Wednesday, November 23, 2016
Can't get enough of that Sugar Crisp
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_L._Gibson
Robert L. Gibson
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Robert Lee "Hoot" Gibson (born October 30, 1946), (Capt, USN, Ret.), is a former American naval officer and aviator, test pilot, aeronautical engineer, and a retired NASA astronaut, as well as a professional pilot
Military career
Gibson entered active duty with the Navy in 1969. He received basic and primary flight training at Naval Air Station Pensacola and Naval Air Station Saufley Field, Florida, and Naval Air Station Meridian, Mississippi. He completed advanced flight training at Naval Air Station Kingsville, Texas and was assigned to Fighter Squadron 121 (VF-121) at Naval Air Station Miramar, California for replacement training in the F-4 Phantom II.
While assigned to Fighter Squadron 111 (VF-111) and Fighter Squadron 1 (VF-1) from April 1972 to September 1975, he saw duty aboard the aircraft carriers USS Coral Sea and USS Enterprise, flying combat missions in Southeast Asia in the F-4 with VF-111 and making the initial operational carrier deployment of the F-14 Tomcat with VF-1. He is a graduate of the Navy Fighter Weapons School
NASA career
On his last flight, (June 27 to July 7, 1995), Gibson commanded a crew of seven-members (up) and eight-members (down) on Space Shuttle mission STS-71. This was the first Space Shuttle mission to dock with the Russian Space Station Mir
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Rambo III (1988)
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Colonel Trautman: Let me tell you a story, John. There was a sculptor. He found this stone, a special stone. He dragged it home and he worked on it for months until he finally finished it. When he was ready he showed it to his friends. They said he had created a great masterpiece, but the sculptor said he hadn't created anything. The statue was always there, he just chipped away the rough edges. You're always going to be tearing away at yourself until you come to terms with who you are. Until you come full circle.
http://www.springfieldspringfield.co.uk/movie_script.php?movie=rambo-iii
Springfield! Springfield!
Rambo III (1988)
We didn't make you
this fighting machine.
We just shifted away the rough edges.
Your own is gonna be
tearing away with yourself,
until you come to terms
with what you are!
Until you come full circle.
I guess I'm not ready yet.
Well, I got to move.
Promise me you'll look me
when you're next in the States.
I promise.
Colonel!
I'm sorry. But it's gotta
end for me sometime.
I understand.
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Colonel Trautman: You expect sympathy? You started this damn war! Now you'll have to deal with it!
Zaysen: And we will. It is just a matter of time before we achieve a complete victory.
Colonel Trautman: Yeah, well, there won't be a victory! Every day, your war machines lose ground to a bunch of POORLY-armed, POORLY-equipped freedom fighters! The fact is that you underestimated your competition. If you'd studied your history, you'd know that these people have never given up to anyone. They'd rather DIE, than be slaves to an invading army. You can't defeat a people like that. We tried! We already had our Vietnam! Now you're gonna have yours!
From 10/30/1946 ( Robert Gibson ) To 3/1/2006 is 21672 days
21672 = 10836 + 10836
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 7/4/1995 ( the undocking Mir space station docking and the United States space shuttle Atlantis orbiter vehicle mission STS-71 includes me Kerry Wayne Burgess the United States Marine Corps officer and United States STS-71 pilot astronaut ) is 10836 days
From 1/27/1948 ( Harry Truman - Proclamation 2767—Prevention and Control of Juvenile Delinquency ) To 5/25/1988 ( premiere US film "Rambo III" ) is 14729 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 3/1/2006 is 14729 days
From 4/21/1933 ( the first flight of the US Navy USS Macon airship ) To 8/18/1973 ( The Killian Document ) is 14729 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 3/1/2006 is 14729 days
From 1/17/1991 ( the date of record of my United States Navy Medal of Honor as Kerry Wayne Burgess chief warrant officer United States Marine Corps circa 1991 also known as Matthew Kline for official duty and also known as Wayne Newman for official duty ) To 3/1/2006 is 5522 days
5522 = 2761 + 2761
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 5/25/1973 ( the United States Skylab 2 launches into planet Earth orbit and the United States NASA crew includes my biological brother Thomas Reagan the US Navy Commander circa 1973 ) is 2761 days
From 1/17/1991 ( RACKETEER INFLUENCED AND CORRUPT ORGANIZATIONS US Title 18 - the Persian Gulf War begins as scheduled severe criminal activity against the United States of America ) To 3/1/2006 is 5522 days
5522 = 2761 + 2761
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 5/25/1973 ( the United States Skylab 2 launches into planet Earth orbit and the United States NASA crew includes my biological brother Thomas Reagan the US Navy Commander circa 1973 ) is 2761 days
https://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/news/releases/2006/03/20060301-4.html
THE WHITE HOUSE
PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH
For Immediate Release
Office of the Press Secretary
March 1, 2006
President and Mrs. Bush Dedicate U.S. Embassy Building in Afghanistan
United States Embassy
Kabul, Afghanistan
3:31 P.M. (Local)
THE PRESIDENT: Thank you for the warm welcome. I thought I'd just drop in to cut a ribbon. (Laughter.) Ambassador, Laura and I are honored to join you, and Mr. President, thank you for joining us.
The President just hosted a great Afghan lunch. The hospitality of the Afghan people is well known, and I enjoyed that hospitality, Mr. President. Thank you. (Applause.) I appreciate the Secretary of State joining me. I 'm proud to call Condi Rice friend; America is proud to call her Secretary of State. (Applause.)
