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- - - T.H.A.T., Edition No. 261 - - -

    Welcome to a new year, and you should look forward to the new year--so it is said--but I have stuff related to the past year that I have to talk about, and I waited to talk about it till now, allowing the dust to settle (as they might say).  Yet, that is not quite true, since I have to back up in time even farther so that I can give you some perspective of the past.  In the past, I have talked about how the members of the Democratic Party, especially those in the U.S. Congress and in the main media worked to push through impeachments against Donald Trump (such as when he was the U.S. president officially), and it was all a bunch of crap from the Democrats.  In the past, an investigation into Donald Trump--pushed along mostly by Democratics--resulted in the release of some tax records of Donald Trump to the public, and it was an unlawful act that led to no one getting punished for the action of releasing the tax records.  Bad people--such as Democrats--pushed out the idea that Donald J. Trump had done something rotten in relation to a man named Jeffrey Epstein (a child-sex offender).  I can say that, in general, for years, the Democrats pushed out the idea that Donald Trump was working for Putin (the man who stated the Russia-Ukraine war a few years ago).  The Democrats pushed out the idea that Donald Trump was instrumental in causing the attack of "January 6" (as it is referred to regularly in simple form today).  It also must be pointed about that there have been at least two assassination attempts against Donald J. Trump in recent years, and the suspects in the actions were not, for instance, non-communists or non-socialists or non-Sharia-law supporters.  All the themes that I have passed along were corrupt incidents that showed that nothing done by Donald J. Trump had been crappy or illegal, and some of the events wasted a lot of government time and money (taxpayer money, really) that was in the millions.
    Now I come to the main topic of this section of the document, and I move up to recent time, and this main topic shows that there are no limits on the rottenness that Democrats and like people will go to hurt others for their own gains, and what they wish to gain includes, for instance, high status and prestige, monetary gains, and the "freedom" to do whatever they would like to do in life for as little effort as possible.  On Tuesday, November 18, 2025, the people in the United States of America began to be exposed to a video--either the video proper or audio from the video--that featured the minds of six members of the Democratic Party and the U.S. Congress, and the video showed how evil and rotten the minds were and are, and the people in the video were "Representative Elissa Slotkin," "Senator Mark Kelly," "Representative Chris Deluzio," "Congressman Maggie Goodlander," "Representative Chrissy Houlahan," and "Congressman Jason Crow.".  Most people who saw the video over the next week or so after the release date did not fully report clearly the true bad nature of the people related to the video, and mostly it was reported that the video was sort of a call for the U.S. military to go against Donald Trump or at least some orders from Donald Trump, hinting that Donald Trump had already issued illegal orders to the military.  The video opened with the showing of the six participants, and, in the video, the participants said a bunch of words, and the really telling statement was this statement--"...This administration [the U.S. President Donald J. Trump administration] is pitting our uniformed military and intelligence community professionals against American citizens....".  The statement should make people think, for instance, of old movies or television shows or documentaries that report how Adolph Hitler's Germany used the military (or a military-like entity) to round up citizens in Germany and put them in prison or kill them, and people like Hitler have existed or exist today in a number of countries of the world, such as North Korea, China, Cuba, Iran, and Russia.  Yes, the statement was purposely used to give Americans, especially stupid Americans (who make up most of the country), the impression that Donald Trump is like or is acting like or will act like a dictator and round up Americans and put them in jail or prison or do worse to them.  It can mean no other thing, and the statement was not a slip of the tough--the statement was purposely used to insight fear in Americans and worry in Americans and insight hatred for Donald J. Trump in Americans.  It cannot be said by anyone that the six participants were oblivious to what the statement was intended to do, given all the participants were and are adults, though their minds can be like those of children's, and if their minds are like those of children's, they should never be members of the U.S. government, especially in either the U.S. Senate or the U.S. House of Representatives.  Of course, at no time did the participants back up their statement with reality or facts, such as facts that showed Donald J. Trump was going to and even had set up anything to round up American citizens, such as in his first term as the U.S. president (which ran for four years).  In addition, in aftermath interviews or in aftermath press conferences, the six members did not show that their statement was valid and useful [Note: It could be argued that the video was so short--aimed at presentation on television--that there was no time to present facts to back up what the video was working to sell, but then aftermath activities should have been presented.].  For the six to not present back-up material later shows that their purpose was not designed to provide any back-up material.  The entire presentation was intended to sell lies and bullshit as truth [as had been the purpose of events presented in the first paragraph of this section of the document].
    Hold It!  I have something pertinent to the story to make clear.  At the opening of the video, the six members reported that they were or are former military-type people, in essence.  However, Elissa Slotkin reported that she was a former worker in the CIA.  Of course, in relation to the average idiot who is a viewer or listener to the video, the six worked to sell the idea that each of them should be listened to because of a past association with some military-like thing, such as the U.S. Navy (as was noted by Mark Kelly), or the six should be listened to as valuable and honorable just because of the past association.  However, a smart and honorable person would be well aware that a person's association with the military is no guarantee that the person is worthwhile, and, for instance, Colin Powell (now death), John McCain (now dead), and Mark Milley had ties to the military or has ties to the military, and yet each promoted as good socialistic and communistic ways or socialistic or communistic people, such as Barack Obama (a hard-line black communist).  I can say that the six members were aware that, if they were to present their past association in relation to military work, they would be getting the viewer or listener to accept them as honorable and the like and it would be a ploy to manipulate the viewer or listener into believing whatever was presented by them, whether or not the information was shallow or a lie or fake or unfounded or nothing.
    I have to say that, for at least 2025, it was the ugliness moment in television, since most people probably became aware of the video presentation through television, and I can say that is was the "ugliest" since nothing else that happened in 2025 that reached the height of ugliness.

