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Tuesday, December 10, 2019

The Menagerie



I put a few hours work into this calendar day topic. Then I lost interest in it late in day of the 9th and I was about to shelf it.

Then I read about the SLS news and I decided to take a closer look at it and put more work into it.









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From: Kerry Burgess

Sent: Saturday, May 6, 2006 6:22 PM

To: Kerry Burgess

Subject: Re: The Simpsons: February 25, 2001

Kerry Burgess wrote:
http://wired-vig.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,13987,00.html

Sunk by Windows NT

Jul, 24, 1998

While Microsoft continues to trumpet the success of its NT operating system over Unix-based systems, the US Navy is having second thoughts about putting NT at the helm. A system failure on the USS Yorktown last September temporarily paralyzed the cruiser, leaving it stalled in port for the remainder of a weekend.

"For about two-and-a-half hours, the ship was what we call 'dead in the water,'" said Commander John Singley of the Atlantic Fleet Surface Force.

[JOURNAL ARCHIVE 06 May 2006 excerpt ends]










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Jim Bridenstine

Verified account

@JimBridenstine

NASA Administrator

Success! Engineers @NASA_Marshall tested the @NASA_SLS liquid hydrogen test article tank to failure – the tank withstood more than 260% of expected flight loads before buckling and rupturing! #Artemis MORE: https://go.nasa.gov/2OV8BEX

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Kerry Burgess, September 10, 2017 4:36 pm

Preacher - Dirty Little Secret - television series Season 2 Episode 10 - Aired Monday 9:00 PM Aug 21, 2017 on AMC




(from internet transcript)

Preacher Jesse Custer: All I ever wanted was to serve you. Please. I don't even know what to call you.

Herr K. Starr: We call him Humperdoo.

Preacher Jesse Custer: You call him? (Humperdoo urinates on Preacher Jesse Custer) Aah!

Herr K. Starr: Ah. He likes you.









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http://www.tv.com/shows/preacher/dirty-little-secret-3469409/recap/

tv.com

Preacher Season 2 Episode 10

Dirty Little Secret

Aired Aug 21, 2017 on AMC

EPISODE RECAP

Jesse asks the Pope and the Archbishop where God is. The Archbishop makes sure that Jesse wants to know, and then talks about a rebellion of angels and now He's on the run. The Pope says "Give me a break" and insists that it's not true. He says that God has moved on to make a new creation, something more loving and just. The Archbishop doesn't believe him, and the Pope talks about a new species. Jesse figures that no one knows where God is, and Starr agrees. The Pope mentions the boy, and says that it's time for him to lead. Starr cuts him off and dismisses both men. Jesse asks who the boy is, and uses Genesis to force Starr to answer. Starr says that the boy is the Messiah.





http://www.tv.com/shows/preacher/dirty-little-secret-3469409/recap/

tv.com

Preacher Season 2 Episode 10

Dirty Little Secret

Aired Aug 21, 2017 on AMC

EPISODE RECAP

Starr says that the Grail has protected Christ's lineage for the end of the world. When hope is abandoned, their Savior will reveal himself to the frightened masses. The Grail has Jesus' 25th great grandson, and Starr says that the Messiah is sometimes less than forthcoming.





http://www.tv.com/shows/preacher/dirty-little-secret-3469409/recap/

tv.com

Preacher Season 2 Episode 10

Dirty Little Secret

Aired Aug 21, 2017 on AMC

EPISODE RECAP

Starr drives Jesse to a private jet and flies him away. They then take a train and a car to where the Messiah is. The Messiah's guards take Jesse through a catacomb and take off the hood, Starr introduces Jesse to the Christ Child, their most precious figurehead. The Messiah, Humperdoo, turns to face them and Jesse kneels before him. Jesse says that he's been given Genesis to find God, and asks if he's on the right path. Humperdoo urinates on Jesse and hesitantly says that he's happy to see Jesse. The Messiah strokes Starr's head and says that it's shiny, and while Jesse discovers that Humperdoor has been sketching puppies. Jesse uses the Word on Humperdoo, who starts screaming in panic. Starr calls in the guards, who set Humperdoo down for a nap.





http://www.tv.com/shows/preacher/dirty-little-secret-3469409/recap/

tv.com

Preacher Season 2 Episode 10

Dirty Little Secret

Aired Aug 21, 2017 on AMC

EPISODE RECAP

As they drive back, Starr explains that there were problems with inbreeding.








Kerry Burgess, August 21, 2017 4:35 am

Kerry Burgess updated his status.

Here's another illustration for the way things are now.

If I had tons of money then there would be two distinct responses I can think of the people - the little pigeon rats - that are constantly around me everywhere, even now in my diminished circumstances.

Those people would be lining up around the corner just to kiss my ass.

They would also resent the hell out of me.

Watching me live the sort of good life they can never possibly expect to have.