I appreciate Ron Neumann's service. There's nothing wrong with a son following in his father's footsteps. (Laughter.) When we rolled by the old embassy, he told me that it was his dad that cut the ribbon as the ambassador from the United States to Afghanistan. And here we are about to open a brand new embassy with a proud son and a great representative of our country, Ambassador Ron Neumann cutting the ribbon. (Applause.)
History sometimes spins an interesting tale, doesn't it, and such a tale is being spun today of public service. I want to thank all of my fellow citizens for working so far away from home on an incredibly important mission. I want to thank the embassy personnel, as well as our United States military personnel for being on the front line of freedom's march. I know it's a hard job, away from your families -- a long way from your families, having just flown 17 hours to get here.
But it's a vital mission. It's historic in its nature. This is the kind of mission that someday the Secretary of State will be speaking to foreign service officers and relaying the stories and the tales and the toils of those who served in Afghanistan in 2006. And so I congratulate you on your hard work, and I thank you on behalf of a grateful nation.
I also want to thank the foreign service nationals who are here, as well, those citizens of Afghanistan who are helping our folks to accomplish a big mission. I am struck by the story that our embassy was kept open and guarded during the days of the Taliban, and when Afghanistan was liberated, there were Afghan nationals here to turn over the keys to the embassy. For those of you who are guarding our embassy, thank you. For those of you who carry on their legacy, I thank you, as well. We welcome your help, we're honored with your presence today. (Applause.)
I've been honored to welcome Afghan citizens to Washington on a fairly regular basis. Laura and I have hosted brave men and women who are dedicated to democracy and freedom in Washington. One thing they always ask me -- they ask me with their words and they ask me with their stares, as they look in my eyes -- is the United States firmly committed to the future of Afghanistan? That's what they want to know. My answer is, absolutely. It's in our nation's interest that Afghanistan develop into a democracy. It's in the interests of the United States of America for there to be examples around the world of what is possible, that it's possible to replace tyrants with a free society in which men and women are respected, which young girls can go to school to realize their full potential, in which people are able to realize their dreams.
And so my message to the people of Afghanistan is, take a look at this building. It's a big, solid, permanent structure, which should represent the commitment of the United States of America to your liberty. I firmly believe the work that we're doing together is laying the foundation of peace for generations to come. And I want to thank you for sharing that mission.
May God bless America and you and your families, and may God's blessings rain on the good people of Afghanistan. (Applause.)
(The ribbon is cut.) (Applause.)
END 3:36 P.M. (Local)
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Rambo III (1988)
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Masoud, Afghan Mujahedeen Leader: Now you see how it is here. Somewhere in the war there's supposed to be honor. Where's the honor here? Where? Now, we're taking the survivors to the border. Are you coming?
Rambo: I'm going to the fort.
Masoud, Afghan Mujahedeen Leader: Have you not seen enough death? Go! Go while you can! This isn't your war.
Rambo: It is now.
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Rambo III (1988)
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Moussa: You do not look like men Griggs sent before. You not look like you are with military.
Rambo: I'm not.
Moussa: What you are? Mercenary?
Rambo: No.
Moussa: You're not with military, not mercenary - what you are? Lost tourist?
Rambo: I'm no tourist.
http://articles.latimes.com/1995-07-05/news/mn-20449_1_space-station
Los Angeles Times
U.S., Russian Spacecraft Go Separate Ways : Docking: Shuttle Atlantis ends historic 5-day linkup with space station. It leaves with three crewmen who have been in orbit since mid-March.
July 05, 1995 from Associated Press
HOUSTON — Astronauts and cosmonauts watched their ships part and fade into the blackness of space Tuesday in an orbital pirouette that ended five days of flying as a single craft.
"We're just shaking our heads at how quickly this has all gone by," said Charles Precourt, pilot of the U.S. space shuttle Atlantis.
"We agree with that. . . . We agree 100%," Atlantis' commander, Robert L. (Hoot) Gibson, replied as he backed the shuttle away from the station. "In one of the simulations, the words 'cosmic ballet' came to mind, and I guess that's where we are now."
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0095956/releaseinfo
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Rambo III (1988)
Release Info
USA 25 May 1988
http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=87135
The American Presidency Project
Harry S. Truman
XXXIII President of the United States: 1945 - 1953
Proclamation 2767—Prevention and Control of Juvenile Delinquency
January 27, 1948
By the President of the United States of America
A Proclamation
Whereas the youth of this Nation is its most precious asset and best hope for the future; and
Whereas the incidence of juvenile delinquency is a reflection of the failure of our society to afford to all of its young people a full measure of protection and opportunity for health and happiness, and to inculcate in them a sense of the true values of life and citizenship; and
Whereas in November 1946 many important agencies, governmental and private, national and local, and individuals the country over, banded together, at the call of the Attorney General of the United States, in a National Conference on Prevention and Control of Juvenile Delinquency, to study and make recommendations for immediate action in every State and community for the solution of juvenile delinquency problems; and
Whereas this national Conference has now made available for use by individuals and organizations throughout the Nation, certain Action Reports, which are the best available tools for the prevention and control of juvenile delinquency, and has urged upon the States and communities immediate action with respect to the recommendations in those Reports, and, in particular, the holding of State and community conferences, developed on the general pattern of the national Conference on prevention and Control of Juvenile Delinquency; and
Whereas the prevention and control of juvenile delinquency, to be effective, must be pursued primarily in the States and communities where daily contacts are maintained with the children themselves:
Now, Therefore, I, Harry S. Truman, President of the United States of America, do hereby call upon the people of the United States, in their homes and churches, in the schools and hospitals, in social welfare and health agencies, in enforcement agencies and courts, in institutions for the care of delinquent juveniles, and in their minds and hearts, to act, individually and together, for the prevention and control of juvenile delinquency, so that our children and youth may fulfill their promise and become effective citizens in our nation. I further urge them, as the most direct means to this end, to respond promptly to the call of the national Conference on Prevention and Control of Juvenile Delinquency by carefully preparing for, and holding, wherever possible during the month of April 1948, State and community conferences, developed on the general pattern of the national Conference, and at these conferences, or otherwise, to study State and local conditions in the light of the recommendations of the National Conference; to put into immediate effect such of the recommendations as are pertinent to State and local conditions; to develop firm foundations for continuing community action; and to take such other action as may be useful in solving this vital youth problem and in developing the genuine opportunities for useful living to which our young people are entitled. I urge this to the end that in no part of the Nation shall action be omitted which is practical and useful in reaching the objectives of the national Conference in the prevention and control of juvenile delinquency in this Nation.
