Episode from 11-26-2017

Something that I randomly thought of is that I can start a blog about Bob’s Burgers in the event that a planned episode of this show is preempted due to a long running sports event before it. I still don’t know for sure if I want to start a blog about it or not. Maybe I would do it if any show on Sunday that I blog about isn’t on anymore (or on Sundays). But is mentioning football a good enough reason to have another blog? That’s the only reason why I would care about a Sunday show that I don’t already blog about. It’s an idea for the future that may never come to pass.

I think that while Republicans wanting candidates of their party to drop out if there are bad allegations against them when they are running a race or under other circumstances like if they say something so incredibly dumb that a Democrat can easily win a normally red state, there might be a slight problem with this whole thing. What’s the problem? It’s possible that they are only doing this so they can get another candidate who can win this election into it as quickly as possible instead of having to stick with what they know is a sinking ship. Of course, that’s probably not the reason, but it would seem nicer if they did that even if these people still had a chance of winning. Of course, when do scandals not hurt a politician or other person running for office? One can still win with them, but it is always damaging to their chances.

I’ve decided that due to the Thanksgiving holiday, I’m going to wait until the next blog post to do the things that I’d said I’d do in this post, such as the Russian paragraph. I’ll also wait until then to do more information on an election in a state that borders Illinois since I won’t have time to do research. But there are other things I can talk about in this post.

Before I get back to political things, I should mention an update as to who is doing better in terms of the Rams versus the Chargers this season. The Rams are still ahead in wins, but they lost their game last week. Meanwhile, the Chargers won their game. This makes me wonder if they got their wins mixed up as in the Chargers should have gotten the loss that the Rams got and the win should have gone to the Rams instead of the Chargers.

2017 seems to be the year of sexual harassment allegations. There is now one against Al Franken, who is a Minnesotan Democratic senator. It is hard to know what to think of this as it wouldn’t be the first time that a Democrat will have gotten into sexual problems. (People will always give Anthony Weiner a hard time.) One would want to believe the alleged victims. But a now infamous story published by Rolling Stone magazine proves that sometimes these stories can be made up. We’ll see what happens with this story, but I find it a bit odd that since Republicans are likely to lose a seat in Alabama that a Democrat might be in dangerous of losing his senate seat. It’s not like the Alabama seat alone controls who has a majority and Republicans would lose a majority without the seat. Plus, weird things have happened with Al’s seat before. Look up the death of Paul Wellstone if you don’t believe me.

This post is appearing a day later than usual, but I do have a lot to talk about. If you read my blog post a year ago when I did my oldest post that was not yet published, you will have remembered something important that I did in 2015. What was it? It was watching a new performance of Celtic Woman.

I should follow more of Celtic Woman than I do in this blog. I could tell you various updates about the group and the emergence of a new group called CaraNua which has former members of Celtic Woman. Well, the current line-up of Celtic Woman has Susan McFadden, Eabha McMahon, Mairead Carlin, and Tara McNeil. Their newest performance is called Homecoming. It will be on before primetime and I will be blogging about it like I did Destiny. If the performance isn’t called Homecoming, it would be Voices of Angels. I forget if these people are women instead of angels.

Here’s the first part of Homecoming: Mo Ghile Mear (My Gallant Star) with Susan, Eabha, Mairead, and Tara; My Heart will go on with Susan, Eabha, Mairead, and Tara; Across the World with Tara; and Walk Beside Me with Eabha, Mairead, Susan, and Tara.

I check during the pledge break and see a Rams versus Saints game. The Rams are winning, which is good. If they can win just two more games this season, this will give them their first winning season since 2003. That is the game on both of my CBS stations. FOX isn’t showing football now.

Here’s the second part of Homecoming: Dúlaman with Mairead; She Moved Through the Fair with Susan (not Eabha?); Isle of Hope, Isle of Tears with Eabha; Danny Boy with Susan, Eabha, Mairead, and Tara only Tara is on the harp instead of a fiddle; Annabelle Sweeney (a contest winner) then comes forth to sing Fields of Gold; and Westering Home with Annabelle, Susan, Eabha, Mairead, and Tara.

The game has the score later of Saints: 13 and Rams 26, having gained three points due to a field goal. The Rams could still lose this, but I hope that they don’t repeat something like the last season’s game where they shut out a team for the first three quarters only to lose in the fourth.

