http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/special_report/1998/10/98/world_war_i/197586.stm
Thursday, 5 November, 1998, 18:37 GMT
Lions led by donkeys?
By Peter Simkins, Senior Historian at the Imperial War Museum
As we approach the 80th anniversary of the armistice that brought the fighting in the Great War to an end, public perceptions of that war - particularly in Britain - are still dominated by images of the Somme and Passchendaele, of futile frontal attacks against machine guns in the mud of Flanders, of generals who were little more than "butchers and bunglers", and of brave front-line troops who were sacrificed because of the ill-conceived plans of incompetent staff officers. In short, ordinary British and Dominion Officers were "lions led by donkeys".
The myth of the uncaring general - safely dining and drinking in his chateau while the front-line troops lived and died in squalor - has proved especially durable - and has been reinforced recently by Stephen Fry's portrayal of just such an officer in BBC's Blackadder Goes Forth.
What is much less widely known is that 78 British and Dominion officers of the rank of Brigadier General and above died on active service in the First World War while a further 146 were wounded. These figures alone show that, contrary to popular belief, British Generals frequently went close enough to the battle zone to place themselves in considerable danger.
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Springfield! Springfield!
The Simpsons
You Only Move Twice
So long, Stinktown! [Tires Squealing] [Tires Squealing] It says here one of these giant redwood trees can provide enough sawdust to cover an entire day's worth of vomit at Disneyland.
[All] Ooh! [All] Aah! [All] Oh! [All] Ooh! Here we are.
[Homer] Our new home.
[Whistles] I call this room.
[Knocking] I am here to welcome you on behalf of the president of the Globex Corporation.
Me! Try the papayas.
They're juicy and full of papain.
Makes you strong like Popeye.
Popeye, papain.
Popeye, papain.
See? Same thing.
Same- Uh, forget it.
How are you? I'm Hank Scorpio.
- Wow, my boss.
- Don't call me that word.
I don't like things that elevate me above the other people.
I'm just like you.
Sure, I come later in the day, I get paid a lot more and I take longer vacations but I don't like the word "boss.
http://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-posts-whistler-beta-1/
ZDNet
Microsoft posts Whistler beta 1
Microsoft officials said the company had posted to the private Windows testing site on Tuesday the first official beta release of Whistler, which is the successor to Windows 2000. Starting this week, the company will begin shipping CD versions of Whistler to an additional 200,000 testers via its Microsoft Developer Network subscription service.
By ZDNet Editors October 31, 2000
https://rcpmag.com/articles/2000/10/31/microsoft-sends-whistler-to-beta-1.aspx
Redmond Channel Partner
Microsoft Sends Whistler to Beta 1
By Scott Bekker October 31, 2000
The next major upgrade to the Microsoft Windows NT operating system, code named Whistler, will be primarily a consumer upgrade, finally uniting the Windows NT and Windows 9.x code bases. But a few important changes to the server operating system are up Microsoft’s sleeve.
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http://news.microsoft.com/2000/10/31/microsoft-delivers-first-beta-release-of-next-version-of-windows-code-named-whistler/
Microsoft [ RACKETEER INFLUENCED AND CORRUPT ORGANIZATIONS US Title 18 ]
News Center [ RACKETEER INFLUENCED AND CORRUPT ORGANIZATIONS US Title 18 ]
Microsoft Delivers First Beta Release of Next Version of Windows, Code-Named “Whistler”
Posted October 31, 2000 By
REDMOND, Wash., Oct. 31, 2000 — Microsoft Corp. today announced the first beta release of the next version of the Microsoft® Windows® operating system, code-named
“Whistler.” The beta 1 release will be distributed to key partners and customers, as well as to more than 200,000 software developers via MSDN® , with the objective of gathering feedback and enabling compatibility testing.
“The release of ‘Whistler’ beta 1 represents the next step in delivering on our vision for Windows and will provide software and hardware vendors with a single code base on which to develop applications and devices for both home and business PC users,”
said Brian Valentine, senior vice president of the Windows Division at Microsoft.
“This release will help us continue to receive the feedback we need, which will help ensure broad compatibility of software applications and hardware devices and ultimately provide the best customer experience.”
Users today can enjoy exciting computing experiences such as home networking and digital media with Windows Millennium Edition (Windows Me).
“Whistler”
will continue to deliver on Microsoft’s long-term vision for home computing by enhancing these experiences, adding new capabilities and building on the solid foundation of Windows 2000. To ensure that home PC users will benefit from the latest technology advancements, Microsoft will continue to invest in understanding the needs of customers and taking advantage of the emerging technology trends to deliver the most-advanced home-computing experience.
Windows 2000 provides customers with the most reliable and scalable enterprise computing platform, which continues to be successfully deployed by businesses of all sizes. Building on the strengths of both 32-bit and 64-bit architectures,
“Whistler”
will represent an evolution in performance, reliability and management. The
“Whistler”
desktop and server family of products will improve on the substantial advancements that Windows 2000 enterprise customers realize today.
“Whistler”
beta 1 is also the first 64-bit version of Windows that will be available to customers for early evaluation purposes on Intel Itanium-based systems.
To bring the reliability of Windows 2000 to consumers as soon as possible and address the feedback from enterprise customers, Microsoft plans a phased release of
“Whistler,”
beginning with the desktop products and followed by the server versions. Both desktop and server versions are expected to be generally available in the second half of 2001.
Founded in 1975, Microsoft (Nasdaq
“MSFT”
) is the worldwide leader in software, services and Internet technologies for personal and business computing. The company offers a wide range of products and services designed to empower people through great software — any time, any place and on any device.
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Whistler Mountain
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Whistler Mountain is a mountain in the Fitzsimmons Range of the Pacific Ranges of the Coast Mountains, located on the northwestern edge of Garibaldi Provincial Park. It is the location of the Whistler-Blackcomb ski resort and the town of Whistler, British Columbia.
The original name of the mountain was London Mountain, named after a mining claim in the area.
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Goldfinger (1964)
Quotes
Auric Goldfinger: achieved miracles in every field of human endeavor... except crime!
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Goldfinger (1964)
Release Info
USA 22 December 1964 (New York City, New York)
http://www.nysm.nysed.gov/wtc/about/index.html
THE WORLD TRADE CENTER
“The World Trade Center is a living symbol of man’s dedication to world peace...beyond the compelling need to make this a monument to world peace, the World Trade Center should, because of its importance, become a representation of man’s belief in humanity, his need for individual dignity, his belief in the cooperation of men, and through this cooperation, his ability to find greatness.”