    Since late 1990s, subchannel networks have come and gone, such as for viewers in the Detroit area, and, by the way, I still miss the Detroit-area offering called "Television Drive-In" (though it was padded with a lot of filler stuff between movies), which had mostly B-movies from the 1930s to the 1970s.  Today, there are a number of subchannel networks that are aimed mostly at blacks on broadcast television for Detroit-area viewers.  There is "Bounce TV."  I do not watch :Bounce, since every time I tune in, the movie seems to be about shooting and an inner-city gang stuff, and the people are mostly angry, and I have yet to run across something like a happy romance (with a black couple) with lighthearted comedy.  "Dabl" shows a bunch of series mostly, and I do not watch it regularly, since, for instance, every time I tune in, I see something that was originally aimed at young people, such as Sister, Sister.  Two channels now carry "The 365," and I do not watch that channel since it often has violent stuff and inner-city lower-brow stuff.  With all that information in your mind, I can move on to the main subject of this paragraph.  Since I published the previous edition of Television History and Trivia, "Black Vision TV" has shown up (showing up on broadcast channel 18.4) in the Detroit area.  I came across the video (on the Internet) promoting the channel soon after I had discovered it was on the air in Detroit, and the promo noted that it was designed for the "underserved black audience."  What the hell does that mean?  There are black-based shows or mostly shows with black casts all over the place.  The promo also passed along the ideas that the channel had a "diverse range of shows" and "promotes positive values and strengthens family connects."  That is publicity flap-doodle.  I say that the channel is low-budget stuff as a rule, featuring, for instance, talk shows, stand-up comedy shows, and sitcoms.  The sitcoms are C-grade or barely B-grade, having poor writing (with little real comedy and with a lot of padded moments), having "staged" situations (staging) for the actors, and having too much badly recorded moments (where the microphone is too far away from a performer).  One of the talk shows is called Brotherhood in America.  It is hosted by Bentley Kyle Evans, who is touted to be a producer, writer, and director, information that is supposed to make the viewer think that Bentley Kyle Evans is great.  In essence, the show has Bentley Kyle Evans talking in the round with a couple black guys, such as Lawrence Hilton Jacobs (an actor), and, based on what I have seen, it is basically fluff stuff with a lot of jackass ideas.  The big problem I have with the show (series) is the logo contains a "black fist."  That fist reminds me of the rotten blacks of such entities as "The Black Panthers" of, for instance, the 1960s.  In segments of the series, I have heard signs of black racism, too.  Yet, the promo that I saw tried to sell the idea that the network is designed to promote positive values and strengthen family connections.  It looks as if I will not tune into Black Vision TV on a regular basis, since I have an aversion to crap.

