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Gemini 5
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Gemini 5 (officially Gemini V) was a 1965 manned spaceflight in NASA's Project Gemini. It was the third manned Gemini flight
Conrad called the mission "Eight days in a garbage can." (the garbage can referring to the small size of the Gemini cabin
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Tales of the Texas Rangers Season 1 Episode 1
Ransom Flight
Aired Saturday 11:00 AM Sep 03, 1955 on CBS
AIRED: 9/3/55
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Hunting party guide: There he is. He's a beauty, isn't he? An imperial, ma'am. Fourteen pointer.
Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II: He was wounded.
Hunting party guide: Yes. We got our guest in very close, had him lined up perfect. And, still...
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Cut and run
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Cut and run or cut-and-run is an idiomatic verb phrase meaning to "make off promptly" or to "hurry off". The phrase originated in the 1700s as describing an act allowing a ship to make sail quickly in an urgent situation, either by cutting free an anchor or by cutting ropeyarns to unfurl sails from the yards on a square rig ship. Though initially referring to a literal act, the phrase was used figuratively by the mid-1800s in both the United States and England. The phrase is used as a pejorative in political language, implying a panicked and cowardly retreat, and it has been used by politicians in the United States, Great Britain, and Australia as a criticism of calls to withdraw troops, becoming particularly associated with the United States Republican Party.
Origin
To "cut and run" was defined by Englishman David Steel in 1794 as "to cut the cable and make sail instantly, without waiting to weigh anchor". He further described the practice as "quick but very expensive" but sometimes necessary, such as when the anchor is hooked on rocks and cannot be retrieved, in bad weather, when the anchor is on lee shore and the ship is in danger of embayment, or when one must quickly escape or pursue an enemy; instead of cutting the anchor by axe at the hawsehole, Steel offered an alternate method of slipping the anchor cable if time permitted, a method he felt wiser than cutting as it potentially prevented loss of anchor and cable.
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From 8/18/1973 ( The Killian Document ) To 5/2/2004 is 11215 days
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https://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/02/magazine/the-way-we-live-now-5-2-04-on-language-cut-and-run.html
The New York Times Magazine
The Way We Live Now: 5-2-04: On Language; Cut and Run
By WILLIAM SAFIRE MAY 2, 2004
'We're not going to cut and run,'' said George W. Bush last month, ''from the people who long for freedom.''
The next day, John McCain asked rhetorically, ''Is it the time to panic, to cut and run?'' His answer, as you might expect, was, ''Absolutely not.''
And a week later, John Kerry used the ringing derogation as a compound adjective: ''I don't believe in a cut-and-run philosophy.''
The phrase circles the English-speaking world. ''If we cut and run,'' warned the British prime minister, Tony Blair, ''their country would be at the mercy of warring groups.'' And from Down Under, the Australian prime minister, John Howard, answered a question about an ''exit strategy'' with ''We don't have a cut-and-run strategy.''
Paul Lacey of Richmond, Ind., expressed the wonderment of many who e-mailed onlanguage@nytimes.com: ''Doesn't it seem time to examine where cut and run comes from and why it has taken on the resonance it has? Why is it worse to cut and run?''
To paraphrase a favorite saying of John F. Kennedy's, advance has a thousand fathers but retreat is an orphan. Sometimes, when a retreat is justified, a euphemism is sought: the Union Gen. George B. McClellan called his withdrawal from the outskirts of Richmond after the Seven Days battles a ''retrograde movement,'' and the modern military has come up with strategic withdrawal. Contrariwise, when a retreat is to be vilified, it is called a rout or a headlong flight, and critics of the disengagement deride the decision with the phrase cited so frequently above, to sever and skedaddle.
The phrase, imputing panic as in the McCain usage, is always pejorative. Nobody, not even those who urge leaders to ''bring our troops home,'' will say, ''I think we ought to cut and run.'' It is a phrase imputing cowardice, going beyond an honorable surrender, synonymous with bug out (probably coined in World War II but popularized in the Korean conflict); both are said in derogation of a policy to be opposed with the utmost repugnance.
