https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mens_rea
Mens rea
From Wikipedia
In criminal law, mens rea is the mental state of a defendant who is accused of committing a crime. In common law jurisdictions, most crimes require proof both of mens rea and actus reus ("guilty act") before the defendant can be found guilty.
https://hvom.blogspot.com/2026/03/today-is-03272026.html
by me, Kerry Wayne Burgess, posted by me: 01:17 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.
Friday, March 27, 2026
Today is 03/27/2026
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/trump-war-messaging-veterans-see-161106152.html
Drew Harwell
Updated Wed, March 25, 2026 at 9:11 AM PDT 8 min read
However, officials there have also said that public outrage is key to driving up views. When the singer Kesha complained that her song had been used in a war meme TikTok, White House communications director Steven Cheung said on X: “All these ‘singers’ keep falling for this. This just gives us more attention and more view counts to our videos because people want to see what they’re bitching about.”
From 12/9/2003 ( premiere USA TV miniseries finale episode "Battlestar Galactica" ) To 3/26/2026 ( ) is 8143 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 2/18/1988 ( ) is 8143 days
From 10/28/1967 ( Julia Roberts ) To 3/26/2026 ( ) is 21334 days
21334 = 10667 + 10667
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 1/16/1995 ( premiere USA TV series "Star Trek: Voyager" ) is 10667 days
From 11/5/1985 ( Houston Chronicle reports that Soviet warships are being watched in Gulf of Mexico by the USS Taylor FFG-50, US Navy, my permanent {1984-1986} enlisted duty assignment ) To 3/26/2026 ( ) is 14751 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 3/23/2006 ( ) is 14751 days
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/fox-news-host-asks-trump-184150785.html
Yahoo! News
People
Fox News Host Asks Trump if Iranians Are Starving. He Responds by Calling Her Attractive and Reminiscing on a Lunch They Shared
Instead of answering Dana Perino's question about the "upsetting" status of Iranian civilians being affected by conflict, the president complimented her appearance and recalled a shared meal
Bailey Richards Sat, March 28, 2026 at 11:41 AM PDT 4 min read
Donald Trump sidestepped Dana Perino’s question about Iranians’ access to food and water during a live call on the Fox News show The Five on March 26
Instead, the president reminisced about a past lunch with Perino and complimented her appearance, stating that she "may be even better looking" now
Battlestar Galactica - tv miniseries - 12/08/2003, 12/09/2003
(from internet transcript)
Apollo: (after a long pause) Great. That's... quite an honor.
CAG: Yes it is, Captain. And personally, I can't think of a better way to send this ship into retirement.
(Back to Caprica City)
Baltar: (Walking outdoors with Number Six) It may interest you to know that the final results of the CMP project are working close to 95% efficiency throughout the fleet. Hold your applause, please.
Six: No applause for me? I doubt you would have ever completed the project without me.
Baltar: Yes, well, you helped a bit.
Six: I rewrote half your algorithms.
Baltar: All right, you were extremely helpful, but let's not forget, you got something out of it. All that poking around inside the defense mainframe. Should give you a huge advantage bidding for the contract next year.
excerpts
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/trump-war-messaging-veterans-see-161106152.html
Yahoo! News
The Washington Post News
In Trump’s war messaging, veterans see something new — and disturbing
Drew Harwell
Wed, March 25, 2026 at 9:11 AM PDT 8 min read
When the retired U.S. Army colonel Joe Buccino first saw White House posts mixing Iran war footage with clips from cartoons and video games, he felt something he had rarely experienced from American military messaging: disgust.
The 27-year veteran of four tours in Afghanistan and Iraq, a former spokesman for U.S. Central Command, had seen firsthand the sacrifices the nation’s service members made in combat.
However, officials there have also said that public outrage is key to driving up views. When the singer Kesha complained that her song had been used in a war meme TikTok, White House communications director Steven Cheung said on X: “All these ‘singers’ keep falling for this. This just gives us more attention and more view counts to our videos because people want to see what they’re bitching about.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Cheung
Steven Cheung
From Wikipedia
Steven Cheung (born June 23, 1982) is an American political advisor who has been the White House communications director since 2025.
IMDb
Drop Dead Fred (1991)
Quotes
Elizabeth: Mother, do you remember when I was little, I had a friend, he was make-believe?
Polly: No.
Elizabeth: Don't you remember? Only I could see him?
Polly: No, I don't remember Drop Dead Fred at all.
