This Is What I Think.

Saturday, April 28, 2007

“What did you call me?”

This is another brick in their wall of theft of my intellectual property. It reflects their efforts to hijack my identity. I must have devised this plan, that they are now trying to hijack, long before I realized what kinds of criminals exist in the world. These jokers are without a doubt the worst of the worst. George W. Bush is one cowgirl that is going to spend many years in prison.

From 3/3/1959 to 8/21/1968 is: 3459 days

John Timothy Griffin (born August 21, 1968), the current interim US Attorney for the Eastern District of Arkansas. He received attention in the 2006 Dismissal of U.S. Attorneys controversy when he was chosen to replace US Attorney Bud Cummins.

Documents released by a subsequent Congressional investigation showed that, in the summer of 2006, White House "officials were eager to free up the prosecutor's slot in Little Rock, Ark., so it could be filled by Timothy Griffin, a GOP operative close to White House political advisor Karl Rove, at all costs."[3] Prior to this he was a top Republican researcher and aide to Rove.[4] He was hand selected by Rove to be a US Attorney


Dismissal of U.S. attorneys controversy

The dismissal of U.S. Attorneys controversy, also referred to as Attorneygate,[1] is an ongoing political dispute concerning the dismissal of eight United States Attorneys by the George W. Bush administration in late 2006 and early 2007. The controversy received nationwide attention in March 2007. Multiple news organizations, as well as administration critics, have described it as a "scandal"[2][3][4] or "furor".[5] Attorney General Alberto Gonzales described it as "an overblown personnel matter."[6]

The dismissed United States Attorneys had been appointed by President George W. Bush and confirmed by the Senate. A key issue in the controversy is the political nature of any Senate-confirmed appointment to office, and the 2006 revision of the USA PATRIOT Act, amending the United States Code to permit the term of an interim U.S. Attorney to last until a presidentially nominated replacement is approved by the Senate. The amendment gives the United States Attorney General (the Presidential Cabinet officer authorized to appoint interim U.S. Attorneys) the power to appoint U.S. Attorneys without Senate approval.[7] On March 20, 2007, the Senate voted to overturn this provision by a vote of 94-2.[8] On March 26, the House of Representatives overturned it as well, by a vote of 329-78.[9]

Another concern involves the actual reasons for the dismissals. Critics say that the attorneys were fired for failing to prosecute enough Democrats (at the request of Pete Domenici and Heather Wilson), or as retribution for prosecuting Republicans (such as the prosecution of Randy Cunningham by Carol Lam or the investigation of Rick Renzi by Paul Charlton). The administration and its supporters say the attorneys were dismissed for job-performance reasons "related to policy, priorities and management", and that United States Attorneys serve at the pleasure of the president. Under U.S. law the President has discretion to dismiss these Attorneys without cause, but legal scholars have stated that firing attorneys to block investigations and pursue political retribution could violate the duty of the President to faithfully execute the laws under the constitution and could be construed as "corrupting" a government proceeding in violation of federal law.



Plot summary for
Gremlins (1984)
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Gremlins begins with inventor Rand Peltzer trying to find a quick gift for his son Billy before returning home from a New York trip. He settles on a unique pet in a Chinatown curio shop--a cute, furry creature known as a Mogwai. Before he leaves, he is warned by the shop's owner that three rules must be obeyed by a Mogwai owner: 1) Keep it away from bright light, 2) Don't get any water on it, and 3) Never, never ever feed it after midnight. Rand takes note of these rules and returns home with the Mogwai to his idyllic small-town home of Kingston Falls. Rand's gift is an instant hit: Billy loves his adorable new pet, naming it Gizmo and taking it everywhere he goes. Unfortunately, he and his friends also begin breaking the rules of Mogwai care. When water is accidentally spilled on Gizmo, it causes him to multiply and produce a number of mischievous little brothers. Among these is the mean-tempered Stripe. Soon enough, the new Mogwai get hold of some food after midnight and this causes them to change from cute fur-balls into nasty, scaly monsters dubbed 'Gremlins.'


Gremlins(1984)
Cast

Phoebe Cates ... Kate Beringer


So if I have this figured out correctly, on Christmas Eve when I was 9 years old, I was on Apollo 8 when humans first orbited the Earth's Moon. So there I was - at 9.81 years old, one of the first humans to orbit the Earth's Moon and with a 3 month old son back on Earth.

