Three Days Of The Condor (1975)
(from internet transcript)
This is the Major. - This is Condor.
- Standby. Routing you to NY Center.
Condor on 1-1, Mr. Higgins.
Hello, Condor.
Who's this? - Deputy Director Higgins,
New York Center. Where are you?
I need a code name, why don't you?
Where are you?
Here.
You alright?
- Are you insane?
Three Days Of The Condor (1975)
(from internet transcript)
Will you be there?
The head of department came from D. C...
He'll bring you home.
I've never met him. - Don't worry.
He's studying your photos now.
I don't know you either.
- We'll meet.
He'll carry a Wall Street Journal.
- There were two guys at my house.
What were you doing there?
- I was homesick. Who were they?
They were ours.
- What were they doing in my house?
I'm not going in any alley
and fuck the Wall Street Journal!
Turner, it's been a long, bad day.
You've been under... - Damn right!
Alright. We'll bring a familiar face.
Somebody you know.
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Three Days Of The Condor (1975)
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Joe Turner: Do we have plans to invade the Middle East?
Higgins: Are you crazy?
Joe Turner: Am I?
Higgins: Look, Turner...
Joe Turner: Do we have plans?
Higgins: No, absolutely not. We have games. That's all. We play games. 'What if?' 'How many men?' 'What would it take?' 'Is there a cheaper way to destabilize a regime?' That's what we're paid to do.
Joe Turner: Supposing I hadn't stumbled onto a plan; say, nobody had?
Higgins: Different ballgame... the fact is, there was nothing wrong with the plan. No, the plan was alright; the plan would've worked!
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Three Days Of The Condor (1975)
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Higgins: It's simple economics. Today it's oil, right? In ten or fifteen years, food. Plutonium. Maybe even sooner. Now, what do you think the people are gonna want us to do then?
Joe Turner: Ask them?
Higgins: Not now - then! Ask 'em when they're running out. Ask 'em when there's no heat in their homes and they're cold. Ask 'em when their engines stop. Ask 'em when people who have never known hunger start going hungry. You wanna know something? They won't want us to ask 'em. They'll just want us to get it for 'em!
Fail-Safe (1964)
(from internet transcript)
What you're seeing, gentlemen,
is an unidentified flying object...
picked up by our radar.
Until we get positive identification,
we regard it as hostile.
What do you do about it?
We've gone to Condition Blue,
which is our lowest form of readiness.
At the same time, we've informed
those Vindicator bombers...
that you saw in the air before.
They will now start to fly
toward their fail-safe points.
"Fail-safe"?
Fixed points in the sky
on the perimeter of the Soviet Union...
which are changed from day to day.
The planes will fly to those points
and orbit...
until they get
a positive order to go in.
And if they don't get that order?
They return to their normal patrols.
In short, we can't go to war
except on an express order.
How do they get that order,
by radio?
Yes, and through a box we call
the fail-safe box aboard each plane...
which can only be activated
at the express order of the president.
- He has to tell them?
- Not directly.
His voice can be imitated.
He just gives the order
and the rest is done electronically.
No one can interfere
with the fail-safe box
Fail-Safe (1964)
(from internet transcript)
Even if we believe them, should we
still think of limiting our response...
or should we hit them back
with everything we have?
It's gone, General.
What happened to it?
Colonel Cascio,
let's go to Condition Yellow.
It's dropped below the level
in which our radar can pick it up.
You went to the next state
of readiness.
That's standard operating procedure.
It could be a commercial plane
about to crash.
Or an enemy plane
taking evasive action.
Naturally, we prepare for the worst.
Two minutes to fail-safe.
What are those planes
following the bomber, General?
Fighter support.
Part of Condition Yellow.
From now on, they'll follow
the bombers as far as they go.
- What comes after Condition Yellow?
- Green.
- And then?
- Red.
But we've never gone to red yet.
Red means war, doesn't it?
Fail-Safe (1964)
(from internet transcript)
It could be a rocket.
Off course?
Maybe on.
One minute to fail-safe.
It could be a Russian rocket coming in
low where our radar can't pick it up.
- Could it be that?
- It could be anything.
- How do you find out?
- Our fighters are tracking it.