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Harvey-Fletcher
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).
http://hvom.blogspot.com/2024/08/today-is-08092024-post-1.html
by me, Kerry Wayne Burgess, posted by me: 3:56 AM
Number 878: The Farthest Man From Home
I am Kerry Burgess. This is what I think.
Friday, August 09, 2024
Today is 08/09/2024, Post #1
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
From 7/23/1981 ( ) To 6/23/1982 ( ) is 335 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 10/3/1966 ( ) is 335 days
From 8/1/1934 ( ) To 11/10/1967 ( premiere USA TV series episode "Star Trek"::"Metamorphosis" ) is 12154 days
12154 = 6077 + 6077
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 6/23/1982 ( ) is 6077 days
https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/remarks-signing-the-intelligence-identities-protection-act-1982
The American Presidency Project
Ronald Reagan
40th President of the United States: 1981 ‐ 1989
Remarks on Signing the Intelligence Identities Protection Act of 1982
June 23, 1982
https://archive.aviationweek.com/issue/19340801
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolf_Maximilian_Sievert
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_light
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stereophonic_sound
Battlestar Galactica - tv miniseries - 12/08/2003, 12/09/2003
(from internet transcript)
(Cut to a tv screen, where a reporter, whose name is given as Kellan Brody, is talking to a man, Dr. Gaius Baltar.)
Brody: For those of you just joining us from the pyramid game on Geminon, welcome to The Spotlight, our weekly interview program devoted to people making news on Caprica.
(Gaius is looking out the window and then looking at his watch.)
Brody: Today, we're talking to Dr. Gaius Baltar, winner of three Magnet Awards over the course of his career, a media cult figure and a personal friend of President Adar's. He is currently working as a top consultant for the ministry of defense on computer issues, but he's perhaps best known for his controversial views on advancing computer technology. (The camera pans around so that we can see that Baltar is giving the interview from his home. Nice place.) Dr. Baltar, again, welcome.
Baltar: Thank you, Kellan. And first may I say how lovely you're looking, and secondly, what an absolute pleasure it is to be on the show.
Brody: Well, we're delighted to have you with us.
https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/message-the-management-the-united-states-government-0
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: Thursday, March 23, 2006 5:36 PM
To: Kerry Burgess
Subject: Crime journal 3/23/06
Crime journal 3/23/06
I haven't committed any crimes today (unless you count not being able to send flowers to my pretty imaginary girlfriend). I won't be committing any crimes tomorrow as is normal (except probably for the flower stuff).
by me, Kerry Burgess, posted online by me: May 12, 2016
[my title:] Has Anybody Seen My Gal
Houston Chronicle
Soviet warships to pay visit to Mexico port for first time
Washington Post
FRI 09/13/1985 HOUSTON CHRONICLE
WASHINGTON - Two Soviet warships are expected to pay a port visit to Mexico for the first time next month, U.S. officials said Thursday. The State Department expressed "concern" about the visit in a message to the Mexican government.
The planned visit is "significant," one official said, because until now Soviet naval deployments to the Caribbean Sea have included port calls only in Cuba.
"Obviously, we're concerned about the Soviet ability to move their ships in and out of the Caribbean," a State Department official said. "Mexico is an independent country and they can do what they want, but we have made our concerns known."
A Kashin guided missile destroyer and a Krivak guided missile frigate are expected to visit the eastern Mexican port of Veracruz Oct. 4, U.S. officials said. The vessels are now in the North Atlantic Ocean heading toward the Caribbean.
Houston Chronicle
Soviet warships being watched in Gulf
Houston Chronicle News Services
TUE 11/05/1985 HOUSTON CHRONICLE
A U.S. Navy vessel is closely monitoring the movements of two Soviet warships that entered the Gulf of Mexico and came within 40 miles of the Texas coast, the U.S. Navy said.
The USS Taylor, American guidedmissile frigate, has been tracking the Soviet ships - a guided-missile destroyer and a guided-missile frigate - since they left Havana Thursday, said Lt. Cmdr. Craig Quigley, a Navy spokesman in Norfolk, Va.
The Taylor is always "within visual range" of the Soviet vessels that were last reported about 100 miles southwest of Tampa, Fla., and moving in a southeasterly direction, possibly toward Cuba, said Quigley.
However, there was no way to determine whether the Soviet warships were preparing to leave the Gulf and return to Havana. "They can always change rudder at a moment's notice," he said.
Star Trek: Voyager "Caretaker" TV-series Season 1 Episode 1, January 16 1995
(from internet transcript)
Unhappy with a new treaty, Federation Colonists along the Cardassian border have banded together.
