There's a full scale prison riot "developing" in Indiana. Here's the video:
Makes me damn glad I don't live in Indiana. Reports are that two guards were hurt.
I wonder if Jack Bauer had anything to do with this? (You won't get it if you don't watch the show.)
Drudge links to the story.
Jawa has the story.
This crap would never happen if they'd just do what conservatives have been calling for since late 2001: put Jack Bauer in charge of guarding the President! Then again, every President he's been around seems to have died... And he did almost kill Logan. So maybe that's a bad idea...
Sorry for the lazy posting today. I had a good weekend and am having trouble getting back to work.
But hey, get pumped! 24 is on tonight!
Looks like we can add a few more kills to the kill counter and we may finally get rid of the crappy Palmer.
Looks like the shit's about to hit the fan! Can Jack handle it? Of course he can! Anyway, get pumped! Here's the preview:
Well, it's spring break for us, so expect slow posting.
Anyway, 24 tonight! Get pumped! You don't get a video today, Rutheford posted it yesterday. But The Jack Sack has some funny stuff to get you pumped, "Jack Needs a Suit: a 24 Picture Book" is damn funny, and so is "The Real World: CTU."
I know it's not Monday yet, but who doesn't like to get pumped for 24 a little early?
Here's Jack Bauer forcing The Goonies' Chunk to divulge information that is no doubt critical to national security:
(You may have to click above to play.)
Get pumped! 24 tonight, with the return of America's favorite President, Charles Logan.
The only thing that could be better is if Tony Almeida came back from the dead. Here's the Charles Logan highlights reel, incase you need a refresher on Day 5:
A reminder to all that 24 is on tonight at 9. Get pumped!
How to slit a throat, brought to you by Jack Bauer:
Special 2 hour 24 tonight! Get pumped! To help you out, here's Jack killing someone with a flare gun:
While you're waiting for the show to start, check out this site that lists all of Jack Bauer's gear with links of where you can buy it. Great if you want to get Jack's man-purse, or if you're in need of an HK USP Compact 9mm or a Tactical Halo III!
The New Yorker has a pretty good article on "the politics of the man behind 24." I read the first half. As you may have guessed, he's Conservative (friends with Rush Limbaugh, in fact):
Surnow[co-creator and executive pruducer of 24], who has jokingly called himself a “right-wing nut job,” shares his show’s hard-line perspective. Speaking of torture, he said, “Isn’t it obvious that if there was a nuke in New York City that was about to blow—or any other city in this country—that, even if you were going to go to jail, it would be the right thing to do?”The article's good readin' for fans of the series.
Two of my favorite things in one video; flatulence and 24. The look on the late Curtis Mannings' face just lends itself well to fart jokes:
The head of Cartoon Network has resigned over the advertisements for the show Aqua Teen Hunger Force that shut down much of Boston. Meanwhile, over at Blogs4Bauer, Jack is taking on this latest "terror threat."
Hilarious.
Cox & Forkum do it again, condensing a long winded and complicated issue to one little box, and still saying it better than I ever could:
Here's CAIRs fresh assault on 24:
“The overwhelming impression you get is fear and hatred for Muslims,” said Rabiah Ahmed, a spokeswoman for the Washington-based Council on American-Islamic Relations. She said Thursday she was distressed by this season’s premiere. “After watching that show, I was afraid to go to the grocery store because I wasn’t sure the person next to me would be able to differentiate between fiction and reality.”If I ever see this woman in a grocery I'm going to punch her in her horse face; not because she's a Muslim, but because she's an idiot.
More from the media on liberalisms' greatest threat: 24, the right-wing propaganda machine that the Bush administration is using to scare American citizens! (hat tip: Jawa)
Ridiculous video, but worth it for the 24 clips.
Note From Rutheford 2:29 pm - I'm waiting for the media to come out and say that "An Inconvenient Truth" is nothing but left-wing scaremongering.
Kieth Olbermann is off his rocker again. Is anyone surprised? What's his newest target for being too conservative? 24! Olbermann, having obviously never watched the show, decries it as "a program length commercial for one political party," and needless to say, he doesn't mean the Democrats.
Olbermann starts out his screed on 24 by playing a clip from the "first 30 seconds" of season six, in which the news is telling us about Muslims blowing up America (preposterous!), the clip ends with people starring down and glaring at an Arab with a backpack. Coincidentally, the clip ends right before the Arab is not let on to a bus due to his nationality, and the bus is then blown up by a not-very-Arab-looking guy anyway, showing us that the racial insensitivity was unfounded (and probably leaving some viewers to say those bigots on the bus got what they deserved.)
Throughout the entire rant Olbermann forgets to mention the almost noxious amount of PC, "not all Muslims are" bad crap that the first four episodes of the series were loaded with. He says that Fox, that ever-evil propaganda machine for the Bush Administration, is using fear mongering to promote Bush's view of an America plagued by terrorism if the Democrats are ever elected.
Never mind that in the show we are just out of a Republican administration (from which the President is being convicted for helping terrorists in order to promote America's "interests," i.e. securing foreign oil by starting a war) and that the Republican is no doubt to blame for the spot we're in; never mind that the new President is heroically portrayed as a great guy, and is the brother of another former President who was practically portrayed as a saint in the show - both Democrats, and never mind that Jack is trying to stop a small group of Muslim terrorists with the help of another Muslim who promotes the interests of far more Muslims in his desire for peace with the West.
I could go on, but dedicating this much time to Olbermann is a waste of your bandwidth.
Did I mention there's a video here? It's not YouTube, so I don't know how to embed it here.
*** Update - Jan 18, 5:16 pm ***
Now the videos up on YouTube. Warning: contains footage of Kieth Olbermann talking. Ugh.
Yes, we're obsessed with 24. Hence the 8 posts on it in the last 5 days. Deal with it, I love 24.
Anyway, here's the best synopsis of Day 6 I've read yet, via College Humor. Very Funny.
Here are some highlights from an article written by a 24 staff writer and story editor (hat tip: Ragnar at My Pet Jawa):So many times when I thought there was no more time, there was.
You can read the rest here, but I've copied all the non-sappy ones.
F**k diplomacy.
Actions speak louder than words. Though shouting can also be effective.
If I say "dammit," either something bad just happened, something bad is about to happen, or I'm going to do something drastic.
When interrogating a suspect, I've often found it effective to ask the question loudly and repeat it several times.
If the president of the United States ever orders you to shoot your boss in the head at point-blank range in cold blood, take a deep breath, ask God to forgive you, and just do it.
A cell phone can sometimes be used to activate a secondary detonator on a terrorist's explosive vest regardless of how many minutes are left on your plan.
Dead terrorists can often be effectively used as human shields. So can live ones.
Bureaucrats want results but never want to get their hands dirty.
Some people don't deserve to die, but that's not my call.
Serbs have a different word for everything.
If you don't have a Taser gun, the wires from a lamp will deliver the current needed to shock your subject just enough to get him to give up the information you need without doing any permanent damage.
You can't save everyone.
If you see me running down the street, it's probably a good idea to take cover.
Don't piss off the Chines
Holy shit! Did that just happen?
Ultramontane, 4:06: I cannot believe how fu**ing dramatic that is! The look on Jack's face is terrifyingly pissed!
