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https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/senior-trump-official-embellished-resume-had-face-fake-time-cover-n1080356
NBC News
Senior Trump official embellished resume, had face on fake TIME cover
State Dept. official Mina Chang claimed to be a Harvard Business School "alumna" who ran a nonprofit that worked in 40 countries.
Nov. 12, 2019, 8:58 AM PST / Updated Nov. 12, 2019, 9:00 AM PST
By Dan De Luce, Laura Strickler and Ari Sen
The gap between Chang's actual qualifications and her claims appears to be the latest example of lax vetting by the Trump administration, which has become known for its many job vacancies and appointments made without thorough screening.
"It does seem that this administration has not been doing the same depth of vetting as previous administrations,"
From 9/18/1947 ( the United States of America Central Intelligence Agency established ) To 12/7/1998 ( as Kerry Burgess my first day full-time employment Microsoft Corporation in Seattle until 02/06/2004 as the known official United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and the active duty United States Marine Corps lieutenant colonel circa 1998 ) is 18708 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 1/21/2017 ( ) is 18708 days
From 3/2/1990 ( as Kerry Burgess my the official United States Navy documents includes: departing overseas from USS Wainwright CG 28 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 United States Navy ) To 1/21/2017 ( ) is 9822 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 9/23/1992 ( premiere US TV series "Mad About You" ) is 9822 days
From 3/2/1990 ( premiere US film "The Hunt for Red October" ) To 1/21/2017 ( ) is 9822 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 9/23/1992 ( premiere US TV series "Mad About You" ) is 9822 days
From 6/29/1995 ( the Mir space station docking of the United States space shuttle Atlantis orbiter vehicle mission STS-71 includes me Kerry Wayne Burgess the United States Marine Corps officer and United States STS-71 pilot astronaut and my 3rd official United States of America National Aeronautics Space Administration orbital flight of 4 overall ) To 1/21/2017 ( ) is 7877 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 5/28/1987 ( Matthias Rust lands his civilian airplane in Red Square Moscow ) is 7877 days
From 3/25/1954 ( RCA begins manufacturing color televisions for consumers ) To 6/13/2005 ( as Kerry Burgess my official United States Veterans Affairs hospital in Seattle documents includes: Other Medications - Risperdal started 6/13/05 ) is 18708 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 1/21/2017 ( ) is 18708 days
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https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/remarks-the-central-intelligence-agency-langley-virginia-2
The American Presidency Project
DONALD J. TRUMP
45th President of the United States: 2017 - 2021
Remarks at the Central Intelligence Agency in Langley, Virginia
January 21, 2017
Vice President Michael R. Pence. Thank you. Thank you to the Acting Director Meroe Park. Thank you for 27 years serving the United States of America here at CIA, with great distinction.
It's a great privilege for me to be with you today and to have the opportunity to introduce, at his first event, on his first full day, the new President of the United States, Donald Trump.
As you can imagine, it's deeply humbling for my family and I to find ourselves in this role. I'm grateful to our new President for the opportunity he's given me and the opportunity the American people have given us to serve. But it's especially humbling for me to be before all of you today—men and women of character, who have sacrificed greatly—and to stand before this hallowed wall, this memorial wall, where we remember 117 who paid the ultimate sacrifice for our freedom.
I can assure you, this new President and our entire team recognizes and appreciates the sacrifices of all of the men and women of the intelligence community of the United States of America.
I've gotten to know our new President. We traveled a lot together. When the cameras are off and the klieg lights are off—and I'll tell you two things I know for sure. Number one, I've never met anyone more dedicated to the safety and security of the people of the United States of America or anyone who is a greater strategic thinker about how we accomplish that for this Nation. In fact, to understand the life of our new President is—his whole life was strategy. He built an extraordinary success in the private sector, and I know he's going to make America safe again.
