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.
This Is What I Think.
Saturday, July 25, 2026
Today is 07/25/2026
by me, Kerry Burgess, 07/25/2026 6:21 PM
(time local to me - west-coast USA)
What has caused me to start thinking this now these past few minutes?
Did not view tv-news today. Scanned a few mainstream-media on the internet, nothing that would cause this track. Simply an impulse in my mind. I am in contact with none. Unviewed by me two weeks new streaming-video content
Don't know yet what I will find - if anything - as I begin my examination
The Simpsons
"Lisa's Date with Density"
Season 8 Episode 7
Aired December 15, 1996
Quotes
Lisa: "Nuke the whales"? You don't really believe that, do you?
Nelson: I don't know. Gotta nuke somethin'.
by me, Kerry Burgess, posted by me, Monday 02/23/2026
From 3/18/1905 ( Annalen der Physik receives "On a Heuristic Point of View concerning the Production and Transformation of Light" by Albert Einstein ) To 11/7/2025 ( debut "Plur1bus" streaming-video serial AppleTV ) is 44064 days
44064 = 22032 + 22032
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 2/27/2026 ( Friday ) is 22032 days
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pluribus_(TV_series)
Pluribus (TV series)
From Wikipedia
Pluribus is an American post-apocalyptic science fiction television series created by Vince Gilligan for Apple TV. Set and filmed primarily in Albuquerque, New Mexico, the series follows novelist Carol Sturka (Rhea Seehorn), who finds herself isolated after an alien virus transforms the rest of humanity into a peaceful and content hive mind, which nevertheless seeks to assimilate her and other immune individuals.
From 12/15/1996 ( ) To 7/26/2026 ( ) is 10815 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 6/13/1995 ( premiere USA film "Batman Forever" ) is 10815 days
IMDb
Batman Forever (1995)
Quotes
Two-Face: One man is born a hero, his brother a coward. Babies starve, politicians grow fat. Holy men are martyred, and junkies grow legion. Why? Why, why, why, why, why? Luck! Blind, stupid, simple, doo-dah, clueless luck!
The Riddler: [stops Two Face killing Batman] Don't kill him! If you kill him, he won't learn nothin'!
Alfred Pennyworth: I'm afraid they've taken Dr. Meridian. Master Dick has run away. The cave has been destroyed. And there's another riddle.
Fred Stickley: Back to work, Edward!
Bruce Wayne: It's okay. So, Mr. Nygma, what's on your mind?
Edward Nygma: Precisely! What's on all our minds? Brainwaves.
[giggles, running back toward his cubicle]
Edward Nygma: The future of Wayne Enterprises is brainwaves.
Edward Nygma: [as Fred dangles at the edge of the broken window over the water chasim] Fred, Babe, you are fired, or should I say: Terminated!
[lets Fred fall to his death]
Edward Nygma: Surfs up, Big Kahona!
[splash]
Edward Nygma: Ooooo, nice form, but a little rough on the landing. He may have to settle for the bronze.
1988-04-22_chicago-tribune_1
Red Storm Rising (1986) - by Tom Clancy, author
excerpt, Chapter 24
USS PHARRIS
Morris didn't wave at the low-flying aircraft, but wanted to. The French Navy's patrol plane signaled that they were within range of land-based air cover. It would take a very brave Russian sub skipper to want to play games here, with a screen of French diesel subs a few miles north of the convoy lane and several ASW patrol aircraft forming a tricolored umbrella over the convoy.
The French had also sent out a helicopter to collect the Russian submariners. They were being flown to Brest for a full interrogation by NATO intelligence types. Morris didn't envy them the trip. They'd be held by the French, and he had no doubt that the French Navy was in an evil mood after the loss of one of its carriers. The tapes his crew had made of their conversations were also being sent. The Russians had talked among themselves, aided by the chiefs' liquor, and perhaps their whispered conversations had some value.
They were about to turn the convoy over to a mixed British-French escort force and take over a group of forty merchantmen bound for America. Morris stood on the bridge wing, turning every five minutes or so to look at the two half and one full silhouettes that the bosun had painted on both sides of the pilothouse-"No sense having some jerk on the wrong side of the ship missing them," the bosun had pointed out seriously. Their ASW tactics had worked fairly well. With Pharris as outlying sonar picket, and heavy support from the Orions, they had intercepted all but one of the inbound Russian subs. There had been a lot of skepticism on this point, but the tactic had worked, by God. But it had to work better still.
Morris knew that things would be getting harder. For the first trip the Soviets had been able to put no more than a fraction of their submarines into action against them. Those submarines were now forcing their way down the Denmark Strait. The NATO sub force trying to block the passage no longer had the SOSUS line to give them intercept vectors, nor Orions to pounce on the contacts that submarines could not reach. They would score kills, but would they score enough? How much larger would the threat be this week? Morris could see from their return route to the States that they were adding nearly five hundred miles to the passage by looping far to the south-partially because of the Backfires, but more now to dilute the submarine threat. Two threats to worry about. His ship was equipped to deal with only one.
