This Is What I Think.
Sunday, May 03, 2015
Wouldn't your mind blow seeing my 30 year old face in a photograph on Beyonce's website with her. Those actually exist somewhere.
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Springfield! Springfield!
NCIS: New Orleans
You'll Do
You robbing me? Wait till I tell the players at 4th Street their supplier's a thief.
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The American Presidency Project
Barack Obama
XLIV President of the United States: 2009 - present
674 - Remarks at the Congressional Picnic
September 17, 2014
Hello, everybody! It is a perfect night for a picnic. I'm thrilled that everybody is here. I took off my tie; I noticed some of you didn't get the memo. [Laughter] But I know that a lot of you are coming straight from work. I'm not going to make a long speech. I want to shake as many hands as possible.
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STARGATE WIKI
9.11 "The Fourth Horseman Part 2"
EXT—CHEYENNE MOUNTAIN, DAY
INT—SGC CORRIDOR
[Lam and Landry walk down a corridor. Both look extremely tired.]
LAM
We've had three fatalities this morning. We have another twelve base personnel that are in critical condition and probably won't make it past the next twenty-four hours.
LANDRY
That's it?
LAM
They've been given sedatives and are resting comfortably. There's nothing you or anyone can do for them right now.
LANDRY
I can go see them.
[Lam steps in front of Landry and turns to face him, stopping his progress.]
LAM
No, you can't! You're exhausted, and you've already got a lot on your plate.
JOURNAL ARCHIVE: posted by H.V.O.M at 1:31 PM Monday, September 12, 2005
Sanity was statistical
[ Excerpt: George Orwell "Nineteen Eighty-Four" ] He had capitulated, that was agreed. In reality, as he saw now, he had been ready to capitulate long before he had taken the decision. From the moment when he was inside the Ministry of Love -- and yes, even during those minutes when he and Julia had stood helpless while the iron voice from the telescreen told them what to do -- he had grasped the frivolity, the shallowness of his attempt to set himself up against the power of the Party. He knew now that for seven years the Thought police had watched him like a beetle under a magnifying glass. There was no physical act, no word spoken aloud, that they had not noticed, no train of thought that they had not been able to infer. Even the speck of whitish dust on the cover of his diary they had carefully replaced. They had played sound-tracks to him, shown him photographs. Some of them were photographs of Julia and himself. Yes, even ... He could not fight against the Party any longer. Besides, the Party was in the right. It must be so; how could the immortal, collective brain be mistaken? By what external standard could you check its judgements? Sanity was statistical. It was merely a question of learning to think as they thought. Only! [ Excerpt: George Orwell "Nineteen Eighty-Four" ]
There is a part in that excerpt from 1984 that really hits close to home. It is the part "Sanity was statistical." I heard that very same thing when I was in the VA. Fortunately, it wasn't from a doctor though. What I heard someone say, when I was reasserting my belief that all this is indeed a conspiracy, was that they are treating me on the probability that what I am saying is not true. So that also reinforced my theory that if you are in the mental health system, is it assumed mental health problems are causing your problems as opposed to external environmental factors causing the problems. However, I did see indications they were listening to me and that they thought what I was saying made sense. I have no complaints about my treatment at the VA.
But as I have learned from this infuriating chapter of my life, there are problems that produce mental health issues and there are mental health issues that produce problems.
If they treated 100 people for the problems I am describing, it is probable that 99 of them would be delusional. But my argument has been that I am that one person that is not delusional. Sure, I am feeling paranoid, but it is a healthy paranoia. It is a normal reaction to a threat in my environment. How many more years am I going to have to live thinking no one understands?
This excerpt also describes something else I picked up on. I could just imagine all these people out there reading my private emails and scrutinizing every word I wrote. I could write enough to fill a book about my thoughts on that. And then there is the part about the photographs. I know someone has been taking photos of me for a long time. This one guy with a telephoto lens even made it obvious a couple times in Coeur d'Alene. He stopped in the middle of the road there next to the CDA beach and was standing there with his camera and telephoto lens. He even drove a black Jeep like mine. I thought that was a good sign, that he was revealing himself. It meant they were wrapping things up and would soon be in contact with me with explanations. That was over a year ago.
