by me, Kerry Burgess, 01/05/2026
I don't follow any particular sites on the internet
My primary source for mainstream-media is the main-page for Yahoo! News
They do a good job of informing the source of the headlines I scan
A common source on Yahoo! News is The Daily Beast
They are the most prolific I have seen subjectively for the usage of "troll" and "goons"
"Trolls" is obviously to me their clickbait for those of you - for most of all people out there - that are non-tech-savvy
You respond to "troll" because you are non-tech-savvy
You make anyone a "troll" because you post your drivel on the global-internetwork and you are aghast when confronted with the reality that some rando has read your puerile nonsense and commented about it.
So they drive up their page-clicks by baiting you with their buzzwords.
They target you because you're a moron.
DEFENSE SECRETARY WILLIAM COHEN: Thank you, Bill. (Applause.)
Bill, thank you very much. And Bob Herbold, thank you for inviting me to come here today. (The next comment refers to the former Army officer who is now in MS training) I had mixed emotions about you leaving the military and coming to work here. (Laughter.) And I'll tell you, I gave you mild applause. (Laughter.)
I might also point out that we have some seats that say, "Reserved for the Cohen staff," that anyone who does not want to stand up can use.
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The Daily Beast
Delusional Trump, 79, Makes Bonkers Bin Laden Claim
Harry Thompson
Mon, January 5, 2026 at 10:31 AM PST 3 min read
President Donald Trump is back to falsely insisting he predicted 9/11 and failed to save thousands of lives only because no one listened to him.
Over the course of the last decade, the 79-year-old has frequently made the claim that he warned of the dangers of former Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden in his 2000 book The America We Deserve, despite fact checks proving that he didn’t.
He repeated it on Sunday night
From 10/1/1889 ( ) To 2/5/2010 ( premiere USA TV series episode "Caprica"::"Reins of a Waterfall" ) is 43956 days
43956 = 21978 + 21978
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 1/4/2026 ( Sunday ) is 21978 days
From 9/5/1965 ( ) To 11/7/2025 ( ) is 21978 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 1/4/2026 ( ) is 21978 days
https://papersofprinceton.princeton.edu/princetonperiodicals/?a=d&d=NassauLit18991001-01.2.2&e=-------en-20--81-byDA-txt-txIN-------
https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/letter-response-report-the-committee-the-economic-impact-defense-and-disarmament
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt30759782/
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Pluribus
S1.E1
We Is Us
Episode aired Nov 7, 2025
An astronomer's discovery turns the planet upside-down; curmudgeonly novelist Carol Sturka is terrified by this strange new world.
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Pluribus
We Is Us
Quotes
Davis Taffler: Your situation is a rare one. There are appear to be 11 other individuals like yourself.
Carol Sturka: In Albuquerque?
Davis Taffler: No, in the world. We have reached out to them. Like you they are disoriented. Understandably. Rest assured Carol. We will figure out what makes you different.
Carol Sturka: Figure it out why?
Davis Taffler: So we can fix it. So you can join us.
Davis Taffler: We feel like we're doing all the talking here. Are there any questions that you have for us, Carol? Anything at all.
Carol Sturka: Yeah. Yeah, sure. I guess to start with, what the fuck is happening?
Remarks by Secretary of Defense William Cohen and Bill Gates
Thursday, February 18, 1999
Redmond, Washington
DEFENSE SECRETARY WILLIAM COHEN:
And at the same time that I mention this, there is also a gap that exists by some in this industry and our military. And it's gap that is not unique to this industry but I think is somewhat indicative of that in our country. There is a sense that in many places beyond this campus, from Sunnyvale to Silicon Valley to Silicon Alley, that there are some in the digital world who dismiss the importance of national security, that some soldiers in the high-tech revolution don't fully appreciate or understand the soldiers in camouflage, that tanks and guns are somehow rusty relics of the past and may be obsolete in the new information-based world that is going to carry us into the future.
I think of this because there is one Silicon Valley executive who said about as much in an interview that he granted to the New York Times columnist Tom Friedman. He said that: "We don't even care about Washington." He said: "Money is extracted from Silicon Valley and then wasted by Washington. And why would I care about wealth destroyers?"
I am not even going to bother turning around to see if there is any kind of receptivity behind my shoulder. (Laughter.)
https://bioguide.congress.gov/search/bio/I000026
Remarks by Secretary of Defense William Cohen and Bill Gates
Thursday, February 18, 1999
Redmond, Washington
With that, I will turn it over to Microsoft's Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Bill Gates.