— Minuro Yamasaki Chief Architect of the World Trade Center Complex, Remarks at opening ceremonies and dedication April 4, 1973
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tv.com
The Girl from U.N.C.L.E. Season 1 Episode 1
AIRED: 9/13/66
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tv.com
Occasional Wife Season 1 Episode 1
Pilot
AIRED: 9/13/66
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/February_1933
February 1933
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The following events occurred in February 1933:
February 4, 1933 (Saturday)
With the approval of Germany's President Hindenburg, Adolf Hitler decreed the "Ordinance for the Protection of the German People", which allowed the police to ban any publications which were a threat to public order. Violators could be arrested and detained without a warrant for as long as three months.
http://germanhistorydocs.ghi-dc.org/chapter.cfm?subsection_id=94
GHDI
Nazi Germany (1933-1945)
I. Building the Nazi Regime
On February 1, 1933, President Hindenburg granted Hitler’s wish for new elections. Immediately thereafter, Hitler requested an emergency decree allegedly aimed at Communist acts of terror. The “Decree for the Protection of the German People,” issued under presidential authority on February 4, 1933, allowed the new interior minister, Wilhelm Frick (1877-1946), to work with local police to prohibit public meetings and to suppress publications deemed “dangerous” to public security and order.
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IMDb
Once to Every Bachelor (1934)
Release Info
USA 23 August 1934
http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/htmlbios/husband.html
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center
Houston, Texas 77058
Biographical Data
RICK DOUGLAS HUSBAND (COLONEL, USAF)
NASA ASTRONAUT
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Release dates for
Made in U.S.A (1966)
Country Date
USA 27 September 1967
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tv.com
The Outer Limits - Original Season 1 Episode 11
It Crawled Out of the Woodwork
Aired Monday 8:00 PM Dec 09, 1963 on ABC
AIRED: 12/9/63
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Jaws (1975)
Release Info
USA 20 June 1975
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Jaws (1975)
Quotes
Quint: [seeing Hooper's equipment] What are you? Some kind of half-assed astronaut?
http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/chemistry/laureates/1935/joliot-curie-facts.html
Nobelprize.org
The Official Web Site of the Nobel Prize
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1935
Frédéric Joliot, Irène Joliot-Curie
Irène Joliot-Curie
Born: 12 September 1897, Paris, France
Died: 17 March 1956, Paris, France
Affiliation at the time of the award: Institut du Radium, Paris, France
Prize motivation: "in recognition of their synthesis of new radioactive elements"
Field: nuclear chemistry
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From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 2/8/1968 ( premiere US film "Planet of the Apes" ) is 828 days
[ See also: http://hvom.blogspot.com/2013/02/star-trek-first-contact.html ]
[ See also: http://hvom.blogspot.com/2015/07/get-out-last-signal.html ]
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Star Trek: First Contact (1996)
Release Info
USA 18 November 1996 (Hollywood, California) (premiere)
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IMDb
Star Trek: First Contact (1996)
Full Cast & Crew
James Cromwell ... Zefram Cochran
http://www.chakoteya.net/movies/movie8.html
Star Trek: First Contact (1996)
TROI: They're on a survey mission. They have no interest in Earth. ...Too primitive.
COCHRANE: Oh!
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Paint Your Wagon (1969)
Release Info
USA 15 October 1969
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Paint Your Wagon (1969)
Full Cast & Crew
Clint Eastwood ... Pardner
http://archives.seattletimes.nwsource.com/cgi-bin/texis.cgi/web/vortex/display?slug=webrumsfeld08&date=20061108&query=rumsfeld
Nation & World: Wednesday, November 08, 2006
By The Associated Press
Bush seemed stoic about the election, proclaiming: "This isn't my first rodeo."
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IMDb
Paint Your Wagon (1969)
Quotes
Rumson: You show me in them commandments where it says a woman cain't have two husbands.
Pardner: There AIN'T no commandment like that.
http://www.tvsquad.com/2009/02/14/battlestar-galactica-no-exit/
TV SQUAD
Battlestar Galactica: No Exit
by Brad Trechak, posted Feb 14th 2009 1:46AM
Starbuck's comment to the brain-dead Anders was funny. I would give good money to see a Battlestar Galactica Musical
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Paint Your Wagon (1969)
Taglines
Stake Your Claim To The Musical Goldmine of '69!
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Forced Landing (1941)
Release Info
USA 11 July 1941
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Forced Landing (1941)
Plot Summary
Deliberately set in an imaginary country, American pilot Dan Kendall falls for an exotic foreigner, Johanna Van Deuren but finds he has to fight her fiancé, Col Golas. Released from military prison on a promise that he will fly for the country's civil airline. His first mission is to fly Van Deuren to a fort where her father has fallen ill and the workers are disgruntled and penniless. The payroll flight he promises brings Dan into conflict with Galos who has been sabotaging the flights to the fort.
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Crime and Passion (1976)
Release Info
USA 21 April 1976 (New York City, New York)
Also Known As (AKA)
(original title) Ace Up My Sleeve
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IMDb
Crime and Passion (1976)
Plot Summary
Financier persuades his mistress to marry a rich industrialist for his money, then discovers that he and the new wife are to be murdered by her new husband.
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The Super Salesman (1947)
Release Info
USA 24 October 1947
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The Super Salesman (1947)
Plot Summary
Heckel and Jeckle. the two talking-magpies are selling hair-tonic in a public park without a license. They are chased by the park caretaker whom they trick again and again. Then a stern police dog get involved and their feathers start to fly. They find a good use for the hair-tonic but it backfires on them.
http://articles.sun-sentinel.com/1992-05-09/news/9202070423_1_wayward-satellite-daniel-c-brandenstein-kathryn-c-thornton
SunSentinel
New Shuttle `Endeavour` Speeds Toward Rendezvous With Satellite
May 9, 1992 The New York Times
CAPE CANAVERAL -- The space shuttle Endeavour and a wayward satellite on Friday sped toward an orbital rendezvous on Sunday in which the astroanuts are to walk in space to boost the $150 million communications satellite into its correct orbit.
