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I wonder if the trip Derick is referring to is Jim Bob and Michelle's trip in February that was "an impromptu visit" and seemed to kick off the Danger America rhetoric. Last minute international plane tickets aren't cheap. I can totally see Jim Bob making Derick pay for the tickets especially if Derick put Jill or Izzy in harm's way. I can't think of any stateside trips that were impromptu.

Oh yes, the birds. The single greatest bird story happened at my big box retailer. We had a cricket invasion in our city and they would crawl under the shutters at night. A few birds followed the crickets into the store. Our usual bird-hunting assistant manager was on vacation, so we didn't have a way to get rid of them for the week. A day later after the birds came, we had a feral cat walk through the front doors. It felt like we were running a damn zoo. Anyways, back to the birds. Our general manager was arguing with this cranky woman in the middle of the store. She wanted him to move the moon to get her way, even though her item was physically destroyed and a few years old. She was getting loud yelling at him, but he was firm in his answer. She was really getting going when SPLAT! One of the birds pooped dead center on her hair and it started dripping down the side of her face. Our GM turned bright red trying not to obviously laugh at her. You could hear all the customers and employees start to howl with laughter. He ended up having to make some concessions to her, but didn't replace her item completely. He said even though he had to give in a little bit it was the single greatest moment of his retail career. Oh, it brings a tear to my eye just thinking about that day.

If living rent-free in a JB property is the only way to see any of the TLC money that was rightfully mine before marriage, I'd do it in a heartbeat. It's technically not rent-free. Jill just pre-paid the rent years ago.

The second season of Masters of Flip is pretty much unwatchable. They took a cute show and just ruined it with the extra "characters". Kortney's brother is now the construction manager and the entire show is basically him being incompentant now. Then there is a new design assistant who giggles way too damn much.

I think Sasha and Emma were together again at the point, but the showmance between Alek and Emma was played up for the cameras. I remember one of the gossip outlets talking about Emma's unnamed boyfriend. They've been together something like five years with a short break a few years ago, but they've only been really public about it since late last year.

The magnet lady needed to make the magnets decorative so they became part of the art. I think the idea is a good one for tweens and college students, but I don't think the market is really there for adults. I also sideeye her claims that they won't ruin walls. All the Command products just destroy my paint. I highly doubt she's achieved something they can't. She'll make millions off the impulse purchase though. I think there are a decent amount of markets for the lapel guys. Branded uniforms, high schoolers at Prom/Bar & Bat Mitzvah's/Quinceañera, theme parties/weddings, etc. I think they'll fail if they try to focus on a serious tuxedo replacement. I could absolutely see my husband wear something like that to his company holiday party where they have to look nice, but are encouraged to be festive. The Paleo guy had to be looking for advertising. The fishing guys took the right deal. Many times the Sharks have said they would be customers, but not investors. I really think Daymond thought that his love of fishing was worth an extra 10%. Robert only has to make three calls to Academy, Gander Mountain, and Bass Pro Shops/Cabela's (now one company!). It really is the type of product that needs to get into the sports stores in time for the holidays. Their sales this year should entirely be wives buying this for their husbands. Then if it actually works the husbands will spread the word to all their friends to sustain it. It doesn't need infomercials or QVC.

My mother in law is part of a woman's-only bible study that's part of a national group affiliated with the Baptists, I think. I usually start tuning her out when she starts in on it. It's offered through her church, but you don't have to be a member to join and many churches offer it. It's supposed to teach you the bible from the woman's perspective. She does say it's pretty intense and harder then some of her basic college courses. I forget the name of it off the top of my head. Each "semester" they concentrate on one section of the bible, so you have to go for many years if you want to learn the whole thing. They do have homework they do on a weekly basis in the form of "questions". You can answer them in any format, but it's supposed to help you for the next week's lesson. If you don't do the questions, you're screwed at the lesson since they expect you to do the homework. I think my MIL said the instructor will read their answers, but nothing is for a "grade". I'm sure if it's tied to the SBC, Derick makes Jill do a decent job so she makes a good impression to any higher-ups that would evaluate them for placement one day. It's also a good way to get Jill introduced to high-level thought processes without the pressure of a pass/fail grade.

