Original airdate in N.A.: 5-Nov-93
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Ruth assures her, "You're a good friend, Marge," as Marge enters the building. Once inside, Marge is about to dial a cab, but she overhears some women talking.
Woman 1: [to Woman 2] This cross-country flight from the law would be hell if we didn't stick together.
Woman 2: Hey: friends _stick_ together.
Woman 3: [to Woman 4] It's amazing how through all this adversity, we managed to stick together.
Woman 4: If there's _one thing_ decent folk do, it's stick together.
Waitress: I hate it when the waffles stick together.
Cook: Stickin' together is what good waffles do.
-- Philsophy in a truck stop, "Marge on the Lam"
Ruth is getting the car gassed up, but before she can leave, Marge rejoins her. "Marge! What are you doing?" Marge begins to explain how she considers Ruth a friend, "and an important part of friendship is --"But before she can say "sticking together", Ruth speeds away with her as the sirens grow louder.
(The siren is actually Kearney on a bicycle with a siren strapped to hishead. The owner reprimands him for driving away all the business, butKearney is unmindful: "See you tomorrow, loser.")
On the date 1/27/2000, Scooter Libby, formerly of Dick Cheney's staff, was 593 months, 5 days, old.
Also on the date 1/27/2000, I had been working undercover at Microsoft for 59 weeks, 3 days, having started there on 12/7/1998.
The date 1/27/2000 was 359 days before 1/20/2001, the day George W. Bush and Dick Cheney took office.
United States of America v. I. Lewis Libby, also known as "Scooter Libby" (USA v. LIBBY, Case No. 1:2005-cr-00394-RBW) is the federal trial of former high-ranking George W. Bush administration official I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, who was indicted by a federal grand jury on five felony counts of allegedly making false statements to federal investigators, perjury for allegedly lying to a grand jury, and obstruction of justice for allegedly impeding the course of a federal grand jury investigation concerned with the leaking by government officials of the classified identity of a CIA officer, Valerie Plame (Valerie E. Wilson). Libby served as assistant to President George W. Bush, chief of staff to Vice President Dick Cheney, and assistant to the Vice President for national security affairs from 2001–2005. He resigned from his government positions hours after his indictment on October 28, 2005. The trial began on January 16, 2007. Pursuant to the grand jury leak investigation, Libby was convicted on March 6, 2007, on four counts of perjury, obstruction of justice, and making false statements, and he was acquitted of one count of making false statements. His lawyers have announced that they will be seeking a new trial but that, if they do not get one, they will appeal Libby's conviction.[1][2][3]
The prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald "said he didn't expect anyone else to be charged in the case. 'We're all going back to our day jobs,' he said."[3][4] Speaking to the media after the verdict, Fitzgerald reiterated his earlier claims that he had been unable to formulate charges against anyone in the CIA leak grand jury investigation because of the obstruction of justice by Libby
Gordon England was 335.9 months old on 9/11/1965. That was 9 days after my first day at Princeton University. The date 9/11/1965 was prescisely 36 years before 9/11/2001, making me wonder if there could be a 35.9 clue here.
The primary reason though, I have no doubt, that George W. Bush selected Gordon England for that public official role is for the sole reason that my father is a citizen of England and because I am related directly to the royals of the United Kingdom.
Gordon Richard England (September 15, 1937[1]) is an American businessman who currently serves as the United States Deputy Secretary of Defense. A two-time former Secretary of the Navy, he was nominated for his current position by U.S. President George W. Bush. President Bush recess appointed England to Deputy Defense Secretary on January 4, 2006.
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England started his business career in 1966 at Honeywell where he was an engineer on the Project Gemini space program. He worked for Litton Industries as a program manager on the E-2C Hawkeye aircraft for the U.S. Navy. He was also CEO of GRE Consultants.
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England left the world of business to enter government during the administration of U.S. President George W. Bush serving in a number of key roles, having previously served as a member of the Defense Science Board.
