Monday, May 31, 2010
Chubby JerseY Shore Star Snooki Flauts Her Curves in Miami
When you make some money, you tend to eat better. And that’s exactly what it looks like with Snooki gaining a few more pounds.
Still looks good to me though. It's a Latino thing.
From Radar Online:
Nicole 'Snooki' Polizzi of MTV's 'Jersey Shore' hits the beach in Miami in a one piece, cut-away black bathing suit. in Miami Beach on Friday afternoon.
Jersey Shore's Snooki has never been a blushing wallflower. On Friday, she bravely showed off her curves in a revealing one piece that flaunted her body (not to mention her tan lines!) during a beach outing in Miami.
PHOTOS: Snooki's Bikini Afternoon
Pairing the cutout black swimsuit with a black cover up, Snooki clearly bucks the stick-thin Hollywood trend with her fuller figure.
PHOTOS: Jersey Shore Girls Show Off Their Bikini Bods In Miami
Despite possibly having added a few extra pounds thanks to late-nights on the town, the reality star was clearly still happy with the way she looks, even flashing a smile as she sashayed her way off of the sand.
PHOTOS: Jersey Shore Girls Go Shopping in South Beach
The Last Tradition
Imagenes del empaque de Grimlock Masterpiece versión Hasbro
Aquí les dejo las prieras imagenes que salieron del empaque de Grimplock Masterpice de la version de Hasbro que estará a la venta dentro de un par de semanas, lamentablemente para la desgracia de algunos, ésta figura será exclusiva de la juguetería Toys R Us.
Transformers War For Cybertron Spot Publicitario
Que tal mis amigos, aquí les dejo un spot publicitario de War For Cybertron que salió publicando la versión de venta con el código de desbloqueo de Shockwave. Como podrán apreciar, el actor de doblaje que le da la voz a shockwave en éste comercial, es el mismo que dió la voz en la serie y en la película del '86, so yo o estoy equivocado? Si es así corrijame. Bien, aquí les dejo éste agradable comercial y que lo disfruten.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Fully Supports IDF Military Action on Gaza Flotilla
What I love about Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is he’s the strongest leader in the Western World that speaks clearly aand identifies the enemy for what they are-terrorists goons. He speaks for and defends his country without apology the way a real leader should.
Don’t mess with Israel, unless you want your ass kicked, and that’s the way it should be.
That’s the way America used to be.
Here is how a real leader sounds like.
From Fox News
The Israeli military attacked a Gaza-bound aid flotilla, leaving at least nine dead, after receiving reports that the fleet had links to al Qaeda, the Israeli ambassador to Denmark said Monday.
"Before the flotilla entered Israeli waters, rumor had it that the organizers [of the aid initiative] had links with the al Qaeda terrorist network," Arthur Avnon was quoted as saying on the website of public broadcaster DR.
"The people on board were not so innocent ... and I cannot imagine that another country would react any differently," the ambassador said before being summoned to the Danish foreign ministry to explain the attack.
Meanwhile, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office said he spoke Monday to top diplomatic and security officials by telephone from Canada and voiced his “full backing” for the military.
Before the ships set sail from waters off the east Mediterranean island of Cyprus on Sunday, Israel had urged the flotilla not to try to breach the blockade and offered to transfer the cargo to Gaza from an Israeli port, following a security inspection.
Commandos stormed
the six ships carrying hundreds of pro-Palestinian activists on an aid mission to the blockaded Gaza Strip. At least nine people were killed and dozens wounded after Israeli soldiers encountered an unexpected resistance when they boarded the vessels.
According to Netanyahu, the Israeli soldiers were attacked and defending themselves in the raid.
SLIDESHOW: World Responds to Israeli Gaza Flotilla Attack
Avnon echoed Netanyahu’s sentiments, lamenting the loss of life but saying, "the [Israeli] soldiers were welcomed with violence when they climbed on board. One of them was injured in the stomach and others were injured with baseball bats."
An Israeli military spokesman said two guns had been discovered on the ships and Israel's military chief, General Gaby Ashkenazi, blamed the violence on Turkish nongovernmental organization (NGO) IHH, which he characterized as "extremist."
Israel's Channel 10 television and Al-Jazeera both reported 19 dead, but the Israeli channel later revised that number down to nine. The Gaza branch of IHH put the death toll at 15, saying most of them were Turkish nationals.
The Israeli military said seven soldiers were wounded, one of them seriously.
The operation in international waters off the Gaza coast was a nightmare scenario for Israel that looked certain to further damage its international standing, strain already tense relations with Turkey -- the unofficial sponsor of the mission -- and draw unwanted attention to Gaza's plight.
White House spokesman Bill Burton, speaking on the eve of a meeting that President Barack Obama had scheduled at the White House with Netanyahu, said the United States "deeply regrets the loss of life and injuries sustained" in the incident. Netanyahu announced Monday he would cancel his White House visit to deal with the crisis.
Burton also said that administration officials are "currently working to understand the circumstances surrounding this tragedy." The United States, among others, has been trying to restart direct peace talks between the Israelis and Palestinians, but progress toward this achievement has lagged severely in recent months.
The tough Israeli response also drew condemnations from Turkey, France and the U.N.'s Mideast envoy, while Greece suspended a military exercise with Israel and postponed a visit by Israel's air force chief.
The U.N. Security Council announced they would meet Monday afternoon to discuss the attack.
Turkey's prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan described the raid as "state terrorism" Monday, as some10,000 Turks marched from Israel's Consulate in Istanbul toward the city's main square, shouting slogans denouncing Israel. The protesters earlier Monday tried to storm the Consulate building but were blocked by police.
In response, Israel advised its citizens Monday to avoid travel to Turkey and instructed those already there to keep a low profile and avoid crowded downtown areas.
Full story
Via Fox News
The Last Tradition
Obama Pals William Ayers, Bernardine Dohrn Heavily Involved in Gaza Flotilla to Aid Hamas
This say a leopard never changes its spots.
So it should be no surprise that unrepentant terrorists’ buddies of Barack Hussein Obama are heavily involved in trying to sneak arms to another terrorist organization in Gaza, namely Hamas, under the guise of humanitarian aide.
Of course the Left is reporting this the way they always do, the terrorists of Hamas are the poor victims even though it’s written in their charter to wipe Israel off the face of the earth.
Hamas wants this fight because they know the media is sympathetic to their cause.
Whatever Israel needs to do to protect itself has my full backing. TLT is committed to report the truth that main stream media distorts.
From WorldNet Daily:
The group behind the Gaza flotilla that engaged in deadly clashes with Israeli commandos today counts among its top supporters the friends and associates of President Barack Obama, namely the founders of the Weather Underground terrorist organization, William Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn, as well as Jodie Evans, the leader of the radical activist organization Code Pink.
Earlier today, Israeli navy commandos raided the six-ship flotilla, encountering heavy resistance and live fire from the activists. Several activists were killed and dozens of others were reportedly injured, as were several of the Israeli commandos.
The flotilla was organized by the Free Gaza Movement, a coalition of leftist human rights activists and pro-Palestinian groups engaged in attempts to break a blockade imposed by Israel on the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip.
Ayers, Dohrn and Evans' Code Pink have led several recent Free Gaza Movement initiatives, including attempted marches into the Gaza Strip. Dorhn was in the Middle East just last month on behalf of the movement.
Ayers and Dohrn were close associates for years with President Obama, while Evans was a fundraiser and financial bundler for Obama's presidential campaign.
In January, WND reported Ayers, Dohrn and Evans were involved in provoking chaos on the streets of Egypt in an attempt to enter Gaza with the Free Gaza Movement to join in solidarity with the territory's population and leadership.
The three helped to stir riots after the Egyptian government refused to allow a large number of protesters to enter neighboring Gaza. Eventually, the protesters accepted an Egyptian offer of allowing about 100 marchers into Gaza. Once in the territory, those marchers were reportedly met on the Gaza side by Hamas' former Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh.
At the time of the march, Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., wrote a letter in support of a "humanitarian delegation from Massachusetts" to Gaza. Members of Ayers', Dohrn and Evans' group documented on their blogs how Kerry's letter was used at the U.S. Embassy in Cairo while attempting to pressure Egypt to let their group into Gaza.