[JOURNAL ARCHIVE 12 September 2005 excerpt ends]
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STARGATE WIKI
9.11 "The Fourth Horseman Part 2"
CARTER
Are you okay?
ORLIN
I'm fine.
JOHNSON
(furious)
No, no, he is not fine!
CARTER
Colonel!
JOHNSON
(still angry)
He hasn't been fine in two days! He has demonstrated lapses in judgment that put everyone in this room at risk.
CARTER
Colonel, that is enough!
From 6/28/1957 ( premiere US film "Beginning of the End" ) To 1/6/2006 ( premiere US TV series episode "Stargate SG-1"::"The Fourth Horseman - Part 2" ) is 17724 days
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 5/13/2014 is 17724 days
From 7/9/1942 ( Richard Roundtree ) To 1/17/1991 ( the date of record of my United States Navy Medal of Honor as Kerry Wayne Burgess chief warrant officer United States Marine Corps circa 1991 also known as Matthew Kline for official duty and also known as Wayne Newman for official duty ) is 17724 days
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 5/13/2014 is 17724 days
From 7/9/1942 ( Richard Roundtree ) To 1/17/1991 ( RACKETEER INFLUENCED AND CORRUPT ORGANIZATIONS US Title 18 - the Persian Gulf War begins as scheduled severe criminal activity against the United States of America ) is 17724 days
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 5/13/2014 is 17724 days
From 9/25/1992 ( premiere US film "The Last of the Mohicans" ) To 5/13/2014 is 7900 days
7900 = 3950 + 3950
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 8/26/1976 ( the first known human case of Ebola ) is 3950 days
From 5/13/2014 To 9/30/2014 is 140 days
140 = 70 + 70
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 1/11/1966 ( Lyndon Johnson - Executive Order 11265 - Amending Executive Order No. 10448, Establishing the National Defense Service Medal ) is 70 days
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The American Presidency Project
Barack Obama
XLIV President of the United States: 2009 - present
359 - Remarks on Presenting the Medal of Honor to Sergeant Kyle J. White
May 13, 2014
Good afternoon, everybody. Please, be seated. Welcome to the White House. It has been said that true courage is "a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger and a mental willingness to incur it." For more than 12 years, with our Nation at war, the men and women of our Armed Forces have known the measure of danger that comes with military service. But year after year, tour after tour, they have displayed a selfless willingness to incur it: by stepping forward, by volunteering, by serving and sacrificing greatly to keep us all safe.
Today, our troops are coming home. By the end of this year, our war in Afghanistan will be over, and we'll welcome home this generation—the 9/11 generation—that has proven itself to be one of America's greatest.
And today we pay tribute to a soldier who embodies the courage of his generation: a young man who was a freshman in high school when the Twin Towers fell and who just 5 years later became an elite paratrooper with the legendary 173d Airborne, the Sky Soldiers. Today we present our Nation's highest military decoration, the Medal of Honor, to Sergeant Kyle J. White.
Now, Kyle is the second Sky Soldier to be recognized with the Medal of Honor for service above and beyond the call of duty in Afghanistan. Today he joins Staff Sergeant Salvatore Giunta and a proud brotherhood of previous honorees, members of the Medal of Honor Society, some of whom are with us here today.
We have a lot of VIPs here, but I'd like to acknowledge the most important: Kyle's parents Cheryl and Curt and Kyle's girlfriend Helen. I am told that back home in Bonney Lake, Washington, when Kyle wanted to enlist, at first he had set his sights on the Marines. But his dad Curt is a veteran of the Army, Special Forces. So I'm told there was a difference of opinion—[laughter]—and, I suspect, a good family discussion. As Commander in Chief, I cannot take sides in this debate. [Laughter] Bottom line is, Kyle joined the Army. And in doing so he carried on his family's proud tradition of service, which found its expression on a November day over 6 years ago.
