomes a patriotic duty to discuss this question in public.
http://articles.latimes.com/1999/jul/07/news/cl-53506
Los Angeles Times
Four New Books About Bush in the Running
July 07, 1999 PAUL D. COLFORD NEWSDAY
The news last week that George W. Bush amassed a record $36 million in campaign contributions during the first half of the year alone has provided welcome assurance to a few publishers that his will be a long-distance run for the presidency. After all, Bush's expected staying power will raise the profile of three books about the Texas governor that are under contract and a fourth title being prepared by the candidate himself.
"First Son: George W. Bush and the Bush Family Dynasty," written by Dallas Morning News reporter Bill Minutaglio, will arrive in September from the Times Books division of Random House. Minutaglio had access to dozens of individuals close to Bush, "as well as the governor himself," the publisher promises.
On Nov. 17, Bush's own "A Charge to Keep"--part autobiography and part reflection on campaign issues--will be published by William Morrow & Co. in a confident first printing of 250,000 copies. It's being written with Mickey Herskowitz, who has collaborated on books by Dan Rather and others, and shows yet again that a serious presidential candidate sooner or later makes his case in a book of his own.
Next up will be "W: The Rise, Fall and Rise of the Bush Dynasty," which Elizabeth Mitchell, a former executive editor of George magazine, is writing for Hyperion. The publisher announced the book last week and said that it will appear in January.
A month later, Molly Ivins, the frequently biting and more often hilarious political columnist based at the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, will be out with "Shrub: The Short but Happy Political Life of George W. Bush" from Random House. Ivins had a big bestseller eight years ago, "Molly Ivins Can't Say That, Can She?," in which she declared: "I believe politics is the finest form of entertainment in the state of Texas: better than the zoo, better than the circus, rougher than football, and even more aesthetically satisfying than baseball."
Reached at home the other day, Ivins said: "The myth of inevitability about George W. Bush is one of the most amazing political phenomena in a long time."
She added: "Poor George Bush. He's been blown up like a balloon in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade already so that he can't possibly live up to expectations. . . .
"My book will be about his public record. No sex, no drugs, no rock 'n' roll . . . but tort reform. It's a book about Texas politics, so it's bound to be funny."
Summer Turns Chilly: Summer in the book business traditionally is a lazy season. A lot of agents hold off on submitting book proposals until after Labor Day.
But this is a summer of anxious uncertainty for some of those who work in the larger companies being rumbled by plans for further consolidation or talk of more to follow.
First came word on June 17 that Rupert Murdoch's News Corp., the owner of HarperCollins Publishers, was acquiring the Hearst Book Group, which includes William Morrow & Co. and Avon Books, for a sum believed to be around $170 million. Until HarperCollins management gives clearer signals about its plans for Morrow and Avon--for example, what degree of editorial autonomy the two imprints may have--employees at both shops will be sweating over more than New York's wicked heat.
Days after the HarperCollins-Hearst deal was announced, the New York Times and Reuters reported that Time Warner Inc., the owner of Warner Books and Little, Brown and Co., and Viacom Inc., the parent of Simon & Schuster, were discussing a joint venture involving their publishing operations. Talk of a possible deal comes a year after Viacom broke off and sold Simon & Schuster's educational-publishing units and suggests that the media giant is looking for greater cost efficiency in its remaining consumer-publishing imprints by sharing operational expenses with Time Warner. Again, though, word of the discussions has unsettled those who fear being the odd man out if a reorganization takes place.
Meanwhile, the acquisition that rocked the book business--Bertelsmann's purchase of Random House from the Newhouse family in June 1998 created the world's largest English-language publisher--has resulted recently in the linking of comparable divisions within the vast company into four new publishing groups. They include the Bantam Dell Publishing Group, which combines Bantam Books and Dell Publishing, and the Vintage Anchor Publishing Division, which combines two trade-paperback imprints. And this reorganization under "unified managements," to use the company's term, has led to the departure of certain executives who had been part of previously separate management structures.
http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?date=19990707&slug=2970522
The Seattle Times
Wednesday, July 7, 1999
Business Briefs
George W. Bush Names Herbold To High-Tech Panel
Seattle Times Staff: Seattle Times News Services
AUSTIN, Texas - Republican presidential frontrunner George W. Bush today named Bob Herbold, executive vice president of Microsoft, to his nine-member advisory council on high technology.