Here’s the third part of Homecoming: Amazing Grace with Susan, Eabha, and Mairead; For the Love of a Princess with Tara; Ave Maria with Mairead; The Voice with Susan (no fiddler?); and You Raise Me Up with Susan, Eabha, Mairead, and Tara.

I don’t know the final score because when I check later, the game is over and 60 Minutes has started. I can only guess that the Rams won, although I can’t be too sure of that at the moment. Even having double the points of the other team, I’m pretty sure that they won, but I’m not 100% sure.

Here’s the fourth part of Homecoming: some complicated foreign name that I can’t write quickly and easily with Eabha; Time to Say Goodbye with Mairead, Susan, Eabha, and Tara on harp instead of fiddle; something that may not be an actual song that has Tara on fiddle, Susan on spoons, and Eabha on some sort of recorder of some sort; and Téir Abhaile Riú with Susan, Eabha, Mairead, and Tara.

It seems odd that this is where the special ends. It didn’t seem like there was a good finale song. They had tons of them in the special too, just not the last song. I don’t like the new versions of Danny Boy, The Voice, or Téir Abhaile Riú. I still haven’t listened to the Voices of Angels CD. I wonder if some good things were taken out of the special like an ending song. I’d put this as better than Emerald at least and maybe better than Songs from the Heart. But I don’t think that it would be higher than that.

Before I get to this episode, maybe you’ve heard of this guy who said something along the lines of that he’d believe Trump over Jesus. Trump is a well known liar. Jesus never lied once. In fact, Jesus said a good thing about liars in John 8:44-46. Be sure to read all of it. Jesus makes it quite clear what happens when people follow liars like the devil in that verse. So don’t fall for other liars like Trump.

Today’s episode is brought to you by 46 minute delay. We begin with a reminder that Russia infiltrated the top levels of their government. Elizabeth is told to head to the White House immediately, but not told why in the text she got about it. Conrad is concerned about the opioid crisis. My computer doesn’t know how to spell the word so I’ll never know if I am spelling it right. He wants Elizabeth to work on a solution to this problem immediately. We get to yet another Skype event that Elizabeth is doing with some foreign dignitary. #takeashot. This is a person from Mexico who doesn’t look Hispanic or seem to have a real accent. I’m not sure if I have the information right, though.

Alexander and Stevie exchange text messages some. Maybe this will be a good romance. I just hope that she knows who Alexander really is. Cat shows up and I’m not sure yet just what to make of this rather eccentric character. I miss her Grey’s Anatomy haircut. And I won’t admit to a lot of people that I watch Grey’s Anatomy. Elizabeth talks to some important person who seems random to me. She goes off the record for a bit with this journalist. He knows to stop recording. Elizabeth thinks that a journalist like him is tough on Mexico in the way that he should be. There is some sort of prisoner transfer going on and an explosion helps free a person. Do these extravagant rescues happen in real life?

In segment two, we get to the attack that happened before the commercial. Another conversation by Skype is going on (and another shot is taken) about the attack. Henry’s team has who they think are the three main suspects of the Russian hack and they will be told three different locations with the idea that one of them will go to the right place. Jay seems to have problems when his parents come. Why, in TV shows, do all the parents seem to be flawed in some way? Did not one single screenwriter have parents who believed in him or her?

The fugitive does an interview with someone because that totally happens outside of TV shows, NOT! Well, it happens if they are caught, but not this way. Cat talks more about the problems that have been happening in Mexico. Elizabeth talks more with the reporter about what is going on. Alexander finds Stevie in a bar where they are meeting. I have at least three family members who met their spouse at a bar. It makes me wonder if I should ever go to one. And yes, all of these people are still married. Stevie talks about what she wants the relationship to be. I don’t want her to go back to her somewhat slutty side that we have seen in the first season. Give us something good about her instead of an extra person with wasted subplots. A person is attacked, but I didn’t understand all that.

In segment three, Stevie and Alexander talk and possibly flirt some after the bar. He explains that things are complicated and he doesn’t want a potential relationship between them to complicate things. It turns out that the journalist died and Elizabeth visits his newsroom and talks more about the notes that he has that could help. Jay has more problems with his controlling family. If you are a family member of mine and reading this, please stop telling me what to do with my life. Jay stands up to his parents. I still don’t know for sure if I’m supposed to be talking about Blake instead of Jay. I will mention this more in a bit. They look similar to each other and aren’t always identified.

Henry talks to this season’s evil politician. I don’t fully understand what all is going on with this. But did he reveal himself to be evil? I forgot that Henry was, in fact, CIA now. I know that he used to be NSA. Elizabeth talks to Conrad and Russell about what is going on. Why do Elizabeth and Russell disagree on nearly every important issue? They are on the same team!

