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Burn After Reading (2008)
Quotes
[last lines]
CIA Superior: What did we learn, Palmer?
CIA Officer: I don't know, sir.
CIA Superior: I don't know either. I guess we learned not to do it again.
CIA Officer: Yes, sir.
by me, Kerry Burgess, 11/02/2026 07:59 AM
Moments ago, decided to take closer look at this local news item
Presented several times to me on local antenna television news, discovered only moments ago it is another event from Wednesday, 10/28/2026.
I did not record or consider anything about that event date until moments ago when I decided to look closer at it.
No idea at this moment if I will even discover anything interesting about it, interesting in terms of my theory
Common thread.
by me, Kerry Burgess, 11/02/2026 08:43 AM
They got that sideshow act going again now on television news
That charity - boo hoo hoo - for all those desperately needy people with expensive car payments driving through there for a measly small free meal that you must cook for yourself.
They're so needy, those desperately needy people with car payments they are struggling to meet
Charity scam by people with no accountability?
For-profit people?
KREM2 CBS Spokane
krem.com
Man accused of making bomb threat at Spokane Navy Reserve Center
A judge set bail at $75,000 for Charles Duane Stewart Jr. and ordered him to stay away from the center and have no contact with his commanding officer.
Author: Emily Fox-Million
Published: 6:45 PM PDT October 30, 2026
SPOKANE, Wash. — A man accused of threatening to put a device under his commanding officer’s desk at Spokane’s Navy Reserve Center made his first court appearance Friday.
A judge set bail at $75,000 for Charles Duane Stewart Jr., 25, and ordered him to stay away from the center and have no contact with his commanding officer.
Police arrested Stewart Thursday on suspicion of threats to bomb or injure property.
According to a police affidavit, a coworker heard Stewart discussing reenlistment Wednesday. The coworker told investigators Stewart was upset that his commanding officer wanted him to go before a review board before testing for reenlistment.
The coworker said Stewart then discussed putting a device under the commanding officer’s desk, according to the affidavit.
Another coworker told police Stewart was angry Thursday morning and said he was “going to go ballistic” and “going to go off.”
The commanding officer and another officer contacted law enforcement after learning about the alleged threat Thursday morning, court documents say.
The commanding officer told investigators he believed Stewart could carry out the threat. He said Stewart’s position gave him access to everything in the building and expressed concern for his staff’s safety.
Police contacted Stewart in the parking lot of the center at 5101 N. Assembly St. The responding officer described him as unarmed and cooperative.
According to the affidavit, Stewart acknowledged the proposed plan after being read his rights and described a device involving a flash-bang. The affidavit does not say a device was built, placed or recovered.
During Friday’s hearing, Stewart’s attorney argued that the statements described in the affidavit did not establish a crime under the state’s bomb threat law.
“Certainly there’s no doubt that Mr. Stewart’s statements were concerning and alarming, but at the same time, there’s just also no evidence that he actually threatened to plant a bomb,” the attorney told the judge.
The defense argued that the description of a flash-bang did not establish a threat to damage a building. Prosecutors pointed to the alleged plan, its location in a government building and the commanding officer’s concern that Stewart could carry it out.
The judge rejected the defense’s argument and found probable cause for the case to proceed. That finding is not a determination of guilt.
Prosecutors requested $200,000 bail, citing community safety concerns, while acknowledging Stewart had no criminal convictions.
Stewart’s attorney asked for his release without bail. The attorney told the court Stewart had served on active duty in the Navy since 2019, worked in logistics at the center and was receiving mental health treatment.
Stewart’s father also addressed the judge, saying his son had been under stress and was receiving care.
“I just wanna make sure he’s being treated for mental health,” his father said.
The judge set bail at $75,000 and prohibited Stewart from possessing bomb-making materials, in addition to ordering him to stay off the base and avoid contact with his commanding officer. The judge also noted a separate hold in the case, referred to during the hearing as a “DCR hold.”
Stewart’s arraignment is scheduled for Nov. 3 at 9 a.m.
The Simpsons
"Sideshow Bob's Last Gleaming"
Original airdate in N.A.: 26-Nov-95
(from internet transcript)
Hapablap: What in the world according to Garp -- ? Those are my dress towels. [tries the locked door] Who's in my private washroom? McGuckett, let me in.