They'd lost a third of the convoy, mainly to aircraft. Could they sustain that? He wondered how the merchant crews were holding up.
They had closed in on the convoy, and he could see the northernmost line of merchies. On the horizon a big container ship was blinking a light at them. Morris raised his glasses to read the signal.
THANKS FOR NOTHING NAVY. One question answered.
From 4/21/1988 ( as me, Kerry Burgess, my official enlisted US Navy documents includes: Qualified M-14 Rifle, USS Wainwright CG-28, US Navy, primary-duty: CF-division, Missile Plot - guided-missiles Fire Control Computers Complex (operator and advanced technician, UNIVAC digital-computers Mk152 Terrier System for, primarily, SM2-ER {Extended Range} Standard Missiles ordnance), while enlisted paygrade E-5, designated Fire Controlman Petty Officer Second Class (FC2) ) To 7/26/2026 ( ) is 13975 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) 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 13975 days
From 4/2/1965 ( premiere USA TV "Memorandum for a Spy" ) To 12/24/2025 ( ) is 22181 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 7/26/2026 ( ) is 22181 days
From 11/28/1977 ( premiere USA TV series episode "Rafferty"::"Death Out of a Blue Sky" ) To 7/26/2026 ( ) is 17772 days
17772 = 8886 + 8886
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 3/2/1990 ( as Kerry Burgess my official US Navy documents includes: departing overseas from USS Wainwright CG-28, US Navy, anchored in Monaco I returned to the continental United States and to Charleston South Carolina Naval Base for processing and honorable discharge from active duty US Navy AND premiere USA film "The Hunt for Red October" ) is 8886 days
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Chica_o_El_Mundo
La Chica o El Mundo
From Wikipedia
"La Chica o El Mundo" is the ninth episode and first season finale of the American post-apocalyptic science fiction television series Pluribus. The episode was written by executive producers Alison Tatlock and Gordon Smith, and directed by Smith. It was released on Apple TV on December 24, 2025.
The series is set in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and follows author Carol Sturka, who is one of only thirteen people in the world immune to the effects of "the Joining", resulting from an extraterrestrial virus that had transformed the world's human population into a peaceful and content hive mind (the "Others"). In the episode, Manousos finally reaches Albuquerque, leaving Carol to debate whether to help him in making a plan to destroy the Others.
The episode received critical acclaim, with critics praising the scenes between Carol and Manousos, the performances and the cliffhanger.
by me, Kerry Burgess, SEPTEMBER 13, 2018
Here in America, they are LITERALLY celebrating the 9-11 massacre.
Why?
Because DEATH AND DESTRUCTION are the only things that give meaning to the pathetic and meaningless lives of AMERICANS.
I mean, look at the response to the message I've delivered for over 12 years. Nothing.
But DEATH AND DESTRUCTION. That's what Americans crave.
And almost seems to be the definition of irony to me. They tell me that only 1% of Americans serve the United States military but yet THIS COUNTRY IS STILL SO INFESTED WITH WARMONGERS!
The reaction would be much different, I suspect, if a real enemy - and not a Osama Bin Laden-manufactured-propaganda-enemy - ever attacked the United States. The American people are yip-yap dogs. They are yip-yapping at ever thing because they are terrified of everything and that's their only possible response. If a really powerful enemy attacked then the response would be more typical of their cowardice. With bin Laden, after his menacing threat was manufactured (Osama bin Laden never killed one individual person in America) the gullible and cowardly American cheered on knowing that the United States military was about to kick ass on a bunch of backwards, savage weaklings in their mud-huts.
https://www.factcheck.org/2025/06/iranian-nuclear-program-damaged-not-obliterated-by-u-s-attack/
Iranian Nuclear Program Damaged, Not ‘Obliterated’ by U.S. Attack
By Alan Jaffe
Posted on June 24, 2025 | Updated on June 26, 2025
The bombing of three Iranian nuclear facilities on June 21 by American B-2 aircraft damaged the sites and set back Iran’s nuclear enrichment program, but didn’t completely destroy the sites or Iran’s nuclear capabilities, according to experts we spoke with and a classified U.S. intelligence report.
But in a televised address on the night of the U.S. attack, President Donald Trump said, “Our objective was the destruction of Iran’s nuclear enrichment capacity and a stop to the nuclear threat posed by the world’s number one state sponsor of terror. Tonight, I can report to the world that the strikes were a spectacular military success. Iran’s key nuclear enrichment facilities have been completely and totally obliterated.”