Memorable quotes for
Gremlins (1984)
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Kate: Now I have another reason to hate Christmas.

Billy Peltzer: What are you talking about?

Kate: The worst thing that ever happened to me was on Christmas. Oh, God. It was so horrible. It was Christmas Eve. I was 9 years old. Me and Mom were decorating the tree, waiting for Dad to come home from work. A couple hours went by. Dad wasn't home. So Mom called the office. No answer. Christmas Day came and went, and still nothing. So the police began a search. Four or five days went by. Neither one of us could eat or sleep. Everything was falling apart. It was snowing outside. The house was freezing, so I went to try to light up the fire. That's when I noticed the smell. The firemen came and broke through the chimney top. And me and Mom were expecting them to pull out a dead cat or a bird. And instead they pulled out my father. He was dressed in a Santa Claus suit. He'd been climbing down the chimney... his arms loaded with presents. He was gonna surprise us. He slipped and broke his neck. He died instantly. And that's how I found out there was no Santa Claus.



Apollo 8 was the second manned mission of the Apollo space program, in which Commander Frank Borman, Command Module Pilot James Lovell and Lunar Module Pilot William Anders became the first humans to orbit around the Moon. It was also the first manned launch of the Saturn V rocket.

NASA prepared for the mission in only four months. The hardware involved had only been used a few times—the Saturn V had launched only twice before, and the Apollo spacecraft had only just finished its first manned mission, Apollo 7. However, the success of the mission paved the way for the successful completion of U.S. President John F. Kennedy's goal of landing on the Moon before the end of the decade.

After launching on December 21, 1968, the crew took three days to travel to the Moon, which they orbited for 20 hours. While in lunar orbit the crew made a Christmas Eve television broadcast in which they read from the book of Genesis. It was the most watched broadcast to date.



This is the movie I can still "remember" taking Bobbilynn to see. I can "remember" driving in my red 1990 Mazda RX-7 with her down Highway 76 to a movie theatre in Anderson, SC. She lived near Clemson, South Carolina, as did Tracie Rhodes, who I later married, at least in my artificial and symbolic memories. This “memory” also reminds me of a time later when Tracie and I started dating and I took her to dinner in Anderson and I was feeling depressed that she wasn't Bobbilynn.

Release date(s) December 21, 1990

Kindergarten Cop (1990) is a film directed by Ivan Reitman and starring Arnold Schwarzenegger. Schwarzenegger stars as John Kimble, a tough loner police detective, who goes after drug dealer Cullen Crisp (Richard Tyson), before he can get to his ex-wife and son. Pamela Reed plays his partner Phoebe O'Hara, a teacher-turned-cop and Penelope Ann Miller plays Joyce, the teacher who becomes Kimble's love interest.

The actress who portrayed the love interest of the “Kindergarten Cop” was born precisely 5.933 months after Phoebe Cates.

Penelope Ann Miller (January 13, 1964), sometimes credited as Penelope Miller, is an American actress. She starred in several major Hollywood films during the 1990s, and has continued appearing in supporting roles in both film and television.


Debra Winger portrayed the love interest of the protagonist in “An Officer And A Gentleman.“

Debra Winger's birthday compared to Phoebe Cate's birthday:

From 5/16/1955 to 7/16/1963 is: 2983 days

Their age difference is practically the same as my age on the day I recognize as when I first flew a supersonic jet aircraft by myself the first time. That is also a valid reference because the character Richard Gere portrayed was going into the U.S. Navy aviation field.

From 3/3/1959 to 5/1/1967 is: 2981 days

This might also be why Bobbilynn Michelle Townsend.

This movie premiered in the summer after I graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy a few months earlier.

An Officer and a Gentleman is a 1982 film which tells the story of a United States Navy aviation Officer Candidate who comes into conflict with the Marine Corps Gunnery Sergeant who trains him. The original music score was composed by Jack Nitzsche and Buffy Sainte-Marie. The film is marketed with the tagline "Life gave him nothing, except the courage to win...and a woman to love."