72nd Secretary of the Navy
England was a controversial choice for Secretary of the Navy due to his lack of any military service experience and his long career in the defense industry including his most recent appointment as Executive Vice President of General Dynamics Corporation. Critics such as William D. Hartung, Head of the Arms Trade Resource Center, felt that it was inappropriate to appoint businessmen whose companies would be the prime benefactor of any increase in defense spending. U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld however had decided to make corporate experience one of the key requirements in his appointees as was reported in the Washington Times. This policy led to England's appointment alongside other leading industrialists including James Roche and Thomas E. White. England was sworn in on May 24, 2001. He is reported in the Washington Post as having announced that one of his key aims in the role was the development of "futuristic weapons to counter new types of threats emerging in the post-Soviet world."
The Washington Post reports that during his time in this role "England has joined with Adm. Vernon Clark, chief of naval operations, in directing some of the most sweeping change the service has seen in decades."
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England was nominated as Deputy Secretary of Defense on May 13, 2005 and immediately took up the role in an acting capacity while awaiting his confirmation. His replacement of Paul Wolfowitz has been looked upon favorably in the media with the Washington Post commenting, "England has a reputation for being less ideological than Wolfowitz and more attuned to the administrative demands of the Pentagon's second-ranking civilian job'" but critics still maintain that his prime loyalty remains to the defense industry. England was recess appointed to the full Deputy Secretary position on January 4, 2006 by President Bush.
John Bolton was precisely 33.59 years old on the day "Blade Runner" premiered in theatres, according to the linked article. Bolton was nominated on Monday, 3/7/2005, a day that was 59 months, 4 days, after 4/3/2000. The previous day, Sunday, 3/6/2005, was 59 months, 3 days, after 4/3/2000. The day 4/3/2000 was when Judge Jackson ordered the breakup of Microsoft Corporation.
I have also noted that Bolton has a distinct resemblance to the "Scruffy" character from "Futurama."
From 11/20/1948 to 11/20/1981 is: 33 years
From 11/20/1981 to 6/25/1982 is: 217 days
217 / 365 = 0.59
From 11/20/1948 to 6/25/1982 is: 33.59 years
From 4/3/2000 to 3/7/2005 is: 59 months, 4 days
John Robert Bolton (born November 20, 1948), an attorney and an American diplomat in several Republican administrations, served as the interim[1] U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations with the title of ambassador, from August 2005 until December 2006, on a recess appointment. His letter of resignation from the Bush Administration was accepted on December 4, 2006, effective when his recess appointment ended December 9 at the formal adjournment of the 109th Congress. Bolton is now a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute
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On March 7, 2005 Bolton was nominated to the post of U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations by President George W. Bush. As a result of a Democratic filibuster, he was never confirmed by the Senate. Bolton's nomination received strong support from Republicans but faced heavy opposition from Democrats due initially to concerns about his strongly expressed views on the United Nations,[34] and, later, alleged actions while at the State Department
Release date(s) June 25, 1982 (USA)
Blade Runner is an influential 1982 cyberpunk, neo noir film directed by Ridley Scott from a screenplay written by Hampton Fancher and David Peoples, loosely based on the novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick. It features Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer, Sean Young, Edward James Olmos, Daryl Hannah and Joanna Cassidy.
The film depicts a dystopian Los Angeles in November 2019 in which genetically manufactured beings called replicants, visually indistinguishable from adult humans, are used for dangerous and degrading work in Earth's "off-world colonies." After replicants became illegal on Earth, specialist police units — called "blade runners" — were trained to hunt down and "retire" (kill) escaped replicants on Earth. The plot focuses on a brutal and cunning group of replicants hiding in Los Angeles and a semi-retired blade runner, Rick Deckard (Ford), who reluctantly agrees to take on one more assignment.
