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Lyndon B. Johnson
XXXVI President of the United States: 1963-1969
276 - Memorandum on Ethical Conduct on the Part of Government Officers and Employees
June 17, 1966
Memorandum for the Heads of Executive Departments and Agencies
I am pleased to share with you the enclosed report from John Macy concerning ethical conduct of Government officers and employees. Your thoughtful and diligent implementation of the new standards of Executive Order 11222 is commendable.
The traditions of honesty and integrity in the military and civil service of the United States are properly a source of pride for all Americans. We intend in this Administration to ensure that their pride and confidence are maintained and strengthened. We hold a public trust, and we shall hold it high.
I expect you to see to it that officers and employees throughout your agency adhere firmly and without compromise to their responsibility for fair and impartial dealings with all who have business with the Government.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON
Note: Executive Order 11222 of May 8, 1965, is entitled "Prescribing Standards of Ethical Conduct for Government Officers and Employees" (30 F.R. 6469; 3 CFR, 1965 Supp., p. 130; see also 1965 volume, this series, Item 241 ).
The report from John W. Macy, Jr., Chairman of the Civil Service Commission, dated June 9, 1966, was made public by the White House on June 17. The report, in the form of a memorandum to the President, follows:
MEMORANDUM FOR THE PRESIDENT
Subject: Ethical Conduct of Government Officers and Employees
Significant benefits are resulting from the new standards of ethical conduct which you established a year ago, May 8, 1965, by Executive Order 112220 Indeed, the clarity and emphasis of your intentions on this matter have produced an entirely new climate of concern among executive branch personnel--a healthy, everyday concern--for impeccable conduct and meticulous avoidance of conflict of interest. And this heightened awareness is becoming well known to the business community, to political scientists and to the press.
True, the new standards are high and their strict limitations on acceptance of gifts, entertainment or favors have brought minor grumblings, from within and outside the Government, since they require substantial change from past practices in some cases. However, the amount of such complaint is not large and, in my judgment, is far outweighed by an increased confidence among employees and the public generally that agencies of the executive branch have joined in common cause to achieve both the appearance and the reality of honest, fair and impartial conduct of the public's business.
Question also has been raised whether the proclamation of strict ethical requirements, such as those concerning gifts and favors and the disclosure of outside business and financial interests, does not in itself impugn the integrity of public officials and thereby make public service less attractive. I find this question is largely academic. There is no evidence whatever during this first year that uncompromising ethical standards, publicly known, adversely affect the recruitment or retention of persons of high quality and integrity in the Government service.
Top Presidential Appointees
One innovation of the new program was the requirement that the heads of executive departments and agencies, full-time members of boards and commissions, and certain appointees in the Executive Office of the President furnish me a confidential statement of outside employment and financial interests. About 165 top officials were covered by this provision.
My review of their statements has revealed that, by and large, your appointees are persons of relatively modest means and have carefully restricted their outside interests. The disclosure requirement has not been onerous, even though it involves quarterly reports of changes.
In a few cases, I have had to go back to the individual concerned to discuss stock holdings or business connections which indicated a possible conflict with official responsibilities. So far all questions have been resolved through clarification of the facts or adjustment in the arrangements that gave rise to the question. As of this time, there are about four such cases on which I have discussions pending in order to insure that your standards are fully met.
The disclosure requirement for top Presidential appointees has had this good effect of eliminating some potential individual problems. It also has been beneficial as leadership example to other key agency officials who must report outside employment and financial interests under the requirements of CSC and agency regulations.
Commission and Agency Regulations
The Commission's regulations under the order established a uniform pattern and minimum requirements for agency regulations throughout the executive branch. They carry forward the ethical standards of the order and incorporate general standards of employee conduct on related matters such as gambling, lobbying, misuse of privileges, and other conduct prejudicial to the Government. Agency heads may supplement these minimum standards with requirements suited to their particular needs,
Additionally, the CSC regulations provide for counseling and advisory service to employees and establish procedures for remedial or disciplinary action as needed to enforce the standards. Each agency head has designated a top-ranking employee as counselor and as his representative to the Commission for program coordination.
Each agency's regulations are being published in the Federal Register. This is an extremely useful innovation. It has ensured a thoughtful review and careful drafting of ethical policies and practices related to the agency's mission, while taking into account the proper rights and privileges of employees. It directs the attention of the press and those who do business with the Government to your firm intention that the affairs of Government are to be conducted openly, honorably, honestly and impartially. And it constitutes legal notice to the business community of the bounds of propriety in relationships with Federal officers and employees.
