excerpts, see also:
https://hvom.blogspot.com/2024/05/today-is-05232024-post-1.html
by me, Kerry Wayne Burgess, posted by me: 5:21 AM
Number 878: The Farthest Man From Home
I am Kerry Burgess. This is what I think.
Thursday, May 23, 2024
Today is 05/23/2024, Post #1
by me, Kerry Burgess, posted by me: April 01, 2017 8:34 pm
Kerry Burgess updated his status.
Colony - Seppuku - Season 2 Episode 12 - Aired Thursday 10:00 PM Mar 30, 2017 on USA
You boys get your story buttoned up?
Broussard: Actually, I was thinking on telling them what really happened.
And why would you go and do something like that?
[excerpt ends - by me, Kerry Wayne Burgess, posted by me: 5:21 AM May 23, 2024]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Smith_(lawyer)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colony_(TV_series)
Colony (TV series)
From Wikipedia
Colony is an American science fiction drama television series
In a dystopian near-future Los Angeles, residents live under a regime of military occupation by an organization known as the Transitional Authority. The Authority serves an extraterrestrial group referred to as the "Hosts", about whom little is known until later in the series (an alien robotic race finds itself hunted, who came to Earth to use humans as allies and labor in their own battle). The symbol of the collaborating forces features stylized birds of prey, or raptors, which gives rise to their nickname, the "Raps". The Authority enforces Host policy via militarized police called Homeland Security and nicknamed the "Redhats" for the red helmet cover of their otherwise black tactical attire.
The Hosts took control on a day known simply as the "Arrival". That day began with a global blackout and mass technological failure, which came after a weeklong hunt for relevant key figures around the world. Late that day, massive rectangular blocks descended from the sky, linking together to build walls dividing every city and every nation. One of these walls, 20 to 30 stories tall, many meters thick and many miles in length, surrounds the central part of Los Angeles, where the series is set. Other similar walls have been constructed around neighbouring urban areas, called "blocs", with the whole referred to as a "colony". Traffic passes through the walls at heavily secured checkpoints, called "gateways", which allow the Authority to strictly control the movement of people and the distribution of consumables, such as food and fuel, which are rationed. The geographical extent of the alien invasion is unclear, but later scenes in the series shows Authority members from all over the world - hence making the invasion scale worldwide.
A privileged class of elites, drawn by the Hosts from the local population, are denigrated by some bloc residents as collaborators.
excerpts
Colony (TV series)
From Wikipedia
Cast and characters
Eric Broussard: A former U.S. Marine Corps Force Recon officer, CIA paramilitary operator and private military contractor. Now a Resistance operative
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colony_(TV_series)
Colony (TV series)
From Wikipedia
Season 2 (2017)
Broussard has just returned from overseas. He receives a summons to join other "operatives" with all his equipment. An electromagnetic pulse then causes a transport, communications, and power failure throughout the city. Broussard finds it suspicious to gather all the best fighters under the same roof and leaves moments before the building is leveled by an unknown weapon.
The Stand - complete edition, by Stephen King
(from internet transcript)
excerpts, Chapter 26
Some campus group, probably either Students for a Democratic Society or the Young Maoists, had been busy with a ditto machine during the night of June 25-26. In the morning, these posters were plastered all over the University of Kentucky at Louisville campus:
ATTENTION! ATTENTION! ATTENTION! ATTENTION!
YOU ARE BEING LIED TO! THE GOVERNMENT IS LYING TO YOU! THE PRESS, WHICH HAS BEEN CO-OPTED BY THE FORCES OF THE PIG PARAMILITARY, IS LYING TO YOU! THE ADMINISTRATION OF THIS UNIVERSITY IS LYING TO YOU, AS ARE THE INFIRMARY DOCTORS UNDER THE ADMINISTRATION’S ORDERS!
1. THERE IS NO SUPERFLU VACCINE.
2. SUPERFLU IS NOT A SERIOUS DISEASE, IT IS A DEADLY DISEASE.
3. SUSCEPTIBILITY MAY RUN AS HIGH AS 75%.
4. SUPERFLU WAS DEVELOPED BY THE FORCES OF THE U.S. PIG PARAMILITARY AND DISBURSED BY ACCIDENT.
5. THE U.S. PIG PARAMILITARY NOW MEANS TO COVER UP THEIR MURDEROUS BLUNDER EVEN IF IT MEANS 75% OF THE POPULATION WILL DIE!
ALL REVOLUTIONARY PEOPLE, GREETINGS! THE TIME OF OUR STRUGGLE IS NOW! UNITE, STRIVE, CONQUER!