The film was written by Douglas Day Stewart and directed by Taylor Hackford. It was shot mostly on location at Port Townsend, Washington since the U.S. Navy would not permit the motion picture to be filmed at Pensacola, Florida (the traditional site of Naval Aviation Officer Candidate School).



Debra Winger (born May 16, 1955) is an Academy Award- nominated American actress.
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...in 1982, she starred opposite Richard Gere in An Officer and a Gentleman, for which she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress.



There is also a very close relation of actress Linda Hamilton’s birthday with mine and Phoebe Cates. Linda Hamilton portrayed the character “Sarah Connor” in the 1984 movie, “The Terminator,” which was about her unborn son, “John Connor.” I have written about how Microsoft-Corbis positioned a look-alike of “Sarah Connor” in the cubicle next to me in 2000 around the same time they installed John Connor as the Microsoft Chief Financial Officer.

From 9/26/1956 to 7/16/1963 is: 2484 days
2484 * 0.359 = 891.756
From 9/26/1956 to 3/3/1959 is: 888 days

Linda Carroll Hamilton (born September 26, 1956) is an American movie actress
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Hamilton's next role was in The Terminator in 1984.



The Terminator (also known as Terminator in some early trailers and posters) is a 1984 science fiction/action film featuring former bodybuilder Arnold Schwarzenegger in what would become his best-known role, and also starred Linda Hamilton and Michael Biehn. Directed by James Cameron, who was only 27 years old at the time, the premise of the movie is that a "Terminator" cybernetic organism (played by Schwarzenegger) has been transported back in time from 2029 to May 12, 1984 to assassinate a woman named Sarah Connor (played by Hamilton). Issues raised by the film include nuclear war, time travel, causal loops and artificial intelligence.


I have been thinking about a plot element from the 1984 movie, "Red Dawn," for a while. I think about how the character Lea Thompson portrayed had a crush on the character Powers Boothe portrayed. And I see a connection here with the birthday for Phoebe Cates, but I think the symbolism is connected to Phoebe in the comments makes about his wife. I don't know if I was ever married to Phoebe Cates but I think his comments about his wife in the movie reflect my feelings at the time for Phoebe Cates in our relationship, whatever that was.

From 6/1/1948 to 5/31/1961 is: 4747 days
4747 / 0.3359 = 1594.5173
From 3/3/1959 to 7/16/1963 is: 1596 days

Powers Allen Boothe (born June 1, 1948) is an American television and film actor.


Lea Katherine Thompson (born May 31, 1961, in Rochester, Minnesota) is an American actress.


Release date(s) August 10, 1984

Red Dawn is a 1984 film by John Milius about an invasion of the United States by the Soviet Union and Cuba, and the resulting guerrilla actions of a group of American high school students in the fictional town of Calumet, Colorado. The movie features Patrick Swayze, C. Thomas Howell, Lea Thompson, Charlie Sheen, Jennifer Grey, and Powers Boothe.
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The film’s plot involves a Soviet and Cuban/Latin American invasion of the United States in the late 1980s, igniting a world war. The story is about young people resisting the resulting Soviet occupation.

The film is set in a small Colorado town. The opening scene featured a massive airdrop by airborne forces into the town and school. The storyline centers around a group of teenagers who flee to the hills to escape the Soviets, and eventually begin an insurgency against Soviet occupational forces. The Colorado high school students call themselves the Wolverines after their school’s team/mascot and proceed to launch raids, set ambushes, use sniper attacks, plant bombs, and even execute a Russian prisoner and one of their own (who had been forced to betray them to the Soviets) during their campaign.

Over time, the Wolverines are joined by a downed fighter pilot, who instructs them in more formal military tactics, culminating in the Wolverines liberating a "political prisoner camp" in town where the Soviets had rounded up citizens whom they thought might offer resistance to their occupation.
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Erica Mason (Lea Thompson) - Toni’s younger sister. She is soft-spoken and always observes what is going on. She forms a crush on the downed pilot (Tanner).
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Lieutenant Colonel Andrew Tanner, USAF (Powers Boothe) - A fighter pilot from Texas whose F-15C was shot down (asked how he got shot down, he indignantly replies, “It was five to one. I got four.”), he was discovered by Erica Mason. She took him to the Wolverine base camp, where he taught the kids some military tactics. They planned several attacks, but he was killed when he jumped on a Russian tank and tried to overtake it.