Teaching isn't the worst thing Derick could do with his life. The school will keep Jilly Muffin from being a stage 5 clinger. He has summers off to do missionary work. Many school districts won't hire full-time teachers once the school year has started. The best thing he could do for himself is work on his teaching certificate (which can be done online in most cases) and pick up subbing jobs. Then when he applies for the full-time jobs in the summer, the schools already know who he is. With his accounting degree, he could easily teach the basic math classes. He may also be qualified for Economics.

I wouldn't read too much into that yet. I'm a toddler mommy myself and the group of mommies that I hang out with all use #homeschool sanctimoniously every time they do something slightly educational with their kids.

I think it's the hairline at the forehead. I'm pretty sure Jaimie wasn't wearing a wig last season and she is this season. It drives me crazy in every episode I've seen so far this season.

I have a feeling Reade is being manipulated by Freddie into testifying Freddie's "story". I thought before that last scene that Reade was going to offer to testify instead of Freddy. We just have Freddy manipulating that instead of Reade volunteering. The baby is fucking ridiculous. Sarah or Shepherd is going to end up raising that baby who will be named Taylor. Calling it now. There is absolutely nothing that Weller being a dad brings to the table story-wise except another wedge to keep the twu luv OTP apart. Stupid, stupid, stupid. Naz listening to the recordings is a red herring. She's just someone who values information and she's gotta make sure her double-agent mole isn't really a triple-agent in disguise. Plus, I still think Borden is going to be the big baddie. I bet that Oregon Trail disc is rife with some tracking or listening software, even if he's still unaware he's an asset to Sandstorm. Whatever Sandstorm is planning is meant to take down the government to reboot America? I don't know how someone can take down every Senator, US Representative, President & the cabinet, military decision maker, and government employees like random FBI/DEA/DHS agents. Good luck with that. At the end of the day, I guarantee someone will be left that's not part of Sandstorm and they will be left out of the rebuilding process.

Finally caught up on the episode. I had not followed media reports that Zoe was leaving, so when I saw the new girl in the credits I about fell off the couch. It's a damn shame. Brody had good chemistry with LaSalle and made Percy feel less shoe-horned into the team. The awkwardness between LaSalle and Percy was magnified ten-fold. They are nearly unwatchable for me now. Pride is okay, but if he continues his NOLA #1, booboo my feelings are hurt campaign too much more this season, I'm going to be sick of him as well. If Zoe/Brody had to leave, scapegoating her for the DHS incident would have probably been the best scenario. They wouldn't have to write in the FBI team, Pride and the team would have a cause to fight for, and they could have introduced a new character organically that wasn't supposed to be antagonistic.

It's a mix of both the Duggar's and TLC. The Duggar's can't risk another failed courtship, especially with one of the daughters. So they needed to make sure it was going to end in a marriage before they announced anything. Jeremy showed up in the background last season. Jinger was dropping all kinds of hints in her TH's that she was possibly courting or at least heavily invested in the "get to know you" stage (especially on the Branson trip, whenever that was in real time). The courtship rules have also seemed to be relaxed a lot for Jinger in terms of communication. Even if the texts are being read later, she seems to scurry away to a corner enough to have somewhat private conversations over FaceTime. I also think that TLC was on the fence about whether they would come back for another season. Instead of just fessing up that they don't have any footage from the spring, they are just recreating all the big moments for the story. Which is awkward as hell because this entire season is basically Jinger and Jeremy's "story".

I wouldn't be so sure that Jeremy is itching to move to Arkansas. Remember, Boob is at least the third most important adult male influence in Jeremy's life. Jeremy still has his pastor father and Tim Conway, the pastor of the home church in San Antonio. If Jeremy is still close with any of his coaches, managers, or agents from his soccer days, Boob might actually be fifth or sixth. So I don't think Boob will be able to snap his fingers and get Jeremy to jump like the other husbands. The only way I see Jeremy and Jinger moving back to the compound any time soon is if Conway really wanted to start a church in Arkansas. I actually see Jeremy working with TLC to get a second spinoff for him and Jinger about the Laredo church. We know there was likely something in the works for Ben and Jessa before Joshgate. I could see TLC taking a chance on a spinoff that has nothing to do with the main Duggar family & Arkansas.

I think the mole will probably be the therapist guy. It seemed weird to me that he was included in the montage of possible subjects when he was nowhere near this episode. The Director and the NSA chick seem to be a bit too on the nose for this show.