    For many years or decades, WTVS-TV (the PBS-affiliate in Detroit), Channel 56, has had American Black Journal (or the program with another name) on the air, and on Tuesday, December 30, 2025, I caught much of an episode of the series on the station, an episode that had begun at 7:30 p.m..  The host was, as usual, Stephen Henderson, whom I have talked about in the past as being crap.  Stephen Henderson had three guests on the program--Reverend Charles Adams, Reverend Cindy Rudolph, and Pastor Aramis Hinds.  The four were shown for most of the program through a four-boxes-on-the-screen setup.  Upon seeing the program, I thought to myself I could do a school class on how rotten the program was, presenting quotes and breaking down the quotes for where they were about really.  I did not tape the program so that I might report in this document the rottenness of the program, given I was on, in essence, holiday, and I did not want to waste the time taking down quotes from the group.  The program was like a year-in-review program, and it presented fluff and unfound statements, such as about how bad the country was now that Donald J. Trump was the president, and, in essence, it was pushed out that the country was now going in the wrong direction.  The worst of the time came from Charles Adams, who seemed to labor to get sentences and words out.  Charles Adams and the others, basically, talked like a bunch of black socialists and black communists sitting around, passing along fluff to each other, such as that conservatives were nothing more than going along with the "king" (Donald J. Trump) and could be lead around like sheep, and it was passed along that they are going to have to struggle through the next few years with Donald J. Trump as the U.S. president.  It was all bullshit.  For example, the group never gave one example why the country is going in the wrong direction.  It was just words said and clichés.  This document does not really present quotes from the bullshit program, but I use this document to report that the program does exist on the Internet, and you can see it and notice all the crap that it presents--crap like the lies that the Democrats use to put down Donald J. Turmp and non-communists and non-socialists, especially whites, regularly.  Yes, the program even came off as a bunch of blacks talking like black racists--listen carefully--but I have to say that that is not surprising to me, since I have heard such racist things pushed out by people on the program over the years.  And American Black Journal, which is seen in other areas of the country, taught crap through the episode, and it shows why Detroit--I say--in a dead city really.  By the way, the four probably consider themselves "thought leaders," a term that has become vogue in recent years and comes off to me as shit.

    Hey, let me put in this little commentary, too.  Have you heard how some musical people have canceled their doing "Kennedy Center" shows?  Some of the people are Billy Harper, Kristy Lee, and the members of The Cookers, and they are saying that the main reason for the cancellation is related to having Donald J. Trump's name associated with the building for the "Kennedy Center" entity.  So it shows--since Donald J. Trump is not a communist or a socialist or the like and is not a pusher of communism and socialism and the like--the people are supporters of rottenness--communism and socialism and the like (since the government form of the country is anti these things under The U.S. Constitution).  Now, you know more of who the rotten people are in the country, especially in the entertainment industry.

    Incidentally, communism and socialism and progressivism and liberalism are enslavism forms of government, and they are like Sharia, which is what guides Iran, and the Democratic Party of today pushes for these forms of government.  Leaders who head these types of government are willing to hurt and even kill their own people.  Look at what happened in Iran to protesters in around December 30, 2026, for instance.  And look how Putin of Russia has damaged or killed over a million Russian soldiers in the war between Russia and Ukraine to get more for himself, and, of course, Putin has damaged many Ukrainians by running the war.