In segment four, Henry and Elizabeth talk more about Harrison. Who is that? Is that the senator whose name I can’t remember? I wish that I knew this for sure. Alexander has the main thing going on right now that Henry was working on. It is Blake and not Jay that I was talking about who has these family people. I’ll have to remember that Blake has black hair and Jay has brown hair. Elizabeth says that she will fire Blake in a year’s time. The people then find out what is going on in regards to the one problem and find out that Pedro, whoever that is, is the person responsible.

In segment five, Elizabeth returns to the situation room. A raid is about to happen. Elizabeth wants this to be stopped as the raid wouldn’t get their real target. Henry learns that the majority leader, Owen, is the person responsible. Or that’s what he’s telling someone at least. I still don’t know who this senator is that keeps showing up this season. But I do love how some of the evils each season are insiders of the American government who are just out for their own way of doing things. For an episode that I thought was about the opiod crisis based on the initial promos, this sure hasn’t been really focusing on it that much. Conrad is afraid that it will hurt his son. Alexander meets Stevie at a restaurant. I can’t figure those two out yet.

There are no scenes from next time so I guess there won’t be a new episode next week. Just know that you will see more Russian paragraphs from me in future posts and I will talk about various other things in future posts. Don’t be surprised if the next post is a political one. Sorry that this post came on a Tuesday instead of a Monday. The rest of the posts should be normal on Monday until the next potential change. For now, this is Adam Decker, signing off.

Episode from 11-19-2017

Too much has changed with my life regarding Thanksgiving. It used to be that most Thanksgivings, we would enjoy a meal made by my grandmother. Only she died this year, long after her great meals were never made again. We have done other things with other family members. My other grandmother is past the age of making great meals (on her own at least). My brother hosted Thanksgiving before. I don’t know if I’d like that to always happen, but it might be good some times. We’ll see what happens, but we are doing a lesser thing for the third time yet it might be the best choice.

I do have a special post ready regarding the Illinois governor election next year which is why I haven’t talked that much about it here yet. That’s one of the reasons why I’m doing these shorter blurbs now as I’m not sure that I care enough to do special posts just yet. Maybe I’ll mention something during the summer if worst comes to worst.

Now let’s get to the Indiana race for Senate. The incumbent senator running for reelection is Democrat Joe Donnelly. He is notable for being one of three Democrats to vote for Neil Gorsuch for the Supreme Court. I don’t think that he had done anything wrong while in office and I admire him for the vote I just mentioned even though I disagree with it. (The process was too messed up at that point.) He is facing a primary challenge from Martin Del Rio, who is a veteran. Martin has not held office before so if you are voting in the Democratic primary, vote for Joe. The primary is on May 8, 2017.

Let’s get to the Republican side of the election. There are five people currently in the race. One is Mark Hurt, an attorney and former congressional aide. Another is Andrew Takami, who is the director of one of the Purdue Institutes. I wouldn’t support either of them since they don’t seem to have much political experience. They might have some, but not enough having not held elective office before. The other three Republicans in the race have had or still have elective office.

I couldn’t find much about Mike Braun, who is not currently in office, except that he resigned from office to focus on this senate race. What’s interesting about a different candidate, Luke Messer, is that he hold Mike Pence’s old seat in the House of Representatives. He has moved to Washington DC so I don’t even know why he is allowed to run for office back in Indiana. Plus, I can’t support someone who is against Obamacare like he is. Plus, he supported Trump’s travel ban. I find out information about Todd Rokita and he has the same bad views as Luke, with even worse views like denying the reality of climate change being caused by humans. He also might be owned by the NRA, based on what I could tell about it. I’d recommend voting for Mike in the primaries.

Who is doing better between the Rams and the Chargers? Well, I was concerned at first that the Rams weren’t winning any home games since their only losses so far this season were at home. Well, they won a game at home and are now 7-2. The Chargers are 3-6 since they only won three games in mid October. They went from a losing streak to a brief winning streak to another losing streak.

If you are following the Alabama Senate election and have heard stories about women being paid to say that they were harassed by Roy Moore, you should know that these are fake news stories made by Russians. How do I know this? Well, they can’t seem to figure out that the dollar sign goes before the amount of money and not after it. While there might have been a chance that the women were lying, the fact that only fake news sources say this seem to prove that they are telling the truth. Think about it. It wouldn’t be too hard to find out whether or not they made it up. Why make up that they made it up if they had actually made it up?

