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The Quiet Earth (1985)
Quotes
Joanne: If we find anyone alive, what do you think they will be like?
Zac Hobson: We might find all manner of horrors. Politicians... Transvestites...
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0519760/quotes
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Battlestar Galactica (TV Series)
War of the Gods: Part 2 (1979)
Quotes
Commander Adama: Iblis! Who is attacking us? What are they, what are you?
Count Iblis: I have told you all you are capable of comprehending.
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Hard Sun
Jim Sturgess and Agyness Deyn play detectives Charlie Hicks and Elaine Renko, partners and enemies, who seek to enforce the law and protect their loved ones in a world that every day slips closer to certain destruction. Charlie Hicks (Sturgess) is a family man and a great, committed officer. He’s also profoundly corrupt. Elaine Renko (Deyn) is a difficult and damaged, but utterly incorruptible officer. Thus, the two cops stand on different ends of the social and moral spectrum and also seriously distrust one other – and for good reason. But they must somehow learn to work together if they’re going to survive until the end of the world.
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Hard Sun
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Hard Sun is a pre-apocalyptic British-American television crime drama series, created and written by Neil Cross, starring Agyness Deyn and Jim Sturgess as the principal characters, DI Elaine Renko and DCI Charlie Hicks. The series is a BBC co-production with the American streaming service Hulu.
The first series contains six episodes. It premiered on BBC One on 6 January 2018, with all six episodes subsequently available on the same day via BBC iPlayer. The series premiered on Hulu in the United States on 7 March 2018.
Premise
Hard Sun is a pre-apocalyptic crime drama set in contemporary London. The protagonists are two mismatched police officers, Charlie Hicks and Elaine Renko who stumble upon proof that a mysterious cosmic event will destroy the earth in five years, a fact the government is trying to keep secret to avoid complete anarchy. The duo is pursued by MI5 operatives who are trying to silence them for good.
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From 10/18/2004 ( premiere United Kingdom TV series "Battlestar Galactica"::series premiere episode "33" & the United States Navy working uniform change ) To 1/6/2018 is 4828 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 1/21/1979 ( premiere US TV series episode "Battlestar Galactica"::"War of the Gods - Part 2" ) is 4828 days
From 7/19/1989 ( the United Airlines Flight 232 crash in Sioux City Iowa and the end of Kerry Burgess the natural human being cloned from another human being ) To 1/6/2018 is 10398 days
10398 = 5199 + 5199
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 1/27/1980 ( premiere US TV series episode "Galactica 1980"::series premiere episode "Galactica Finds Earth - Part 1" ) is 5199 days
From 10/16/1942 ( the theatrical debut of "Mighty Mouse" ) To 12/20/1994 ( in Bosnia as Kerry Wayne Burgess the United States Marine Corps captain this day is my United States Navy Cross medal date of record ) is 19058 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 1/6/2018 is 19058 days
From 10/18/1993 ( the launch of the US space shuttle Columbia orbiter vehicle mission STS-58 includes me Kerry Wayne Burgess the United States Marine Corps officer and United States STS-58 pilot astronaut and my 2nd official United States of America National Aeronautics Space Administration orbital flight of 4 overall ) To 1/6/2018 is 8846 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 1/21/1990 ( premiere US TV series episode "The Simpsons"::"Homer's Odyssey" ) is 8846 days
From 10/18/1985 ( premiere US film "The Quiet Earth" ) To 1/6/2018 is 11768 days
11768 = 5884 + 5884
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 12/12/1981 ( premiere US TV series episode "Disneyland"::"Walt Disney: One Man's Dream" ) is 5884 days
From 10/23/1960 ( premiere US TV series episode "General Electric Theater"::"The Camel's Foot" ) To 1/6/2018 is 20894 days
20894 = 10447 + 10447
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 6/10/1994 ( the scheduled terrorist attack by Bill Gates-Microsoft-Nazi-University of Washington to murder the material witness Mary Gates the biological mother of Microsoft Corbis Bill Gates the transvestite and the 100% female gender as born to brother-sister sibling parents ) is 10447 days
From 10/28/1994 ( premiere US film "Stargate" ) To 1/6/2018 is 8471 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 1/11/1989 ( Ronald Reagan - Farewell Address to the Nation ) is 8471 days
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Hard Sun (TV Series)
The Sun, the Moon, the Truth (2018)
Release Info
UK 6 January 2018
USA 7 March 2018 (internet)
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Hard Sun (2018– )
The Sun, the Moon, the Truth
TV-MA 54min Crime, Drama, Sci-Fi Episode aired 7 March 2018
Season 1 Episode 1
Cast
Jim Sturgess ... DCI Charlie Hicks
Storyline
Eight months after her unhinged son Daniel tried to kill her DI Elaine Renko joins DI Charlie Hicks, replacing his late partner Alex Butler, as they investigate the suspicious death of computer hacker Lloyd Hammond,. She is aware of the married Charlie's affair with Alex's widow Mari. Together they link Lloyd to fellow hacker Sunny Ramachandran, who tells them that Lloyd discovered something incredible, before he too is killed. The detectives are pursued by an assassin they believe is hired by MI5 before a perusal of Sunny's phone shocks and divides them.
