by me, Kerry Burgess, 06/04/2024 9:32 PM
Great.
Keep throwing cats at me into this herd
I know it's pointless to make these posts, in terms of it having any effect on me finding any understanding - and most importantly, my way out of here - but they just keep doing too much interesting stuff.
And I keep finding new topics for new blog posts here. And I've already got several pending, in draft. And I just can't let it go.
There must be a reason
From: Kerry Burgess
Sent: Tuesday, June 20, 2006 7:43 PM
To: Kerry Burgess
Subject: Re: Journal June 20, 2006, Supplemental
I wonder if I was the first American to strike Saddam.
https://military-blog.com/ah-64-apache-helicopter/
AH-64 Apache Helicopter
Tom brad
Last updated: 2023/11/15 at 8:22 AM
Agile and Deadly
Maneuverability of the Apache Helicopter
The AH-64 Apache helicopter is not just a powerful weapon; it is also an incredibly agile and maneuverable aircraft. The Apaches design allows it to perform tight turns, rapid changes in direction, and precise hovering. This level of maneuverability is crucial in combat situations, where the ability to quickly evade enemy fire and engage targets with precision is paramount.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/hunter-biden-gun-case-opening-statements-rcna155304
NBC News
June 4, 2024, 4:00 AM PDT / Updated June 4, 2024, 2:21 PM PDT
By Gary Grumbach, Daniel Barnes, Owen Hayes, Dareh Gregorian and Sarah Fitzpatrick
Hunter Biden also “chose to lie” about his drug use when he bought the weapon, Hines said.
The Stand - complete edition, by Stephen King
(from internet transcript)
excerpts, Chapter 24
Lloyd frowned at his lawyer. It was the frown of a lad who wants to be a good student but is having a serious problem grasping the lesson.
“Don’t let me lead you, Lloyd,” Devins said. “I don’t want to do that. You might think I was suggesting that Poke was stoned almost all the time—”
“He was! We both was!”
“No. You weren’t, but he was. And he got crazy when he got stoned—”
“Boy, you’re not shitting.” In the halls of Lloyd’s memory, the ghost of Poke Freeman cried Whoop! Whoop! merrily and shot the woman in the Burrack general store.
“And he held a gun on you at several points in time—”
“No, he never—”
“Yes he did. You just forgot for a while. In fact, he once threatened to kill you if you didn’t back his play.”
“Well, I had a gun—”
“I believe,” Devins said, eyeing him closely, “that if you search your memory, you’ll remember Poke telling you that your gun was loaded with blanks. Do you remember that?”
“Now that you mention it—”
“And nobody was more surprised than you when it actually started firing real bullets, right?”
“Sure,” Lloyd said. He nodded vigorously. “I bout damn near had a hemorrhage.”
“And you were about to turn that gun on Poke Freeman when he was cut down, saving you the trouble.”
Lloyd regarded his lawyer with dawning hope in his eyes.
“Mr. Devins,” he said with great sincerity, “that’s just the way the shit went down.”
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/hunter-biden-gun-case-opening-statements-rcna155304
NBC News
June 4, 2024, 4:00 AM PDT / Updated June 4, 2024, 2:21 PM PDT
By Gary Grumbach, Daniel Barnes, Owen Hayes, Dareh Gregorian and Sarah Fitzpatrick
Defendants are tried “because of the choices they made,” Hines said. Hunter Biden, he added, “chose to illegally own a firearm. His ownership of that firearm was illegal because he was a user of crack, and a drug addict. The law prohibits users and drug addicts from owning a gun. That law makes no distinction between Hunter Biden and anybody else."
Hunter Biden also “chose to lie” about his drug use when he bought the weapon, Hines said.
Hunter Biden is charged with three counts tied to possession of a gun while using narcotics. Two of the counts accuse him of having completed a form indicating he was not using illegal drugs when he bought a Colt Cobra revolver on Oct. 12, 2018. The third count alleges he possessed a firearm while using a narcotic. “No one is allowed to lie on a federal form like that. Not even Hunter Biden,” Hines said.