Images of the letter were also posted on the Electronic Intifada website run by Ali Abunimah, who was with Evans' group in Egypt and who, WND previously reported, spoke at pro-Palestinian events in the 1990s alongside Obama. In one such event, a 1999 fundraiser for Palestinian "refugees," Abunimah recalled introducing Obama on stage.
Dohrn later wrote on a blog that she was briefly detained at the U.S. Embassy in Cairo following the January protests there by her group: "Bill and I went to the American Embassy at 10 a.m. and asked to see the ambassador. We were ushered into a holding pen a block away from the embassy building where we joined 35 people already there, surrounded by Egyptian soldiers," she wrote.
Deadly clashes
Israeli Naval Forces intercepted the flotilla today attempting to break the maritime closure of the Gaza Strip.
An Israel Defense Forces spokesperson told WND commandos boarded the ships after numerous warnings from Israel requesting the ships redirect toward the Israeli port of Ashdod, where they would be able to unload their aid supplies, which could then be transferred to the Gaza Strip after undergoing security inspections.
During the boarding of one of the ships, the Marmara, activists onboard attacked IDF naval personnel with live fire and light weaponry including knives and clubs, the IDF spokesperson said.
"The demonstrators had clearly prepared their weapons in advance for this specific purpose," said the spokesperson. "As a result of this life-threatening and violent activity, naval forces first employed riot dispersal means, followed by live fire.
"IDF naval personnel encountered severe violence, including use of weaponry prepared in advance in order to attack them," said the spokesperson.
The IDF released a YouTube video clearly showing activists attacking Israeli commandos, including attacks with live fire.
Close Obama associates
Evans formed Code Pink, a far-left activist organization, in 2002 to protest America's war in Iraq. The group previously met with Hamas and with leaders of the Taliban. Evans was a fundraiser and financial bundler for Obama's presidential campaign.
Ayers, meanwhile, became a name in last year's presidential campaign when it was disclosed the radical worked closely with Obama for years.
Ayers helped launch Obama's political career with a fundraiser in his home. Obama served on the board of a Chicago nonprofit alongside Ayers. The terrorist later hired Obama to serve as chairman of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge, a job Obama later cited as experience that helped qualify him to run for public office.
While at the CAC, Obama and Ayers both granted funds to the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, or ACORN.
WND columnist Jack Cashill has produced a series of persuasive arguments that it was Ayers who ghostwrote Obama's award-winning autobiography, "Dreams from My Father."
Ayers and Dohrn were two of the main founders of the Weather Underground, which bombed the New York City Police headquarters in 1970, the Capitol in 1971 and the Pentagon in 1972. The group was responsible for some 30 bombings aimed at destroying the defense and security infrastructures of the U.S.
Characterizing the Weather Underground as "an American Red Army," Ayers summed up the organization's ideology: "Kill all the rich people. Break up their cars and apartments. Bring the revolution home. Kill your parents."
"Everything was absolutely ideal on the day I bombed the Pentagon," Ayers recalled in his 2001 memoir, "Fugitive Days." "The sky was blue. The birds were singing. And the bastards were finally going to get what was coming to them."
Ayers brandished his unrepentant radicalism for years later, as evidenced by his now notorious 2001 interview with the New York Times, published one day after the 9/11 attacks, in which he stated, "I don't regret setting bombs. I feel we didn't do enough."
Ayers posed for a photograph accompanying the New York Times piece that showed him stepping on an American flag. He said of the U.S.: "What a country.
It makes me want to puke."
So it should be no surprise that unrepentant terrorists’ buddies of Barack Hussein Obama are heavily involved in trying to sneak arms to another terrorist organization in Gaza, namely Hamas, under the guise of humanitarian aide.
Of course the Left is reporting this the way they always do, the terrorists of Hamas are the poor victims even though it’s written in their charter to wipe Israel off the face of the earth.
Hamas wants this fight because they know the media is sympathetic to their cause.
Whatever Israel needs to do to protect itself has my full backing. TLT is committed to report the truth that main stream media distorts.
From WorldNet Daily:
The group behind the Gaza flotilla that engaged in deadly clashes with Israeli commandos today counts among its top supporters the friends and associates of President Barack Obama, namely the founders of the Weather Underground terrorist organization, William Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn, as well as Jodie Evans, the leader of the radical activist organization Code Pink.
Earlier today, Israeli navy commandos raided the six-ship flotilla, encountering heavy resistance and live fire from the activists. Several activists were killed and dozens of others were reportedly injured, as were several of the Israeli commandos.
The flotilla was organized by the Free Gaza Movement, a coalition of leftist human rights activists and pro-Palestinian groups engaged in attempts to break a blockade imposed by Israel on the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip.
Ayers, Dohrn and Evans' Code Pink have led several recent Free Gaza Movement initiatives, including attempted marches into the Gaza Strip. Dorhn was in the Middle East just last month on behalf of the movement.
Ayers and Dohrn were close associates for years with President Obama, while Evans was a fundraiser and financial bundler for Obama's presidential campaign.
In January, WND reported Ayers, Dohrn and Evans were involved in provoking chaos on the streets of Egypt in an attempt to enter Gaza with the Free Gaza Movement to join in solidarity with the territory's population and leadership.
The three helped to stir riots after the Egyptian government refused to allow a large number of protesters to enter neighboring Gaza. Eventually, the protesters accepted an Egyptian offer of allowing about 100 marchers into Gaza. Once in the territory, those marchers were reportedly met on the Gaza side by Hamas' former Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh.
At the time of the march, Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., wrote a letter in support of a "humanitarian delegation from Massachusetts" to Gaza. Members of Ayers', Dohrn and Evans' group documented on their blogs how Kerry's letter was used at the U.S. Embassy in Cairo while attempting to pressure Egypt to let their group into Gaza.
Images of the letter were also posted on the Electronic Intifada website run by Ali Abunimah, who was with Evans' group in Egypt and who, WND previously reported, spoke at pro-Palestinian events in the 1990s alongside Obama. In one such event, a 1999 fundraiser for Palestinian "refugees," Abunimah recalled introducing Obama on stage.
Dohrn later wrote on a blog that she was briefly detained at the U.S. Embassy in Cairo following the January protests there by her group: "Bill and I went to the American Embassy at 10 a.m. and asked to see the ambassador. We were ushered into a holding pen a block away from the embassy building where we joined 35 people already there, surrounded by Egyptian soldiers," she wrote.
Deadly clashes
Israeli Naval Forces intercepted the flotilla today attempting to break the maritime closure of the Gaza Strip.
An Israel Defense Forces spokesperson told WND commandos boarded the ships after numerous warnings from Israel requesting the ships redirect toward the Israeli port of Ashdod, where they would be able to unload their aid supplies, which could then be transferred to the Gaza Strip after undergoing security inspections.
During the boarding of one of the ships, the Marmara, activists onboard attacked IDF naval personnel with live fire and light weaponry including knives and clubs, the IDF spokesperson said.
"The demonstrators had clearly prepared their weapons in advance for this specific purpose," said the spokesperson. "As a result of this life-threatening and violent activity, naval forces first employed riot dispersal means, followed by live fire.
"IDF naval personnel encountered severe violence, including use of weaponry prepared in advance in order to attack them," said the spokesperson.
The IDF released a YouTube video clearly showing activists attacking Israeli commandos, including attacks with live fire.
Close Obama associates
Evans formed Code Pink, a far-left activist organization, in 2002 to protest America's war in Iraq. The group previously met with Hamas and with leaders of the Taliban. Evans was a fundraiser and financial bundler for Obama's presidential campaign.
Ayers, meanwhile, became a name in last year's presidential campaign when it was disclosed the radical worked closely with Obama for years.
Ayers helped launch Obama's political career with a fundraiser in his home. Obama served on the board of a Chicago nonprofit alongside Ayers. The terrorist later hired Obama to serve as chairman of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge, a job Obama later cited as experience that helped qualify him to run for public office.
While at the CAC, Obama and Ayers both granted funds to the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, or ACORN.
WND columnist Jack Cashill has produced a series of persuasive arguments that it was Ayers who ghostwrote Obama's award-winning autobiography, "Dreams from My Father."
Ayers and Dohrn were two of the main founders of the Weather Underground, which bombed the New York City Police headquarters in 1970, the Capitol in 1971 and the Pentagon in 1972. The group was responsible for some 30 bombings aimed at destroying the defense and security infrastructures of the U.S.