Across Afghanistan, base commanders were glued to their radios, listening as American forces fought back an ambush in the rugged mountains. One battalion commander remembered that "all of Afghanistan" was listening as a soldier on the ground described what was happening. They knew him by his call sign: Charlie-One-Six-Romeo. We know it was Kyle, who at the time was just 20 years old and only 21 months into his military service.
Earlier that afternoon, Kyle and the 13 members of his team, along with a squad of Afghan soldiers, left an Afghan village after a meeting with elders. The Americans made their way back up a steep hill, single file, along a narrow path, a cliff rising to their right and a slope of rocky shale dropping on their left. They knew not to stop, that they had to keep moving. They were headed into an area known as ambush alley.
And that's when a single shot rang out, then another. And then, an entire canyon erupted, with bullets coming from what seemed like every direction. It was as if, Kyle said, the whole valley "lit up." The platoon returned fire. Kyle quickly emptied a full magazine, but as he went to load a second, an enemy grenade exploded and knocked him unconscious. He came to with his face pressed against a rock. And as he moved to get up, enemy rounds hit a rock just inches from his head, sending shrapnel and rock shards across his face.
Most of the unit had been forced to slide down the cliff to the valley below. But Kyle saw a teammate, Specialist Kain Schilling, trying to treat his own shattered arm, using a tree as cover, what Kain later called "the smallest tree on Earth." I'm sure that's how it felt. Kyle sprinted through enemy fire to Kain's side and began applying a tourniquet, shielding Kain with his own body as gunfire shredded that tree.
Then Kyle saw another man down, Marine Sergeant Phillip Bocks, in the open, 30 feet behind them, but too injured to reach cover. Kyle remembers thinking: "It's just a matter of time before I'm dead. If that's going to happen, I might as well help someone while I can."
With bullets impacting all around him, Kyle ran to Bocks and began to pull the injured marine to cover. But worried that he'd expose Bocks to more gunfire, Kyle retreated. The enemy rounds followed him. He ran out again, pulling Bocks a little farther. And once more, he retreated to distract the enemy fire. Once more, he went out, over and over thinking to himself, "I'm not going to make it." Kyle could feel the pressure of the rounds going by him. But somehow, miraculously, they never hit him, not once. One of his teammates said it was as if Kyle was moving "faster than a speeding bullet."
And finally, Kyle succeeded in pulling his comrade to cover. Tragically, there on that cliff, Sergeant Bocks succumbed to his wounds. But in his final moments, this American marine surely found some solace in Kyle White, the American soldier who, until the very end, was there by his side.
Now, that other injured soldier, Kain Shilling, was still out there. And he had sustained another injury, this time to his knee. Kyle ran out once more to Kain's side. Kyle ripped off his own belt for a tourniquet and soon got his hands on a working radio. The voice of Charlie-One-Six-Romeo came into base. Crouching behind that lone tree, Kyle began calling in airstrikes to take out enemy positions.
Kyle stayed with Specialist Schilling as night fell. And Kain was too badly injured to move. Kyle was starting to feel the fog of his own concussions set in, but he knew that he was Kain's best chance to get out alive, so Kyle took charge and ordered the Afghan soldiers to form a security perimeter. He called in a medevac and made sure Kain and the other injured were safely on board. And only then did Kyle finally allow himself to be lifted out.
As the helicopter pulled away, Kyle looked out the window, watching the darkness as they pulled away from that single tree on the cliff. "When you're deployed," he later said, "those people become your family. What you really care about is: I want to get this guy to the left and to the right home."
This family was tested that day. Not a single one of them escaped without injury, and six brave Americans gave their lives, their last full measure of devotion. And we remember them today: Sergeant Phillip A. Bocks, Captain Matthew C. Ferrara, Specialist Joseph M. Lancour, Sergeant Jeffery S. Mersman, Corporal Lester G. Roque, and Kyle's best friend, Corporal Sean K. A. Langevin. Some of their families are here today. I'd ask them to please stand so we can recognize their extraordinary sacrifice.
