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Iron Eagle (1986)
00:38:20 Therefore, our gratitude must be to those who give us that freedom...
00:38:24 ...so that we can grow. To our parents, I dedicate this ceremony.
00:38:58 What were those loops and rolls, Colonel?
00:39:01 I thought we were supposed to keep strict formation during training.
00:39:03 I had a malfunction in my throttle sensor, Major.
00:39:06 I was trying to sort out the problem.
00:39:08 I thought you were going to do some skywriting.
00:39:11 I may have a problem with my receiver.
00:39:14 I heard music up there.
00:39:16 I must have picked up a radio station or something.
00:39:21 I'll have it checked out.
00:39:31 These are training maneuvers, not auditions for the Thunderbirds!
00:39:35 It's not a rock concert.
00:39:38 Get over there!
00:39:39 What the hell were you thinking?
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Executive Employment Agreement - Halliburton Co. and Richard B. Cheney
EXECUTIVE EMPLOYMENT AGREEMENT
1.2. Beginning October 1, 1995, Employee shall be employed as Chief Executive Officer and President of Employer. Employee agrees to serve in the assigned position and to perform diligently and to the best of Employee's abilities the duties and services appertaining to such position as determined by Employer, as well as such additional or different duties and services appropriate to such position which Employee from time to time may be reasonably directed to perform by Employer. As of the Effective Date, Employee shall be elected as a member of Employer's Board of Directors and, upon the retirement of the incumbent Chairman of the Employer's Board of Directors, shall be elected to serve as the Chairman of the Employer's Board of Directors. Employee shall at all times comply with and be subject to such policies and procedures as Employer may establish from time to time.
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The Farthest Man from Home
Aired Sunday 7:00 PM Oct 01, 1995 on FOX
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JOURNAL ARCHIVE: posted by H.V.O.M at 6:35 PM Wednesday, November 08, 2006
Then she told me in email that she was going to write down everything I said. That made sense to me because I felt as though I said a lot of smart stuff.
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Space: Above and Beyond Season 1 Episode 3
The Farthest Man from Home
Aired Sunday 7:00 PM Oct 01, 1995 on FOX
Quotes
West: Why don't you just light a bonfire? You're supposed to extinguish all traces of flame before moving on!
Hawkes: Look who's talking regulations. I wouldn't even be here right now if you hadn't made yourself your own Commander-In-Chief!
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WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549
FORM 8-K
CURRENT REPORT
PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(D) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934
DATE OF REPORT (DATE OF EARLIEST EVENT REPORTED)
AUGUST 10, 1995
HALLIBURTON COMPANY
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August 10, 1995
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HALLIBURTON NAMES DICK CHENEY CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER
DALLAS, Texas -- Halliburton Company (NYSE-HAL) today named former Secretary of Defense Richard B. (Dick) Cheney president and chief executive officer of the company effective October 1, 1995.
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THE 2000 CAMPAIGN
THE 2000 CAMPAIGN; Cheney Has Mixed Record In Business Executive Role
The following article was reported by Lowell Bergman, Diana B. Henriques, Richard A. Oppel Jr. and Michael Moss and was written by Ms. Henriques.
Published: August 24, 2000
In 1998, Dick Cheney pulled off what was widely seen as a business coup. Ending years of fruitless talks, Mr. Cheney arranged a merger between Halliburton, the company he ran, and its chief rival, Dresser Industries, creating the world's largest oil field services and construction company.
Mr. Cheney, the chief executive of Halliburton, initiated the deal while on a quail hunt with his counterpart from Dresser. The negotiations that followed were so amicable, the companies dispensed with the close scrutiny of each other's businesses that is usually part of a merger, a Dresser official said.
Some key Dresser executives quickly came to regret that decision, present and former company officials say. They were startled to learn after the deal closed that several of the major projects negotiated by Mr. Cheney's management team were much less healthy than they appeared on Halliburton's books and were racking up significant losses. The newly merged company was hit with several hundred million dollars of unexpected losses, including an estimated $100 million on a single pipeline project in South America begun on Mr. Cheney's watch, according to company insiders and others in the oil industry.