Miami Vice

Channel 137 ELREY

S2 Ep9 Bought and Paid For [ 04:00 AM Monday 21 August 2017 Pacific Time USA ]








from my private journal as Kerry Burgess: August 4, 2006

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/05/10/health/main616473.shtml
May 10, 2004

"Ronnie's long journey has finally taken him to a distant place where I can no longer reach him," she said.



http://www.chron.com/CDA/archives/archive.mpl?id=2004_3761475

chron Houston Chronicle Archives

Celebrities raise funds for stem-cell research

PAUL ELIAS Associated Press

MON 05/10/2004 Houston Chronicle

Saturday's dinner featured a rare public appearance by former first lady Nancy Reagan. Former President Ronald Reagan suffers from Alzheimer's disease and his wife believes stem cells might someday provide a cure.

"Ronnie's long journey has finally taken him to a distant place where I can no longer reach him," she said. "Because of this I'm determined to do whatever I can to save other families from this pain."



http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?date=20040510&slug=stem10

The Seattle Times

Monday, May 10, 2004

Nancy Reagan lends support to stem-cell efforts

By The Associated Press and The Washington Post

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. — Former first lady Nancy Reagan endorsed human embryonic research last night at a star-studded fund-raiser.

"Ronnie's long journey has finally taken him to a distant place where I can no longer reach him," she said. "Because of this, I'm determined to do whatever I can to save other families from this pain. I just don't see how we can turn our backs on this."



https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2004-may-09-me-nancy9-story.html

Los Angeles Times

Stem Cell Funding Is Put in Spotlight

By STEPHANIE CHAVEZ

MAY 9, 2004 12 AM

TIMES STAFF WRITER

In rare remarks aimed at influencing national public policy, former First Lady Nancy Reagan told a star-studded crowd Saturday night that stem cell research must be pursued “to save families from the pain” of debilitating illnesses, such as Alzheimer’s disease, which afflicts her husband, former President Reagan.

“I am determined to do whatever I can,” she said after receiving a standing ovation at a gala fundraiser in her honor at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel.

She told the crowd, which included Michael J. Fox, Harrison Ford and James Taylor, that Alzheimer’s had taken her husband “to a distant place where I can no longer reach him.” She added that stem cell research held hope for a cure.

“I don’t see how we can turn our backs on this,” she said. “We have lost so much time. I just can’t bear to lose any more.”








https://www.yahoo.com/news/lisa-page-speaks-no-fathomable-005942249.html

Yahoo! News

Lisa Page Speaks: ‘There’s No Fathomable Way I Have Committed Any Crime at All’

The Daily Beast December 2, 2019

It’s not often that you interview a subject who has no interest in being famous. But recently, I did just that when I sat down with Lisa Page the week before Thanksgiving in my hotel room in Washington, D.C. Page, of course, is the former FBI lawyer whose text-message exchanges with agent Peter Strzok that belittled Donald Trump and expressed fear at his possible victory became international news. They were hijacked by Trump to fuel his “deep state” conspiracy.

For the nearly two years since her name first made the papers, she’s been publicly silent (she did have a closed-door interview with House members in July 2018). I asked her why she was willing to talk now. “Honestly, his demeaning fake orgasm was really the straw that broke the camel’s back,” she says. The president called out her name as he acted out an orgasm in front of thousands of people at a Minneapolis rally on Oct. 11.

That was the moment Page decided she had to speak up. “I had stayed quiet for years hoping it would fade away, but instead it got worse,” she says. “It had been so hard not to defend myself, to let people who hate me control the narrative. I decided to take my power back.”

She is also about to be back in the news cycle in a big way. On Dec. 9, the Justice Department inspector general report into Trump’s charges that the FBI spied on his 2016 campaign will come out. Leaked press accounts indicate the report will exonerate Page of the allegation that she acted unprofessionally or showed bias against Trump.

How does it feel after all this time to finally have the IG apparently affirm what she’s been saying all along? She said she wouldn’t discuss the findings until they were officially public, but she did note: “While it would be nice to have the IG confirm publicly that my personal opinions had absolutely no bearing on the course of the Russia investigations, I don’t kid myself that the fact will matter very much for a lot of people. The president has a very loud megaphone.”

Page, 39, is thin and athletic. She speaks in an exceedingly confident, clear, and lawyerly way. But having been through the MAGA meat grinder has clearly worn her down, not unlike the other women I’ve met who’ve been subjected to the president’s abuse. She is just slightly crumbly around the edges the way the president’s other victims are.

“It’s almost impossible to describe” what it’s like, she told me. “It’s like being punched in the gut. My heart drops to my stomach when I realize he has tweeted about me again. The president of the United States is calling me names to the entire world. He’s demeaning me and my career. It’s sickening.”

“But it’s also very intimidating because he’s still the president of the United States. And when the president accuses you of treason by name, despite the fact that I know there’s no fathomable way that I have committed any crime at all, let alone treason, he’s still somebody in a position to actually do something about that. To try to further destroy my life. It never goes away or stops, even when he’s not publicly attacking me.”

Does it affect you in your normal day-to-day life?