In Witness Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States of America to be affixed.
Done at the City of Washington this 27th day of January in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and forty-eight, and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and seventy-second.
HARRY S. TRUMAN
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Colonel Trautman: Can you fly that helicopter?
Rambo: Let's find out!
http://www.centennialofflight.net/essay/Dictionary/akron_macon/DI4.htm
U.S. Centennial of Flight Commission
Akron and Macon
The Akron and Macon were two rigid airships built in the United States for the U.S. Navy. They were the only airships that could launch and retrieve planes in midair. Virtually identical, they were 785 feet (239 meters) long, 133 feet (40 meters) in diameter at their widest point, and carried 6,500,000 cubic feet (184,000 cubic meters) of helium gas. Powered by eight 560-horsepower (418-kilowatt) engines, they could travel at a speed of approximately 80 miles per hour (129 kilometers per hour). They were the most expensive aircraft built by the United States until after World War II—the Akron cost $4.5 million, and the Macon cost $3.5 million.
The Akron first flew on September 2, 1931. It was wrecked in a storm off the New Jersey coast on April 4, 1933, and only three of the 76 men on board survived. The Macon first flew on April 21, 1933.
http://www.simpsonsarchive.com/episodes/BABF01.txt
Treehouse of Horror X [ The Simpsons ]
Original Airdate on FOX: 31-Oct-1999
% And now that the audience at home is warmed up, let's present our
% first tale of the supernatural, which is:
%
% I Know What You Diddily-Iddly-Did
%
% Thick fog shrouds a lonely road through the countryside. The
% Simpsons' station wagon is the only car on the road. Inside the
% car, Marge is at the wheel.
Lisa: I still can't believe we escaped from those horrible vampires.
Homer: But it was worth it to get back our Super Sugar Crisp cereal. [holds up box] [sings to "Sugar Crisp" tune] Can't get enough of that Sugar Crisp ...
From 8/18/1973 ( The Killian Document ) To 1/10/2005 is 11468 days
11468 = 5734 + 5734
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 7/15/1981 ( the US FDA announces approval of aspartame ) is 5734 days
From 12/24/1912 ( Merck files for German patent 274,350 for MDMA ) To 5/12/1991 ( I was the winning race driver at the Formula One Monaco Grand Prix ) is 28628 days
28628 = 14314 + 14314
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 1/10/2005 is 14314 days
From 11/9/1951 ( Lou Ferrigno ) To 1/17/1991 ( the date of record of my United States Navy Medal of Honor as Kerry Wayne Burgess chief warrant officer United States Marine Corps circa 1991 also known as Matthew Kline for official duty and also known as Wayne Newman for official duty ) is 14314 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 1/10/2005 is 14314 days
From 11/9/1951 ( Lou Ferrigno ) To 1/17/1991 ( RACKETEER INFLUENCED AND CORRUPT ORGANIZATIONS US Title 18 - the Persian Gulf War begins as scheduled severe criminal activity against the United States of America ) is 14314 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 1/10/2005 is 14314 days
[ See also: http://hvom.blogspot.com/2016/09/aspartame.html ]
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0501/10/wbr.01.html
CNN
TRANSCRIPTS
CNN WOLF BLITZER REPORTS
Aired January 10, 2005 - 17:00 ET
In other news, it was a stunning report with huge implications for the presidential campaign, but perhaps even more shocking than the CBS story questioning President Bush's National Guard service, there had been many of those stories before, was the network's turnaround when it admitted it could no longer vouch for its facts. Now the other shoe has dropped and several top CBS news executives are out of a job. CNN's Chris Huntington joins us now live from New York with more -- Chris.
CHRIS HUNTINGTON, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Wolf, this was a report that was three months in the making. A lengthy independent review of just exactly what happened at CBS News with that September 8 broadcast. The lengthy review offers an unflattering assessment of the breakdown of journalistic standards at CBS News.
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)
(voice-over): In early September, veteran CBS News producer Mary Mapes thought she had the story of the presidential election. That George W. Bush had shirked his duties in the Texas Air National Guard and that four letters reportedly written by Bush's commanding officer at the time proved it.
DAN RATHER, CBS NEWS ANCHOR: Tonight we have new documents and new information on the president's military service.