From 5/8/1994 ( premiere USA TV miniseries "Stephen King's The Stand"::miniseries premiere episode "The Plague" ) To 6/4/2024 ( Tuesday ) is 10985 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 11/30/1995 ( official ending of Operation Desert Storm ) is 10985 days
From 11/12/1979 ( Jimmy Carter, 39th President of USA: Oil Imports From Iran - Remarks Announcing Discontinuance of United States Imports ) To 6/4/2024 ( ) is 16276 days
16276 = 8138 + 8138
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 2/13/1988 ( as me, Kerry Burgess, while enlisted paygrade E-5, designated Fire Controlman Petty Officer Second Class (FC2), with my personal participation and commendation my official enlisted US Navy documents includes: Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal 88Feb13 88Jun03, CF-division, Missile Plot - guided-missiles Fire Control Computers Complex (UNIVAC digital-computers Mk152 Terrier System for, primarily, SM2-ER {Extended Range} Standard Missiles ordnance), USS Wainwright CG-28, US Navy, Operation Earnest Will, Middle East Force, including Operation Praying Mantis ) is 8138 days
From 5/15/1984 ( as Kerry Wayne Burgess I began active service for an enlistment period of six years as a US Navy enlisted sailor and United States of America military service continued to Kerry Wayne Burgess the United States Marine Corps general ) To 6/4/2024 ( ) is 14630 days
14630 = 7315 + 7315
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 11/12/1985 ( premiere USA TV series episode "Nova"::"Child Survival: The Silent Emergency" ) is 7315 days
From 5/15/1984 ( Ronald Reagan, 40th President of USA: Proclamation 5194 - Missing Children Day, 1984 ) To 6/4/2024 ( ) is 14630 days
14630 = 7315 + 7315
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 11/12/1985 ( premiere USA TV series episode "Nova"::"Child Survival: The Silent Emergency" ) is 7315 days
From 4/16/1889 ( Charlie Chaplin ) To 6/20/2006 ( by me, Kerry Burgess, referenced here ) is 42798 days
42798 = 21399 + 21399
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 6/4/2024 ( ) is 21399 days
From 6/16/2005 ( as Kerry Burgess my official records United States of America Veterans Affairs hospital includes: Date of Admission, psychiatric unit ) To 6/4/2024 ( ) is 6928 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 10/21/1984 ( Ronald Reagan, 40th President of USA: "I want you to know that also I will not make age an issue of this campaign. I am not going to exploit, for political purposes, my opponent's youth and inexperience." ) is 6928 days
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/hunter-biden-gun-case-opening-statements-rcna155304
NBC News
June 4, 2024, 4:00 AM PDT / Updated June 4, 2024, 2:21 PM PDT
By Gary Grumbach, Daniel Barnes, Owen Hayes, Dareh Gregorian and Sarah Fitzpatrick
WILMINGTON, Del. — A federal prosecutor told jurors Tuesday in his opening statement in the Hunter Biden trial that at the end of the case he should be found guilty of all charges
http://www.deseretnews.com/top/103/3/My-opponents-youth-and-inexperience-Ronald-Reagans-10-best-quotes.html
Deseret News
Ronald Reagan's 10 best quotes
By Michael De Groote, Deseret News
Published: Monday, Feb. 7 2011 10:25 a.m. MST
#8 My opponent's youth and inexperience
"I want you to know that also I will not make age an issue of this campaign. I am not going to exploit, for political purposes, my opponent's youth and inexperience."
October 21, 1984: In the second presidential debate with candidate Walter Mondale, Reagan was grilled over his age by Henry "Hank" Trewhitt of the Baltimore Sun. "You already are the oldest President in history, and some of your staff say you were tired after your most recent encounter with Mr. Mondale. I recall, yes, that President Kennedy, who had to go for days on end with very little sleep during the Cuba missile crisis. Is there any doubt in your mind that you would be able to function in such circumstances?" Reagan replied, "Not at all, Mr. Trewhitt and I want you to know that also I will not make age an issue of this campaign. I am not going to exploit for political purposes my opponent's youth and inexperience."
by me, Kerry Burgess
I've gone through those photos at least 4 damn times and I still cannot find that image
Might have mentioned it in my blog over a decade ago
Some pages are not numbered so no way to tell if they pulled that page
I remember it clearly. Standing there that day in classroom when I was class-president. Feel certain that was Mrs. East's classroom. Not sure but think Joe McCarthy captured the image. Someone, Mrs. East, I think, had us posing in "oriental" theme hats and that photograph, I am certain, was published in the class yearbook and that must have been year 1983. The Flickr pages seem to be the same copy on the Classmates dot com site. I'm either being dumbass and overlooking the obvious or the page I'm looking for wasn't copied and published with the rest of the content for 1983
Mr. Moto's Last Warning (1939)
Mr. Moto: Ah, so.
by me, Kerry Burgess: from year 2006
I have also been remembering that time in Ashdown High School when I was running for Class President.