Country: UK
Release Date: 7 March 2018 (USA)
Battlestar Galactica - television miniseries premiere episode - Monday 08 December 2003 USA
(from internet transcript)
(Galactica. Caption: Galactica Starboard Landing Bay, Decommissioning Ceremony)
Doral: I'd like to thank you all again for being here today, and Elosha, thank you very much for those wonderful words. Next is a ceremonial fly-by by the last Galactica battle squadron led by Captain Lee Adama. (Music play, ships fly over, people applaud.) And now it is my great pleasure to introduce the last commander of the Battlestar Galactica, Commander Adama. (applause)
Adama: Thank you very much. The Cylon War is long over, yet we must not forget the reasons why so many sacrificed so much in the cause of freedom. The cost of wearing the uniform can be high, but... (pauses) Sometimes it's too high. You know, when we fought the Cylons, we did it to save ourselves from extinction. But we never answered the question: why? Why are we as a people worth saving? We still commit murder, because of greed, spite, jealousy, and we still visit all of our sins upon our children. (we hear the voiceover in Apollo's ship) We refuse to accept the responsibility for anything that we've done. Like we did with the Cylons. We decided to play god, create life. (We see Starbuck listening in her cell.) When that life turned against us, we comforted ourselves in the knowledge that it really wasn't our fault, not really. You cannot play god, then wash your hands of the things that you've created. Sooner or later, the day comes when you can't hide from the things that you've done anymore.
from my journal as Kerry Burgess
Feb 25, 2018
Time here now: 8:55 PM Pacific Time USA
Within the past half-hour I suddenly began thinking again about one of several sleeping dreams I had last night and that I am trying to write about during the 9 PM hour.
Two I can still remember.
The one I just started thinking about again was a vivid dream with compelling details.
Some of the details have faded but I know I was on my way to work.
That might have been the year 1992, I knew somehow in the sleeping dream.
There was something about a bank. I was in a bank while I was on my way to work in the morning. Or I was going to work in a bank. Or it was both.
But what was most compelling is a building I was in.
Seemed just like some random building in the city.
I walked in there and walked around to a room. I was looking through some papers. Technical papers.
But the striking part was the ceiling.
I saw myself from the perspective of my eyes as I lifted up a ceiling tile in the ceiling as I stood on a table.
I climbed into the ceiling. I had done this several times before.
Just some random business office where no one knew me and that I had no business being in.
The ceiling tiles wouldn't have supported my body weight but there was a platform above the ceiling tile and I was lying there on that platform.
I was there simply to take a short nap before leaving and continuing my walk to work.
Several times I had done that.
Climbed into the ceiling of some business office I had chosen at random and I would go there in the morning and climb into the ceiling and take short naps.
What strikes me most today after waking was just how out of place I was in that place. Not because of my appearance or any other obvious reason. Simply because I had no reason to be there.
But I knew what I was doing.
At some point, just before waking today or just after waking today, the idea occurred to me suddenly that what I had not anticipated other people being in the room when I climbed down after my nap.
That was a dilemma because I would have been late for work, where ever that was.
Such vivid details in such a bizarre sleeping dream.
Seems so familiar. But I know I have never done anything like that. Feels like a thousand year old memory of my personal experience.
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KREM 2 News CBS Spokane
Danamarie McNicholl
October 19, 2017 at 5:59 pm (Pacific Time USA)
This is NOT A DRILL mice are living in my house! It turns out Pointe - Pest Control - are getting a lot of calls about mice making their way into Spokane homes. If you have acquired a couple of new roommates, here are a some tricks to get rid of the creepy crawlers.
http://hvom.blogspot.com/2018/06/but-whatever-happens-i-think-its-safe.html
Posted by Kerry Burgess at 10:47 PM
Homeless Veteran Of Microsoft
I am Kerry Burgess. This is what I think.
MONDAY, JUNE 04, 2018
"But whatever happens, I think it's safe to say that your career in the navy is over."
1991 film "Flight of the Intruder" DVD video:
Title Card: The A-6 was the U.S. Navy's medium attack bomber during the Vietnam Conflict. It flew at tree-top level in any weather at night and alone. The aircraft had no defensive weapons. It was called - The Intruder.
Title dialog: Three Communist PT boats attacked an American destroyer off the coast of Vietnam yesterday, and today President Johnson's response was hard and tough. He has ordered the U.S. Navy to continue patrolling there, and if they are attacked, to destroy their attackers. [ Title dialog continues: ] President Johnson: I understand the feelings of those who regret that we must undertake air attacks. I share those feelings. [ Title dialog continues: ] Some nights, we're the only airplane going up - going up into the North and when you're thinking you're the only Americans over North Vietnam, it kind of makes you wonder just a little bit, you know. "What am I doing here?"