After the hurricanes earlier this year, it made me wonder if I should add other football teams to root for. The areas hit were Houston, who has the Texans, and Miami, who has the Dolphins. I might add them, but they are not playing each other this season and I’m not sure that I would care enough about last season to add them should they have played each other. Besides, I’d make them a tier two set of teams where I don’t root for any of them outside the nine I already do, putting on a lower set of things to root for. I’d add Florida’s other two teams, the Jacksonville Jaguars and Tampa Bay Buccaneers, to the list this time around and I might come up with other teams in future football seasons.

Как и было обещано в более раннем посте, вот еще один абзац на русском языке. Это происходит из статьи Time Magazine, которая была напечатана 8 августа 2016 года. В данной статье спрашивается: «Есть ли у Путина стороны?» Этот абзац начинается с напоминания об Уотергейте и вступлении в штаб-квартиру Демократической партии. Русские хаки DNC - хорошее сравнение с ужасным событием, известным как Уотергейт. Мне нужно будет сделать пост позже, чтобы обучить некоторых из вас на Уотергейт. Это было 20 000 писем, и это беспокоит то, что республиканцам все равно, что это происходит, и не сделает ничего, чтобы это не повторилось. Статья заканчивается этим предупреждением: «Если кто-то хочет нанести большой ущерб США, это способ, которым они могут это сделать». И это то, что сделали русские.

You might be confused by the previous paragraph. You see, I have decided to put random paragraphs in Russian whenever I want to in this blog. You will see one in the next post as well. So get used to me doing such as thing from time to time and hopefully you can translate it if you want to.

I have time to watch games today before primetime. CBS is annoying me with a doubleheader. Okay, that doesn’t annoy me as much right now as the fact that it is a Patriots game and the Patriots are beating the Raiders. There are no games on FOX and both of my CBS affiliates are airing the same game. Only it changes. The game changes into a Broncos versus Bengals game with the Bengals winning. This is the more interesting game.

I’m mainly watching what I think is the season finale of The Toy Box. I wonder if its timeslot will go to America’s “Funniest” Home Videos. Weren’t they originally going to air To Tell the Truth earlier? That’s concerning that they didn’t even bring it in when 10 Days in the Valley was pulled from the schedule and they doubled up on Shark Tank, another concern for it. Keep track of every show that is needlessly delayed because they don’t tend to be back on the next season.

The Bengals end up winning the game against the Broncos. This will mean less of a delay, although it will be later than the 30 minutes they planned it to be. I can only assume that the fucking Patriots won the game that they cut off the end of in my region. But I don’t need to see them win. This just gets to my show sooner than it otherwise would be.

Today’s episode is brought to you by 35 minute delay. We begin with Elizabeth talking about Jason’s new girlfriend. He is different and nicer around her. Elizabeth is summoned to the white house where she talks with the president and Conrad. They recap the abducted agent and bombing of the one place from earlier. Elizabeth talks to Henry about the dinner and the attack in Afghanistan. This girlfriend of Jason was from Kenya. This is an awkward dinner. Watch the movie Popeye and you’ll see another awkward dinner like that. We get to Cat finally. What is with the weird haircut? I hope that was what the actress already looked like when they cashed her.

Elizabeth has a weird dream about the whole retiring on a farm thing. This isn’t the same type of dream as one you have when you are asleep. Henry meets with that shady, evil senator guy whose name I’m not sure I know. I’m bad at names, but a lot of shows don’t mention names as often as they should have. Elizabeth wants to meet with Cat and hopefully I’m spelling it right. It could be with a k instead of a c. A person wound up with small pox and they think that Russia did it. They made Russia evil already before.

In segment two, people are updated as to the small pox situation. I miss watching some of the opening credits due to a local alert telling us when the news starts. Elizabeth and Henry talk by the phone about how to raise Jason best. Once again, Elizabeth butts head with a foreign national person. #takeashot. This person (a foreign minister) doesn’t have an idea of what went on. Henry and Jason have a talk about his girlfriend and his grades (mostly his grades).

Elizabeth is with her group when Cat comes to the white house. They have a nice talk about things and Cat talks about an oil spill that happened in Siberia about the possible zombie small pox that happened. Henry talks to his students about whatever his lesson was about. There is then this random guy who he talks to and as usual, I don’t understand. Elizabeth thinks that permafrost might be causing the small pox problem due to global warming happening. But can they fight this? And is Russia at fault?

