https://www.idahostatesman.com/news/politics-government/state-politics/article314463394.html
Idaho Statesman
Idaho bill wants to ensure prisoners don’t profit from tell-all murder books
By Kevin Fixler Updated January 27, 2026 2:11 PM
On Monday, Nichols introduced an update to Idaho’s existing law that compensates crime victims if the perpetrator reaches a financial agreement to tell their story.
At nearly a half-century old, the law does not cover contemporary trends and information sources, and needs to be revised to be more effective, she said.
“It updates our current law to prevent money from being made off of criminal notoriety,” Nichols told a Senate committee. “This closes gaps that fail to address modern media and monetization, and ensures victims have a fair opportunity to recover damages, all while fully protecting free speech and due process by regulating only the money — not First Amendment expression.”
The Seattle Times
Monday, December 7, 1998
Gates: Smile Would Have Helped, But He Told Truth
By James V. Grimaldi
Seattle Times Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON - Bill Gates said he wished he'd smiled more during his videotaped deposition taken before the Microsoft antitrust trial started
"I answered truthfully every single question that was put forth," Gates said. "You have to understand that Mr. Boies made it clear in the negotiations leading up to the case that he is really out to destroy Microsoft. He is really out to make all the good work we've done - and make us look very bad.
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm13057194/bio/
IMDb
Phoebe Gates
Biography
Born September 14, 2002 Bellevue, Seattle, Washington
Birth name Phoebe Adele Gates
Parents
Melinda Gates
Bill Gates
Relatives
Jennifer Gates (Sibling)
"Das Bus" The Simpsons
Original airdate on FOX: 15-Feb-1998
(from internet transcripts)
Back at the Simpsons home, Homer reads "Internet For Dummies"...
Ooh, they have the Internet on computers now!
Marge tells Homer Bill Gates is here to see him. Homer panicks, and tells Marge to get out of here so it doesn't look like a two-bit operation.
Bill Gates: Mr. Simpson?
Homer: You don't look so rich...
Bill Gates: Don't let the haircut fool you, I am exceedingly wealthy.
Clinton Team Picks Apart Jones's Life
By Peter Baker and Lorraine Adams
Washington Post Staff Writers
Monday, February 23, 1998; Page A01
The 11th-floor New York Avenue law offices with a strategic view of Washington's majestic landmarks are a fair distance from the one-stoplight town of Lonoke, Ark. But these days there is little about Lonoke's most famous native daughter that is not known in the polished suites of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom.
Piece by piece, President Clinton's top-dollar legal team has taken apart the life of Paula Jones, examining topics from her job history to her possible sex partners. They turned up a check she bounced when reimbursing the Arkansas government for personal calls made on state phones. They found previous employers who fired her for tardiness or other reasons. They scoured personnel records and discovered she typed only 24 words per minute and scored 121 out of 174 on an Arkansas state clerical examination.
Venturing into more salacious territory, they interviewed as many as a half-dozen men who claimed to have had sex with her, including some who said they met her casually at parties or bars and then engaged in quick encounters, according to people close to the case. One former boss signed an affidavit alleging that she pursued him at work and that they slept together. After their short-lived relationship ended, he fired her -- in part, he said, because she dressed too provocatively.
Now that the lawyers essentially have finished gathering evidence and made the final pretrial effort to get Jones's sexual harassment lawsuit thrown out, a picture has emerged of who the president's defense team is and where it is headed. Led by veterans of past high-profile political cases, the Clinton legal squad is following an aggressive and political risky strategy centered on Jones herself. After all the attention focused on a president linked by fact or rumor to a host of women -- most recently and most perilously Monica S. Lewinsky -- Clinton's lawyers hope to turn the spotlight with blinding intensity on the life of his most persistent accuser.
"Does her story make sense? It's always been our position to point out why it doesn't make sense," said Mitchell S. Ettinger, a Clinton attorney. "No one's going to argue they weren't in a room together. And you don't have to call her a complete liar. But everything she's said -- about her injuries to her job, her reactions to this, her reasons for filing suit -- it's not going to add up."
From 3/3/1959 ( the birthdate in Hawaii of my biological brother Thomas Reagan ) To 12/21/1992 ( official State of South Carolina documents, date recorded by State of South Carolina: "the receipt of which is hereby acknowledged, have granted, bargained, sold, and released, and by these presents do grant, bargain, sell and release unto Kerry Wayne Burgess" the house I owned at Country Club Estates in South Carolina, USA ) is 12347 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 8/23/1999 ( ) is 12347 days
Seattle Times
Monday, August 23, 1999
Gates Merger Forms Charity Colossus
By Helen Jung
Seattle Times Technology Reporter
THE COMBINED Gates foundation will have assets of $17.1 billion, making it the second-largest charitable trust in the world. Just to meet federal rules, it will have to give away $500 million by the end of the year.
Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates and his wife, Melinda French Gates, are merging their two charitable foundations and committing an additional $6 billion to create the country's largest philanthropic foundation.