The president claimed in a June 23 Truth Social post, “Monumental Damage was done to all Nuclear sites in Iran, as shown by satellite images. Obliteration is an accurate term!”
At a June 22 press conference at the Pentagon, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth echoed Trump’s assessment of the strike, saying, “Iran’s nuclear ambitions have been obliterated.”
Trump went further in a Truth Social post on June 24, claiming the U.S. attack ended Iran’s nuclear weapons capability: “It was my great honor to Destroy All Nuclear facilities & capability, and then, STOP THE WAR!”
But the key nuclear sites — Fordo, Natanz and Isfahan– were not “obliterated,” nor was damage done “to all Nuclear sites in Iran.” And Iran’s nuclear enrichment capability is still viable, experts say. (We don’t know if Iran was actively constructing or seeking to construct a nuclear weapon — the U.S. Intelligence Community in late March assessed that “Iran is not building a nuclear weapon.” However, when presenting that assessment, Tulsi Gabbard, the director of national intelligence, also noted that “Iran’s enriched uranium stockpile is at its highest levels and is unprecedented for a state without nuclear weapons.”)
A five-page, preliminary, classified report from the Defense Intelligence Agency, the intelligence arm of the Pentagon, said the U.S. bombing of Iran’s three sites sealed off entrances of two facilities but didn’t destroy their underground buildings and set back Iran’s nuclear program by just a few months, CNN and the New York Times reported on June 24.
People familiar with the report told CNN the facilities’ centrifuges, which enrich uranium, remained largely “intact.”
Also, in anticipation of the attack, Iran moved equipment and a large amount of enriched, nearly bomb-grade uranium to an unknown location, according to the International Atomic Energy Agency and Israeli officials, the Times reported.
Officials told the Times the classified report was an initial assessment and others will follow. White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said the preliminary report was “flat-out wrong.”
Update, June 26: CIA Director John Ratcliffe issued a statement on June 25 regarding the agency’s intelligence on the U.S. attack, saying, in part: “CIA can confirm that a body of credible intelligence indicates Iran’s Nuclear Program has been severely damaged by the recent, targeted strikes. This includes new intelligence from a historically reliable and accurate source/method that several key Iranian nuclear facilities were destroyed and would have to be rebuilt over the course of years.”
In addition, the Israel Atomic Energy Commission issued a statement on June 25: “The devastating US strike on Fordow destroyed the site’s critical infrastructure and rendered the enrichment facility inoperable. We assess that the American strikes on Iran’s nuclear facilities, combined with Israeli strikes on other elements of Iran’s military nuclear program, has set back Iran’s ability to develop nuclear weapons by many years. The achievement can continue indefinitely if Iran does not get access to nuclear material.”
Some leaders in Trump’s administration took a more cautious approach in describing the results of the U.S. attack on the day after. Asked by NBC News’ Kristen Welker on June 22 if he was confident Iran’s nuclear enrichment sites were destroyed, Vice President JD Vance said, “I’m not going to get into sensitive intelligence about what we’ve seen on the ground there in Iran. But we’ve seen a lot, and I feel very confident that we’ve substantially delayed their development of a nuclear weapon.”
At the June 22 Pentagon press conference, asked by a reporter about Iran’s nuclear capability after the U.S. strike, Gen. Dan Caine, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said, “it would be way too early for me to comment on what may or may not still be there.”
Iran’s Nuclear Enrichment Capability
“The early indications confirm that even U.S. heavy bombing” of Fordo and the other key sites has “only ‘severely damaged’ not ‘destroyed’ these facilities, let alone the Iranian nuclear program and the regime’s determination, for now, to keep it going,” Daryl Kimball, executive director of the Arms Control Association, a nonpartisan organization that provides analysis on arms control and national security issues, told us in an email.
“It is also now quite clear that the Iranians, in anticipation of the U.S. attack, removed” a stockpile of more than 400 kilograms of uranium “enriched to 60%,” as well as other equipment from at least one of the nuclear sites, Kimball said. “This is the material that could be further enriched to bomb grade (90%) and provide enough raw material for about 10 nuclear devices; which would according to U.S. intel before the strikes take another 1-2 years to fashion into warheads small and light enough to be delivered via a ballistic missile.”
No one, including the International Atomic Energy Agency, knows where that material is now, he said.
David Albright, president of the Institute for Science and International Security, told NPR, “I think you have to assume that significant amounts of this enriched uranium still exist, so this is not over by any means.”
Albright also said Iran may have thousands of other uranium-enriching centrifuges, and the uranium stockpiles at the sites targeted by the U.S. may have been moved to another facility where it could be enriched for a nuclear weapon in a short period of time.
- by me, Kerry Wayne Burgess, posted by me: 7:21 PM Pacific-timezone USA Saturday 07/25/2026
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