I was elected my Junior year, but did not get elected my Senior. I was campaigning hard {during year 1983} for re-election though, explaining to all that they should vote for experience.
https://veteranmedals.army.mil/home/us-army-medals-award-badges-ribbon-and-attachments-information/us-army-service-campaign-medals-and-foreign-awards-information
U.S. Army
U.S. ARMY SERVICE, CAMPAIGN MEDALS AND FOREIGN AWARDS INFORMATION
NATIONAL DEFENSE SERVICE MEDAL
and between 2 August 1990 and 30 November 1995
SOUTHWEST ASIA SERVICE MEDAL
Individuals authorized the Southwest Asia Service Medal must have served in support of Operation Desert Shield or Desert Storm, in one or more of the following areas, between 2 August 1990 and 30 November 1995
Three campaigns have been designated - - "DEFENSE OF SAUDI ARABIA" for the period 2 August 1990 through 16 January 1991, "LIBERATION AND DEFENSE OF KUWAIT" for the period 17 January 1991 through 11 April 1991, and "SOUTHWEST ASIA CEASE- FIRE" for the period 12 April 1991 through 30 November 1995.
https://www.globalsecurity.org/military/ops/earnest_will.htm
Operation Earnest Will
Iraq attacked Iran in September 1980, launching a war that would last eight years. By 1982, more than 100,000 people had died. The war was costing each side $1 billion a month and devastated both countries' oil industries. In the so-called "tanker war", both belligerents launched attacks on neutral merchant vessels transiting the Gulf, prompting several Gulf states to seek protection from foreign navies.
In March 1984, Iraq initiated sustained naval operations in its self-declared 1,126-kilometer maritime exclusion zone, extending from the mouth of the Shatt al Arab to Iran's port of Bushehr. In 1981 Baghdad had attacked Iranian ports and oil complexes as well as neutral tankers and ships sailing to and from Iran; in 1984 Iraq expanded the so-called "tanker war" by using French Super-Etendard combat aircraft armed with Exocet missiles. Neutral merchant ships became favorite targets, and the long-range Super-Etendards flew sorties farther south. Seventy-one merchant ships were attacked in 1984 alone, compared with forty-eight in the first three years of the war. Iraq's motives in increasing the tempo included a desire to break the stalemate, presumably by cutting off Iran's oil exports and by thus forcing Tehran to the negotiating table. Repeated Iraqi efforts failed to put Iran's main oil exporting terminal at Kharg Island out of commission, however.
Iran retaliated by attacking first a Kuwaiti oil tanker near Bahrain on May 13 and then a Saudi tanker in Saudi waters five days later, making it clear that if Iraq continued to interfere with Iran's shipping, no Gulf state would be safe. These sustained attacks cut Iranian oil exports in half, reduced shipping in the Gulf by 25 percent, led Lloyd's of London to increase its insurance rates on tankers, and slowed Gulf oil supplies to the rest of the world; moreover, the Saudi decision in 1984 to shoot down an Iranian Phantom jet intruding in Saudi territorial waters played an important role in ending both belligerents' attempts to internationalize the tanker war. Iraq and Iran accepted a 1984 UN-sponsored moratorium on the shelling of civilian targets, and Tehran later proposed an extension of the moratorium to include Gulf shipping, a proposal the Iraqis rejected unless it were to included their own Gulf ports.
Iraq began ignoring the moratorium soon after it went into effect and stepped up its air raids on tankers serving Iran and Iranian oil-exporting facilities in 1986 and 1987, attacking even vessels that belonged to the conservative Arab states of the Persian Gulf. Iran responded by escalating its attacks on shipping serving Arab ports in the Gulf.