The new entity, called the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, will boast a $17.1 billion endowment and target improving health and education around the world. The venture combines the William H. Gates Foundation, created in 1994, with the Gates Learning Foundation, which was created in 1997 under a different name. The merger is expected to be completed by Jan. 1.
The $6 billion commitment of Microsoft stock, announced yesterday
Stripes (1981)
(from internet transcript)
Dare me. Go on, bluff me.
Come on.
How much should I bet?
If it were me,
I'd bet everything.
But that's me.
I'm an aggressive gambler. Mr. Vegas.
Come on. Go for it.
Yes, yes, there we go.
I'm in.
- What do you got?
- I got a full house.
Three threes and two sixes,
that's a full house. What have you got?
- I got a four, I got an ace.
- You got an eight, an ace and a seven.
Well, you lose. lf you would have had
four fours, you would have won.
- You're getting good.
- Starting to get the hang of it.
From 7/16/1963 ( Phoebe Cates - the world-famous actor AND 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 8/22/1999 ( ) is 13186 days
13186 = 6593 + 6593
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 11/21/1983 ( premiere USA TV series episode "Inspector Gadget"::"Funny Money" ) is 6593 days
From 11/14/1948 ( Britain's King Charles III and from the thoughts in my conscious mind, coinciding with United States of America Veterans Affairs hospital psychiatric doctor medical drugs: never disclosed to public, other than from me, my biological paternal genetic uncle, the genetic brother of my genetic father, publicly and privately unacknowledged, persons unknown to public for their genetic relationship ) To 9/3/1982 ( premiere USA film "Fast Times At Ridgemont High" ) is 12346 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 8/22/1999 ( ) is 12346 days
From 5/16/1992 ( landing of the first flight of the United States space shuttle Endeavour orbiter vehicle mission STS-49 includes me Kerry Wayne Burgess the United States Marine Corps commissioned-officer and United States STS-49 pilot astronaut and my 1st official United States of America National Aeronautics and Space Administration orbital flight of 4 overall ) To 8/22/1999 ( ) is 2654 days
2654 = 1327 + 1327
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 6/21/1969 ( premiere United Kingdom TV "Royal Family" ) is 1327 days
https://www.historylink.org/File/2906
The Free Encyclopedia of Washington State History
On August 22, 1999, after weeks of rumors, Bill and Melinda Gates officially confirm their intention to reorganize and expand their philanthropic activities as the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The new foundation supersedes the existing William H. Gates Foundation and Gates Learning Foundation. With an initial endowment of up to $17 billion, the new Foundation is the nation's second largest. It will soon become the richest with an additional $5 billion gift on January 24, 2000.
https://www.boxofficemojo.com/release/rl726894081/weekend/
Box Office Mojo
Fast Times at Ridgemont High
Release Date (Wide) Aug 13, 1982 (Sep 3, 1982)
Grosses
Domestic $27,092,880
by me, Kerry Burgess - H.V.O.M at 8:41 AM Saturday, May 26, 2007
I remember I had a pretty long beard when I was in the Pioneer Square gulag. It got to the point that street people stopped asking me for spare change.
https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/wa-senate-passes-bill-barring-masked-law-enforcement/
The Seattle Times
WA Senate passes bill barring masked law enforcement
Jan. 28, 2026 at 4:02 pm
By Sophia Sostrin
Seattle Times staff reporter
OLYMPIA — A bill barring law enforcement officers from concealing their identities while performing public duties advanced out of the Washington Senate on Wednesday, sending one of the session’s most closely watched public safety proposals to the House amid heightened scrutiny of masked federal immigration enforcement.
Substitute Senate Bill 5855 would generally prohibit officers acting in Washington from wearing opaque face coverings during routine public interactions. Supporters frame the restriction as a transparency and accountability measure that has taken on new urgency following recent, highly publicized killings involving federal immigration agents, incidents that sparked protests nationwide and renewed fears about Immigration and Customs Enforcement activity in the state.
The proposal is a response to a growing number of encounters involving masked federal agents in Washington, which the bill’s backers argue have fueled fear and eroded public trust, particularly in immigrant communities.
Concerns over anonymous and aggressive enforcement tactics have sparked large Capitol protests and impassioned testimony from immigrant-rights advocates in support of the bill.
During floor debate Wednesday, Sen. Javier Valdez, D-Seattle, the bill’s prime sponsor, described multiple recent encounters involving masked federal agents operating in Washington, arguing the practice spreads fear rather than fosters trust.
“What we are seeing now is terrifying, devastating and just breaks my heart,” Valdez said. “Masked law enforcement officers are operating without accountability, terrorizing families and acting above the law.”
Sen. Jesse Salomon, D-Shoreline, said the bill reflects Washington’s values and long-standing expectations around transparency in policing.
“We don’t do secret police here,” Salomon said.
- by me, Kerry Wayne Burgess, posted by me: 8:41 PM Pacific-timezone USA Wednesday 01/28/2026