“I wish it didn’t,” she said. “I’m someone who’s always in my head anyway—so now otherwise normal interactions take on a different meaning. Like, when somebody makes eye contact with me on the Metro, I kind of wince, wondering if it’s because they recognize me, or are they just scanning the train like people do? It’s immediately a question of friend or foe? Or if I’m walking down the street or shopping and there’s somebody wearing Trump gear or a MAGA hat, I’ll walk the other way or try to put some distance between us because I’m not looking for conflict. Really, what I wanted most in this world is my life back.”








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From 7/16/1963 ( Phoebe Cates the United States Army veteran and the Harvard University graduate medical doctor and the world-famous actress and the wife of my biological brother Thomas Reagan ) To 8/21/2017 ( premiere US TV series episode "Preacher"::"Dirty Little Secret" ) is 19760 days

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From 3/20/2009 ( premiere US film "Knowing" ) To 12/9/2019 ( ) is 3916 days

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https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/trump-ig-report-finding-2016-campaign-probe-justified-actually-documents-n1098396

NBC News

Trump: IG report of justified campaign probe shows 'attempted overthrow' of government

The long-awaited report by the Justice Department's watchdog of the FBI's probe of his 2016 campaign, released Monday, rebutted Trump's regular depiction of a politically biased plot against him.

Dec. 9, 2019, 11:22 AM PST / Updated Dec. 9, 2019, 12:53 PM PST

By Shannon Pettypiece

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said Monday that a new Justice Department report that found a solid legal basis for the original FBI investigation of his 2016 campaign had actually documented an "attempted overthrow" of the government that was "far worse than I ever thought possible.

"It is an embarrassment to our country, it is dishonest, it is everything that a lot of people thought it would be except far worse," he said at the White House, following the release of the long-awaited report by the Justice Department's watchdog that rebutted his regular depiction of a politically biased plot against him.



https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/ig-report-shows-way-fbi-gets-warrants-spy-americans-mess-n1098666

NBC News

The FBI's warrant system for spying on Americans is a mess, the IG report shows

Analysis: The report found an FBI process so rife with errors that the FBI director immediately issued a statement saying he would begin reforms.

Dec. 10, 2019, 1:53 AM PST

By Ken Dilanian

WASHINGTON — Given the unsupported claims President Donald Trump has made for two years about the FBI’s Russia investigation — calling it a witch hunt cooked up by his political opponents — the conclusion by the Justice Department watchdog that the probe was justified was big news.

But the inspector general report’s other major findings — that there were serious problems with the way the FBI obtained a secret national security warrant to spy on a Trump campaign aide — were also noteworthy, if somewhat overshadowed by the bigger headlines.

For years, civil liberties activists have been warning that the process for obtaining secret warrants to spy on Americans under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act was dangerously flawed, in part because it is one-sided. The government tells judges behind closed doors why the spying is justified, and there is nobody in the room representing the target to question that evidence.





http://articles.latimes.com/2000/nov/03/news/mn-46389

Los Angeles Times

Bush's 1976 Arrest in Maine Is Revealed

November 03, 2000 MARK Z. BARABAK TIMES POLITICAL WRITER

Responding to reports Thursday

Bush repeatedly questioned the timing of the Maine news reports. "I think that's an interesting question," he told reporters. "Why now? . . . I've got my suspicions."



http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0068473/quotes

IMDb

Deliverance (1972)

Quotes

Mountain Man: I bet you can squeal like a pig. Weeeeeeee!

Bobby: Weee!

Mountain Man: Weeeeeeee!

Bobby: Weee!





https://www.cia.gov/library/readingroom/collection/francis-gary-powers-u-2-spy-pilot-shot-down-soviets

GARY POWERS (TRIAL COMMENTARY SAYS POWERS MOTHER SHAMED)

DOC_0000022370.pdf

Each word of the prosecutor falls on her heart like a stone. In fact, the purpose of that speech is to protect millions of mothers from the torment to which the bosses of Washington have condemned this woman. Soviet justice is being done in this hall so that smiles, not tears, may be seen on the faces of mothers, Russian or American,

all those who think of peace, not of war.

[ excerpt ends Posted by Kerry Burgess at 12:28 AM Saturday, June 15, 2019 ]





https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/ig-report-shows-way-fbi-gets-warrants-spy-americans-mess-n1098666

NBC News

The FBI's warrant system for spying on Americans is a mess, the IG report shows

Analysis: The report found an FBI process so rife with errors that the FBI director immediately issued a statement saying he would begin reforms.

Dec. 10, 2019, 1:53 AM PST

By Ken Dilanian

In response, defenders of the process have said: That’s exactly why the FBI and Justice Department are extraordinarily careful and meticulous in how they present evidence to the FISA court, which is no rubber stamp.

The report by Inspector General Michael Horowitz severely undercuts that assertion, at least when it comes to the FBI’s applications for surveillance of Carter Page, a Trump foreign policy adviser who was never charged with a crime.

The report found an FBI process so badly managed, so rife with errors, that the FBI director immediately issued a statement saying he was already implementing reforms.