As Kuwaiti vessels made up a large portion of the targets in these retaliatory raids, on 1 November 1986, Kuwait, a nonbelligerent, announced it would seek international protection for its ships. The Soviet Union responded first, agreeing to charter several Soviet tankers to Kuwait in early 1987. Washington, which has been approached first by Kuwait and which had postponed its decision, eventually followed Moscow's lead. On 7 March 1987, the United States offered to reflag 11 Kuwaiti tankers and provide U.S. Navy protection. Kuwait accepted.
https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/oil-imports-from-iran-remarks-announcing-discontinuance-united-states-imports
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armed_Forces_Expeditionary_Medal
Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal
From Wikipedia
The Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal (AFEM) is a military award of the United States Armed Forces, which was first created in 1961 by Executive Order of President John F. Kennedy. The medal is awarded to members of the U.S. Armed Forces who, after July 1, 1958, participated in U.S. military operations, U.S. operations in direct support of the United Nations, or U.S. operations of assistance for friendly foreign nations.
Criteria
The Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal may be authorized for three categories of operations: U.S. military operations; U.S. military operations in direct support of the United Nations; and U.S. operations of assistance for friendly foreign nations. The medal shall be awarded only for operations for which no other U.S. campaign medal is approved, where a foreign armed opposition or imminent threat of hostile action was encountered.
The Stand - complete edition, by Stephen King
(from internet transcript)
excerpts, Chapter 16
A day later, on June 23, a big white Connie was roaring north on US 180, in another part of the country. It was doing somewhere between ninety and one hundred, its Corinthian white paint job glittering in the sun, the chrome winking. The opera windows in the rear also gave back the sun, heliographing it viciously.
The trail that Connie had left behind itself since Poke and Lloyd killed its owner and stole it somewhere just south of Hachita was wandering and pretty much senseless. Up 81 to US 80, the turnpike, until Poke and Lloyd began to feel nervous. They had killed six people in the last six days, including the owner of the Continental, his wife, and his smarmy daughter. But it was not the six murders that made them feel antsy about being on the interstate. It was the dope and the guns. Five grams of hash, a little tin snuffbox filled with God knew how much coke, and sixteen pounds of marijuana. Also two .38s, three .45s, a .357 Mag that Poke called his Pokerizer, six shotguns—two of them sawed-off pumps—and a Schmeisser submachine gun. Murder was a trifle beyond their intellectual reach, but they both understood the trouble they were going to be in if the Arizona State Police picked them up in a stolen car full of blow and shootin irons. On top of everything else, they were interstate fugitives. Had been ever since they crossed the Nevada border.
Interstate fugitives. Lloyd Henreid liked the sound of that. Gangbusters. Take that, you dirty rat. Have a lead sandwich, ya lousy copper.
So they had turned north at Deming, now on 180; had gone through Hurley and Bayard and the slightly larger town of Silver City, where Lloyd had bought a bag of burgers and eight milkshakes (why in the name of Christ had he bought eight of the motherfuckers? they would soon be pissing chocolate), grinning at the waitress in an empty yet hilarious way that made her nervous for hours afterward. I believe that man would just as soon killed me as looked at me, she told her boss that afternoon.
Past Silver City and roaring through Cliff, the road now bending west again, just the direction they didn’t want to go. Through Buckhorn and then they were back in the country God forgot, two-lane blacktop running through sagebrush and sand, buttes and mesas in the background, all that same old same old made you want to just rare back and puke at it.
“We’re gettin low on gas,” Poke said.
“Wouldn’t be if you didn’t drive so fuckin fast,” Lloyd said. He took a sip of his third milkshake, gagged on it, powered down the window, and threw out all the leftover crap, including the three milkshakes neither of them had touched.
“Whoop! Whoop!” Poke cried. He began to goose the gas pedal. The Connie lurched forward, dropped back, lurched forward.
“Ride em cowboy!” Lloyd yelled.
“Whoop! Whoop!”
“You want to smoke?”
“Smoke em if you got em,” Poke said. “Whoop! Whoop!”
There was a large green Hefty bag on the floor between Lloyd’s feet. It held the sixteen pounds of marijuana. He reached in, got a handful, and began to roll a bomber joint.
“Whoop! Whoop!” The Connie cruised back and forth over the white line.
“Cut the shit!” Lloyd shouted. “I’m spillin it everywhere!”
