Horrifying to watch Rufus Sewell's character, John Smith, transform from United States Army officer to a bona fide Adolph Hitler Nazi.
That's from a so-called flashback scene in episode 5 of season 4 of Amazon Prime's fictional story "The Man in the High Castle".
All ten video episodes of Season 4 released on the same calendar day.
The provocative scene is part of the story about a reality that is much different from what we experience here. In their story, the United States lost World War II.
A fine story of conquest over liberation, that I wonder is fully appreciated today by the people of the Germany Bundeswehr and the Japan Self-defense Forces.
"Support our troops". Why you're always saying those words hollow to you. Because it makes you seem sympathetic. A tiny, infinitesimal portion of the population of the United States that is our only defense against the hordes of conquerors out there in a world that terrifies you. You need people to feel sympathy for you because you're pathetic. You do nothing but take.
I've watched these episodes and I started thinking back to Thedia's mother telling me I should apply as a conscientious objector. That was in the time after I had returned from the Persian Gulf with fantastic tales of how we kicked ass over there.
I couldn't understand why the hell she thought I would ever want to be a conscientious objector. I didn't really know that much about her. I remember Thedia dumping Melissa and me there in their crapshack farm outside Antlers, Oklahoma, often during my youth. In my older years I started thinking of her as part of a group of cowards, possibly the people in her close family. Cowards typically decry "conscientious objector". Until they need something from the United States government. I didn't know really until later that she was one of those Jehovah Witness nutjobs. I couldn't recall anything about her and church from my youth. My guess is that as she got older and started getting terrified of mortality, because she had been in denial about it all those years earlier, she started thumping harder that book of ridiculous fairy-tales that you dim-wit dullards call the Holy Bible. I do recall something about her saying that women related to her were "strong" and I started guessing that was a coward's way of admitting her previous husband had used her as a punching bag. But that's just a guess. People such as that want to have it all but when it comes time to contribute, they conveniently object again personal contribution and risk.
I still don't know why. She's been dead since 1999 and I never asked her. I'm guessing it was something I complained about.
I wasn't happy with life in the fleet. Living on a ship in a bunkroom with 40 other guys was wearing thin on my patience. All I wanted was some privacy. Which I found in excellent supply in 1990 when my enlistment ended honorably.
I could have reenlisted for shore duty for 4 years but that didn't seem appealing to me. My occupation was a war-fighter rating. My options for shore duty were limited in relation to my rating. At best, I could see myself having to stand in front of a classroom of 25 sailors with glassy-eyes as I repeat day-after-day 5 days a week for 4 years the same detail over and over again about Ohm's Law. No thanks.
I am as equally certain as months ago that the memories I have today of my conscious memory of the 1990s are actually the experiences of Thomas Reagan. Somehow he convinced me those were my real experiences, which is why I cannot now consciously recall specific memory details about the fantastic experiences I have alleged about the 1990s.
I still cannot explain adequately why "they" are going to such extreme to create this historical record.
Everywhere I look, there "they" are.
Ah, yes. I can’t say it’s a rare honor to have been Simonized, but an honor all the same. When I played Jesus, he said he had his “doubts” about me. I think I got off easy. https://t.co/gCfpMFHVfN
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Kerry Burgess, December 19, 2016 9:39 pm
The Man in the High Castle.
Amazon Prime. Episodes 3 and 4.
Rufus Sewell really scored big in this season.
He portrays a Great Nazi. His next role should be as Bill Clinton. The Admired American. The perfect complement of two truly scum-bag low-life human beings.
Truly great acting, Rufus Sewell, and great writers.
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From 11/24/1944 ( ) 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 19736 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 11/15/2019 ( ) is 19736 days
From 1/17/1991 ( from the thoughts in my conscious mind, coinciding with United States of America Veterans Affairs hospital psychiatric doctor medical drugs: the 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 ) To 11/15/2019 ( ) is 10529 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 8/31/1994 ( premiere US film "Milk Money" ) is 10529 days
From 2/21/1997 ( the landing of the US space shuttle Discovery orbiter vehicle mission STS-82 includes me Kerry Wayne Burgess the United States Marine Corps officer and United States STS-82 pilot astronaut and my 4th official United States of America National Aeronautics Space Administration orbital flight of 4 overall ) To 11/15/2019 ( ) is 8302 days
8302 = 4151 + 4151
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 3/15/1977 ( premiere US TV series "Eight Is Enough" ) is 4151 days