And lastly, I can honestly tell you, for all my years serving in the Congress, serving as Governor of my home State, in traveling across the country and seeing the connection that he's made to men and women who serve and protect in every capacity in this country, I've never met anyone with a greater heart for those who every day, in diverse ways, protect the people of this Nation through their character and their service and their sacrifice.
And so let me say, it is my high honor and distinct privilege to introduce to all of you the President of the United States.
The President. Thank you. Well, I want to thank everybody. Very, very special people. And it is true, this is my first stop, officially. We're not talking about the balls, and we're not talking about even the speeches—although they did treat me nicely on that speech yesterday. [Laughter] I always call them the dishonest media, but they treated me nicely. [Laughter]
But I want to say that there is nobody that feels stronger about the intelligence community and the CIA than Donald Trump. There's nobody. Nobody.
And the wall behind me is very, very special. We've been touring for quite a while, and I'll tell you what—29? I can't believe it.
Audience member. Twenty-eight. The President. Oh, 28. We'd better reduce it. [Laughter] But that's amazing. And we really appreciate what you've done in terms of showing us something very special. And your whole group, these are really special, amazing people. Very, very few people could do the job you people do. And I want to just let you know, I am so behind you. And I know maybe sometimes you haven't gotten the backing that you've wanted, and you're going to get so much backing. Maybe you're going to say, please don't give us so much backing. [Laughter] Mr. President, please, we don't need that much backing. [Laughter] But you're going to have that. And I think everybody in this room knows it.
You know, the military and the law enforcement, generally speaking, but all of it—but the military gave us tremendous percentages of votes. We were unbelievably successful in the election with getting the vote of the military. And probably almost everybody in this room voted for me, but I will not ask you to raise your hands if you did. [Laughter] But I would guarantee a big portion, because we're all on the same wavelength, folks. We're all on the same wavelength, right? He knows. Took Brian about 30 seconds to figure that one out, right, because we know we're on the same wavelength.
But we're going to do great things. We're going to do great things. We've been fighting these wars for longer than any wars we've ever fought. We have not used the real abilities that we have. We've been restrained. We have to get rid of ISIS. Have to get rid of ISIS. We have no choice. Radical Islamic terrorism—and I said it yesterday—has to be eradicated just off the face of the Earth. This is evil. This is evil. And you know, I can understand the other side. We can all understand the other side. There can be wars between countries; there can be wars. You can understand what happened. This is something nobody can even understand. This is a level of evil that we haven't seen. And you're going to go to it, and you're going to do a phenomenal job. But we're going to end it. It's time. It's time right now to end it.
You have somebody coming on who is extraordinary. For the different positions of "secretary of this" and "secretary of that" and all of these great positions, I'd see five, six, seven, eight people. And we had a great transition. We had an amazing team of talent. And by the way, General Flynn is right over here. Put up your hand, Mike. What a good guy. And Reince and my whole group. Reince—you know—they don't care about Reince. He's, like, this political guy that turned out to be a superstar, right? [Laughter] We don't have to talk about Reince.
But we did, we had just such a tremendous, tremendous success. So when I'm interviewing all of these candidates that Reince and his whole group is putting in front, it went very, very quickly, and in this case, went so quickly—because I would see six or seven or eight for Secretary of Agriculture, who we just named the other day, Sonny Perdue, Governor—former Governor of Georgia. Fantastic guy. But I'd see six, seven, eight people for a certain position. Everybody wanted it.
But I met Mike Pompeo, and it was the only guy I met. I didn't want to meet anybody else. I said, cancel everybody else. Cancel. Now, he was approved, essentially, but they're doing little political games with me. He was one of the three. Now, last night, as you know, General Mattis, fantastic guy, and General Kelly got approved. And Mike Pompeo was supposed to be in that group. It was going to be the three of them. Can you imagine all of these guys? They—people respect—you know, they respect that military sense. All my political people, they're not doing so well. The political people aren't doing so well, but you. We're going to get them all through, but some will take a little bit longer than others. But Mike was literally—I had a group of what, we had nine different people? Now, I must say, I didn't mind cancelling eight appointments. That wasn't the worst thing in the world. But I met him, and I said, he is so good. Number one in his class at West Point.