HUNTINGTON: In fact, all that Mapes had were four ragged photo copies that neither she nor her colleagues at "60 Minutes Wednesday" nor several document specialists could authenticate at the time. Now a 224-page report prepared by former U.S. attorney general Richard Thornburgh and Louis Boccardi, the former CEO of the Associated Press finds, quote, "considerable and fundamental deficiencies relating to the reporting and production of the September 8 segment." That, quote, "myopic zeal to break the story ahead of other news organizations resulted in a rush to air that overwhelmed the proper application of CBS News standards."
ALEX JONES, SHORENSTEIN CENTER: I don't think there's any more destructive element in television news now than the competition to be first. This is a story about newspeople who fell in love with a story, and falling in love is a kind of madness. And that afflicts people in the news business just like it afflicts all of us sometimes.
HUNTINGTON: Thornburgh and Boccardi present a revealing look at the chaotic pressure cooker at "60 Minutes Wednesday" trying to push through a controversial story in just a few days including Mapes and an associate producer scrambling over Labor Day weekend to find document experts just days before the report would go to air. Mapes is described in the report as dismissing objections raised by those experts and then convincing CBS News executives that the documents had been validate. Dan Rather is described as out of the loop, covering Hurricane Frances in Florida. But Rather did tell CBS News president Andrew Heyward that, quote, "this story could be radioactive" and that Heyward should have it checked out thoroughly. Heyward then e-mailed Betsy West the executive overseeing "60 Minutes," "we're going to have to defend every syllable on this one." Betsy West as well as two other executives at "60 Minutes Wednesday" have lost their jobs all because a veteran producer thought she had a scoop.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: The vetting process didn't work, that people trusted the word of one person without checking the documents or the experts that produced them.
(END VIDEOTAPE)
HUNTINGTON: Now, Moonves also said that CBS will immediately adopt one of the chief recommendations of the Thornburgh/Boccardi report and that is a new executive position to oversee reporting standards. By the way, Wolf, the Thornburgh/Boccardi report itself could not authenticate the documents. So we still don't know if those documents were real or forged.
(END VIDEOTAPE)
BLITZER: Chris Huntington with a solid report from New York. Thanks very much. We'll have reaction to the controversial shake-up at CBS News and the allegations that the oustings are politically motivated. I'll speak with former CBS correspondent and author Bernard Goldberg. That's coming up next.
Increased violence in Iraq and now talk of drastic measures. Could U.S.-trained forces soon operate as secret death squads?
Fair and free. Palestinians elect a new leader and renew hope for peace in the Middle East. The former president of the United States, Jimmy Carter, is in the region. My interview with him, that's coming up as well.
(COMMERCIAL BREAK)
BLITZER: Welcome back. Our coverage of the CBS News story continues now. I'm joined from our Miami bureau by Bernard Goldberg, a former CBS correspondent and the author of the best selling book "Bias, A CBS Insider Exposes How The Media Distort the News." Bernie, thanks very much for joining us. A lot of our viewers are interested. First of all, was this a thorough report? Are you satisfied with the bottom line conclusions of this report?
BERNARD GOLDBERG, FMR. CBS CORRESPONDENT: Well, to state the obvious, they don't care whether I'm satisfied or not. But look, I think after three months they put a lot of work into it and deserve some credit, but it's disingenuous, I think, Wolf, to simply conclude that they made a mistake without going into some detail about how they made the mistake beyond this zeal to be first. I don't think this story would have ever seen the light of day if their source, instead of being a Bush -- someone who disliked President Bush, someone with a vendetta against President Bush, was, let's say, a conservative Republican who had a vendetta against John Kerry. If this report were about not George Bush being a slacker during the Vietnam War but about John Kerry being a slacker during the Vietnam War, they would have been much more careful. Yes, they made a mistake. Dan Rather had no idea that these documents were phony, but they made a mistake, in my view, anyway, because, a, they wanted the story to be true, and because it fit their own preconceived notions about George Bush.
BLITZER: Basically, though, what I can tell from reading the document is they had such high regard for this Mary Mapes, the senior producer who was involved in putting it together, she had been a star at "60 Minutes" for so many years.
GOLDBERG: Right.
BLITZER: They simply assumed she knew what she was doing.
GOLDBERG: Yes, I have some inside information on this because I'm still a reporter and I still talk to people on the inside. Mary Mapes is the real villain in all of this. I almost feel sorry for my old friend Dan Rather. Mary Mapes really misled a whole bunch of people, but, you know, the report concluded that there was no evidence of bias. And you know, in the reporting. And I agree, there was no evidence of bias. I'm not sure what evidence they thought they'd find. Did they think there was going to be a memo that said, let's stick to it George W. Bush? Of course there was no evidence. But I'm saying this...
BLITZER: Let me read, Bernie, I'll interrupt for a second, from the commission, the independent review panel's findings on this issue. "The panel does not find a bias to accuse those who investigated, produced, vetted or aired the segment of having a political bias. The panel does note, however, that on such a politically charged story coming in the midst of a presidential campaign in which military service records had become an issue, there was a need for meticulous care to avoid any suggestion of an agenda at work."
GOLDBERG: And I'm going a step further. I'm saying there was an agenda at work. I'm not saying that Dan Rather went into this saying, I'm going to get George Bush. It's never -- that is not the nature of bias in the news. It never, ever happens that way. But I am saying that he wanted this story to be true, and Mary Mapes sure wanted that story to be true. And did he depend too much on her? Yes, that's obvious. But if he didn't want this story to be true, if it didn't fit the culture of CBS' preconceived notions about liberals and conservatives and Democrats and Republicans, it would have never seen the light of day and we would never be talking about it.