Some FBI personnel “did not comply with existing policies,





https://hvom.blogspot.com/2019/09/democracy-until-it-isnt-freedom-until.html

Posted by Kerry Burgess at 4:10 AM

Saturday, September 21, 2019

Freedom. Until it's not.

[ excerpt ends Posted by Kerry Burgess at 4:10 AM Saturday, September 21, 2019 ]





https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/ig-report-shows-way-fbi-gets-warrants-spy-americans-mess-n1098666

NBC News

The FBI's warrant system for spying on Americans is a mess, the IG report shows

Analysis: The report found an FBI process so rife with errors that the FBI director immediately issued a statement saying he would begin reforms.

Dec. 10, 2019, 1:53 AM PST

By Ken Dilanian

neglected to exercise appropriate diligence, or otherwise failed to meet the standard of conduct that the FBI expects of its employees — and that our country expects of the FBI,” Director Christopher Wray said in a statement. “We are vested with significant authorities, and it is our obligation as public servants to ensure that these authorities are exercised with objectivity and integrity. Anything less falls short of the FBI’s duty to the American people.”

Because the criticism of the FBI was politically beneficial to Trump, Democrats who are normally quick to seize on abuses of national security power were notably muted. One group that was not was the non-partisan American Civil Liberties Union, whose national security director, Hina Shamsi, expressed alarm.

"When the Justice Department’s Inspector General finds significant concerns regarding flawed surveillance applications concerning the president's campaign advisers, it is clear that this regime lacks basic safeguards and is in need of serious reform,” she said in a statement. “While the report found that there wasn't an improper purpose or initiation of the investigation, it also found significant problems that are alarming from a civil liberties perspective.”

The flawed process outlined in the report, she said, “demonstrates how the secrecy shrouding the government’s one-sided FISA approval process breeds abuse. The concerns the inspector general identifies apply to intrusive investigations of others, including especially Muslims, and far better safeguards against abuse are necessary.”

"The system requires fundamental reforms, and Congress can start by providing defendants subjected to FISA surveillance the opportunity to review the government’s secret submissions," she added. "The FBI must also adopt higher standards for investigations involving constitutionally protected sensitive activities, such as political campaigns."

The IG report found 17 significant errors or omissions in four applications for surveillance on Page, which, in the end, was portrayed as yielding little relevant information.

“We concluded that the failures… represent serious performance failures by the supervisory and non-supervisory agents with responsibility over the FISA applications,” the report says. “These failures prevented (the Justice Department) from fully performing its gatekeeper function and deprived the decision makers the opportunity to make fully informed decisions. Although some of the factual misstatements and omissions we found in this review were arguably more significant than others, we believe that all of them taken together resulted in FISA applications that made it appear that the information supporting probable cause was stronger than was actually the case.”

In the most serious case, a low-level FBI lawyer altered an email to make it seem as if Page was not a CIA source, when in fact he was — something he confirmed to NBC News in an email Monday. That key fact might have cast his contacts with Russians in a different light, the IG found.

The IG report said the FBI relied heavily on a dossier compiled as part of a Democratic-funded opposition research campaign by a former British spy, Christopher Steele, while failing to inform the court that questions had arisen about Steele’s credibility.

For example, an FBI source validation review found that Steele, who had worked with the bureau in the past, provided information that was only "minimally corroborated." But the FBI didn’t tell that to the FISA court, the report says.

The FBI interviewed one of the sources who made claims about Page in the Steele dossier. The source contradicted some of what Steele had written, but the FBI didn’t tell that to the court.

That same source said Steele overstated the level of certainty around the notorious story about Trump’s supposed sexual dalliance at the Ritz-Carlton hotel in Moscow. The source called it unconfirmed rumor and speculation.

The report said responsibility for the failures extends high up the FBI’s management chain.

“That so many basic and fundamental errors were made by three separate, handpicked teams on one of the most sensitive FBI investigations that was briefed to the highest levels within the FBI, and that FBI officials expected would eventually be subjected to close scrutiny, raised significant questions regarding the FBI chain of command’s management and supervision of the FISA process.”

Wray said some FBI employees could be disciplined. He said the bureau is “making concrete changes to ensure that our FISA protocols, verifications, layers of review, record-keeping requirements, and audits are more stringent and less susceptible to mistake or inaccuracy,” adding, “These new processes will also ensure that the FISA Court and the Department of Justice (DOJ) are apprised of all information in the FBI’s holdings relevant to a determination of probable cause."

Wray is also changing the rules on who has to approve sensitive investigations, such as those into political campaigns, he said, and on how the bureau handles confidential sources.

The FBI director for much of the period in question, James Comey, focused his public comments mainly on the IG’s debunking of Trump conspiracy theories, some of which were aimed at him.

He said little about what the IG portrayed as a significant failure on his watch.

“The report found lots of mistakes — that’s really significant and really unfortunate,” Comey said on MSNBC. “But that’s why you do IG reports.”





from my private journal as Kerry Burgess: 11/17/09 5:56 AM
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0701156/quotes

Memorable quotes for

"The Simpsons"

Lisa the Skeptic (1997)

[Speaking about the skeleton she found]

Lisa: It could be a mutant from the power plant.