(Applause)
BILL GATES (Chairman and CEO, Microsoft): Now, the Department of Defense is in a fascinating period in terms of the challenges ahead. You have the traditional challenges. And now we also have to think about how this information infrastructure, that not only the government but business depends on, could that come under attack?
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Hogan's Heroes (1965-1971)
Quotes
[repeated line, indicating Colonel Hogan]
Major Hochstetter: WHAT IS THIS MAN DOING HERE?
Battlestar Galactica - tv miniseries - 12/08/2003, 12/09/2003
(from internet transcript)
(At Baltar's house - he has his hands clasped, as though in prayer, and the television is on.)
Reporters: We don't have any more information yet, but, uh... / ...all remaining ships able to leave Caprica... / ...no actual enemy has yet been sighted... / ...get out into the open countryside or the lesser populated areas of the city... / ...but there doesn't seem to be any doubt... (One tv feed goes out. On the other, we can see the force of a blast before it too goes to static.)
Baltar: What have I done? What am I gonna do? There's no way out.
Six: I know.
Baltar: Sure you know. That's your doing, isn't it?
From 9/17/1965 ( premiere USA TV series "Hogan's Heroes" ) To 1/3/1999 ( ) is 12161 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 2/18/1999 ( ) is 12161 days
From 7/26/1947 ( Central Intelligence Agency of the United States of America is established ) To 11/10/1980 ( ) is 12161 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 2/18/1999 ( ) is 12161 days
From 11/14/1960 ( from The Daily Princetonian publication, Princeton University: Say, My Name Is... ) To 2/18/1999 ( ) is 13975 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 2/6/2004 ( IN THE FUTURE from 02/18/1999: as me, Kerry Burgess, my final day as full-time employee of Microsoft Corporation in Seattle beginning 12/07/1998 ) is 13975 days
From 10/12/1917 ( from The Daily Princetonian publication, Princeton University: MEN AT COLLEGE HAVE GREAT DUTY TO FULFILL , Honorable J. J. Rogers Urges Student to Comply with Government's Decision. MUST GIVE HIMSELF OVER TO TASK OF PREPARATION , Proficiency in Specialized Work Best Training for the Future. ) To 5/15/1984 ( scheduled from 05/21/1983 - as me, Kerry Wayne Burgess, I began active service for an enlistment period of six years as a US Navy enlisted seafarer ) is 24322 days
24322 = 12161 + 12161
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 2/18/1999 ( ) is 12161 days
From 10/12/1917 ( from The Daily Princetonian publication, Princeton University: MEN AT COLLEGE HAVE GREAT DUTY TO FULFILL , Honorable J. J. Rogers Urges Student to Comply with Government's Decision. MUST GIVE HIMSELF OVER TO TASK OF PREPARATION , Proficiency in Specialized Work Best Training for the Future. ) To 5/15/1984 ( Ronald Reagan, 40th President of USA federal government 1981-1989: Proclamation 5194 - Missing Children Day, 1984 ) is 24322 days
24322 = 12161 + 12161
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 2/18/1999 ( ) is 12161 days
From 11/20/1985 ( as Kerry Burgess my official enlisted US Navy documents includes: advancement from US Navy enlisted paygrade E-3 (undesignated) to E-4 - Fire Controlman Petty Officer Third Class (FC3) - US Navy fleet ship weapons-control ) To 2/18/1999 ( ) is 4838 days
4838 = 2419 + 2419
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 6/17/1972 ( the Watergate burglary ) is 2419 days
From 11/20/1985 ( with no capability for meaningful contribution from Bill Gates to that product or any other product, past or future, debut Microsoft Windows 1.0 ) To 2/18/1999 ( ) is 4838 days
4838 = 2419 + 2419
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 6/17/1972 ( the Watergate burglary ) is 2419 days
https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/ambassador-large-exchange-letters-the-resignation-gerard-c-smith
Remarks by Secretary of Defense William Cohen and Bill Gates
Thursday, February 18, 1999
Redmond, Washington
BOB HERBOLD (Chief Operating Officer, Microsoft): Thank you very much for attending. And I'd like to formally welcome Secretary of Defense William Cohen. It's really a treat to have you here on campus talking about subjects of common interest and the impact technology is having not only in the military but on a global basis.