BLITZER: Their defenders say they wanted it to be true, they fell in love with the story, not because of a bias or a political agenda, but because they thought it was a great story, and as journalists, you and I know, we love great stories.
GOLDBERG: Yes, and I think when you're working with investigative producers -- and it's the scariest thing in the world -- I've worked with them -- when they fall in love with the story, head for the hills. Because you may have big, big problems, as we see here. But what I'm saying is, they didn't simply fall in love with a great story. They would have never -- I know these people, I know these people. And even more than knowing these people, I know the culture at CBS News. They would have never fallen in love with a story that made the other side look as bad as they made George Bush. They just wouldn't have.
BLITZER: All right, let's talk about Dan Rather for a moment. Leslie Moonves and his statement released in conjunction with the report says this: "Dan Rather has already apologized for the segment and taken personal responsibility for his part in the broadcast. He voluntarily moved to set a date to step down from 'The CBS Evening News' anchor chair in March of 2005, which will give him more time to concentrate on his reporting for CBS News. After examining the report and thinking about its implications, we believe any further action would not be appropriate."
Is that appropriate for Leslie Moonves to have reached that conclusion?
GOLDBERG: Yeah, he's the boss. Whatever he decides, in a sense, is appropriate. Dan Rather's legacy is going to be two-fold, I think. One is that he's a reporter with tremendous courage, physical courage, especially. He's covered every major story since the assassination of John F. Kennedy, and he was the first reporter on that story. And he deserves tremendous credit for all of that. But the other part of the legacy that I'm sure the report doesn't go into, because it's not the purview of the report, is that Dan Rather is unwilling and maybe even incapable of taking serious criticism seriously. His first reaction is to circle the wagons, and that isn't healthy for anybody, certainly not for a journalist. The first thing he did in this story is to say this was the work -- to people who were criticizing him -- this is the work of partisan political forces. Well, you know what? You know who the partisan political forces were? His source, his producer and maybe Dan Rather himself.
BLITZER: Dan Rather is also listed as managing editor of "The CBS Evening News," not just a reader, a news reader, if you will.
GOLDBERG: Right.
BLITZER: He is quoted in the report as having said to CBS News President Andrew Heyward, this is radioactive, make sure this is all right. I'm busy, I've got a million things going on, including the hurricanes in Florida. Andrew Heyward, he's not being fired, he's allowed to continue. Do you accept that?
GOLDBERG: Again, it doesn't matter if I accept it. But I read that quote of Dan Rather's when he made it in "The New York Times," and I thought Dan Rather was brilliant by doing that, because now he's linked himself to Andrew Heyward.
I will say this, I like Andrew Heyward a lot. There was a time when he was, if anybody cares, my best friend. But if you think Ronald Reagan is the teflon president, you have never met Andrew Heyward. There is no -- I would have bet the ranch that he wasn't going to go down on this thing.
Now, whether or not three months from now, six months from now Andrew Heyward announces that he wants to pursue other challenges and all that, that may be, but you know, there were a number of people in the meetings on this story, and Andrew Heyward was one of them. So Andrew Heyward -- I don't think that the captain of the ship, because he's the president of CBS News, ipso facto, he ought to be punished for this. But he was involved at every level of this story. Maybe not every single, you know, little thing, but he was involved in all the meetings that Dan Rather went to, that Heyward went to, that Betsy West went to and that Mary Mapes went to and that Josh Howard and Mary Murphy, the two producers, went to.
And you know, I just think it is going to be awfully difficult for Dan Rather and Andrew Heyward to go into work when all these other people have lost their jobs. I mean, I know some of these people. And they're very good and they're very decent. They've lost their jobs, but Rather, the reporter on the story, hasn't lost his job. He's still making a seven-figure salary. And Andrew Heyward hasn't lost his. I'm not saying he should have. But if I'm Andrew Heyward I'm feeling mighty funny about this, you know, this survivor -- I'd have survivor guilt, let's put it that way.
BLITZER: Bernard Goldberg, we'll leave it right there. Continue this conversation on another occasion. Thanks very much for joining us.
GOLDBERG: Thanks, Wolf.
http://articles.latimes.com/2005/jan/11/nation/na-cbs11
Los Angeles Times
Report Condemns CBS News; 4 Lose Jobs
January 11, 2005 Josh Getlin and Scott Collins Times Staff Writers
NEW YORK — CBS News dismissed four staffers and appointed a new standards executive Monday after an independent panel issued an exhaustive and highly critical report on how questionable documents -- and a frenzied rush to trump competitors -- led the network to air a high-stakes story about President Bush's military service that turned into a journalistic and political debacle.
Now the venerable news division, home of pioneering broadcaster Edward R. Murrow and for years the crown jewel of the "Tiffany Network," must repair the damage as it seeks to restore its credibility under difficult circumstances: Its prime-time newscast ranks third among the big three networks. It remains beset by conservative critics who say the organization is driven by liberal bias.
And although he was not among those forced out, anchor Dan Rather, who presented the controversial "60 Minutes Wednesday" piece, retires in March, leaving the network in the hunt for a successor to be its new public face.
Aired on Sept. 8 in the midst of a tight presidential race, the segment raised serious allegations about Bush's service in the Texas Air National Guard.
The 224-page report, scathing in its summation, said CBS' handling of the story was flawed at almost every turn -- in the reporting that began in haste in late August, the internal process for reviewing the authenticity of documents, and even afterward, when questions were raised by Web loggers and journalists.