Herbold has been a vocal supporter of Bush and will host Bush's visit to Microsoft's campus tomorrow.
From 7/8/1999 To 9/11/2001 ( the scheduled terrorist attack by force of violence to destroy the New York City World Trade Center and the Headquarters of the United States Department of Defense "The Pentagon" by Bill Gates-Microsoft-Corbis-George Bush the cowardly violent criminal with massive fatalities and destruction ) is 796 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 1/7/1968 ( premiere US film "Wild 90" ) is 796 days
From 6/24/1959 ( premiere US film "This Earth Is Mine" ) 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 and to murder all occupants resulting in extensive damage and several fatalities ) is 12301 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 7/8/1999 is 12301 days
From 6/24/1959 ( premiere US film "Shake Hands with the Devil" ) 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 and to murder all occupants resulting in extensive damage and several fatalities ) is 12301 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 7/8/1999 is 12301 days
From 8/16/1904 ( Genda Minoru ) To 12/25/1971 ( George Walker Bush the purveyor of illegal drugs strictly for his personal profit including the trafficking of massive amounts of cocaine into the United States confined to federal prison in Mexico for illegally smuggling narcotics in Mexico ) is 24602 days
24602 = 12301 + 12301
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 7/8/1999 is 12301 days
From 5/14/1957 ( premiere US film "This Could Be the Night" ) 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 also known as Matthew Kline for official duty and also known as Wayne Newman for official duty ) is 12301 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 7/8/1999 is 12301 days
From 5/14/1957 ( premiere US film "This Could Be the Night" ) 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 12301 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 7/8/1999 is 12301 days
From 2/17/1909 ( Geronimo deceased ) To 6/27/1976 ( the Air France Flight 139 hijacking ) is 24602 days
24602 = 12301 + 12301
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 7/8/1999 is 12301 days
From 4/3/1965 ( the United States SNAP-10A "Snapshot" atomic reactor launched into orbit of the planet Earth ) To 12/7/1998 ( my first day working at Microsoft Corporation as the known official Chief Deputy United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and the active duty United States Marine Corps lieutenant colonel circa 1998 ) is 12301 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 7/8/1999 is 12301 days
http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?date=19990708&slug=2970488
The Seattle Times
Thursday, July 8, 1999
Bush Changes Plans, Makes Surprise Visit To Minority Gathering -- He's In A Flurry Of Presidential Candidates Visiting Seattle During The Next Few Days
By Dionne Searcey, Robert T. Nelson
Seattle Times Staff Reporters
Texas Gov. George W. Bush brought his front-running presidential campaign to Seattle today, making a surprise, unscheduled stop at the Unity '99 conference of 5,000 minority journalists.
Bush had earlier declined an invitation to speak before the gathering. His office had said he was too busy.
What prompted the change?
"I have a lot of friends here from Texas," Bush said. "I wanted to come by here and say hi. I told them to make some time on my schedule. . . . I felt like I have to reach out."
Bush said he gets "all types of invites." He said he just learned about the convention yesterday.
Bush's decision not to speak at Unity had drawn critical comment in a story in today's Los Angeles Times. "We read the L.A. Times story this morning, and people were saying it was an important signal to send, so he decided to make the effort," said Karen Hughes, Bush's communications director.
Bush spent about 15 minutes at Unity, walking through the exhibition area and shaking hands. Reporters and conference attendees gathered around him.
He was asked if he supports Washington's Initiative 200, approved by voters last year, which bans preferences based on race, ethnicity and gender in state and local public employment, contracting and education.
"I'm against quotas, and I'm against special treatment, and I'm for breaking down barriers as we did in Texas," Bush said.
In Texas, he said, high-school students in the top 10 percent of their graduating classes are automatically admitted to any state university.
Shortly after Bush left Unity, another presidential contender, former Sen. Bill Bradley, D-N.J., addressed the group, noting pointedly that the conference had been on his schedule for some time.