    For the most part, television newscasts are filled with fluff information and non-important information as a rule; for instance, it is commonplace for a local newscasts in Detroit to present information about a big car crash--that which has taken place hundreds and thousands of miles away from the viewer.  In relation to Detroit-area viewers, an event took place on January 1, 2026, in New York City that newscasts from the Detroit television station should have reported on well, but they did not.  The event was the inauguration speech of January 1, 2026, for Zohran Mamdani (a "Democratic Socialist," which is a defective term, given socialism is not democratic), who then became the current mayor of the New York City.  Zohran Mamdani presented a speech that showed he is an enslavist and a pusher of enslavism (which is more likely to be called communism, socialism, progressivism, liberalism, and Sharia by those who are working to make is the forever-style of government for the United States of America).  The speech was a hideous thing, showing Zohran Mamdani has the mind-set of Hitler, Putin, Mao, Castro, and like persons, all of whom--to be heads of country, such as for life--killed millions; for instance, in relation to the current Russia-Ukraine War, in which Putin is working to get more for himself and be seen in history was one of the so-called great, Putin has done things that have led to the death and damage to well over one-million persons.  Putin gets to be "free" to do whatever he wants with the citizens of Russia, such as let people be killed in a war to give stuff for Putin, and Putin gets to use the "collective" (a communist's term), who are the people, to do whatever he wants in life.  Putin, like Mao and the others of his type, gets to rule with an "iron fist" with a one-party government or, really, a one-person government.  On January 1, 2026, Zohran Mamdani said--"..Seldom do we hold such an opportunity to transform and reinvent....".  Yes, with a dictator-like person, the person can "reimagine" the world, setting down rules to what the dictator-like person wants the world to be for the dictator-like person, which is to have all other subservient to the dictator-like person, and all the others are considered the "collective" and not numerous "individuals," who might be "free" to, for instance, challenge the rotten ways set down by the dictator-like person.  To reimagine and reinvent New York City and more fully the United States of America, a person has to throw out the founding rules and ways and set up something that is opposite in nature, and what is left is an enslavism form of government, like a communist government.  Zohran Mamdani also said--"...Beginning today, we will govern expansively and audaciously....".  That means we will govern all-out and fully with an "iron fist," which cannot in the end be beaten back or beaten down.  Another statement that shows Zohran Mamdani wanted and wants to be all-powerful was shown in this statement--"...To those who insist the era of big government is over, hear me when I say this--No longer will City Hall hesitate to use its power to improve New Yorkers' lives....".  Government creates nothing; it only can take from one person and give to another, and that process may improve for the moment the life of one, who gets free stuff, but it does unimprove the life of the other, and there comes a point when all are equal or the same, having only what the government allows a person to have or is able to provide, and when people over time produce less and less, there is less to go around to all.  Zohran Mamdani cares not about individuals, and Zohran Mamdani provided proof of that idea by saying--"...We will replace the frigidity of rugged individualism with the warmth of collectivism....".  The statement was the most hideous presented on the day.  In essence, the United States of America has grown because individuals were free to be individuals and free to think for themselves and do for themselves and not wait for government--which creates nothing--to give them stuff, and, in cases, the country has grown because the people had to work and do things to grow themselves and expand, or, for instance, die in the cold of winter with no housing back in the 1700s and 1800s.  In truth, Zohran Mamdani wants to create an "ant society," and with such a society, there is the "collective"--all the people, except the rulers--thought of as one unit--and that "collective" is like the workers of an ant colony, and when an ant, for example, gets stepped on and killed, another is shifted into the space once held by the dead ant, and it is like each person is just a cog to be replaced on a whim.  There is no "warmth" in "collectivism."  Look at the cold that the bodies of the dead Russian soldiers have, becoming cold because Putin has wanted to "free" the people of Ukraine from non-communism.  During the speech, Zohran Mamdani presented ideas that in the long run will kill the city and chase away people who do things and make things, since the people will not want to be slaves and "enslaved."  Zohran Mamdani stated--"...The cost of childcare will no longer discourage young adults from starting a family, because we will deliver universal childcare for the many by taxing the wealthiest few...."  And--I say--when the wealthiest or really, people with money, even those not today called the wealthiest, leave New York, where will the money come from to pay for childcare?  Anyway, are you going to tell me that it is only "childcare" that stops people from having children?  Certainly, when two persons decide to have a child, they wonder if they will have enough money for give the child food and clothing and medical care and schooling supplies and toys and all the other things that is takes to raise a child.  Late in the speech, Zohran Mamdani reported--"...Those in rent-stabilized homes will no longer dread the latest rent hike, because well will freeze the rent....".  That idea will kill housing in New York City.  If rent payments are capped strictly, how will owners of rental property make up for increased costs to run buildings, such as in relation to heat and water and maintenance--inflation never stops in a whole country, especially when a government over-spends and pushes out endless piles of unbacked paper (stuff not backed will real wealth created).  I can see rental buildings going to crap and can see the number of rental properties held by individuals going down.  But that would be fine for an enslavist, who wants the "collective" beholden to the enslavist, so that the collective will vote for the enslavist--the benefactor in life (supposedly)--and the city could then get well into the business of renting or providing living areas for more and more people each day, but then, in essence, where would the city get more and more revenue to operate, since the city cannot tax the self and get anything useful?  One more statement of the many rotten statements that Zohran Mamdani said was--"...Those policies are not simply about the costs we make free, but the lives we fill with freedom.  For too long in our city, freedom has belonged to those who can afford to buy it....".  "Freedom"--that was the theme.  Enslavism is "freedom" for the rulers to do whatever they can or can get away with (for a long as they can [and the limit seems to have finally been reached in Iran]).  To have government provide everything "free" to the "collective" is not "freedom."  "Freedom" is about more than only money, and in the United States of America, almost everyone who goes work and saves has "freedom" to do, though not everything, but even the so-called rich cannot do everything, since the so-called rich simply do not sit around and have money drop in their laps based on no work done (and some can work 15 hours or more a day).  The mind of Zohran Mamdani is yet another sick mind and evil mind, and the state of that mind should have been shown up well or should be shown up well in television newscasts all over the country.