Eleven years ago, as many in the United States urged a pullout of U.S. troops from Somalia, Gen. Colin Powell said, ''I don't think we should cut and run because things have gotten a little tough.'' After our hurried retrograde movement from that hostile environment, I provided readers with the earliest citation in the O.E.D.: in 1704, The Boston News-Letter reported that ''Cap. Vaughn rode by said Ship, but cut & run.''
The nautical metaphor was defined in the 1794 ''Elements and Practice of Rigging and Seamanship'' as ''to cut the cable and make sail instantly, without waiting to weigh anchor.'' In those days, the anchor cable was made of hemp and could be cut, allowing an escaping vessel to run before the wind.
Sailors extended the metaphor to fit other hasty, though not panicky, departures: Herman Melville, in his 1850 novel, ''White-Jacket,'' had a midshipman cry out, ''Jack Chase cut and run!'' about a buddy who ran away with a seductive lady. The poet Tennyson wrote to his wife, Emily, in 1864: ''I dined at Gladstone's yesterday -- Duke and Duchess there . . . but I can't abide the dinners. . . . I shall soon have to cut and run.''
That lighthearted sense has since disappeared. Like the word quagmire, the phrase has gained an accusatory edge in politics and war.
Vogue Word Watch
Some words move through the language like comets. Here are three spotted in the Vogue Word Watch:
''Ben Kingsley is an actor of immense, often ominous interiority,'' wrote Karen Durbin in The New York Times. The word is hot in criticism of poetry and art movies. It is ''the quality of being inward,'' defined back in 1803 as ''the attributes of an object as originally existing in itself.'' In today's usage, it is applied to people (or their work) who are not merely introspective but are also able to peel the onion of the self right down to where the tears are.
Default, dear Brutus, long ago left the legal meaning of ''failure to perform an obligation'' to leap into computer lingo as ''the option selected by a computer when the user is too lazy to choose.'' Now it has hopped into the fashion world: ''Do you have a default outfit?'' asked Kate Novack of Sarah Jessica Parker in Time magazine. (Answer: a T-shirt or a black shift.) The phrase became the name of a musical group whose latest album provides ''a straight ahead, take only the clothes on your back'' journey, in which you presumably pack only default outfits.
Phishing made the front page of The Times recently. ''Phishing got its name a decade ago when America Online charged users by the hour,'' Saul Hansell wrote. ''Teenagers sent e-mail and instant messages pretending to be AOL customer service agents in order to fish -- or phish -- for account identification and passwords they could use to stay online at someone else's expense.'' Today, a coalition of technology companies, banks and cops calling itself the Anti-Phishing Working Group is going after these identity thieves. Said Christopher Wray of the Justice Department, ''Phishing is the identity theft du jour.''
You might assume that phish -- also the name of a musical group -- was a blend of ''phony fishing,'' but the lexicographer Sol Steinmetz tells me that ''a broader influence was probably the practice in American slang to change the word-initial f to ph, as in phat, meaning 'great, wonderful' (altered from fat in the 1960's) and phooey (a variant of fooey, popularized in the 1920's and possibly borrowed from the German pfui!).''
As a privacy nut, I hope they catch those phishers and let them examine the soul-searching interiority of an institution in which the default outfit is a suit with stripes.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/September_1967
September 1967
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The following events occurred in September 1967:
September 21, 1967 (Thursday)
U.S. Army General William C. Westmoreland, the commander of U.S. forces in Vietnam, told the National Press Club that the Vietnam War had reached "an important point where the end comes into view... I am absolutely certain that whereas in 1965 the enemy was winning, today he is certainly losing."
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Windtalkers (2002)
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from my private journal as Kerry Burgess: 9/12/2006 11:27 AM
Was I part of the group that is known as Delta Force? That would make sense.
Apocalypse Now (1979)
(from internet transcript)
Willard: (narrating) Kurtz got off the boat. He split from the whole fucking program. How did that happen? What did he see here that first tour? If you joined the Green Berets, there was no way you'd ever get above colonel. Kurtz knew what he was giving up. The more I read and began to understand, the more I admired him. His family and friends couldn't understand it, and they couldn't talk him out of it. He applied three times and put up with a ton of shit. When he threatened to resign, they gave it to him. The next youngest guy in his class was half his age. They must have thought he was some far-out old man humping over that course. I did that when I was 19. It damn near wasted me. A tough motherfucker. He finished it. He could have gone for general... but he went for himself instead.