The review and coordination of agency regulations --62 executive departments and agencies-has been time consuming but a rewarding task. Central assistance by the Commission has achieved a common interpretation of the order and its intentions, a force and clarity in drafting, and a pooling of useful approaches to the delineation of propriety in difficult or awkward situations that face Federal officials--for example, in agencies which have at once both the responsibility for promoting the interests of a segment of private business and for regulating some aspects of its affairs. The new regulations reflect a number of changes in agency practices which have been brought about by their heightened awareness of ethical considerations.
Conclusion
I am gratified by the attitude of serious purpose which has characterized agency implementation of the new ethical standards. Experience may reveal ways in which further improvement can be made, but during this first year there has been no indication that any revision of Executive Order 11222 is needed or desirable. All indications are that the innovations of the order are a major step forward in ensuring the maintenance of high ethical standards and the confidence of the public in the integrity of officers and employees in the executive branch.
JOHN W. MACY, JR. Chairman
Citation: Lyndon B. Johnson: "Memorandum on Ethical Conduct on the Part of Government Officers and Employees," June 17, 1966.
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first big death.
And you never really know what death will make you do
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The Planet of Oz
Aired Saturday 8:00 AM Nov 10, 1979 on ABC
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Dead Like Me
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Your heart's not in the right place.
The heart is not, as is so often seen on television, in the center of the body.
But thank you, Audrey.
Okay, who would like to go next? Who would like to show their model of the heart? Francis? Excellent.
You're going to like this, Reggie.
Okay.
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Gerald Ford
XXXVIII President of the United States: 1974 - 1977
464 - Remarks Upon Signing the Joint Communique and Trade Documents in Sinaia, Romania.
August 3, 1975
Mr. President and distinguished guests:
Let me say with great emphasis my appreciation for your warm hospitality and that of the Romanian people. It has been a wonderful experience for Mrs. Ford and myself to meet so many of your people, and it has been a glorious opportunity for me to not only see Bucharest but this superb area of your country where we are today.
I am especially grateful for the opportunity to have friendly, constructive, and frank discussions with you, not only on our bilateral relations but those problems that we see on a worldwide basis.
For the last several years, Mr. President, you have taken the leadership in bringing about an exchange in the area of culture, scientific matters, economic problems between your country and our country, and the net result has been mutually beneficial to both.
The documents that we have just signed make possible the kind of trade relationship between your country and mine that will enhance the prosperity of both, make the life of your people and mine richer, and will be beneficial on a worldwide basis.
What I have signed on behalf of my country has received the endorsement of our Government--the executive, the legislative--and therefore, it is a true contract between your country and my country for all of the benefits that we can share equally.
I thank you again, and I thank the Romanian people.
Note: The President spoke at approximately 1:15 p.m. at a ceremony following their meeting at Peles Castle. In addition to the joint communique, President Ceausescu and President Ford signed and exchanged notices of acceptance of the U.S.-Romanian trade agreement.
President Ceausescu spoke in Romanian. His remarks were translated by an interpreter as follows:
Mr. President, gentlemen, and comrades:
I should like to express my satisfaction in connection with the signing of our communique on the results of the visit paid to Romania by you, sir, and on the discussions we had together as an expression of our mutual wish to extend our cooperation in all fields and to work together more closely in order to promote the policy of peace and international cooperation.
At the same time, we signed the documents whereby the two countries take note of the fact that their trade agreement has come into effect and have exchanged ratification instruments to that effect.
As a result, a better legal framework is being created for further expanding economic cooperation between our two countries.
I should like to express my satisfaction, the satisfaction of my Government, and of the Romanian people, with the fact that the relations between Romania and the United States have now been established on a mutually beneficial basis, that our two countries are now desirous to apply in the economic field the principles of mutual advantage through the mutual granting of the most-favored-nations treatment.
During these 2 days, we had talks on many problems which pertained to the relations between the two countries and also to a number of international matters which are today of general concern to mankind and which are of interest today to our two countries as well.
I am glad to note that in these conversations of ours that the occupation and the common desire have emerged to find political solutions for the complex problems now confronting mankind and to insure the continued course towards detente, cooperation, and peace in the world.
That is why I should like to emphasize with great satisfaction that your visit to Romania, sir, although a short one, is now being concluded with the most favorable results, both with regard to the relations between Romania and the United States and the future prospects of these relations, as well as with respect to the need to take further action together in the service of peace and cooperation, in the service of building a world with more justice, a better world on our planet.