Characterizing the Weather Underground as "an American Red Army," Ayers summed up the organization's ideology: "Kill all the rich people. Break up their cars and apartments. Bring the revolution home. Kill your parents."
"Everything was absolutely ideal on the day I bombed the Pentagon," Ayers recalled in his 2001 memoir, "Fugitive Days." "The sky was blue. The birds were singing. And the bastards were finally going to get what was coming to them."
Ayers brandished his unrepentant radicalism for years later, as evidenced by his now notorious 2001 interview with the New York Times, published one day after the 9/11 attacks, in which he stated, "I don't regret setting bombs. I feel we didn't do enough."
Ayers posed for a photograph accompanying the New York Times piece that showed him stepping on an American flag. He said of the U.S.: "What a country.
It makes me want to puke."
Kiefer Sutherland and Jon Bon Jovi
Backstage at New Meadowlands Stadium, East Rutherford, NJ
May 29, 2010
Source: bonjovi.com
Memorial Day...
There are places I'll remember
All my life, though some have changed
Some forever, not for better
Some have gone and some remain
All these places had their moments
With lovers and friends,
I still can recall
In my life, I've loved them all
But of all these friends and lovers
There is no one compares with you
And these memories lose their meaning
When I think of love as something new
Though I know I'll never lose affection
For people and things that went before
I know I'll often stop and think about them
In my life, I'll love you more....
IN MY LIFE, I love you more...
So Who is Wrong? Rep. Sestak vs. The White House
This matter is not closed!
There’s no way possible the White House counsel can conducted an honest and proper investigation because of a conflicts of interest.
The American people need to know if a law was broken and only an independent counsel appointed by AG Eric Holder is the only course the Obama administration, who promised honest dealing and transparency in Washington, can make.
From The Next Right:
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Sunday, May 30, 2010
Transformers War For Cybertron: VIdeo informativo
Aqui les dejo un video en el cual se describen puntos especificos ycaracteristicas del juego WFC, espero que les sea tanto de su interes como su utilidad y su agrado.
Yes Vs. No?
Seamos sinceros, quien no se ha divertido a lo largo de Beast Wars escuchando las clasicas frases de Megatron: yeeessss, pero no solo estaba el yes" sino que cuando se enojaba también había una contra parte: nnoooooo!!!. Muy divertido no les parece? Pues bien, aquí les dejo un video que encontre hace como dos años dando vuelta por youtube muy divertido y lo dejo para que ustedes lo vean y se rian un rato también. Bien, nos vemos la próxima con más noticias. Transform And Wach Now!!!!
Transformers Spotlight Prowl en DD
Si mis amigos, un Spotlight que había salido ya hace unas semanas atras pero que no me había puesto a buscarlo seriamente, pues no se diga más, aquí se los dejo, lamentablemente no se encuentra traducido, pero voy a hacer todo lo posible porque éste material llegue a ustedes traducido lo más pronto que pueda. Pues bien.. ahi les va el link.
Link de Descarga: Transformers Spotlight: Prowl
Link de Descarga: Transformers Spotlight: Prowl
Transformers Ongoing Nº 7 en DD
Que tal mis amigos, aquí les quiero dejar el comic Nº 7 de la saga de Transformers, "Transformers Ongoing". Este es el comi en ingles, pero tan pronto se encuentre traducido aquí estará en el blog para ustedes.
Link de Descarga: Transformers Ongoing Nº 7
Link de Descarga: Transformers Ongoing Nº 7
Jack Bauer's 10 Craziest Kills
Victor Drazen, Season 1: Died Between 11:00 p.m. - 12:00 a.m.
Stupid Drazen. You don't provoke Jack Bauer on purpose and live to tell about it—especially not when you run out of bullets. Duh.
Marshall Goren, Season 2: Died Between 8:00 a.m. - 9:00 a.m.
CTU was going to give federal witness Marshall Goren a pass for his crimes in exchange for testimony. But damnit, Jack needed a severed head for an undercover mission, and Goren just so happened to be a child pornography enthusiast. Win-win! Bonus: This scene features the quote of the season: "I'm gonna need a hacksaw."
Nina Meyers, Season 3: Died Between 2:00 a.m. - 3:00 a.m.
Audiences had to wait more than a year to see the traitorous Nina, who killed Jack's wife in the final hour of Season 1, finally get hers. Jack should have emptied the clip.
Ryan Chappelle, Season 3: Died Between 6:00 a.m. and 7:00 am
This is what you call over-relying on Jack, who was ordered to kill head of CTU Ryan Chappelle by President David Palmer in order to prevent a terrorist threat. (The President! Ordering a murder!) Chappelle asked for the dignity of being able to shoot himself, but chickened out, forcing Jack to shoot him in the back of the head.
Vladimir Bierko, Season 5: Died Between 5:00 a.m. - 6:00 a.m.
Ah yes, the first use of the Bauer thighs to kill. Terrorists, if you're going to immobilize Bauer, tie all of him up. You don't want him to have to use his legs.
Christopher Henderson, Season 5: Died between 5:00 a.m. and 6:00 a.m.
Christopher Henderson recruited Jack into CTU, mentored him on how to torture (take out the knees first!). Traitor or not, you'd think he'd be a little smarter. You kill three of Jack's friends, you're going to die.
Unnamed Fayed Terrorist Friend, Season 6: Died Between 6:00 a.m. and 7:00 a.m.
No hands? No feet? No problem. The powerful Bauer jaws are equally deadly. So long jugular.
Abu Fayed, Season 6: Died Between 10:00 p.m. and 11:00 p.m.
It's not all about bullets and brute strength. Jack may not be one for fireworks, but he can be creative when he wants. Witness the death of uber-terrorist Abu Fayed, whose neck gets swaddled in chains and hung by hydraulics.
John Quinn, Season 7: Died Between 9:00 p.m. and 10:00 p.m.
A ninja-like assassin, John put up quite a fight. It took Jack, a tractor-trailer, and one well-positioned screwdriver to take him out.
Dana Walsh, Season 8: Died Between 11 a.m. and 12 p.m.
Renee Walker's death is the beginning of the end for Jack—and unfortunately for this season's CTU mole, Dana Walsh, he's fresh out of humanity. Assassinated minutes after she and Jack made sweet, sweet love, Renee was the third of his lovers to become a casualty of his job. Dana, though only loosely involved with Renee's death, paid the price.
Source: TheDailyBeast.com
Stupid Drazen. You don't provoke Jack Bauer on purpose and live to tell about it—especially not when you run out of bullets. Duh.
Marshall Goren, Season 2: Died Between 8:00 a.m. - 9:00 a.m.
CTU was going to give federal witness Marshall Goren a pass for his crimes in exchange for testimony. But damnit, Jack needed a severed head for an undercover mission, and Goren just so happened to be a child pornography enthusiast. Win-win! Bonus: This scene features the quote of the season: "I'm gonna need a hacksaw."
Nina Meyers, Season 3: Died Between 2:00 a.m. - 3:00 a.m.
Audiences had to wait more than a year to see the traitorous Nina, who killed Jack's wife in the final hour of Season 1, finally get hers. Jack should have emptied the clip.
Ryan Chappelle, Season 3: Died Between 6:00 a.m. and 7:00 am
This is what you call over-relying on Jack, who was ordered to kill head of CTU Ryan Chappelle by President David Palmer in order to prevent a terrorist threat. (The President! Ordering a murder!) Chappelle asked for the dignity of being able to shoot himself, but chickened out, forcing Jack to shoot him in the back of the head.
Vladimir Bierko, Season 5: Died Between 5:00 a.m. - 6:00 a.m.
Ah yes, the first use of the Bauer thighs to kill. Terrorists, if you're going to immobilize Bauer, tie all of him up. You don't want him to have to use his legs.
Christopher Henderson, Season 5: Died between 5:00 a.m. and 6:00 a.m.
Christopher Henderson recruited Jack into CTU, mentored him on how to torture (take out the knees first!). Traitor or not, you'd think he'd be a little smarter. You kill three of Jack's friends, you're going to die.
Unnamed Fayed Terrorist Friend, Season 6: Died Between 6:00 a.m. and 7:00 a.m.
No hands? No feet? No problem. The powerful Bauer jaws are equally deadly. So long jugular.
Abu Fayed, Season 6: Died Between 10:00 p.m. and 11:00 p.m.