MEETING IN GYM AT 7:00 PM!
https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/telephone-conversation-with-the-apollo-11-astronauts-the-moon
The American Presidency Project
RICHARD NIXON
37th President of the United States: 1969 ‐ 1974
Telephone Conversation With the Apollo 11 Astronauts on the Moon
July 20, 1969
Hello Neil and Buzz, I am talking to you by telephone from the Oval Room at the White House, and this certainly has to be the most historic telephone call ever made from the White House.
I just can't tell you how proud we all are of what you have done. For every American this has to be the proudest day of our lives, and for people all over the world I am sure that they, too, join with Americans in recognizing what an immense feat this is.
Because of what you have done the heavens have become a part of man's world, and as you talk to us from the Sea of Tranquility, it inspires us to redouble our efforts to bring peace and tranquility to earth.
For one priceless moment in the whole history of man all the people on this earth are truly one--one in their pride in what you have done and one in our prayers that you will return safely to earth.
ASTRONAUT ARMSTRONG. Thank you, Mr. President. It is a great honor and privilege for us to be here representing not only the United States, but men of peaceable nations, men with an interest and a curiosity, and men with a vision for the future. It is an honor for us to be able to participate here today.
THE PRESIDENT. Thank you very much, and I look forward, all of us look forward, to seeing you on the Hornet on Thursday.
ASTRONAUT ARMSTRONG. Thank you. We look forward to that very much, sir.
Note: The President spoke at 11:49 p.m. in the Oval Room at the White House with Apollo 11 astronauts Neil A. Armstrong and Col. Edwin E. (Buzz) Aldrin, Jr., at Tranquility Base on the moon.
by me, Kerry Burgess, 01/15/2014
Columbo
Season 1 Episode 1
Prescription: Murder
Aired Feb 20, 1968 on NBC
Quotes
Fleming: You never stop, do you?
Columbo: What?
Fleming: The insinuations, the change of pace. You're a bag of tricks, Columbo, right down to that prop cigar you use.
Columbo: Oh, come on, Doc.
Fleming: I'm going to tell you something about yourself. You think you need a psychologist. Maybe you do, maybe you don't, but you are a textbook example of compensation.
Columbo: Oh, what, Doc?
Fleming: Compensation. Adaptability. You're an intelligent man, Columbo, but you hide it. You pretend you're something you're not. Why, because of your appearance you think you can't get by on looks or polish, so you turn a defect into a virtue. You take people by surprise. They underestimate you. And that's where you trip them up.
From 6/29/1984 ( as me, Kerry Burgess, my official US Navy enlisted records includes: Part III - Record of Clearance ) To 8/3/2017 ( ) is 12088 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 12/7/1998 ( as me, Kerry Burgess, my first day full-time employment Microsoft Corporation in Seattle until 02/06/2004 ) is 12088 days
From 2/28/2010 ( Barack Obama, 44th President of USA: Press Release - Release of the President's Medical Exam ) To 8/3/2017 ( ) is 2713 days
2713 = 1356 + 1357
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 7/20/1969 ( disguised, my biological brother Thomas Reagan the United States Navy Commander circa 1969 was United States Apollo 11 Eagle spacecraft United States Navy astronaut landing and walking on the planet Earth's moon - his 1st of his 6 Earth-Lunar lunar-landings with USA Project Apollo, strictly in planning and preparation for his personal activities in deep-space 1975-1977 ) is 1356 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 7/21/1969 ( disguised, my biological brother Thomas Reagan the United States Navy Commander circa 1969 was United States Apollo 11 Eagle spacecraft United States Navy astronaut landing and walking on the planet Earth's moon ) is 1357 days
From 5/21/1969 ( from the thoughts in my conscious mind, coinciding with United States of America Veterans Affairs hospital psychiatric doctor medical drugs: the Princeton University doctor of medicine degree graduation of my biological brother Dr Thomas Reagan MD and in 1973 the law-doctorate graduate of University of Oxford, England ) To 8/3/2017 ( ) is 17606 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 1/15/2014 ( by me, Kerry Burgess - referenced here ) is 17606 days
From 5/21/2006 ( by me, Kerry Burgess, excerpts from my private journal: Re: Journal May 21, 2006 ) To 8/3/2017 ( ) is 4092 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 1/15/1977 ( Ralph Nader is the guest-host on "Saturday Night Live" ) is 4092 days
https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/remarks-the-department-veterans-affairs-telehealth-services-program
The American Presidency Project
DONALD J. TRUMP
45th President of the United States: 2017 - 2021
Remarks on the Department of Veterans Affairs Telehealth Services Program
August 03, 2017
The President. Good morning. I'd like to begin by thanking Secretary David Shulkin for the incredible progress that he's making at the VA, tremendous strides. Thank you very much, David. We appreciate it. The veterans appreciate it, I can tell you that.