The Dresser merger was the biggest deal of Mr. Cheney's five years at Halliburton and the losses that arose soon afterward were one of several missteps in a business record that has become part of his political resume since he was nominated to be the Republican candidate for vice president. The Bush campaign has defended his multimillion-dollar retirement payment from Halliburton as fair compensation for a job well done.
''The American people should be pleased they have a vice-presidential nominee who has been successful in business,'' said Karen P. Hughes, communications director for the campaign of Gov. George W. Bush.
But just how successful Mr. Cheney was as a chief executive is a matter of considerable dispute, judging by a broad survey of his record that included interviews with present and former company executives.
Some praised him for doubling the size of the company through mergers and a growing government business that has made Halliburton the nation's fifth-largest military contractor.
Asked to assess Mr. Cheney's performance, Halliburton's vice chairman, Donald Vaughn, said he deserved a ''clearly superior'' grade. ''Mr. Cheney was anything but a status quo man,'' Mr. Vaughn said. ''He changed Halliburton and the popular judgment is he changed it for the better.''
Other executives, however, said Mr. Cheney failed to keep a sufficiently tight rein on the company's aggressive pursuit of overseas energy projects and road-building work in the United States. Some Wall Street analysts, too, described Mr. Cheney's performance as little better than average.
A spokesman for Mr. Cheney declined to make him available for an interview and referred questions about his tenure at Halliburton to the company.
Mr. Vaughn, the last president of Dresser, acknowledged in an interview that there had been ''overall surprise'' with the losses that emerged after the Dresser merger. Most of them, he said, came from contracts on the Halliburton side of the ledger.
Mr. Vaughn blamed the reversals on an industry downturn caused by plummeting oil prices in late 1998 and on the complexity of the projects and said neither he nor his Dresser colleagues felt deceived. ''No one was flimflammed,'' he said. ''Absolutely not.''
Halliburton's stock price, often regarded as a gauge of executive performance, rose sharply in Mr. Cheney's early years at the company, but it lagged its competitors in the final year and a half of his tenure.
There is a presumption in business that a chief executive is broadly responsible for everything that happens in his company, for better or worse. Last year, the company's board of directors withheld bonuses from Mr. Cheney and his management team, which had failed to meet the board's financial targets for 1998 and 1999.
David J. Lesar, the man Mr. Cheney picked to run the company's day-to-day operations, said his boss was ''hands off, very much a delegator'' whose main role at the company was cultivating clients and setting strategic direction. ''He and I talked almost every day,'' Mr. Lesar said. ''On major types of things, I would tell him what the decisions were.''
In assessing Mr. Cheney's record at Halliburton, it is difficult to say -- as it would be with any large corporation -- what specific role the chief executive played in each initiative during his tenure. For example, it is not clear how much of a hand Mr. Cheney had in his management team's decision to start bidding more aggressively on smaller-scale highway projects. The company won a host of new contracts, but ran into difficulties in North Carolina and Mr. Bush's home state of Texas for failing to meet deadlines for completing the work. The projects were small by Halliburton standards, $20 million or less, but a company insider said the losses on several of them rose as high as $4 million to $5 million each.
North Carolina and Texas fined the company for its tardiness and North Carolina officials went further, barring Halliburton from bidding on road work in the state. The company's travails in Texas are no secret: A partial list of the penalties, totaling $359,450, is on the Web site of the Bush administration's highway department.
Mr. Lesar, now Halliburton's chief executive, said the setbacks in the road work were ''part and parcel'' of a business frequently punctuated by commercial disputes. ''It's absolutely not an embarrassment,'' he said. Mr. Lesar acknowledged, however, that the company, which expanded its road building under Mr. Cheney, is getting out of the business of doing such small-scale projects.
Company executives said Mr. Cheney was frustrated in his desire to phase out another Halliburton business: its dealings with Libya through its British subsidiary.
