This Is What I Think.

Friday, October 09, 2026

Today is 10/09/2026





by me, Kerry Burgess, 10/09/2026 5:13 PM

B U _ C K



Have not yet viewed today's newest episode of the "Dark Matter" streaming-video series on Appletv. Don't know anything about the content, don't know its title

As with anything I view or watch it is in superposition for me at this present time

Thinking of viewing it later. Might drink some coffee at that same time.









by me, Kerry Burgess, 10/09/2026 6:34 PM

In recent days, began to think of explaining how to reconcile my theory with the premise of "Travelers" the Netflix streaming-video series from year 2016

I have viewed many of those episodes and the overall premise is clear to me of that story.

Have not viewed more episodes than my most previous reference from months ago.



My basic premise to all this is those are all variations of theme.

There is a consistent fact there and those stories are variations - if so then probably created clandestinely. Most or all people whose names are published with those productions have no idea they were manipulated into manufacturing those stories with someone else's ulterior motive.

I do not know any of those people known for any of those productions. I do not speak for any of those people or any of those productions.



Another notion recently is from William Gibson's 1984 novel "Neuromancer"

I stopped recently forward progress reading more of it.

I am thinking of his "flatline box" and how I see it as a variation on a theme.

The Goa-uld of Stargate SG-1 could be a similar notion.

The premise of Blake Crouch's novel "Dark Matter" encroaches on this notion and makes me hesitate to think in terms of this present effect on me personally.

Last week's episode storyline dialog might have tried to explain it is happening to all of us because of "entanglement"

This is all very real to me. If you cannot grasp my rationalization then that is because you are a complete imbecile.

A source of annoyance to me has always been whether these details are being thrown around out there by parrots or if there is actually anything there that can be learned as factual









Travelers

Continua

Counterpart

Superposition



It seems to make more sense to me now.









by me, Kerry Burgess, 10/09/2026 6:42 PM

"The Pyramid"

That is the episode name of season 2 episode 7 (of 10 episodes) of "Dark Matter" on Appletv

Beginning it now after pouring myself a cup of black coffee.









by me, Kerry Burgess, 10/09/2026 6:56 PM

Paused now Daniela is at the lake cabin speaking to her father

Paused because I am thinking of other stuff.

That episode of "Counterpart"

I am including my previous notes about it here at the end of this note after I finish viewing today's episode 7 of "Dark Matter"









https://www.imdb.com/title/tt38351303/

IMDb

Dark Matter

S2.E7

The Pyramid

Episode aired Oct 9, 2026










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From 9/22/2014 ( ) To 10/9/2026 ( ) is 4400 days

From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 11/19/1977 ( USA 1st Special Forces Operational Detachment - Delta ) is 4400 days










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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090927/releaseinfo/

IMDb

The Delta Force

Release info

United States February 14, 1986

Cast

Chuck Norris as Maj. Scott McCoy










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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8458076/

IMDb

Counterpart (2017–2019)

Twin Cities

Episode aired 20 January 2019

Season 2 Episode 6

Cast

James Cromwell ... Yanek

The origins of the Crossing are revealed.









posted online by me, Kerry Burgess: Feb 17 2019 07:08:38

A deliberate hack by people monitoring my posts online about that tv series? Knowing I'm watching it? The episode first broadcast about 6 weeks ago but I am seeing now for the first time only today.

8:25 PM April 3, 2021



posted online by me, Kerry Burgess: Feb 17 2019 07:08:38

Anybody's who's seen episode 5 of Season 2 of the tv series Counterpart might remember part of the dialog is about a server crash at the offices where the Crossing is located.

8:24 PM April 3, 2021

posted online by me, Kerry Burgess: Feb 17 2019 07:08:38

Today, I've been fighting with one of my main computers as it decided to seriously screw with me



posted online by me, Kerry Burgess: Feb 17 2019 07:35:28

The dual flashlights. That's neat as hell.

8:20 PM April 3, 2021

posted online by me, Kerry Burgess: Feb 17 2019 08:27:09

Brilliant.



@Kerry_W_Burgess

No, wait.

That was the day 02/16/2019 when I actually watched the episode, the episode originally broadcast 01/20/2019 but I didn't watch it until weeks later. When I began streaming it was also at the time my anti-virus program, well-known vendor, crashed my computer

8:05 PM April 3, 2021



@Kerry_W_Burgess

Was an update from the vendor that crashed my computer

7:50 PM April 3, 2021



That was the day my third-party, well-known, anti-virus software product crashed my desktop computer

I had to reinstall Microsoft Windows to get it working again

01/20/2019

Just as I watched for the first time that episode

7:49 PM April 3, 2021










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Kerry Wayne Burgess @hvom2022

Counterpart (TV series)

From Wikipedia

Counterpart is an American science fiction thriller television series

"Twin Cities" January 20, 2019

6:11 PM September 8, 2022

Counterpart (TV series)

"Twin Cities"January 20, 2019

In 1987 East Berlin, Yanek, a scientist, agrees to take clandestine photographs of a device in his workplace in order to secure his family's escape to the West. In an accident, he creates duplicate parallel worlds.









by me, Kerry Burgess, 01/24/2026 5:03 PM

I just saw a video of village-idiot Jacob Frey

How many more village-idiots such as Jacob Frey are going to be installed in the USA by those anti-USAmericans?










1981-07-23_2-1









https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Paul,_Minnesota

Saint Paul, Minnesota

From Wikipedia

Saint Paul (often abbreviated to St. Paul) is the capital city of the U.S. state of Minnesota









by me, Kerry Burgess, 08/07/2024 7:27 PM

There's no way for me to ever find out

I will never know if that calendar-day was 07/23/1981

Camp Couchdale

Summer Camp when I was selected to represent Ashdown, Arkansas, at a camp with students from across the state

One night, that summer of year 1981, the organizers gathered us into a large room for a dance

I will never know the precise calendar-day that happened









Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982)

Linda Barrett: He's no high school boy.









Star Trek - "Metamorphosis" - tv-series Season 2 Episode 9, 11/10/1967

(from internet transcript)

Dr. MCCOY: Are you all right?

Zefram COCHRANE: Yes. It kind of drains me a little, but I'm all right.









Encyclopaedia Britannica

Harvey Fletcher

AMERICAN PHYSICIST

Harvey Fletcher, (born Sept. 11, 1884, Provo, Utah, U.S.—died July 23, 1981, Provo), U.S. physicist, a leading authority in the fields of psychoacoustics and acoustical engineering.

Fletcher graduated from Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah, in 1907 and received a Ph.D. in physics from the University of Chicago in 1911. In 1916 he joined the staff of Bell Telephone Laboratories, where he worked for 33 years, primarily in the fields of speech, music, and hearing. Much of his work on the fundamentals of psychoacoustics is described in his book Speech and Hearing (1922).

Fletcher’s research group developed and demonstrated two separate but related methods for reproducing sound: binaural sound reproduction and stereophonic reproduction. He and his team gave the first public demonstration of stereophonic sound in 1934 in New York City.









Posted by Kerry Burgess - H.V.O.M at 5:54 AM Friday, November 30, 2007

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stereo

Stereophonic sound, commonly called stereo, is the reproduction of sound, using two or more independent audio channels, through a symmetrical configuration of loudspeakers, in such a way as to create a pleasant and natural impression of sound heard from various directions, as in natural hearing. It is often contrasted with monophonic (or "monaural", or just mono) sound, where audio is in the form of one channel, often centered in the sound field (analogous to a visual field).