Bob: [effecting a cornpone accent] The door already is closed.
Hapablap: What?! This is Colonel Leslie "Hap" Hapablap. If you don't open that door I'll tear you up like a Kleenex at a snot party!
Bob: You say you're in the military?
Hapablap: Sweet Enola Gay, Son! I'm going to come in there and corpse you up -- corpse you up and mail you to mama!
From 11/26/1995 ( ) To 10/28/2026 ( Wednesday ) is 11294 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 10/4/1996 ( premiere USA film "That Thing You Do!" ) is 11294 days
From 11/26/1995 ( ) To 10/28/2026 ( ) is 11294 days
11294 = 5647 + 5647
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 4/19/1981 ( ) is 5647 days
The New York Times
ONE STORM HAS PASSED BUT OTHERS ARE GATHERING IN YUGOSLAVIA
By DAVID BINDER APRIL 19, 1981
April 19, 1981, Page 004004
The New York Times Archives
Josip Broz Tito has not been dead a year, but the Yugoslav ''brotherhood and unity'' he nurtured for 35 years has already developed fissures on a sensitive flank, the mostly Albanian province of Kosovo.
What started March 11 as an isolated, seemingly insignificant protest - a student at the University of Pristina dumped his tray of cafeteria food on the floor - escalated by April 2 into riots involving 20,000 people in six cities. Nine people died and more than 50 were injured. Only last week did authorities relax a state of emergency in the province, lifting a curfew and reopening schools.
There are other multi-ethnic countries with sizable minorities. But none equals Yugoslavia for ethnic, linguistic and religious diversity and is so vulnerable to centrifugal forces. Hence the concern of Marshal Tito's successors over the explosion of resentment among Yugoslavia's predominantly Moslem Albanian minority of 1.4 million, most of whom live in Kosovo. After the riots, Stane Dolanc, a member of the Communist Party Presidium, warned of ''the danger of the growth of other kinds of nationalisms'' in Yugoslavia - a thinly veiled allusion to the traditional and still virulent rivalry between the dominant Serbs and Croats.
The Kosovo rebellion was bad enough news for the Belgrade leadership; it coincided with setbacks that have put Yugoslavia's economy in its worst straits in decades. Industrial production dropped 0.6 percent from February 1980 to February 1981 (Kosovo's dropped 2 percent), while the cost of living rose 40.5 percent, according to official figures. Exports now constitute only 10 percent of the gross national product - the lowest proportion in Europe - and are sinking. The Yugoslavs also spent $1.2 billion more in 1980 for oil imports, despite such conservation measures as gasoline rationing. The foreign debt stands at $17 billion.
''Evidently our economy does not function well,'' acknowledged Milos Minic, a member of the collective party leadership, in a speech to party activists in Zagreb last month. ''Stop the uncontrolled rise of prices!'' demanded
Cvijetin Mijatovic, the current President in the revolving succession to Tito, in another grim assessment of the economy before a gathering in Nis.
The Government, having just authorized sharp price increases for alcohol and tobacco products, declared that price rises would have to be held this year to 30 percent at the producer level and 32 percent at the retail level. Belgrade is also looking to revitalize Tito's vaunted system of factory self-management, which has ''deteriorated'' under the pressure of inflation, according to Mr. Mijatovic. He and other leaders have described cases of economic anarchy arising when worker councils have raised prices for their products without considering the common good.
The collective leadership, created by Tito partly because he did not want to be succeeded by one prominent figure, has functioned adequately despite its Rube Goldberg construction. Yet its very dispersal of authority has deprived it of the charisma required to persuade a nation of independent spirits that it is really leading Yugoslavia.
Of course, Tito is a hard act to follow. According to Belgrade officials, the leadership took pains after his death last May to maintain a low profile, but this soon may change. One official said he expected the next Prime Minister, to be elected next year, to play a more prominent role. He also noted that all but one of the eight members of the collective presidency will be replaced in 1983 and he suggested that this might encourage the current leaders to ''become more inspirational because they have nothing to lose.''