The company said the arrangements were within the law. The American embargo on Libya, imposed by President Ronald Reagan, allows subsidiaries of United States companies to earn money in Libya and send the profits home, provided the American parent company has no role in the operations and no Americans are involved.
Mr. Lesar said Mr. Cheney told executives soon after he arrived that he wanted to get out of Libya but was dissuaded by the argument that this would harm the company's long-term relationship with its customers. ''He had a fiduciary responsibility to his stockholders,'' Mr. Lesar said.
Halliburton's subsidiary maintains smaller, similar business relationships in Iran and Iraq, Mr. Vaughn said.
Company insiders said that some of Halliburton's woes under Mr. Cheney were common to corporate America in the late 1990's. The company has had difficulties creating a unified computer system across all of its diverse units. It is also still wrestling with a companywide initiative, begun at the behest of Mr. Cheney, to set up central management of purchasing, personnel and other administrative functions. Several executives said the results from this effort, which is costing several hundred million dollars, have been disappointing thus far.
The financial blemishes on Mr. Cheney's record at Halliburton are, in large measure, a matter of public record. The company's public financial reports disclosed its disappointing profits in the highway construction business, without providing specific numbers. And it said it had ''unusually high'' losses of nearly $180 million on ''technically complex'' projects in 1998 and 1999.
Company's Beginnings
Founded 81 years ago as an oil well service concern, Halliburton has grown into a wide-ranging energy technology and construction giant with revenues last year of $14.9 billion. Its 1962 merger with Brown & Root, a Texas contracting company, brought in federal work that the company had won after financing the political career of Lyndon B. Johnson. ''Brown & Root became an industrial colossus thanks to Lyndon Johnson,'' said Robert A. Caro, author of a multivolume biography of the president.
By 1995, Halliburton was still rebounding from the previous decade's oil bust when its chairman, Thomas Cruikshank, went salmon fishing for five days with Mr. Cheney. The former secretary of defense had spent the previous two and a half years as a fellow with the Washington research organization, American Enterprise Institute, and had decided against a presidential bid. Mr. Cruikshank, who was retiring, championed Mr. Cheney as his successor.
''I'm often asked why I left politics and went to Halliburton,'' Mr. Cheney said in a speech last November at the Institute of Petroleum in London, ''and I explain that I reached the point where I was mean-spirited, short-tempered and intolerant of those who disagreed with me and they said, 'Hell, you'd make a great C.E.O.,' so I went to Texas and joined the private sector.''
Halliburton's fortunes were on the rebound in October 1995 when Mr. Cheney arrived as chief executive.
Halliburton's stock had been an underperformer for much of the late 1980's and early 1990's, but what the company called a round of ''strategic actions,'' including payroll cuts and a restructuring of its basic businesses, substantially improved the company's results beginning in 1992. For the three and a half years before Mr. Cheney became chief executive on October 1, 1995, Halliburton's stock rose 82 percent, well above the 65 percent gain recorded by an index of companies in the oil service industry.
Mr. Cheney moved to build on that success. He put Mr. Lesar, a top executive at Halliburton's biggest subsidiary, in charge of daily operations. Mr. Cheney was viewed, from the beginning, as a man who was to use his worldwide contacts to produce new business. ''When we brought Cheney in, it really wasn't to run operations, it was to make the proper strategic decisions, and to establish relationships,'' Mr. Cruikshank said.
Among Mr. Cheney's first initiatives were well-regarded mergers that helped the company master the new technologies reshaping the energy industry. Halliburton acquired the Landmark Graphics Corporation, which develops software and data-management tools for the oil industry, and the Numar Corporation, which produces magnetic-resonance imaging instruments for energy exploration.
The company also scored some victories in Washington under Mr. Cheney, winning a $1.1 billion Pentagon contract to provide a wide range of support for the military's operations in the Balkans. A Pentagon official said there was no indication the former defense secretary had any role in sealing the deal, which expanded a contract Halliburton has held since 1992.
New Road to Problems
Halliburton's foray into road building went much less smoothly. The company's Brown & Root unit had been doing road projects for most of the 20th century and as Mr. Cheney took the reins, it hoped to cash in on a nationwide boom in highway work.