The Endeavour, which began its inaugural flight at the Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral on Thursday evening, had few of the problems that have troubled some of the nation`s winged spaceships on their first flights. The biggest glitch was a lint-clogged air filter, which was little more than a nuisance.
The day was mostly spent firing jets on the shuttle and the satellite to position them for a rendezvous 230 miles above Earth, checking out space suits and exercising various shuttle systems, including the Endeavour`s 50-foot robot arm.
The astronauts interrupted their work to exchange greedings with Ukraine`s president, Leonid M. Kravchuk, who was touring the Johnson Space Center in Houston after meeting this week with President Bush.
``I would like to wish you a very successful flight,`` Kravchuk radioed through an interpreter.
The mission commander, Capt. Daniel C. Brandenstein of the Navy, thanked Kravchuk and noted that a successful mission would mean that the world would have a new communications satellite to aid international dialogue.
The Endeavour`s target is the Intelsat 6 satellite, which has been stranded 350 miles above Earth for more than two years and on Friday was slowly lowered toward a linkup with the shuttle.
On Sunday, the astronauts are to attach an engine that will boost the satelilte to its correct orbit 22,300 miles above the Atlantic.
For a decade or more, the 38-foot-long satellite should be able to simultaneously relay 120,000 telephone calls and three television channels.
Flying aboard the shuttle with Brandenstein are the pilot, Lt. Col. Kevin P. Chilton of the Air Force, and the mission specialists, Richard J. Hieb, Cmdr. Bruce E. Melnick of the Coast Guard, Cmdr. Pierre J. Thuot of the Navy, Dr. Kathryn C. Thornton and Lt. Col. Thomas D. Akers of the Air Force.
On Friday morning, the astronauts were awakened by the music of country and western star Lee Greenwood`s God Bless the U.S.A.
The Endeavour is scheduled to land on Thursday at Edwards Air Force Base in California, where it is to deploy a new 40-foot-wide drag parachute to help slow the craft when it lands.
The drag chute is expected to reduce the wear on brakes and landing gear and permit the shuttle to come to a safe halt in a shorter distance on the runway.
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Phoebe Cates
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Date of Birth 16 July 1963, New York City, New York, USA
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William J. Clinton
XLII President of the United States: 1993 - 2001
Message to the Congress Transmitting the Comprehensive National Energy Strategy
July 14, 1998
To the Congress of the United States:
I am pleased to transmit the Comprehensive National Energy Strategy (Strategy) to the Congress. This report required by section 801 of the Department of Energy Organization Act (Public Law 95-91; 42 U.S.C. 7321(b)), highlights our national energy policy. It contains specific objectives and plans for meeting five essential, common sense goals enumerated in the accompanying message from Secretary Pena.
Energy is a global commodity of strategic importance. It is also a key contributor to our economic performance, and its production and use affect the environment in many ways. Thus, affordable, adequate, and environmentally benign supplies of energy are critical to our Nation's economic, environmental, and national security.
The Strategy reflects the emergence and interconnection of three preeminent challenges in the late 1990s: how to maintain energy security in increasingly globalized energy markets; how to harness competition in energy markets both here and abroad; and how to respond to local and global environmental concerns, including the threat of climate change. The need for research and development underlies the Strategy, which incorporates recommendations of my Committee of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) for improvements in energy technologies that will enable the United States to address our energy-related challenges. Advances in energy technology can strengthen our economy, reduce our vulnerability to oil shocks, lower the cost of energy to consumers, and cut emissions of air pollutants as well as greenhouse gases.
This Strategy was developed over several months in an open process. Three public hearings were held earlier this year in California, Texas, and Washington, D.C., and more than 300 public comments were received. This Strategy is not a static document; its specifics can be modified to reflect evolving conditions, while the framework provides policy guidance into the 21st century. My Administration looks forward to working with the Congress to implement the Strategy and to achieve its goals in the most effective manner possible.
WILLIAM J. CLINTON
The White House, July 14, 1998.
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Gerald Ford
XXXVIII President of the United States: 1974 - 1977
489 - Statement Announcing a Trip by Secretary of State Kissinger to the Middle East
August 17, 1975
I HAVE worked many hours with the Secretary of State analyzing and assessing the situation in the Middle East, and I have now directed him to return to that region in an effort to bring the discussions to a successful conclusion.
I am hopeful that the parties will successfully conclude an interim agreement which not only would be in the best interest of the parties involved but also in the best interest of the entire Middle East region and, indeed, of the whole world.
I am sure all Americans join me in wishing the Secretary of State success on this critically important mission.
Note: Secretary Kissinger left Washington, D.C., August 20, 1975, for discussions in Israel, Egypt, Syria, Jordan, and Saudi Arabia.
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Hello, Goodbye, Hello
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Born Free Season 1 Episode 1
Born Free (Series Premiere)
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The Simpsons Season 8 Episode 2
You Only Move Twice
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Brother Rat (1938)
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Ronald Reagan
XL President of the United States: 1981 - 1989
Statement on United States Policy in the Persian Gulf
September 24, 1987
I have today sent the attached letter to the Congress concerning defensive actions by our Armed Forces taken on September 21-22, 1987, against the Iranian naval vessel Iran Air. We regard this incident as closed and are currently taking steps to repatriate the 26 Iranian survivors and return the bodies of the 3 Iranians killed in the incident.
Eight Presidents over four decades have recognized that the United States has vital interests in ensuring free world access to the energy resources of the Persian Gulf and in preventing hostile domination of the Gulf region. Today those interests are threatened by the Iran-Iraq war and Iran's continued belligerent behavior in the region.
Iraq has made clear its willingness, without preconditions, to negotiate an equitable settlement of the war and to implement U.N. Security Council Resolution 598. To date, Iran has refused to implement it. Meanwhile, by aggressive military action and terrorism, Iran has continued its efforts to intimidate the nonbelligerent nations of the Gulf, to close Gulf waters to neutral shipping, and to export a destabilizing blend of religion and politics in and even beyond the region. Iranian policies create a threat that could seriously interrupt freedom of navigation and the free flow of oil in the Gulf.
Recognizing these facts, we must continue steadily to pursue our established, three-part policy in the Gulf:
1. Bringing ever-increasing international pressure to bear for a negotiated end to the war and to stop its spillover;
2. Steadfastly continuing to help our friends, the nonbelligerent nations of the Gulf, to defend themselves against Iranian threats; and
3. Prudently pursuing cooperative efforts with the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) States and other friends to protect U.S.-flag ships and to prevent Iran from seriously jeopardizing freedom of nonbelligerent navigation.
