Episode from 5-7-2017

The list of shows that I’m trying to watch on DVD is always done differently. There was a point in which I added a new list full of six choices which were the next six in line to be added. I added them all at once and switched between them and the other list of choices that I still had. Those six choices were VeggieTales on VHS, The Muppet Show season 1, Family Guy Star Wars parodies also called the Laugh it up Fuzzball trilogy, Invader Zim, Flashpoint, and Survivor: Palau.

Gradually, I moved those choices over to the main list when the older choices were replaced and had newer things replace things on the other list with the next set of choices. I got rid of the other list at some point, although I still wait for three of those choices to be transferred on to this one. Ultimately, everything older than those six choices except for shows on tape were removed from this list. Four of those choices were removed from this list in this order: VeggieTales on VHS, Family Guy Star Wars parodies, Invader Zim, and Survivor: Palau, leaving The Muppet Show and Flashpoint as the two oldest choices on the list. We’ll see which of them gets removed first. But there will probably be other choices that get removed before them.

Now that I can finally start talking about politics again, I have to mention who I believe is the worst Republican’t alive right now: Mitch McConnell. He prevents Obama from getting his rightful nomination to the Supreme Court saying that it shouldn’t happen during an election year when we all know that it is really about Republican’ts losing control of the court. He then has the audacity to say that the Democrats are doing an unprecedented thing by using a filibuster on a Supreme Court justice nominee when the Republicans lead by him did the unprecedented thing of refusing to hold hearing on Merrick Garland. I will be so glad when he’s gone from office. If you live in Kentucky, then be sure to vote that Mitch out when you get the chance. Progress is what he always works against.

The Supreme Court nomination process is now going to be easier for whoever happens to be in the majority party since they did the nuclear option. The Republican’ts are going to regret using that option, hopefully sooner rather than later. It was a bad thing to even be there and even worse that the Democrats did it and made it seem okay. That’s not to say that it wouldn’t have happened without the previous vote. They just wouldn’t have been able to blame anyone for it.

I had heard rumors that Anthony Kennedy may step down from the Supreme Court. I don’t know yet if this is true or something that will happen or not. I do wonder if he is the last moderate currently left on the court. I would like more moderates on the court, especially since the Democrats haven’t held control of the court since the 1970s. Hey, if Trump felt that Scala’s replacement had to be an ultra conservative like him, then maybe he’ll have to replace a moderate with another moderate. Remember that Merrick Garland is still available. Of course, with the current turmoil, only death will take another justice off the court right now.

Switching political sides entirely, you may have noticed from my March Madness posts (should they be published) that I rooting for all of the North Carolina teams since they weren’t playing any of the tournament there in objection to something called HB2. This means that I would support something like HB2. I find the opposition to the thing to be ridiculous.

Let’s just do a quick reminder of what this is for those of you that don’t know or remember. It is called a bathroom bill and makes people use the bathroom of the gender that they were born with. I think there might be more to the bill than that alone. But so many people think that people who aren’t transgender wouldn’t abuse the law. I bet these are the same people who would criticize Trump for the countless things that he has said without any prove. There are cases known already of none transgender people who have taken advantage of it to commit crimes or at least make people uncomfortable. If you aren’t a man anymore, then you can go to the woman’s restroom. But if you just identify as a woman but aren’t, then you shouldn’t be in that bathroom yet.

So many people criticized Hilary Clinton for her lies. Yet these same people are awfully silent about all of Trump’s constant lies. I also like how a person with a pre-existing condition can be denied coverage again in the future. I turn 26 in the summer and could lose coverage. So I better hope that any major health issues I have are before then. Republican’ts tend to blatantly ignored all of the benefits that Obamacare has given people. They would never mention the 45,000 people who died every year due to preventable things simply because of lack of health care coverage before Obamacare became law. They insist that people have lost coverage because of this yet never mention one single person who this has happened to. They could make up someone and I wouldn’t know. And they seem to be forgetting that even if it is true, they still can get Obamacare as a replacement and they won’t have that if the law no longer exists.

I really hope that Obama can consider running for governor of Illinois so I can have his great self in office again. But 2018, things can change and might move smoother for a change. Or it could be as bad as always. Trump wants to build a wall even though 48% of illegals come to this country by airplane. That percentage is just going to increase if a wall gets built. And I really don’t think that it will. If it does, then one can hope that it can come down like the Berlin Wall did. I wish that we could have someone more responsible in office who would want to tear down walls instead of building them up. Also, as of 5-7-2017, there are 1,264 days until the next presidential election. We could potentially get rid of Mitch McConnell in that election as well and we can have two bad people out of office at once.

Well, in all my threeish years of recording this show on my laptop, there has never once been a problem with it outside of episodes that were glitchy instead of coming in well. For the first time ever, it had a problem with playback. The episode was there. The audio was fine. There was no picture and seemed to just be just a black screen with the audio. (Honestly, I have watched some shows in the past where the picture quality was so bad, it looked like the television set was off even though the sound came in perfectly fine.) I decided to just delete the recording and will watch the episode later online.

Today’s episode is brought to you by no delay. We begin with Blake being told about this journalist who is imprisoned oversees on trumped up charges. Boy I hate things that are Trumped. This episode seems to be a day in the life of Blake.

In segment two, there is more trying to get the journalist back. A reason that they might not be able to help is to keep future child soldiers from happening. Blake then gets a visit from his mother who might be a bit clingy. Blake goes to the embassy of Sudan. He then goes elsewhere where he seems to want to hook up with some random woman that I can’t tell that much about. I don’t think that he’s successful with that, for now at least.

In segment three, Nadine talks about the conflict growing potentially worse as usual. This fomer child soldier or whoever might be dying, if I’m understanding this right, which I don’t think that I am. Elizabeth and Nadine talk to a family who is fed up with the US government and a perceived lack of help. Daisy might be pregnant, but it can be hard to tell for sure since the characters aren’t explicitly saying it.

In segment four, Matt is called in for Elizabeth to give a speech to release the journalist. Even after trying to use a song to help him with writing, he doesn’t have anything to help the secretary. Daisy is, indeed, pregnant, but I’m not sure if we know who the father is. Is it from her Election Day hook up? A random conversation leads Matt to write his speech which Elizabeth then gives.

In segment five, someone yells and Elizabeth and then she gets everything that she wants. The father of Daisy’s baby was the undercover operative from earlier who wound up dead. The journalist gets reunited with his family. There are no scenes from next time so I’ll be back later with the next episode. For now, this is Adam Decker, signing off.