Today I'm pleased to announce another historic breakthrough that will expand VA services to many more patients and veterans. We will do this through telehealth services. It's what it's called: telehealth services.
We're expanding the ability of veterans to connect with their VA health care team from anywhere using mobile application on the veteran's own phone or the veteran's own computer. This will significantly expand access to care for our veterans, especially for those who need help in the area of mental health, which is a bigger and bigger request, and also in suicide prevention. It will make a tremendous difference for the veterans in rural locations in particular.
We're launching the mobile app that will allow VA patients to schedule and change their appointments at VA facilities using their smartphones. So this is something they were never able to do. Technology has given us this advantage, but unfortunately, we have not taken advantage of that until now.
We're working tirelessly to keep our promises to our great veterans. Very important in my campaign and on the campaign trail, the veterans mean so much to me and this administration. In the past 6 months, I have signed historic VA accountability legislation. I have signed legislation to extend and improve the Veterans Choice Program. We're starting to really get that to a point where choice is just becoming something that they are extremely happy about, and they've wanted it for many, many years.
We're working to enable seamless care between the Departments of Defense and Veteran Affairs. We have launched a groundbreaking new website that allows veterans to compare wait times and quality of care at VA facilities and other hospitals. So we're actually able to compete our facilities with other hospitals and other VA facilities. So we'll really strike a little competitive advantage and, I think, get people moving even better.
And we have dramatically increased the number of approvals for veterans to see the doctors. So they are going to have many more doctors of their choice.
These accomplishments are only the beginning. We will not rest until all of America's great veterans can receive the care they so richly deserve. Tremendous progress has been made in a short period of time. We've only been here 6 months, but tremendous progress has been made.
And I want to ask Dr. Shulkin, perhaps, to give us a little preview of what's to come. Thank you.
Secretary of Veterans Affairs David J. Shulkin. Well, Mr. President, thank you so much. What we're announcing today is a big deal for veterans. It's really going to expand access for veterans in a way we haven't done before. And as you may know, VA already has the largest telehealth program in the country. Last year, we had 700,000 veterans who got telehealth services through the VA, and we actually can do this for 50 different specialties. In fact, Mr. President, if you take a look at all those specialties on this chart, we can provide telehealth services from teledermatology to tele-intensive care to teledentistry. And this is the type of thing that is available now to our veterans.
But what we're announcing today dramatically expands our current capabilities. Mr. President, by working with the Office of American Innovation and the Department of Justice, we're going to be issuing a regulation that allows our VA providers to provide telehealth services from anywhere in the country to veterans anywhere in the country, whether it's in their homes or any location. We call it "anywhere to anywhere" VA health care. That's a big deal.
Now, just think about this. That means we're going to be able to use VA providers in cities where there are a lot of doctors and be able to use those doctors to help our veterans in rural areas where there aren't many health care professionals. And you talked about mental health and suicide prevention; this is one of those areas that we can really use that expertise. And today's announcement is going to allow us to do that.
What we're going to be rolling out nationally with a rollout across the country is what's called VA Video Connect. VA Video Connect allows VA providers to use mobile devices to connect with veterans on their mobile devices or their home computers. That's a big deal. Currently, we use VA Video Connect with over 300 VA providers at 67 of our hospitals or clinics across the country. But that's beginning to roll out nationally.
And there's one more thing, Mr. President. We're going to be announcing a new technology called the Veterans Appointment Request. And what that is, is it's allowing the veteran, on their smartphone, to be able to schedule their appointments directly with VA providers or to change their appointments or cancel their appointments with VA providers. Now, today, this is available in all 18 of our regions across the country. And we've already booked more than 4,000 appointments from veterans directly from their smartphones so that they can schedule their own appointments.
But now we're announcing the national rollout of this. And if veterans want to see and get the Veterans Appointment Request, you can see on our website mobile.va.gov/appstore the VA app store has this available for download.
So, Mr. President, what we're really doing is, we're removing regulations that have prevented us from doing this. We're removing geography as a barrier so that we can speed up access to veterans and really honor our commitment to them.
Now, let me show you how this works, Mr. President. If we come over here, we use technology in a way that's pretty incredible.