Our overriding aim is peace and stability in the region. We have no interest in provoking Iran or anyone else, although we will defend ourselves as necessary. Indeed, the United States hopes that more normal relations with Iran will evolve as Iranian belligerence and tensions in the area diminish. We have made these points known repeatedly to Iran through diplomatic channels as well as by public statements.
The continuation of the Iran-Iraq war is the major cause of increasing tensions in the Gulf, to which our forces and those of other nations have responded. We look to the United Nations Security Council for a negotiated settlement to this war in its entirety through the rapid implementation of U.N. Security Council Resolution 598 in all its parts. We hope that the Soviet Union will cooperate as the Council moves to create conditions for such implementation by adopting a second resolution rather than delaying and seeking opportunities to expand their own influence at the expense of peace in the region.
The success of our policy will depend to a great extent on the consistency and care with which we carry it out. Our resolve to date has begun to pay off: through increased European naval contributions to protect freedom of navigation in the Gulf, through quiet but essential and effective GCC support for our naval efforts and those of other nations, through diplomatic progress in the U.N. Security Council, and through deterrence of even more reckless Iranian actions. We must continue to do our best to protect our interests and to reassure our friends, as well as our adversaries, of the continued resolve and leadership of the United States as we move ahead.
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World Trade Center Opening – April 4, 1973
Published: APRIL 4, 2013
New York Daily News
On April 4, 1973 the New York City skyline dramatically changed. It was on that day, exactly 40 years ago, that the original World Trade Center site officially opened.
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William J. Clinton
XLII President of the United States: 1993 - 2001
Remarks to the National Baptist Convention, U.S.A., in New Orleans, Louisiana
September 9, 1994
If I could sing like that, I would have never gotten into politics. [Laughter and applause] Reverend Jemison; your president-elect, Dr. Lyons; to Dr. Richardson, Reverend James, Dr. Mary Ross; to all the distinguished Louisianians here present, including Reverend Governor Edwards—I thought he did very well today—Senator Breaux and Congressman Jefferson and Mayor Morial and all your State officials and legislators; Reverend Jackson; to all the members of my staff and Cabinet who are here— where are the people here with the administration? They're all here somewhere.
I want to say many things, but first we have a duty, I think, as Americans to take a moment of silence now for the 131 people who were killed in that awful air crash in Pittsburgh. Hillary and I send our deepest sympathies and our prayers to the friends and the loved ones of the crash victims. And I know that all of you and all Americans also send your prayers to the grieving.
Our Secretary of Transportation, Secretary Pena, is there in Pittsburgh. I have talked with the mayor and the Governor this morning and with Senator Wofford. All Americans should know that we will do whatever we can to assure their safety in travel. But let us today, in the painful recognition of our fallibility as human beings, mourn with a moment of silence those who lost their lives.
Amen.
Well, Dr. Jemison, I thank you for that warm introduction. I have known you as a friend for a long time. When we were standing outside, about to come up, he was reviewing his more than 50 years in the leadership of this great church. That's a long time, worthy of honor, and I give it.
Two years ago I had a great moment with all of you in Atlanta when I was running for President. And last year I was invited to appear, and I couldn't. I had to give my regrets. I sort of felt like the boy who skipped Sunday school. [Laughter] I promised Dr. Jemison I'd be here this year no matter what, so I showed up, and I hope you have forgiven me because I feel at home.
Two years ago I came to you, and you responded. I asked you to work with me to give us at least a chance to change the direction our country was headed in. We had too much debt and too few jobs. We seemed to be going in the wrong direction, where ordinary Americans were ignored and people with money and organized power were heeded, but somehow the thing was not working. As the Vice President used to say, "What ought to be up was down, and what ought to be down was up." And that was a problem. I wanted a chance to try to move this country forward again and to try to pull our country together again.
Today, having served now for not quite 2 years, I guess what I want to say to you is I think we're doing a pretty good job of moving forward but not nearly a good enough job of coming together.
I have here in the front some of my friends and former employers from the State of Arkansas. Would you all stand up? Thank you and bless you for being here.
I lived in a little State to the north of here for a while, you know. And I learned that it was not healthy to say one thing to one group and one to another. You had to say the same thing to everybody and mean it every day.
I never will forget when I was running for President, one of the most memorable days I had was speaking on one day of the weekend in Macomb County, Michigan, the prototypical, what they used to call "Reagan Democrat county," where there was a lot of what they used to call "white flight." And then the next day I went to a black church in Detroit where half the people were from Arkansas. And I gave the same speech I had given the day before, and people thought that was strange. And I said, "Is it so strange that we should say the same thing to all Americans and try to come together?"
I want to talk to you today about that. I still believe what I believed 2 years ago, that the Government has a role to play in the future of this country and the future of our families and our hopes and our dreams, not as savior but not on the sidelines, just as a partner in progress. I still believe that, together, we can meet every challenge, that we can fulfill the hopes of our children. I still believe there are a lot of things we have to do that go way beyond the reach of Government into the depths of the human spirit.
Today I say to you again, I think we're making a lot of progress, and I feel good about that. But I don't think we're doing as well as we should in coming together. And I don't feel good about that, and I want to examine that and what I could do better and what you can do better.
I noticed a columnist wrote the other day in the newspaper, he said, "There's lots of things going right in this country. The economy is booming. We've got over 4 million new jobs. The stock market is up. The deficit is down. Things look good in the future. Our country was just rated the most productive country in the entire world for the first time in nearly 10 years." We've got over 4 million new jobs, as I said, the unemployment rate is down. A lot of things are going well.
We see around the world real progress: peace in the Middle East, in the Holy Land, something that should gladden the heart of every Christian. We see peace prospects are moving forward in Northern Ireland, something many of us thought we would never see. We see the majesty of peace and democracy and freedom unfolding in South Africa. And I want to thank Reverend Jackson for his leadership of our election team over there in South Africa, during that process.