From November 1995 to November 1997, the company bid on 36 projects in North Carolina and won 9, totaling $100.9 million.
''That was a pretty aggressive undertaking by them,'' said Terry Strickland, the contractual services engineer for the state Department of Transportation in Raleigh.
State officials in North Carolina say that while they were pleased with the quality of Brown & Root's work, they grew frustrated at chronic, substantial delays. Of the nine projects Brown & Root took on in North Carolina, three failed to meet deadlines.
When problems first developed, the state pressured Brown & Root to work faster by imposing daily and even hourly penalties, and warned that it could be banned as a bidder. Finally, in a letter dated Aug. 3, 1998, the state banished Brown & Root.
''We have been unable to find any substantial reasons for the unsatisfactory progress on these projects except for the lack of effort that your company has put forth,'' wrote J. D. Goins, the state chief engineer for operations.
The company's results in Texas have been mixed. It won an award from a nationwide industry group for the design of Interstate 75, the North Central Expressway, which it completed ahead of schedule. But state officials say they levied $677,000 in penalties on several road projects worth $143 million -- double the amount listed on the highway department's Web site.
One of the projects on which Brown & Root faces penalties is in the eastern Texas town of Lufkin, where the company is two months behind schedule on a $16 million overpass job begun in October 1997.
But better late than never, state officials said. ''We're just hoping they finish this,'' said Cheryl Flood, the state Department of Transportation resident engineer at Lufkin who is overseeing the project.
Faced with diminished profits and a string of headaches, Halliburton decided to phase out its smaller-scale road work, making it even harder to complete the remaining projects.
Oscar Gutierrez, a project superintendent at Brown & Root for the work in Lufkin, said ''a lot of our key people left the company,'' when it decided to exit the business. Mr. Gutierrez said he has had to borrow managers from Halliburton's mining, pulp mill and petrochemical operations. ''All of our jobs are pushed back, mainly for lack of personnel, qualified people.''
A New Alliance
In early 1998, Mr. Cheney went quail hunting in South Texas with William E. Bradford, chairman and chief executive of Dresser Industries. The two companies, industry leaders in oil services, had looked several times at the possibility of merging but had been unable to make a deal.
Out hunting, the two men agreed to reopen talks. Within weeks, the two companies had plans to join forces, creating a company that would be headed by Mr. Cheney.
Mergers typically include a process of what is known in the business world as ''due diligence,'' in which both companies look hard at each other's pending projects to make sure their assumptions about each other's value are based on solid numbers.
In this case, however, the two chief executives felt so comfortable with each other they decided this would not be necessary, according to Mr. Vaughn, who was then Dresser's president.
The deal closed in September 1998 and cultural clashes quickly emerged.
One of the most jarring, present and former executives said, was over the arcane art of how to account for the profits produced by long-term projects. Dresser's Kellogg unit was known in the industry for its conservative approach and its executives prided themselves on never having to erase profits once they were entered in the ledgers. Halliburton officials, the executives said, were quicker to log the profits, relying on their ability to forecast how projects would turn out. This stirred resentment among Dresser managers who joined the new company. ''They would work you through the meat grinder,'' said one former executive. ''They would always opt for the most aggressive treatment.''
Tensions between the two management teams deepened in the months after the merger with the discovery of large losses on some of the Halliburton projects.
Dresser's construction unit had forecast a banner year for 1999, expecting profits of more than $200 million, including gains from the Halliburton contracts. But a spate of unexpected losses after the merger, mostly from Halliburton projects, shrunk those profits to roughly $100 million, a former company official said.
Other losses flowed from Halliburton's overseas contracts, including a technically demanding project to build a natural gas pipeline from Bolivia to Brazil.
Halliburton won a leading role in the $2 billion project in July 1997. The company said Mr. Cheney had no role in winning the contract or negotiating its terms.