Serbs, Turks and Albanians
Outsiders sometimes forget that socialist Yugoslavia was born not only of the war against Hitler, but also of a raging civil war that pitted nationality against nationality and church against church, at a cost of 1.7 million lives.
The nationality problems of the Kosovo region, desperately poor despite considerable mineral wealth, are centuries old and were exacerbated in both world wars. Originally the home of Serbia's founding dynasty in the 12th century, Kosovo lost most of its remaining Serbian population in the 17th century when the Serbs, Orthodox Christians, fled northward to distance themselves from the Ottoman Turks. Albanian tribesmen filled the vacuum; they now constitute more than four-fifths of the province's population.
When the great powers agreed in 1913 to make Albania independent more or less within its present borders, they ceded Kosovo to the Serbian monarchy. It was a blow the Albanians have never forgotten, the more so because their own independence movement had begun in the Kosovo town of Prizren in 1878. World War II brought more upheavals when Kosovo was handed to Mussolini's Italy by Germany and some Albanians enlisted out of gratitude on the Italian side. Retribution came when Tito's partisans entered the area, massacring suspected collaborators before the horrified eyes of their own Albanian Communist comrades in arms. Tito Partisans Once Ruled Albania
For a time, Tito's dominant forces ruled Albania and a permanent Yugoslav-Albanian federation was even contemplated. One holdout was Enver Hoxha, who had earlier called for a plebiscite in Kosovo. In 1948, the reversals caused by Tito's ouster from the Cominform lofted Mr. Hoxha into the Albanian leadership he still holds today.
For two succeeding decades, Tito's Yugoslavia held down the Albanians of Kosovo, denying them proper schooling and arresting or killing outspoken Albanian teachers. The repression ended in 1966 with the fall of the Serb leader who was Tito's number two, Aleksandr Rankovic. Since then, federal money has poured into Kosovo at a higher rate than into any other part of the country. Pristina University has grown to become one of the country's largest with 48,000 students. Most of the region's administrators, and its police, are ethnic Albanians. The Kosovars are even allowed to fly the Albanian flag, a black eagle on a red field.
Yet this ''tremendous dynamic of development,'' as Mr. Dolanc described it, ironically has fed unrest. There were riots in 1968 and again in 1975. This time the youths of Kosovo shouted ''We want a republic'' (their semi-autonomous province has almost all rights of a Yugoslav republic except the right to secede) and some even demanded annexation by Mr. Hoxha's Albanian fatherland.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1981_protests_in_Kosovo
1981 protests in Kosovo
From Wikipedia
In March and April 1981, a student protest in Pristina, the capital of the then Socialist Autonomous Province of Kosovo, led to widespread protests by Kosovo Albanians demanding more autonomy within the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. The Presidency of Yugoslavia declared a state of emergency in Pristina and Kosovska Mitrovica, which led to rioting. The unrest was suppressed by a large police intervention that caused numerous casualties, and a period of political repression followed.
Student protests
The demonstrations started on 11 March 1981, originally as a spontaneous small-scale protest for better food in the school cafeteria and improved living conditions in the dormitories. Tired of being made to wait in line, for hours, for poor quality food, students began demonstrating under Besim Baraliu's command, who later was arrested. Two to four thousand demonstrators were dispersed by police, with around a hundred arrests made.
Aftermath
The demonstrations in Kosovo were the beginning of a deep crisis in Yugoslavia that later led to its dissolution. The government response to the demonstrations changed the political discourse in the country in a way that significantly impaired its ability to sustain itself in the future.
by me, Kerry Burgess 9:27 PM January 15, 2015
I had forgotten it and all the other sleeping dreams from the last time I was sleeping until just now before making this post. I don't recall the other many sleeping dreams I woke from but I do remember one. I was wearing a US Marine Corps uniform and that is very unusual for a sleeping dream. I have written before over several years about seeing myself wearing a US Marine Corps uniform but as best I can now recall here sitting here at my desk there have been only two sleeping dreams featuring me wearing a US Marine Corps uniform. And one of those occurrences would have been this past day.
Those of you following along at home remember what I wrote and what I still believe - that I have no actual direct memory - no practical memory in my conscious mind of any service in the United States Marine Corps.
Everything I write here that is not consistent with my factual memory is just the thoughts in my mind.