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http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078788/quotes
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Apocalypse Now (1979)
Quotes
Kurtz: Did they say why, Willard, why they want to terminate my command?
Willard: I was sent on a classified mission, sir.
Kurtz: It's no longer classified, is it? Did they tell you?
Willard: They told me that you had gone totally insane, and that your methods were unsound.
Kurtz: Are my methods unsound?
Willard: I don't see any method at all, sir.
Kurtz: I expected someone like you. What did you expect? Are you an assassin?
Willard: I'm a soldier.
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The Firm (1993)
Release Info
USA 23 June 1993 (New York City, New York) (premiere)
USA 28 June 1993 (Beverly Hills, California) (premiere)
USA 30 June 1993
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The Firm (1993)
Full Cast & Crew
Tom Cruise ... Mitch McDeere
Jeanne Tripplehorn ... Abby McDeere
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The Six Million Dollar Man Season 2 Episode 19
The Bionic Woman (1)
Aired Mar 16, 1975 on ABC
Episode Summary
When Steve returns to his hometown, he runs into Jaime Sommers, his former girlfriend. The romance is rekindled and they quickly get engaged. While the two are skydiving, Jaime's parachute gets tangled and has a near fatal accident. To help save her life and another chance at a normal life, Steve pleads with Oscar to let Rudy operate on her and give her bionics.
AIRED: 3/16/75
Windtalkers (2002)
(from internet transcript of incomplete dialog)
And to keep our honor clean We are proud to claim the title Of United States Marines
Hi. How's that ear? Not that you'd ever admit it, but if it starts aching, take a couple of those. And call me in the morning. You're not gonna be here in the morning, are you? Shipping out without even buying me a drink.
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The Simpsons (TV Series)
Bart the Murderer (1991)
Quotes
Chief Wiggum: Find anything this time boys?
Lou: Nah, no sign of him Chief.
Chief Wiggum: Princess Opal?
Princess Opal: I see nothing here. But I'm afraid it's Splitsville for Delta Burke and Major Dad.
Chief Wiggum: But they seemed so happy.
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Names: Beyoncé Knowles
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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 9/18/1978 ( premiere US TV series "WKRP in Cincinnati" ) is 4703 days
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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 9/17/1978 ( premiere US TV series "Battlestar Galactica"::series premiere episode "Saga of a Star World" ) is 4702 days
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From 9/3/1955 ( premiere US TV series "Tales of the Texas Rangers" ) To 10/3/1993 ( the Battle of Mogadishu Somalia begins with my personal participation United States of America Delta Force operation and as Kerry Burgess the US Marine Corps captain this day is my US Silver Star date of record ) is 13910 days
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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 9/15/1976 ( premiere US TV series pilot "Kingston: Confidential" ) is 3970 days
http://www.nbcnews.com/id/3660748/ns/politics-tom_curry/t/kerry-warns-cut-run-iraq
NBC News
Kerry warns of 'cut and run' in Iraq
By Tom Curry
National affairs writer
msnbc.com
WASHINGTON, Dec. 3 — In a major national security address Wednesday Democratic presidential contender John Kerry was sounding an alarm about premature U.S. withdrawal from Iraq. “I fear that in the run-up to the 2004 election the administration is considering what is tantamount to a cut-and-run strategy,” Kerry said in remarks prepared for delivery to the Council on Foreign Relations.
The Massachusetts senator accused Bush and his aides of a “sudden embrace of accelerated Iraqification and American troop withdrawal without adequate stability,” which he called “an invitation to failure.”
He contended that it would be “a disaster and a disgraceful betrayal of principle” to accelerate the transfer of authority to Iraqis so as to allow “a politically expedient withdrawal of American troops.”
Send more troops?
Kerry foreign policy advisor Rand Beers told reporters Kerry “would not rule out the possibility” of sending additional U.S. troops to Iraq.
