Not For Merit.
by me, Kerry Burgess, 11/28/2019
"Support our troops". Why you're always saying those words hollow to you. Because it makes you seem sympathetic. A tiny, infetismal portion of the population of the United States that are our only defense against the hordes of conquerors out there in a world that terrifies you. You need people to feel sympathy for you because you're pathetic. You do nothing but take.
I've watched these episodes and I started thinking back to Thedia's mother telling me I should apply as a conscientious objector. That was in the time after I had returned from the Persian Gulf with fantastic tales of how we kicked ass over there.
I couldn't understand why the hell she thought I would ever want to be a conscientious objector.
I still don't know why. She's been dead since 1999 and I never asked her. I'm guessing it was something I complained about.
I wasn't happy with life in the fleet. Living on a ship in a bunkroom with 40 other guys was wearing thin on my patience. All I wanted was some privacy. Which I found in excellent supply in 1990 when my enlistment ended honorably.
I could have reenlisted for shore duty for 4 years but that didn't seem appealing to me. My occupation was a war-fighter rating. My options for shore duty were limited in relation to my rating. At best, I could see myself having to stand in front of a classroom of 25 sailors with glassy-eyes as I repeat day-after-day 5 days a week for 4 years the same detail over and over again about Ohm's Law. No thanks.
I am as equally certain as months ago that the memories I have today of my conscious memory of 1990 are actually the experiences of Thomas Reagan. Somehow he convinced me those were my real experiences, which is why I cannot now consciously recall specific memory details about the fantastic experiences I have alleged about the 1990s.
I still cannot explain adequately why "they" are going to such extremes to create this historical record.
Everywhere I look, there "they" are.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/9569648/
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/johnson-weighs-bondi-hate-speech-170059162.html
The Hill
Johnson weighs in on Bondi’s ‘hate speech’ comments: ‘We do not censor and silence disfavored viewpoints’
Filip Timotija
Tue, September 16, 2025 at 10:00 AM PDT·2 min read
Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) weighed in on Attorney General Pam Bondi’s “hate speech” comments on Tuesday, saying the U.S. does not “censor and silence disfavored viewpoints.”
Bondi clarified her comment made on Katie Miller’s podcast, where she indicated that hate speech could be prosecuted under the law.
“Hate speech that crosses the line into threats of violence is NOT protected by the First Amendment. It’s a crime,” Bondi said on the social platform X.
“For far too long, we’ve watched the radical left normalize threats, call for assassinations, and cheer on political violence,” she continued. “That era is over.”
The clarification came after she received criticism, including from some GOP lawmakers and political commentators, over remarks she made on the podcast, hosted by the wife of White House adviser Stephen Miller, about free expression.
“There’s free speech and then there’s hate speech, and there is no place, especially now, especially after what happened to Charlie, in our society,” Bondi said in an episode released on Monday.
When asked on Tuesday at the Capitol about Bondi’s comments and where the line is with free speech, Johnson said he approaches the issue as a “former litigator who defended free speech in the courts.”
“For a couple [of] decades, we defended religious freedom and speech that some people deemed to be inappropriate,” Johnson told reporters. “Look, in America, it’s a very important part of our tradition that we do not — this is a conservative principle and certainly an American principle — we do not censor and silence disfavored viewpoints.”
“People in America are allowed to say crazy things. Now, that said, if I’m an employer or I’m a government agency, and I have someone in my employee who is online celebrating the heinous murder of an innocent person, a young husband and father, I can make the decision that they don’t deserve to work for me,” he said, referring to last week’s assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk in Utah.
“They shouldn’t represent my company or my agency, and I have every right to do that, and I think that’s appropriate,” the Speaker added.
Along with the criticism, some of the conservative influencers and commentators have called on Bondi to resign. The attorney general has previously faced blowback over the Justice Department’s handling of the Jeffrey Epstein documents.
“That’s not the government censoring speech, that’s personal behavior and decorum, and you have a right to enforce that,” Johnson said on Tuesday. “So, I don’t think it’s a violation of core principles for people to have appropriate measures taken when they act like crazy people online.”
He added, “And that’s up to the employers and these private businesses and these, you know, the people who make those decisions.”
album: "Somebody's Watching Me" (1984)
Rockwell
"Somebody's Watching Me"
Is it the man come to take me away?
Why do they follow me?