CBS News' problems with the story, the panel said, were the result of "a myopic zeal" to be first with the story, causing the network to fall short of its own core principles of accuracy and fairness. Although the report did not find evidence of political bias, it sharply criticized a producer for contacting the John F. Kerry campaign before the segment aired.
The panel, led by former Atty. Gen. Richard L. Thornburgh and former Associated Press executive Louis D. Boccardi, lambasted the network for "considerable and fundamental deficiencies" in preparing and later defending the story.
The story, titled "For the Record," alleged that Bush had received favorable treatment during his service during the Vietnam War era.
The story offered as evidence four documents allegedly written by Bush's late former commanding officer, Lt. Col. Jerry B. Killian, in 1972 and 1973. One of the documents stated that a retired Air National Guard general had put pressure on officers to "sugarcoat" Bush's evaluation; another indicated Killian recommended that Bush's flight status be suspended for failing to meet National Guard standards and not taking a required physical. All of the documents were said to be photocopies from Killian's personal files and were not part of the military's official records.
In the end, the panel was not able to determine whether the documents were authentic.
Even after serious questions had been raised about the story, the panel found, CBS News offered a "strident defense" of the story without fully investigating potential problems.
The news division also allowed many employees who worked on the original story to work on subsequent pieces defending it, the panel found. And the network issued inaccurate news releases that, among other things, declared that the source of the documents was "unimpeachable," the panel said, and that experts had deemed them authentic.
The panel said some CBS staffers called the events leading up to the story's airing a "perfect storm" in which multiple factors led to an overall failure of institutional safeguards. Among them: Executive Producer Josh Howard had just taken over as chief of "60 Minutes Wednesday," other producers deferred to Rather and his producer Mary Mapes, and a "zealous belief in the truth of the segment" that may have "led many to disregard some fundamental journalistic principles."
The panel also said that Mapes might have created the appearance of political bias by agreeing to put Burkett in touch with Joe Lockhart, a senior aide to Sen. Kerry, the Democratic presidential candidate. But the report said the mistakes made in preparing the "60 Minutes" report were due more to competitive haste than any political agenda.
"There's no proof of any political bias" involved in preparing the "60 Minutes" story, Thornburgh said in a conference call with reporters.
The network terminated Mapes, the once-acclaimed producer who prepared the report.
Howard and a top deputy, Mary Murphy, will also lose their jobs, as will Betsy West, CBS News' senior vice president of prime time. West was the highest-ranking news executive to be disciplined in the matter. CBS also appointed a longtime news executive, Linda Mason, as a standards czar to help vet investigative stories in the future.
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Report Condemns CBS News; 4 Lose Jobs
January 11, 2005 Josh Getlin and Scott Collins Times Staff Writers
Though Rather was not fired for his role in the broadcast, CBS chief Leslie Moonves faulted him for "overzealously" defending the report after it was attacked by bloggers and other commentators. Rather had announced that he would retire in March after 24 years behind the anchor's desk.
"We feel that Dan has announced already that he's leaving the [anchor] chair shortly," Moonves said in an interview. "And he will remain with '60 Minutes.' We feel that Dan did his job."
Also spared the ax was Rather's boss, CBS News President Andrew Heyward, who, the independent panel and Moonves said, had conscientiously attempted to verify the report before broadcast.
Many observers were struck by the harshness of the panel's report. Although CBS commissioned the report, the panel said its conclusions were reached independently and the network had no control over the content of the report.
"It's the sharpest criticism any news organization has ever been subjected to in public," said Marvin Kalb, a former CBS correspondent and senior fellow at Harvard University's Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy.
Still, the panel's report seems unlikely to be the last word on the scandal. Even Rather's role in the controversy may not be entirely resolved. The panel's report said that despite his delivery last fall of a widely reported apology for the story, the anchor did not "fully agree" with CBS' decision to stop defending the Bush piece and "still believes that the content of the documents is accurate."
Through a representative, Rather declined to comment. "We can't possibly issue a statement today, because we have to read" the report, said Kim Akhtar, the anchor's spokeswoman.
Bob Schieffer, who sometimes substitutes for Rather on the "Evening News," filled in for the anchor on Monday's broadcast, which led with a story about the panel's report.
It also seems unlikely that the network will settle the future of the "Evening News" any time soon.
"There's no news on that," Moonves said of the search for a new anchor. "We're not even close to a decision."
Attempts to reach Howard, Murphy and West were unsuccessful. But in an e-mail sent to reporters covering the story, Mapes said she was "terribly disappointed in the conclusions of the report and its effects on the four of us who will no longer work at CBS News."
She also criticized Moonves for "vitriolic scape-goating" in his prepared response to the panel's report.
Of the panel's view that the report had been rushed to air, Mapes said: "Airing this story when it did was ... a decision made by my superiors, including Andrew Heyward. If there was a journalistic crime committed here, it was not by me."
Meanwhile, the panel's report was criticized Monday by radio host Rush Limbaugh and other conservative commentators, who thought that it did not adequately address the liberal bias that they believed led CBS to rush the Bush story to air.
CBS News has been a target of such complaints for years, including a bestselling 2001 book "Bias," by former CBS staffer Bernard Goldberg.
The panel said that CBS relied heavily on retired Texas Army National Guard Lt. Col. Bill Burkett, who provided Mapes with the documents used in the report and who had been critical of the Bush administration in the past.
Although many media experts praised the panelists for doing a thorough and judicious job, enough questions remained that CBS News would still face a difficult challenge moving past the scandal.