In segment three, Elizabeth talks again to this person and apologizes for thinking that he caused the problem, only they don’t seem to want to look for a solution. Correct me if I’m wrong, but I think that only politicians in the US deny the reality of climate change. Elizabeth talks to the person in quarantine about what has happened. Elizabeth and Henry talk more about Jason and what to do about him. Why is he the only child known to be troublesome? I guess it means having less of Stevie’s dumb love life or Alison’s perfectness. The person with small pox died.

In segment four, Elizabeth thinks that there is more that they can do after what has happened. Matt (I think) comes up with an idea that could work. Cat randomly comes in and helps with the situation. Cat thinks that the problem comes from the extinction of the wholly mammoth. This makes me want to watch Ice Age again. Scientists are wanting to clone and thus reintroduce the wholly mammoth. I’ve seen Jurassic Park. That’s not a good idea. But Elizabeth does have some sort of solution to the problem that will hopefully work.

They still don’t know how to give Jason the sex talk. I don’t think that I ever got the sex talk, but I’m still a virgin so I’m not sure that I need one like others do. They want to give the talk together and Jason does a facepalm when that happens. He explains how due to a spiritual connection of some sort that they are not having sex and they think that her parents already got to her with the talk.

In segment five, Elizabeth hunts down Cat again and mentions her terrible haircut. At least it isn’t a Mohawk. That’s the worst hairstyle I’ve ever seen. Elizabeth wants to know how to work with Russia in order to stop a potential pandemic. There is potential solution, it seems. Only it doesn’t seem like there is a good solution to everything. They come up with a deal of some sort that will protect everything. Only there are still problems with the diplomats and other issues.

Cat wants to talk to Elizabeth and wants to keep working with her. Since she is already in the main cast in her debut episode (which does not happen a lot), this does not come as a surprise, since she is already announced as part of the cast anyways. We also talk about the furniture throwing that made her famous or infamous, as it would seem. Henry thinks that only people in the president’s cabinet or this gang of eight in Congress could have known and tipped them off. If they have already introduced this character, then it is probably obvious who they are.

On the next Madam Secretary, they talk more about the opioid crisis and that’s about all of it that I got from the promo. You don’t have to be vague with promos to the extent that we are not that interested in the next new episode. Give us something to get us back. A promo like that gives nothing to anyone except maybe those who care about the opioid crisis. May I never know someone affected by it. For now, this is Adam Decker, signing off.

Episode from 11-12-2017

Since the Rams had a bye week and the Chargers had the same thing a week later, I thought that it would be better not to do an update on comparing the two teams until both of their byes were done. Now that they are, I might as well get to telling you about the comparison between them. The Chargers are now 3-5. The Rams are 6-2. Hopefully the Rams can keep their winning up.

From what I know now about the Texas church shooting, it was bad and could have been worse. This is the first instance I know of where a person fired back at the shooter. There are conflicting things with what I read about him. He went to church but may not have believed anything there as he is atheist. I don’t like them even when they don’t shoot up Christians. But this will not help their reputation by any means. He killed himself so there’s no reason to mention any more about him. I do wonder why I heard about this morning attack at night.

Now let’s get to the Wisconsin governor race. Scott Walker is running for reelection. He’s a Republican and a poll had a generic Democrat beating him. However, I’m not sure that I take polls too seriously. Right now, there is only one Republican against him. That person is Ryan Cason. Ryan has no experience and even admits to being a candidate who won’t even talk about the issues outside of the two that he cares about. Stick with Scott in the Republican primary. I’ll have to talk to my senior pastor who used to live in this state about who he would recommend voting for if he’s following this election. I believe that the primary is on August 14, 2018.

Let’s get to the Democrats in the race and hopefully I don’t miss anyone. Michele Doolan and Andy Gronik are two people who have never run for anything before. I don’t know much else about them. Bob Harlow and Mike McCabe are people who have run for office before and lost those races. They have not won any election, although Mike has helped with Democratic campaigns in his state. Tony Evers is a person in the race who is a superintendant right now. He has an email controversy of some sort so he might be best avoided. Kathleen Vinehout is another candidate in the race. I don’t see much that she offers except being a failed candidate for governor before. While I can’t find much information on Dana Wachs, he seems like the best choice on the Democratic side in this race.