It's not the future that I can see,
It's just my fantasy
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0526097/
IMDb
Biography
Jimmy Swaggart: Fire and Brimstone
Episode aired May 10, 2001
From 1/30/1972 ( ) To 3/18/2001 ( premiere USA TV "A Glimpse of Hell" ) is 10640 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 12/20/1994 ( an aviator in non-aviator related duties boots on the ground in Bosnia as Kerry Wayne Burgess the United States Marine Corps captain this day is my US Navy Cross medal date of record ) is 10640 days
From 4/7/2005 ( premiere USA TV series episode "Modern Marvels"::"The Doomsday Clock" ) To 10/1/2017 ( premiere USA TV series "Extinct" ) is 4560 days
4560 = 2280 + 2280
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 1/30/1972 ( ) is 2280 days
From 11/18/1996 ( premiere USA film "Star Trek: First Contact" ) To 5/14/2009 ( premiere USA film "Terminator Salvation" ) is 4560 days
4560 = 2280 + 2280
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 1/30/1972 ( ) is 2280 days
https://bioguide.congress.gov/search/bio/J000299
Biographical Directory of the United States Congress
JOHNSON, Mike, a Representative from Louisiana; born in Shreveport, Caddo Parish, La., January 30, 1972; graduated from Captain Shreve High School, Shreveport, La., 1990; B.S., Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, La., 1995; J.D., Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, La., 1998; lawyer, private practice; member of the Louisiana state house of representatives, 2015-2017; elected as a Republican to the One Hundred Fifteenth and to the three succeeding Congresses (January 3, 2017-present); Speaker of the House (One Hundred Eighteenth Congress).
https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-politics-and-policy/mike-johnson-house-speaker-lgbtq-views-scrutiny-rcna122317
NBC News
Oct. 26, 2023, 1:08 PM PDT
By Matt Lavietes
'Raging homophobe': New House speaker's views on LGBTQ issues under fresh scrutiny
"Cibola Burn"
Chapter 20: Elvi
Nothing proved fear like the effort of rejecting it.
https://www.historylink.org/File/10956
History Link
THE FREE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF WASHINGTON STATE HISTORY
West, Jim (1951-2006)
West's Gay Sex Scandal
"The Gay.com thing has only been, I can't recall, but it hasn't been very long," West told the newspaper. "I can't tell you why I go there, to tell you the truth ... curiosity, confused, whatever, I don't know. ... I wouldn't characterize me as 'gay'"
From 8/6/1957 ( ) To 6/8/1993 ( commencement, Princeton University Class of 1993 ) is 13090 days
13090 = 6545 + 6545
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 10/4/1983 ( premiere USA TV series "Vietnam: A Television History" ) is 6545 days
From 8/6/1957 ( ) To 3/7/1973 ( premiere USA TV series pilot "The Six Million Dollar Man"::"The Moon and the Desert" ) is 5692 days
5692 = 2846 + 2846
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 8/18/1973 ( The Killian Document ) is 2846 days
From 8/6/1957 ( ) To 7/19/1989 ( the United Airlines Flight 232 crash in Sioux City Iowa and from the thoughts in my conscious mind, coinciding with United States of America Veterans Affairs hospital psychiatric doctor medical drugs: the end of Kerry Burgess - *me* - the natural human being cloned from another human being {Thomas Reagan} ) is 11670 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 10/15/1997 ( from The Daily Princetonian publication, Princeton University: McGreevey Sees Greater Support ) is 11670 days
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_McGreevey
Jim McGreevey
From Wikipedia
James Edward McGreevey (born August 6, 1957) is an American politician who served as the 52nd governor of New Jersey from 2002 until his resignation in 2004.
Resignation
On the afternoon of August 12, 2004, faced with threats from Cipel's lawyer, Allen Lowy, that Cipel would file a sexual harassment lawsuit against him in Mercer County Court, McGreevey held a press conference. At the press conference, he said: "At a point in every person's life, one has to look deeply into the mirror of one's soul and decide one's unique truth in the world, not as we may want to see it or hope to see it, but as it is. And so my truth is that I am a gay American". He also said that he had "engaged in an adult consensual affair with another man" (whom his aides immediately named as Cipel), and that he would resign effective November 15, 2004. New Jersey political circles had speculated about McGreevey's sexual orientation and questions about his relationship with Cipel had been alluded to in the media. McGreevey's announcement made him the first openly gay [sic] [corrected: homosexual] state governor in United States history.