“It is very clear the number of troops is inadequate” in Iraq, Beers told reporters in a telephone conference call previewing the speech.
Kerry’s first preference, he said, would be to persuade foreign governments to deploy more troops to help share the burden with Americans.
But by not foreclosing the possibility of dispatching more U.S. troops to Iraq, Kerry seems to have changed his position and to have repositioned himself as a more hawkish alternative to Democratic presidential front-runner Howard Dean.
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In a Sept. 4 debate in Albuquerque, N.M., Kerry said, “We should not send more American troops. That would be the worst thing. We do not want to have more Americanization. We do not want a greater sense of American occupation.”
As he flew back to the United States from his Thanksgiving visit to U.S. troops in Iraq, Bush said he had told American commanders there, “My message was, I know you’ll succeed, and I’m here to tell you we’re going to stay the course.”
But Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said recently, “We’ve got 127,000 men and women over in Iraq, and that’s a lot. It’s not permanent. What we hope to do is to continue to increase the Iraqi security forces to take over those responsibilities.”
Kerry’s speech comes at a time when Democrats are moving to outflank Bush on both the doveish and the hawkish sides.
On the left, Ohio Rep. Dennis Kucinich continues to press for rapid withdrawal of all U.S. forces, while on the hawkish side, New York Sen. Hillary Clinton, just back from a tour of Afghanistan and Iraq, called for more U.S. troops in Iraq.
Kucinich says pull out
“No one else (among the Democratic contenders) is saying definitively that we must end the occupation, and I’m the only one doing it,” Kucinich told MSNBC.com last week. “I see this as being a defining issue in this election. We must have a plan to get out. Not maybe. I put a plan on my Web site a month ago. We must have the Democrats united in ending the occupation. Otherwise we’re in the same situation we are in now, with the death toll continuing to mount … and the possibility of the conflict widening.”
Clinton’s call for more troops puts her at odds with Kucinich and the left wing of her party.
The argument for more troops in Iraq got articulate support Tuesday from Iraq expert and former Clinton administration National Security Council official Kenneth Pollack.
“We desperately need more people. We need more civil affairs officers…. There are not enough of them; they are horribly understaffed,” Pollack argued in a talk to policy-makers and reporters at the Brookings Institution in Washington.
“We desperately need infantry, lots more infantry than what we have got right now” in Iraq, Pollack said.
Rampant lawlessness is a primary reason for Iraqis’ increasingly disillusioned view of the U.S. occupation, he said. U.S. infantry soldiers need to be out on foot patrols, alongside Iraqi soldiers, to bring order to Baghdad and other places, Pollack said.
He said it was “a hoax” by the Bush administration to contend that Iraqi police — whom he called “horribly corrupt” — could take over the job of maintaining order on the streets of Iraq’s cities and towns.
In his speech Kerry also said he’d renew efforts to reconcile Israel and the Palestinians by appointing an envoy, perhaps former President Bill Clinton, to help the two sides reach an accord.
And he broadened the discussion by focusing on Iraq’s neighbors, including Iran. Kerry said he would explore talks with the regime in Tehran to find areas of mutual interest.
“Just as we have asked that Iran turn over al-Qaida members who are there, the Iranians have looked to us for help in dealing with Iraq-based terrorists who threaten them,” he said.
He called it “incomprehensible” that “this administration refuses to broker an arrangement with Iran for a mutual crackdown on both terrorist groups.”
Kerry has fallen behind Dean in polls in the first two states where contests will be held, Iowa and New Hampshire.
Dean’s candidacy has been fueled by his criticism of the war in Iraq. Both Kerry and Dean have said that they’d make more energetic efforts than Bush has to persuade foreign governments to contribute more peace-keeping troops to Iraq to help replace American soldiers there.
Dean has made at times contrasting statements on Iraq, at one point saying in the Sept. 4 Albuquerque debate, “We need more troops. They’re going to be foreign troops, as they should have been in the first place, not American troops. Ours need to come home.”
But four days later Dean said, “We cannot pull all the U.S. troops out of Iraq. We have to stay there for the duration…. We need to reduce our troop strength in Iraq. We cannot do that until we get foreign replacements.”