I’ve seen commercials for some dumb thing called love has no labels. What is that even about? I don’t get it exactly and it seems dumb to have PSAs over something that everyone already knows about now anyways. You’re here, you’re queer, we’re used to it. What, are we supposed to be okay with it just because society expects us to be? You do realize a major flaw with the Supreme Court ruling on gay marriage is that while it means that laws can’t prevent it from happening, most places still don’t have laws that say that gays can get married, thus skipping a very important step in the legal process. That’s why Kim Davis wasn’t actually breaking any laws.

If you have no idea what I was talking about there, let’s switch back to the strange election in Alabama that oddly doesn’t have Strange in it. I am hoping that Luther Strange enters as a write in candidate as that would make it even more likely that the Democrat wins. I really hope that no one is buying the idea that Roy Moore is Christian because he isn’t. He thinks he is, but he’s not. That’s a very dangerous thing. Look up Charles Guiteau if you don’t believe that a religious nut can affect history. Even then, warping religion was a bad thing and it still is. Now with all these allegations of sexual misconduct against Moore, I just don’t see why this would be a candidate that people would still support, but this country’s lack of intelligence continues to surprise me. Still, Alabama reminds me now of what Illinois was like after Obama won. Will they be in towards a shift for the left like my state shifted some to the right?

Once again, I didn’t have time for football today, although a lot of it was over long before primetime on CBS. I am starting to like watching the NFL if only to get back at the idiots who protest them. I could have watched a game on FOX, but I was busy before primetime and missed it. At least shows aren’t on delay this time around.

Today’s episode is brought to you by no delay. We begin with a recap involving the Talban attack and the romance of Stevie. She finally gets her parents together and tells them about the break-up. She thinks that the relationship failure is his fault, although I don’t know for sure. I think that it was a mutual failing. Maybe he was just responsible for the break-up. There is a hostage that people have to deal with now. They don’t want to pay for the ransom. Henry thinks that this will result in the person’s death. Elizabeth talks to her team about what is going on. Henry wants to find the missing person. Elizabeth talks to a possibly random person about the situation. Henry notices that the person tried to send a message. It reminds me of that episode of The Unit where the main black guy was captured.

In segment two, Elizabeth is more concerned with what is going on with her family. Stevie doesn’t like what Jareth, her ex-fiancée, has posted on facebook. Of course, I’m the weirdo who almost never does recent pictures on facebook. Henry learns that the captive they are after did use Morse code. Stevie has to deal with the people at work learning about her break-up with Jareth. Russell tells Stevie about a bad relationship that he was in that he’s glad that he’s out of. We still don’t know what is happening with Daisy’s baby. Why was this a plot they put in here?

Elizabeth is looking for a new policy advisor. Will this be who Cat plays? She then talks to someone who must have been a previous captive or something like that. They learn an important piece of information: land mines went off nearby the place. They think they know the place.

In segment three, they talk about the planned operative and greenlight the op. We see what happens, but it doesn’t seem like much did at the moment. Should they keep up this policy? That seems to be the main focus of the episode. That’s actually a good one to ask. 60 Minutes did a good segment about it. Not much happens this act, although I could just be too tired to focus well enough.

In segment four, there are problems with trying to resolve the other problem. Elizabeth talks about a bad decision that she made in the past. Is this unrelated to the main issue? I’m getting confused here. Jay is having trouble adjusting to his new job. That might be the reason why I am so tired a lot of the time. I should have taken my Sunday nap as usual, but didn’t feel tired enough for it. Matt and Jay seem to do a double team for an idea of some sort.

In segment five, we get back to the captive who seemed to have been moved elsewhere in the rain. What does this mean? She seems to be fine, based on a text that Henry got. But should they change the policy? They think that a person might have changed sides. Alexander is invited to hang out with the family of Henry’s. Who wants to bet that he’ll wind up with Stevie? Also was Daisy’s actress, Patina Miller, pregnant herself? I don’t know what’s going on.

Speaking of confusing things, Elizabeth is upset over the end of the relationship because of boots. Alexander talks about a video game that he played. Henry somehow knows about the game. Alexander and Stevie talk about her break-up. She wants to go out with him, but he is being responsible, unlike how she normally is. I bet that the people who play Alison and Jason don’t like the fact that Stevie gets so much airtime since she wasn’t originally on the show as of the pilot. Stevie puts her number in Alex’s phone so I guess we will see them as a couple. But does she know of his true identity?

On the next segment of the show, there is a person dating or wanting to date someone and I guess that I’ll be confused until the next episode airs. But they have to do things like that. If a promo revealed too much, would people watch? I’ll see you next time where I’ll hopefully have more time to myself the day it airs, but I just don’t know what will happen. For now, this is Adam Decker, signing off.