From 1/20/1953 ( Jeffrey Epstein ) To 9/2/1993 ( premiere USA TV movie "The Secret File of J. Edgar Hoover" ) is 14835 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 6/15/2006 ( ) is 14835 days
From 1/20/1953 ( Jeffrey Epstein ) To 6/15/2006 ( ) is 19504 days
19504 = 9752 + 9752
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 7/15/1992 ( Los Angeles Times reports this day: Microsoft Corp. and Apple Computer Inc. are expected to set aside a fierce legal skirmish today ) is 9752 days
From 2/6/2004 ( as me, Kerry Burgess, my final day as full time employee of Microsoft Corporation in Seattle beginning 12/07/1998 ) To 6/15/2006 ( ) is 860 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 3/11/1968 ( Lyndon Johnson, 36th President of USA: Memorandum Approving the Adoption by the Federal Government of a Standard Code for Information Interchange ) is 860 days
https://money.cnn.com/2006/06/15/technology/microsoft_news/index.htm
CNN Money
Gates to leave day-to-day role at Microsoft
Chairman to devote more time to charitable works.
By Amanda Cantrell, CNNMoney.com staff writer
June 16, 2006: 7:42 AM EDT
NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) - Microsoft announced Thursday that chairman and co-founder Bill Gates will transition out of a day-to-day role at the company
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm10830113/bio
IMDb
Jeffrey Epstein
Biography
Directly opposite Epstein's residence is a townhouse once occupied by Bill Cosby.
From 8/19/1967 ( ) To 7/10/1992 ( premiere USA film "Universal Soldier" ) is 9092 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 9/24/1990 ( premiere US TV series episode "Star Trek: The Next Generation"::"The Best of Both Worlds - Part Two" ) is 9092 days
From 1/13/1940 ( premiere US film "Brother Rat and a Baby" Ronald Reagan and Jane Wyman ) To 8/19/1967 ( ) is 10080 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 6/8/1993 ( commencement, Princeton University Class of 1993 ) is 10080 days
From 8/19/1967 ( ) To 8/4/1995 ( premiere USA film "Virtuosity" ) is 10212 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 10/18/1993 ( the launch of the US space shuttle Columbia orbiter vehicle mission STS-58 includes me Kerry Wayne Burgess the United States Marine Corps commissioned-officer and United States STS-58 pilot astronaut and my 2nd official United States of America National Aeronautics Space Administration orbital flight of 4 overall ) is 10212 days
From 3/18/1990 ( premiere USA TV "Gunsmoke: The Last Apache" ) To 10/18/1993 ( the launch of the US space shuttle Columbia orbiter vehicle mission STS-58 includes me Kerry Wayne Burgess the United States Marine Corps commissioned-officer and United States STS-58 pilot astronaut and my 2nd official United States of America National Aeronautics Space Administration orbital flight of 4 overall ) is 1310 days
1310 = 655 + 655
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 8/19/1967 ( ) is 655 days
From 6/17/1987 ( premiere US film "Full Metal Jacket" ) 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 officially the United States Apache attack helicopter pilot ) is 1310 days
1310 = 655 + 655
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 8/19/1967 ( ) is 655 days
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Satya-Nadella
Encyclopædia Britannica
Satya Nadella
INDIAN-BORN BUSINESS EXECUTIVE
Satya Nadella, in full Satya Narayana Nadella (born August 19, 1967, Hyderabad, India) Indian-born business executive who was CEO of the computer-software company Microsoft (2014– ).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satya_Nadella
Satya Nadella
From Wikipedia
Satya Narayana Nadella (born 19 August 1967) is an Indian-born American business executive who is the chairman and chief executive officer (CEO) of Microsoft, succeeding Steve Ballmer in 2014 as CEO and John W. Thompson in 2021 as chairman. Before becoming CEO, he was the executive vice president of Microsoft's cloud and enterprise group, responsible for building and running the company's computing platforms.
On 4 February 2014, Nadella was announced as the new CEO of Microsoft, the third CEO in the company's history, following Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer.
http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/789019/000119312514035080/d669538d8k.htm
8-K 1 d669538d8k.htm FORM 8-K
UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
WASHINGTON, DC 20549
FORM 8-K
CURRENT REPORT PURSUANT
TO SECTION 13 OR 15(D) OF THE
SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934
Date of report (Date of earliest event reported) February 4, 2014
Microsoft Corporation
(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in Its Charter)
Washington
(State or Other Jurisdiction of Incorporation)
0-14278 91-1144442
(Commission File Number) (IRS Employer Identification No.)