Now, I know a lot about West Point. And to be one, you're—it's—I'm a person that very strongly believes in academics. In fact, every time I say I had an uncle who was a great professor at MIT for 35 years who did a fantastic job in so many different ways. Academically—he was an academic genius—and then they say, is Donald Trump an intellectual? Trust me, I'm, like, a smart person. [Laughter] And I recognized immediately. So he was number one at West Point, and he was also essentially number one at Harvard Law School. And then, he decided to go into the military. And he ran for Congress. And everything he's done has been a home run. People like him, but much more importantly to me, everybody respects him. And when I told Paul Ryan that I want to do this, I would say he may be the only person that was not totally thrilled, right, Mike? Because he said, I don't want to lose this guy.
But you will be getting a total star. You're going to be getting a total gem. This is a gem. And I just—[applause]—good. You'll see. You'll see. And many of you know him anyway. But you're going to see. And again, we have some great people going in. But this one is something—going to be very special, because this is one, if I had to name the most important, this would certainly be perhaps—you know, in certain ways, you could say my most important. You do the job like everybody in this room is capable of doing. There can be—and the generals are wonderful, and the fighting is wonderful. But if you give them the right direction, boy, does the fighting become easier. And boy, do we lose so fewer lives, and win so quickly. And that's what we have to do. We have to start winning again.
You know, when I was young and when I was—of course, I feel young. I feel like I'm 30, 35, 39. [Laughter] Somebody said, are you young? I said, I think I'm young. You know, I was stopping—when we were in the final month of that campaign, four stops, five stops, seven stops. Speeches, speeches, in front of 25, 30,000 people, 15,000, 19,000 from stop to stop. I feel young.
But when I was young—and I think we're all, sort of, young. When I was young, we were always winning things in this country. We'd win with trade. We'd win with wars. At a certain age, I remember hearing from one of my instructors, "The United States has never lost a war." And then, after that, it's like we haven't won anything. We don't win anymore. The old expression, "To the victor belong the spoils"—you remember. I always used to say, keep the oil. I wasn't a fan of Iraq. I didn't want to go into Iraq. But I will tell you, when we were in, we got out wrong. And I always said, in addition to that, keep the oil. Now, I said it for economic reasons. But if you think about it, Mike, if we kept the oil you probably wouldn't have ISIS because that's where they made their money in the first place. So we should have kept the oil. But okay. [Laughter] Maybe you'll have another chance. But the fact is, should have kept the oil.
I believe that this group is going to be one of the most important groups in this country toward making us safe, toward making us winners again, toward ending all of the problems. We have so many problems that are interrelated that we don't even think of, but interrelated to the kind of havoc and fear that this sick group of people has caused. So I can only say that I am with you a thousand percent.
And the reason you're my first stop is that, as you know, I have a running war with the media. They are among the most dishonest human beings on Earth. [Laughter] Right? And they, sort of, made it sound like I had a feud with the intelligence community. And I just want to let you know, the reason you're the number-one stop is exactly the opposite—exactly. And they understand that too.
And I was explaining about the numbers. We did a thing yesterday at the speech. Did everybody like the speech? You had to like it, right? So I've been given good reviews. But we had a massive field of people. You saw that. Packed. I get up this morning, I turn on one of the networks, and they show an empty field. I say, wait a minute, I made a speech. [Laughter] I looked out, the field was—it looked like a million, million and a half people. They showed a field where there were practically nobody standing there. And they said, Donald Trump did not draw well. [Laughter] I said, it was almost raining, the rain should have scared them away, but God looked down, and he said, we're not going to let it rain on your speech.