Can't wait too long.
13, 12, 11, 10, 9...
8, 7, 6, 5, 4...
3, 2, 1.
All groups at fail-safe point.
Right on the dot.
That's flying.
- Yes, sir?
- Go to Condition Green.
Tell the planes to keep orbiting
until we positively identify the UFO.
- That's their orders.
- Tell them again.
Fail-Safe (1964)
(from internet transcript)
- You know what's happened?
- No, sir.
One of our Vindicator groups
got a wrong signal.
They took off to bomb Moscow.
We've got to stop it.
Easier said than done.
But we've got a little time;
not much, but a little, so relax.
Easier said than done, sir.
If things get really hot...
I might have to use
the direct phone to the Kremlin.
That's where you'll come in.
Let's hope we don't get that far.
I hope not, sir.
- General Bogan from Omaha, sir.
- Put him on.
Group Six is now about 200 miles
past fail-safe, Mr. President.
We still can't make contact.
- Do you know what went wrong?
- No, sir, we do not.
Why can't you raise them by radio?
We don't know for sure, sir.
We've tried all frequencies.
We just can't make contact.
- Why?
- I dont know.
Fail-Safe (1964)
(from internet transcript)
Mr. Knapp here knows as much
about electronic gear as anyone.
Hed like to say something.
The more complex
an electronic system gets...
the more accident-prone it is.
- Sooner or later, it breaks down.
- What breaks down?
A transistor blows.
A condenser burns out.
Sometimes they just get tired,
like people.
Mr. Knapp overlooks one factor.
The machines are supervised
by humans.
Even if the machine fails, the human
can always correct the mistake.
I wish you were right.
The fact is,
the machines work so fast...
they are so intricate...
the mistakes they make
are so subtle...
that very often,
a human being just can't know...
whether a machine is lying
or telling the truth.
Maybe this time
there wasn't any failure.
Maybe the Russians have masked
the real position of Group Six.
Maybe Group Six is flying back
to the States this minute.
Then what's on the board?
Northern lights?
Maybe a group of Soviet planes,
up there to convince us...
we've accidentally launched
a bomber group.
- For what purpose?
- As an excuse to retaliate.
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989)
(from internet transcript)
The Holy Grail's final resting place described in detail.
Indiana Jones: What good is it? This grail tablet speaks of deserts and mountains and canyons. It's pretty vague. Where do you want to start looking?
Star Trek Generations (1994)
(from internet transcript)
[Bird-of-Prey bridge]
LURSA: Did you get anything from the human?
SORAN: No. His heart just wasn't in it.
KLINGON HELM: We have entered orbit of Veridian Three.
SORAN: Prepare to transport me to the surface.
B'ETOR: Wait. When do we get our payment?
SORAN: This contains all the information you'll need to make a trilithium weapon. ...It's been coded. Once I'm safely to the surface, I'll transmit the decryption sequence to you, ...not before.
KLINGON HELM: Mistress! A Federation starship is entering the system!
LURSA: What? On viewer.
KLINGON HELM: They are hailing us.
B'ETOR: Du'cha! (On speakers)
LURSA (OC): We're still cloaked. They can't see us.
PICARD (on intercom): Klingon vessel. We know what you're doing, and we will destroy any probe launched toward the Veridian star. We demand that you return our Chief Engineer and leave this system immediately.
SORAN: There's no time for this. Eliminate them.
B'ETOR: That's a Galaxy-class starship. We are no match for them.
Star Trek Generations (1994)
[Enterprise-D bridge]
RIKER: Maybe they're not out there.
PICARD: They're just trying to decide whether a twenty year-old Klingon Bird-of-Prey can be a match for the Federation flagship.
TROI: Perhaps they're on the surface.
WORF: Sir, according to my calculations, a solar probe launched from either the Klingon ship or the planet's surface will take eleven seconds to reach the sun. However, since we do not have an exact point of origin, it will take us between eight and fifteen seconds to lock our weapons onto it.
RIKER: That's a pretty big margin of error. Much too big.
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Armageddon (1998)
Quotes
President: Dan, we didn't see this thing coming?