It's not all about bullets and brute strength. Jack may not be one for fireworks, but he can be creative when he wants. Witness the death of uber-terrorist Abu Fayed, whose neck gets swaddled in chains and hung by hydraulics.
John Quinn, Season 7: Died Between 9:00 p.m. and 10:00 p.m.
A ninja-like assassin, John put up quite a fight. It took Jack, a tractor-trailer, and one well-positioned screwdriver to take him out.
Dana Walsh, Season 8: Died Between 11 a.m. and 12 p.m.
Renee Walker's death is the beginning of the end for Jack—and unfortunately for this season's CTU mole, Dana Walsh, he's fresh out of humanity. Assassinated minutes after she and Jack made sweet, sweet love, Renee was the third of his lovers to become a casualty of his job. Dana, though only loosely involved with Renee's death, paid the price.
Source: TheDailyBeast.com
The 2010 National Memorial Day Concert - Dress Rehearsal Pictures
Dress rehearsal pictures from The 2010 National Memorial Day Concert featuring Joe Montegna, Gary Sinise, AJ Cook and Blythe Danner
All pictures credited to P. Morigi
All pictures credited to P. Morigi
The Creator of '24' Picks the 24 Best Moments
Bob Cochran, who helped give Jack Bauer life, picks 24 best moments for TheWrap as series ends
By Eric Estrin
Published: May 23, 2010
The Big Four networks have set their lineups for the 2010-11 TV season in primetime. TheWrap has a look at the new shows, in the order in which they'll appear on the week's schedule, starting with Monday. For the complete fall schedule, click here.
When Bob Cochran and Joel Surnow developed their ambitious pitch for a real-time TV series set in the world of counter-terrorism, they could have had no idea that eight weeks before the first episode was set to air, the nation would be plunged into exactly the kind of horrific turmoil the show would be exploring for the next eight years.
But that’s what happened when “24” premiered on Nov. 6, 2001.
Somehow, viewers put aside their anger and confusion over world events long enough to embrace the show’s gritty escapism, making “24,” which wraps its eight-season run Monday night with a special, two-hour finale, a cultural phenomenon and a major hit for Fox.
Cochran, who left the series during Season 6, and executive producer Howard Gordon, who ran it since early in the first season, sat down with The Wrap to choose the 24 greatest moments in the “24” pantheon, presented here in chronological order.
So you’d better start reading; we’re on the clock --
Boop… beep… boop… beep… boop…
1. Voice-over
SEASON 1 | Episode 1 | Date: Nov. 6, 2001
The first episode begins with words on a screen and the low-key voice of Special Agent Jack Bauer (Kiefer Sutherland): “The following takes place between midnight and 1 a.m. on the day of the California presidential primary. Events occur in real time.”
Those last four simple words signified a historic experiment in TV storytelling. Never before or since has a series taken place without cutting ahead or flashing back in time.
2. Mile-high terror
SEASON 1 | Episode 1 | Date: Nov. 6, 2001
A man and woman flirt on an international flight. We’ve been told there will be an attempt on the President’s life, and this guy looks suspicious. But it’s the seemingly airhead woman who’s the terrorist, which we find out when she steals his press card during sex in the bathroom, jabs a flight attendant in the neck with a hypodermic needle, sets off a time-bomb and ditches via parachute just before the plane blows to bits.
The scene was chosen not for its gripping suspense and cool special effects, but because it establishes a pattern of misdirection frequently seen on the show. Nothing is ever as it seems.
3. Trust no one
SEASON 1 | Episode 6 | Date: Dec. 18, 2001
Jack’s daughter Kim and her friend Janet York have been kidnapped. Janet’s father Alan has been running all over town with Jack’s wife Teri looking for them. When he finally finds the girl and gets some time alone with her, he kills her. We later learn he wasn’t really her father, a misconception we’d been laboring under for five episodes.
Cochran: “This was one of those early scenes that established a pattern right from the beginning that this show’s not going where you think.”
4. Nina, the mole
SEASON 1 | Episode23 | Date: May 14, 2002
We’ve been puzzling all season long over the identity of a traitor within CTU, the fictional Counter Terrorism Unit where Jack Bauer works.
When we see villain Andre Drazen talking with his inside source on the phone, we know the next face we see will be that of the mole. On the other end of the call, speaking to Drazen in Serbian, is Jack’s second in command and former lover, Nina Myers.
Gordon: “We always tried to think of what was the last thing the audience could possibly expect to happen, and then we’d try to make that happen. We’d have to go back and retrofit to set up clues to how the surprises were possible. But we’d always satisfy the requirements -- or at least it seemed that way in our frantic moments of desperation.”
5. A Split in the White House
SEASON 1 | Episode 24 | Date: May21, 2002
First Lady Sherry Palmer (Penny Johnson Jerald) became one of the great characters in the show’s history, not only because her Shakespearean ambitions blinded her to everything else, but also because of the effect she had on her husband. When David catches her trying to destroy evidence in the scandal surrounding their son, the two have it out. Her behavior here ultimately leads to their divorce.
Gordon: “When they fight, we we can see her point of view -- that he’d have gotten nowhere without her and has been sort of off-loading the dirty work onto his wife. The façade between them falls away, and the vulnerability and anger was really chilling. It was an interesting moment of revelation on both parts.”
6. Death hits home
SEASON 1 | Episode24 | Date: May21, 2002
In one of the show’s signature moments, Nina kills the person who discovers she is the mole: Jack’s wife Teri Bauer. This scene was picked for two reasons: 1) it signified that any character, no matter how beloved or vital to the story, is fair game, and 2) it set Jack on a downward emotional spiral that lasted well into the next season.
7. How far will Jack go? Nope, farther than that
SEASON 2 | Episode 25 | Date: Oct. 29, 2002
The season opens with the still-grief-stricken Jack being summoned back to CTU to stop a terror group from detonating a nuclear bomb in Los Angeles. Deciding to infiltrate the group, he orders one of its sleazeball rivals brought in, and he murders him right in front of the shocked head of CTU. He then moves forward with a plan to deliver the corpse’s head to the suspected nuclear terror group.
This scene was chosen as an early example of Jack going to extremes, then immediately topping himself, which he does by eyeing the dead sleazeball’s neck and announcing, “I’m gonna need a hacksaw.” The line quickly becomes part of the Jack Bauer lexicon.
8. Misdirection
SEASON 2 | Episode 35 | Date: Feb. 4, 2003
Kate Warner, with whom Jack develops a romantic relationship, is concerned that her sister Marie’s fiancé Reza is a terrorist. In fact, it’s Marie who is the terrorist, which we find out when she suddenly kills Reza.
Her last words to him before the fatal shots: “I’m sorry, you really are sweet.” The producers liked this one as another example of the series’ legendary misdirection.
9. Kaboom
SEASON 2 | Episode 39 | Date: Mar. 4, 2003
In our years of TV viewing, we’ve seen many heroes disarm many bombs, preventing many massive explosions in the nick of time. So that’s what audiences are expecting when, in the season’s 15th hour, the clock ticks down on an impending nuclear disaster. Wrong.
The producers chose this scene to illustrate the show’s willingness to break unwritten rules. They also liked the drama of Jack, saying goodbye to his daughter and volunteering to sacrifice his life by flying the bomb into a relatively safe spot in the desert. He learns in mid-flight that George Mason, the head of CTU who had previously been exposed to deadly nuclear radiation, has stowed away on the plane. Mason takes over the controls on the fatal flight, sacrificing himself so Jack can escape unharmed.
10. Palmer removed from office
SEASON 2 | Episode 45 | Date: Apr. 29, 2003
How closely did the show’s story lines hew to real events? The hounding of President David Palmer by political enemies and special interests seemed an obvious extension of Bill Clinton’s old troubles. The revelation that these same forces were pushing the U.S. into a retaliatory war on trumped-up evidence predated widespread awareness of similar events from the George W. Bush administration.
The producers picked the scene in which Palmer (Dennis Haysbert) is forced from office because in clinging to his principals under such extreme conditions, he wins a level of audience affection enjoyed by no other character, with the possible exceptions of Jack and Chloe.
11. Jack home-schools Kim
SEASON 2 | Episode 46 | Date: May 6, 2003
Kim temporarily knocks out Gary Matheson, the murderous father of the child she’s been caring for. Hysterical, she calls her father for help. As Matheson revives, Jack demands that she shoot him, forcefully talking her through the ordeal. Matheson is still breathing, so Jack makes her shoot him again.
