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https://www.yahoo.com/news/opinion-trump-sentencing-curtain-fall-153000728.html
Yahoo! News
Opinion - The Trump sentencing: Curtain to fall on Merchan’s Hamlet on the Hudson
Jonathan Turley, opinion contributor
Sat, January 4, 2025 at 7:30 AM PST·5 min read
When the sentence is imposed on Jan. 10, it is likely to feel comically downsized given the effort. After years and millions spent in the various Trump cases, Trump will likely receive an unconditional discharge and sent along his way . . . to the White House.
As predicted, the two federal cases never saw a trial in Florida or Washington, D.C. In Georgia, Fani Willis was dropped from her racketeering case, which has gone nowhere due to her own misconduct. It is like the Allied forces launching the Normandy Invasion to capture Monaco.
In the meantime, the 2024 election proved to be the largest verdict in history after years of lawfare and biased media reporting came to nothing. Merchan showed little self-awareness in claiming that he was only trying to avoid “immeasurable damage to the citizenry’s confidence in the Rule of Law” in continuing the case. Polls show the public saw these cases as lawfare and Merchan is widely viewed as causing precisely that “immeasurable damage” with his handling of the case.
IMDb
Clear and Present Danger (1994)
Quotes
Jack Ryan: I didn't sign up for this. This is someone's bullshit political agenda. Who authorized this? Cutter?
Ritter: Cutter couldn't tie his own shoes without permission.
Jack Ryan: If I go down you're coming with me.
Ritter: Wrong again. I have an *autographed get-out-of-jail-free card*! "The President of the United States authorizes Deputy Director of the CIA Robert Ritter to conduct 'Operation Reciprocity' including all necessary funding and support. This action is deemed important to the national security of the United States etcetera, etcetera, etcetera." You don't *have* one of these, do you Jack?
Red Storm Rising (1986) - Tom Clancy
(from internet transcript)
excerpts, Chapter 13. – The Strangers Arrive and Depart
AACHEN, FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY
"Siegfried Baum" awoke six hours later to see three men wearing surgical garb. The effect of the anesthesia still heavy on him, his eyes could not focus properly.
"How are you feeling?" one asked. In Russian.
"What happened to me?" The major answered in Russian.
Ach so. "You were struck by a car and you are now in a military hospital," the man lied. They were still in Aachen, near the German-Belgian frontier.
"What . . . I was just coming out to-" The major's voice was that of a drunken man, but it stopped abruptly. His eyes tried to focus properly.
"It is all finished for you, my friend." Now the speaker switched to German. "We know you are a Soviet officer, and you were found in possession of classified government documents. Tell me, what is your interest in Lammersdorf?"
"I have nothing to say," replied "Baum" in German.
"A little late for that," the interrogator chided, switching back to Russian. "But we'll make it easy for you. The surgeon tells us that it is now safe to try a new, ah, medication for you, and you will tell us everything you know. Be serious. No one can resist this form of questioning. You might also wish to consider your position," the man said more harshly. "You are an officer in the army of a foreign government, here in the Federal Republic illegally, traveling with false papers, and in possession of secret documents. At the least, we can imprison you for life. But, given what your government is doing at the moment, we are not concerned with 'least' measures. If you cooperate you will live, and probably be exchanged back to the Soviet Union at a later date for a German agent. We will even say that we got all our information due to the use of drugs; no harm could possibly come to you from this. If you do not cooperate, you will die of injuries received in a motor accident."
"I have a family," Major Andre Chernyavin said quietly, trying to remember his duty. The combination of fear and drug-induced haze made a hash of his emotions. He couldn't tell there was a vial of sodium pentothol dripping into his IV line, and already impairing his higher brain functions. Soon he would be unable to consider the long-term consequences of his action. Only the here and now would matter.
"They will come to no harm," Colonel Weber promised. An Army officer assigned to the Bundesnachrichtendienst, he had interrogated many Soviet agents. "Do you think they punish the family of every spy we catch? Soon no one would ever come here to spy on us at all." Weber allowed his voice to soften. The drugs were beginning to take effect, and as the stranger's mind became hazy he would be gentle, cajoling the information from him. The funny part, he mused, was that he'd been instructed on how to do this by a psychiatrist. Despite the many movies about brutal German interrogators, he hadn't had the least training in a forceful extraction of information. Too bad, he thought. If there was ever a time I need it, it is now.