“Plenty more where that came from… whoop!”
“Come on, we gotta deal this stuff, man. We gotta deal this stuff or we’re gonna get caught and wind up in somebody’s trunk.”
“Okay, sport.” Poke began to drive smoothly again, but his expression was sulky. “It was your idea, your fuckin idea.”
“You thought it was a good idea.”
“Yeah, but I didn’t know we’d end up drivin all over fuckin Arizona. How we ever gonna get to New York this way?”
“We’re throwin off pursuit, man,” Lloyd said. In his mind he saw police garage doors opening and thousands of 1940s radio cars issuing forth into the night. Spotlights crawling over brick walls. Come on out, Canarsie, we know you’re in there.
“Good fuckin luck,” Poke said, still sulking. “We’re doin a helluva job. You know what we got, besides that dope and the guns? We got sixteen bucks and three hundred fuckin credit cards we don’t dare use. What the fuck, we don’t even have enough cash to fill this hog’s gas tank.”
“God will provide,” Lloyd said, and spit-sealed the bomber. He lit it with the Connie’s dashboard lighter. “Happy fuckin days.”
“And if you want to sell it, what are we doing smokin it?” Poke went on, not much mollified by the thought of God providing.
“So we sell a few short ounces. Come on, Poke. Have a smoke.”
This never failed to break Poke up. He brayed laughter and took the joint. Between them, standing on its wire stock, was the Schmeisser, fully loaded. The Connie blazed on up the road, its gas gauge standing at an eighth.
Poke and Lloyd had met a year before in the Brownsville Minimum Security Station, a Nevada work farm. Brownsville was ninety acres of irrigated farmland and a prison compound of Quonset huts about sixty miles north of Tonopah and eighty northeast of Gabbs. It was a mean place to do short time. Although Brownsville Station was supposed to be a farm, nothing much grew there. Carrots and lettuce got one taste of that blaring sun, chuckled weakly, and died. Legumes—and weeds would grow, and the state legislature was fanatically dedicated to the idea that someday soybeans would grow. But the kindest thing that could be said about Brownsville’s ostensible purpose was that the desert was taking a Christless long time to bloom. The warden (who preferred to be called “the boss”) prided himself on being a hardass, and he hired only men he considered to be fellow hardasses. And, as he was fond of telling the new fish, Brownsville was mostly minimum security because when it came to escape, it was like the song said: noplace to run to, baby, noplace to hide. Some gave it a shot anyway, but most were brought back in two or three days, sunburned, glareblind, and eager to sell the boss their shriveled raisin souls for a drink of water. Some of them cackled madly, and one young man who was out for three days claimed he saw a large castle some miles south of Gabbs, a castle with a moat. The moat, he said, was guarded by trolls riding big black horses. Some months later when a Colorado revival preacher did a show at Brownsville, this same young man got Jesus in a big way.
Andrew “Poke” Freeman, in for simple assault, was released in April 1989. He had occupied a bed next to Lloyd Henreid, and had told him that if Lloyd was interested in a big score, he knew about something interesting in Vegas. Lloyd was willing.
Lloyd was released on June 1. His crime, committed in Reno, had been attempted rape. The lady was a showgirl on her way home, and she had shot a load of teargas into Lloyd’s eyes. He felt lucky to get only two to four, plus time served, plus time off for good behavior. At Brownsville it was just too fuckin hot to misbehave.
He caught a bus to Las Vegas, and Poke met him at the terminal: This is the deal, Poke told him. He knew this guy, “one-time business associate” might describe him best, and this guy was known in certain circles as Gorgeous George. He did some piecework for a group of people with mostly Italian and Sicilian names. George was strictly part-time help. What he did mostly for these Sicilian-type people was to take things and bring things. Sometimes he took things from Vegas to L.A.; sometimes he brought other things from L.A. to Vegas. Small-time dope mostly, freebies for big-time customers. Sometimes guns. The guns were always a bring, never a take. As Poke understood it (and Poke’s understanding never got much beyond what the movie people call “soft focus”), these Sicilian-type people sometimes sold iron to independent thieves. Well, Poke said, Gorgeous George was willing to tell them the time and place when a fairly good haul of these items would be in the offing. George was asking twenty-five percent of what they realized. Poke and Lloyd would crash in on George, tie him and gag him, take the stuff, and maybe give him a couple of biffs and baffs for good measure. It had to look good, George had cautioned, because these Sicilian-type people were no one to fool around with.