Episode from 11-5-2017

For a TV junkie like me, there can be problems that happen with trying to watch all the TV shows that I like to. Normally it doesn’t matter if I miss a show that I’d like to watch. But I don’t tend to keep missing everything over and over again. You see, NBC has not come in that well if at all for a long time. This means that I can’t watch The Brave to see if that is any good. It also means missing all of the NBC shows that I already cared about like Law and Order: SVU, The Good Place, Blindspot, Saturday Night Live, The Tonight Show starring Jimmy Fallon, and anything else that I might care about. Will any of it ever return? I want to at least keep up with The Good Place and Blindspot. I would watch online, but the website of the network has to be crappy too.

Since there are different elections that I want to keep track of, I should find out the dates for primaries for these elections since they will vary by state. In case I don’t get to a special post later, I might as well mention a different election each post. I’ll start with Missouri’s race for senate. The incumbent in the race who is running for reelection is Claire McCaskill. My brother actually lives in Missouri and while he doesn’t always support her, he said it best when he said this, “Whenever she is in the news, it is about something good she did.” Disclaimer: I’m not sure of his exact words, but they were something along the lines of that.

Who else is in the race? The only other Democrat in the race right now is Angelica Earl who I can’t find much information about right now except that she has not held elective office before. If you vote in the Democratic primary, vote for Claire. The primary is on August 7^th, 2018 if I have the date right. She fights against human traffickers. That’s the most heinous crime that I know of.

Now let’s get to the Republicans in the race. Tony Monetti and Courtland Sykes are both retired military people. I don’t know that much about the incumbent governor of Missouri, but I don’t think that he was a good choice because one would need political experience. Someone else in the race is Austin Petersen who was a Libertarian in just 2016. While he is pro-life, don’t think that he’s the Christian candidate, because he’s actually an atheist. It is hard to understand some of his views, but he is for the Second Amendment so I guess he passes that test.

Josh Hawley is the main Republican to look out for, but I think that Claire could destroy him in ads if not the election. I don’t know what to make of him outside of the fact that he could just be someone who wants to work his way up in politics. Still, I’d endorse him in the Republican primary as he might be the only good person on that side. But I’d have to do more research as KMOV will air or has aired a story that seems to relate to something bad that happened under his watch. Whether or not he is responsible for this bad thing (an unpunished criminal) is unknown by me without more research. Josh is currently the attorney general of the state.

I don’t know if there will be many changes into what I watch on DVD for a while. But there is one and there could be another in the near future. Shining Time Station is done being watched and is replaced by recorded shows on tape. I have three tapes ready, although I’d have less if the laptop I am using was working better in the past and I could use my TV tuner. This change also means that NCIS: Los Angeles is off the list and switched out with NCIS.

As a country, we are still not over the Las Vegas attack and then a Halloween one in New York happens. This time, it is a foreigner and not an American. Who cares that this new guy killed 50 less people than the Las Vegas shooter? Let’s get rid of the lottery that lets people into the country! Well, that’s what Trump wants and I need to do more research into this thing. ISIS originally claimed responsibility, only to change their mind when the suspect was arrested. I don’t know why they always claim responsibility for an attack, but it would serve as a constant reminder with why they need to be taken out. Let’s just not get any innocent people mixed in with the bunch.

Since I brought up the Las Vegas shooter, I might as well bring up the fact that people are going after his girlfriend with the idea that she should have known. Most people don’t know terrible things about another. None of the people who knew the shooter thought that he was this type of person. Why should she be any different? If he had an affair, do you feel that she should have known he was cheating on her? Because it seems to me that people always say that the woman is the last to know when her husband is cheating. I don’t know if that’s true or not. It could just be something that people say. But I really don’t want there to be a scapegoat in that shooting.

The ABC show that I watched at the same time as this is supposed to air, 10 Days in the Valley, was pulled from the schedule and “not” cancelled, with burn-offs scheduled for Saturdays after November sweeps are over. Get the ironic quotation marks yet? After watching some of The Toy Box, I learn that they are looking for new people for future seasons. While the doesn’t guarantee future seasons, it means that someone on the network is considering one. I am also a bit concerned now about the show Wisdom of the Crowd since the charges came against Jeremy Pivon that he might have committed sexual harassment. Although, I haven’t watched it as much as I could have.