In fact, I—when I first started, I said, oh, no. First line, I hit—got hit by a couple of drops. [Laughter] And I said, oh, this is too bad, but we'll go right through it. But the truth is that it stopped immediately. It was amazing. And then, it became really sunny. Then, I walked off and it poured right after I left. It poured. But you know, we have something that's amazing because we had—it looked—honestly, it looked like a million and a half people. Whatever it was, it was. But it went all the way back to the Washington Monument. And I turn on—and by mistake, I get this network, and it showed an empty field. And it said we drew 250,000 people. Now, that's not bad, but it's a lie. We had 250,000 people literally around, you know, in the little bowl that we constructed. That was 250,000 people. The rest of the 20-block area, all the way back to the Washington Monument, was packed. So we caught them, and we caught them in a beauty. And I think they're going to pay a big price.
We had another one yesterday, which was interesting. In the Oval Office there's a beautiful statue of Dr. Martin Luther King. And I also happen to like Churchill, Winston Churchill. I think most of us like Churchill. Doesn't come from our country, but had a lot to do with it. Helped us; real ally. And as you know, Churchill's statue was taken out—the bust. And as you also probably have read, the Prime Minister is coming over to our country very shortly. And they wanted to know whether or not I'd like it back. I'd say, absolutely, but in the meantime we have a bust of Churchill.
So a reporter for Time magazine—and I have been on there cover, like, 14 or 15 times. I think we have the alltime record in the history of Time magazine. Like, if Tom Brady is on the cover, it's one time, because he won the Super Bowl or something, right? [Laughter] I've been on for 15 times this year. I don't think that's a record, Mike, that can ever be broken. Do you agree with that? [Laughter] What do you think?
But I will say that they said—and it was very interesting—that Donald Trump took down the bust, the statue, of Dr. Martin Luther King. And it was right there. But there was a cameraman that was in front of it. [Laughter] So Zeke—Zeke from Time magazine writes a story about I took down. I would never do that because I had great respect for Dr. Martin Luther King. But this is how dishonest the media is.
Now, big story—the retraction was, like, where? What, was it a line? Or do they even bother putting it in? So I only like to say that because I love honesty. I like honest reporting.
I will tell you, final time—although I will say it, when you let in your thousands of other people that have been trying to come in—because I am coming back—we may have to get you a larger room. [Laughter] We may have to get you a larger room. You know? And maybe, maybe, it will be built by somebody that knows how to build, and we won't have columns. [Laughter] Do you understand that? We'd get rid of the columns, but—[laughter]. No, I just wanted to really say that I love you, I respect you. There's nobody I respect more. You're going to do a fantastic job. And we're going to start winning again, and you're going to be leading the charge.
So thank you all very much. Thank you, beautiful. Thank you all very much. Have a good time. I'll be back. I'll be back. Thank you.
NOTE: The President spoke at 3:21 p.m. in front of the Memorial Wall at CIA Headquarters. In his remarks, he referred to Central Intelligence Agency Director-designate Michael R. Pompeo; National Security Adviser Michael T. Flynn; White House Chief of Staff Reinhold R. "Reince" Priebus; Secretary of Defense James N. Mattis; Secretary of Homeland Security John F. Kelly; Prime Minister Theresa May of the United Kingdom; Tom Brady, quarterback, National Football League's New England Patriots; and Zeke J. Miller, political reporter, Time magazine. The President also referred to the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) terrorist organization.
Donald J. Trump, Remarks at the Central Intelligence Agency in Langley, Virginia Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/323537
excerpt from my private journal as Kerry Burgess: 03/17/09 10:45 PM
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099810/quotes
Memorable quotes for
The Hunt for Red October (1990)
[Ryan is on board a plane experiencing violent turbulence]
Navigator C-2A: What's the matter Commander? You don't like flying, huh? Aw, this is nothing! You should've been with us five, six months ago! Whoa! You talk about puke! We ran into a hailstorm over the Sea of Japan. Everybody's retching their guts out! The pilot shot his lunch all over the windshield, and I barfed on the radio! Shorted it out completely! And it wasn't that lightweight stuff either, it was that chunky industrial weight puke!
[offers him the candy bar he's been eating]
Navigator C-2A: Hey, you want a bite?