From 7/16/1963 ( Phoebe Cates ) To 7/23/1981 ( ) is 6582 days

From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 11/10/1983 ( ) is 6582 days



http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/microsoft/8201141/History-of-Windows-a-blast-from-the-past.html

The Telegraph

Windows 1.01 (1985) - History of Windows: a blast from the past

Bill Gates and Paul Allen officially announced their Microsoft Windows graphical user interface on November 10, 1983. The first version was called Windows 1.01 but was almost named Interface Manager until marketing manager Rowland Hanson convinced Bill Gates to change it. Windows 1.01 was released on November 20, 1985.









by me, Kerry Burgess, 04/17/2026 10:22 PM

of my original-work

03/16/2013 - Epoch 5.0 begins

5.1 - discovered 06/08/1993

5.2 - translated 06/08/1989

5.21 - discovered evidence of 07/23/1981









https://collider.com/counterpart-season-2-episode-6-management-explained/

Counterpart Season 2 Episode 6: Management, The Crossing Explained

By Allison Keene

Published Jan 20, 2019, 10:00 PM EST

Warning: Spoilers for the Counterpart Season 2 episode "Twin Cities" follow.

One of the most chilling lines spoken in the Starz series Counterpart came from Yanek (James Cromwell), an “extractor” who specializes in comparing the experiences from the show’s two worlds. He’s speaking with Howard Alpha (J.K. Simmons), who has crossed over, and is telling him about some of the differences in his life versus that of his “Other,” Howard Prime. In describing Prime’s poor relationship with his father, and the decisions he made to abandon him, Alpha passionately exclaims “I would never do that!” Yanek comes back with those haunting words: “But you did.”

As grounded as Starz’s series Counterpart is with its character drama, it can be easy to mentally set aside the sci-fi elements on which the series is based. The crux of it is, of course, that the world was split in two in 1987 Berlin, after an experiment went wrong and revealed a parallel universe. The split has mostly been kept a secret, but there is a spy organization that keeps an eye on the other world and the “echoes” there. However, starting at that point in 1987 we know that things in the worlds started to change. The people and circumstances within the two worlds were no longer identical, morphing from that point due to slightly different decisions that became bigger and bigger indicators of who they would become in each version. Counterpart has asked the question of how one’s life would be different with just a few changes over and over again with a variety of characters and outcomes, but in “Twin Cities,” it went back to the literal origins of the split and how things started to shift.

Counterpart has been building to this moment thematically for quite awhile. We spent Season 1 learning the rules of the two worlds, and the history of the second world and a flu epidemic that wiped out a huge part of their population. Through Howard Alpha and his Other, Howard Prime, we were also able to see how two identical men could become so vastly different. As they ended up swapping worlds and living in each other’s shoes quite literally, it was also fascinating to see how the circumstances of their different lives began to mold them yet again: Howard Alpha has toughened up, and Howard Prime has softened just a little. Season 2 has also spent more time examining the differences between the two Emilys, as well as introducing two Peter Quayles, and has continued to tease the role Management plays in all of it.

“Twin Cities” made that all explicit though by taking us back to a younger Yanek, whose decision to leave his post and spy on the experiments performed by his organization (to help buy his passage to democracy) changed everything. The details are pretty sketchy here, and that’s totally fine; the point of it all is that Yanek’s actions opened a portal to another world, where he then met himself. Being a scientist, he was eager to experiment with what this could all mean, and the two men brought in colleagues along the way to help keep the secret and further explore the potential of this split reality.



- by me, Kerry Wayne Burgess, posted by me: 9:09 PM Pacific-timezone USA Friday 10/09/2026

Today is 10/09/2026





https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/pentagon-pete-derails-navy-celebration-211829475.html

Yahoo! News

The Daily Beast

Pentagon Pete Derails Navy Celebration With Angry Meltdown

Sarah Ewall-Wice

Wed, October 7, 2026 at 2:18 PM PDT 3 min read

"There were a few folks in the media who tried to turn the USS Abraham Lincoln into some sort of symbol, a symbol of dysfunction or a symbol of low morale or a symbol of a failed mission," Hegseth complained. "And what I look at right here and when I talk to your leadership, and I have had a chance to talk to a number of you, I know it's the exact opposite."

But the former TV personality was not done whining about the press for reporting on the concerns that sailors' families had about the abysmal conditions and morale onboard as the deployment dragged on.

"They see success, and they see excellence, and they see difficulty and challenge that needs to be overcome, an extension, a challenging environment, and they want to point at it as a symbol of something that was missed or wrong," Hegseth ranted.

"Instead, what makes the U.S. military and the U.S. Navy and all these sailors different is that you adapt, and that you're resilient, and you overcome. You finish the mission nonetheless," Hegseth said. "Yes, it's hard."









original work by me, Kerry Burgess, excerpts:

https://hvom.blogspot.com/2026/10/today-is-10082026.html

by me, Kerry Wayne Burgess, posted by me: 07:08 AM

Number 878: The Farthest Man From Home

I am Kerry Burgess. This is what I think.

If this is the first blog-post by me you're reading then you are galactically uninformed.

Thursday, October 08, 2026

Today is 10/08/2026



princess-in-chief Donald J. Trump



https://www.newsweek.com/after-trump-says-carrier-deployment-not-long-enough-mullen-warns-of-risks-12329235

Newsweek

After Trump Says Carrier Deployment Not Long Enough, Mullen Warns of Risks

Published August 16, 2026 at 04:33 PM EDT

After President Donald Trump faced some pushback when he dismissed concerns over the USS Abraham Lincoln’s record-setting deployment, former Joint Chiefs of Staff chair Admiral Mike Mullen warned on Sunday that prolonged time at sea poses serious risks to crew readiness and morale.

Trump told reporters Friday that the aircraft carrier’s more than eight months at sea was "not nearly long enough," pushing back against growing alarm from military families and lawmakers



From 4/9/1953 ( premiere USA TV series episode "The Ford Television Theatre"::"Just What the Doctor Ordered" ) To 3/15/2014 ( ) is 22255 days

From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 10/8/2026 ( Today , Thursday ) is 22255 days



From 6/27/2004 ( as me, Kerry Burgess, the amateur-competitor number 878, I successfully completed the Ironman Coeur d'Alene triathlon ) To 10/8/2026 ( ) is 8138 days

From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 2/13/1988 ( as me, Kerry Burgess, while enlisted paygrade E-5, designated Petty Officer Second Class Fire Controlman (FC2), with my personal participation and commendation my official enlisted United States Navy documents includes: Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal - 88Feb13 88Jun03, CF-division, Missile Plot - guided-missiles Fire Control Computer Complex (expert technician for all maintenance and operations, down to printed-circuit-board component level diagnosis and repair, UNIVAC digital-computers Mk152 Terrier System for, primarily, SM2-ER {Extended Range} Standard Missiles ordnance), USS Wainwright CG-28, United States Navy, Operation Earnest Will, Middle East Force, including Operation Praying Mantis ) is 8138 days










the-final-countdown-1980_01h-37m-59s - The Final Countdown (1980)
the-final-countdown-1980_01h-38m-01s - The Final Countdown (1980)



- by me, Kerry Wayne Burgess, posted by me: 10:43 AM Pacific-timezone USA Friday 10/09/2026

Today is 10/09/2026





by me, Kerry Burgess, 10/09/2026 07:16 AM

Another day at this stupid desk in this small apartment in the City of Spokane and extreme isolation continues.

Zero contacts.

Thinking up more stuff.









https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Identification_(literature)

Identification (literature)

From Wikipedia

Identification refers to the automatic, subconscious psychological process in which an individual becomes like or closely associates themselves with another person by adopting one or more of the others' perceived personality traits, physical attributes, or some other aspect of their identity. The concept of identification was founded by psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud in the 1920’s, and has since been expanded on and applied in psychology, social studies, media studies, and literary and film criticism. In literature, identification most often refers to the audience identifying with a fictional character, however it can also be employed as a narrative device whereby one character identifies with another character within the text itself.