 Announcement for the novice again (reworked in March 2019): To get useful television-delivered news or Internet-delivered news, try Breitbart News Network (the history of which goes back to 2007), WorldNetDaily.com, Newsmax TV (which was started up in 2014), CNS News (which is on the Internet and which was launched on June 16, 1998), and One America News Network (a.k.a. OAN), since the entities do not blindly support Barack Obama-type people (communists, socialists, progressives, liberals, and Shariaists), as do CNN, MSNBC, NBC-TV, CBS-TV, and ABC-TV (Note: To learn about bad journalism, you might tune in to CNN, MSNBC, NBC-TV, CBS-TV, and ABC-TV from time to time to see how they differ from the better places mentioned).  I note that the Fox News Channel is evolving into a rotten channel, becoming like those that I have put down in this paragraph.  If you are unclear of my intentions, I say in different words that you should boycott CNN, MSNBC, NBC-TV, CBS-TV, and ABC-TV and even now much of what is on the Fox News Channel and hope they lose more ratings and advertising revenues, since they are expendable, and it is time for you to find the guts to be mean and heartless and cancel them--since they are hurting you.  In 2019, "The Drudge Report" was sold, and it should be treated as suspect for now.   [Note: Everyone in the Democratic Party in the country is rotten, and the Republican Party establishment has shown itself to be socialistic and communistic within the last few years, and only a few of the rotten people tied to the Republican Party are U.S. Senator Mitch McConnell, Mitt Romney, Jeb Bush, and Chris Christie.]
    [Note: Here is an example of Chris Christie's rottenness.  On Sunday, February 6, 2022, Chris Christie was a guest on This Week with George Stephanopoulos (of ABC-TV), which had Martha Raddatz as the host, and Chris Christie pushed out crap.  For example, Chris Christie said--"...And let's face it.  Let's call it what it is. January 6 was a riot that was incited by Donald Trump...an effort to intimidate Mike Pence and the Congress into doing exactly what he said in his own words last week--overturn the election.  And he's trying to do a cleanup on aisle one here...." and "...He actually told the truth by accident.  He wanted the election to be overturned....".  That is bullshit!]