There are a few other people in the room I want to acknowledge. First of all, we have several Army IT personnel. If they could raise their hands. (Applause.) We won't clap for this bunch, but we also have a lot of Microsoft employees here -- (Laughter) -- and thank you very much for being here. The Army can clap for them! (Laughter.)
From 2/28/1997 ( the so-called "Blue Dress" incident of Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinsky ) To 9/11/2001 ( IN THE FUTURE from 02/28/1997 ) is 1656 days
1656 = 828 + 828
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 2/8/1968 ( premiere US film "Planet of the Apes" ) is 828 days
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/delusional-trump-79-makes-bonkers-183153464.html
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The Daily Beast
Delusional Trump, 79, Makes Bonkers Bin Laden Claim
Harry Thompson
Mon, January 5, 2026 at 10:31 AM PST 3 min read
President Donald Trump is back to falsely insisting he predicted 9/11 and failed to save thousands of lives only because no one listened to him.
Over the course of the last decade, the 79-year-old has frequently made the claim that he warned of the dangers of former Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden in his 2000 book The America We Deserve, despite fact checks proving that he didn’t.
He repeated it on Sunday night, painting himself as a visionary to reporters aboard Air Force One as he flew to Washington, D.C.
In a mile-high huddle with Sen. Lindsey Graham, who gushed over the U.S. military operation to capture Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro, Trump suddenly peeled off for a tangent about his supposed counterterrorism credentials.
“By the way, you mention something that is interesting,” the president said. “Lindsey mentioned bin Laden. You know, I wrote about bin Laden one year before the attack on the World Trade Center. And I said, you have to go after bin Laden. It was in my book.
“Very few people want to say that. But it was in my book... If they would have listened to me, they would have taken out bin Laden, and you wouldn‘t have had the World Trade Center tragedy.”
Then, looking at Graham, he said, “Did you know that? I predicted bin Laden.”
“I learn something new every day,” Graham replied.
Trump wrote the book, with the help of ghostwriter Dave Shiflett, during his fruitless presidential run for Ross Perot’s Reform Party USA. He has since claimed several times that those pages contained wisdom that could have prevented the deadliest terror attack ever carried out against the U.S.
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He said it on The Alex Jones Show in December 2015. He then said it again as president following the death of ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi in October 2019, and again in October 2025 as he spoke to sailors to mark the U.S. Navy’s 250th birthday.
But over and over it’s been debunked, with FactCheck.org writing in 2015 that “Donald Trump exaggerates his prescience on the 9/11 terrorist attacks when he claims he ‘predicted Osama bin Laden.’”
In fact, it points out that bin Laden is mentioned only once in the whole book, in the following passage, where he talks about him as a minor figure in a mosaic of “smaller crises”:
“Instead of one looming crisis hanging over us, we face a bewildering series of smaller crises, flash points, standoffs, and hot spots. We’re not playing the chess game to end all chess games anymore. We’re playing tournament chess — one master against many rivals. One day we’re all assured that Iraq is under control, the UN inspectors have done their work, everything’s fine, not to worry. The next day the bombing begins. One day we’re told that a shadowy figure with no fixed address named Osama bin-Laden is public enemy number one, and U.S. jetfighters lay waste to his camp in Afghanistan. He escapes back under some rock, and a few news cycles later it’s on to a new enemy and new crisis.”
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Trump’s comment comes after the U.S. stunned the world with a pre-dawn raid in Caracas, claiming it was a matter of national security for America to stem the flow of drugs and open the country up for business.
Trump’s allies have praised the operation and begun to suggest similar measures should be taken in other countries. Beyond his insistence that Trump should be applauded for the Venezuelan operation, Graham also made a threat against Cuba.
“This was one of the most sophisticated military operations in the history of the country. What they were able to do was amazing. They knew we were coming. We had a good part of the Navy and they were able to capture this man alive, no military in the world could have done it, and it is due to this commander-in-chief,” Graham said.
“He did something people talked about doing. You just wait for Cuba. Cuba is a communist dictatorship that has killed priests and nuns, they have preyed on their own people, their days are numbered,” Graham said.
The Daily Beast has contacted the White House for comment.
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- by me, Kerry Wayne Burgess, posted by me: 01:12 AM Pacific-timezone USA Tuesday 01/06/2026