The project, which traversed a region of the Amazon known for its heavy rains, ran into unexpected difficulties. Poor weather, a strike and construction problems sent the costs soaring, just as oil prices began to fall. Halliburton asked for more money but the Brazilian oil giant, Petrobras, declined to pay. Industry executives note that Halliburton's request for extra money came at an awkward moment, just as oil prices were reaching their lowest point in a decade.
Halliburton says it is still negotiating with Petrobras over the contract. Mr. Lesar declined to discuss the amount of money at issue, but said all calculations of loss or profit on deals like the Brazil pipeline are estimates until such disputes are resolved.
In December 1998, just three months after the merger, Halliburton declared in a public filing that ''extraordinary pressure'' from customers refusing to pay additional costs had forced it to take $60 million in losses. Present and former company officials said the losses from overseas projects and the highway work have continued to mount, and now total more than $200 million.
The merger stirred up bitterness, as mergers often do, prompting some Dresser executives to quit. At least three have sued the company, charging that Halliburton reneged on promises of a severance package.
Mr. Lesar said the company met all its obligations to the executives whose jobs were eliminated or scaled back.
But a lawsuit by Paul T. Butzberger, former president of Dresser Oil Tools, accuses Halliburton of repeatedly assuring him he would be able to keep his options for 60,000 shares of stock after his departure, and then refusing to honor those options.
That decision stands in contrast to the board's treatment of Mr. Cheney. Halliburton's board voted last month to allow him to keep options for 400,000 shares, worth $6 million at yesterday's price, treating his departure as early retirement rather than a resignation. It also allowed him to keep 140,000 shares of stock, now worth $7.5 million, that it could have canceled.
The Cheney Years
Evaluating a chief executive's record is as much an art as a science. Mr. Vaughn, Halliburton's vice chairman, said Mr. Cheney should be judged on the performance of the company's stock, a standard benchmark. By that measure, Mr. Cheney's early years at Halliburton were more successful than his later ones, when the company performed less well than its peers.
Over all, the Cheney years saw Halliburton stock underperform most stocks in its industry. From the time he became chief executive through the announcement he was leaving, Halliburton shares rose 110 percent, while the average oil service company share price rose 158 percent and the Standard & Poor's 500, an index of large company stocks, was up 151 percent.
Arvind Sanger, an analyst at Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette said Mr. Cheney did ''an averagely decent job as C.E.O. I don't think he did an exceptional job.
''He's much more comfortable talking about the big picture, not the nitty gritty of the business,'' said Mr. Sanger. ''Deep down inside, he's a politician at heart.''
If Mr. Cheney has a track record as chief executive that is mediocre against the backdrop of American business, his candidacy is nevertheless strongly supported by almost all of the executives who worked with him, even those who disagreed with how he led the company.
''Dick Cheney is a great man, very focused, and he stands for a lot of the things I stand for,'' said one former executive who quit in frustration over the company's post-merger culture. ''I just couldn't stay in that environment,'' he said.''life is too short.''
"Space: Above And Beyond"
"The Farthest Man From Home"
01 October 1995
Episode 2 Season 1 DVD video:
00:04:45
1LT Paul Wang: Hey Vansen, why do they call aliens "Chigs"?
1LT Shane Vansen: Because they look like chigoes.
1LT Paul Wang: What are chigoes?
1LT Shane Vansen: They're like fleas. They burrow themselves into your skin.
1LT Paul Wang: Well, to me they looks more like praying mantis or a walking stick. We could call them walkers!
1LT Shane Vansen: Let's blow the hell out of the walkers?
1LT Paul Wang: Yeah.
1LT Shane Vansen: Keep working on it.
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Ellington AFB, Tex., March 24, 1970---George Walker Bush is one member of the younger generation who doesn't get his kicks from pot or hashish or speed. Oh, he gets high, all right, but not from narcotics
After his solo, a milestone in the career of any fighter pilot, Lt. Bush couldn't find enough words to adequately express the feeling of solo flight.
Lt. Bush is the son of U.S Representative George Bush, who is a candidate for the U.S. Senate seat of Senator Ralph Yarborough.
http://www.subzin.com/search.php?title=Iron+Eagle&title_id=M981790d8&search_sort=Popularity&type=All&pag=57
SUBZIN
Iron Eagle (1986)
01:28:17 A bunch of thlngs must've gone wrong If you're llstenlng to thls.