Mr. Burns: That's preposterous, everyone knows our mutants have flippers - oops, I've said too much. Smithers, get the amnesia ray.

Smithers: You mean the revolver, sir?

Mr. Burns: Yes, and be sure to wipe your mind clear when you're done as well.





https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/u-s-officials-misled-public-afghan-war-according-washington-post-n1098291

NBC News

U.S. officials misled public on Afghan war, according to Washington Post

“We were devoid of a fundamental understanding of Afghanistan — we didn’t know what we were doing,” a senior American official is quoted as saying.

Dec. 9, 2019, 10:49 AM PST

By Saphora Smith

A trove of government documents shows that U.S. officials systematically misled the public about the war in Afghanistan during three presidential administrations, The Washington Post reported in an explosive story Monday.

The Post said the documents showed that senior U.S. officials hid evidence and distorted statistics to make it appear that the U.S. was winning the war in Afghanistan and claims they show that there was no consensus on the war’s objectives or how it would end.

“We were devoid of a fundamental understanding of Afghanistan — we didn’t know what we were doing,” Douglas Lute, a three-star Army general who served as a war czar for Afghanistan under the George W. Bush and Barack Obama administrations, said in a 2015 interview, according to the Post.

Lute was not available for comment.

The paper obtained the 2,000 pages of documents — including what it says are notes from more than 400 interviews with military commanders, diplomats and aid workers, as well as Afghan officials, that were part of a “lessons learned” project — after a three-year legal battle. The Post also said it obtained hundreds of memos by former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld.

NBC News has not been able to independently review the documents and the White House, State Department and Pentagon did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

The Post published the documents two days after U.S.-Taliban talks restarted, and compared them to the Pentagon Papers — a top-secret government study that was packed with damaging revelations about America’s conduct in the Vietnam War leaked to The New York Times and the Post in 1971.

The war in Afghanistan is America’s longest and has raged on for 18 years. America has had boots on the ground there since 2001, when U.S. forces toppled the Taliban regime for harboring Osama bin Laden, the architect behind the Sept. 11, 2001 terror attacks.

Since then, just under 2,300 American troops have died in the war-torn country. Between January 2009, when the United Nations began a systematic documentation of civilian casualties, and September this year, some 34,000 Afghan civilians died as a result of the armed conflict.

The head of the federal agency that conducted the interviews, John Sopko, declined to comment to NBC News in advance of the report's publication. But Sopko told the Post that the documents show “the American people have constantly been lied to.”

In one of the reported interviews, Army Col. Bob Crowley, who served as a senior counterinsurgency adviser to U.S. military commanders in 2013 and 2014, told government interviewers in 2016 that “every data point was altered to present the best picture possible.”

“Surveys, for instance, were totally unreliable but reinforced that everything we were doing was right and we became a self-licking ice cream cone,” the Post quoted him as saying.

The paper said that the documents showed that as the war dragged on, U.S. military commanders found it difficult to articulate whom they were fighting, let alone why.

“I have no visibility into who the bad guys are,” Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense under Bush, complained in a Sept. 8, 2003, memo, according to the Post.

Through a spokesperson, Rumsfeld declined to comment.

At the same time, in public those in charge of the war continued to emphasize that they were making progress, the paper reported.

Government officials would spin casualty counts and other figures to make it appear that troops and resources were having the desired effect, an unnamed senior National Security Council official is quoted as saying in the documents.

“Attacks are getting worse? ‘That’s because there are more targets for them to fire at, so more attacks are a false indicator of instability,’” he reportedly said, mimicking how the government would spin.










https://twitter.com/NASA_SLS/status/1204083321032126465

Twitter

NASA_SLS

Verified account

@NASA_SLS

NASA's Space Launch System is a heavy-lift launch vehicle capable of powering the Orion spacecraft and cargo beyond low Earth orbit.

Huntsville, AL

nasa.gov/sls

Bummed you’re not at #Artemis Day here in New Orleans? You can join virtually and ask a question about Artemis, SLS and Orion using the hashtag #AskNASA all day today! @NASA will answer as many as possible throughout the day.

9:00 AM - 9 Dec 2019








https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000121/bio

IMDb

Phoebe Cates

Biography

Born July 16, 1963 in New York City, New York, USA

Birth Name Phoebe Belle Cates








from my private journal as Kerry Burgess: 06/22/08 8:30 PM

but I was noticing when I was in the VA that there is some medical equipment they manufacture that monitors body functions.

She said before that she had wanted to be a doctor and I cannot now remember what was the other aspiration she listed after doctor but I began to wonder if that has something to do with my wife, who is also a medical doctor.



from my online journal as Kerry Burgess

Wednesday, August 08, 2018 at 4:15 pm Pacific Time USA

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000121/bio

IMDb

Phoebe Cates

Biography

Date of Birth 16 July 1963, New York City, New York, USA

Birth Name Phoebe Belle Cates



Posted by Kerry Burgess - H.V.O.M at 9:24 AM Thursday, November 20, 2008

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gastroenterologist

Gastroenterology

Gastroenterology (MeSH heading) is the branch of medicine whereby the digestive system and its disorders are studied. Etymologically, the name is a combination of three Ancient Greek words gastros (stomach), enteron (intestine), and logos (reason).