From 12/25/1991 ( in non-aviator related duties boots on the ground as United States Marine Corps chief warrant officer Kerry Wayne Burgess I was prisoner of war in Croatia ) To 11/15/2019 ( ) is 10187 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 9/23/1993 ( premiere US TV series episode "ABC News Nightline"::"Town Meeting Health Care: The Clinton Prescription" ) is 10187 days
From 8/2/1967 ( premiere US film "In the Heat of the Night" ) To 11/15/2019 ( ) is 19098 days
19098 = 9549 + 9549
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 12/25/1991 ( in non-aviator related duties boots on the ground as United States Marine Corps chief warrant officer Kerry Wayne Burgess I was prisoner of war in Croatia ) is 9549 days
From 4/15/2004 ( referenced below here in text by me, Kerry Burgess ) To 11/15/2019 ( ) is 5692 days
5692 = 2846 + 2846
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 8/18/1973 ( The Killian Document ) is 2846 days
From 12/9/2003 ( premiere US TV miniseries finale episode "Battlestar Galactica" ) To 11/15/2019 ( ) is 5820 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 10/9/1981 ( premiere US film "Chariots of Fire" ) is 5820 days
From 5/29/1956 ( premiere US TV series episode "Big Town"::"Marine Story" ) To 11/15/2019 ( ) is 23180 days
23180 = 11590 + 11590
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 7/27/1997 ( premiere US TV series "Stargate SG-1"::series premiere episode "Children of the Gods" ) is 11590 days
From 5/29/1956 ( premiere US film "D-Day the Sixth of June" ) To 11/15/2019 ( ) is 23180 days
23180 = 11590 + 11590
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 7/27/1997 ( premiere US TV series "Stargate SG-1"::series premiere episode "Children of the Gods" ) is 11590 days
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8735940/
IMDb
The Man in the High Castle (2015– )
Hexagram 64
TV-MA 57min Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller Episode aired 15 November 2019
Season 4 Episode 1
Writers: Philip K. Dick (based on the book by)
Rufus Sewell ... Reichsmarschall John Smith
Release Date: 15 November 2019 (USA)
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1944 in aviation
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This is a list of aviation-related events from 1944:
November 24 – 111 United States Army Air Forces B-29 Superfortresses attack Tokyo, targeting the Musashino aircraft plant. Although they do not damage the plant, it is the first strategic bombing raid against Japan from the Twentieth Air Force's new bases in the Mariana Islands, and the first American air attack of any kind on Tokyo since the April 1942 Doolittle Raid.
Posted by Kerry Burgess - H.V.O.M at 12:05 AM Friday, April 18, 2008
Reminds me of the evening of 4/15/2004 in Spokane Valley.
Scanners (1981)
65 IFC: Wednesday, April 16 6:00 PM
1981, R, **, 01:42, Color, English, Canada,
A scientist (Patrick McGoohan) sends a ``scanner'' (Stephen Lack) to hunt others like him with explosive psychic powers.
http://www.cswap.com/1981/Scanners/cap/en/25fps/a/00_15
Scanners
:15:17
Hey, where's security 2?
:15:20
- He's moving up fast on the left.
- Hey, man, what's happening?
:15:28
Ray, what the hell's
the matter with you?
:15:33
You gotta pull back
behind them, man.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0265086/quotes
Memorable quotes for
Black Hawk Down (2001)
Steele: I'm talking about your weapon, soldier. Now Delta or no-Delta, that's still a hot weapon. Your safety should be on at all times.
"Hoot": This is my safety, sir.
Sanderson: Let it alone, sir. He hasn't eaten in a few days.
[ excerpt ends Posted by Kerry Burgess - H.V.O.M at 12:05 AM Friday, April 18, 2008 ]
DSC00605.jpg, Kerry Burgess 2013 Spokane Valley
Posted by Kerry Burgess - H.V.O.M at 12:05 AM Friday, April 18, 2008
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Scanners
:05:50
You're 35 years old, Mr. Vale.
:05:54
Why are you such a derelict?
:05:59
Such a piece of human junk?
:06:03
The answer's simple.
:06:06
You're a scanner,
:06:08
but you don't realize it,
:06:11
and that has been the source
of all your agony.
:06:16
But I will show you now
:06:19
that it can be
a source of great power.
[ excerpt ends Posted by Kerry Burgess - H.V.O.M at 12:05 AM Friday, April 18, 2008 ]
Posted by Kerry Burgess - H.V.O.M at 12:05 AM Friday, April 18, 2008
From 3/19/1928 ( Patrick McGoohan ) to 12/24/1968 ( I was Apollo 8 spacecraft astronaut in orbit of Earth's moon ) is: 14890 days
14890 = 7445 + 7445
From 3/3/1959 ( my birth date US ) to 7/21/1979 ( my wife Phoebe and I are married ) is: 7445 days
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Patrick McGoohan
Date of Birth: 19 March 1928
Scanners (1981) .... Dr. Paul Ruth
[ excerpt ends Posted by Kerry Burgess - H.V.O.M at 12:05 AM Friday, April 18, 2008 ]
Posted by Kerry Burgess - H.V.O.M at 12:05 AM Friday, April 18, 2008
From 9/2/1965 ( my first day as student at Princeton University where I earned degree as medical doctor ) to 2/27/1998 ( premiere US movie "Dark City" ) is: 11866 days
11866 = 5933 + 5933
'59-33' ( my birth date US )
From 12/14/1972 ( I was Apollo 17 Challenger astronaut walking on the Earth's moon ) to 2/27/1998 ( premiere US movie "Dark City" ) is: 9206 days
9206 = 4603 + 4603
From 3/3/1959 ( my birth date US ) to 10/9/1971 ( I am board-certified surgeon ) is: 4603 days
[ excerpt ends Posted by Kerry Burgess - H.V.O.M at 12:05 AM Friday, April 18, 2008 ]
- posted by Kerry Burgess 12:29 AM Pacific Time Spokane Valley Washington USA Thursday 11/28/2019