01:28:21 Whatever happened, I know you must be real scared.
01:28:25 I wouldn't blame you If you wanted to head for home.
01:28:28 Maybe If I was you, I'd make a run for Helllcon Alr Base In Greece.
01:28:33 Rlght now, you're probably fllled...
01:28:35 ... wlth all the doubts In the world.
01:28:38 But I'll tell you somethlng.
01:28:41 God doesn't glve people thlngs He doesn't want them to use.
01:28:45 And he gave you the touch.
01:28:49 It's a power you have Inslde of you.
01:28:52 Down there where you keep your guts, boy.
http://www.subzin.com/search.php?title=Iron+Eagle&title_id=M981790d8&search_sort=Popularity&type=All&pag=50
SUBZIN
Iron Eagle (1986)
01:15:22 Get your alr speed perfect.
01:15:24 Come in real steady.
01:15:29 Congratulations! Couldn't have done better myself.
01:15:32 Do they pump this for you, or is this self-service?
01:15:35 Smart-ass kids!
01:15:51 Are you sleeping?
01:15:53 Everything okay?
01:15:54 Yeah, everything's fine.
01:15:57 I just felt all alone all of a sudden.
01:16:00 Try not to think about it.
01:16:02 Just thlnk about your dad, and how alone he must feel.
01:16:06 Do you think he knows how much I really love him?
01:16:10 Sometimes he'd be tough with me, like you are.
01:16:14 I know it's only for my own good, but I never told him I understood.
01:16:18 He knows.
01:16:20 Believe me.
01:16:22 He just wants to make a man out of you.
01:16:24 Is that why you treat me the same way?
01:16:27 To make a man out of me?
01:16:29 No, your dad already did that.
http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/sandusky-case-bombshell-did-6-penn-state-coaches-witness-abuse-n569526
NBC NEWS
MAY 8 2016, 1:11 PM ET
Sandusky Case Bombshell: Did 6 Penn State Coaches Witness Abuse?
by TOM WINTER, HANNAH RAPPLEYE and TRACY CONNOR
As many as six assistant coaches at Penn State allegedly witnessed "inappropriate behavior" between Jerry Sandusky and boys, stretching as far back as the 1970s, NBC News has learned.
It is unclear if any of the men made a report to higher-ups at Penn State before the sex-abuse scandal erupted in 2011.
The information, which comes from court documents and multiple sources with direct knowledge of legal proceedings, raises new questions about how long the abuse went on, why no one stopped it and whether there could be even more victims than previously known.
Sandusky — who worked in the football program at Penn State under legendary head coach Joe Paterno for three decades — is serving 30 to 60 years in prison after being convicted of molesting 10 boys he met through a charity starting in 1994.
But sources told NBC News that one former Penn State assistant coach witnessed an incident in the late 1970s. Three other coaches — who have gone on to work in the NFL and at Division I colleges — allegedly saw inappropriate conduct between Sandusky and boys in the early and mid-1990s.
"You won't believe what I just saw," one of those three coaches blurted out after bursting into a room filled with Penn State football staff
http://www.businessinsider.com/bush-rumsfeld-and-iraq-is-the-real-reason-for-the-invasion-finally-emerging-2011-2
Business Insider
Bush, Rumsfeld and Iraq: Is the Real Reason for the Invasion Finally Emerging?
RUSS BAKER, WHOWHATWHY
FEB. 6, 2011, 10:34 PM
In Donald Rumsfeld’s new book, Known and Unknown, out February 8, Rumsfeld offers an account of George W. Bush’s early interest in Iraq. This was just days after the 9/11 attacks. There were no apparent reasons for Bush to focus on Iraq, instead of on the actual perpetrators of the attacks.