From 11/1/1941 ( Franklin Roosevelt - Executive Order 8930—Establishing a National Indian Institute in the Department of the Interior ) To 10/18/1993 ( the launch of the US space shuttle Columbia orbiter vehicle mission STS-58 includes me Kerry Wayne Burgess the United States Marine Corps officer and United States STS-58 pilot astronaut and my 2nd official United States of America National Aeronautics Space Administration orbital flight of 4 overall ) is 18979 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 10/19/2017 is 18979 days
From 5/19/1967 ( the Soviet Union ratified the treaty with the United States and the United Kingdom banning nuclear weapons from outer space ) To 10/19/2017 is 18416 days
18416 = 9208 + 9208
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA as Kerry Burgess ) To 1/18/1991 ( premiere US film "Flight of the Intruder" ) is 9208 days
From 5/21/1967 ( the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff said that the United States had no intention of invading North Vietnam ) To 10/19/2017 is 18414 days
18414 = 9207 + 9207
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 1/17/1991 ( 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 officially the United States Apache attack helicopter pilot ) is 9207 days
From 9/8/2004 ( premiere US TV series episode "60 Minutes II"::"For the Record" ) To 10/19/2017 is 4789 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 12/13/1978 ( Jimmy Carter - Protection of Journalistic Work Products Statement Announcing Intention To Propose Legislation ) is 4789 days
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Los Angeles Times
7 Astronauts Fly High in Orbit, Draw Blood in Name of Science
October 19, 1993 From Associated Press
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. — Columbia and its seven astronauts blasted off on a belated mission Monday, carrying 48 rats, that will be poked, prodded and in some cases decapitated by guillotine and dissected in orbit.
All in the name of science.
Five of the rats are part of UC Irvine research on the effects of weightlessness. Scientists Kenneth Baldwin and Vincent Caiozzo have designated a series of muscle mass tests for the five, hoping to learn more about why and how loss of gravity causes muscles to change in humans and animals.
The astronauts aboard Columbia quickly got started on their 14 days of space checkups, drawing blood from one another, measuring their blood pressure and noting any symptoms of motion sickness.
The mission--the longest ever planned for a space shuttle--is intended to help scientists develop measures for counteracting the debilitating effects of space travel, including changes in muscle mass. Astronauts will test the UCI rats in space, while Baldwin and Caiozzo are simultaneously testing comparison rats on the ground at UC Irvine labs.
In an interview Monday in Irvine, Baldwin said the UCI researchers believe the tests will result in knowledge useful for humans on land as well as in space.
"We think the information we learn from the tests will apply to people who go through stages of aging, as well as to people who have injuries and have a dramatic reduction in physical activities," Baldwin said.
The two Irvine scientists are scheduled to greet Columbia when it lands at Edwards Air Force Base in Los Angeles County on Nov. 1. They will then examine firsthand their lab rats and make additional tests.
Columbia blasted from its Florida launch pad Monday morning after two previous delays.
"Guys, the third time's a charm," orbiter test director Brian Monborne assured the crew before liftoff.
Delayed 10 seconds by a stray Navy plane, the 2,000-ton spaceship rose from its seaside pad at 7:53 a.m. PDT and tore through three decks of clouds on its way to a 176-mile-high orbit.
Two crew members had catheters threading through their veins for launch--Martin Fettman, the first U.S. veterinarian in space, and Shannon Lucid, a biochemist who became the first woman to fly in space four times. The catheters were hooked to white backpacks with floating cables, making the two look like a pair of bees.
In addition to the UCI rats being used for tests of muscle mass, other rats on the Columbia will be tested for such things as bone loss in space.
Throughout the mission, Fettman and the others will draw blood from the 2- to 3-month-old male rodents, inject isotopes and hormones, and collect the animal droppings to measure calcium content, an indicator of bone loss.
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The Mouse of Tomorrow (1942)
Release Info
USA 16 October 1942
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The Mouse of Tomorrow (1942)
Plot
The origin story of Super Mouse (later changed to "Mighty Mouse").
http://www.tv.com/shows/disneyland/walt-disney-one-mans-dream-195318/
tv.com
Disneyland Season 28 Episode 12
Walt Disney...One Man's Dream
Aired Daily 7:00 PM Dec 12, 1981 on ABC
Episode Summary
This two-hour installment pays tribute to the creativity of Walt Disney with dramatized segments of his life and his creations. It also gives viewers a preview look at EPCOT Center, under construction in Florida at Disney World.
AIRED: 12/12/81
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089869/releaseinfo
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The Quiet Earth (1985)
Release Info
USA 18 October 1985
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The Quiet Earth (1985)
Full Cast & Crew
Bruno Lawrence ... Zac Hobson
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The Quiet Earth (1985)
Quotes
Zac Hobson: Something's changed. Can't quite measure it, but I can feel it. It's as though... we've been shifted sideways. The north pole is still up north, but the water keeps going down the black hole the wrong way. I get the feeling... we're either dead... or in a different universe.
http://www.tv.com/shows/the-simpsons/homers-odyssey-1288/trivia/
tv.com
The Simpsons Season 1 Episode 3
Homer's Odyssey
Aired Jan 21, 1990 on FOX
Quotes
(A depressed Homer prepares to search for a new job)
Marge: There, there, Homer. You'll find a job. You've caused plenty of industrial accidents, and you've always bounced back.
http://www.tv.com/shows/the-simpsons/homers-odyssey-1288/
tv.com
The Simpsons Season 1 Episode 3
Homer's Odyssey
Aired Jan 21, 1990 on FOX
Episode Summary
Homer struggles to find meaning in his life after he is fired from the nuclear power plant for causing an accident.