"They have this giant millstone around their neck," said Richard Wald, a media professor at Columbia University and advisor to ABC News. The scandal "will be raised by every conservative commentator and every press critic there is."
The incident is also another black eye for American journalism, which has been reeling from an array of scandals in recent years, including New York Times reporter Jayson Blair's plagiarisms and fabrications, and the Tailwind report of 1998, in which CNN was forced to retract a story alleging that the U.S. military had used nerve gas on defectors during Vietnam.
Almost as soon as the "60 Minutes Wednesday" story aired on CBS, bloggers raised sharp questions about the veracity of the documents. In particular, critics argued that the proportional spacing, superscript "th" and Times New Roman font used in the documents could not have been produced by typewriters in the early 1970s.
CBS News initially insisted that the documents were genuine and stood by the report. The documents had been "thoroughly examined and their authenticity vouched for by independent experts," the news division said in a Sept. 9 news release.
But the panel said that statement, as well as others issued by CBS News over the following two weeks, was inaccurate. "No expert had vouched for the authenticity of the documents," the panel report said.
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Los Angeles Times
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Report Condemns CBS News; 4 Lose Jobs
January 11, 2005 Josh Getlin and Scott Collins Times Staff Writers
The following day, Sept. 10, Heyward asked West, CBS News' senior vice president of prime time, to investigate some of the material used in preparing the "60 Minutes" report, including opinions from the forensic document examiners retained by the producers to authenticate the documents. But the panel said no such investigation was ever done.
"Had this directive been followed promptly, the panel does not believe that '60 Minutes Wednesday' would have publicly defended the segment for another 10 days," the report says.
The network's defense of the story began to crumble on Sept. 16, when the chief source, Burkett, began to change his story. He backed away from his initial claim that he got the documents from George Conn, a former Texas Army National Guard officer.
Getlin reported from New York, Collins from Los Angeles. Times staff writers Paul Lieberman and James Rainey contributed to this report.
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Figures behind the CBS scandal
Key players in the drama surrounding the September broadcast on President Bush's National Guard duty
LEAVING:
Mary Mapes, producer, "60 Minutes Wednesday"
Mapes was primarily responsible for the research and development of the segment on President Bush and his military service. Many at CBS News viewed Mapes as a "superstar" reporter and producer; some of her superiors said they were in awe of her work. Mapes, a CBS staffer for 16 years, earned a reputation as a fearless journalist. She covered the 1992 Los Angeles riots and worked as a producer in Kabul just after the U.S. forces entered Afghanistan in 2001. Based in Dallas, she landed the first TV interviews with Strom Thurmond's biracial daughter and with Hillary Rodham Clinton after President Clinton's impeachment. Working with Dan Rather, Mapes was the first to obtain photographs showing the Abu Ghraib prison abuses. Mapes and Rather had worked together for more than five years. Rather gave Mapes significant responsibility to produce stories, "in part due to the great confidence and respect he had for her work," the panel said.
Betsy West, CBS News senior vice president
West was asked by CBS News President Andrew Heyward to make sure the vetting of documents and sources in the "60 Minutes Wednesday" report was complete, and that the report was fair and unbiased. As one of the highest-ranking women at CBS News and an Emmy Award-winning news executive, West oversaw all prime-time news programming and was responsible for giving stories a final "fairness and accuracy" screening. Before joining CBS, West held a series of important assignments for ABC News. She was executive producer of the now-defunct "Turning Point" (1994-97) and created and oversaw the medical and legal units for ABC News. The panel faulted her for not heeding a Sept. 10 request by Heyward to investigate the opinions of documents experts who reviewed the National Guard memos before the Sept. 8 broadcast. No investigation was done, and the network would publicly defend its story another 10 days.
Josh Howard, executive producer, "60 Minutes Wednesday"
Howard joined CBS in 1981 and had begun a new job as executive producer of "60 Minutes Wednesday" three months before the Bush National Guard story aired in September. The panel determined that Howard helped rush the report onto the air without thoroughly questioning Mapes about the story's sources and documentation. According to the report, he did little to assert his role as the producer ultimately responsible for the broadcast and all its content. He has served for nearly all of the last 14 years at "60 Minutes," becoming executive editor of the Sunday night broadcast in 2003. He took his last post in June. He was a senior producer for the CBS News magazine "Eye to Eye With Connie Chung" and was a producer for the "CBS Evening News with Dan Rather" from 1986-89. Howard has won 13 Emmy Awards for reports broadcast on the "CBS Evening News with Dan Rather" and "60 Minutes."
Mary Murphy, senior broadcast producer, "60 Minutes Wednesday" and Howard's deputy
Murphy's job was to ride herd over the production of the segment at every stage, making sure it conformed to CBS News' standards. Like other CBS staffers who were asked to vet the 30-year-old memos, Murphy deferred to Mapes and her production team and did not perform her supervisory function, according to the report.
She worked as senior producer of "48 Hours" and executive producer of "Before Your Eyes," a 1998 documentary on a deportation battle over three former members of the Irish Republican Army.
She was senior broadcast producer of "CBS Sunday Morning" and senior editor of CBS News' "Campaign 2004" unit, which was the editorial hub for election-year coverage on all broadcasts. She served in the same capacity for CBS News' coverage of the war in Iraq.