The legacy of these fallen heroes endures in the courage and strength of their unit: 14 men, forever brothers-in-arms. We're proud to welcome those who fought so valiantly that day: Specialist Kain Schilling, the soldier that Kyle saved, and members of the 2d Battalion, Chosen Company of the 173d Airborne Brigade. Would you please stand?
We honor Kyle White for his extraordinary actions on that November day. But his journey from that day to this speaks to the story of his generation. Kyle completed the rest of a 15-month deployment in Afghanistan. He came back home and trained other young paratroopers as they prepared to deploy. When he completed his service, Kyle decided to pursue a different dream, and with the help of the post-9/11 GI bill, he went to college, he graduated and today works for a bank in Charlotte, North Carolina.
When Kyle walks into the office every day, people see a man in a suit headed to work. And that's how it should be: a proud veteran welcomed into his community, contributing his talents and skills to the progress of our Nation. But Kyle will tell you that the transition to civilian life—and dealing with the posttraumatic stress—hasn't always been easy. More than 6 years later, he can still see the images and hear the sounds of that battle. Every day, he wakes up thinking about his battle buddies.
And if you look closely at that man in the suit on his way to work, you'll notice the piece of the war that he carries with him tucked under his shirt sleeve: a stainless steel bracelet around his wrist etched with the names of his six fallen comrades who will always be with him. "Their sacrifice motivates me," he says, to "be the best [that; White House correction.] I can be. Everything I do in my life is done to make them proud."
Kyle, members of Chosen Company, you did your duty, and now it's time for America to do ours: after more than a decade of war, to welcome you home with the support and the benefits and opportunities that you've earned. You make us proud, and you motivate all of us to be the best we can be as Americans, as a nation: to uphold our sacred obligations to your generation and all who have faced that "measure of danger" and "the willingness to incur it."
May God bless you, and may your courage inspire and sustain us always. And may God continue to bless the United States of America.
With that, I'd like to have the citation read.
[At this point, Maj. Matthew R. Newell, USAF, Air Force Aide to the President, read the citation. The President then presented the medal, assisted by Lt. Col. Michael P. Wagner, USA, Army Aide to the President. Following the presentation, Maj. Gen. Donald L. Rutherford, USA, Army Chief of Chaplains, said a prayer.]
The President. That concludes the ceremony, but not the celebration. I hear the food here is pretty good. [Laughter] And the drinks are free. [Laughter] So who gave a big shout on that? I heard somebody. [Laughter] The—but I hope all of you enjoy the hospitality of the White House. I hope we all remember once again those who are fallen. We are grateful to the families who are here. And to Kyle and all who serve in America's Armed Forces, we want you to know that we will always be grateful for your extraordinary service to our country.
Thank you very much, everybody. Have a great afternoon.
NOTE: The President spoke at 2:44 p.m. in the East Room at the White House.
http://www.stargate-sg1-solutions.com/wiki/9.11_%22The_Fourth_Horseman_Part_2%22_Transcript
STARGATE WIKI
9.11 "The Fourth Horseman Part 2"
ORLIN
Your entire life was an open book to me the moment you set foot in this galaxy. I was once…ascended, but I took this…form, because it was the only way to warn…the humans about the Ori. Since I made that decision, I've paid a heavy price in terms of the effect it's had on my mind. The memories I've…lost.
PRIOR
"Life and death. Light and darkness. Hope and despair. The rift was created, and on that day, the Ori were born."
ORLIN
But every so often, something will…stir in me. And if I push myself hard enough, I'll remember, one more time, before it leaves me forever. Your name, Damaris. Your wife, Adina. Your…sons, Jaden and Allon.
PRIOR
(desperately)
"But the hatred of those who strayed from the true path festered and bloomed in the dark corners of the Avernakis to which they had been cast!"
ORLIN
And the fact that the…Ori have never…ascended any of their…followers.
PRIOR
And consumed by this hatred, they poisoned all they touched, bringing death, darkness and despair.