AIRED: 1/21/90
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The Simpsons (TV Series)
Homer's Odyssey (1990)
Quotes
Loaftime Announcer: Loaftime, the cable network for the unemployed, will be back with more tips on how to win the lottery after this.
Other posts by me on this topic includes: http://hvom.blogspot.com/2018/09/a-taste-of-armageddon.html
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Stargate (1994)
Release Info
USA 28 October 1994
http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=29650
The American Presidency Project
Ronald Reagan
XL President of the United States: 1981 - 1989
Farewell Address to the Nation
January 11, 1989
My fellow Americans:
This is the 34th time I'll speak to you from the Oval Office and the last. We've been together 8 years now, and soon it'll be time for me to go. But before I do, I wanted to share some thoughts, some of which I've been saving for a long time.
It's been the honor of my life to be your President. So many of you have written the past few weeks to say thanks, but I could say as much to you. Nancy and I are grateful for the opportunity you gave us to serve.
One of the things about the Presidency is that you're always somewhat apart. You spend a lot of time going by too fast in a car someone else is driving, and seeing the people through tinted glass—the parents holding up a child, and the wave you saw too late and couldn't return. And so many times I wanted to stop and reach out from behind the glass, and connect. Well, maybe I can do a little of that tonight.
People ask how I feel about leaving. And the fact is, "parting is such sweet sorrow." The sweet part is California and the ranch and freedom. The sorrow—the goodbyes, of course, and leaving this beautiful place.
You know, down the hall and up the stairs from this office is the part of the White House where the President and his family live. There are a few favorite windows I have up there that I like to stand and look out of early in the morning. The view is over the grounds here to the Washington Monument, and then the Mali and the Jefferson Memorial. But on mornings when the humidity is low, you can see past the Jefferson to the river, the Potomac, and the Virginia shore. Someone said that's the view Lincoln had when he saw the smoke rising from the Battle of Bull Run. I see more prosaic things: the grass on the banks, the morning traffic as people make their way to work, now and then a sailboat on the river.
I've been thinking a bit at that window. I've been reflecting on what the past 8 years have meant and mean. And the image that comes to mind like a refrain is a nautical one—a small story about a big ship, and a refugee, and a sailor. It was back in the early eighties, at the height of the boat people. And the sailor was hard at work on the carrier Midway, which was patrolling the South China Sea. The sailor, like most American servicemen, was young, smart, and fiercely observant. The crew spied on the horizon a leaky little boat. And crammed inside were refugees from Indochina hoping to get to America. The Midway sent a small launch to bring them to the ship and safety. As the refugees made their way through the choppy seas, one spied the sailor on deck, and stood up, and called out to him. He yelled, "Hello, American sailor. Hello, freedom man."
A small moment with a big meaning, a moment the sailor, who wrote it in a letter, couldn't get out of his mind. And, when I saw it, neither could I. Because that's what it was to be an American in the 1980's. We stood, again, for freedom. I know we always have, but in the past few years the world again—and in a way, we ourselves—rediscovered it.
It's been quite a journey this decade, and we held together through some stormy seas. And at the end, together, we are reaching our destination.
The fact is, from Grenada to the Washington and Moscow summits, from the recession of '81 to '82, to the expansion that began in late '82 and continues to this day, we've made a difference. The way I see it, there were two great triumphs, two things that I'm proudest of. One is the economic recovery, in which the people of America created—and filled—19 million new jobs. The other is the recovery of our morale. America is respected again in the world and looked to for leadership.
Something that happened to me a few years ago reflects some of this. It was back in 1981, and I was attending my first big economic summit, which was held that year in Canada. The meeting place rotates among the member countries. The opening meeting was a formal dinner for the heads of government of the seven industrialized nations. Now, I sat there like the new kid in school and listened, and it was all Francois this and Helmut that. They dropped titles and spoke to one another on a first-name basis. Well, at one point I sort of leaned in and said, "My name's Ron." Well, in that same year, we began the actions we felt would ignite an economic comeback—cut taxes and regulation, started to cut spending. And soon the recovery began.
Two years later, another economic summit with pretty much the same cast. At the big opening meeting we all got together, and all of a sudden, just for a moment, I saw that everyone was just sitting there looking at me. And then one of them broke the silence. "Tell us about the American miracle," he said.
Well, back in 1980, when I was running for President, it was all so different. Some pundits said our programs would result in catastrophe. Our views on foreign affairs would cause war. Our plans for the economy would cause inflation to soar and bring about economic collapse. I even remember one highly respected economist saying, back in 1982, that "The engines of economic growth have shut down here, and they're likely to stay that way for years to come." Well, he and the other opinion leaders were wrong. The fact is, what they called "radical" was really "right." What they called "dangerous" was just "desperately needed."