The Simpsons

"Miracle on Evergreen Terrace"

Original Airdate on FOX: 21-Dec-1997

(from internet transcript)

Kent Brockman: In my long career, I've seen some pretty shabby things. But this putrid fraud outstinks them all.

Camera Man: Aaaaaaand cut.

Kent Brockman: I just wanna thank you folks so much. This has turned out to be a really great story for me!










fast-times-at-ridgemont-high_00h51m46s - Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982)
fast-times-at-ridgemont-high-1982_00h-53m-48s - Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982)










fast-times-at-ridgemont-high-1982_01h-07m-37s - Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982)










fast-times-at-ridgemont-high-1982_01h-07m-20s - Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982)









https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antlers,_Oklahoma

Antlers, Oklahoma

From Wikipedia

Antlers is a city in and the county seat of Pushmataha County, Oklahoma, United States. The population was 2,221 as of the 2020 United States census.

A United States Post Office was established at Antlers, Indian Territory









by me, Kerry Burgess:

August 10, 2006

I've wrote about 2/14/86 thinking it was the day I was shot down over Libya or maybe Chad, perhaps in an A-6(TRAM). These documents in Reagans library make me think that is true. One reason is because I remember my sister, Margret Melissa Burgess, was born on 2/14/68.



10/4/2006 12:48 PM

I remember my sister s birthday as 2/14/68 and I started thinking that I was shot down over Libya or Chad on 2/14/86.



11/16/2006 10:29 AM

I awoke last night with the certainty that my DD-214 does include a reference to Admiral Stockdale. The date I think is encoded in my DD-214 is 12/23/91 and that was his 68th birthday. My sister, Melissa, was born on 2/14/68 and I think I was shot down and taken prisoner on 2/14/86.









of my original work:

Search Date variable: 02/14/1968

Search Date variable: 08/13/1982

result: 11/24/1984









From 2/14/1968 ( ) To 11/24/1984 ( ) is 6128 days

From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 8/13/1982 ( premiere USA film "Fast Times At Ridgemont High" ) is 6128 days










1984-11-24_1-1

https://www.reaganfoundation.org/ronald-reagan/white-house-diaries/diary-entry-11241984



- by me, Kerry Wayne Burgess, posted by me: 07:35 AM Pacific-timezone USA Friday 10/09/2026

Thursday, October 08, 2026

Today is 10/08/2026





by me, Kerry Burgess, 10/08/2026 01:22 PM

Think we will see Sloppy Drunk Pete Hegseth out there today in San Diego working on that ship with a paintbrush?

Doubt it.

My guess is he's already sloppy drunk by this afternoon.



Thinking about his raging antics I have read about in the mainstream-media, I began thinking today about Randy Romine.

He was Thedia's fourth husband. I saw her married to her fifth husband during my lifetime when I was only 14 years old. Most of them just ignored me and I ignored them and practically raised my own self. Thedia was one of the best-looking broads in that little town and so I guess that's why she was in high-demand from local yokels.



Randy Romine was raging alcoholic. I knew about his previous wife and his kids. I would later think about how I never actually met his kids. Then I remember one time he was given permission to visit his kids for a few hours. And that made me think: he can't be around his kids but yet I am allowed to live in the same house with that drunk maniac. He fired a bullet through my bedroom ceiling once. Twisted and broke the handlebars of my bicycle. Beat the hell out of Thedia a few times. So I was told. I did see her bruised face after but I was not around when he went on his raging benders.

He was an injured veteran of Vietnam. I think his troubles were deeper.

When I read about sloppy drunks like Pete Hegseth and their love for Jesus H. Christ I suspect they are not being honest with themselves. My guess is Pete Hegseth is too cowardly at many things and his pent-up homosexuality is one example because society is not forgiving to weak, little guys like him.

So he goes on raging alcohol benders.



I did not feel like making this note but as with so much other stuff I must examine this detail that formed today in my conscious mind. And because of this result I must include supporting details from my previous discoveries.

This note expands on other observations by me and that I am not referencing again here in this note.









This is a great story I have developed.

Best for one other person.

None of this is about getting you to like me or any of that narcissistic crap. Nothing about getting you to give me stuff I do not already have.

You know what that means.









by me, Kerry Burgess, 10/08/2026 01:55 PM

Because of last week, I am now wondering what I will see tomorrow in the newest episode of "Dark Matter" on Appletv

I do not know a single detail about it presently and I will not know until after midnight today and into tomorrow, Friday, 10/09/2026









From 7/20/1946 ( ) To 6/6/1980 ( ) is 12375 days

From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 9/20/1999 ( ) is 12375 days









https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pete_Hegseth

Pete Hegseth

From Wikipedia [retrieved 08/20/2026]

Peter Brian Hegseth (born June 6, 1980) is an American government official, veteran, and former television personality who has served as the 29th United States secretary of defense since 2025.










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Stargate SG-1

"Past and Present"

TV-series season 3 episode 11, 10/15/1999

(from internet transcript)

INT—MEDICAL LABORATORY, SGC

[General Hammond and O'NEILL enter the lab. Dr Fraiser is massaging her forehead and Carter is sitting with her back to her desk.]

O'NEILL
Oh my. There is a distinct lack of optimism in this room.

FRAISER
We've been working around the clock trying to dissolve a chemical inside the brain without harming the surrounding tissue and it is not easy.

HAMMOND
What have you learned?

CARTER
That it could take years, Sir.

HAMMOND
Suffice it to say, we don't have that much time.









from my private journal, as me, Kerry Burgess, typed after being released from the USA Veterans Affairs psychiatric hospital enduring many months sitting in a grungy two-computer room in a homeless shelter on the waterfront in downtown Seattle:

From: Kerry Burgess

Sent: Monday, May 22, 2006 1:55 PM

To: Kerry Burgess

Subject: Journal May 22, 2006

I made a list today of the step-fathers I remember my mother being married to, it seems important. My father was a truck driver. She remarried to a guy named James who was a U.S. Marine. I think he went back into the service after they married and then we moved around to the bases he was stationed at. I think first we went to Santa Ana. I think that is where the El Toro base is at. Then we were at a base in McAlester, OK, where I think he was a guard. She then married Dale Parker, the guy who was electrocuted. He was some kind of hospital worker when they got married and then went on to work in construction, building houses. We were living with his parents for a while. I remember mowing their lawn one day and getting the notion to carve out some kind of message in the grass that people above in aircraft could read. Then she married the Vietnam veteran. He was a pretty nice guy when he was sober, but when he got drunk he was beserk. From what she told me, he had stepped on a landmine in Vietnam. The doctors told him he would never walk again but he made out ok. I remember finding his Purple Heart medals. I think he had three. This was also the time I liked to play around with live ammunition, pulling apart cartridges and shells for the gunpowder so I could blow up the model ships and aircraft I had put together.









WILKERSON FUNERAL HOME

Jerry Randall "Randy" Romine

Jerry Randall "Randy" Romine, age 62, a resident of Mabelvale, Arkansas died Monday, December 22, 2008 in Mabelvale.

He was born July 20, 1946 in Horatio to Ray and Margaret Cox Romine. He was a DX service station operator, retired disabled U.S. Marine veteran of the Vietnam War and a Baptist.