Herskowitz said that Bush expressed frustration at a lifetime as an underachiever in the shadow of an accomplished father.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_H._W._Bush
George H. W. Bush
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
George Herbert Walker Bush (born June 12, 1924) is an American politician who served as the 41st President of the United States (1989–1993). A Republican, he had previously served as the 43rd Vice President of the United States (1981–1989), a congressman, an ambassador, and Director of Central Intelligence. He is the oldest living former President and Vice President. He is also the last living former President who is a veteran of World War II. Bush is often referred to as "George H. W. Bush", "Bush 41", "Bush the Elder", Bush I, or "George Bush, Sr." to distinguish him from his son, former President George W. Bush. Prior to his son's fame or notability, he was widely known simply as George Bush.
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/homosexual
Dictionary.com
homosexual
a person who is sexually attracted to members of the same sex
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_H._W._Bush
George H. W. Bush
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
George Herbert Walker Bush (born June 12, 1924) is an American politician who served as the 41st President of the United States (1989–1993). A Republican, he had previously served as the 43rd Vice President of the United States (1981–1989), a congressman, an ambassador, and Director of Central Intelligence. He is the oldest living former President and Vice President. He is also the last living former President who is a veteran of World War II. Bush is often referred to as "George H. W. Bush", "Bush 41", "Bush the Elder", Bush I, or "George Bush, Sr." to distinguish him from his son, former President George W. Bush. Prior to his son's fame or notability, he was widely known simply as George Bush.
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/pedophile
Dictionary.com
pedophile
a person who is sexually attracted to children
http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=76566
The American Presidency Project
George W. Bush
XLIII President of the United States: 2001 - 2009
Remarks at the Republican Governors Association Gala
February 25, 2008
And here's the crux of the problem: Companies that were believed to have helped us protect America from attack are now being sued for billions of dollars. That's wrong, it's a mistake, and the United States Congress needs to give those companies liability protection. And let me tell you why.
First, it is not fair to treat these companies this way. Our Government told them that their participation was necessary in order to protect us from further attack. And we asked them—and when we asked them to make those protections, we told them it was legal to do so. And I firmly believe it is legal for them to help us protect the American people. And now they're getting sued. What's more important? Lawyers or protecting the United States of America from further attack?
Secondly, these lawsuits would require disclosure of information which would make it harder to protect the country. If these trials—if these cases go to trial, these companies will have to defend themselves. And they'll be asked all kinds of questions about the tactics they have used to help protect our country. It makes no sense to reveal our secrets to the enemy.
Thirdly, and finally, these—without law, without liability protection for a job that we asked them to do in service to the United States of America, it will make it harder to convince companies to participate in the future. If you've done something that you think is perfectly legal and all of a sudden you're facing billions of dollars of lawsuits
http://www.dictionary.com/browse/threat
Dictionary.com
threat
a declaration of an intention or determination to inflict punishment, injury, etc., in retaliation for, or conditionally upon, some action or course; menace
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/mens+rea
Dictionary.com
mens rea
Latin, literally: guilty mind
http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=4046
The American Presidency Project
Richard Nixon
XXXVII President of the United States: 1969 - 1974
334 - Question-and-Answer Session at the Annual Convention of the Associated Press Managing Editors Association, Orlando, Florida
November 17, 1973
THE PRESIDENT.
And I think, too, that I could say that in my years of public life, that I welcome this kind of examination, because people have got to know whether or not their President is a crook. Well, I am not a crook.
"Space: Above And Beyond"
"The Farthest Man From Home"
01 October 1995
Episode 2 Season 1 DVD video:
09:56
Mr. Howard Sewell: So tell me. Tell me what I know. Tell me what I know. Tell me, or you'll be taken away and you'll be reeducated about your time on Tellus.
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
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]
"Space: Above and Beyond"
"The Farthest Man From Home"
01 October 1995
Episode 2 Season 1 DVD video:
Survivor: I'm the farthest man from home! I'm the farthest man from home! I'm the farthest man from home! I'm the farthest man from home!
- posted by H.V.O.M - Kerry Wayne Burgess 4:57 PM Pacific Time Spokane Valley Washington USA Tuesday 06 September 2016