From 9/27/1984 ( as Kerry Burgess my official US Navy documents includes: "UA from class from 0600-0800" "You received CO's NJP for this offense" - Unauthorized Absence from class from 6 AM to 8 AM - Service School Command, Orlando Florida - Basic Electricity & Electronics School, US Navy Electronics Technician (ET) formal course of instruction for enlisted ) To 1/10/2025 ( ) is 14715 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 2/15/2006 ( premiere USA TV series episode "Assignment Discovery"::"Concepts in Geometry and Measurement: Coordinate Geometry" ) is 14715 days
From 10/24/1994 ( premiere USA film "Stargate" ) To 1/10/2025 ( ) is 11036 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 1/20/1996 ( premiere USA TV series "The Lazarus Man"::series premiere "Awakening" ) is 11036 days
From 2/14/1969 ( premiere USA TV series episode "Star Trek"::"Requiem for Methuselah" ) To 1/10/2025 ( ) is 20419 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 9/28/2021 ( Tuesday ) is 20419 days
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/gadgets/amazon-just-revealed-first-home-robot-s-s-use-rcna2366
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Amazon Astro home robot
Sept. 28, 2021, 10:51 AM PDT / Source: CNBC.com
By Todd Haselton, CNBC
Amazon announced its long-rumored $999 Astro home robot on Tuesday. I had a chance to check it out in a demo with Amazon last week and wanted to share a few thoughts on what Astro is, what it can and can’t do and why Amazon decided to build a home robot.
From 10/11/2010 ( by me, Kerry Burgess, previously referenced ) To 1/10/2025 ( ) is 5205 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 2/2/1980 ( the ABSCAM operation is revealed to the public ) is 5205 days
From 9/27/1984 ( as Kerry Burgess my official US Navy documents includes: "UA from class from 0600-0800" "You received CO's NJP for this offense" - Unauthorized Absence from class from 6 AM to 8 AM - Service School Command, Orlando Florida - Basic Electricity & Electronics School, US Navy Electronics Technician (ET) formal course of instruction for enlisted ) To 8/3/1994 ( ) is 3597 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 9/8/1975 ( premiere USA TV series "The Invisible Man" ) is 3597 days
From 5/15/1984 ( as Kerry Wayne Burgess I began active service for an enlistment period of six years as a US Navy enlisted sailor and United States of America military service continued to Kerry Wayne Burgess the United States Marine Corps general ) To 8/3/1994 ( ) is 3732 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 1/21/1976 ( my biological brother Thomas Reagan the civilian and privately financed astronaut bound for deep space in his privately financed atom-pulse propulsion spaceship this day was his first landing the planet Mars and his documented and lawful exclusive claim to the territory of the planet Mars ) is 3732 days
From 5/15/1984 ( Ronald Reagan, 40th President of USA: Proclamation 5194 - Missing Children Day, 1984 ) To 8/3/1994 ( ) is 3732 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 1/21/1976 ( my biological brother Thomas Reagan the civilian and privately financed astronaut bound for deep space in his privately financed atom-pulse propulsion spaceship this day was his first landing the planet Mars and his documented and lawful exclusive claim to the territory of the planet Mars ) is 3732 days
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0109444/releaseinfo/
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Clear and Present Danger
Release info
United States August 3, 1994
Full Cast & Crew
Tom Clancy ... (based on the novel by)
Harrison Ford ... Jack Ryan
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Perry Mason
The Case Of The Positive Negative (s9, ep28)
A respected retired general is blackmailed into declining an offer to clean up the city of San Carlos, which is being tarnished by the operations of mobster George Emory. When Emory turns up dead, the general is the prime suspect.
George Emory: If you came because of those photographs, you're barking up the wrong guy. I had nothing to do with taking them.
Roger Brandon, army general officer: You seem to know they were taken.