[At this point, Secretary Shulkin led the President to a computer screen on which U.S. Coast Guard veteran Albie Amescua and three medical practitioners appeared via live video feed from the Department of Veterans Affairs Community Based Outpatient Clinic in Grants Pass, OR.]
In fact, Mr. President, I'm one of those doctors. I practice right here in Washington to my clinic in Grant Pass, Oregon. And I want to say hello to our veteran today. Mr. Amescua, how are you?
Grants Pass, OR, resident Albie Amescua. Yes, sir. Good morning. Secretary Shulkin. Mr. Amescua is a veteran. He served in the Coast Guard for 26 years. He was a helicopter rescue swimmer and served the country. And here we are in Oregon. And this is our great team: Peggy and Denise and Terry. And, Peggy, would you mind I understand there might be some area of concern on Mr. Amescua's skin. Can we take a look at that, please?
Peggy Berg, registered nurse, Grants Pass Community Based Outpatient Clinic. Yes, sir. Dr. Shulkin, this is the area that is of concern.
[A magnified image of Mr. Amescua's skin appeared on the screen.]
Secretary Shulkin. Okay. And so as we focus in on that, you can see, Mr. President, I can take a look at that area and if I have any concern about it, we can send this to a specialist or we can take a look at it. But thank you.
Mr. Amescua, we'll be right back with you soon. I just want to show the President a few other things, but we'll be right back with you.
Mr. President, if you walk over here, this is actually the new doctor's bag, the doctor's bag of the future. And you may actually recognize this because this is the doctor's bag that travels with you when you go on Air Force One. And so we have Dr. Ronny Jackson, your doctor here that usually takes care of you, Dr. Jackson. And we now are able to bring this doctor's bag into the home of our veterans. Our nurse practitioners, our technicians are able to use this type of technology now, the same technology available to the President of the United States. And that's the way it should be, because our veterans deserve that type of technology.
The President. Great.
Secretary Shulkin. Now, I'm going to show you just one or two other things. Dr. Neil Evans over here, one of our doctors, is going to show you VA Video Connect that I talked about. So here we are in Grant Pass, Oregon. Hi, Mr. Amescua, how are you? Can you raise your hand?
Mr. Amescua. Good morning, sir.
Secretary Shulkin. Good. So here we are in Grant Pass, Oregon on our mobile device, and this is how we can use VA Video Connect. But watch this, Mr. President. If we need to bring in a specialist from anywhere in the country into Grants Pass, Oregon, we can. So Dr. Brook Watts. Do you want to say hello, Dr. Watts?
[Dr. Brook Watts, an internist at Louis Stokes VA Medical Center, appeared on a mobile device held by Dr. Neil Evans, Chief Officer for the Office of Connected Care at the Veterans Health Administration.]
Dr. Watts. Good Morning, Dr. Shulkin. Good morning, Mr. President. And good morning, Mr. Amescua. Thank you so much for your service.
The President. Good morning.
Secretary Shulkin. Dr. Watts is a specialist an internal medicine specialist in Cleveland, Oregon, and she is now connected in with Mr. Amescua in Grants Pass, Oregon. So we can get the expertise from anywhere in the country immediately. The VA is able to do this right now. So thank you. Thank you very much.
And so, Mr. President, this is how we're expanding access. This is how we're bringing the very best technology available in the country. And really thanks to your help in cutting through the regulation, the Office of American Innovation, we're able to expand access dramatically today and to roll this out.
And as you said, with our accountability bill, our replacing our electronic medical record, the progress we're making in 6 months, we've been able to do tremendous things. But it's just the beginning of what we're going to do for our veterans.
So thank you very much.
The President. Well, thank you very much. Well, thank you, Doctor. And I just want to thank him, and your skin I hope you skin is going to be in perfect shape. [Laughter] You look pretty good to me. What do I know? [Laughter]
Secretary Shulkin. Mr. Amescua, why don't you say something if you want to say hello to the President.
Mr. Amescua. Good morning, Mr. President, how are you?
The President. Very good. You look very healthy to me, I will tell you that. [Laughter] Please make sure his skin is perfect. [Laughter] Okay?
Thank you very much. Great technology. Great to meet you. Thank you.
We're going to West Virginia tonight, by the way. We're going to have a very big announcement, which will be very exciting, I think, for the media and everyone else. But we have a very big announcement tonight. I believe I'll be making it in West Virginia, so that will very exciting.
Thank you very much.