"As I look ahead, one of the fundamental driving forces of this candidacy is a desire and push for racial unity," Bradley said. He said he tells white audiences that "if neither morality nor world leadership convince you of the importance of racial unity in America, try self-interest."
People of color soon will constitute a majority of the U.S. population, Bradley said.
After leaving Unity, Bush traveled to the Rotary Boys & Girls Club in Seattle's Central District, where he had a tough act to follow. He was preceded by Kelly Muldrow, the "Mad Scientist," who entertained 100 children for 45 minutes.
But Bush held his own, mugging for the cameras and kids, shaking their hands and urging them to work hard.
When Bush asked the children how many expected to go to college, every hand went up. "If you go to college, you're going to have to work hard starting right now," he said. "It's hard to realize your dreams if you let drugs run your life."
Club officials showed Bush an 18-station computer lab underwritten by Boeing and Microsoft. Each company contributed about $100,000 in cash, engineering support and software to provide a place where inner-city children and adults can do homework, write resumes and term papers, and access the Internet.
"Seven percent of our kids have a computer at home," said Rob Parker, president and CEO of the Boys & Girls Clubs of King County. "The national average is 70 percent. We feel these youngsters will be unemployable if they don't have computer skills."
Speaking with reporters later, Bush said he supports giving the next president fast-track trade authority to negotiate new agreements with China. Bush also said he supports admitting China to the World Trade Organization.
A Republican presidential nominee hasn't won Washington state since 1984. Bush acknowledged that, at the national level, the GOP hasn't done a good job in the Pacific Northwest, and said he won't concede Washington.
Bush also was to tour Microsoft's Redmond complex today. Yesterday he announced the creation of a council to advise his campaign on high-technology matters. The group is headed by fellow Texan Michael Dell, chief executive officer of Dell Computers, and includes Robert Herbold, Microsoft executive vice president and chief operating officer.
A Bellevue rally and a fund-raiser at the Hunts Point home of telecommunications tycoon Craig McCaw also were on Bush's agenda.
Sen. Slade Gorton was expected to formally announce his endorsement of Bush at the rally. The fund-raising dinner was expected to draw 250 at $1,000 a plate.
Earlier in the day, at a campaign breakfast in Spokane, Bush touched on conservative themes of tax cuts and smaller government in a speech to about 800 people who paid $20 apiece for Wheaties, orange juice, bananas and muffins.
"I will swear to uphold the dignity and the honor of the office to which I am elected," Bush said, drawing the biggest applause of his speech. "We can prove that someone who is conservative and compassionate can win.
http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/228198/Genda-Minoru
Encyclopædia Britannica
Genda Minoru
Japanese naval officer
Genda Minoru, (born Aug. 16, 1904, Hiroshima, Japan—died Aug. 15, 1989, Tokyo), Japanese naval officer and air strategist who was chosen by Admiral Yamamoto Isoroku to draft the plan for the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor (in Oahu Island, Hawaii, U.S.), which crippled the American Pacific Fleet and precipitated the entry of the United States into World War II.
Genda, a graduate of the Japanese Naval Academy (1924), was a fighter pilot who was regarded as one of Japan’s finest naval officers. He was a commander in the navy when he formulated the details of the air assault on Pearl Harbor, and he was promoted to captain by the end of the war. From 1959 to 1962 he served as chief of staff of the Air Self–Defense Force, and, from 1962 until his retirement in 1986, he served in the House of Councillors (parliament). For many years he was also chairman of the National Defense Committee of the Liberal-Democratic Party.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0062492/releaseinfo
IMDb
Wild 90 (1968)
Release Info
USA 7 January 1968 (New York City, New York)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wild_90
Wild 90
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Wild 90 is a 1968 experimental film directed and produced by U.S. novelist Norman Mailer, who also plays the starring role.
Plot
A trio of Mafia gangsters – The Prince (Norman Mailer), Cameo (Buzz Farbar) and Twenty Years (Mickey Knox)—are hiding in a warehouse. They have surrounded themselves with guns and liquor, and they kill time by joking and bickering with scatological language. But as their isolation from the world progresses, their drinking and arguing intensifies. They are briefly visited by a man with a barking dog—the canine is silenced when The Prince outbarks him—and by two women, one of whom gives The Prince a knife for committing suicide. The police arrive at the warehouse and the gangsters are taken away.