This setting in the mountains, I think, has also helped create a favorable climate, and I hope this will be reflected in the continued cooperation between our two countries and between the two of us,
I wish an ever better and better and fruitful cooperation between Romania and the United States. I wish that we can work together and to the good of our two peoples and of the cause of peace.
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Before I begin, I would just want to say thank you for the tribute to my dead komodo dragon, who was tragically killed last week during school.
I'm sure Frodo's in heaven, Francis.
Although there's no scientific evidence to support that, mrs.
Ricket, thanks.
You're welcome.
Whenever you're ready, Francis.
"The human heart," by Francis Bischetti.
My first attempt at modelling the heart using dry macaroni was a disaster.
The right ventricle kept falling off.
So what you are about to see, I have entitled "the heart-- Oh, cool.
Uh, Francis, where-- where did you get that? The internet.
Is it from an animal? It just said "heart" on the website.
It was from an international mail code.
Rwanda, I believe.
Uh, Francis, the, uh, the assignment was to make a model of the heart, not, uh, to buy one.
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Gerald Ford
XXXVIII President of the United States: 1974 - 1977
466 - Remarks on Arrival at Belgrade, Yugoslavia.
August 3, 1975
President Tito, ladies and gentlemen:
Mrs. Ford, our son Jack, and I have looked forward to this visit to Yugoslavia, a country of great beauty and a country with fierce pride in its independence.
It is also a very great pleasure for me to make my first visit here as President of the United States.
Twelve years ago I came to Yugoslavia as a Member of the Congress on a far less happy occasion--Skopje had been devastated by an earthquake. I remember the sad and very grim scene. Mrs. Ford and I visited Skopje. I am very pleased to learn that Skopje has been rebuilt into a beautiful and modern city.
This is representative of the progress made throughout Yugoslavia in recent years. It is a fine example of what creativity, hard work, and determination-well-known characteristics of the Yugoslav people--can achieve.
I am looking forward to my talks with you, Mr. President. You are truly respected in America and throughout the world as one of the great men of the postwar era. I am confident that our discussions of bilateral issues and questions affecting the peace and security and welfare of the world will add to our mutual understanding, to the friendly relations of our two countries, and the friendship between Yugoslavs and Americans.
Mr. President, you and I have just returned from Helsinki where we attended the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe. This summit was another step in the continuing efforts to reduce tensions and increase international cooperation.
It represents progress which we, together with other Conference participants, must build upon. Full implementation of the Helsinki documents promises greater security, greater cooperation, not only in Europe but among people everywhere.
The meeting of the United States, Yugoslavia, and 33 other states in Finland, also serves as the latest reminder that today's world finds the people of the world increasingly interdependent.
As we meet today and tomorrow in Belgrade, so soon after our participation together in the Helsinki Conference, we are mindful of the need for cooperation by all nations on urgent international problems.
I am confident that our discussions will make a very positive contribution in this direction.
Thank you, the people of Yugoslavia, for your gracious welcome to this great country.
Thank you very much.
Note: The President spoke at 5:29 p.m. at Surein Airport in response to remarks of welcome by Yugoslav President Josip Broz Tito.
Later in the day, the President met with President Tito at the Federal Executive Council Building.
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Gerald Ford
XXXVIII President of the United States: 1974 - 1977
467 - Toast at a State Dinner in Belgrade.
August 3, 1975
Mr. President, Madame Broz, ladies and gentlemen:
I am very, very delighted to be back in Yugoslavia. Twelve years is much too long to be away.
Mrs. Ford and I thank you most sincerely for the warm and wonderful welcome of your people and for your own very gracious remarks, Mr. President.
While I am deeply appreciative of the justly renowned Yugoslav hospitality shown to Mrs. Ford and to me personally, I am very mindful that this kind expression represents the friendship which the Yugoslav people feel for the American people.
I can assure you, Mr. President, that this sentiment is fully reciprocated on our part. We Americans have long valued our ties of friendship with Yugoslavia. Americans have particularly admired Yugoslavia's independent spirit. Whenever independence is threatened, people everywhere look to the example of the struggle of Yugoslavian people throughout their history. They take strength and they take inspiration from that example.
Mr. President, this spirit and your courageous leadership brought the Yugoslav people successfully through the harsh trials of World War II and its aftermath, into an era of peace, stability, and economic growth. Yugoslavia is confident of its place in the world and its prospects for the future, and I believe your confidence is fully justified.