Funeral Services will be held at 2:00 p.m., Saturday, December 27, 2008 in the Wilkerson Funeral Home Chapel with Virgil Romine and Rev. Charles Hebert officiating. Burial will follow in the Horatio Cemetery.









https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Earnest_Will

Operation Earnest Will

From Wikipedia

Operation Earnest Will (24 July 1987 – 26 September 1988) was the American military protection of Kuwaiti-owned tankers from Iranian attacks in 1987 and 1988, three years into the Tanker War phase of the Iran–Iraq War. It was the largest naval convoy operation since World War II.









excerpt from my private journal as Kerry Burgess: 03/28/07 2:18 AM

the doctors had told Randy he would never walk again because he had stepped on a landmine.









excerpt from my private journal as Kerry Burgess: July 31, 2006

There is also that memory I have written about before where I climbed up on Randy Romine's 100 foot HAM radio antenna. One time I went up there with my first model rocket, the one that was fashioned as R2D2 from Star Wars.









From 7/20/1946 ( Randy Romine [purported Purple Heart medal recipient from US Marines and Vietnam veteran and was one of several former step-father when I was child as Kerry Burgess circa 1977-1980] ) To 5/7/1992 ( first launch 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 National Aeronautics and Space Administration orbital flight of 4 overall ) is 16728 days

16728 = 8364 + 8364

From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 9/26/1988 ( US Navy ends convoy duty in the Persian Gulf ) is 8364 days



From 6/3/1988 ( as me, Kerry Burgess, while enlisted paygrade E-5, designated Fire Controlman Petty Officer Second Class (FC2), with my personal participation and commendation my official enlisted US Navy documents includes: Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal 88Feb13 88Jun03, CF-division, Missile Plot - guided-missiles Fire Control Computers Complex (expert technician for all maintenance and operations, down to printed-circuit-board component level diagnosis and repair, UNIVAC digital-computers Mk152 Terrier System for, primarily, SM2-ER {Extended Range} Standard Missiles ordnance), USS Wainwright CG-28, US Navy, Operation Earnest Will, Middle East Force, including Operation Praying Mantis ) To 5/7/1992 ( ) is 1434 days

1434 = 717 + 717

From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 10/20/1967 ( premiere USA TV series episode "Star Trek"::"The Doomsday Machine" ) is 717 days



From 12/7/1941 ( the US Navy Pacific Fleet severely damaged in the surprise attack at Pearl Harbor Hawaii ) To 5/7/1992 ( ) is 18414 days

18414 = 9207 + 9207

From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 1/17/1991 ( 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 9207 days



From 2/10/1960 ( Dwight Eisenhower, 34th president of USA federal government 1953-1961: Remarks After Inspecting the Missile Test Center, Cape Canaveral, Florida ) To 8/15/1986 ( Ronald Reagan, 40th president of USA federal government 1981-1989: Building of a Fourth Shuttle Orbiter and the Future of the Space Program ) is 9683 days

From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 5/7/1992 ( ) is 9683 days



From 1/20/1961 ( premiere USA TV series episode "The Twilight Zone"::"The Whole Truth" ) To 5/7/1992 ( ) is 11430 days

11430 = 5715 + 5715

From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 6/26/1981 ( premiere USA film "Stripes" ) is 5715 days



From 2/28/1920 ( from The Daily Princetonian publication, Princeton University: UNIVERSITY MACHINE IS VERY BADLY WRECKED ; Anthony Antoninus, Campus Employee, Gets In Way Of Ford Which Was Newly Purchased. ) To 3/7/1973 ( premiere USA TV "The Six Million Dollar Man"::"The Moon and the Desert" ) is 19366 days

19366 = 9683 + 9683

From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 5/7/1992 ( ) is 9683 days



http://articles.latimes.com/1992-05-08/news/mn-1910_1_space-station-assembly

Los Angeles Times

Shuttle Endeavour Blasts Off on Difficult Maiden Flight : Science: The mission includes three spacewalks, practice for space station assembly and rescue of a communications satellite.

May 08, 1992 ROBERT W. STEWART TIMES STAFF WRITER

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. — Dodging gusty winds and threatening thunderstorms, the shuttle Endeavour, the nation's newest orbiter, found a hole in the clouds Thursday and blasted off on its maiden voyage.










1992_may7sts49-1 .jpg, from internet









https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armed_Forces_Expeditionary_Medal

Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal

From Wikipedia

The Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal (AFEM) is a military award of the United States Armed Forces

Criteria

The medal shall be awarded only for operations for which no other U.S. campaign medal is approved, where a foreign armed opposition or imminent threat of hostile action was encountered.



- by me, Kerry Wayne Burgess, posted by me: 1:56 PM Pacific-timezone USA Thursday 10/08/2026

Today is 10/08/2026





princess-in-chief Donald J. Trump



https://www.newsweek.com/after-trump-says-carrier-deployment-not-long-enough-mullen-warns-of-risks-12329235

Newsweek

After Trump Says Carrier Deployment Not Long Enough, Mullen Warns of Risks

Published August 16, 2026 at 04:33 PM EDT

After President Donald Trump faced some pushback when he dismissed concerns over the USS Abraham Lincoln’s record-setting deployment, former Joint Chiefs of Staff chair Admiral Mike Mullen warned on Sunday that prolonged time at sea poses serious risks to crew readiness and morale.

Trump told reporters Friday that the aircraft carrier’s more than eight months at sea was "not nearly long enough," pushing back against growing alarm from military families and lawmakers









From 4/9/1953 ( premiere USA TV series episode "The Ford Television Theatre"::"Just What the Doctor Ordered" ) To 3/15/2014 ( ) is 22255 days

From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 10/8/2026 ( Today , Thursday ) is 22255 days









From 6/27/2004 ( as me, Kerry Burgess, the amateur-competitor number 878, I successfully completed the Ironman Coeur d'Alene triathlon ) To 10/8/2026 ( ) is 8138 days

From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 2/13/1988 ( as me, Kerry Burgess, while enlisted paygrade E-5, designated Petty Officer Second Class Fire Controlman (FC2), with my personal participation and commendation my official enlisted United States Navy documents includes: Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal - 88Feb13 88Jun03, CF-division, Missile Plot - guided-missiles Fire Control Computer Complex (expert technician for all maintenance and operations, down to printed-circuit-board component level diagnosis and repair, UNIVAC digital-computers Mk152 Terrier System for, primarily, SM2-ER {Extended Range} Standard Missiles ordnance), USS Wainwright CG-28, United States Navy, Operation Earnest Will, Middle East Force, including Operation Praying Mantis ) is 8138 days









https://fox5sandiego.com/news/local-news/uss-abraham-lincoln-returns-to-san-diego/

USS Abraham Lincoln returns to US after record deployment

by: Rhea Caoile

Posted: Oct 8, 2026 / 05:00 AM PDT

SAN DIEGO (FOX 5/KUSI) — After spending about 10 months at sea, military service members on board USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN-72) are finally returning to the aircraft carrier’s homeport near San Diego on Thursday.