    I have some video stuff to pass along--not real "television" stuff"; yet, the video stuff fits in with television.  On December 22, 2025, "Lon.TV" posted a video on YouTube, which I then happened to stumble upon, not directly searching for it.  The video, as you can see today, is called "Texas SUES LG, Sony, Samsung, TCLand Hisense over Automatic Content Recognition Features".  By the way, I do not have a "smart TV", but you may, and the video should interest you.  Basically, the video focuses on how television sellers (makers) have set up their television sets so that the sets can provide various types of data to various companies about what users of the television sets are viewing, using, often, very high sampling rates.  Yes, the focus is on "smart TV", such as those connected to the Internet in some way.  The video (or "Lon Seidman") reports how Attorney General of Texas Ken Paxton has started up the first lawsuit (in state court only) in relation to the sort of spying system.  For something different to see and learn about, go to YouTube and see "Texas SUES LG, Sony, Samsung, TCLand Hisense over Automatic Content Recognition Features".

    By the way, I have learned by posting videos on YouTube that the "YouTube" search-for-videos function is rather lame, and I am talking about the idea of using specific words to call up possible videos to see.  I might have an idea about something that I want to see or learn about, so I might use some search words that I think will get me something useful, and what I can get is a lot of unrelated stuff or a lot of stuff that seems should not have been called up, and I can even have a hard time calling up exactly this video or that video by using many exact words in the title.  I have worked to call up my videos, and when I use a few exact words in the title of a video, and get a bunch of other stuff on the page first (at least) not related to my words used.  My requested video should have come up front-and-center or so.  The YouTube-search thing can be defective at times (at least).

    I have reported that I have often looked to see videos on YouTube that are related to the war between Russia and Ukraine, and even if I do not call one up on a particular day, when I jump into YouTube, videos about the subject, such as recently posted videos, can be presented to me as something to see, and when I go into YouTube, I can get some nearly related subjects or unrelated subjects to things that I have seen in the past, such as about Iran.  Have you heard that Iran is having water trouble?  Much of that trouble has come about by the idiocy of the government people and the citizens and the religion of the country.  In particular, I have come across videos about the water trouble in Tehran and how the people are working to pray themselves out of the lack-of-water situation.  One video that I have seen recently is called "Tehran residents film their daily lives as Iran faces devastating...." (from France 24 English).  By the way, the religion in Iran is an enslavism-based religion, which is focused on violence and corruption, designed to benefit mostly the upper-levels of society (such as the rulers), and it is like communism and socialism.  At one point, in the video, a woman talks about how she is praying that "Allah" will come to their rescue, after they have atoned for their sins.  When I saw the woman speak, I wondered what they had done wrong to get the ire of Allah.  Did they not kill enough non-believers of Islam or Sharia?  The way of many in Iran is to kill and hurt others.  Let me make it clear--The religion that followed by most in Iran today was set up to justify the killing of others--to do the killing for the sake of Allah and the ways of Allah (which was created by men).  That is what the religion is about!  And you will not see that information reported on the regular television newscasts in the country.

    Announcement: Recently, I have added some new documents to the collection of my documents at the website for The Hologlobe Press.  One of the documents is entitled A Document that Dispels Myths and Nonsense of Science-Fiction Books, Movies, and Television Shows (A Logic Puzzle), which can be reached through this Myths link.  Another document is And So You Think You're Going to the Moon, Mars, or the Stars..., which can be reached by using this Moon link.  And yet another of the documents is entitled And the Stupid Women Shall Lead--and Lead Every Good Individual into Shit, Driven on by Communism, Feminism, and Defective Female Beliefs and Little-Girl Thinking, which can be reached through this Stupid Women link.  And here are other documents--A Review of What Television Controlled by Socialists and Communists Worked to Sell as Truth in Relation to the U.S. President Donald J. Trump Impeachment (at Impeachment) and T.H.A.T. Special Edition--The First Helicopter-based Traffic Reporters on Radio for the Detroit area of Michigan (at Helicopter Traffic).