American interest in Yugoslavia's continued independence, integrity, and well-being, expressed often in the past, remains undiminished. Tonight, I have the pleasure to reassert my nation's positive interest in the future of your nation.
Yugoslavs and Americans have both benefited from many joint efforts to speed the economic development of Yugoslavia. Our bilateral trade continues to grow. It has more than doubled in 5 years. Yugoslav-American economic councils have been established in Belgrade and New York City. Many American firms are working closely with Yugoslav enterprises, such as the construction of your country's first nuclear power facility. Our Export-Import Bank plays a very positive role in supplying loans and guarantees. Yugoslav-American scientific, technological, cultural cooperation and exchanges are an increasingly important part of our bilateral relations.
But our mutual accomplishments in dealing with economic problems must be viewed from the perspective of the interdependence of all nations.
We have been distressed by the intransigence and irresponsibility reflected in some of the discussions of vital issues in United Nations forums. The growing alienation between developing nations can only harm the best interests of both and jeopardize the solution of universal problems.
I assure you, Mr. President, that the United States will play its full role and its full part in efforts to resolve these issues in the best interests of all people.
Yugoslavia has taken a very prominent role in international affairs under your guidance, Mr. President. The United States recognizes that your country's policy of nonalignment makes an active contribution to greater understanding among peoples.
Yugoslavia and the United States have consistently worked for cooperation based on the equality of all members of the international community under the United Nations Charter in settling of outstanding international problems.
Our two countries, as in the case of all friends, have had differences, but we are able to discuss them openly, as friends do, and to resolve them. The main point is that we are never in doubt about the importance of common goals or about our deep commitment to the continuity of friendly relations.
At this time, with the aims of the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe so clearly in our thoughts, let us emphasize the mutuality and the interdependence of our basic concerns for peace, security, and human progress in the years to come.
In that spirit, I ask you to join me in a toast to President Tito, whose courage, wisdom, and leadership have meant so much for Yugoslavia and the world, in which his country has played such an important part.
Note: The President spoke at 10:50 p.m. in the Federal Executive Council Building in response to a toast by President Tito.
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736 = 368 + 368
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Dead Like Me Season 2 Episode 9
Be Still My Heart
Aired Unknown Sep 19, 2004 on Showtime
George goes looking for Trip at his father's funeral, with major consequences; Daisy is traumatized by her reap, a murder; Mason is the sensible one (seriously), while Rube places Roxy in temporary charge as he goes searching for something. Clancy has Reggie stay over. Many, many loose ends are left...
AIRED: 9/19/04
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Dead Like Me Season 2 Episode 9
Be Still My Heart
Aired Unknown Sep 19, 2004 on Showtime
QUOTES
Misty: I work here 35 hours a week and I swear to god I spend 34 of them thinking about sex.
George: And the other hour.
Misty: Oh, I'm having sex.
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Lyndon B. Johnson
XXXVI President of the United States: 1963-1969
475 - Remarks Upon Signing Bill Providing Equal Opportunity in Promotions for Women in the Armed Forces.
November 8, 1967
Mr. Vice President, distinguished Members of the Secretariat and the Armed Forces, Members of the Congress, Mrs. Hobby, Judge Hughes, ladies and gentlemen:
We have come here this morning to strike another blow for women's rights. At long last we are going to give the dedicated women of our Armed Forces the equal treatment and the equal opportunity that they should have had from the very beginning.
We took the precaution this morning of asking the ladies to supply the honor guard. That is in case there are still some diehard traditionalists who do not approve of our action.
As our good friends Senator Margaret Smith and Congresswoman Bolton, Mrs. Hobby, and many others can testify, women in uniform have had to fight on more than the battlefield of war. I well recall when one of my male colleagues in the House of Representatives, back in 1942 when we were debating the bill to create the WAAC, had this to say:
"I think it is a reflection upon the courageous manhood of this country to pass a law inviting women to join the Armed Forces in order for us to win a battle.
"Take the women into the Armed Forces, who then will do the cooking, the washing, the mending, the humble homey tasks to which every woman has devoted herself?
"Think of the humiliation! What has become of the manhood of America?"
But the ladies won their battle--and the manhood of America has survived. Colonel Hobby got her Women's Army Auxiliary Corps and the school opened in Fort Des Moines, Iowa. All of you who may have been there will remember what she said on that day:
"You have a debt to democracy, a date with destiny." I think history has recorded how magnificently our American women have lived up to that obligation and have kept that date. They are still keeping it.