Serving as the flagship of Carrier Strike Group 3 during Operation Epic Fury, its 321-day deployment



https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrier_strike_group

Carrier strike group

From Wikipedia

A carrier strike group (CSG) is a type of carrier battle group of the United States Navy. It is an operational formation composed of roughly 7,500 personnel, usually an aircraft carrier, at least one cruiser, a destroyer squadron of at least two destroyers or frigates, and a carrier air wing of 65 to 70 aircraft. A carrier strike group, on occasion, also includes submarines, attached logistics ships and a supply ship.









from my private journal as Kerry Burgess: August 1, 2006

As I was riding the bus to the VA today, I remembered again, I think I thought of this late last night,

Since I thinking that actually occured to me, I wonder why I think sometimes about the drill going into my hand since the scars seem to support that it went through my hand, if that even happened at all. I told my doctor today that as the person I used to be, the memory is probably harder to relive than it was to actually live through. It's not really bothering me all that much but some times these things really give me a jolt. I would have gone insane if Microsoft had been successful in suddenly restoring all these memories back into my brain.



from my private journal as Kerry Burgess: 09/12/08 5:19 AM

I had some kind of dream about being on a bus but there only seemed to be one seat on the bus or something like that. That is confusing now that I think more about it after waking up. But that particular scene that I remember among many others I do not seemed to be heavy on aviation. There was dialog about a blue flight suit. There was dialog with air traffic controllers and there was some dialog about how the aircraft we were flying in was a bumblebee, although it was only referred to in the dream a a bee. After waking up, the flight suit reminds me of the Blue Angels flight suit



from my private journal as Kerry Burgess: 11/08/07 10:50 PM

I can't remember now all the details in the dream, but I had a very clear and detailed dream a few hours ago where I was wearing a NASA astronaut flight suit. I remember thinking about details of that flight suit. It was orange and I remember thinking that it was similar to a standard U.S. Navy flight suit but the astronaut flight suit had the metal collar on it for the pressurized helmet. There were other details I can't quite articulate now. I can still visualize myself wearing that flight suit and I was walking through the streets in a city but I don't recognize where I was. I can vaguely remember seeing some other people there. I don't recognize the city but it reminds me of walking through the streets of Seattle. There might be other details that I have forgotten.



posted by Kerry Burgess - H.V.O.M at 2:28 AM Wednesday, April 18, 2007

In another part of the dream, I was riding in the back of a metro bus. There were people on there I recognized from that past few years. I feel there is a lot to that part of the dream I cannot remember. One person indicated he heard I once had lipo-suction and I explained that I had actually had my memories suppressed. I think that detail about lipo-suction isn t about lipo-suction, rather it is just supposed to be a clue to remind me of a conversation I had with someone about 8 years ago and so I would remember that person even though I didn't see her in the dream. There was a lot to that part I cannot remember and I wish I could remember it all. One interesting part of the dream is that I would sometimes catch a reflection in the bus window glass that appeared to be a U.S. Navy pilot wearing a helmet and equipment as though he was sitting in the cockpit of an aircraft. I looked around to see where that reflection was coming from, but I never did see that person sitting there on the bus.









posted by H.V.O.M - Kerry Wayne Burgess 05:28 AM Pacific Time somewhere near Seattle Washington USA Saturday 15 March 2014

You know what's confusing me? I thought about this for a couple minutes and my confusion must be from hallucinations. I would have sworn I wrote in my journal about the night I put the medals in her purse without her seeing me do it. Maybe I did write about it and now I can't find it again. I don't know. I can still visualize it. I think I am visualizing a series of thoughts from a few years ago, back in the year 2011. I keep seeing myself in Columbia in the year 1997 and I was recently promoted to lieutenant colonel and I was wearing the uniform of the United States Marine Corps and I still can visualize that line of thought of the last words I said to her when I put on my cover as I walked to the door and left and I went to Fort Jackson and I never came back.










kerry burgess ironman coeur dalene idaho 6-27-2004

From 9/11/2001 ( ) to 2/6/2004 ( as me, Kerry Burgess, my final day as full-time employee of Microsoft Corporation in Seattle beginning 12/07/1998 ) is 878 days









posted by Kerry Burgess - H.V.O.M ( my public blog Homeless Veteran of Microsoft ) at 12:23 PM - Monday, August 14, 2006

Scars

Lately I have also started to understand that scars on my body are not what I remember.

There is the scar on my hand that I used to think was from scraping it on concrete one night when I was drunk and could not drive so I had to go through a bad neighborhood while walking to my apartment 7 miles away from the bar I had been at. I have started thinking that the reality is that I was tortured as a POW and the scar is from someone using a power drill on my hand.

The scar on my right wrist isn't the burn I recieved from someone dropping hot apple pie on it when I was a kid in a day care center, rather...I'm not really sure what it is. I have been thinking it is a shrapnel wound from anti-aircraft artillery.

The big scar on my lower left leg is not the bug bite I remember. Rather it is a bullet wound that would seem to have remarkably missed by a fraction of an inch from shattering the bone. Just above that is a diagonal scar that looks like a knife scar. As soon as I thought of that, I remember a memory of someone injured where my mother worked and that the skin had been sliced down the bone of her shin and I remember thinking of how that must have hurt. I think that was actually a deflection mechanism to get me to forget that it was actually my shin that happened to and it was actually from me or someone else using a knife to cut out the bullet.

I don't know if it will be harder to relive those experiences again than it was to first experience them.









Posted by Kerry Burgess

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 2017

Dawn of the Dead (2004)

That had happened in February 2004. There was a period of time between when I quit my job at Microsoft and the day my lease expired at my apartment in Redmond.

I went out for a regular bicycle exercise training for Ironman and the bicycle pedal, slick from rain, on my silver titanium Litespeed bicycle slipped out from under my cycling shoe cleat and instead of clipping onto my shoe the sharp edge of the clip made a long wide gash up the front of my lower leg. By the time I got back to my apartment after the 50 mile ride my sock was bloody from the blood dripping down to my foot. The scrape was visible for a long time. I can still now this day see the scar on my shin from that day in early February 2004.

I still now to this day remember that time as the last time I felt happy.



from the private journal of Kerry Burgess: 08/14/07 11:33 PM

Gambia is about 3000 miles from where I think I was at that time. It could have been like that guy who seemed to be examining the wound on my leg from my bicycle pedal. I rode my bicycle to CDA beach from Spokane Valley and a guy with a woman asked me to take their picture. I remember thinking I left my fingerprint on his camera and also that he seemed to be looking to see if my wound was infected.



from the private journal of Kerry Burgess: year 2006

There's a big scar on my right shin, but I remember that happening in those days after I quit Microsoft and the pedal on my bicycle flipped up and tore a huge gash in the flesh.










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- by me, Kerry Wayne Burgess, posted by me: 07:08 AM Pacific-timezone USA Thursday 10/08/2026

Wednesday, October 07, 2026

Today is 10/07/2026





https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/tv/articles/jimmy-kimmel-trump-joke-iran-144356671.html

The Guardian

Guardian staff

Wed, October 7, 2026 at 7:43 AM PDT 4 min read

Jimmy Kimmel

As the US president's approval ratings get lower, Jimmy Kimmel noted on Tuesday evening, something curious happens

"I'm starting to understand why Trump likes going on these roadtrips," he continued. "It's not only a boost to his ego; it's a chance for his number one fan and poster girl, Natalie Harp










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- by me, Kerry Wayne Burgess, posted by me: 1:17 PM Pacific-timezone USA Wednesday 10/07/2026

Today is 10/07/2026





by me, Kerry Burgess, 10/07/2026

"psycho analysis"

Another winner.



https://www.iheart.com/podcast/493-woody-wilcox-26917713/









https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/jaw-dropping-scale-trump-secret-114642964.html

Yahoo! News

The Daily Beast

Jaw-Dropping Scale of Trump’s Secret Military Losses Is Exposed

Harry Thompson

Wed, October 7, 2026 at 4:46 AM PDT 2 min read

The Daily Beast has contacted the Pentagon, White House, and CENTCOM for comment.









https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/iranian-official-says-illegal-routes-130247130.html

Yahoo! News

Reuters

Iranian official says 'illegal routes' in Strait of Hormuz to soon be blocked

Reuters

Wed, October 7, 2026 at 6:02 AM PDT 1 min read

DUBAI, Oct 7 (Reuters) - Transit routes in the Strait of Hormuz deemed illegal by Iran will soon be closed, an ‌adviser to the Revolutionary Guards' Commander told the semi-official Fars ‌News Agency on Wednesday









2026 Iran war

From Wikipedia

Hostilities

On 27 February at 3:38 p.m. EST (11:08 p.m. IRST), Trump, traveling on Air Force One to Texas, authorized Operation Epic Fury. US missiles, drones, and Israeli fighter jets began striking Iran the next day, around 9:45 a.m. IRST (1:15 a.m. EST).









excerpts

https://www.usni.org/magazines/proceedings/1989/may/surface-view-operation-praying-mantis

U.S. Naval Institute

The Surface View: Operation Praying Mantis

By Captain J. B. Perkins III, U. S. Navy

May 1989 Proceedings Vol. 115

At the first muzzle flash from the Merrill's 5-inch mount 51, the Iranian 23-mm. gun mount opened up, getting the attention of the ship's bridge and topside watchstanders. The Merrill immediately silenced the Iranian gun with a direct hit, and encountered no further opposition. After about 50 rounds had exploded over the southern half of the GOSP, a large crowd of converted martyrs gathered at the northern end.