Physicians practicing in this field of medicine are called gastroenterologists.








https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0128853/releaseinfo

IMDb

You've Got Mail (1998)

Release Info

USA 18 December 1998

Full Cast & Crew

Tom Hanks ... Joe Fox
Meg Ryan ... Kathleen Kelly








From: Kerry Burgess

To: Kerry Burgess

Sent: Fri, March 24, 2006 2:04:11 PM

[This is pretty much the kind of treatment I received in the VA and before that at UW Medical Center. I like my doctor at UW. I don't remember her name, but I saw her again at the VA. I always felt good around her. That must be a good quality in a doctor.]

[JOURNAL ARCHIVE 24 March 2006 excerpt ends]








https://www.yahoo.com/news/lisa-page-speaks-no-fathomable-005942249.html

Yahoo! News

Lisa Page Speaks: ‘There’s No Fathomable Way I Have Committed Any Crime at All’

The Daily Beast December 2, 2019

She is just slightly crumbly around the edges the way the president’s other victims are.

“It’s almost impossible to describe” what it’s like, she told me. “It’s like being punched in the gut. My heart drops to my stomach when I realize he has tweeted about me again. The president of the United States is calling me names to the entire world. He’s demeaning me and my career. It’s sickening.”

“But it’s also very intimidating because he’s still the president of the United States. And when the president accuses you of treason by name, despite the fact that I know there’s no fathomable way that I have committed any crime at all, let alone treason, he’s still somebody in a position to actually do something about that. To try to further destroy my life. It never goes away or stops, even when he’s not publicly attacking me.”

Does it affect you in your normal day-to-day life?

“I wish it didn’t,” she said. “I’m someone who’s always in my head anyway—so now otherwise normal interactions take on a different meaning. Like, when somebody makes eye contact with me on the Metro, I kind of wince, wondering if it’s because they recognize me, or are they just scanning the train like people do? It’s immediately a question of friend or foe? Or if I’m walking down the street or shopping and there’s somebody wearing Trump gear or a MAGA hat, I’ll walk the other way or try to put some distance between us because I’m not looking for conflict. Really, what I wanted most in this world is my life back.”









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Kerry Burgess, August 21, 2017 10:16 am

Kerry Burgess updated his status.

Current time: 10:15 AM Pacific

Noticeably darker outside. Feels cooler.








From 9/28/1953 ( Edwin Hubble dead ) To 2/13/1997 ( as Kerry Wayne Burgess the United States Marine Corps officer and United States Discovery orbital vehicle mission STS-82 pilot astronaut and my 4th official United States of America National Aeronautics Space Administration orbital flight of 4 overall I begin repairing the US Hubble Telescope while in space and orbit of the planet Earth ) is 15844 days

From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 3/20/2009 is 15844 days



http://www.tv.com/shows/battlestar-galactica/daybreak-part-2-3-1253611/

tv.com

Battlestar Galactica Season 4 Episode 21

Daybreak, Part 2 (3)

AIRED: 3/20/09



http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0448011/releaseinfo

IMDb

Knowing (2009)

Release Info

USA 9 March 2009 (New York City, New York) (premiere)
USA 20 March 2009








From 3/14/1946 ( Harry Truman - Executive Order 9704—Functions of the American Battle Monuments Commission ) To 7/19/1989 ( the United Airlines Flight 232 crash in Sioux City Iowa and the end of Kerry Burgess the natural human being cloned from another human being ) is 15833 days

From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 3/9/2009 is 15833 days



From 12/20/1994 ( in non-aviator related duties boots on the ground in Bosnia as Kerry Wayne Burgess the United States Marine Corps captain this day is my United States Navy Cross medal date of record ) To 3/9/2009 is 5193 days

From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 1/21/1980 ( Jimmy Carter - National Religious Broadcasters Remarks at the Association's Annual Convention ) is 5193 days



From 6/15/1958 ( Pizza Hut founded ) To 3/9/2009 is 18530 days

18530 = 9265 + 9265

From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 3/16/1991 ( my first successful major test of my ultraspace matter transportation device as Kerry Wayne Burgess the successful Ph.D. graduate ) is 9265 days



From 3/28/1999 ( premiere US TV series "Futurama"::series premiere episode "Space Pilot 3000" ) To 3/9/2009 is 3634 days

3634 = 1817 + 1817

From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 10/24/1970 ( Richard Nixon - Statement About the Report of the Commission on Obscenity and Pornography ) is 1817 days



From 3/9/2009 To 10/2/2009 ( premiere US TV series "Stargate Universe"::series premiere episode "Air" ) is 207 days

From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 5/28/1966 ( the Disneyland Park attraction "It's a Small World" opens to the public ) is 207 days



From 4/14/1961 ( the American Standards Association approved the standard size for shipping containers now used worldwide ) To 3/9/2009 is 17496 days