Emory: I told you your flunky came busting in here with a gun. Maybe the kid is smart, General, but he's a lousy recruit for your army of redemption. Old as I am, I took that gun away from him in about two seconds
From 10/3/1983 ( premiere USA TV series "Scarecrow and Mrs. King" ) To 9/27/1984 ( ) is 360 days
360 = 180 + 180
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 5/1/1966 ( premiere USA TV series episode "Perry Mason"::"The Case of the Positive Negative" ) is 180 days
From 7/16/1963 ( Phoebe Cates - the world-famous actor AND from the thoughts in my conscious mind, coinciding with United States of America Veterans Affairs hospital psychiatric doctor medical drugs: the United States Army veteran and the Harvard University graduate medical doctor and the world-famous actor and the spouse of my biological brother Thomas Reagan ) To 6/10/1982 ( premiere USA film "E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial" ) is 6904 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 9/27/1984 ( ) is 6904 days
From 11/21/1964 ( premiere USA TV series episode "The Outer Limits"::"The Inheritors - Part 1" ) To 10/17/1983 ( from Princeton Weekly Bulletin publication, Princeton University: Changing face of computing - Plan to distribute computers in departments, residential areas being considered ) is 6904 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 9/27/1984 ( ) is 6904 days
From 11/21/1964 ( premiere USA TV series episode "The Outer Limits"::"The Inheritors - Part 1" ) To 9/27/1984 ( ) is 7250 days
7250 = 3625 + 3625
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 10/6/1975 ( from The Daily Princetonian publication, Princeton University: REVELATION - Uprising in 'that side of Paradise' ) is 3625 days
From 12/27/1933 ( Franklin Roosevelt, 32nd President of USA: Executive Order 6539-A - Approval of Code of Fair Competition for the Wine Industry ) To 11/21/1952 ( Harry Truman, 33rd President of USA: Remarks at a Meeting of an Orientation Course Conducted by the CIA ) is 6904 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 9/27/1984 ( ) is 6904 days
From 10/23/1968 ( Lyndon Johnson, 36th President of USA: Remarks Upon Signing Bill Extending Veterans Educational Benefits ) To 9/27/1984 ( ) is 5818 days
5818 = 2909 + 2909
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 10/20/1973 ( premiere USA TV "The Six Million Dollar Man: Wine, Women and War" ) is 2909 days
From 10/23/1968 ( Lyndon Johnson, 36th President of USA: Remarks Upon Signing Bill Extending Veterans Educational Benefits ) To 9/27/1984 ( ) is 5818 days
5818 = 2909 + 2909
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 10/20/1973 ( Richard Nixon, 37th President of USA: President of USA: Letter Directing the Acting Attorney General To Discharge the Director of the Office of Watergate Special Prosecution Force ) is 2909 days
From 12/7/1979 ( premiere USA film "Star Trek: The Motion Picture" ) To 9/27/1984 ( ) is 1756 days
1756 = 878 + 878
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 3/29/1968 ( premiere USA TV series episode "Star Trek"::"Assignment: Earth" ) is 878 days
From 9/13/1955 ( premiere US TV series "Kings Row" ) To 8/8/1974 ( Richard Nixon, 37th President of USA: Address to the Nation Announcing Decision To Resign the Office of President of the United States ) is 6904 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 9/27/1984 ( ) is 6904 days
From 1/16/1967 ( Supreme Court of the United States decides Garrity v. New Jersey ) To 9/27/1984 ( ) is 6464 days
6464 = 3232 + 3232
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 9/8/1974 ( Gerald Ford, 38th President of USA: Proclamation 4311 - Granting Pardon to Richard Nixon ) is 3232 days
From 10/11/1976 ( United States of America Public Law 94-479 General of the Armies of the United States approved by 38th United States President Gerald Ford and from the thoughts in my conscious mind, coinciding with United States of America Veterans Affairs hospital psychiatric doctor medical drugs: applies personally and professionally to my biological brother United States Navy Fleet Admiral Thomas Reagan ) To 9/27/1984 ( ) is 2908 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 10/19/1973 ( Richard Nixon, 37th President of USA: Statement Announcing Procedures for Providing Information From Presidential Tape Recordings ) is 2908 days
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garrity_v._New_Jersey
Garrity v. New Jersey
From Wikipedia
Supreme Court of the United States
Argued November 10, 1966
Decided January 16, 1967
Garrity v. New Jersey, 385 U.S. 493 (1967), was a case in which the Supreme Court of the United States held that law enforcement officers and other public employees have the right to be free from compulsory self-incrimination. It gave birth to the Garrity warning, which is administered by investigators to suspects in internal and administrative investigations in a similar manner as the Miranda warning is administered to suspects in criminal investigations.
- by me, Kerry Wayne Burgess, posted by me: 6:54 PM Pacific-timezone USA Sunday 01/05/2025