At the Sirri GOSP, the sequence of events began essentially the same way they did at Sassan. SAG Charlie gave warnings on time, most of the occupants departed on a tug, and the Wainwright, Bagley, and Simpson commenced fire









https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/terminated-trump-brags-massive-strike-214128165.html

Yahoo! News

Mediaite

‘Terminated!’: Trump Brags ‘Massive Strike’ Has Killed Iran’s Military Leaders

Sean James Sat, April 4, 2026 at 2:41 PM PDT 2 min read

“Hell will reign down on them. Glory be to GOD!” Trump posted.

Soon after that, Reuters reported Israeli is preparing to attack Iranian energy facilities “but is awaiting a green light” from the Trump administration.

Trump’s post about many Iranian military leaders being eliminated comes on the 35th day of Operation Epic Fury, which started with joint U.S. and Israeli strikes killing Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei on Feb. 28.









From 4/6/1958 ( premiere USA TV series episode "Alfred Hitchcock Presents"::"Disappearing Trick" ) To 2/28/2026 ( ) is 24800 days

24800 = 12400 + 12400

From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 10/15/1999 ( ) is 12400 days









Stargate SG-1

"Past and Present"

TV-series season 3 episode 11, 10/15/1999

KE'RA
Tell me of Linea.

DANIEL
Well, uh, basically, we met her on a visit to another planet, during which we were imprisoned, unjustly, and Linea helped us escape.

KE'RA
Surely there is nothing wrong with that, if you were imprisoned unjustly.

DANIEL
Well, she was imprisoned justly. It was only after we escaped that we learned this nice, older lady we thought Linea was, was in fact a very, very bad, older lady, who had committed terrible crimes.

KE'RA
What crimes?

DANIEL
She created a plague that almost wiped out an entire people. They called her the Destroyer of Worlds.









From 3/30/1981 ( Ronald Reagan, presently 40th president of USA federal government 1981-1989, seriously wounded by gunfire in a near-fatal assassination attempt ) To 2/28/2026 ( ) is 16406 days

16406 = 8203 + 8203

From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 4/18/1988 ( as me, Kerry Burgess, while enlisted paygrade E-5, designated Fire Controlman Petty Officer Second Class (FC2), from my official enlisted US Navy records: during USA Armed Forces Expeditionary Operation Earnest Will with my personal participation and commendation - CF-division, Missile Plot - guided-missiles Fire Control Computers Complex (expert technician for all maintenance and operations, down to printed-circuit-board component level diagnosis and repair, UNIVAC digital-computers Mk152 Terrier System for, primarily, SM2-ER {Extended Range} Standard Missiles ordnance) - aboard the USS Wainwright CG-28 US Navy the United States Operation Praying Mantis ) is 8203 days









From 9/25/2019 ( ) To 2/28/2026 ( ) is 2348 days

2348 = 1174 + 1174

From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 1/19/1969 ( Lyndon Johnson, 36th president of USA federal government 1963-1969: Executive Order 11451 - Establishing the President's Commission on Personnel Interchange ) is 1174 days









From 6/18/2016 ( Tiffany Doe Affidavit - Declaration in Support of Protective Order in Epstein Case ) To 2/28/2026 ( ) is 3542 days

From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 7/15/1975 ( from Wikipedia: The Soyuz and Apollo flights launched - Apollo–Soyuz Test Project: A crewed American Apollo spacecraft and the crewed Soviet Soyuz spacecraft for the Soyuz 19 mission dock in orbit, marking the first such link-up between spacecraft from the 2 nations ) is 3542 days










stargate-1994_00h34m45s.jpg - Stargate (1994)










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To 6/6/1980 ( ) From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) is 5330 days

10660 = 5330 + 5330

From 5/8/1994 ( premiere USA TV miniseries "Stephen King's The Stand"::miniseries premiere "The Plague" ) To 7/15/2023 ( ) is 10660 days









excerpt, read also:

https://hvom.blogspot.com/2026/09/today-is-09172026_0335138594.html

by me, Kerry Wayne Burgess, posted by me: 6:08 PM

Number 878: The Farthest Man From Home

I am Kerry Burgess. This is what I think.

If this is the first blog-post by me you're reading then you are galactically uninformed.

Thursday, September 17, 2026

Today is 09/17/2026



Pete Hegseth

From Wikipedia [retrieved 08/20/2026]

Peter Brian Hegseth (born June 6, 1980) is an American government official, veteran, and former television personality who has served as the 29th United States secretary of defense since 2025.









https://www.yahoo.com/news/donald-trump-brands-us-third-001634496.html

Yahoo! News

The Independent

Donald Trump brands US a ‘third-world hellhole’ run by ‘perverts’ and ‘thugs’

Graeme Massie and Alex Woodward

Sat, July 15, 2023 at 6:21 PM PDT 4 min read

Donald Trump branded the US a "third-world hellhole" run by "perverts" and "thugs" in his latest 2024 campaign speech, a rambling, nearly two-hour long set of remarks to close out a right-wing conference in Florida.

The one-term president told the Turning Point Action Conference on 15 July that the American dream was "dead" under Joe Biden as he relentlessly mocked his predecessor and painted a bleak picture of a nation in decline.

"The election will decide whether your generation will inherit a fascist country or a free country, " Mr Trump told the right-wing activist conference.









https://apnews.com/article/trump-cnn-msnow-politico-media-bans-bb675679fb10738a51bef90bde6c525a

AP

By JOCELYN NOVECK

Updated 4:07 PM PDT, September 18, 2026

Trump targets more news outlets, saying he will ban CNN, MS NOW and Politico from the White House



- by me, Kerry Wayne Burgess, posted by me: 12:42 PM Pacific-timezone USA Wednesday 10/07/2026

Today is 10/07/2026





by me, Kerry Burgess, 10/07/2026 09:40 AM

"She ought to write a pamphlet"









http://navy.mil/submit/display

.asp?story_id=19713

Department of the Navy

Story Number: NNS050822-10 Release Date: 8/22/2005 11:28:00 AM

GW Replaces 3,000 Mattresses in Preparation for Crew Move Aboard

USS George Washington (CVN 73) (GW) improved the quality of life for her sea warriors by replacing old mattresses aboard with 3,000 brand new ones



- by me, Kerry Wayne Burgess, posted by me: 09:44 AM Pacific-timezone USA Wednesday 10/07/2026

Today is 10/07/2026





by me, Kerry Burgess, 10/07/2026 09:09 AM

This becomes another installment in a very extensive series of blog-posts by me here on my blog to establish my theory.



Cycling around the preset button on my antenna broadcast FM radio, caught part of the morning host's dialog to a woman there on his program that seems to read from a script:

"Your brain has a candy-shell on it"

Friday is another new episode of "Dark Matter" on Appletv. That's their official debut date. Here on the west-coast USA the episodes become available - if I have this right because I always wait until after midnight local time for me - on Thursday at 6 PM.