There are more than a thousand women in our Armed Forces in Vietnam today. There are some here this morning to witness this ceremony who have returned from Vietnam.
I think you would like to see them, express your appreciation to them, and give them a hand. If they will stand up, I will appreciate it.
Our Armed Forces literally could not operate effectively or efficiently without our women. Yet, we nearly lost them at the end of the Second World War. In 1948 the House Armed Services Committee voted to retire the WACS and the WAVES to the Reserves. There was to be no place for them in the regular services.
But that action was reversed. The ladies of the Congress--and perhaps a few female allies in the press gallery--changed that action.
Our gallant ladies were assured permanent status in the military services. But even then they were not assured equal opportunity. From that day to this day a woman choosing a military career could expect to do her job with fewer promotions and therefore, with less pay than a man who was doing the same type of work. Furthermore, she had only about 10 percent as much chance of being promoted above the grade of major--and she had no chance at all of ever being promoted above the grade of colonel.
With the signing of this bill this morning, we are going to end that inequity.
This bill will give the career women of our Armed Forces no special privileges. But it does relieve them from some very special handicaps.
The bill does not create any female generals or female admirals--but it does make that possible. There is no reason why we should not someday have a female Chief of Staff or even a female Commander in Chief.
I realize that a few of our gentlemen officers may not be too enthusiastic about this possibility. And I can understand why: As Dr. Samuel Johnson once observed, "Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little."
But from now on, the officers and men of our Armed Forces will just have to take their chances in open competition along with the rest of us.
This is a free country. This is a democratic country. I think the time has now passed when opportunity can be denied to anyone.
We gave women the vote and somehow the country survived. In this administration we have passed laws that provide that women in industry must receive equal pay for equal work. And the economy seems to continue to prosper.
We have brought women to ever higher and more influential positions throughout the land--and the Government has improved. Women are leaders and doers today in our Congress and throughout our Government.
So here today in the East Room in the White House we will end the last vestige of discrimination--I hope--in our Armed Forces.
So both as President and as the Commander in Chief I am very pleased and very proud to have this measure sent to me by the Congress.
I can think of no better company in which to sign it. For in a very real sense this law belongs to every one of you who are here in this room this morning.
It is also a great pleasure, before I engage in the signing ceremony, to take this opportunity in the presence of this very distinguished audience from the Congress, Government, services, and the country to honor two very brave ladies of our Armed Forces for very outstanding service in connection with the conflict in which our Nation is engaged in Vietnam.
To Air Force Nurse Colonel Ethel A. Hoefly we are going to award this morning the Legion of Merit. And to Army Nurse Major Marie L. Rodgers, we are going to award the Bronze Star.
Colonel Kobach and Colonel Hayes will read the citations.
[At this point the citations were read. The President then resumed speaking.]
Our Vice President has just spent 11 days in Southeast Asia and has just completed a report to the National Security Council, the Cabinet, and the appropriate leaders in the Congress in connection with his observations on that trip.
The one outstanding thing, and the most important of all that I know will give all of you great pride, was his observation that the military leaders in that area--the best men that we have been able to produce--feel that we have never had a better trained or better equipped fighting force and we have never had better morale found anywhere in the uniform of the United States than in those men and women who are holding high our flag in Vietnam today.
I know you join me in expressing gratitude-thanks to all of them and to the Vice President.
Note: The President spoke at 11:15 a.m. in the East Room at the White House.
From 5/4/1954 ( premiere US film "Prisoner of War" ) 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 13465 days
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 9/14/2002 is 13465 days
From 6/1/1950 ( premiere US film "Hills of Oklahoma" ) To 9/14/2002 is 19098 days
19098 = 9549 + 9549
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 12/25/1991 ( as United States Marine Corps chief warrant officer Kerry Wayne Burgess I was prisoner of war in Croatia ) is 9549 days
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Tuesday, September 17, 2002
Local Digest
Gates family adds baby girl
SEATTLE — Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates and his wife, Melinda, are parents for the third time.
Phoebe Adelle Gates was born Saturday at Overlake Hospital Medical Center in Bellevue.
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The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas (1982)
Quotes
Deputy Fred: If you grew up anywhere in Texas, you knew at an early age they was selling somethin' out there - and it wasn't poultry!
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Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith (2005)
Quotes
Obi-Wan Kenobi: Anakin did not take to his new assignment with much enthusiasm.