“Well,” Lloyd said, “it sounds good.”
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/hunter-biden-gun-case-opening-statements-rcna155304
NBC News
June 4, 2024, 4:00 AM PDT / Updated June 4, 2024, 2:21 PM PDT
By Gary Grumbach, Daniel Barnes, Owen Hayes, Dareh Gregorian and Sarah Fitzpatrick
Prosecutors' first witness was FBI agent Erika Jensen. Jensen was introducing some of the prosecutors' evidence, including text messages they say show Biden was using crack in the months before and after the gun purchase. The messages came from Biden's phone and the computer that former President Donald Trump called the "laptop from hell" after his attorney Rudy Giuliani got a hold of the hard drive in the final weeks of the 2020 presidential election. The physical laptop was entered into evidence Tuesday and shown to the jury.
Cohen-Biden shook her head as Hines held up the computer for jurors to see.
Among the messages highlighted by prosecutors was one from the day after the purchase, in which Hunter Biden messaged someone that he was "waiting for a dealer." They also introduced one from Oct. 14, 2018, in which he is alleged to have written, "I was sleeping on a car smoking crack."
Jensen also testified that bank records show Hunter Biden was withdrawing large sums of cash on a daily basis in the same time period. His withdrawals for September, October and November 2018 totaled $151,640, the agent said. On the day of the gun purchase, he withdrew $5,000, Jensen said. She said he spent $881 in cash at the gun store, showing jurors the receipt as well as the form he's accused of lying on.
Jensen also introduced passages from the audiobook version of Hunter Biden's 2021 memoir "Beautiful Things," where he discusses his drug use in detail. The audiobook was read by Hunter Biden himself, enabling jurors to hear his descriptions in his own voice. In one passage played for the jury, he said, “walking into a high crime neighborhood and buying crack was like playing Russian roulette,” sometimes with five bullets in the chamber.
In another, he said there is "no honor among us crackheads."
From 9/11/2001 ( ) to 2/6/2004 ( as me, Kerry Burgess, my final day full-time employment Microsoft Corporation in Seattle beginning 12/07/1998 ) is 878 days
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ironman_Triathlon
Ironman Triathlon
From Wikipedia
An Ironman Triathlon is one of a series of long-distance triathlon races organized by the World Triathlon Corporation (WTC), consisting of a 2.4-mile (3.9 km) swim, a 112-mile (180.2 km) bicycle ride and a marathon 26.22-mile (42.2 km) run completed in that order, a total of 140.6 miles (226.3 km). It is widely considered one of the most difficult one-day sporting events in the world.
From: Kerry Burgess
To: Kerry Burgess
Sent: Saturday, May 20, 2006 1:38:07 PM
Subject: Re: Journal May 20, 2006
Kerry Burgess wrote:
I have gone out and beat myself into the ground to the point of hypothermia
11/5/2006 9:55 PM
There is also Millersylvania State Park where I completed all those marathons. I completed 5 down there in a year’s time, starting with the Christmas Marathon. I believe the first one was in December 2001 and the last one was the Christmas Marathon again in December 2002. [ CORRECTION: period of time was from December 2002 to December 2003 ]
by me, Kerry Burgess, posted by me: - H.V.O.M at 8:47 PM Monday, August 20, 2007
11/4/2006 10:26 PM
All those marathons I ran down south of Olympia. The run course started at Millersylvania State Park which you get to by taking I-5 and then taking Exit 95, of course, and then drive through Maytown. I told Ross Heise the first time I went down there, it was still dark and it reminded me of a scene from “The Howling.”
http://www.ontherunevents.com/xmasmarathon/
Christmas Classic Marathon
from my private journal, as me, Kerry Burgess, typed while sitting in a grungy two-computer room in a homeless shelter on the waterfront in downtown Seattle:
From: Kerry Burgess
Sent: Monday, March 20, 2006 3:47 PM
To: Kerry Burgess
Subject: Re: 841 days
Kerry Burgess wrote:
It's been 841 days since I ran the Seattle Marathon.