What makes that important is my random and relevant note last Thursday was just after 09:00 AM on Thursday.









Show trial

from Wikipedia

The term show trial is a pejorative description of a type of highly public trial. The term was first recorded in the 1930s. There is a strong connotation that the judicial authorities have already determined the guilt of the defendant and that the actual trial has as its only goal to present the accusation and the verdict to the public as an impressive example and as a warning. Show trials tend to be retributive rather than correctional justice.

Such trials can exhibit scant regard for the niceties of jurisprudence and even for the letter of the law. Defendants have little real opportunity to justify themselves: they have often signed statements under duress and/or suffered torture prior to appearing in the court-room.

Soviet Union and Eastern Bloc show trials

Moscow Trials

Show trials were a significant part of Joseph Stalin's regime. The Moscow Trials of the Great Purge period in the Soviet Union are characteristic.

The authorities staged the actual trials meticulously. If defendants refused to "cooperate", i.e., to admit guilt for their alleged and mostly fabricated crimes, they did not go on public trial, but suffered execution nonetheless. This happened, for example during the prosecution of the so-called "Labour Peasant Party", a party invented by NKVD, which, in particular, assigned the notable economist Alexander Chayanov to it.

The first solid public evidence of what really happened during the Moscow Trials came to the West through the Dewey Commission. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, more information became available. This discredited Walter Duranty, who claimed that these trials were actually fair.

Eastern Bloc party show trials

Following some dissent within ruling communist parties throughout the Eastern Bloc, especially after the 1948 Tito-Stalin split, several party purges occurred, with several hundred thousand members purged in several countries. In addition to rank-and-file member purges, prominent communists were purged, with some subjected to public show trials. These were more likely to be instigated, and sometimes orchestrated, by the Kremlin or even Stalin himself, as he had done in the earlier Moscow Trials.

Such high ranking party show trials included those of Koçi Xoxe in Albania and Traicho Kostov in Bulgaria, who were purged and arrested. After Kostov was executed, Bulgarian leaders sent Stalin a telegram thanking him for the help. In Romania, Lucretiu Patrascanu, Ana Pauker and Vasile Luca were arrested, with Patrascanu being executed. Stalin's NKVD emissary coordinated with Hungarian General Secretary Mátyás Rákosi and his ÁVH head the way the show trial of Hungarian Foreign Minister László Rajk should go, and he was later executed. The Rajk trials led Moscow to warn Czechoslovakia's parties that enemy agents had penetrated high into party ranks, and when a puzzled Rudolf Slánský and Klement Gottwald inquired what they could do, Stalin's NKVD agents arrived to help prepare subsequent trials. The Czechoslovakian party subsequently arrested Slánský himself, Vladimír Clementis, Ladislav Novomeský and Gustáv Husák (Clementis was later executed). Slánský and eleven others were convicted together of being "Trotskyist-zionist-titoist-bourgeois-nationalist traitors" in one series of show trials, after which they were executed and their ashes were mixed with material being used to fill roads on the outskirts of Prague. By the time of the Slánský trials, the Kremlin had been arguing that Israel, like Yugoslavia, had bitten the Soviet hand that had fed it, and thus the trials took an overtly anti-Semitic tone, with eleven of the fourteen defendants tried with Slánský being Jewish.

The Soviets generally directed show trial methods throughout the Eastern Bloc, including a procedure in which confessions and evidence from leading witnesses could be extracted by any means, including threatening to torture the witnesses’ wives and children. The higher ranking the party member, generally the more harsh the torture that was inflicted upon him. For the show trial of Hungarian Interior Minister János Kádár, who one year earlier had attempted to force a confession of Rajk in his show trial, regarding "Vladimir" the questioner of Kádár:

“ Vladimir had but one argument: blows. They had begun to beat Kádár. They had smeared his body with mercury to prevent his pores from breathing. He had been writhing on the floor when a newcomer had arrived. The newcomer was Vladimir’s father, Mihály Farkas.Kádár was raised from the ground. Vladimir stepped close. Two henchmen pried Kádár’s teeth apart, and the colonel, negligently, as if this were the most natural thing in the world, urinated into his mouth. ”

The evidence was often not just non-existent but absurd, with Hungarian George Paloczi-Horváth’s party interrogators delightedly exclaiming "We knew all the time—we have it here in writing—that you met professor Szentgyörgyi not in Istanbul, but in Constantinople." In another case, the Hungarian ÁVH secret police also condemned another party member as a Nazi accomplice with a document that had actually been previously displayed in glass cabinet of the Institute of the Working Class Movement as an example of a Gestapo forgery. The trials themselves were "shows", with each participant having to learn a script and conduct repeated rehearsals before the performance. In the Slánský trial, when the judge skipped one of the scripted questions, the better-rehearsed Slánský answered the one which should have been asked.



- by me, Kerry Wayne Burgess, posted by me: 09:17 AM Pacific-timezone USA Wednesday 10/07/2026

Today is 10/07/2026





Continuing.









From: Kerry Burgess

Sent: Friday, March 24, 2006 2:44 PM

To: Kerry Burgess

Subject: Re: pretense

Kerry Burgess wrote:

After I got out of the VA last summer, the social worker found a place for me to stay at some kind of retirement home. Most of the people there were elderly but the facility provided service to homeless as well.









from my private journal as Kerry Burgess: 11/22/2006 8:47 AM

When the VA dropped me off at the Theodora after I was discharged from the hospital, I sit down in the common area and picked up a National Geographic magazine. The first one I picked up was to read an article about the space shuttle Columbia’s first flight in 1981 on STS-1









IMDb

Carrie (1976)

Quotes

Margaret White: [referring to Carrie's prom gown] Red. I might have known it would be red.

Carrie: It's pink, Mama.

[presenting her corsage]

Carrie: Look what Tommy gave me, Mama. Aren't they beautiful?

Margaret White: I can see your dirty pillows. Everyone will.

Carrie: Breasts, Mama. They're called breasts, and every woman has them.









Space: Above and Beyond

"Eyes"

5 November 1995

Episode 6 Season 1

Questioner: Is your name and rank McQueen, T.C., Lieutenant Colonel?

US Marine Corps Lieutenant Colonel T.C. McQueen: Yes.

Questioner: Does T.C. stand for Tyrus Cassius?

US Marine Corps Lieutenant Colonel T.C. McQueen: I always thought T.C. stood for 'top cat.'

Questioner: Colonel, we're trying to calibrate the polygraph. Please limit your responses to 'yes' or 'no.'










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Space: Above and Beyond

"EYES"

Original Air Date: Sunday, 5th Nov 1995

HAYDEN: What's it look like from here?

DAMPHOUSSE: Madam Ambassador?

HAYDEN: The Earth.

DAMPHOUSSE: It's like a masterpiece painting, deep blues, aquas, white clouds.

HAYDEN: I was born blind, six months before they discovered the gene transfer cure. With the help of the opti-scanner I can sense things, but how do you describe it to someone who has never seen.

DAMPHOUSSE: It makes me feel insignificant and supreme at the same time.

WEST: With all due respect, Madam Ambassador, there will be nothing to describe if we surrender to the enemy.

HAYDEN: You think communication is surrender?

WEST: Did they try to communicate with the Vesta and Tellus Colonies? You were on the Aerotech board of governors, don't the lives of the colonists mean anything? We've seen them butcher our wounded, begging for help.

HAYDEN: The American Indians did the same thing at the time they were seen as aliens. But we know they were defending their land that was being taken.

WEST: And as soon as they surrendered to the settlers the slaughter never ended.