I would guess at Ben and Jessa's house. Jessa looked sort of bemused at Ben's fumbling of the courtship rules, almost like she knew something that he didn't. When Jeremy's in town, he most certainly stays at their place. I could see a situation where Ben's at school, Jinger's visiting her man, and Jessa's like, "Eh, screw it, I'm going to be feeding Spurgeon in another room for 20 minutes. Follow the rules guys."

Ben and Jessa were in San Antonio on Ben's "inner city" tour. The friend they were supposed to hang out with was busy that night, so he sent them to Jeremy's who was having a church gathering at his house (really Tim Conway's house, the head pastor of the church that runs Jeremy's church plant) that night. Ben and Jeremy stayed in contact. Jeremy visited Arkansas a few times and showed up in the background last season. Jeremy met Jinger during this time. Then Jeremy and some of the Duggar's went on a mission trip in December together where he got to know Jinger even more.

For me, the jury is still out on whether Jeremy is creepy or not. I think he's a really bad actor and the "reenactments" are doing him absolutely no favors. I also wish the Duggar's would just be real about the timelines. In reality, Jinger and Jeremy have been courting closer to six months, likely soon after their mission trip together. This two week courtship and "fast track" bullshit makes him look like a creeper who wants her va-jay-jay and nothing more. I get that the Duggar's didn't want another failed courtship, especially with a daughter, but this can't be more preferable then saying "Yep, they courted for six months, now watch them get engaged!"

I have a feeling the meeting and lunch was reenacted as the "first meeting". Jim Bob seemed to delight in turning the screws a little too much to be the first time. I also wonder how those courtship rules are going. There were a few times when you could see Jinger's mouth pucker involuntarily when they were cuddled into each other. I don't think we saw that with any of the other couples. I have a feeling they may have already kissed a few times. I'm impressed Jeremy has his own apartment. I thought for sure he lived out of a room in the church.

When I voted last night by phone the automated message said it was an ode to tv shows.

http://m.tmz.com/#article/2016/09/13/dwts-ryan-lochte-protesters/ TMZ has more information. Basically they wanted to embarrass Lochte how he embarrassed America. One of the guys was also in Rio for the Olympics and said the controversy caused issues for him. And they want to sue DWTS for how the security guards tackled him. Hahaha.

The other controversial contestants had plenty of time between being on the show and their "incidents". You can even see the disparity this season to how the media has treated Jake T. Austin (arrested 2013/2014) and Ryan Lochte. Paula's big racist scandal went down around 2013, she was on the show in 2015. Bristol gave birth in 2008, she was on the show in 2010. Kendra was on the show in 2011 after she married Hank in 2009 and got out of the Playboy Mansion. Tom DeLay was indicted in 2005 and was on the show in 2009. The multiple washed up druggie actors have been on the show in the twilight of their careers years after all the major scandals. Lochte would have been much better served to wait until the Spring season or next Fall if it was about image rehabilitation. We all know the chances of him going to Tokyo are low anyways, so the bleeting that he has to do it now to keep training is lip service at best.

If they wanted swimming, they could have signed Nathan Adrian. Rio was his third Olympics, he was name-dropped just as much as Lochte and Phelps because of the relays, and he was dancing in the commercials for NBC. He's graduated college, so he doesn't have that commitment right now although I don't think he's retiring yet. Then on the diving side you have David Boudia and Steele Johnson, who were both big names in their sports and won silver together in synchronized diving. Boudia won gold four years ago and bronze in the individual events. I think they said Boudia was contemplating retirement so he would have been a good choice too. Hell, Usain Bolt retired and has been sniffing around American hotspots & tabloids. That's not to speak of the American track stars we have. Lochte might have been the best choice pre-Rio, but there were a lot better choices after-Rio. DWTS wanted the fireworks that Lochte would bring them.

Val met Laurie before the Olympics. There were more deserving athletes that should have gotten a shot after the Olympics. That's leads me to believe the producers locked down the two best known names they could before the games started. (I use best known loosely since they would have signed anyone from the Final 5 knowing they wanted a gymnast).

I couldn't access the "app" through FB anymore. ABC has a login with FB option now on their vote page, so I assume that replaced it?