I learned briefly of a Texas shooting that happened sometime during Sunday. I should know more about it by the time I do next week’s post. Are we going to keep getting one terrible shooting after another? And it was a church shooting. One shouldn’t shoot people regardless of where they worship or what religion they are. Shooting people is wrong. How do so many people not seem to know that?

There was actually another change in the TV shows on DVD that I watch. The next Power Rangers episode on the season three DVD set is a Christmas one. Thus, I’m removing it from the list and replacing it with random episodes of The Andy Griffith Show that my mother got me randomly. This also means that NCIS is off of the list and replaced by NCIS: Los Angeles. I was also pretty busy the day that this episode aired and didn’t get to see many sports. I learn that the Cowboys beat the Chiefs in the game that happened right before the end of the late airing sports game.

Today’s episode is brought to you by 30 minute delay. We begin with updates into some of what has happened so far this season. I don’t fully know what all to mention. Henry is at a briefing where he is telling people what happened. The evil senator (what’s his name?) is back and does different evil stuff than what he did last time. They mention stuff relating to the movie The Godfather. I should see that since I am a godfather. Henry gives an update to the meeting to Elizabeth.

Jay (was that it?) gets used to his new job at the top. It is weird that Nadine just left so suddenly. Plus, when are we getting to Cat? Elizabeth talks to foreign people about important things. Jay is the new chief of staff, like I thought. Who is the policy adviser then? Are we going to ignore that? Is that the role that Cat is going to fill?

Henry talks to his team and tries to get more reassurance from Alexander that he will focus some. There are problems with the foreign visitors, as usual. It wouldn’t be this show without some sort of international or domestic crisis. Elizabeth talks to more people about what to do and they decide that Conrad should go to the country. We see a news report about the senator criticizing the trip instead of what he was doing and Elizabeth points out about what really is going on. Julia, an important person somehow, is being expelled from the country she is in and Conrad is going to. God help us if a country ever expels a person, whether they are a citizen of it or not.

In segment two, Henry talks about spying on his daughter. Julia arrives at their house. Julia was involved with two people in the country she was at. They want to figure out a good way to hide up Julia’s affair with these two people. Alison doesn’t think that she’s good enough to do a project that she’s working on. At least they are giving her some back story, even if it could be better.

The person in Kurdistan wants to get an apology. Elizabeth wants to figure out the human trafficking problem. Only there might not be one since it could be some confusing thing again. Talks seemed to have stalled. Where will they find a place to host this forum? Conrad is no longer going internationally. Matt talks some to Jay about needing to figure out a new way of behaving now that his job has changed.

In segment three, they found a place to host the country and found an important person in Bora Bora. What is that place? Did I spell it right? (I did if I wrote it.) Elizabeth talks to her husband about things. Henry is heading to Kobo. What is that? They take each other’s reading glasses to make sure that they are both safe and have reading glasses. Couldn’t they use each other’s glasses? The news of the affair broke out and the summit seems to have been cancelled as a result.

Alison needs someone to do the presentation. Stevie agrees, despite wanting to stick with work more. Possibly exciting things happen at the White House due to the missing person who might have been found. Is it just me, or does this show do too much at once?

In segment four, they learn more about the breach and Julia testifies for people about her discretions. Does anyone understand this breach thing that went on? Henry talks to someone and they learn that some other problem happened that somehow ties into Julia in some way. There is an explosion. I’ve said this before and I’ll say it again: what just happened?

In segment five, we learn about a drone strike and more of what happened to Henry’s team, which is that they are all okay as the perimeter was closed just in time. Julia, the ambassador is brought up again as she caused various problems. Why does this guy have a translator if he speaks English occasional? I guess that he only knows some or enough to make it on occasion.

Stevie wonders if what she did was a good or bad idea. She then confesses that her engagement to Jeremy is off. That’s actually good since it never brought much to the show except irritation for me. Alison gives her sister a pep talk as to what she should do. We then learn that the summit to stop human trafficking is back on. The McCord family watches the catwalk that Stevie did. Henry and Elizabeth reunite again. They try to figure out who was responsible for the problem and Conrad thinks that someone from the inside tipped them off. It is at this point that a lemming goes "oh no!" and then explodes.

On the next Madam Secretary, a CIA agent is captured and they have to talk once again about the policy about not negotiating with terrorists. I hope that isn’t a real policy as it seems really dumb. It gives them far too much power, if it is real. I don’t know what else to mention in this post. For now, this is Adam Decker, signing off.