Calling themselves 'The Maquis', they continue to fight the Cardassians.
Some consider them heroes, but to the governments of the Federation and Cardassia, they are outlaws.
JANEWAY: Did you have any problems getting here, Mister Paris?
PARIS: None at all, Captain.
JANEWAY: My first officer, Lieutenant Commander Cavit. Ensign Kim, Mister Paris.
CAVIT: (human male going grey) Welcome aboard.
(He shakes Kim's hand, then Paris' reluctantly and walks away.)
JANEWAY: Ensign Kim, this is your station. Would you like to take over?
KIM: Yes, ma'am.
(Rear of the bridge, on the right as we view it.)
JANEWAY: It's not crunch time yet, Mister Kim. I'll let you know when.
CAVIT: Lieutenant Stadi, lay in the course and clear our departure with operations.
STADI: Course entered, Ops has cleared us.
CAVIT: Ready thrusters.
KIM: Thrusters ready.
CAVIT: Initiate launching sequence.
STADI: Sequence underway.
JANEWAY: Engage.
[Mess hall]
(At the prow of the ship, with picture windows - a small Ten Forward.)
(Paris enters and goes to the food replicator.)
PARIS: Tomato soup.
COMPUTER: There are fourteen varieties of tomato soup available from this replicator. With rice, with vegetables, Bolian style, with pasta, with
PARIS: Plain.
COMPUTER: Specify hot or chilled.
PARIS: Hot. Hot, plain, tomato soup.
(Paris takes the bowl and goes to sit by Kim. The doctor and Cavit get up and walk away.)
PARIS: There, you see? I told you it wouldn't take long.
KIM: Is it true?
PARIS: Was the accident my fault? Yes. Pilot error. But it took me a while to admit it. Oh, fourteen varieties and they can't even get plain tomato soup right.
KIM: They said you falsified reports.
PARIS: That's right.
KIM: Why?
PARIS: What's the difference? I lied.
KIM: But then you came forward and you admitted that it was your fault?
PARIS: I'll tell you the truth, Harry. All I had to do was keep my mouth shut and I was home free. But I couldn't. The ghosts of those three dead officers came to me in the middle of the night and taught me the true meaning of Christmas. So I confessed. Worst mistake I ever made but not my last. After they cashiered me out of Starfleet, I went out looking for a fight and found the Maquis. And on my first assignment, I was caught.
KIM: It must have been especially tough for you, being the son of an admiral.
PARIS: Frankly, I think it was tougher on my father than it was on me. Look, I know those guys told you to stay away from me. And you know what? You ought to listen to them. I'm not exactly a good luck charm.
KIM: I don't need anyone to choose my friends for me.
JANEWAY: Janeway to Paris.
PARIS: Go ahead.
JANEWAY: Report to the Bridge. We're approaching the Badlands.
BATTLESTAR GALACTICA
4X09 - THE HUB (tv series episode)
ORIGINAL AIRDATE (SciFi): 06-JUN-2008
(from internet transcript)
Roslin: Man, that morpha worked fast.
Baltar: Still... Do you know why I'm so serene right now?
Roslin, indulging and funny: You're doped out of your mind?
Baltar: Because I know God. You need God, Laura. Really, you'd be a different woman. I know God, therefore I know myself. Truth is... I was harboring the most awful, desperate guilt. A heavy, dark... Unimaginable, soul-breaking guilt. Now it's gone. Now it's gone, it's been transformed. Into ... I have been transformed.
Roslin: What was your guilt about?
Baltar: I have no guilt.
Roslin: What was your guilt about?
Baltar: I gave the access codes to the Cylons. They wiped out most of humanity. Of course, I didn't know that's what I was doing at the time, exactly, but that's what I did. And when I realized what I had done, the magnitude... In that moment, I was saved. I was loved. By God. Looking back... I think I was rewarded.
Roslin: Rewarded.
Baltar: Pythia talks about the flood that wiped out most of humanity. Nobody blames the flood, a flood is a force of nature. Through the flood, mankind is rejuvenated, born again. I was another flood, you see. I blamed myself. I blamed myself. But God made the man who made that choice. God made us all perfect. And in that thought, all my guilt flies away... Flies away, like a bird. I can give you that peace, Laura, that freedom. Pray with me. Pray with me.
Roslin: Okay.
- by me, Kerry Wayne Burgess, posted by me: 12:51 AM Pacific-timezone USA Sunday 03/29/2026