ORLIN
You know that as an Ancient, I wouldn't lie to you.
PRIOR
(with renewed confidence)
And the souls of their victims knew no peace, until the Ori came and whispered to them: 'sleep, for the end draws near'!"
[As he speaks, the Prior turns away from Orlin. When he finishes talking, he reaches out with his hand towards Landry. Landry begins to slide towards the Prior against his will, his heels dragging in the sand.]
SG TEAM MEMBER
He's overcome the device!
[Landry is pulled directly into the Prior's outstretched hand. The Prior begins to choke Landry with his bare hand. Landry cannot breathe. Everyone draws their weapons.]
PRIOR
"And on that day, all will rejoice, when the Ori come and lay them low."
[Mitchell fires his weapon. The Prior lets go of Landry, a look of surprise on his face, and drops to the ground, dead. Landry staggers back as he's been released, gasping for air. Daniel holsters his weapon and rushes to Landry's aid, lowering him gently to the ground.]
DANIEL
General!
LANDRY
(still red-faced and gasping)
I'm fine. What was he saying?
ORLIN
He just told you why the Ori are on their way to this galaxy. They're coming…to destroy the Ancients.
http://www.tv.com/shows/stargate-sg-1/the-fourth-horseman-2-418456/
tv.com
Stargate SG-1 Season 9 Episode 11
The Fourth Horseman (2)
Aired Friday 8:00 PM Jan 06, 2006 on Syfy
Members of the SGC start to become infected while Mitchell and Daniel try to capture the Prior.
AIRED: 1/6/06
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0050177/releaseinfo
IMDb
Beginning of the End (1957)
Release Info
USA 28 June 1957
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IMDb
Beginning of the End (1957)
Full Cast & Crew
Peter Graves ... Dr. Ed Wainwright
http://www.simpsonsarchive.com/episodes/AABF19.txt
E-I-E-I-(ANNOYED GRUNT) [ The Simpsons ]
Original Airdate on FOX: 7-Nov-1999
% A rooster's crow awakens Homer that morning.
Homer: Wake up, honey. It's time to harvest our radioactive supercrops.
Marge: But it's only been one night.
Homer: That's all it takes. If we learned one thing from "The Amazing Colossal Man" and "Grasshopperus," it's that radiation makes stuff grow real big, real fast.
Marge: But didn't Grasshopperus kill Chad Everett?
Homer: Only because he tried to reason with him.
Marge: Oh.
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STARGATE WIKI
9.10 "The Fourth Horseman Part 1"
ORLIN
Hello, Sam. It's good to see you again. I've missed you.
CARTER
Who are you?
ORLIN
I had no choice but to take this form. It's me, Orlin.
[Carter stares at young Orlin in shock.]
EXT—CHEYENNE MOUNTAIN, DAY
INT—SGC ISOLATION OBSERVATION ROOM
[On a monitor is Orlin, dressed in blue medical scrubs, calmly sitting at a small table. Next to the monitor, Orlin can be seen through the window in an interrogation room. A guard walks by, giving the boy a second look before taking position by the door. Lam, Daniel, Carter, and Landry watch from the window.]
LAM
As far as I can tell, he's a normal human adolescent.
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STARGATE WIKI
9.10 "The Fourth Horseman Part 1"
LAM
As far as I can tell, he's a normal human adolescent.
LANDRY
Who claims he's an Ancient who has descended and taken human form.
CARTER
There really is no other explanation, sir, for how he could've gotten into the base, or know the things he knows. I'm pretty sure he's given us the key to finishing the anti-Prior technology Dr. Lee and I were working on.
LANDRY
According to the mission report on your first encounter with Orlin, you two…had a…intimate relationship?
[Lam's eyes widen.]
CARTER
Uh, well…w-we did, but uh, he didn't look like that…He was…
LAM
Taller?
- posted by H.V.O.M - Kerry Wayne Burgess 10:18 AM Pacific Time Spokane Valley Washington USA Sunday 03 May 2015