NOTE: The President spoke at 11:40 a.m. in the Roosevelt Room at the White House. Secretary Shulkin referred to Denise Stevens, licensed nurse practitioner, Grants Pass Community Based Outpatient Clinic in Grants Pass, OR; Tracy G. Dekelboum, Chief of Telehealth Services, VA Southern Oregon Rehabilitation Center and Clinics; and Physician to the President and Chief White House Physician Ronny L. Jackson.
https://snltranscripts.jt.org/76/76kmono.phtml
SNL Transcripts Tonight
SNL Transcripts: Ralph Nader: 01/15/77: Ralph Nader’s Monologue
Season 2: Episode 11
76k: Ralph Nader / George Benson
Ralph Nader’s Monologue
Don Pardo: Ladies and gentlemen, Ralph Nader!
Ralph Nader: [enters from the audience to stand at home base, acknowledges the applause, and puts on his eyeglasses] I– Thank you very much, of course. I feel a slight loss of innocence doing this show tonight. After all, this television studio’s in the RCA Building in midtown Manhattan, the heart of Corporate America. I had my doubts about working here. But I must say that everybody here’s been very friendly and helpful. To be honest, I didn’t really expect this much cooperation — especially since my research groups have been investigating the RCA corporation, which owns NBC, for a number of corporate abuses.
[Although his voice continues, Nader’s image disappears, replaced by a graphic that reads: NETWORK TROUBLE TEMPORARY]
We’re concerned about their hazardous working conditions, alleged price fixing, bribes to foreign officials and too much television violence.
[Nader’s image returns.]
I could go on and on but this is a night for entertainment, a night for fun! And I must say again that the people here at NBC have treated me wonderfully. They’ve really been terrific considering the fact that we’ve just sued them for ten million dollars for deceptive advertising.
[Abruptly, the image goes out of focus and the camera pans off Nader.]
In any case, we have a challenging show tonight and we’ll be right back after this message.
from my private journal, as me, Kerry Burgess, typed after being released from the USA Veterans Affairs psychiatric hospital enduring many months sitting in a grungy two-computer room in a homeless shelter on the waterfront in downtown Seattle:
From: Kerry Burgess {me}
Sent: Sunday, May 21, 2006 11:04 AM
To: Kerry Burgess {me}
Subject: Re: Journal May 21, 2006
Kerry Burgess wrote:
I think it was my first thought after waking up this morning that I used to date Julia Roberts a long time ago.
I also have these unexplained thoughts that I was a fighter pilot in the U.S. military, although I'm not sure which service, but I may have been in two different branches over time. I am also confused about thoughts that I may have been a helicopter pilot. What's next? A space shuttle pilot? Seems like a lot for someone that is only 40. And, while I am not sure when this divergence happened, I am reasonably certain it was before I turned 33. So I must have been a pretty busy guy. Especially because I have thoughts that I was some kind of mathmetician too. I have these thoughts too that I was captured by enemy forces at some point and tortured while in captivity.
by me, Kerry Burgess, excerpts from my private journal: 9/26/2006 3:06 PM
As I was trying to go to sleep last night, I had a thought that I have a doctorate in computer science from Princeton.
and I had thoughts that I studied music as well at Princeton.
from my private journal, as me, Kerry Burgess, typed after being released from the USA Veterans Affairs psychiatric hospital enduring many months sitting in a grungy two-computer room in a homeless shelter on the waterfront in downtown Seattle:
by me, Kerry Burgess, excerpts from my private journals: 9/28/2006 7:13 PM
This sounds very interesting. In my memory of taking Physics my Senior year at Ashdown, I remember being very interested in the class, but we didn’t cover such an interesting topic.
http://www.princeton.edu/main/about/present/
Ayan Chatterjee (left) and Mark Daly measure piano strings as part of a lab project for professor Pierre Piroué's freshman seminar on "Sound, Music and ... Physics."
9/28/2006 7:37 PM
I think I even have memories of the graduate degree process. I am not sure of the terms to describe the process.
9/28/2006 7:47 PM
I actually do remember... something... I can’t explain it. It feels that I am holding an unmarked, undistinguishable book that I don’t know the name of or the contents but I know I have read it already.
9/28/2006 8:34 PM
A few minutes ago I started thinking that maybe I started at Princeton University in 1972. I would have been 13 at the time as Thomas Ray. I remember that Kerry Burgess started first grade in 1972. But then I decided that I probably started Princeton earlier than 1972 and maybe 1972 was the year I completed my first major degree. Or 1972 doesn’t really mean anything in particular to Thomas Ray; rather it is there for continuity sake for the life of Kerry Burgess.
by me, Kerry Burgess, posted by me: 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."
- by me, Kerry Wayne Burgess, posted by me: 7:38 PM Pacific-time USA Thursday 05/23/2024