HAYDEN: What were they to do? They were against an enemy they knew they couldn't defeat. ... (to herself) Insignificant and supreme?

Cut to the interview room where the loyalty tests are being administered.

INTERROGATOR: Is your name and rank, Hawkes, Cooper, First Lieutenant?

HAWKES: This thing going to shock me, or something, I get a wrong answer?









Space: Above and Beyond

"EYES"

Original Air Date: Sunday, 5th Nov 1995

McQUEEN: They've done something to you. I think it was when you took the loyalty oath. They're making you do this.

McQueen moves passed Chaput and closer to Hawkes, putting himself in the line of fire.

McQUEEN: What is it, makes you fire? An image? A sound?

HAWKES: I don't know.

McQUEEN: If it was just the sight of him, he'd be dead. Well, what triggers you?



- by me, Kerry Wayne Burgess, posted by me: 08:15 AM Pacific-timezone USA Wednesday 10/07/2026

Today is 10/07/2026





by me, Kerry Burgess, 10/07/2026 06:12 AM

Only one vision stays with me now

From my sleeping-dream early this morning today

Those of you following along with my blog-posts here my blog might recognize this process.



Detail(s) in my sleeping-dream visions cause me to examine my original-work for a pattern I recognize.

Whatever else it means, I look for the improbable after-the-fact.

Impossible for me to have guessed up this pattern today, as is commonly how this process here works for me.

It is not a pattern I am trying to find.

It works only because of details that are impossible for my mind to have guessed.

The details that make this work, as is often or always the result, is information I had to look up on the internet after waking from the sleeping-dream vision.



Information in my sleeping mind told me I was observing a room inside a hospital

Seemed to be a lobby leading to the exit of the hospital.

I could see a man walking out of another room in the hospital and into that lobby area

Information in my mind informed me he was being discharged from the hospital. Strolling behind him was his son and his grandchildren by his son. None of those people was recognizable to me

My perspective in the vision was off to the side as though standing against a wall where I had full view of the lobby as those people walk through

As the man continued walking towards the exit of the building - after waking I began to wonder if it was actually not a hospital and was instead some sort of departure area for a different purpose, like an airport, maybe a spaceport - I saw a person approach that man.

Information in my mind told me that was Bill Gates and it handed that man a collection of magazines.

That was where that vision ends and I woke here in my apartment and began to wonder if I would discover a pattern I recognize in my original-work.

My results



I do not recall precisely that day in 1995 that is discovered here now my me.

I remember that episode but I would have never guessed the premiere date. Even I did know the precise calendar-date there is not a human on this planet that could do this sort of math in their mind.



I do remember the calendar-day 11/2/1995. I aged up to 30 years on that day. That was three days before that episode of "Space: Above and Beyond". Never would have guessed it was about the same time. The way I always remember it, I was in training as a contract employee of Microsoft Corporation in their office in Charlotte, North Carolina. The way I remember it, I was in an extended training class for Microsoft Windows 95 for the countless technical telephone calls I solved for Microsoft customers. I always remember it as being in that class on the day I turned 30 years old. I was there because for me it was a sort of crash course into becoming an expert in technical support for Windows 95. And that was how it worked out for me.









Space: Above and Beyond s01e07

"Eyes"

(from internet transcript)

Hold it right there, Lieutenant Hawkes.

What the hell's going on here?

Colonel McQueen Lieutenant Hawkes, you are to be detained for loyalty questioning.

What is this?

Just because they're InVitros? This is a disgrace to them and to us.

Here are your orders.

Do not read them until an hour into your mission.

Commodore, if they're taken away, we don't board this ship.

Vansen, get on board.

I expect you all to do your duty.

If Chaput can detain McQueen and Coop for B.S. reasons he can do the same to any of us at any time.

No one said it was on Chaput's orders.

And how do we know that Hawkes and McQueen didn't do anything?

Hawkes went through the academy with us. He never displayed suspicious behavior.

Well, there was that thing with the she-male magazine, but-

Okay, but he explained it.









From 11/5/1995 ( ) To 10/7/2026 ( Today , Wednesday ) is 11294 days

From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 10/4/1996 ( ) is 11294 days



From 6/27/2005 ( in Seattle the Patty Murray press conference at the Puget Sound Veterans Affairs Health Care System hospital at the same moment as Kerry Burgess I was discharged from same United States of America Veterans Affairs psychiatric hospital ) To 10/7/2026 ( ) is 7772 days

7772 = 3886 + 3886

From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 6/23/1976 ( premiere USA film "Logan's Run" ) is 3886 days



From 10/28/1955 ( Microsoft Corbis Bill Gates the transvestite and 100% female gender as born to brother-sister genetic-sibling mother and father ) To 10/7/2026 ( ) is 25912 days

25912 = 12956 + 12956

From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 4/23/2001 ( premiere USA TV series episode "Xena: Warrior Princess"::"Send in the Clones" ) is 12956 days









https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0706362/

IMDb

Space: Above and Beyond

S1.E6

Eyes

Episode aired Nov 5, 1995









https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0117887/releaseinfo/

IMDb

That Thing You Do!

Release info

United States October 4, 1996









deserter-in-chief George W. Bush

https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/remarks-presenting-the-national-teacher-the-year-award-0

The American Presidency Project

George W. Bush

43rd President of the United States: 2001 ‐ 2009

Remarks on Presenting the National Teacher of the Year Award

April 23, 2001









IMDb

Space: Above and Beyond

Quotes

[first lines]

Lt. Col. Tyrus Cassius "TC" McQueen: [narration] We thought we were alone. We believed the universe was ours. Until one night in 2063, on a Earth colony 16 light-years away, they struck. Now we're at war. We fight when called, in space, on land, and at sea. To lose this war means more than defeat; to surrender is to never go home. All of us must rise to the call... above and beyond.









Space: Above And Beyond

"Who Monitors the Birds?"

January 7, 1996

Cooper Hawkes: In the year 2027 the government started the InVitro Program trying to create a new breed of soldier. InVitros are artificially-gestated humans. They call us "Tanks." We're born at 18 years old. My name's Cooper Hawkes. I was born six years ago. Now, it's 2064. Earth is at war with an advanced alien enemy. My squadron is called the Wild Cards - the 58th. They're the only people I've ever cared about.









Space: Above And Beyond

"...Tell Our Moms We Done Our Best"

TV-series Episode 23 Season 1, 06/02/1996

US Navy Vice Admiral Stenner: Imagine, if on the morning of June 6, 1944, we give the Nazis a call advising them that the Allies would be landing on Omaha Beach! You people are supposed to be the best there is. What the hell were you thinking?









Space: Above And Beyond

"...Tell Our Moms We Done Our Best"

TV-series Episode 23 Season 1, 06/02/1996

US Navy Vice Admiral Stenner: I don't care what you thought. There's no excuse for what you've done.

US Navy Commodore Ross: Admiral, this is undoubtedly a... colossal M.C.S. However, it does flush out a motive for the enemy's sudden peace initiative.

US Marine Corps Lieutenant General Alcott: It indicates they know we'd kick their ass if we landed. We should strike now and put them away.









Space: Above And Beyond

"...Tell Our Moms We Done Our Best"

TV-series Episode 23 Season 1, 06/02/1996

US Marine Corps Lieutenant General Alcott: Either scenario, we go in now, achieve peace our way.

US Marine Corps Lieutenant Colonel T.C. McQueen: Sir, to atone, may I volunteer the 58th to monitor troop movement?

US Navy Vice Admiral Stenner: You people don't know the enemy when you see it. No. Request denied. You are out of this war.



- by me, Kerry Wayne Burgess, posted by me: 07:37 AM Pacific-timezone USA Wednesday 10/07/2026