Production
Wild 90 was the first attempt by Norman Mailer to create a motion picture. The concept for the film came when Mailer and several actors who were appearing in an Off-Broadway adaptation of his novel The Deer Park engaged in an acting game where they pretended they were gangsters. The title Wild 90 is a reference to alleged Mafia slang term for being in deep trouble.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0051074/releaseinfo
IMDb
This Could Be the Night (1957)
Release Info
USA 14 May 1957 (New York City, New York)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0051074/quotes
IMDb
This Could Be the Night (1957)
Quotes
Ivy Corlane: Friends and neighbours the time is right! This could be the night!
Tony Armotti: Ivy, could you give a lift? For Hussein get a new name we got to find a costumer who can add X and Y and get Z.
http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?date=19990708&slug=2970644
The Seattle Times
Thursday, July 8, 1999
Early Primary, Big Bucks -- Washington Will Draw 4 Candidates For President Over Next Few Days
By Robert T. Nelson
Seattle Times Staff Reporter
Washington's early presidential primary and the Puget Sound region's wealth have combined to put this state on the map of great places to visit if you happen to be running for president.
Three candidates were coming to town today. A fourth is scheduled to drop in tomorrow. Yet another is expected Monday.
If there were a "Michelin Travel Guide to Campaign Stops," Washington would get three stars, lacking only the population and electoral votes to make it a first-class establishment.
"I've never seen the stream of candidates come through here like they have this year," says a longtime corporate lobbyist. "(In the past,) most of the companies stayed low-key in their giving. That's changed, and as a result, there's a huge emphasis being put on Washington state."
Texas Gov. George W. Bush, considered the GOP front-runner, arrived in Seattle this morning.
http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?date=20030412&slug=loot12
The Seattle Times
Saturday, April 12, 2003
U.S. military puts troops on patrol as Rumsfeld downplays 'untidiness'
By Seattle Times news services
BAGHDAD, Iraq — Anarchy swept Baghdad, Kirkuk and Mosul yesterday as vanquished battalions of Iraqi soldiers streamed home, replaced by fearless battalions of Iraqi looters who ransacked, dismantled and torched banks, government ministries and other establishments.
With turbulence convulsing those cities, U.S. military commanders turned their attention to Saddam Hussein's hometown of Tikrit, but even that city seemed ready to fall. Marine officers said reconnaissance flights spotted looters there — but no masses of troops loyal to a regime that the United States declared dead yesterday.
Some U.S. war planners expected a fierce battle there, but others thought intense airstrikes on Iraqi positions earlier this week cracked any remaining will to fight.
"It doesn't seem there's a last stand left," said Marine Lt. Col. Dave Pere.
U.S. Gen. Tommy Franks, the allied commander, told unit leaders yesterday:
"The Saddam regime has ended, ... and we will stay until there is a free government,"
He and others said U.S. combat forces would attempt to suppress looting but would not evolve into police forces, though the Geneva Conventions require an occupying power to provide for the population's safety and health.
Franks asked Iraqi police officers, civil servants, doctors, nurses and other essential workers to return to their jobs, though it was unclear who would pay them.
Military commanders and the Bush administration said they expected the civil disorder to burn itself out soon.
"This is a transition period between war and what we hope will be a much more peaceful time," Air Force Gen. Richard Myers, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said at the Pentagon.
In Washington, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld said yesterday the news media were exaggerating reports of looting and other crime with "Henny Penny the sky is falling" journalism. Describing the scenes of disorder as an "untidiness" that regularly occurs when people are suddenly freed, he predicted it would not last long.
There was plenty of untidiness yesterday:
In Kirkuk, Iraqis plundered supermarkets, burned government offices, balanced chandeliers on their shoulders and stripped a Pepsi plant of soda and a natural-gas plant of valves and wires.
In Mosul, which fell to Kurdish and U.S. forces yesterday, Iraqis hijacked city buses and garbage trucks, purloined books from a museum, took tons of rice from a U.N. warehouse, hugged stacks of Iraqi currency stolen from banks and dug up plants from one of Saddam's palaces.