And in all of that time I won a nickname, "The Great Communicator." But I never thought it was my style or the words I used that made a difference: it was the content. I wasn't a great communicator, but I communicated great things, and they didn't spring full bloom from my brow, they came from the heart of a great nation—from our experience, our wisdom, and our belief in the principles that have guided us for two centuries. They called it the Reagan revolution. Well, I'll accept that, but for me it always seemed more like the great rediscovery, a rediscovery of our values and our common sense.
Common sense told us that when you put a big tax on something, the people will produce less of it. So, we cut the people's tax rates, and the people produced more than ever before. The economy bloomed like a plant that had been cut back and could now grow quicker and stronger. Our economic program brought about the longest peacetime expansion in our history: real family income up, the poverty rate down, entrepreneurship booming, and an explosion in research and new technology. We're exporting more than ever because American industry became more competitive and at the same time, we summoned the national will to knock down protectionist walls abroad instead of erecting them at home.
Common sense also told us that to preserve the peace, we'd have to become strong again after years of weakness and confusion. So, we rebuilt our defenses, and this New Year we toasted the new peacefulness around the globe. Not only have the superpowers actually begun to reduce their stockpiles of nuclear weapons—and hope for even more progress is bright—but the regional conflicts that rack the globe are also beginning to cease. The Persian Gulf is no longer a war zone. The Soviets are leaving Afghanistan. The Vietnamese are preparing to pull out of Cambodia, and an American-mediated accord will soon send 50,000 Cuban troops home from Angola.
The lesson of all this was, of course, that because we're a great nation, our challenges seem complex. It will always be this way. But as long as we remember our first principles and believe in ourselves, the future will always be ours. And something else we learned: Once you begin a great movement, there's no telling where it will end. We meant to change a nation, and instead, we changed a world.
Countries across the globe are turning to free markets and free speech and turning away from the ideologies of the past. For them, the great rediscovery of the 1980's has been that, lo and behold, the moral way of government is the practical way of government: Democracy, the profoundly good, is also the profoundly productive.
When you've got to the point when you can celebrate the anniversaries of your 39th birthday you can sit back sometimes, review your life, and see it flowing before you. For me there was a fork in the river, and it was right in the middle of my life. I never meant to go into politics. It wasn't my intention when I was young. But I was raised to believe you had to pay your way for the blessings bestowed on you. I was happy with my career in the entertainment world, but I ultimately went into politics because I wanted to protect something precious.
Ours was the first revolution in the history of mankind that truly reversed the course of government, and with three little words: "We the People." "We the People" tell the government what to do; it doesn't tell us. "We the People" are the driver; the government is the car. And we decide where it should go, and by what route, and how fast. Almost all the world's constitutions are documents in which governments tell the people what their privileges are. Our Constitution is a document in which "We the People" tell the government what it is allowed to do. "We the People" are free. This belief has been the underlying basis for everything I've tried to do these past 8 years.
But back in the 1960's, when I began, it seemed to me that we'd begun reversing the order of things—that through more and more rules and regulations and confiscatory taxes, the government was taking more of our money, more of our options, and more of our freedom. I went into politics in part to put up my hand and say, "Stop." I was a citizen politician, and it seemed the right thing for a citizen to do.
I think we have stopped a lot of what needed stopping. And I hope we have once again reminded people that man is not free unless government is limited. There's a clear cause and effect here that is as neat and predictable as a law of physics: As government expands, liberty contracts.
Nothing is less free than pure communism-and yet we have, the past few years, forged a satisfying new closeness with the Soviet Union. I've been asked if this isn't a gamble, and my answer is no because we're basing our actions not on words but deeds. The detente of the 1970's was based not on actions but promises. They'd promise to treat their own people and the people of the world better. But the gulag was still the gulag, and the state was still expansionist, and they still waged proxy wars in Africa, Asia, and Latin America.
Well, this time, so far, it's different. President Gorbachev has brought about some internal democratic reforms and begun the withdrawal from Afghanistan. He has also freed prisoners whose names I've given him every time we've met.
But life has a way of reminding you of big things through small incidents. Once, during the heady days of the Moscow summit, Nancy and I decided to break off from the entourage one afternoon to visit the shops on Arbat Street—that's a little street just off Moscow's main shopping area. Even though our visit was a surprise, every Russian there immediately recognized us and called out our names and reached for our hands. We were just about swept away by the warmth. You could almost feel the possibilities in all that joy. But within seconds, a KGB detail pushed their way toward us and began pushing and shoving the people in the crowd. It was an interesting moment. It reminded me that while the man on the street in the Soviet Union yearns for peace, the government is Communist. And those who run it are Communists, and that means we and they view such issues as freedom and human rights very differently.
We must keep up our guard, but we must also continue to work together to lessen and eliminate tension and mistrust. My view is that President Gorbachev is different from previous Soviet leaders. I think he knows some of the things wrong with his society and is trying to fix them. We wish him well. And we'll continue to work to make sure that the Soviet Union that eventually emerges from this process is a less threatening one. What it all boils down to is this: I want the new closeness to continue. And it will, as long as we make it clear that we will continue to act in a certain way as long as they continue to act in a helpful manner. If and when they don't, at first pull your punches. If they persist, pull the plug. It's still trust but verify. It's still play, but cut the cards. It's still watch closely. And don't be afraid to see what you see.