United States v. Microsoft 87 F. Supp. 2d 30 (D.D.C. 2000) was a court case filed Microsoft Corporation on May 18, 1998 by the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) and twenty U.S. states. Joel I. Klein was the lead prosecutor. The plaintiffs alleged that Microsoft abused monopoly power in its handling of operating system sales and web browser sales.
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Judge Jackson issued his findings of fact on November 5, 1999, which stated that Microsoft's dominance of the personal computer operating systems market constituted a monopoly, and that Microsoft had taken actions to crush threats to the monopoly, including Apple, Java, Netscape, Lotus Notes, Real Networks, Linux, and others. Then on April 3, 2000, he issued a two-part ruling: his conclusions of law were that Microsoft had committed monopolization, attempted monopolization, and tying in violation of Sections 1 and 2 of the Sherman Act, and his remedy was that Microsoft must be broken into two separate units, one to produce the operating system, and one to produce other software components.
Scruffy
Scruffy(Voiced by David Herman) - The Planet Express janitor, appearing in 12 episodes in the original 4 seasons. He first appears in the episode, "A Fishful of Dollars" where he is seen massaging Bender. A recurring joke is that because he interacts so little with the rest of the employees, nobody ever remembers seeing him before. When fellow employees ask who he is he answers with: 'Scruffy, the janitor', his explanation of why they haven't seen him before is that he hasn't seen them before either. Scruffy frequently refers to himself in the third person and speaks in a voice reminiscent of Karl Childers, the protagonist of the movie Sling Blade. In "Future Stock", it is revealed that he has vast holdings of Planet Express stock because "...Scruffy believes in this company...[sniff]". Also when in an unfavorable situation Scruffy will often mutter "Oh marmalade..." In later episodes it is revealed that Scruffy is actually quite intelligent and can concoct brilliant plans almost immediately. Scruffy is an ex-con, stating: "Prison ain't so bad. You can make sangria in the terlet. 'Course it's shank or be shanked."
Scruffy is lazy and can usually be found in the basement of the building, watching the boiler (but never actually fixing it) and reading Zero-G Juggs or National Pornographic (parodies of real-life magazines Juggs and National Geographic). His inertia is such that when the boiler begins to dangerously rumble, seconds from exploding, his only reaction is to calmly declare "Scruffy's gonna die the way he lived," and turn the page in his magazine. In the Futurama video game, he is asleep in the (flooded) basement of Planet Express with an adult magazine. In Futurama Comics, he tells Zapp Brannigan that he has "naked pictures of Leela".
It's just like I told Thedia one time. She was asking me about what happened at Ironman Utah 2002 when a storm blew through at the beginning of the swim course and left one competitor dead. I told her I was glad she wasn't there to see it because she would have been worried about me. I was probably thinking about Phoebe, my wife.
Oingo Boingo
Just Another Day
(theres life underground)
I feel it all around / I feel it in my bones
My life is on the line / when Im away from home
When I step out the door / the jungle is alive
I do not trust my ears / I dont believe my eyes
I will not fall in love / I cannot risk the bet
Cause hearts are fragile toys / so easy to forget
Its just another day / theres murder in the air
It drags me when I walk / I smell it everywhere
Its just another day / where people cling to light
To drive away the fear / that comes with every night
Chorus
Its just another . . . . . . . its just another day
Its just another . . . . . . . its just another day
Its just another day--when people wake from dreams
With voices in their ears--that will not go away
I had a dream last night / the world was set on fire
And everywhere I ran / there wasnt any water
The temperature increased / the sky was crimson red
The clouds turned into smoke / and everyone was dead
(but) theres a smile on my face . . . for everyone
Theres a golden coin . . . that reflects the sun
Theres a lonely place . . . thats always cold
Theres a place in the stars . . . for when you get old
Theres razors in my bed / that come out late at night
They always disappear / before the morning light
Im dreaming again / of life underground
It doesnt ever move / it doesnt make a sound
And just when I think--that things are in their place
The heavens are secure--the whole thing explodes in my face
Chorus