In Baghdad, Iraqis liberated computers, refrigerators and tennis rackets from the Rashid Hotel, set fire to the Ministry of Planning and a bank, and rolled beds and operating-room equipment away from hospitals.
Despite downplaying the seriousness of the unrest, the administration showed its concern by making a shift in its approach.
After insisting for days that policing should be handled by Iraqis, U.S. officials said their troops would now mount limited patrols of streets, guard some buildings and even make some arrests.
At the same time, in a sign of his concern about going too far, Franks issued rules forbidding U.S. troops from using deadly force to prevent looting.
U.S. officials plan to assign more troops to help restore order as reinforcements arrive in Central and Northern Iraq. And they are accelerating efforts to help the Iraqis form new police forces, beginning with the expected arrival of 26 law-enforcement experts from the United States.
Still, there is growing anger at the coalition forces.
"They must either give us Saddam back, or do something about the outrage in the streets," said Rafi Najih, 26, a Baghdad merchant who defended the store with a Kalashnikov on his lap.
"Look what they did to me. This is the first time I took a weapon in my hands in the entire war."
In the days since Saddam lost his grip on power, the Iraqi capital dropped increasingly into chaos and bursts of violence.
After two days of almost cheery looting, yesterday saw Baghdad slide into an unsettling mix of oddly festive crime spree and sinister unrest, as shootings, arson and vigilante justice flared across the capital.
Increasingly, gunfire crackled as defenders of property fired at looters, looters fired at the defenders and looters fired at fellow looters over the spoils.
Near a presidential palace in the Mansour district yesterday, a angry man in a black robe started shooting a handgun at looters. They turned and drove away quickly.
The man screamed after them at the top of his lungs: "You sons of dogs! You are a shame for the nation. I will kill everybody who has something in his hands."
But elsewhere, looters were going at it with a kind of joie de vivre — cheerfully carting off virtually everything as if they had won the lottery.
The stealing was watched but not checked by U.S. forces. "We should discourage looting, but we're not going to stand between a crowd and a bunch of mattresses," Maj. Gen. David Petraeus, commander of the 101st Airborne Division, told his senior officers.
In another part of the city, Marines who were making the difficult shift from warrior to peacekeeper said they had their work cut out for them.
Marine 1st Lt. Frank Dillbeck, of Twentynine Palms, Calif., is the commander of a unit that yesterday began its new mission, to guard the International Committee of the Red Cross.
A few short days ago, Dillbeck said, if he had seen an Iraqi carrying a weapon, he wouldn't have hesitated to shoot to kill. But if he did that now, he said, he might be shooting someone trying to defend their property.
http://www.businessinsider.com/bush-rumsfeld-and-iraq-is-the-real-reason-for-the-invasion-finally-emerging-2011-2
Business Insider
Bush, Rumsfeld and Iraq: Is the Real Reason for the Invasion Finally Emerging?
RUSS BAKER, WHOWHATWHY
FEB. 6, 2011, 10:34 PM
In Donald Rumsfeld’s new book, Known and Unknown, out February 8, Rumsfeld offers an account of George W. Bush’s early interest in Iraq. This was just days after the 9/11 attacks. There were no apparent reasons for Bush to focus on Iraq, instead of on the actual perpetrators of the attacks.
Here’s the Rumsfeld version as reported in an advance peek from The New York Times,
Just 15 days after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, President George W. Bush invited his defense secretary, Donald H. Rumsfeld, to meet with him alone in the Oval Office. According to Mr. Rumsfeld’s new memoir, the president leaned back in his leather chair and ordered a review and revision of war plans — but not for Afghanistan, where the Qaeda attacks on New York and Washington had been planned and where American retaliation was imminent.
“He asked that I take a look at the shape of our military plans on Iraq,” Mr. Rumsfeld writes.