One Microsoft Way, Redmond, Washington 98052-6399
(Address of Principal Executive Offices) (Zip Code)
(425) 882-8080
(Registrant’s Telephone Number, Including Area Code)
(Former Name or Former Address, if Changed Since Last Report)
Item 5.02. Departure of Directors or Principal Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Principal Officers
(c) On February 4, 2014, Microsoft Corporation (the “Company”) announced that the board of directors of the Company appointed Satya Nadella as Chief Executive Officer (“CEO”) and a director of the Company. Mr. Nadella will assume his new roles immediately and CEO Steven A. Ballmer has retired as an employee of the Company. The Company’s press release announcing Mr. Nadella’s appointment is furnished as Exhibit 99.1 to this Current Report on Form 8-K.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marshall_McLuhan
Marshall McLuhan
Herbert Marshall McLuhan CC (July 21, 1911 – December 31, 1980) was a Canadian philosopher whose work is among the cornerstones of the study of media theory. Raised in Winnipeg, McLuhan studied at the University of Manitoba and the University of Cambridge. He began his teaching career as a professor of English at several universities in the United States and Canada before moving to the University of Toronto in 1946, where he remained for the rest of his life. He is known as "the father of media studies".
McLuhan coined the expression "the medium is the message"
Merriam-Webster
medium
a means of effecting or conveying something
From 12/7/1998 ( as Kerry Burgess my first day as full-time employee of Microsoft Corporation in Seattle until 02/06/2004, employed as technical accounts manager in Microsoft Premier Support for Enterprise and then -Developers ) To 2/4/2014 ( ) is 5538 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 12/31/1980 ( biographical - Herbert Marshall McLuhan dead ) is 5538 days
From 12/2/1970 ( the United States Environmental Protection Agency formed ) To 2/4/2014 ( ) is 15770 days
15770 = 7885 + 7885
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 6/5/1987 ( as me, Kerry Burgess, my official enlisted US Navy documents includes: Earned NEC 1189 - Based on graduation from the Terrier Mk 152 Guided-missiles Fire Control Computers Complex course - Naval Guided Missiles School, Dam Neck, Virginia Beach, Virginia, US Navy - leading to permanent assignment until 1990 to CF-division, Missile Plot - guided-missiles Fire Control Computers Complex (UNIVAC digital-computers Mk152 Terrier System for, primarily, SM2-ER {Extended Range} Standard Missiles ordnance), USS Wainwright CG-28, US Navy, while enlisted paygrade E-5, designated Fire Controlman Petty Officer Second Class (FC2) ) is 7885 days
From 8/5/1948 ( Harry Truman, 33rd President of USA: Special Message to the Congress Reporting the Settlement of the Bituminous Coal Labor Dispute ) To 2/4/2014 ( ) is 23924 days
23924 = 11962 + 11962
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 8/3/1998 ( "Rainbow Six" by Tom Clancy ) is 11962 days
https://news.microsoft.com/2014/02/04/microsoft-board-names-satya-nadella-as-ceo/
Microsoft official
Microsoft Board names Satya Nadella as CEO
February 4, 2014
REDMOND, Wash. — Feb. 4, 2014 — Microsoft Corp. today announced that its Board of Directors has appointed Satya Nadella as Chief Executive Officer and member of the Board of Directors effective immediately.
Rainbow Six (1998) - Tom Clancy
(from internet transcript)
excerpt, Chapter 5
The media let him get away with it. The lesson of that was that the media was nobody's friend. Lacking convictions of its own, it just published what people said, and so she had to speak, off the record, on deep background, or just casually, to various reporters. Some, those who covered the Environment regularly, at least understood the language, and for the most part could be trusted to write their pieces the proper way, but they always included the other side's rubbish science yes, maybe your position has merit, but the science isn't firm enough yet and the computer models are not accurate enough to justify this sort of action, the other side said. As a result of which, the public's opinion-as measured in polls-had stagnated, or even reversed a little bit. The President was anything but an Environmental President, but the bastard was getting away with it at the same time using Carol Brightling as political camouflage, or even political cover! That appalled her or would have under other circumstances. But here she was, Dr. Brightling thought, zipping up her skirt before donning the suit-jacket, a senior advisor to the President of the United States. That meant she saw him a couple of times per week. It meant that he read her position papers and policy recommendations. It meant that she had access to the media's top-drawer people, free to pursue her own agenda
Rainbow Six (1998) - Tom Clancy
excerpt, Chapter 11
Pollution would stop almost completely. The animals would no longer be fettered and poisoned. The sky would clear, and the land would soon be covered with life, as Nature intended, with him and his colleagues to see the magnificence of the transformation. And if the price was high, then the prize it earned was worth it. The earth belonged to those who appreciated and understood her. He was even using one of Nature's methods to take possession albeit with a little human help. If humans could use their science and arts to harm the world, then other humans could use them to fix it. Chester and Pete would not have understood, but then, they'd never understood much of anything, had they?
- by me, Kerry Wayne Burgess, posted by me: 2:33 PM Pacific-timezone USA Tuesday 09/16/2025
