by me, Kerry Burgess, 06/17/2025 03:31 AM
USA Congress is truly and absolutely USELESS for the national security of this USA.
37 years since year 1988.
All that time USA could have made it a PRIORITY to end dependence on polluting sources of energy, including nuclear.
Lazy.
The atomic bomb was first developed by the USA at a cost equivalent to about $27 billion in 2023 and completed in about 4 years. The USA Project Apollo cost the equivalent of $182 billion in 2023 US dollars.
Pathetic.
Pathetic that USA Congress is so short-sighted.
Do not read further if you are squeamish about snakes.
IMDb
Full Metal Jacket (1987)
Quotes
Door Gunner: Git some! Git some! Git some, yeah, yeah, yeah! Anyone who runs, is a VC. Anyone who stands still, is a well-disciplined VC!
Private Joker: Any women or children?
Door Gunner: Sometimes!
From 11/28/1973 ( ) To 6/20/2025 ( ) is 18832 days
18832 = 9416 + 9416
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 8/14/1991 ( "The Sum of All Fears" by Tom Clancy ) is 9416 days
https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/message-the-congress-proposing-establishment-new-wilderness-areas
The Stand - complete edition, by Stephen King
(from internet transcript)
excerpts, Chapter 44
until I started to have all those bad dreams.”
Larry’s head jerked up. “Dreams?”
Nadine was looking at Joe. A moment before, the boy had been nodding out in front of the fire. Now he was staring at Lucy, his eyes gleaming.
“Bad dreams, nightmares,” Lucy said. “They’re not always the same. Mostly it’s a man chasing me, and I can never see exactly what he looks like because he’s all wrapped up in a, what do you call it, a cloak. And he stays in the shadows and alleys.” She shivered. “I got so I was afraid to go to sleep. But now maybe I’ll—”
“Brrr-ack man!” Joe cried suddenly, so fiercely they all jumped. He leaped to his feet and held his arms out like a miniature Bela Lugosi, his fingers hooked into claws. “Brrack man! Bad dreams! Chases! Chases me! ‘Cares me!” And he shrank against Nadine and stared untrustingly into the darkness.
A little silence fell among them.
“This is crazy,” Larry said, and then stopped. They were all looking at him. Suddenly the darkness seemed very dark indeed, and Lucy looked frightened again.
He forced himself to go on. “Lucy, do you ever dream about… well, about a place in Nebraska?”
“I had a dream one night about an old Negro woman,” Lucy said, “but it didn’t last very long. She said something like, ‘You come see me.’ Then I was back in Enfield and that… that scary guy was chasing me. Then I woke up.”
Larry looked at her so long that she colored and dropped her eyes.
He looked at Joe. “Joe, do you ever dream about… uh, corn? An old woman? A guitar?” Joe only looked at him from Nadine’s encircling arm.
“Leave him alone, you’ll upset him more,” Nadine said, but she was the one who sounded upset.
Larry thought. “A house, Joe? A little house with a porch up on jacks?”
He thought he saw a gleam in Joe’s eyes.
“Stop it, Larry!” Nadine said.
“A swing, Joe? A swing made out of a tire?”
Joe suddenly jerked in Nadine’s arms. His thumb came out of his mouth. Nadine tried to hold him, but Joe broke through.
“The swing!” Joe said exultantly. “The swing! The swing!” He whirled away from them and pointed first at Nadine, then at Larry. “Her! You! Lots!”
“Lots?” Larry asked, but Joe had subsided again.
Lucy Swann looked stunned. “The swing,” she said. “I remember that, too.” She looked at Larry. “Why are we all having the same dreams? Is somebody using a ray on us?”
“I don’t know.” He looked at Nadine. “Have you had them, too?”
“I don’t dream,” she said sharply, and immediately dropped her eyes. He thought: You’re lying. But why?
IMDb
The Sum of All Fears (2002)
Quotes
Bill Cabot: What's the t-shirt say?
Depot Worker: "I am a bomb technician, if you see me running...
[laughs]
Depot Worker: ... try to catch up."
- by me, Kerry Wayne Burgess, posted by me: 04:36 AM Pacific-timezone USA Tuesday 06/17/2025