I've been asked if I have any regrets. Well, I do. The deficit is one. I've been talking a great deal about that lately, but tonight isn't for arguments, and I'm going to hold my tongue. But an observation: I've had my share of victories in the Congress, but what few people noticed is that I never won anything you didn't win for me. They never saw my troops, they never saw Reagan's regiments, the American people. You won every battle with every call you made and letter you wrote demanding action. Well, action is still needed. If we're to finish the job, Reagan's regiments will have to become the Bush brigades. Soon he'll be the chief, and he'll need you every bit as much as I did.
Finally, there is a great tradition of warnings in Presidential farewells, and I've got one that's been on my mind for some time. But oddly enough it starts with one of the things I'm proudest of in the past 8 years: the resurgence of national pride that I called the new patriotism. This national feeling is good, but it won't count for much, and it won't last unless it's grounded in thoughtfulness and knowledge.
An informed patriotism is what we want. And are we doing a good enough job teaching our children what America is and what she represents in the long history of the world? Those of us who are over 35 or so years of age grew up in a different America. We were taught, very directly, what it means to be an American. And we absorbed, almost in the air, a love of country and an appreciation of its institutions. If you didn't get these things from your family you got them from the neighborhood, from the father down the street who fought in Korea or the family who lost someone at Anzio. Or you could get a sense of patriotism from school. And if all else failed you could get a sense of patriotism from the popular culture. The movies celebrated democratic values and implicitly reinforced the idea that America was special. TV was like that, too, through the mid-sixties.
But now, we're about to enter the nineties, and some things have changed. Younger parents aren't sure that an unambivalent appreciation of America is the right thing to teach modern children. And as for those who create the popular culture, well-grounded patriotism is no longer the style. Our spirit is back, but we haven't reinstitutionalized it. We've got to do a better job of getting across that America is freedom-freedom of speech, freedom of religion, freedom of enterprise. And freedom is special and rare. It's fragile; it needs production [protection].
So, we've got to teach history based not on what's in fashion but what's important-why the Pilgrims came here, who Jimmy Doolittle was, and what those 30 seconds over Tokyo meant. You know, 4 years ago on the 40th anniversary of D-day, I read a letter from a young woman writing to her late father, who'd fought on Omaha Beach. Her name was Lisa Zanatta Henn, and she said, "we will always remember, we will never forget what the boys of Normandy did." Well, let's help her keep her word. If we forget what we did, we won't know who we are. I'm warning of an eradication of the American memory that could result, ultimately, in an erosion of the American spirit. Let's start with some basics: more attention to American history and a greater emphasis on civic ritual.
And let me offer lesson number one about America: All great change in America begins at the dinner table. So, tomorrow night in the kitchen I hope the talking begins. And children, if your parents haven't been teaching you what it means to be an American, let 'em know and nail 'em on it. That would be a very American thing to do.
And that's about all I have to say tonight, except for one thing. The past few days when I've been at that window upstairs, I've thought a bit of the "shining city upon a hill." The phrase comes from John Winthrop, who wrote it to describe the America he imagined. What he imagined was important because he was an early Pilgrim, an early freedom man. He journeyed here on what today we'd call a little wooden boat; and like the other Pilgrims, he was looking for a home that would be free.
I've spoken of the shining city all my political life, but I don't know if I ever quite communicated what I saw when I said it. But in my mind it was a tall, proud city built on rocks stronger than oceans, windswept, God-blessed, and teeming with people of all kinds living in harmony and peace; a city with free ports that hummed with commerce and creativity. And if there had to be city walls, the walls had doors and the doors were open to anyone with the will and the heart to get here. That's how I saw it, and see it still.
And how stands the city on this winter night? More prosperous, more secure, and happier than it was 8 years ago. But more than that: After 200 years, two centuries, she still stands strong and true on the granite ridge, and her glow has held steady no matter what storm. And she's still a beacon, still a magnet for all who must have freedom, for all the pilgrims from all the lost places who are hurtling through the darkness, toward home.
We've done our part. And as I walk off into the city streets, a final word to the men and women of the Reagan revolution, the men and women across America who for 8 years did the work that brought America back. My friends: We did it. We weren't just marking time. We made a difference. We made the city stronger, we made the city freer, and we left her in good hands. All in all, not bad, not bad at all.
And so, goodbye, God bless you, and God bless the United States of America.
Note: The President spoke at 9:02 p.m. from the Oval Office at the White House. The address was broadcast live on nationwide radio and television.
Citation: Ronald Reagan: "Farewell Address to the Nation," January 11, 1989.