From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 9/27/2013 ( for me personally as Kerry Burgess: The Homestead Apartments Day 1 - Spokane Valley, Washington State, United States ) is 17496 days



From 10/28/1994 ( premiere US film "Stargate" ) To 3/9/2009 is 5246 days

From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 3/14/1980 ( premiere US TV series episode "In Search of..."::"Past Lives" ) is 5246 days


http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0448011/releaseinfo

IMDb

Knowing (2009)

Release Info

USA 9 March 2009 (New York City, New York) (premiere)
USA 20 March 2009

Full Cast & Crew

Nicolas Cage ... John Koestler









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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0074798/releaseinfo

IMDb

Lifeguard (1976)

Release Info

USA 23 July 1976 (New York City, New York)








album: "Tuesday Night Music Club" (1993)

https://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/sherylcrow/alliwannado.html

AZ

Sheryl Crow

"All I Wanna Do"

I like a good beer buzz early in the morning
And Billy likes to peel the labels
From his bottles of Bud
He shreds them on the bar
Then he lights every match in an oversized pack
Letting each one burn down to his thick fingers
before blowing and cursing them out
And he's watching the bottles of Bud as they spin on
the floor

And a happy couple enters the bar
Dangerously close to one another








Kerry Burgess, excerpt from my private journal: 04/27/07 3:30 PM

From 3/3/1959 to 7/16/1963 is: 1596 days








Posted by me, Kerry Burgess - H.V.O.M at 5:59 AM Monday, March 02, 2009

From 4/14/1977 ( I returned to Earth after successfully diverting the comet in the outer solar system ) to 10/11/2004 ( Duran Duran album "Astronaut" ) is: 10042 days

10042 = 5021 + 5021

From 7/16/1963 ( my wife ) to 4/14/1977 ( I returned to Earth after successfully diverting the comet in the outer solar system ) is: 5021 days

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astronaut_%28album%29

Astronaut (album)

Astronaut is an album by British band Duran Duran, first released on October 11, 2004





Posted by me, Kerry Burgess - H.V.O.M at 5:59 AM Monday, March 02, 2009

From 2/12/1973 ( Operation Homecoming begins and I was the lead C-141A pilot transporting home the American POWs ) to 5/8/2009 ( scheduled US film "Star Trek" ) is: 13234 days

13234 = 6617 + 6617

From 3/3/1959 ( my birth date US ) to 4/14/1977 ( I returned to Earth after successfully diverting the comet in the outer solar system ) is: 6617 days



From 10/9/1971 ( I am board-certified surgeon as Dr. Thomas Reagan M.D. ) to 5/8/2009 ( scheduled US film "Star Trek" ) is: 13726 days

13726 = 6863 + 6863

From 7/16/1963 ( my wife ) to 4/30/1982 ( my graduation and commissioning U.S. Naval Academy Class of 1982 as Fleet Admiral Thomas Reagan U.S. Navy ) is: 6863 days


http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0796366/

Star Trek (2009)

Release Date: 8 May 2009 (USA)

Plot Outline: A chronicle of the early days of James T. Kirk and his fellow USS Enterprise crew members.





Posted by me, Kerry Burgess - H.V.O.M at 5:59 AM Monday, March 02, 2009

http://www.cswap.com/2005/Batman_Begins/cap/en/2_Parts/a/01_07

Batman Begins

1:07:58
WOMAN 1 :
Come on, Bruce. Come on.

1:08:00
WOMAN 2: Bruce, we have
some more hotels for you to buy.

1:08:05
Bruce...

1:08:07
...deep down you may still be
that same great kid you used to be.

1:08:13
But it's not who you are underneath...

1:08:16
...it's what you do that defines you.





Posted by me, Kerry Burgess - H.V.O.M at 5:59 AM Monday, March 02, 2009

http://www.snpp.com/episodes/4F18

In Marge We Trust

Original Airdate on FOX: 27-Apr-1997

Lovejoy: [pause] I ... see.

[voice-over]

Then the calls began.

[dissolve to shot of the Reverend at the dinner table, on the phone with Flanders]

Flanders: Well, I, I think I may be coveting my own wife.








https://www.fbi.gov/about/mission

FBI

About

Our Core Values

Rigorous obedience to the Constitution of the United States;

Respect for the dignity of all those we protect;

Compassion;

Fairness;

Uncompromising personal integrity and institutional integrity;

Accountability by accepting responsibility for our actions and decisions and the consequences of our actions and decisions








https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Strzok

Peter Strzok

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Peter Paul Strzok II (born March 7, 1970) is a former United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agent. Strzok was the Chief of the Counterespionage Section









https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0081871



https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0081871/characters/nm0191685

IMDb

The Greatest American Hero (1981–1983)

Robert Culp: Bill Maxwell

Quotes

Bill Maxwell : Freeze! F.B.I.! You're busted, fella!








https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Strzok

Peter Strzok

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Strzok rose to become a Deputy Assistant Director (one of several) of the Counterintelligence Division, the second-highest position in that division.








https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Strzok

Peter Strzok

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Text messages

The IG's investigation examined thousands of text messages exchanged using FBI-issued cell phones between Strzok and Lisa Page, with whom he was having an affair. She was also a trial attorney on Mueller's team.