Jack Ryan: Jack, next time you get a bright idea just put it in a memo!
From 3/2/1990 ( as Kerry Burgess my the official United States Navy documents includes: departing overseas from USS Wainwright CG 28 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 United States Navy ) To 12/7/1998 ( as Kerry Burgess my first day full-time employment Microsoft Corporation in Seattle until 02/06/2004 ) is 3202 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 8/9/1974 ( Richard Nixon surrenders and abandons his illegal presence in the United States of America federal White House ) is 3202 days
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Posted by Kerry Burgess - H.V.O.M at 3:06 AM Tuesday, January 10, 2012
Salesman
Also, "Salesman." I saw that in a dream while sleeping recently. I saw myself going through an induction process in the United States Marine Corps and I woke up understanding that I was dreaming of my actual experience in 1990. I saw a document that indicated I was being inducted to the United States Marine Corps with the officer grade of Chief Warrant Officer 2. I saw in the dream another document associated with my induction and that document indicated I had been assigned the informal name "Salesman."
https://thecrimereport.org/2018/06/19/does-watching-tv-sports-lower-crime-rates/
The Crime Report
Does Watching TV Sports Lower Crime Rates?
By TCR Staff June 19, 2018
The study’s results bear out the “incapacitation hypothesis”: If people are entertained, they are not committing crimes.
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Tuesday, 11/12/2019
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Perry Mason
THE CASE OF THE SHAPELY SHADOW
Naive secretary Janice Wainwright carries out her boss' orders, placing a briefcase containing more than $100,000 in a train station locker. Then she waits for the arrival of his ex-wife but is met by an arrest warrant instead.
Perry Mason (1957) s05e16 Episode Script
The Case of the Shapely Shadow
(from internet transcript)
(Perry Mason examining witness on the stand in court proceedings)
Hamilton Burger, District Attorney: Now just a minute.
Judge: You opened the door, Mr. Burger.
Answer the question, please.
What was it, Mrs. Theilman?
Nothing. Absolutely nothing.
I testified that I saw Mr. Theilman cross the street and enter the side street and then I lost sight of him.
Perry Mason: Exactly. You also told the prosecutor that you were watching the shadowy young woman as she followed Mr. Theilman.
That's right. She was about
Then which one were you really watching?
Well, both of them.
Your eyes were focused on two moving objects 20 feet apart?
No, of course not.
Then where were they focused?
I guess sort of between Theilman and the girl.
In other words, while a good-looking young woman with a figure you have described as distinctive and shapely was crossing the street, you kept your eyes 10 feet ahead of her?
[laughter.]
I didn't mean that. I looked back and forth at both of them.
Naturally.
I must have.
Can you describe the way this young woman walked?
I've already done so. It was graceful.
Yet you took your eyes om this graceful, swaying young woman, not once but many times, to look at Morley L. Theilman?
No, of course not. I looked mostly at the woman. I said that before without thinking.
You answered a question without thinking while under oath?
Well, I-
Tell me, were you thinking when you suggested that the woman joined Mr. Theilman when you've just now admitted she only followed him?
That's what I meant to say.
Were you thinking when you told the prosecutor that in your opinion Janice Wainwright's figure is identical with that of the young woman you saw?
I merely said-
Couldn't the figure you saw just as likely have been that of Miss Street? Or that young lady there? Or that one?
http://www.tv.com/shows/the-simpsons/the-old-man-and-the-lisa-1459/trivia/
tv.com
The Simpsons Season 8 Episode 21
The Old Man and the Lisa
Aired Sunday 8:00 PM Apr 20, 1997 on FOX
Quotes
Smithers: Simpson, what are you doing here? Why aren't you at work?
Homer: I made a bad mistake and Lenny sent me home to think about what I did. I don't remember what it was, so I'm watching TV.
- posted by Kerry Burgess 10:22 AM Pacific Time Spokane Valley Washington USA Tuesday 11/12/2019