“Two weeks after the worst terrorist attack in our nation’s history, those of us in the Department of Defense were fully occupied,” Mr. Rumsfeld recalls. But the president insisted on new military plans for Iraq, Mr. Rumsfeld writes. “He wanted the options to be ‘creative.’ ”
When the option of attacking Iraq in post-9/11 military action was raised first during a Camp David meeting on Sept. 15, 2001, Mr. Bush said Afghanistan would be the target. But Mr. Rumsfeld’s recollection in the memoir, “Known and Unknown,” to be published Tuesday, shows that even then Mr. Bush was focused as well on Iraq.
What Rumsfeld seems to be saying, without saying it explicitly, is hugely important: that Bush’s rush to war with Iraq seemed to make no sense. More than that, it was downright fishy.
Rumsfeld suggests that Bush had some kind of prior agenda that had nothing to do with any role Iraq might have had (and in any case did not) in the events of 9/11. Bush simply wanted to invade that country.
If so, why? Rumsfeld apparently doesn’t speculate. But he doesn’t need to.
In my book, Family of Secrets, I recount interviews with Mickey Herskowitz, a Texas journalist who was George W. Bush’s co-author on a preliminary version of the latter’s 2000 book A Charge to Keep. Bush admitted, Herskowitz told me, that he was actually hoping to find an excuse to invade Iraq. Here’s an excerpt from Family of Secrets:
“He was thinking about invading Iraq in 1999,” Herskowitz told me in our 2004 interview, leaning in a little to make sure I could hear him properly. “It was on his mind. He said to me: ‘One of the keys to being seen as a great leader is to be seen as a commander in chief.’ And he said, ‘My father had all this political capital built up when he drove the Iraqis out of Kuwait, and he wasted it.’ He said, ‘If I have a chance to invade . . . if I had that much capital, I’m not going to waste it. I’m going to get everything passed that I want to get passed, and I’m going to have a successful presidency.’ ”
Herskowitz said that Bush expressed frustration at a lifetime as an underachiever in the shadow of an accomplished father. In aggressive military action, he saw the opportunity to emerge from his father’s shadow.
That opportunity, of course, would come in the wake of the September 11 attacks. “Suddenly, he’s at ninety- one percent in the polls,” Herskowitz said, “and he’d barely crawled out of the bunker.” Just four days before, according to a Gallup poll, his approval rating was 51 percent.
Herskowitz said that George W. Bush’s beliefs on Iraq were based in part on a notion dating back to the Reagan White House, and ascribed in part to Dick Cheney, who was then a powerful congressman. “Start a small war. Pick a country where there is justification you can jump on, go ahead and invade.”
Bush’s circle of preelection advisers had a fixation on the political capital that British prime minister Margaret Thatcher had amassed from the Falklands War with Argentina. Said Herskowitz: “They were just absolutely blown away, just enthralled by the scenes of the troops coming back, of the boats, people throwing flowers at [Thatcher] and her getting these standing ovations in Parliament and making these magnificent speeches.”
http://avalon.law.yale.edu/20th_century/mlk01.asp
Yale Law School
I have a Dream by Martin Luther King, Jr; August 28, 1963
Delivered on the steps at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C. on August 28, 1963
Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand signed the Emancipation Proclamation. This momentous decree came as a great beacon light of hope to millions of Negro slaves who had been seared in the flames of withering injustice. It came as a joyous daybreak to end the long night of captivity.
But one hundred years later, we must face the tragic fact that the Negro is still not free. One hundred years later, the life of the Negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination. One hundred years later, the Negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity. One hundred years later, the Negro is still languishing in the corners of American society and finds himself an exile in his own land. So we have come here today to dramatize an appalling condition.
In a sense we have come to our nation's capital to cash a check. When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words of the Constitution and the declaration of Independence, they were signing a promissory note to which every American was to fall heir. This note was a promise that all men would be guaranteed the inalienable rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
It is obvious today that America has defaulted on this promissory note insofar as her citizens of color are concerned. Instead of honoring this sacred obligation, America has given the Negro people a bad check which has come back marked "insufficient funds." But we refuse to believe that the bank of justice is bankrupt. We refuse to believe that there are insufficient funds in the great vaults of opportunity of this nation. So we have come to cash this check -- a check that will give us upon demand the riches of freedom and the security of justice. We have also come to this hallowed spot to remind America of the fierce urgency of now. This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism. Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation to the sunlit path of racial justice. Now is the time to open the doors of opportunity to all of God's children. Now is the time to lift our nation from the quicksands of racial injustice to the solid rock of brotherhood.