    It is time for a little station break. Recently, in station breaks on Channel 4.3 (related to WDIV-TV) during Me TV shows, I have seen a somewhat new promotional announcement for the news operation at WDIV-TV (Channel 4.1), having, for example, Ty Steele talking.  The slogan pushed out is in the promotional announcement is--"Because your stories are my stories.".  It is stupid stuff or more stupid stuff from the station!

    In December 2025, I watched what I sort of regularly watch on television, such as football games, but I report I am a fan to no team or no person.  From time to time, commercials came up on the screen for various movies or series to see, such as on cable or on streaming platforms.  To me, it was just more crap or ugly stuff.  One ad was about the memory of a killer.  One ad was about something that was supposed to be a super-horror thing.  One ad--showing a crush Eiffel Tower--seemed to be about the end of the world.  One ad was about a doctor series on broadcast television, and, incidentally, the ad showed the doctor could not stand the sight of blood.  I stop there with the idea about what was hinted at as upcoming.  Not once did I see an ad for a nice show or movie or whatever.  So there is just going to be more ugly stuff on television this year.  Okay, I report that, on "The Hologlobe Press" channel (my channel) on YouTube, I have a video that shows how I made tiny little nude figurines (five of them), and it was done to present humor.  In the video, I show one of the gals upon which I based one of my figurines.  The gal is lovely, very lovely.  Now, if I were to go on a date with her, such as to a movie, or go on a date with her that was a stay-at-home thing, what would we see together?  Certainly, none of the crap that I saw advertised on television in December 2025, which, to me, would leave her feeling crappy at the end of seeing one of the products, would be on my list.  Now, I present this.  On December 28, 2025, the Detroit Free Press presented an article on two pages called "THE BEST NEW TV SHOWS OF 2025" [Hinds, Julie.  "THE BEST NEW TV SHOWS OF 2025."  Detroit Free Press, 28 December 2025, pp. 1D and 2D.], and it listed ten (so-called) good series, and not one was originally presented on broadcast network television (but one--The Paper (which I think is crappy)--did end up on broadcast network television).  The shows were tied to Peacock, Hulu, Netflix, Apple TV, and HBO.  Basically, the shows were described on the second page of the two-page article, and I looked over the written material and at the few photographs.  The shows--from number ten to number one--were: All Her Fault, The Chair Company, The Paper, Down Cemetary Road, The Studio, Paradise, Death by Lightning, Adolescence, Pluribus, and Task.  If I were to be with the gal in my video--a wonderful Asian gal--why the hell would we watch any of the ten shows?  Nothing nice was hinted at in the article.  To me, it is more depressing stuff and angry stuff and ugly stuff.  Okay, The Love Boat of the late 1970s and early 1980s was sort of fluff stuff, but it was nice (as a person can determine by seeing the series in repeats on a couple subchannels).  Recently, I was listening to WJR-AM, Detroit, and a radio talk show was on, and the host had a guest on who was talking about television, and the subject of old shows came up, and, on one moment, it was noted that some people watch old shows or the old shows are still around.  I state that, of course, the old shows are around and people see them, and it is because the shows were and are likable and nice, and I say that more people will remember and want to see The Love Boat than the ten series listed in the newspaper article in the future, just as people like to see today the old movies of from the 1930s to the 1970s.