Dan: Well, our object collison budget's a million dollars, that allows us to track about 3% of the sky, and beg'n your pardon sir, but it's a big-ass sky.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/ousted-general-warned-missile-defense-203903840.html
Yahoo! News
CBS News
Ousted general warned of missile defense shortage before Iran war
James LaPorta
Thu, October 15, 2026 at 1:39 PM PDT 8 min read
Washington — In late December, two months before the U.S. war with Iran began, Army Chief of Staff Gen. Randy George warned that his service was critically short on missile defense munitions and that the shortage would last another five years, according to multiple U.S. officials familiar with the matter. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ousted George in April, as the Iran war was underway.
George's risk analysis appeared in the Pentagon's Global Force Management Allocation Plan, a defense secretary-approved annual order determining where troops and weapons will be allocated across the globe, according to the U.S. officials who spoke to CBS News.
He warned that the stockpile of Terminal High Altitude Area Defense batteries and Patriot missiles would continue to be strategically low until 2030. His assessment was written for the Defense Department's plan for fiscal year 2027 and before the outbreak of the U.S.-Israel-led war with Iran, now in its seventh month.
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https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/statement-administration-policy-hr-3576-cranston-gonzalez-national-affordable-housing-act
The American Presidency Project
George Bush
41st President of the United States: 1989 ‐ 1993
Statement of Administration Policy: H.R. 3576 - Cranston-Gonzalez National Affordable Housing Act Amendments
October 21, 1991
STATEMENT OF ADMINISTRATION POLICY
(House)
(Gonzalez (D) Texas)
The Administration has no objection to the intent of H.R. 3576 but has concerns regarding the formula that determines the set aside for insular areas under the HOME Investment Partnership Act. Based on the FY 1992 HOME appropriation, insular areas would receive $7.5 million under the bill as drafted.
Insular areas have been unable to spend smaller funding set- asides for other programs administered by the Department of Housing and Urban Development. Therefore, the Administration would prefer that the set-aside in H.R. 3576 be the greater of (1) $750,000 or (2) 0.2 percent of the amount appropriated for each fiscal year.
The Administration has no objection to House passage of H.R. 3576 and will work to address its concerns in the Senate.
https://www.upi.com/Archives/1991/10/21/US-hostage-Turner-freed/7972688017600/
UPI
UPI Archives Oct. 21, 1991
U.S. hostage Turner freed
BEIRUT, Lebanon -- U.S. hostage Jesse Turner was freed Monday by the Islamic Jihad for the Liberation of Palestine after nearly five years' captivity.
Turner, 44, was released hours after Israel freed 14 Arabs held in southern Lebanon and a 15th from an Israeli jail amid growing evidence that the United Nations' efforts to end the 9-year-old stalemate are proving successful. Seven Western hostages were still being held in Lebanon.
A United Nations spokesman in New York confirmed earlier reports from Beirut that Turner had been freed and was 'on his way to Damascus.' The spokesman said Secretary General Javier Perez de Cuellar had been informed of the released and welcomed the information.
State Department officials in Washington said they expected Turner to arrive in Damascus by Tuesday but were unsure about the precise time. While they were certain of his release, however, the officials were unable to explain why Turner had not yet arrived in Damascus, a three- hour drive from Beirut.
Separately, State Department spokesman Richard Boucher said the United States sent a medical team to an army post in Wiesbadan, Germany, where freed detainees customarily receive interim care.
Turner, a professor of mathematics and computer science at Beirut University College, was kidnapped Jan. 24, 1987.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WTC
WTC
From Wikipedia
WTC may stand for:
World Triathlon Corporation, an American for-profit corporation that runs several Triathlon, Ironman
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From 9/11/2001 ( ) to 2/6/2004 ( as me, Kerry Burgess, my final day as full-time employee of Microsoft Corporation in Seattle beginning 12/07/1998 ) is 878 days
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Three Days Of The Condor (1975)
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Joe Turner: Just look around. They've got it. That's where they ship from. They've got all of it.
Higgins: What? What did you do?
Joe Turner: I told them a story. You play games, I told them a story.
- by me, Kerry Wayne Burgess, posted by me: 01:54 AM Pacific-timezone USA Friday 10/16/2026