And, so the writer said—he was writing about me—he said, "If things are going so well, why are people still mad at the President?" Well, what he might have said is, you remember that old saying, "If I'm so rich, why am I not happy?" [Laughter]
Well, there are a lot of reasons for that. But let me offer one. I just got back from vacation, and when I was on vacation, I went to church and I heard a minister I'd never seen before from a little town in New Jersey called Red Bank. You know where Red Bank, New Jersey is? [Applause]
The first thing he did was give us dispensation for being on vacation, which I felt good about. He said, "Life is not all work. It is also play and rest and worship." But he went on to say, it's not only important to do all those things but to get them right. And if you don't have faith, you won't have the rhythm right. You will find yourselves working at play and playing at worship, and you'll have it all messed up.
Well, that's kind of what's going on in our country today. We still haven't quite got the rhythm right. So that even though we are facing a lot of our most profound problems and even though we are clearly making progress in areas too long ignored, which many of you have mentioned here, we have to say: What is the real deal here? Why aren't we happier about it?
There are many reasons, but let me offer three. One is, whenever periods of profound change occur in the lives of individuals or nations, they are unsettling. Isn't that right? Can't you think of times in your own life when you were making a change, and every day you woke up and it was like there was this scale inside your body. And on one side of the scale was hope, and on the other side of the scale was fear, and it seemed like every day, the scales would be in a little bit different balance until you finally got through this change you were going through.
We can all identify with that. That's what's going on in this country today. It's happened before. At the end of the First World War, we won this great battle, and we didn't know what to do with ourselves, and so we just came home and folded up our tents. We thought we could withdraw from the world. And what happened? That's when the Ku Klux Klan first started rising up. At the end of the First World War, when we lost our concentration, and we lost our way, and we didn't know who the enemy was anymore. It's also when we had the first Red Scare, when everybody began to be accused of being a Communist if they had unconventional opinions.
Then, at the end of the Second World War, the same sort of thing happened, except we knew better than to withdraw from the world. Harry Truman said, "No, no, we're going to rebuild the country here at home for the soldiers and their families, and we're going to rebuild our enemies, Germany and Japan, and our Allies in Europe. And we know who the enemy is. It's the Soviet Union and communism. So we're going to have a great wall against communism, and we're going to fight this cold war."
But still, there was uncertainty. There was a new Red Scare, which came to its height under Senator McCarthy. And Harry Truman had a hard time getting people to change. You know, he was at 80 percent approval in the polls after he dropped the bomb which ended the war, but by the time he sent the second health reform legislation to Congress—that's how long we've been trying to fix the health care system—by the time Harry Truman did it the second time, he was down to 36 percent in the polls. Now, everybody talks about him like he ought to be on Mount Rushmore. [Laughter] But I was for a family who supported him when he was living, and I know what happened.
Change is difficult. And when you're going through a period of change, we are vulnerable to getting out of our rhythm.
The second problem is, we live in a time which almost seems to glorify the negative, the cynical, don't we? [Applause] It's the old story. There's a lot more people prone to see the glass of water is half empty than half full than there used to be, and to tell all the rest of us we're just fools if we see it half full; it's really half empty.
And then, frankly, let's face it: We still have some problems that are real deep in this country that all the progress we're making does not necessarily touch. We have 4.1 million new jobs. The work force is expanding more rapidly than it did 10 years ago, the last time we had any kind of economic recovery, but lots of folks still out of work. A lot of folks live in places where they don't believe new jobs are coming. A lot of people are working harder; they have their job, but they don't think they'll ever get a raise. Five million, five million people live in working families who had health insurance 5 years ago, who do not have it today.
So we have some real problems. Governor Edwards alluded to the most heart-breaking of all, those that involve the children of this country, their sins and their abuses and their loss of their childhood and their innocence, and our loss of their future: The 11-year-old boy in Chicago, Robert Sandifer, who sprayed gunfire at a group of kids and killed a 14-year-old girl and then was killed himself, his grandmother saying, "I could not reach you." And then in New Jersey, the 13-year-old who stole a gun to end a petty argument and the life of his 11-year-old friend. In Detroit, Rosa Parks was attacked by a crack addict for $53. In my hometown, an 82-year-old woman, attacked by two teenagers, brutalized and sexually molested—82 years old.
These aren't Baptist problems or Catholic problems or Jewish problems. Contrary to what some people say, they're not black or white problems. No, the 11-year-old in Chicago was black, but the teenager in New Jersey who killed and the victim were both white. Rosa Parks is a hero to African-Americans and a hero to people who have been oppressed throughout the world, but the 82-year-old woman in my hometown was a white lady, and so were the people who attacked her.
These problems and the problems behind them that brought the children to the miserable point in life where they did what they did, these are the things that are gnawing at our spirit that we have to address so we can get the rhythm right, we can go on and face the challenges of this time, all the changes. And we can make change our friend if we know that we are grounded. That is what your faith is about. But it is also now what our citizenship must be more about.
I note that there are many voices from all sectors preaching to us today about the decline in our values. In a way I welcome them all. And whether they are traditionally our allies or our adversaries, we should listen for the truth of their words, and if they are true, we should heed them.
On the other hand, I would issue two cautionary notes: We should not let the voices of despair make our insecurities even deeper. That is wrong. That is wrong. There have always been problems in every society, and there will be until the end of time. That is the lesson of the Scripture. So for all the people who try to use the difficulties of the moment to dampen the energies of Americans, to defeat our spirits, I say, that is wrong. The Scripture says, "Let us not grow weary in well-doing, for in due season we shall reap if we do not lose heart."
The darkness of every storm provides a new chance for renewal, every storm. And so does this one. So to all those who preach that we need to return to the values of our faith, I say, we do. But the real issue is, what are we going to do about it? Not what are we going to say about it, but what are we going to do about it? The saying is important, for we in words come to visualize the future. And we need the vision so that we do not perish. But we must act on the vision. And that's where all the problems come.
You know the old story about the preacher who was preaching his best on Sunday morning and thought he had finally reached everybody in the service? And he said, "I want everybody who wants to go to heaven to stand up right now." And everybody in the whole church stood up except Sister Jones, who had not missed a day in church in 40 years. And he was crestfallen. It broke all his concentration. He stopped the sermon. He said, "Sister Jones, you have not missed a sermon in 40 years. Do you mean to tell me you do not want to go to heaven when you die?" And she popped right up, and she said, "Oh, I'm sorry, preacher, I thought you were trying to get up a load to go right now." [Laughter]
Now that's a big problem, isn't it? We all want to do it somewhere down the road, but if we have to do something right now, well that's something we better think about. So the challenge is, what are we going to do right now? Not later, but now, right now.