The dream this past day is something that I can now recall only of an actor I have seen before in film and television. He is that guy who recruits "Cooper Hawkes" in that "Space: Above and Beyond" episode I have referenced here many times.
The sleeping dream I had the past day doesn't seem connected to anything I have seen him in before on television or movie.
There is something that I can almost remember about that dream but just cannot remember.
Well, the operative detail is that I could not wear my US Marine Corps uniform because of what he did. I had to be somewhere. A duty assignment or something that is so damned frustratingly elusive in my mind.
He had punched me in the chest I vaguely recall. The impact of his fist wasn't that hard but he hit an object adorning my olive-colored uniformed shirt and there was an area obviously soaked with blood and I wasn't going to be able to go anywhere looking that way.
I write about it now only because of how that was one time so infrequent seeing myself wearing a US Marine Corps uniform in a sleeping dream. Now I just remember a possible third time. That time I saw myself wearing my US Navy Cross [Navy Cross medal for valor in combat with legitimate official authority] and working in an office building chasing down a person stealing classified documents. Now I just recall another time I wrote about wearing that same medal in an elevator and that person saying he was surprised "they" let me wear it and me saying in response I was proud of my service in Bosnia.
From 1/15/2015 ( ) To 10/28/2026 ( ) is 4304 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 8/15/1977 ( the so-called "Wow!" signal received at the Ohio State University Big Ear Observatory ) is 4304 days
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wow!_signal
From 9/20/1955 ( premiere US TV series "Navy Log" ) To 10/28/1994 ( premiere US film "Stargate" ) is 14283 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 12/10/2004 ( ) is 14283 days
From 10/28/1994 ( premiere US film "Stargate" ) To 12/10/2004 ( ) is 3696 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 12/16/1975 ( Gerald Ford, President of USA: Letter to Vice President Rockefeller on Receiving the Report of the President's Panel on Federal Compensation ) is 3696 days
From 10/28/1994 ( premiere US film "Stargate" ) To 12/10/2004 ( ) is 3696 days
3696 = 1848 + 1848
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 11/24/1970 ( Richard Nixon, 37th President of USA: Remarks Introducing James F. Oates, Jr., Chairman, Jobs for Veterans Program ) is 1848 days
From 11/28/1964 ( premiere US TV series episode "The Outer Limits"::"The Inheritors - Part 2" ) To 12/10/2004 ( ) is 14622 days
14622 = 7311 + 7311
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 11/8/1985 ( as Kerry Burgess, from my official enlisted United States Navy documents: Navy Occupation/Training History: EMERGENCY CLOSURE/BOUNDARY ISOLATION, USS Taylor FFG-50, United States Navy ) is 7311 days
From 11/28/1964 ( premiere US TV series episode "The Outer Limits"::"The Inheritors - Part 2" ) To 12/10/2004 ( ) is 14622 days 14622 = 7311 + 7311
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 11/8/1985 ( United States 40th President Ronald Reagan and United States Public Law 99-145 authorizes the United States Prisoner of War Medal for United States of America military forces ) is 7311 days
From 6/21/1985 ( premiere US film "Cocoon" ) To 12/10/2004 ( ) is 7112 days
7112 = 3556 + 3556
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 7/29/1975 ( Gerald Ford, 38th President of USA: Remarks in Krakow at the Pediatric Institute of the Nicholas Copernicus Medical Academy ) is 3556 days
The Spokesman-Review
SATURDAY, DEC. 11, 2004
Rotary breaks ground on park fountain
By Hilary Kraus
The seed was planted nearly 30 years ago, but it wasn’t until Friday that city and Rotary Club officials broke ground on the Rotary Fountain in Riverfront Park.
Beneath an intermittent drizzle, the group gathered on a three-quarter-acre site that will be transformed into a $1.25 million interactive water fountain and plaza. It is scheduled to open in late May 2005, in time for the Northwest district Rotary conference.
Project designer Bob Perron was among those who watched as the first holes were dug into the cold, wet ground by Mayor Jim West, Dan Cadagan, Rotary Foundation project committee chairman, and other dignitaries. Perron, designer of Riverfront Park, had the vision of an elaborate entrance fountain in 1975.”There was not enough money in the budget then,” Perron said.