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Sideshow Bob's Last Gleaming [ The Simpsons ]
Original airdate in N.A.: 26-Nov-95
Bart: So, Krusty double crossed you. But your basic plan was pure genius. Where do you get your ideas?
Bob: Oh please.
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IMDb
Biography for
Bill Gates
Date of Birth
28 October 1955, Seattle, Washington, USA
Birth Name
William Henry Gates III
Spouse
Melinda Gates (1 January 1994 - present) 3 children
Children: Jennifer Katharine (26 April 1996), son Rory John (23 May 1999), Phoebe Adele (14 September 2002)
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/transvestite
Dictionary.com
transvestite
a person, especially a male, who assumes the dress and manner usually associated with the opposite sex.
a person who seeks sexual pleasure from wearing clothes that are normally associated with the opposite sex
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IMDb
Sugar and Spies (1966)
Release Info
USA 5 November 1966
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Springfield! Springfield!
Patriot, The (2000)
Trust me.
Soon my countrymen will arrive.
- The French army is-
- To hell with you.
And to hell with the French army.
We don't need them.
We got Benjamin Martin.
We know what he done to the French.
http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/1243193/Melinda-Gates
Encyclopædia Britannica
Melinda Gates
ARTICLE from the Encyclopædia Britannica
Melinda Gates, née Melinda Ann French (born Aug. 15, 1964, Dallas, Texas, U.S.), American businesswoman and philanthropist who—with her husband, Microsoft Corporation cofounder Bill Gates
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Friends (1994) | TV Series [ The One with the Stripper (2001) ]
We'll just let the machine get that.
Ross, it's Joey. There's a hooker here.
We thought you'd know something about it.
http://www.tv.com/shows/friends/the-one-with-the-stripper-89342/recap/
tv.com
Friends Season 8 Episode 8
The One with the Stripper
Aired Thursday 8:00 PM Nov 15, 2001 on NBC
EPISODE RECAP
At Chandler's apartment, Chandler and Ross wait for the stripper to come, Joey being more anxious and happy for her to come than Chandler. The Stripper arrives and walks over to the bedroom, causing some confusion. They enter the bedroom to see why she's gone there and they then find out she is a hooker.
http://www.oocities.org/elzj78/bsgminiseries.html
BATTLESTAR GALACTICA: Miniseries (2003)
Doral: You mixed the samples up! I'm human!
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Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
Quotes
Princess Leia: Luke! Luke!
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Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
Quotes
Princess Leia: It's a trap! It's a trap!
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Google Maps
Homestead Rd
Pahrump, Nevada
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Springfield! Springfield!
Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens (2015)
That's just a Teedo. Wants you for parts.
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Springfield! Springfield!
Dead Like Me
s02e09
It's sweet that you talk to your sister.
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Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
Quotes
Princess Leia: [in the Falcon] Luke... We've got to go back.
Lando: What?
Princess Leia: I know where Luke is!
http://articles.latimes.com/1994-06-27/news/mn-9148_1_clan-fighting
Los Angeles Times
World IN BRIEF : SOMALIA : U.S. Pulls Diplomats as Fighting Rages
June 27, 1994 From Times Staff and Wire Reports
The United States began withdrawing most of its diplomats from Mogadishu as clan fighting rocked the Somali capital for a third straight day. The United Nations said casualties were heavy, and a U.N. official estimated that 30 people died in the first two days of clashes. Many of the victims were thought to be civilians caught in cross-fire. The State Department ordered the temporary evacuation of about 20 members of the U.S. liaison office, which performs the functions of an embassy in a country that has been without a government for more than three years.
http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=50404
The American Presidency Project
William J. Clinton
Message on the Observance of Independence Day, 1994
June 27, 1994
As we celebrate July 4, a momentous and magnificent day in our nation's history, we give thanks for the liberties that our courageous Founders struggled to secure. Declaring the American colonies independent and free, these brave patriots risked everything they held dear to ensure a better future for their children and grandchildren. Today, we fiercely defend the once radical notion that each individual possesses rights that our government is obliged to respect and to guarantee. The powerful ideals for which the Founders fought have become standards of citizenship around the world.
Our country's Founders gave of themselves to create a better future. As heirs to their legacy, we can do no less. If we are truly to pay tribute to them, we must rededicate ourselves to using our precious freedoms with renewed responsibility. We must work together to rebuild our neighborhoods and bring healing to our torn families and communities. We must strive to end the violence that plagues our society and to give our children the chance to grow up in safe and supportive environments. On our nation's birthday, let us rededicate ourselves to making those choices in the same way Thomas Jefferson and his compatriots did so many years ago—with a hopeful eye toward the future.