I think this was the 4th of 5 marathons I finished in a year period. I'm not sure of exact dates offhand but between Dec 2002 and Dec 2003, I completed 5 marathons, 2 sprint triathlons, and I trained for and participated in Ironman CDA
From 3/15/1933 ( ) To 6/28/1985 ( premiere USA film "Pale Rider" ) 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 ( from the thoughts in my conscious mind, coinciding with United States of America Veterans Affairs hospital psychiatric doctor medical drugs: 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 3/15/1933 ( ) To 8/15/1980 ( Jimmy Carter, 39th President of USA: New York, New York Informal Exchange With Reporters Following a Visit to the Picasso Exhibit at the Museum of Modern Art ) is 17320 days
17320 = 8660 + 8660
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 7/19/1989 ( the United Airlines Flight 232 crash in Sioux City Iowa and from the thoughts in my conscious mind, coinciding with United States of America Veterans Affairs hospital psychiatric doctor medical drugs: the end of Kerry Burgess - *me* - the natural human being cloned from another human being {Thomas Reagan} ) is 8660 days
From 3/15/1933 ( ) To 8/30/1940 ( biographical - Joseph John Thomson dead ) is 2725 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 4/19/1973 ( premiere USA film "High Plains Drifter" ) is 2725 days
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_Bader_Ginsburg
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
From Wikipedia
Ruth Bader Ginsburg (born Joan Ruth Bader; March 15, 1933 – September 18, 2020), was an American jurist who served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1993 until her death in 2020. She was nominated by President Bill Clinton
IMDb
Pale Rider (1985)
Quotes
Megan Wheeler: [Reading from the Book of Revelation] And when he had opened the fourth seal, I heard the fourth beast said: "Come and see." And I looked, and behold a pale horse. And his name that sat on him was Death.
[the Preacher rides up on his pale horse]
Megan Wheeler: And Hell followed with him.
IMDb
Pale Rider (1985)
Quotes
The Preacher: Well, if you're waitin' for a woman to make up her mind, you may have a long wait.
The Stand - complete edition, by Stephen King
(from internet transcript)
excerpts, Chapter 4
Starkey pushed a button under the middle screen and the picture flashed on with the unnerving suddenness of solid state components. It showed the western California desert, looking east. It was desolate, and the desolation was rendered eerie by the reddish-purple tinge of infrared photography.
It’s out there, straight ahead, Starkey thought. Project Blue.
The fright tried to wash over him again. He reached into his pocket and brought out a blue pill. What his daughter would call a “downer.” Names didn’t matter; results did. He dry-swallowed it, his hard, unseamed face wrinkling for a moment as it went down.
Project Blue.
He looked at the other blank monitors, and then punched up pictures on all of them. 4 and 5 showed labs. 4 was physics, 5 was viral biology. The vi-bi lab was full of animal cages, mostly for guinea pigs, rhesus monkeys, and a few dogs. None of them appeared to be sleeping. In the physics lab a small centrifuge was still turning around and around. Starkey had complained about that. He had complained bitterly. There was something spooky about that centrifuge whirling gaily around and around and around while Dr. Ezwick lay dead on the floor nearby, sprawled out like a scarecrow that had tipped over in a high wind.
They had explained to him that the centrifuge was on the same circuit as the lights, and if they turned off the centrifuge, the lights would go, too. And the cameras down there were not equipped for infrared. Starkey understood. Some more brass might come down from Washington and want to look at the dead Nobel Prize winner who was lying four hundred feet under the desert less than a mile away. If we turn off the centrifuge, we turn off the professor. Elementary. What his daughter would have called a “Catch-22.”
He took another “downer” and looked into monitor 2. This was the one he liked least of all. He didn’t like the man with his face in the soup. Suppose someone walked up to you and said: You will spend eternity with your phiz in a bowl of soup. It’s like the old pie-in-the-face routine: it stops being funny when it starts being you.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Chaplin
album: "The Wall" (1979)
Pink Floyd
"Stop"
Stop
I wanna go home
Take off this uniform
And leave the show
And I'm waiting in this cell
Because I have to know
Have I been guilty all this time
- by me, Kerry Wayne Burgess, posted by me: 11:35 PM Pacific-time USA Tuesday 06/04/2024