Perron, a resident of Portland and architect of that city’s Salmon Street Spring, said the idea resurfaced about 2½ years ago. The Rotary Club wanted to make a major contribution to the city.
The fountain and plaza are being funded by a public-private partnership between the Spokane Park Board and the Downtown Spokane Rotary Club 21. The fundraising has reached 96 percent of the needed amount, thanks to 415 donors, including 31 who each gave more than $5,000.
“This is by far the most significant project we have ever taken on,” Nancy Kennedy, Club 21 president said during the formal ceremony.
The fountain and plaza will bring a radically different look to the entrance of the park. It will cover an area from the Spokane River to Spokane Falls Boulevard on the south border and from the carousel to the “Christmas tree” on the west edge.
Harold Balazs, commissioned as the sculptor, has designed a work that will tell the story of the Spokane Falls and its relationship to native people.
“We were interested in a fountain that reflected in the history of the community,” said Perron, who has worked with Balazs on other architectural projects.
But unlike Perron’s original idea – sculptured children holding hands in water – the flat-deck Rotary Fountain will be run by computer and will be constantly changing. It will have about 140 water jets, sprays, misters, ground hugging fog and other features. It will stand on five stainless columns that are 24 feet high.
The fountain will be open for anyone who wants to play in the water, and will operate from 6 a.m. until midnight from mid-spring to mid-fall, temperature permitting. The fountain may be operated in winter with the mist creating ice formations.
Annual maintenance is estimated between $20,000 and $25,000, Cadagan said. Power alone would cost about $12,000 a year.
Perron said most of the construction is underground piping, which can be done in winter.
“This is going to be one of those things that brings ‘Wow!’ to the city,” West said.
https://www.simpsonsarchive.com/episodes/3F08.html
The Simpsons
"Sideshow Bob's Last Gleaming"
Original airdate in N.A.: 26-Nov-95
[the Emergency Broadcast System logo appears]
[Bob begins to walk away until he hears Krusty's voice]
Announcer: This is the Emergency Broadcast System. Stand by for an urgent bulletin.
Krusty: [on TV] Hey Hey! [laughs] Krusty the Clown is back on the air! Eight...no no, _twelve_ hours of day. The only game in town!
Bob: Krusty! But how?!
Krusty: I'm comin' at you live from the civil defense shack in the remote Alkali Flats of the Springfield Badlands! I'll be beaming out eleven watts of wackiness! Hour after hour of unscripted, unrehearsed comedy. Featuring...uh...uh... Professor Gas Can! And, uh, [grabs photo] former President Ike Eisenhower! [imitative] Let's get busy!
Bob: Oh, my utopia lies in ruins! How naive of me to think a mere atom bomb could fell the chattering cyclops!
He uncages the red detonator button as Bart and Lisa spring up from the trap door in the bottom of the blimp.
Bob: Well, at least I'll have my revenge!
Bart: Bob, no!
Lisa: Don't you see? That would be taking the easy way out.
Bob: I agree. [presses the button]
A blinding flash fills the air.
[End of Act Two. Time: 16:16]
The scenes flash through people throughout Springfield and then the mushroom cloud appears, very small, and sets off the smoke detector in the blimp. The bomb casing breaks apart and rats scatter.
Bob: [reading from the bomb casing] "Best before November 1959." Dammit, Bob. There were plenty of brand new bombs, but you had to go for that retro 50s charm.
https://www.nvr.navy.mil/nvr/getHull.htm?shipId=4814
NVR
Naval Vessel Register
WAINWRIGHT (CG 28)
GUIDED MISSILE CRUISER
Class: CG 26
Status: Disposed of in support of Fleet training exercise
Award Date: 05/18/1961
Keel Date: 07/02/1962
Launch Date: 04/25/1964
Commission Date: 01/08/1966
Decommission Date: 11/15/1993
To 1/8/1966 ( ) From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) is 67 days
134 = 67 + 67
To 10/28/2026 ( Wednesday ) From 6/16/2026 ( ) is 134 days
- by me, Kerry Wayne Burgess, posted by me: 09:12 AM Pacific-timezone USA Monday 11/02/2026