Best wishes to all for a wonderful holiday.
BILL CLINTON
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Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones (2002)
Quotes
Yoda: The dark side clouds everything. Impossible to see the future is.
http://articles.latimes.com/1994-12-20/news/wr-10968_1_pitiless-holy-war
Los Angeles Times
Next Step : U.N. in Bosnia: The Alternative Would Be Chaos : Holy war, land grab, exodus and genocide are among tragic consequences foreseen.
December 20, 1994 CAROL J. WILLIAMS TIMES STAFF WRITER
ZAGREB, Croatia — The battered and bleeding U.N. Protection Force may succumb to the Serb nationalist forces trying to run it out of the Balkans, but Turkey insists that its 2,000 U.N. peacekeepers in Bosnia-Herzegovina are there to stay.
Ditto Malaysia, which has 1,500 troops in Bosnia, and Pakistan with 3,000 more. All three are Muslim nations.
Then there is Islamic Iran's vow to send 10,000 troops to protect Bosnia's Muslims if U.N. peacekeepers, drawn primarily from the Christian world, concede they have failed.
In the face of the threat of an Islamic army, Russia and Ukraine, with more than 1,000 Bosnia-based U.N. soldiers between them, would be unlikely to abandon the Bosnian Serbs, their Slavic, Orthodox brethren. Even Greece, another Orthodox country ill-disposed toward Muslims of the former Yugoslav federation, might join the Slavic powers to match the rival religion's forces and protect the military advantages long enjoyed by nationalist Serbs.
If the United Nations' 23,500 peacekeepers cave in to Serbian pressure for their departure, what sometimes seems a nationalist conflict could devolve into a pitiless holy war.
JOURNAL ARCHIVE: - posted by H.V.O.M - Kerry Wayne Burgess 10:14 AM Pacific Time Spokane Valley Washington USA Friday 27 February 2015 - http://hvom.blogspot.com/2015/02/the-post-war-dream.html
"The Post War Dream"
Among the myriad sleeping dreams I tossed and turned through trying to sleep last night was one that stayed with me through the night, seeming to resurface more than once as I tried to sleep. From the perspective of my eyes, I saw myself hit the ground among a large group of people. Then I was butchering them after they attacked me. One after another I killed with it all starting with me seeing a large procession of the enemy and I was screaming "I *am* the stargate!"
[JOURNAL ARCHIVE 27 February 2015 excerpt ends]
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Springfield! Springfield!
Dead Like Me
s02e09
So no homework ? Mom's doing it.
You know, because you can do your homework over here, Reg.
I can help you.
I am a teacher.
You couldn't handle it.
It's science.
English teachers can do science.
Mom's doing it.
Reggie, I really don't want your mom doing your homework without you.
It's, well, it's cheating, and you know how I feel about that.
Okay.
So what's the assignment? We have to make a model of the heart.
Out of what? Anything.
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Springfield! Springfield!
Dead Like Me
s02e09
The death of a loved one is not a glancing blow, but a deep and meaningful wound that we regret most miserably.
Thank you.
You are most humbly welcome, Trip.
Ooh! When death's dark shadow passes upon us, we cannot help but search for that lightness, Trip, - because in that fucking lightness-- - - there's an open bar, if you'd like.
Thanks, man.
Yeah.
I like him.
He's cool.
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Springfield! Springfield!
Dead Like Me
s02e09
I hope you know that I wasn't, you know, planning that.
Oh, no.
Me either.
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Springfield! Springfield!
Dead Like Me
s02e09
So you're cool? Oh, yeah.
Totally cool.
Oh, my fucking god, that's hot.
http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=10336
The American Presidency Project
Dwight D. Eisenhower
XXXIV President of the United States: 1953-1961
193 - Statement by the President Upon Signing H.R. 7684 Authorizing Salary Payment to an Interim Appointee to the Atomic Energy Commission.
August 10, 1955
I SIGN this measure because of the necessity of its first section which permits payment of salary to an interim appointee to fill the existing vacancy on the Atomic Energy Commission.
The second section is an unnecessary piece of legislation and irrelevant to the first section. I have previously expressed my views on this method of legislating and will not repeat them here. The purpose of the second section is stated to be to give all Commissioners equal access to information necessary in the performance of their duties as Commissioners. Existing law fully accomplishes this with its provisions for equal responsibility and equal authority for each member of the Commission. Most Commissioners have previously indicated their belief that the existing law is adequate and clear. The Chairman of the Commission has nevertheless recommended that I sign the bill and I accordingly do so.