STAYING:
Dan Rather, anchor and managing editor, "CBS Evening News"; correspondent, "60 Minutes Wednesday"
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Los Angeles Times
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Report Condemns CBS News; 4 Lose Jobs
January 11, 2005 Josh Getlin and Scott Collins Times Staff Writers
Rather was the on-camera face of the National Guard story. Busy with the Republican National Convention in New York and then a hurricane in Florida, he was not able to put extensive time into its development. Rather did not appear to participate in any of the vetting sessions, the independent panel said, "or to have even seen the segment before it was aired." After questions were raised about the veracity of the Guard memos, Rather defended the story but then publicly apologized and acknowledged the memos could not be authenticated.
Rather began his career in journalism 50 years ago as a wire service and radio reporter in Texas.
He joined CBS News in 1962, holding prestigious positions ranging from co-editor of "60 Minutes" to anchor of "CBS Evening News." He served as bureau chief in London and Saigon and covered the White House during the Johnson and Nixon administrations.
Andrew Heyward, CBS News president
Heyward had explicitly urged caution before the report aired. Afterward, he issued instructions to Betsy West to investigate the sourcing of the story and authentication of the documents.
Before his promotion to president in 1996, he was executive producer of the CBS News magazine "Eye to Eye" from 1993 to 1994 and executive producer, "CBS Evening News," and vice president, "CBS News" from 1994 to 1996.
Since Heyward was named president, CBS News launched "60 Minutes Wednesday" and the Saturday "Early Show" and developed ventures in new media. Heyward began his career with CBS in 1976 as a news writer for WCBS-TV, the CBS-owned television station in New York. He joined "CBS Evening News" as a field producer in 1984 and later became senior broadcast producer of the "CBS Evening News With Dan Rather" from 1986 to 1987. In 1988, he helped launch "48 Hours," the primetime CBS news hour.
Los Angeles Times
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Events in the scandal
An independent panel criticized CBS News for a controversial "60 Minutes Wednesday" story last fall about President Bush's military service. Here are the events surrounding the controversy:
Aug. 23, 2004: A week before the Republican National Convention, Mary Mapes, a CBS correspondent and producer, learns that Lt. Col. Bill Burkett is rumored to have important documents regarding Bush's military service.
Sept. 2: Mapes receives two memos from Burkett. She and other CBS staffers begin "a frenetic effort to 'crash,'" or quickly assemble, the story for broadcast, according to the independent panel.
Sept. 3: An associate producer is assigned to have the documents authenticated. Yvonne Miller has no background in this process but finds four handwriting and document experts willing to look at them.
Labor Day weekend: Mapes speaks by phone with Joe Lockhart, a senior advisor to Sen. John F. Kerry's presidential campaign. They would later give conflicting versions of the discussion.
Sept. 8, 2004: Rather presents the report on Bush's service, based largely on four typed memos that it said were written by Bush's late squadron commander, Lt. Col. Jerry Killian.
Sept. 9: Four hours after broadcast, a blogger named "Buckhead" is the first to challenge the authenticity of the documents. Other challenges follow.
Sept. 10: Rather says CBS stands by its story. CBS News defends the original report for several more days.
Sept. 20: After handwriting experts and the clerk typist for Bush's supervisor question the authenticity of the memos, Rather apologizes and says CBS can no longer vouch for them.
Sept. 22: CBS names an independent panel to investigate the National Guard story.
Nov. 23: Rather announces he will step down as anchor and managing editor of the "CBS Evening News" on March 9, 2005.
Jan. 10, 2005: The independent panel releases its findings in a 224-page report.
JOURNAL ARCHIVE: 9/18/2006 2:00 PM
I don’t think I was a soldier stationed at Fort Lewis, but I have been thinking I was a member of Delta Force at Fort Bragg, need to think more about that though.
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JOURNAL ARCHIVE: 9/18/2006 2:29 PM
Some details are good to reveal to encourage recruitment, but other details are dangerous to reveal. Only the operational commanders of this group have the authority to decide
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http://www.chakoteya.net/movies/movie8.html
Star Trek: First Contact (1996)
LILY: Okay. I don't know jack about the twenty-fourth century but everybody out there thinks that staying here and fighting the Borg is suicide. They're just afraid to come in here and say it.
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/cbs-ousts-4-for-bush-guard-story-10-01-2005/
CBS NEWS
By JARRETT MURPHY CBS January 10, 2005, 6:48 PM
CBS Ousts 4 For Bush Guard Story
The action was prompted by the report of an independent panel that concluded that CBS News failed to follow basic journalistic principles in the preparation and reporting of the piece. The panel also said CBS News had compounded that failure with a "rigid and blind" defense of the 60 Minutes Wednesday report.
Asked to resign were Senior Vice President Betsy West, who supervised CBS News primetime programs; 60 Minutes Wednesday Executive Producer Josh Howard; and Howard's deputy, Senior Broadcast Producer Mary Murphy. The producer of the piece, Mary Mapes, was terminated.
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http://www.stargate-sg1-solutions.com/wiki/6.11_%22Prometheus%22_Transcript
STARGATE WIKI
6.11 "Prometheus"
DAVIS
She's stubborn, Sir.
HAMMOND
Do we know where the leak came from?
DAVIS
We're working on it, but so far we've got nothing. It could be anything from a technician working on the project
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_ship
Capital ship
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The capital ships of a navy are its most important warships; and are traditionally much larger than other naval vessels. A capital ship is generally a leading or a primary ship in a naval fleet.
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http://www.chakoteya.net/movies/movie4.html
Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986)
GILLIAN: Sorry, that's classified. Look, I don't really have a clue who you are. Really! You wouldn't want to show me around your space ship, would you?
KIRK: That wouldn't be my first choice, no.
GILLIAN: Well, there we are.
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