The intensity of the two actors -- Elisha Cuthbert’s barely controlled hysteria playing against Sutherland’s forced emotional restraint -- earned this scene’s place on the list. Gordon: “The show lived in these hyper-suspenseful, emotional moments. Where others would have cut away, we’d always try to let them play out.
12. Michelle takes a stand
SEASON 3 | Episode 64 | Date: Mar. 30, 2004
A terrorist unleashes a deadly virus, using a hotel as a crucible to prove his murderous intent. CTU agent Michelle Dessler (Reyko Aylesworth) tries to maintain order, but the situation gives rise to extreme behavior as people are beginning to die. Michelle has put the hotel under quarantine and is forced to shoot an otherwise innocent guest who tries to escape. The scene hammers home the “24” theme that individuals must sometimes be sacrificed for the common good and proves that point on the back of a sympathetic agent under duress.
13. Execution of Ryan Chappelle
SEASON 3 | Episode 66 | Date: Apr. 18, 2004
His hand forced by terrorists, President Palmer orders Jack to kill CTU director Ryan Chappelle. We can’t conceive they’ll actually go through with this, but it’s exactly what happens. Jack takes Chappelle out to the train yard, and when the doomed Chappelle is unable to pull the trigger himself, he gets down on his knees and allows Jack to plug him in the back of the head.
According to Gordon, Sutherland often mentions this scene as one of the toughest moments he ever had to play on the show.
14. Air Force One shot down
SEASON 4 | Episode 88 | Date: Apr. 4, 2005
Terrorist mastermind Habib Marwan has hired a mercenary pilot to steal a stealth fighter and shoot down Air Force One carrying President Keeler toward Los Angeles from Mexico. Jack gets the pilot on the radio but can’t force him to abort the mission. The presidential jet goes down over the Mojave Desert, gravely injuring Keeler and forcing his removal from office.
With all of Jack Bauer’s heroics, producers needed to give him some epic failures to keep things real, and this was among the biggest.
15. Chloe gets her hands dirty
SEASON 4 | Episode 91 | Apr. 25, 2005
CTU’s resident IT superstar Chloe O’Brian (Mary Lynn Rajskub) is ordered into the field to retrieve some intel from a suspect’s computer. Almost immediately, the agents protecting her are murdered, and Chloe finds herself under siege. She escapes through the house, out a window and into a car with bulletproof glass, but she doesn’t have the keys. As her assailant prepares to ram the car, Chloe jumps out with a rifle and fires repeatedly, killing him.
Chloe began life on the series as a brilliant, maladjusted techno-nerd, but through her added layers of depth and loyalty to Jack, she gradually became the one of the show’s most beloved characters. This scene helps establish her street-cred, putting her in position to eventually take over as acting head of CTU in Season 8.
16. Death of Paul Raines
SEASON 4 | Episode 92 | Date: May 2, 2005
Jack’s relationship with Audrey Raines takes a big hit when he feels he has to torture her ex-husband Paul, who turns out to be innocent. Paul forgives him and in fact, later takes a bullet for him, saving Jack’s life. So how is he rewarded? With Audrey looking on, Jack forces a surgeon at gunpoint to abandon Paul and operate instead on a criminal informant. Paul dies minutes later.
The producers continually search for new ways to torture Jack emotionally as penance for the physical torture he dishes out. By making him cause the death of the hero and rival who saved his life, they hit a new high.
17. Assassination of David Palmer
SEASON 5 | Episode 97 | Date: Jan. 15, 2006
Minutes into the season’s first episode, former President David Palmer is writing his memoirs in his brother’s L.A. apartment, when he’s killed by a sniper’s bullet. His death becomes the lynchpin to the entire season, forcing Jack back to work for CTU after he had gone underground with a new identity.
It sets off a rapid-fire chain of events, including a record three moments that make this list.
18. Michelle killed by car bomb
SEASON 5 | Episode 97 | Date: Jan. 15, 2006
Jack faked his death at the end of the previous season, and only four people know he’s still alive: Palmer, Chloe, Michelle and Tony. But someone else knows too -- someone who wants to frame Jack for the murder of all four. The first domino to fall after Palmer is Michelle, blown up outside her home in an explosion meant to kill Tony too. This moment changes Tony forever, driving him to desperate measures in his search for revenge.
19. Martha Logan gets ready for her close-up
SEASON 5 | Episode 97 | Date: Jan. 15, 2006
“24” may be known for suspense, gritty violence and political intrigue, but producers also took pride in drawing unique, multi-dimensional characters.
One of the best was First Lady Martha Logan (Jean Smart), a cross between the Nixon era’s Martha Mitchell and Blanche DuBois. She’s introduced here, having her makeup and hair done, looking at herself in a mirror and announcing to her aide’s dismay, ” I look like a wedding cake,” before dunking her head in the sink and asking to start over.
Gordon chose this scene because it quickly establishes Martha as bold, likable and emotionally volatile -- traits that later come into play as she becomes an unreliable whistle-blower against her husband’s conspiracy.
20. Collateral damage
SEASON 5 | Episode 107 | Date: Mar. 6, 2006
Jack goes to the home of his old mentor-turned-bad, Christopher Henderson to search for proof that Henderson sold nerve gas to terrorists. In an attempt to make Henderson talk, Jack shoots and injures his innocent wife Miriam, an old friend who had cared for Jack’s daughter Kim when Jack was presumed dead.
This scene highlights how far Jack is willing to go to track down those responsible for David Palmer’s murder. In fact, he does have limits, which we see here when he backs off his threat to cripple Miriam with the next shot, even though Henderson still refuses to talk.
21. Death of Edgar Stiles
SEASON 5 | Episode 108 | Date: Mar. 6, 2006
Edgar (Louis Lombardi), Chloe’s misfit male CTU counterpart, is unable to make it into one of the sealed-off safe rooms when CTU is attacked with poison nerve gas. Chloe and others watch in agony through the windows, unable to help, as Edgar falls to the ground, dying. In Edgar’s honor, the producers took the unusual step of silencing the episode’s final ticking clock. Gordon says he didn’t realize how affecting that scene would be, and it was made all the more powerful by Chloe’s devastation.
22. A nuke in Valencia
SEASON 6 | Episodes 124-125 | Dates: Jan. 22, Jan. 29, 2007
Episode 124 ends with the detonation of a suitcase nuke in Valencia. Ramping up the stakes from the Season 2 nuke in the desert, this one’s in a populated area, and casualties are high. Jack, seemingly defeated, tells his boss to apologize to the President; he can’t take any more and he’s quitting.
Still stunned by the carnage when the next episode begins, Jack spots a helicopter precariously perched on a rooftop with someone trapped inside and moves into action as if by rote.
He saves the man moments before the chopper falls to the ground and explodes.
Gordon chose this two-part scene because it says something about Jack and about the human condition: “The magnitude of the event overwhelmed him and he was adamant about quitting. It took that one micro-event of saving the man’s life to get him back.”
23. The new Tony
SEASON 7 | Episode 145 | Date: Jan. 11, 2009
We last saw CTU agent Tony Almeida (Carlos Bernard) being killed in Season 5 as he sought revenge for the death of his wife, Michelle. Now he turns up alive -- and he’s turned bad. Gordon said the creative team was aware that some might deem this bit of retro-engineering Tony’s survival a jump-the-shark moment for the show, but the dramatic impact of his return was well worth the potential backlash. In fact, producers first conceived the character as someone else -- Gary Oldman was discussed for the role -- but they decided bringing back Tony would have more emotional resonance.
24. Finale
SEASON 8 | Episode 192
Despite the fact that a script has reportedly been written for an upcoming “24” movie and that Sutherland has been talking it up in the press, Gordon refused to confirm for the record that Bauer survives the show’s final two hours. He does promise that the creators give the character a fittingly dark but satisfying sendoff that deserves a spot on this list. Only time will tell if we agree.
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Source: thewrap.com
'24': The 24 Best Quotes
by Kim Potts, posted May 23rd 2010 5:00PM
Let's be honest: Jack Bauer is a man of action, and because of that, sometimes few words are necessary. Or, if Jack has you in the midst of one of his special brands of Jack torture, even possible. But occasionally, even the man of action, and those around him, know that it's important to use words, so, from eight seasons of '24,' here's 24 of the best quotes:
Jack Bauer (Kiefer Sutherland), introducing the action in season 1: "I'm Federal Agent Jack Bauer, and today is the longest day of my life."