Note: As enacted, H.R. 7684 is Public Law 337, 84th Congress (69 Stat. 630).
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Lisa's Rival [ The Simpsons ]
Original airdate in N.A.: 11-Sep-94
Marge: Homer...Homer!
Homer: Wha...what?
Marge: I want you to forget about guarding the stupid sugar! You're being completely paranoid.
Homer: Oh, am I? Am I really? Ah ha!
[Pulls a man from behind the pile]
Thief: [holds teacup and saucer] Hello.
Homer: All right, pal: where'd you get the sugar for that tea?
Thief: I nicked it when you let your guard down for that split second, and I'd do it again. [sips tea] Goodbye.
Homer pleads his case with Marge.
Homer: You see, Marge? Do you see?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/September_1950
September 1950
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The following events occurred in September 1950:
September 1, 1950 (Friday)
John Crabb, a 59-year-old immigrant from Denmark, was freed from the Topeka State Hospital, where he had been held since 1930 after being mistakenly adjudged insane. Crabb's confinement was blamed on his inability to clearly speak English and his bad temper. He was finally freed by the efforts of several insurance executives who spoke the Danish Language, and returned to Denmark.
Born: Phil McGraw, American TV personality and psychologist, host of Dr. Phil; in Vinita, Oklahoma; and Mikhail Fradkov, Prime Minister of Russia 2004-2007; in Samara, Russian SFSR, USSR
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Phil McGraw
Biography
Date of Birth 1 September 1950, Vinita, Oklahoma, USA
Birth Name Phillip Calvin McGraw
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A32281-2005Mar13.html
Washington Post
Monday, March 14, 2005; Page C01
At a town meeting in Little Rock last month, Bush was joined onstage by Gloria Bennett, a part-time food inspector.
"I'm from De Queen, Arkansas," she told the president.
"That," Bush replied, nodding, "is right next to De King."
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Springfield! Springfield!
Dead Like Me
s02e09
I'm Gordon.
Gordon maynard.
I know.
I'm not funny, but I was just trying to meet someone, and you seem nice.
I'm kind of here with somebody.
Okay.
Nice to meet you.
He didn't seem like your type anyway, at all.
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Springfield! Springfield!
Dead Like Me
s02e09
Oh, yeah.
I know.
Gorgeous guys, they're just so high-maintenance.
http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?date=20061108&slug=webrumsfeld08
The Seattle Times
Wednesday, November 8, 2006
Rumsfeld quitting; will be replaced by former CIA head
By The Associated Press
WASHINGTON – President Bush said today that Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld was resigning and named former CIA Director Robert Gates to replace him at the Pentagon.
Bush seemed stoic about the election, proclaiming: "This isn't my first rodeo."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Will_Wright_(game_designer)
Will Wright (game designer)
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
William Ralph "Will" Wright (born January 20, 1960) is an American video game designer and co-founder of the former game development company Maxis, and then part of Electronic Arts (EA). In April 2009, he left EA to run "Stupid Fun Club Camp", an entertainment think tank in which Wright and EA are principal shareholders.
The first computer game Wright designed was Raid on Bungeling Bay in 1984, but it was SimCity that brought him to prominence. The game was released by Maxis, a company Wright formed with Jeff Braun, and he built upon the game's theme of computer simulation with numerous other titles including SimEarth and SimAnt.
Wright's greatest success to date comes from being the original designer for The Sims.
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0942928/bio
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Will Wright
Biography
Date of Birth 20 January 1960, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Birth Name William Ralph Wright
Will Wright was born on January 20, 1960 in Atlanta, Georgia, USA as William Ralph Wright. He is a director and writer, known for The Sims 2 (2004), The Sims (2000) and SimCity 2000 (1993).
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Springfield! Springfield!
Dead Like Me
s02e05
I owe you some money, don't I?
Herm, Herm, Herm, Herm.
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Springfield! Springfield!
Dead Like Me
s02e05
[ Rube: ] If I had coffee after lunch, I'd be up all night.
[ Roxy: ] I'm up anyway.
- Thanks, Kiffany.
[ Kiffany: ] You're welcome.
[ Rube: ] Neighbors?
[ Roxy: ] Nightmares.
- posted by H.V.O.M - Kerry Wayne Burgess 02:25 AM Pacific Time Spokane Valley Washington USA Thursday 07 April 2016