Kerry has struggled for months to explain his decision to support Bush in voting for last year’s congressional use-of-force resolution on Iraq.
Kerry has insisted he has no regrets about his vote to give Bush authority to use force, but he has also said that, despite that vote, Bush had still not earned “the legitimacy and consent of the American people.”
Meanwhile, in an interview with MSNBC’s Chris Matthews Monday night, Dean continued his critique of Bush policy, saying the president is failing by not paying attention to possible smuggling of uranium into this country and not spending enough on human intelligence.
“By and large, this president, I don’t believe, has any idea how to fight terror, and I don’t think he’s being particularly successful at it, either,” Dean told Matthews.
Dean also said on the campaign trail this week, “Mr. President, if you’ll pardon me, I’ll teach you a little about defense.”
Another Democratic contender, retired Army Gen. Wesley Clark, is touting his foreign policy and military credentials as a career military officer and former NATO commander.
In a speech last month on foreign policy Clark proposed an array of tactics in Iraq, including:
Engaging with Iraq’s neighbors, Syria, Iran and Saudi Arabia, to close the borders with Iraq with the goal of cutting of foreign jihadists who are slipping into Iraq to attack Americans.
Calling the former Iraqi army back to duty, after thorough background checks are done, so that Iraqi soldiers could perform guard duties and U.S. soldiers could focus on counter-insurgency tasks.
Re-assigning linguists and intelligence specialists now assigned to the search for weapons of mass destruction, redeploying them to search for jihadists and insurgents in Iraq.
https://www.foxnews.com/story/sen-kerry-should-settle-in-at-senate
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Published June 23, 2006Last Update January 13, 2015
Sen. Kerry Should Settle in at Senate
By Fox News
Sen. John Kerry's proposal for a troop withdrawal fell flat in the U.S. Senate, as you have no doubt heard.
The senator proposed a deadline for withdrawing from Iraq — July 1, 2007 — a year from now essentially.
The senator said that Bush's plan for Iraq was "lie and die."
He said his plan was to tell the Iraqis they had to get it together in a year because we're going home. He said we have accomplished what we needed to do in Iraq and it's time to come home.
He probably knew his fellow senators were not going to vote for his deadline, and he certainly knew President Bush wasn't going to pay attention to it.
You think maybe the senator is running for president again and he'd like to enter 2008 saying, "I had a plan. The president didn't listen to me"?
Well he says a lot of things, doesn't he?
Remember this one from the last election campaign? It was December 3, 2003, and candidate Kerry was speaking to the Council on Foreign Relations. He said the following:
"I fear that in the run-up to the 2004 election, the administration is considering what is tantamount to a cut-and-run strategy."
Could that be our Sen. Kerry accusing Bush of cut and run? Yes.
He continued:
"Their sudden embrace of accelerated Iraqification and American troop withdrawal dates, without adequate stability, is an invitation to failure. The hard work of rebuilding Iraq must not be dictated by the schedule of the next American election."
I don't want to start with the flip-flop stuff again, but this one takes your breath away, doesn't it?
First Bush is cutting and running and then when Kerry himself likes cutting and running, Bush is all of a sudden "lying and dying."
This may be one of the reasons why 31 fellow Democrats didn't vote for John Kerry's deadline. They probably knew this quote was lurking out there and they didn't want to get married to a Kerry back flip if they didn't have to.
How to explain how Bush is a cutter and runner two years ago and now he's standing stupidly firm, the "lie and die" line.
This is also why Sen. Kerry should settle in at the Senate and enjoy himself.
He may think he would have done a much better job in the Oval Office and dreams do die hard, but it's really, really over.
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WKRP in Cincinnati Season 1 Episode 1
Pilot (1)
Aired Monday 8:00 PM Sep 18, 1978 on CBS
AIRED: 9/18/78
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(from internet transcript of incomplete dialog)
Boomer: (to Helo) What are you doing?
- posted by Kerry Burgess 3:33 PM Pacific Time Spokane Valley Washington USA Monday 12 November 2018