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http://www.tv.com/shows/galactica-1980/galactica-discovers-earth-1-15037/
tv.com
Galactica 1980 Season 1 Episode 1
Galactica Discovers Earth (1)
Aired Sunday 8:00 PM Jan 27, 1980 on ABC
AIRED: 1/27/80
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0519760/quotes
IMDb
Battlestar Galactica (TV Series)
War of the Gods: Part 2 (1979)
Quotes
Baltar: That voice. There's something about your voice. I've heard it before.
Count Iblis: It is the voice of truth. It will lead these people as it has led you to surrender to their justice.
http://www.tv.com/shows/battlestar-galactica-1978/war-of-the-gods-2-15062/trivia/
tv.com
Battlestar Galactica Season 1 Episode 16
War of the Gods (2)
Aired Sunday 7:00 PM Jan 21, 1979 on ABC
Quotes
Iblis: I fear no man, no creature!
Adama : Not even God?
Iblis: What do you primitive creatures know of what you call God?
Adama: Only that we have been given laws that can not be broken by any man or creature!
Iblis: Those laws do not apply to me.
Adama: I wonder.....
http://www.tv.com/shows/battlestar-galactica-1978/war-of-the-gods-2-15062/recap/
tv.com
Battlestar Galactica Season 1 Episode 16
War of the Gods (2)
Aired Sunday 7:00 PM Jan 21, 1979 on ABC
EPISODE RECAP
On the planet, Apollo and Starbuck prepare to descend into the crater to inspect the ship. On the bridge they realize that Count Iblis has disappeared and Adama believes that he is on the planet. Apollo and Starbuck discover that high radiation readings were a ruse. They enter the ship and discover something alarming. At that moment, Sheba appears and Apollo tries to keep her from entering the ship but Starbuck thinks it might be better if she knows so Apollo lets her go. Suddenly, Iblis appears at the rim of the crater and amid lightning bolts tells them, "No! I forbid it!"
album: "We Were Dead Before The Ship Even Sank" (2007)
http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/modestmouse/dashboard.html
AZ
MODEST MOUSE
"Dashboard"
Well, it would've been, could've been worse than you would ever know.
Oh, the dashboard melted, but we still have the radio.
Oh, it should've been, could've been worse than you would ever know.
Well, you told me about nowhere well it sounds like someplace I'd like to go.
Oh, it could've been, should've been worse than you would ever know.
Well, the windshield was broken but I love the fresh air you know.
(The dashboard melted but we still have the radio)
Oh, it would've been, could've been worse than you would ever know, oh!
(The dashboard melted but we still have the radio)
Oh, we talked about nothing which was more than I wanted you to know-oh-oh-oh-oh.
Now here we go!
Oh! It would've been, could've been worse than it had even gone
Well, the car was on blocks, but I was already where I want.
(It was impossible, we ran it good, we ran it good)
Why should we ever even ever really even get to know?
(It was impossible, we ran it good, we ran it good)
Oh if the world don't like us it'll shake us just like we were a co-oh-oh-oh-old.
Now here we go!
Well we scheme and we scheme but we always blow it
We've yet to crash, but we still might as well tow it
Standing at a light switch to each east and west horizon,
Every dawn when you're surprising,
and in the evening one's consoling
Saying "See it wasn't quite as bad as"
Well, it would've been, could've been worse than you would ever know.
I was patiently erasing and recording the wrong episodes
After you had proved my point wrong,
It wasn't like I'd let it go, oh-oh-oh. Oh-oh-oh.
I just wanted to catch the last laugh of this show.
Yeah, it would've been, could've been worse than you would ever know.
Oh, the dashboard melted, but we still have the radio.
(The dashboard melted, but we ran it good, we ran it good)
Hard-wired to conceive, so much we'd have to stow it
Even needs have needs, tiny giants made of tinier giants.
Don't wear eyelids so I don't miss the last laugh of this show.
(The dashboard melted but we still have the radio)
Well, we could've been, should've been worse than you would ever know.
(The dashboard melted but we still have the radio)
Well, you told me about nowhere well it sounds like someplace I'd like to go-oh-oh-oh-oh.
Now here we go!
Well we scheme and we scheme but we always blow it
We've yet to crash, but we still might as well tow it
Standing at a light switch to each east and west horizon,
Every dawn when you're surprising,
and in the evening one's consoling
Saying "See it wasn't quite as bad as"
Oh it would've been, could've been worse than you would ever know.
https://variety.com/2018/music/news/prince-album-of-previously-unreleased-material-coming-in-september-exclusive-1202783507/
Variety
APRIL 23, 2018 1:57PM PT
Prince Album of Previously Unreleased Material Coming in September (EXCLUSIVE)
By JEM ASWAD
Last week, two days before the second anniversary of Prince’s death, his estate released a bounty of new stuff celebrating his work and his relationship with his fans: Not only the previously unreleased — and largely unheard — original version of “Nothing Compares 2 U” and an accompanying video of remarkable rehearsal footage, but also two new websites, one of them a deep dive into his discography including rare photos, videos and loads of information; the other a site where fans can share their remembrances called “Prince2me.”