It would be fatal for the nation to overlook the urgency of the moment and to underestimate the determination of the Negro. This sweltering summer of the Negro's legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality. Nineteen sixty-three is not an end, but a beginning. Those who hope that the Negro needed to blow off steam and will now be content will have a rude awakening if the nation returns to business as usual. There will be neither rest nor tranquility in America until the Negro is granted his citizenship rights. The whirlwinds of revolt will continue to shake the foundations of our nation until the bright day of justice emerges.
But there is something that I must say to my people who stand on the warm threshold which leads into the palace of justice. In the process of gaining our rightful place we must not be guilty of wrongful deeds. Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred.
We must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline. We must not allow our creative protest to degenerate into physical violence. Again and again we must rise to the majestic heights of meeting physical force with soul force. The marvelous new militancy which has engulfed the Negro community must not lead us to distrust of all white people, for many of our white brothers, as evidenced by their presence here today, have come to realize that their destiny is tied up with our destiny and their freedom is inextricably bound to our freedom. We cannot walk alone.
And as we walk, we must make the pledge that we shall march ahead. We cannot turn back. There are those who are asking the devotees of civil rights, "When will you be satisfied?" We can never be satisfied as long as our bodies, heavy with the fatigue of travel, cannot gain lodging in the motels of the highways and the hotels of the cities. We cannot be satisfied as long as the Negro's basic mobility is from a smaller ghetto to a larger one. We can never be satisfied as long as a Negro in Mississippi cannot vote and a Negro in New York believes he has nothing for which to vote. No, no, we are not satisfied, and we will not be satisfied until justice rolls down like waters and righteousness like a mighty stream.
I am not unmindful that some of you have come here out of great trials and tribulations. Some of you have come fresh from narrow cells. Some of you have come from areas where your quest for freedom left you battered by the storms of persecution and staggered by the winds of police brutality. You have been the veterans of creative suffering. Continue to work with the faith that unearned suffering is redemptive.
Go back to Mississippi, go back to Alabama, go back to Georgia, go back to Louisiana, go back to the slums and ghettos of our northern cities, knowing that somehow this situation can and will be changed. Let us not wallow in the valley of despair.
I say to you today, my friends, that in spite of the difficulties and frustrations of the moment, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream.
I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: "We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal."
I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slaveowners will be able to sit down together at a table of brotherhood.
I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a desert state, sweltering with the heat of injustice and oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice.
I have a dream that my four children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.
I have a dream today.
I have a dream that one day the state of Alabama, whose governor's lips are presently dripping with the words of interposition and nullification, will be transformed into a situation where little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls and walk together as sisters and brothers.
I have a dream today.
I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made plain, and the crooked places will be made straight, and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together.
This is our hope. This is the faith with which I return to the South. With this faith we will be able to hew out of the mountain of despair a stone of hope. With this faith we will be able to transform the jangling discords of our nation into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood. With this faith we will be able to work together, to pray together, to struggle together, to go to jail together, to stand up for freedom together, knowing that we will be free one day.
This will be the day when all of God's children will be able to sing with a new meaning, "My country, 'tis of thee, sweet land of liberty, of thee I sing. Land where my fathers died, land of the pilgrim's pride, from every mountainside, let freedom ring."
And if America is to be a great nation this must become true. So let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire. Let freedom ring from the mighty mountains of New York. Let freedom ring from the heightening Alleghenies of Pennsylvania!
Let freedom ring from the snowcapped Rockies of Colorado!
Let freedom ring from the curvaceous peaks of California!
But not only that; let freedom ring from Stone Mountain of Georgia!
Let freedom ring from Lookout Mountain of Tennessee!
Let freedom ring from every hill and every molehill of Mississippi. From every mountainside, let freedom ring.
When we let freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual, "Free at last! free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!"
- posted by H.V.O.M - Kerry Wayne Burgess 12:09 PM Pacific Time Spokane Valley Washington USA Tuesday 14 April 2015