    Okay, let me get super-serious and direct!  On page 3D of the Detroit Free Press for 29 December 2025, there was an article called "Mourning the loss of a favorite TV or movie series" [Beckerman, Jim.  "Mourning the loss of a favorite TV or movie series." Detroit Free Press, 28 December 2025, p. 3D.], and it was a fluff piece with a lot of filler.  It did have a photograph related to Wicked: For Good, showing Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande.  Within the past months, I have see television shows (entertainment-news shows) and such that showed Cynthia Erivo (often with a ring in her nose) and Ariana Grande (looking super skinny) at events together.  The images of them together did not suggest loveliness in them to me, like the loveliness of the Asian gal in my video, which I talked about in the previous paragraph; the images suggested that they looked like or are freaks, with Ariana Grande looking highly ill or sickly.  In fact, the two women look like unlikable freaky feminists!  That is one reason I have no interest in seeing the Wicked stuff.

    Yes, we are into 2026.  I happened to catch the opening broadcast parts for the Rose Parade on NBC-TV and ABC-TV on January 1, 2026, beginning at 11:00 a.m., and the opening few minutes offered up a musical performance featuring Bishop Briggs.  The presentation was yet another weak musical presentation of television today; Bishop Briggs did yelling and not singing often, and, of course, the music was sometimes based on rap-type presentation, and the dancers--jumping around and such--came off as nothing and more weak visual eye candy (that is supposed to make the music seem better than it really is).  I found myself wishing the presentation would get done quickly.

    I have to report that, in December 1952, there was not a whole bunch of football games to watch on television, especially during the Christmas time break, as there would be in December 2025.  On Friday, December 26, 1952, at 11:15 p.m., Channel 2, WJBK-TV, did present a movie for people to watch at home.  The movie was International Lady, which had been released to the first time in 1941 to movie theaters.  The cast had such performers as George Brent, Ilona Massey, Basil Rathbone, Gene Lockhart, George Zucco, and Clayton Moore (who, around the time the movie was shown on Channel 2, was know for being a regular in the television series, which is still see today in rerun form, called The Lone Ranger).  Stop a moment!  I have a video at "The Hologlobe Press" channel on YouTube that is about a television series called Dilemma and the DuMont Television Network, and, in that video, I talk about an episode of Dilemma, but I only show stills from the episode.  The episode can be found on YouTube, and if you see it, you will see early on in the product how the main performer (a gal) shows off a wonderful expression of romance on her face--something that you will not see on television today and something that I have not seen so well done on television in recent years or decades.  International Lady has romance in it, so it would be a good movie to show to, for example, that Asian gal who was the model for one of my miniatures.  You might find it fun.  By the way, when I wrote this paragraph, I had yet to see the movie all the way through.  Hold it!  In the episode of Dilemma, the scene that I am talking about is a scene in which the main character is talking with a man and she is listening, and she shyly looks at him.  Okay, let me get back to the main theme.  International Lady is the feature presentation for my Looking at the Movies segment of this document, and it is presented to give you a little of what is missing on television today--true nice romantic moments, though you may not see such a wonderful "look given" as can be seen in the episode of Dilemma.

 
    Remember: The Prisoner with Patrick McGoohan was a television show that was produced across the pond and shown on CBS-TV in the late 1960s, and I urge you to find The Prisoner on DVD, maybe from a library, and watch it, and you should show it--all the episodes--to teenagers, or buy it as a present for teenagers.

 
Stay well!

Vic
 

    P.S.: You are urged to see my document entitled One of "The Rules of Man"--A Rule About Health Care that No Politician May Supersede with Law, which can be reached through this Rule1 link.  I have deduced that all the Democrats and most Republicans support the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 and have no intention of killing it, though it should be killed for violating, for one, "The Rules of Man."  For example, Republicans Jeb Bush and Chris Christie support the rotten law, and that is one reason that I define them as stupid men and not men who are good enough--in this day and age--to be the U.S. President.  I note that the "mandate"--which forces everyone to buy government-approved health-care insurance--violates one of "The Rules of Man," and it is a rule that is attacked in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010.  Anyone who supports the "mandate" is not a good enough person or a smart enough person to be the U.S. president--the mandate is "enslavism," and the "mandate" allows government people--who are often usually bad people, as history shows--decide what health care a person can get, and that is bad.
 
 

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Date published: January 10, 2026

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