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.