It was a strong first salvo of “mind blowing” material to come from the new caretakers of the artist’s estate, led by entertainment adviser Troy Carter and his company Atom Factory (Carter is also global head of creator services for Spotify). Prince was fiercely protective of his music and kept a large percentage of it — even some of his most popular videos and songs for which he didn’t feel he was properly compensated — locked away in his much-vaunted “Vault.” In the year since Carter took charge, the musical archives have been transported to a climate-controlled Iron Mountain facility in Los Angeles, where they’re being archived, restored and in some cases prepared for release.
from my private journal as Kerry Burgess: 9/26/2006 3:06 PM
As I was trying to go to sleep last night, I had a thought that I have a doctorate in computer science from Princeton. I can’t think of any supporting clues that point specifically to that accomplishment though. There is one memory from working in the lockbox at that bank in Charlotte, but I’m not sure what it means. I also wonder about the B.A. and I had thoughts that I studied music as well at Princeton.
album: "Strangers To Ourselves" (2015)
Modest Mouse
"Lampshades On Fire"
Mmm buh, buh, buh, buh, buh, buh, buh-duh-dah
Duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh-duh-dah
We’re all goin’, we’re all goin’
Well, the lampshade’s on fire when the lights go out
The room lit up and we ran about
Well, this is what I really call a party now
Packed up our cars, moved to the next town
Well, the lampshades’s on fire when the lights go out
This is what I really call a party now
Well, fear makes us really, really run around
This one’s done so where to now?
Our eyes light up, we have no shame at all
Well you all know what I’m talking’ about
Shaved off my eyebrows when I fall to the ground
So I can’t look surprised right now
Pack up again, head to the next place
Where we'll make the same mistakes
Burn it up, or just chop it down
Ah, this one's done so where to now?
Buh, buh, buh, buh, buh, buh, buh-duh-dah
Duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh-duh-dah
We're all goin’, we're all goin’
Well, the lampshade's on fire when the lights go out
This is what I really call a party now
Well, fear makes us really, really run around
Ah, this one's done so where to now??
Our eyes light up, we have no shame at all
Well, you all know what I'm talkin’ about
The room lights up, well, we're still dancing around
We're havin’ fun, havin’ some for now
Pack up again, head to the next place
Where we'll make the same mistakes
Open one up and let it fall to the ground
Pile out the door when it all runs out
Buh, buh, buh, buh, buh, buh, buh-duh-dah
Duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh-duh-dah
We're all goin’, we're all goin’
We have spines in our bones
We'll eat your food, we'll throw stones?
Oh, this is how it's always gone
And this is how it's goin’ to go
Well, we're the human race
We're goin’ to party out of this place
And then move on
Tough love
We'll kill you off and then make a clone
Yeah, we got spines, yeah, we have bones
This is how it's always gone
And this is how it's goin’ to go
As our feelings are getting hurt
Ah, we want you to do the work
Our ass looks great inside these jeans
Well, we all just don’t wanna’ clean
Oh, this is how it's always been
And this is how it's goin’ to be
So, you just move on
The air’s on fire so we’re movin’ on
Better find another one ‘cause this one’s done
Waitin’ for the magic when the scientists glow
To push, push, push, push, pull us up
Spend some time to float in outer space
Find another planet, make the same mistakes
Our mind’s all shattered when we climb aboard
Hopin’ for the scientists to find another door
http://hvom.blogspot.com/2016/11/ghost-stories.html
Posted by Kerry Burgess at 5:30 AM
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 2016
Ghost Stories
album: "Ghost Stories" (2014)
http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/coldplay/alwaysinmyhead.html
AZ
Coldplay
"Always In My Head"
I think of you
I haven't slept
I think I do
But, I don't forget
My body moves
Goes where I will
But though I try my heart stays still
It never moves
Just won't be led
And so my mouth waters, to be fed
And you're always in my head
You're always in my head
You're always in my head
You're always in my head
You're always in my head
Always in my...
Always in my...
This, I guess, is to tell you you're chosen out from the rest...
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2014/mar/03/coldplay-new-album-ghost-stories-magic-single
The Guardian
Harriet Gibsone
Monday 3 March 2014 03.01 EST
Coldplay announces new album Ghost Stories
Ahead of their South by Southwest performance, the quartet unveil the follow up to Mylo Xyloto and new single Magic
Coldplay last night unveiled details of their sixth studio album and its first official single, entitled Magic.
Named Ghost Stories, the follow-up album to Mylo Xyloto will arrive on 19 May via Parlophone/Atlantic Records
Top Gun (1986)
Say, you need any help?
With what?
You figured it out yet?
What's that?
Who's the best pilot.
No. I can figure that out
on my own.
I heard that about you.
You like to work alone.
Mav, you must have soloed
under a lucky star.
First the MIG...
and then you guys slide
into Cougar's spot.
We didn't slide
into Cougar's spot.
It was ours, OK?
Some pilots wait their career
to see a MIG up close.
I guess you guys
are lucky and famous, huh?
ICEMAN:
No. You mean notorious.
I'll see you later.
You can count on it.
excerpt ends Posted by Kerry Burgess at 5:30 AM SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 2016
- posted by Kerry Burgess 11:45 PM Pacific Time Spokane Valley Washington USA Sunday 23 September 2018