I say this to the people who always say the glass is half empty, always being pessimistic, always being negative. They have it easy. That lets you out of any responsibility at all. You adopt a pessimistic, negative attitude; you be cynical. It just relieves you of any responsibility for doing because then doing doesn't matter. Right? All I can tell you is, there would be no free Americans sitting in this place today if the pessimists and the cynics and the negative people had ruled this country all along the way.
Our obligation and our power flows out of two simple lessons I was taught about our whole civilization many years ago in college. One is that the future can be better than the present, not perfect but better. And the second is that each of us has a personal, moral responsibility to make it so. That is the simple lesson that will get our rhythm back, that will put us back in harmony, that will enable us to enjoy our progress and still keep working on the deep and profound things that are challenging us and dealing with the unsettling impact of this changing time.
My vision is that we will go into the 21st century as a country more free, more prosperous, more united, and more open to making change our friend than we have ever been.
Yes, we are beginning to see results. Yes, the economy is doing better. Yes, we are seeing more fairness as well as more progress. We did raise taxes on the wealthiest 1 1/2 percent of Americans to bring the deficit down, but we also gave tax cuts to 15 million working families just above the poverty line to say, "You got off welfare; you're working; we're going to reward you being a parent and a worker." We did that. We are making progress.
We got 180,000 more kids in Head Start. We're going to immunize a couple of million more children so that by 1996 all the kids 2 years of age and less, like this little kid here, will have their shots. We're doing more to provide job training for people who lose their jobs, and we made 20 million Americans eligible to refinance their college loans at lower interest rates with a longer repayment term. These things are important. They matter.
Work, the dignity of work is central to our ability to build a future. The second thing we have to do is not just talk about how we need stronger families but think about what I can do and you can do to make them stronger. We didn't cut taxes for those 15 million working families for just political reasons. We did it because people have got to be able to succeed today as workers and as parents. And if we want people to work and parent, we have to reward work. That's why the Family and Medical Leave Act was so important. How can you say you want people to be good family members and then fire them if they have to take a little time off to have a baby or take care of a sick parent?
There's a bill in the Congress I really believe in, sponsored by Senator Metzenbaum, to make adoptions easier and to make it possible for people to adopt children across racial lines if nobody else is there wanting to adopt the children. Don't leave kids in the limbo of foster care for years and years and years. Give them a chance to do it.
The third thing we have to do is to make our communities stronger. We have to act as if we believe what we talk about all the time, that we're all in this together. The Secretary of Housing and Urban Development is here today. Henry Cisneros has done more to come up with a program to end homelessness than anybody in the last 10 years. We've been talking about it. He's trying to do something about it. It makes us stronger as a community.
The welfare reform bill is about community, empowering everybody to participate. The enterprise zones are about giving poor communities the incentive to draw capital to put people to work. These things will make our communities stronger.
And the crime bill was about communities. Because if your streets aren't safe, if people don't feel secure, it's hard to call them to higher citizenship. What did Edwin Everett say, "If you've got the right to vote but you're scared to go to the polling place, it's hard to talk about citizenship." That's why it was important.
We're also trying to change the way Government works, reforming the way we finance our campaigns and try to at least tell you what the lobbyists are doing in Washington with new disclosure requirements, a bill that would make Congress live under all the laws it imposes on you. That's not a bad idea, I think. These things are important.
We're trying to prove something that I always believe, that you can have diversity and excellence at the same time. Look at our Cabinet: five African-Americans, more than twice as many as ever served; 15 percent of all appointments, more than twice as many appointments to the Federal courts as the last three Presidents combined are African-Americans. But what really ought to make you clap is that these judges have the highest percentage of "well-qualified" ratings by the American Bar Association since they have been giving out the ratings. They're not just from different racial groups and men and women; they're well-qualified.
So there are things that Government can do. This crime bill I want to talk about because it runs into the question of harmony. There are a lot of things the Government can't do, or there are things the Government can do, and it's still not enough. I know that crime bill wasn't perfect. And I know it imposed great, great challenges for the African-American Members of Congress and for many people and religious faiths because it contains capital punishment provisions. And many people oppose capital punishment for everyone, and many others say that African-Americans are more likely to get the penalty because poor folks are more likely than non-poor folks to be convicted and sentenced to death. I know that there are those who say that when we build more prisons and make sentences for repeat offenders longer and tougher, that will have a disproportionate impact on the African-American community.
But to that, I say this: Every time you look at the evening news, there's another funeral. And there's a disproportionate number of black kids lying in those pine boxes, too. And that's wrong. That's what's really wrong. And we have got to find a way, imperfect though it is, to get all the Americans together, with all their different perspectives, and move forward on this issue, because if people are not safe, we're in trouble.
And if we put the 100,000 police on the street and do it right, they'll prevent crime, not just catch criminals. If we get these assault weapons off the street—and it's now illegal for kids to own handguns—if we start enforcing that law, and if we do something with that prevention money, if we give these kids something to say yes to, if we do something with the job money, with the job training money, with the drug treatment money, with the recreation money, if we give people at that time of their lives when they've got all this energy some constructive outlet for it, it will make a difference.
But if you really want it, to lower the crime rate, reduce violence, and save more kids' lives, all the work is still to be done. All the work is still to be done. And it's like asking Sister Jones to go to heaven; we've got to do this right now. If we believe there is a crisis of the spirit, a crisis of values in this country, we have to do something about it right now. And we've got to do it where we live.
I would like to suggest just four simple things that go beyond Government programs. And you know them all, and many of you are doing them all. But every American can make a contribution. We are raising a whole generation of kids who aren't sure they're the most important person in the world to anybody.
Now, consider this: Today, about 40 percent of all children are born in the homes where there was never a marriage. Twenty-seven percent of all pregnancies end in abortion. I don't care what your position is, whether you're prochoice or anti-; that's too many. That's not about serious health problems or emotional problems. So when the miracle of conception occurs, less than half of those miracles wind up being babies born into homes where there's a mother and a father and where the kid's got a better-thaneven chance of having the life that most of us have, or we wouldn't be here in our neckties and nice dresses today. Now, that's just a fact.