Day 1, '12:00AM-1:00AM'
Jack on why he blew the whistle on some of his fellow federal agents: "You can look the other way once, and it's no big deal, except it makes it easier for you to compromise the next time, and pretty soon that's all you're doing; compromising, because that's the way you think things are done. You know those guys I busted? You think they were the bad guys? Because they weren't, they weren't bad guys, they were just like you and me. Except they compromised. Once."
Day 1, '12:00AM-1:00AM'
Jack, uttering his favorite phrase of frustration, which he's used so frequently that it sparked a drinking game: "Damn it!"
Day 1, '3:00AM-4:00AM' (the first time Jack says it)
Jack, describing in vivid detail, how he'll carry out a torture session: "You probably don't think that I can force this towel down your throat. But trust me, I can. All the way. Except I'd hold onto this one little bit at the end. When your stomach starts to digest it, I pull it out. Taking your stomach lining with it. For most people it would take about a week to die. It's very painful."
Day 1, '10:00AM-11:00AM'
Jack on, ahem, dismantling a guy he'd just killed: "I'm gonna need a hacksaw."
Day 2, '8:00AM-9:00AM'
Jack, telling the evil Nina Meyers (Sarah Clarke) about his wife, Teri (Leslie Hope), who Nina had murdered: "The Sunday before you killed my wife, Teri and I went to the boardwalk in Venice, just watching all the rollerbladers and musicians, laughing at the crazy people, spending time together. And Teri sees this sno-cone stand. She giggles like a kid. She takes off running, she wants to get in line, she wants one. I remember I was watching her, I was just ... I couldn't help myself. When I look up at her, she's talking to this old lady in line behind her, and the two of them are laughing, and I'm thinking to myself, 'How the hell does she do that? How does she strike up a conversation with an absolute stranger?' And they just start laughing. Like they'd been friends forever. That's a gift. I remember thinking, 'God, I wish I could do that.' But I can't. That was Teri. My wife. That's what you took from this world, Nina. That's what you took from me and my daughter. I just wanted you to know that."
Day 2, '3:00PM-4:00PM'
Jack and Nina, discussing Teri's murder:
Nina: "It didn't have to be like this, Jack. I never meant for this to be personal."
Jack: "It felt pretty personal when you killed my wife."
Day 2, '5:00PM-6:00PM'
George Mason (Xander Berkeley), trying to talk Jack out of a suicide mission aboard an airplane with a nuclear weapon inside: "Come on, Jack, you've had a death wish ever since Teri died. The way things have been going for you the past year and a half, this probably doesn't look like such a bad idea. You get to go out in a blaze of glory, one of the greatest heroes of all time, leave your troubles behind. You still have a life, Jack. You wanna be a real hero, here's what you do: you get back down there, and you put the pieces together. You find a way to forgive yourself for what happened to your wife. You make things right with your daughter, and you go on serving your country. That'd take some real guts."
Day 2, '10:00PM-11:00PM'
Jack: "You have no idea how far I'm willing to go to acquire your cooperation."
Day 3, '7:00AM-8:00AM'
Tony Almeida (Carlos Bernard), while dealing with a difficult Chloe (Mary Lynn Rajskub): "Chloe, I'm getting real tired of your personality."
Day 3, '8:00AM-9:00AM'
Mexican drug lord Ramon Salazar (Joaquim de Almeida), on Jack's resilience: "That man has more lives than a cat."
Day 3, '9:00PM-10:00PM'
CTU honcho Bill Buchanan (James Morrison) to CTU tech whiz Chloe: "We're in an active code, Chloe. We don't have time for your personality disorder."
Day 4, '3:00AM-4:00AM'
James Heller (William Devane) to his son, Richard (Logan Marshall-Green), on Richard's anti-war beliefs: "Spare me your sixth-grade Michael Moore logic!"
Day 4, '7:00AM-8:00AM'
Secret Service agent Aaron Pierce (Glenn Morshower), showing his disgust with President Charles Logan (Gregory Itzin) by addressing him by his first name: "There is nothing you have said or done that is acceptable to me in the least. You're a traitor to this country and a disgrace to your office. And it's my duty to see that you're brought to justice for what you've done. Is there anything else, Charles?"
Day 5, '4:00AM-5:00AM'
Jack to weaselly President Logan: "Mr. Logan, I'm not going to torture you. But you're going to tell me what I want to know, or so help me, God ... I will kill you. A year and a half ago, I was warned that my life was in danger, by someone within the government. I was told the only way I could stay alive was to create the illusion that I was dead. I was forced to deceive people that I loved. My only daughter will never forgive me. As I see the depth of your corruption unfold, I have no doubt that you are that source of danger. David Palmer was a great man, and he was a great president! But he was also my friend. He tried to warn me about you, and now he is dead. Other people tried to help me, and they are dead, too. So Mr. Logan, I hope you understand ... I have absolutely nothing to lose. You are going to be held accountable for your part of everything that happened today. You are not going to be able to hide behind the presidency ... right here, right now, you are going to face justice! And make no mistake about this, this is personal. And if you think for a second that I am scared to put a bullet in your brain, you don't know me. I am going to ask you one last time. Who are your co-conspirators? You have until the count of three, or I will kill you."
Day 5, '6:00AM-7:00AM'
Martha Logan (Jean Smart) on her overdone look, before dropping her just styled face and hair into a sink full of water: "I look like a wedding cake!"
Day 5, '7:00AM-8:00AM'
Jack: "The only reason you're still conscious is because I don't want to carry you."
Day 5, '8:00AM-9:00AM'
Jack: "You're going to tell me what I want to know. It's just a question of how much you want it to hurt."
Day 5, '8:00AM-9:00AM'
Chloe, apologizing. Sorta. Or maybe not:
Chloe: "I was unfairly harsh to you a few minutes ago, I didn't mean anything."
Spencer: "Alright. Apology accepted."
Chloe: "It wasn't really an apology, it was more of an observation."
Day 5, '11:00AM-12:00PM'
Jack to Bill Buchanan, after Jack had to shoot co-worker Curtis Manning (Roger Cross): "Tell the president I'm sorry, I can't do this anymore."
Day 6, '9:00AM-10:00AM'
Jack, advising Renee Walker (Annie Wersching) on how to decide whether to follow your conscience or the rules: "You took an oath. You made a promise to uphold the law. When you cross that line, it always starts off with a small step. Before you know it, you're running as fast as you can in the wrong direction just to justify why you started in the first place. These laws were written by much smarter men than me. And in the end, I know that these laws have to be more important than the 15 people on the bus. I know that's right. In my mind, I know that's right. I just don't think my heart could ever have lived with that. I guess the only advice I can give you is... try to make choices that you can live with."
Day 7, '7:00AM-8:00AM'
Jack, in a Senate hearing about possible human rights violations by CTU: "I am more than willing to be judged by the people you claim to represent. I will let them decide what price I should pay. But please do not sit there with that smug look on your face and expect me to regret the decisions I have made. Because, sir, the truth is ... I don't."
Day 7, '8:00AM-9:00AM'
Jack, to baddie Pavel. Before gutting him:
Pavel: "Go to Hell."
Jack: "You first."
Day 8, '12:00AM-1:00AM'
MINOR SPOILER ALERT: This is uttered by Jack in the May 24 series finale, 8PM ET, on Fox:
Jack Bauer (Kiefer Sutherland), introducing the action in season 1: "I'm Federal Agent Jack Bauer, and today is the longest day of my life."
Day 1, '12:00AM-1:00AM'
Jack on why he blew the whistle on some of his fellow federal agents: "You can look the other way once, and it's no big deal, except it makes it easier for you to compromise the next time, and pretty soon that's all you're doing; compromising, because that's the way you think things are done. You know those guys I busted? You think they were the bad guys? Because they weren't, they weren't bad guys, they were just like you and me. Except they compromised. Once."
Day 1, '12:00AM-1:00AM'
Jack, uttering his favorite phrase of frustration, which he's used so frequently that it sparked a drinking game: "Damn it!"
Day 1, '3:00AM-4:00AM' (the first time Jack says it)
Jack, describing in vivid detail, how he'll carry out a torture session: "You probably don't think that I can force this towel down your throat. But trust me, I can. All the way. Except I'd hold onto this one little bit at the end. When your stomach starts to digest it, I pull it out. Taking your stomach lining with it. For most people it would take about a week to die. It's very painful."