Devlin Barrett from The Washington Post alleged Strzok and Page had been using the backdrop of discussing the Clinton investigation as a cover for their personal communications during an affair.

References: Barrett, Devlin (December 15, 2017). "FBI officials' text message about Hillary Clinton said to be a cover story for romantic affair".








http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=4046

The American Presidency Project

Richard Nixon

XXXVII President of the United States: 1969 - 1974

334 - Question-and-Answer Session at the Annual Convention of the Associated Press Managing Editors Association, Orlando, Florida

November 17, 1973

THE PRESIDENT.

Richard Nixon: And I think, too, that I could say that in my years of public life, that I welcome this kind of examination, because people have got to know whether or not their President is a crook. Well, I am not a crook.








https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0283187/bio

IMDb

Gennifer Flowers

Biography

Born January 24, 1950 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA








https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0461498/bio

IMDb

Beyoncé

Biography

Born September 4, 1981 in Houston, Texas, USA

Birth Name Beyoncé Giselle Knowles








album: "Tuesday Night Music Club" (1993)

https://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/sherylcrow/alliwannado.html

AZ

Sheryl Crow

"All I Wanna Do"

Hit it!
This ain't no disco
It ain't no country club either
This is LA!

"All I wanna do is have a little fun before I die,"
Says the man next to me out of nowhere
It's apropos
Of nothing
He says his name's William but I'm sure,
He's Bill or Billy or Mac or Buddy
And he's plain ugly to me
And I wonder if he's ever had a day of fun in his whole
life
We are drinking beer at noon on Tuesday
In a bar that faces a giant car wash
The good people of the world are washing their cars
On their lunch break, hosing and scrubbing
As best they can in skirts in suits

They drive their shiny Datsuns and Buicks
Back to the phone company, the record store too
Well, they're nothing like Billy and me, cause

[Chorus]
All I wanna do is have some fun
I got a feeling I'm not the only one
All I wanna do is have some fun
I got a feeling I'm not the only one
All I wanna do is have some fun
Until the sun comes up over Santa Monica Boulevard

I like a good beer buzz early in the morning
And Billy likes to peel the labels
From his bottles of Bud
He shreds them on the bar
Then he lights every match in an oversized pack
Letting each one burn down to his thick fingers
before blowing and cursing them out
And he's watching the bottles of Bud as they spin on
the floor

And a happy couple enters the bar
Dangerously close to one another
The bartender looks up from his want ads

[Chorus]

Otherwise the bar is ours,
The day and the night and the car wash too
The matches and the Buds and the clean and dirty
cars
The sun and the moon but

[Chorus]








https://www.yahoo.com/news/lisa-page-speaks-no-fathomable-005942249.html

Yahoo! News

Lisa Page Speaks: ‘There’s No Fathomable Way I Have Committed Any Crime at All’

The Daily Beast December 2, 2019

It’s not often that you interview a subject who has no interest in being famous. But recently, I did just that when I sat down with Lisa Page the week before Thanksgiving in my hotel room in Washington, D.C. Page, of course, is the former FBI lawyer whose text-message exchanges with agent Peter Strzok that belittled Donald Trump and expressed fear at his possible victory became international news. They were hijacked by Trump to fuel his “deep state” conspiracy.

For the nearly two years since her name first made the papers, she’s been publicly silent (she did have a closed-door interview with House members in July 2018). I asked her why she was willing to talk now. “Honestly, his demeaning fake orgasm was really the straw that broke the camel’s back,” she says. The president called out her name as he acted out an orgasm in front of thousands of people at a Minneapolis rally on Oct. 11.

That was the moment Page decided she had to speak up.








https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0128853/releaseinfo

IMDb

You've Got Mail (1998)

Release Info

USA 18 December 1998








http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091083/releaseinfo

IMDb

From Beyond (1986)

Release Info

USA 24 October 1986



https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091083/plotsummary

IMDb

From Beyond (1986)

Plot

Scientists create a resonator to stimulate the pineal gland (sixth sense), and open up a door to a parallel (and hostile) universe. Based on a story by H. P. Lovecraft.









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from my online journal as Kerry Burgess

Jan 27, 2017 9:00am

[collected by me, Kerry Burgess, from internet:] Myths and Superstitions Around Solar Eclipses

Solar eclipses have caused fear, inspired curiosity and have been associated with myths, legends and superstitions throughout history. Even today, an eclipse of the Sun is considered a bad omen in many cultures.

Ancient cultures tried to understand why the Sun temporarily vanished from the Sky, so they came up with various reasons for what caused a solar eclipse.

Angry Sun

The ancient Greeks believed that a solar eclipse was a sign of angry gods and that it was the beginning of disasters and destruction.


- posted by Kerry Burgess 08:36 AM Pacific Time Spokane Valley Washington USA Tuesday 12/10/2019