Dr. King once said, "Whom we wish to change, we must first love." And I know not everybody is going to be in a stable, traditional family like you see in one of those 1950 sitcoms, but we'd be better off if more people were. I was raised by a wonderful mother who worked, who cared for me, who was a widow when I was born, went through a difficult marriage. And at least every now and then I find somebody who thinks I turned out all right, so it can happen. But we have to say, who is going to care for these children? In every single study that's ever been done of young people who did well against all the odds with terrible circumstances and all the things that could have gone wrong, it is always, always, always the case that they had a relationship with somebody who cared about them, somebody.
I don't think we ought to give up on families. Yesterday I met with a number of ministers. And one friend of mine who pastors a massive church in the Washington area, an African-American church, has made the mission of his church the rebuilding of the family. Over 40 percent of the members are male, and he left our breakfast to go back to meet with 150 couples who had split up or never married. Some of them were divorced. Sometimes people had flown in from thousands of miles away. He was trying to get them back together for the children's sake and because it was the right thing to do. We need to do more of that. But he's not just talking about it, he's doing something.
If that's not an option, then somebody's got to love these children. When I was in Des Moines, Iowa, in the campaign, I saw a white lady holding an African-American baby that had AIDS. She was from Iowa. The kid was from Miami. She had been abandoned by her husband. She had two children of her own. She was living in an apartment house, working at a meager job. She thought it was God's will that she take a child who was sick and abandoned. And she did it. If she could do it, a lot of the rest of us should as well.
Someone has got to care for these children. I've heard Reverend Jackson talk about this. I think about it all the time as my daughter grows up. We have to find—in families where the mother is doing all the work, then there needs to be somebody outside the family, a male figure, who can at least relate to children, who can say things like, "What are you reading?" and "How are you doing in class?" "This is right, and this is wrong." "I'd like to see your report card." "What do you want to do 5 years from now?"
You know, how many children do we know— how many children, how many of these kids that are shooting one another never think about 5 years from now? The future to them is 5 minutes from now. Why is that? Because no one is asking them about it. Where there is no vision, people perish. They cannot visualize 5 years from now. So that's the first thing.
The second thing we've got to do is help these kids at least grow up without fear, which means we've got to keep them from getting shot and stop them from shooting. And laws can help, and policemen can help, but every 2 hours in this country another kid under the age of 19 dies from gunfire. A 9-year-old boy wrote me from this city right here in New Orleans and said, "Please do something about this. I'm afraid I could get killed." And on Mother's Day, a month after he wrote me, he got killed just walking home from school.
Now, there are things people can do in their neighborhoods to stop this. We are giving you more tools in terms of the laws and the police, but we've got to have help. Schools can be made safer. Walking routes can be made safer. Use the crime bill funds—the churches are eligible to participate—and give kids something to do after school to get them off the street where they can be in recreation. I got so tired, when we were debating that crime bill, hearing people badmouth midnight basketball. I'd a lot rather have somebody shooting hoops than shooting bullets. But you have to make that work.
The third thing I would say is, we have to be more honest. Sometimes it is almost embarrassing, I know, but we've got to be more honest with our young people in teaching them to respect themselves, their bodies, their souls, and their futures. And we always talk about how irresponsible it is for young men to father these children and run off, but we've got to get more young women to make a different choice in life, too. We have simply got to find a way to deal with this.
Thirty years ago one of 40 white births was out of wedlock; now it's one in 5. Thirty years ago, one in five African-American births was out of wedlock; now, over half. But the white out-of-wedlock birthrate is growing much faster than the African-American rate. So, we are going to have equal opportunity for all before you know it. [Laughter]
You're laughing to keep from crying, but it's not funny, is it? We're going to see a merger of this. No more race discrimination; more than half of everybody's babies will be born where there was never a marriage. That is a disaster. It is wrong, and someone has to say, again, "It is simply not right. You shouldn't have a baby before you're ready, and you shouldn't have a baby when you're not married. You just have to stop it." We've got to turn it around.
Now I want to make it clear we shouldn't stigmatize these babies, and when they're born, we should take care of them. We ought to love the babies. We ought to love the parents. We ought to give them the best future we can, but we have to tell people, look at the facts. Look at what happens to people. Look at their incomes, their education levels, their future. We've got to get people out of thinking that the future is 5 minutes away and to realize it is 5 years or 10 years or 20 years away. And you have to do that. I'll try to do my part, but this is not a Government deal. This is the way people are behaving, as if there was no respect for themselves and no future. We have to stop.
Finally, let me say, I ask you to help lead us in bringing back an ethic of service to this Nation. We're going to kick off our national service program on Monday, which will this year involve 20,000 young Americans in serving their community, many of them in church groups. The Congress of National Black Churches is an active participant in national service. We want kids working with churches to solve a lot of these problems and earning credit for their college education. Year after next we'll have 100,000 young people. You can put them to work. When people are serving one another, when they're acting as role models, they'll be better people themselves. And you can do that.
All these things you can do: help our kids be safer, help make sure every child is loved by somebody and disciplined by somebody and cared for by somebody, and help our kids change this culture which is ending family life and childhood as we know it and bring us back to the spirit of service.
Finally, let me say this: I came here to say this because I don't believe in preaching at people. I believe you are the heroes of this whole thing. A lot of you have been out there like the little Dutch boy with your thumb in the dike against all these forces for years. A lot of you have been doing these things. A lot of you have run the day care centers and run the recreation programs and run the prison ministries and counseled the young people. You have done this. But America now knows that we must all do this.
So I say, I honor you. I honor the members of your church that get up and go to work every day and follow the law and pay their taxes and do their best to raise their kids. And let us say for the record, since all America is watching this, most of the members of your church do exactly that. They play by the rules, and they work hard, and they do their best.
But let's not kid each other, folks. I'm going to go back to Washington. And I'll keep trying to create jobs. And we'll do a good job of that. And we'll open America to the world. I'll keep working for peace and freedom around the world. I'll keep working for better education and training opportunities. I'll keep trying to solve this terrible riddle of why we can't get jobs in the inner city and poor rural areas. And we'll try to find ways to do that. But in the end, if we're going to get the rhythm right, if we're going to enjoy the progress we're making, even in an imperfect world, we have to get the bedrock right. We have to know that the spirit that we believe in is rifling through this country and is going to work.