Day 1, '10:00AM-11:00AM'
Jack on, ahem, dismantling a guy he'd just killed: "I'm gonna need a hacksaw."
Day 2, '8:00AM-9:00AM'
Jack, telling the evil Nina Meyers (Sarah Clarke) about his wife, Teri (Leslie Hope), who Nina had murdered: "The Sunday before you killed my wife, Teri and I went to the boardwalk in Venice, just watching all the rollerbladers and musicians, laughing at the crazy people, spending time together. And Teri sees this sno-cone stand. She giggles like a kid. She takes off running, she wants to get in line, she wants one. I remember I was watching her, I was just ... I couldn't help myself. When I look up at her, she's talking to this old lady in line behind her, and the two of them are laughing, and I'm thinking to myself, 'How the hell does she do that? How does she strike up a conversation with an absolute stranger?' And they just start laughing. Like they'd been friends forever. That's a gift. I remember thinking, 'God, I wish I could do that.' But I can't. That was Teri. My wife. That's what you took from this world, Nina. That's what you took from me and my daughter. I just wanted you to know that."
Day 2, '3:00PM-4:00PM'
Jack and Nina, discussing Teri's murder:
Nina: "It didn't have to be like this, Jack. I never meant for this to be personal."
Jack: "It felt pretty personal when you killed my wife."
Day 2, '5:00PM-6:00PM'
George Mason (Xander Berkeley), trying to talk Jack out of a suicide mission aboard an airplane with a nuclear weapon inside: "Come on, Jack, you've had a death wish ever since Teri died. The way things have been going for you the past year and a half, this probably doesn't look like such a bad idea. You get to go out in a blaze of glory, one of the greatest heroes of all time, leave your troubles behind. You still have a life, Jack. You wanna be a real hero, here's what you do: you get back down there, and you put the pieces together. You find a way to forgive yourself for what happened to your wife. You make things right with your daughter, and you go on serving your country. That'd take some real guts."
Day 2, '10:00PM-11:00PM'
Jack: "You have no idea how far I'm willing to go to acquire your cooperation."
Day 3, '7:00AM-8:00AM'
Tony Almeida (Carlos Bernard), while dealing with a difficult Chloe (Mary Lynn Rajskub): "Chloe, I'm getting real tired of your personality."
Day 3, '8:00AM-9:00AM'
Mexican drug lord Ramon Salazar (Joaquim de Almeida), on Jack's resilience: "That man has more lives than a cat."
Day 3, '9:00PM-10:00PM'
CTU honcho Bill Buchanan (James Morrison) to CTU tech whiz Chloe: "We're in an active code, Chloe. We don't have time for your personality disorder."
Day 4, '3:00AM-4:00AM'
James Heller (William Devane) to his son, Richard (Logan Marshall-Green), on Richard's anti-war beliefs: "Spare me your sixth-grade Michael Moore logic!"
Day 4, '7:00AM-8:00AM'
Secret Service agent Aaron Pierce (Glenn Morshower), showing his disgust with President Charles Logan (Gregory Itzin) by addressing him by his first name: "There is nothing you have said or done that is acceptable to me in the least. You're a traitor to this country and a disgrace to your office. And it's my duty to see that you're brought to justice for what you've done. Is there anything else, Charles?"
Day 5, '4:00AM-5:00AM'
Jack to weaselly President Logan: "Mr. Logan, I'm not going to torture you. But you're going to tell me what I want to know, or so help me, God ... I will kill you. A year and a half ago, I was warned that my life was in danger, by someone within the government. I was told the only way I could stay alive was to create the illusion that I was dead. I was forced to deceive people that I loved. My only daughter will never forgive me. As I see the depth of your corruption unfold, I have no doubt that you are that source of danger. David Palmer was a great man, and he was a great president! But he was also my friend. He tried to warn me about you, and now he is dead. Other people tried to help me, and they are dead, too. So Mr. Logan, I hope you understand ... I have absolutely nothing to lose. You are going to be held accountable for your part of everything that happened today. You are not going to be able to hide behind the presidency ... right here, right now, you are going to face justice! And make no mistake about this, this is personal. And if you think for a second that I am scared to put a bullet in your brain, you don't know me. I am going to ask you one last time. Who are your co-conspirators? You have until the count of three, or I will kill you."
Day 5, '6:00AM-7:00AM'
Martha Logan (Jean Smart) on her overdone look, before dropping her just styled face and hair into a sink full of water: "I look like a wedding cake!"
Day 5, '7:00AM-8:00AM'
Jack: "The only reason you're still conscious is because I don't want to carry you."
Day 5, '8:00AM-9:00AM'
Jack: "You're going to tell me what I want to know. It's just a question of how much you want it to hurt."
Day 5, '8:00AM-9:00AM'
Chloe, apologizing. Sorta. Or maybe not:
Chloe: "I was unfairly harsh to you a few minutes ago, I didn't mean anything."
Spencer: "Alright. Apology accepted."
Chloe: "It wasn't really an apology, it was more of an observation."
Day 5, '11:00AM-12:00PM'
Jack to Bill Buchanan, after Jack had to shoot co-worker Curtis Manning (Roger Cross): "Tell the president I'm sorry, I can't do this anymore."
Day 6, '9:00AM-10:00AM'
Jack, advising Renee Walker (Annie Wersching) on how to decide whether to follow your conscience or the rules: "You took an oath. You made a promise to uphold the law. When you cross that line, it always starts off with a small step. Before you know it, you're running as fast as you can in the wrong direction just to justify why you started in the first place. These laws were written by much smarter men than me. And in the end, I know that these laws have to be more important than the 15 people on the bus. I know that's right. In my mind, I know that's right. I just don't think my heart could ever have lived with that. I guess the only advice I can give you is... try to make choices that you can live with."
Day 7, '7:00AM-8:00AM'
Jack, in a Senate hearing about possible human rights violations by CTU: "I am more than willing to be judged by the people you claim to represent. I will let them decide what price I should pay. But please do not sit there with that smug look on your face and expect me to regret the decisions I have made. Because, sir, the truth is ... I don't."
Day 7, '8:00AM-9:00AM'
Jack, to baddie Pavel. Before gutting him:
Pavel: "Go to Hell."
Jack: "You first."
Day 8, '12:00AM-1:00AM'
MINOR SPOILER ALERT: This is uttered by Jack in the May 24 series finale, 8PM ET, on Fox:
"I would have accepted justice by law. But that was taken from me. I am judge and jury."
Source: TVSquad.com
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The 2010 National Memorial Day Concert
The 2010 National Memorial Day Concert airs tonight Sunday May 30th on PBS from 8:00 to 9:30 PM ET (check your local listings)
The above picture from rehearsal shows some of the wonderful people involved including Criminal Minds' own Joe Mantegna and AJ Cook. Joe will be co-hosting once again with Gary Sinise and AJ will be taking part in a dramatic reading with Tony and Emmy-award winning actress Blythe Danner.
Joe has participated in this event for nine years and it is one that he holds very dear to his heart. He has said that though not very politically involved, he whole-heartedly supports our troops and their families and is honored to have been part of this program for so long. This Tony-award winner has been co-hosting the concert for the last five-years with acclaimed actor Gary Sinise.
One of the main focuses of the program this year is honoring the sacrifices, suffering and love of a new generation of young military widows whose fallen spouses served in Iraq and Afghanistan. AJ will be performing a dramatic reading of the story of Taryn Davis who was 21 when her husband was killed in Iraq. It's a story of her journey to healing that led to her finding support with the Widows of Veterans Yahoo Group, to her bond with Glenda Davis who lost her husband to the Vietnam War, and eventually to her non-profit organization, American Widow Project. Two very different generations of women having to deal with the same pain. Blythe Danner will be sharing Glenda Davis' story with us.
You can read more about tonight's program in the following link:
http://www.pbs.org/memorialdayconcert/concert/
Credit for the above pictures to Kris Connor (group shot) and to P. Morigi (pictures of Joe and AJ)
The above picture from rehearsal shows some of the wonderful people involved including Criminal Minds' own Joe Mantegna and AJ Cook. Joe will be co-hosting once again with Gary Sinise and AJ will be taking part in a dramatic reading with Tony and Emmy-award winning actress Blythe Danner.
