by me, Kerry Burgess, 08/07/2026 07:09 AM
Ping.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7X9ktfzJOa4
The Simpsons - Ralph's Leprechaun
From 3/10/1989 ( ) To 3/22/1998 ( {Event Date variable of my original-work} ) is 3299 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 11/14/1974 ( ) is 3299 days
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/This_Little_Wiggy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Adam_Walsh
by me, Kerry Burgess, 08/07/2026 07:27 AM
It's a lot of bullshit by someone that doesn't seem to know how to discover facts. No real merit to it, decided to reference it for basic context.
The way I remember it, the Vincennes entered the Persian Gulf in 1988 to serve as relief of our duties on the USS Wainwright, a class of US Navy ship with capabilities preceding the Aegis-equipped cruisers. The Aegis-equipped DDG's were still several years away from entering active duty with the lead ship of the class.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1eeSEomDFk
USS Simpson vs Iran's Joshan: The 1988 Missile Duel That Ended in 4 Minutes
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Praying_Mantis
Surface Action Group Charlie
OSC: CO, USS Wainwright
USS Wainwright – guided missile cruiser
USS Bagley – frigate
USS Simpson – guided missile frigate
Los Angeles Times
(Page 2 of 2)
Now, Something Worse in the Gulf Than War : What if You Do Everything Right and End Up Killing 300 Civilians?
July 05, 1988
TOM CLANCY
Tom Clancy is the author of "Red Storm Rising" and the coming "Cardinal of the Kremlin."
Put yourself in the captain's place. U.S. ships have been attacked by aircraft in the gulf, at the cost of American lives. You have one battle under way, and now there is a new potential threat. It's heading toward you at 450 knots. Not so long ago, another U.S. Navy cruiser shot it out with air and surface units at the same time.
Los Angeles Times
Bomb Blows Up Van Driven by Wife of Vincennes' Capt. : She Escapes Injury; Iran Link Sought
March 10, 1989 From Times Wire Services
SAN DIEGO — A bomb today destroyed a van driven by the wife of Capt. Will Rogers, commander of the cruiser Vincennes which mistakenly shot down an Iranian airliner, killing all 290 people aboard.
Police immediately took security measures to guard the wife, Sharon Rogers, who was unhurt, and her husband, fearing they might be the targets of a terrorist attack in retaliation for the shooting down of the airliner.
The van had stopped at a red light in suburban La Jolla when the initial explosion occurred. Mrs. Rogers jumped out before the van burst into flames and ran up an embankment to ask construction workers for help.
A second explosion then destroyed the van, police said.
Mrs. Rogers was "just shook up. She had had a bunch of kids in the van yesterday and she was upset because anyone in the back of the van wouldn't have made it," said Police Officer George Sykes.
Police said initially that the woman had been taken to a hospital, but reported later she and her husband, who had not been riding in the van, were being kept for their own safety at a nearby police station.
Security Arrangements Made
"Some other security arrangements are being made," a police spokesman, Bill Robinson, added, without giving details. But neighbors of the Rogerses said police immediately searched the family's house and evacuated homes nearby, presumably precautions in case a bomb had been planted in the house.
Police said the remains of a pipe bomb that had been attached to the van's undercarriage were found in the ruins. They said they had no suspects, but the FBI and naval investigators were helping in the investigation.
"There was a vehicle that was observed in the area at the time of the detonation, and we're looking into that right now," said FBI spokesman Ronald Orrantia.
Rogers is still captain of the Vincennes, which mistakenly shot down an Iran Airbus in the Persian Gulf last July 3.
The crew of the Vincennes was said by naval authorities to have mistaken the airliner for what it believed was an attacking Iranian F-14 fighter.
A Navy investigative panel cleared Rogers of any culpability but recommended censuring Lt. Cmdr. Scott E. Lustig, who was coordinating the Vincennes' anti-aircraft systems.
Overruled by Carlucci
Defense Secretary Frank C. Carlucci later overruled that recommendation and Adm. William J. Crowe decided to take no action against any member of the ship's crew.
The Ronald Reagan Administration defended the decision but offered to compensate the victims' families. Tehran radio said at the time the attack would be "avenged in the same blood-spattered sky over the Gulf."
In Washington today, Navy officials at the Pentagon said they were unaware of any threats against Rogers or his family, but were awaiting additional reports from San Diego.
On Dec. 21 a Pan Am jetliner was blown out of the sky over Lockerbie, Scotland, killing all 259 people on board and 11 on the ground.
Iran denied any involvement in that blast, but a telephone caller said a group called the Guardians of the Islamic Revolution blew up the plane to avenge the shooting down of the Iran Airbus.
https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/radio-address-the-nation-prayer-schools
The American Presidency Project
RONALD REAGAN
40th President of the United States: 1981 - 1989
Radio Address to the Nation on Prayer in Schools
February 25, 1984
My fellow Americans:
From the early days of the colonies, prayer in school was practiced and revered as an important tradition. Indeed, for nearly 200 years of our nation's history, it was considered a natural expression of our religious freedom. But in 1962 the Supreme Court handed down a controversial decision prohibiting prayer in public schools.
Sometimes I can't help but feel the first amendment is being turned on its head. Because ask yourselves: Can it really be true that the first amendment can permit Nazis and Ku Klux Klansmen to march on public property, advocate the extermination of people of the Jewish faith and the subjugation of blacks, while the same amendment forbids our children from saying a prayer in school?
When a group of students at the Guilderland High School in Albany, New York, sought to use an empty classroom for voluntary prayer meetings, the 2d Circuit of Appeals said, "No." The court thought it might be dangerous because students might be coerced into praying if they saw the football captain or student body president participating in prayer meetings.
Then there was the case of the kindergarten class reciting a verse before their milk and cookies. They said, "We thank you for the flowers so sweet. We thank you for the food we eat.
https://www.psychologistworld.com/superstition
Psychologist World
Superstition
How Skinner's pigeon experiment revealed signs of superstition in pigeons.
"They may seem unlikely candidates for psychological analysis, but pigeons have given a revealing insight into how animals, including humans, can be bound by superstition..."
The Superstition Experiment
In the Summer of 1947, renowned behavioral psychologist B.F. Skinner published his study on a group of pigeons that showed even animals are susceptible to the human condition that is superstition.
Skinner conducted his research on a group of hungry pigeons whose body weights had been reduced to 75% of their normal weight when well-fed. For a few minutes each day, a mechanism fed the birds at regular intervals. What observers of the pigeons found showed the birds developing superstitious behavior, believing that by acting in a particular way, or committing a certain action, food would arrive.
- by me, Kerry Wayne Burgess, posted by me: 07:42 AM Pacific-timezone USA Friday 08/07/2026