You know, Paul, St. Paul, was not Timothy's father, but he was his spiritual father. And he said, "When I call to remembrance the unfeigned faith that is in thee, I put thee in remembrance that thou stir up the gift of God which is in thee." I believe and you believe that every child has a gift of God within them. When the gift dies, it is our sin as well as theirs and our loss as well as theirs.
So let us leave here resolved to stir up the gift of God that is within us and do those things that will enable us to go forward with joy and confidence to make the future what it ought to be.
Thank you, and God bless you all.
NOTE: The President spoke at 11:10 a.m. in the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It_Crawled_Out_of_the_Woodwork
It Crawled Out of the Woodwork
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"It Crawled Out Of The Woodwork" is an episode of the original The Outer Limits television show. It first aired on 9 December 1963
Plot
A security guard at the gates of NORCO, a southern California physics research center, is brusque when the Peters brothers drive up, even though Professor Stuart Peters has taken a job with the company, intending to have a look around the property. The guard orders them to leave, when oddly enough, he slips them a matchbook on which he has scrawled, "Don't come back, NORCO doomed". When the brothers drive away, a monstrous explosion of energy appears, and the guard, while pleading for his life, disintegrates.
The next day at NORCO, Professor Peters meets his boss, head scientist Dr. Block, and mentions the note, which Block dismisses. Block leaves Stuart in the laboratory with a co-worker, Professor Stephanie Linden. Inquiring as to the nature of their work, Linden directs Stuart into an adjacent corridor and then locks him in, releasing a grotesque energy entity that kills him instantly.
Days pass, and when Stuart does not return, his brother, Jory, grows worried, while confiding his concerns to his girlfriend, Gaby. However, when Stuart reappears, the two men quarrel over a family matter as Jory notices a strange device, apparently a heart pacemaker, strapped around his brother's chest. Stuart stumbles backward into the bathtub, where he is electrocuted. The pacemaker was thought to be defective by the authorities, but Peters had perfect health and the scar tissue is recent enough for a heart operation to have taken place since he arrived in California.
The police investigate, and Sgt. Siroleo confronts Block at NORCO who feigns ignorance to any wrongdoings at his facility and denies the allegations of complicity. However, it is Linden who reveals the truth: a being composed entirely of energy has been accidentally formed. It can consume anyone with a mere touch, and is so threatening that those who encounter it at close range die instantly. Dr. Block found a way to control the entity, and is keeping it contained while he tries to study the monster. When the other scientists demanded its destruction, Block had the horrid being frighten them to death, and then restored them to life with pacemakers, which will cease to function if Block directs the creature to draw the power from them.
http://www.tv.com/shows/the-simpsons/you-only-move-twice-1440/trivia/
tv.com
The Simpsons Season 8 Episode 2
You Only Move Twice
Aired Sunday 8:00 PM Nov 03, 1996 on FOX
Quotes
(Bart interacts with the students in his new class.)
Bart: What are you in here for?
Gordy: I'm from Canada and they think I'm slow, eh?
Dot: I fell off the jungle gym and when I woke up I was in here.
Warren: I start fires.
http://articles.latimes.com/2000/oct/31/business/fi-44592
Los Angeles Times
Microsoft May Buy Stake in News Corp. Unit
Media: The software giant may pay more than $1 billion for the satellite-TV company in effort to expand use of its software.
October 31, 2000 From Bloomberg News
NEW YORK — Microsoft Corp. may pay more than $1 billion for a 3.5% stake in News Corp.'s Sky Global Networks, the world's No. 1 satellite TV company, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing people familiar with the matter.
The world's biggest software maker and Rupert Murdoch's media group are in talks that "are progressing smoothly," the paper said. Spokesmen Rick Miller at Microsoft and Andrew Butcher at News Corp. wouldn't comment.
An investment by Microsoft may make Sky Global more attractive to investors as it prepares for an initial share sale this quarter. Microsoft has invested billions of dollars already in cable-TV companies to help make its software as common in interactive-TV products as in personal computers. Its Windows operating system runs almost 90% of the world's PCs.
"It'd be good for the prospects of the company that someone like Microsoft was prepared to put in fairly chunky money," said Bruce Smith, who helps manage $1 billion at Zurich Financial Services Group. Yet, such a purchase would value Sky Global at $30 billion, not the $40 billion that Murdoch said in late September was appropriate, Smith added.
American depositary shares in News Corp., each representing four common shares, rose $1 to close at $42.19 on the New York Stock Exchange. They've fallen about 24% over the past month as investor enthusiasm for media companies has waned on concern that a slower economy will hurt ad sales.
Murdoch said this month that News Corp.'s U.S. media group may experience "weakness" this year and that Sky Global's IPO wouldn't occur in November as initially planned, because that didn't give the company enough time to prepare for the sale.
News Corp. has talked with several companies since at least the first quarter about investing in Sky Global. The company said in March that it was talking with Microsoft
http://www.springfieldspringfield.co.uk/movie_script.php?movie=superman
Springfield! Springfield!
Superman (1978)
[ Lex Luthor: ] In five minutes, a poisoned gas pellet containing propane lithium compound... ... will be released through thousands of air ducts in this city... ... effectively annihilating half the population of Metropolis.
[ Perry Mason: ] I was a reporter before most of my friends were copy boys. I want you to get Lois to introduce you to Superman. Find out who he is.
http://www.e-reading.org.ua/bookreader.php/71211/Clancy_-_Rainbow_Six.html
Tom Clancy
Rainbow Six
CHAPTER 39
HARMONY
"Okay, you know that I used to be in the FBI. I know how they make their criminal cases. Making one against us will not be easy under the best of circumstances. The FBI has to play by the rules, and they're strict rules. They must read you your rights, one of which is to have a lawyer present during questioning. All you have to say is, `Yes, I want my lawyer here.' If you say that, then they can't even ask you what the time is. Then you call us, and we get a lawyer to you, and the lawyer will tell you, right in front of the case agents, that you will not talk at all, and he'll tell the agents that you will not talk, and that if they try to make you talk then they've violated all sorts of statutes and Supreme Court decisions. That means that they can get into trouble, and anything you might say cannot be used anywhere. Those are your civil protections.
"Next," Bill Henriksen went on, "we will spend our time here looking at the rich ecosystem around us, and formulating a cover story.
- posted by H.V.O.M - Kerry Wayne Burgess 12:36 AM Pacific Time Spokane Valley Washington USA Saturday 22 August 2015