Joe has participated in this event for nine years and it is one that he holds very dear to his heart. He has said that though not very politically involved, he whole-heartedly supports our troops and their families and is honored to have been part of this program for so long. This Tony-award winner has been co-hosting the concert for the last five-years with acclaimed actor Gary Sinise.
One of the main focuses of the program this year is honoring the sacrifices, suffering and love of a new generation of young military widows whose fallen spouses served in Iraq and Afghanistan. AJ will be performing a dramatic reading of the story of Taryn Davis who was 21 when her husband was killed in Iraq. It's a story of her journey to healing that led to her finding support with the Widows of Veterans Yahoo Group, to her bond with Glenda Davis who lost her husband to the Vietnam War, and eventually to her non-profit organization, American Widow Project. Two very different generations of women having to deal with the same pain. Blythe Danner will be sharing Glenda Davis' story with us.
You can read more about tonight's program in the following link:
http://www.pbs.org/memorialdayconcert/concert/
Credit for the above pictures to Kris Connor (group shot) and to P. Morigi (pictures of Joe and AJ)
take it easy...
I'm runnin' down the road tryin' to loosen my load, I got seven women on my mind...
but let's just concentrate on three...first we got Jan Brewer, a hard drinking and chain smoking Republican woman gov of Arizona who signed SB1070. She is dry as a desert gulch and not really very pretty inside or out...Brewer, who became interim governor by default (when Janet Napolitano resigned to become US State Secretary of Homeland Security) is clearly dialing around for an American Idol vote to remain on as governor while riding the Tea Party waves, while failing to include on her campaign literature her own genealogy—her English grandmother Sarah Jane Marble who came to New York in 1886. Marble along with other European became "documented" if they were healthy the day they arrived.
but let's just concentrate on three...first we got Jan Brewer, a hard drinking and chain smoking Republican woman gov of Arizona who signed SB1070. She is dry as a desert gulch and not really very pretty inside or out...Brewer, who became interim governor by default (when Janet Napolitano resigned to become US State Secretary of Homeland Security) is clearly dialing around for an American Idol vote to remain on as governor while riding the Tea Party waves, while failing to include on her campaign literature her own genealogy—her English grandmother Sarah Jane Marble who came to New York in 1886. Marble along with other European became "documented" if they were healthy the day they arrived.
Jan is against equal rights for domestic partners and people who are against rights for one group are pretty much the same way for other minorities. They mask it by misinterpreting the Constitution and wrapping themselves in the American flag...
next let's look at Lila Downs, a lovely Mexican/American woman who sings songs about the south and civil rights and immigrants and love and has a beautiful voice and face....if she were singing Spanish songs on the street corner, an Arizona cop could question her legal status under the AZSB1070 "reasonable suspicion" clause which is a violation of the 4th Amendment unreasonable search and seizure:
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated.
of course, we can't have coyotes smuggling 40 people in a Chevy AstroVan across the border, but we must have real border agents to control real crimes...not more laws
next let's look at Lila Downs, a lovely Mexican/American woman who sings songs about the south and civil rights and immigrants and love and has a beautiful voice and face....if she were singing Spanish songs on the street corner, an Arizona cop could question her legal status under the AZSB1070 "reasonable suspicion" clause which is a violation of the 4th Amendment unreasonable search and seizure:
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated.
of course, we can't have coyotes smuggling 40 people in a Chevy AstroVan across the border, but we must have real border agents to control real crimes...not more laws
hey Arizona..listen to this: lila
standing on the corner in Winslow, Arizona...
E. A LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICER, WITHOUT A WARRANT, MAY ARREST A PERSON
IF THE OFFICER HAS PROBABLE CAUSE TO BELIEVE THAT THE PERSON HAS COMMITTED ANY PUBLIC OFFENSE THAT MAKES THE PERSON REMOVABLE FROM THE UNITED
STATES.
now, to the employers who hire illegal aliens....in Arizona, you can claim you didn't know they were illegals, and that's ok according to these two conflicting parts of the same section!
For the purposes of this section, an employer that establishes that
it has complied in good faith with the requirements of 8 United States Code
section 1324a(b) establishes an affirmative defense that the employer did not
knowingly employ an unauthorized alien. An employer is considered to have
complied with the requirements of 8 United States Code section 1324a(b),
notwithstanding an isolated, sporadic or accidental technical or procedural5 failure to meet the requirements, if there is a good faith attempt to comply
with the requirements
An employer shall not intentionally employ an unauthorized alien.
If, in the case when an employer uses a contract, subcontract or other
independent contractor agreement to obtain the labor of an alien in this
state, the employer intentionally contracts with an unauthorized alien or
with a person who employs or contracts with an unauthorized alien to perform
the labor, the employer violates this subsection.
just find a place to make your stand...
now, if California agriculture business is required to get rid of its workers due to immigration status, how will that affect the US economy? consider this: "Not only does California produce more than half of the country's fruits, nuts and vegetables, we're also the number-one dairy state, the number-two cotton state and we produce nearly 50 percent of the nation's flowers and nursery products."
hmmm, Carpinteria has a lot a flower growers and one of the most prominent is the third woman, loudmouth matriarch June Van Wingerden, who is way right wing and anti-union & working class.
June also sits on the Carp Water District Board and our well is dry with a $100,000,000 debt. She and her cohorts have handed Carpinterians some of the highest water rates in the country.... She and Joe Armendariz of the Carp Council and SBCTaxpayerAssociation are pals...funny, Joe hasn't uttered a peep about the water district debt..see the picture? that's June with a few other butt ugly women at a SBCTA party...and as a rule, I don't fuck ugly women....
but let's concentrate on good ol' June's good ol' flower business. let's see if I can get a rise out of the old gal..I wonder if she employs illegal aliens...or how she feels about Arizona's anti-Mexican law..
I'll have to set aside some time and go check it out and report back unless the weather stays good then I'm gonna just play outside....
standing on the corner in Winslow, Arizona...
E. A LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICER, WITHOUT A WARRANT, MAY ARREST A PERSON
IF THE OFFICER HAS PROBABLE CAUSE TO BELIEVE THAT THE PERSON HAS COMMITTED ANY PUBLIC OFFENSE THAT MAKES THE PERSON REMOVABLE FROM THE UNITED
STATES.
now, to the employers who hire illegal aliens....in Arizona, you can claim you didn't know they were illegals, and that's ok according to these two conflicting parts of the same section!
For the purposes of this section, an employer that establishes that
it has complied in good faith with the requirements of 8 United States Code
section 1324a(b) establishes an affirmative defense that the employer did not
knowingly employ an unauthorized alien. An employer is considered to have
complied with the requirements of 8 United States Code section 1324a(b),
notwithstanding an isolated, sporadic or accidental technical or procedural5 failure to meet the requirements, if there is a good faith attempt to comply
with the requirements
An employer shall not intentionally employ an unauthorized alien.
If, in the case when an employer uses a contract, subcontract or other
independent contractor agreement to obtain the labor of an alien in this
state, the employer intentionally contracts with an unauthorized alien or
with a person who employs or contracts with an unauthorized alien to perform
the labor, the employer violates this subsection.
just find a place to make your stand...
now, if California agriculture business is required to get rid of its workers due to immigration status, how will that affect the US economy? consider this: "Not only does California produce more than half of the country's fruits, nuts and vegetables, we're also the number-one dairy state, the number-two cotton state and we produce nearly 50 percent of the nation's flowers and nursery products."
hmmm, Carpinteria has a lot a flower growers and one of the most prominent is the third woman, loudmouth matriarch June Van Wingerden, who is way right wing and anti-union & working class.
June also sits on the Carp Water District Board and our well is dry with a $100,000,000 debt. She and her cohorts have handed Carpinterians some of the highest water rates in the country.... She and Joe Armendariz of the Carp Council and SBCTaxpayerAssociation are pals...funny, Joe hasn't uttered a peep about the water district debt..see the picture? that's June with a few other butt ugly women at a SBCTA party...and as a rule, I don't fuck ugly women....
but let's concentrate on good ol' June's good ol' flower business. let's see if I can get a rise out of the old gal..I wonder if she employs illegal aliens...or how she feels about Arizona's anti-Mexican law..
I'll have to set aside some time and go check it out and report back unless the weather stays good then I'm gonna just play outside....
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