Monday/Tuesday/24 Open Thread

Posted by: Sister Toldjah on April 30, 2007 at 8:25 pm

Any predictions for what will happen tonight on “24″?

BTW, since this is an open thread, any of you out there live in the bay area? It used to be bad just for conservatives, but this highway collapse is going to make it a pain for everyone to get around the SF/Oakland area for a while. I feel for ya!

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1. steveegg says:

   April 30, 2007 at 8:38 pm

   Bold 1st-week-of-May-sweeps prediction – Ricky Stratton gets taken all the way out as Jack proves (once again) just how terrible security is at CTU.
2. Mwalimu Daudi says:

   April 30, 2007 at 8:55 pm

   A great item by Mark Steyn

   Key quote:

   In the Democratic presidential candidates’ debate, Sen. Barack Obama was asked what he personally was doing to save the environment, and replied that his family was “working on” changing their light bulbs.

   Is this the new version of the old joke? How many senators does it take to “work on” changing a light bulb? One to propose a bipartisan commission. One to threaten to de-fund the light bulbs. One to demand the impeachment of Bush and Cheney for keeping us all in the dark. One to vote to pull out the first of the light bulbs by fall of this year with a view to getting them all pulled out by the end of 2008.
3. Sister Toldjah says:

   April 30, 2007 at 8:58 pm

   Linked here as well.

   Great stuff, as always, by Mr. Steynomite
4. Sister Toldjah says:

   April 30, 2007 at 9:14 pm

   Looks like the spy is Daniels’ mistress …
5. steveegg says:

   April 30, 2007 at 9:17 pm

   He’s a spy, but he didn’t have time to tell the Rooskies about the plan ruined by Ricky Stratton. We’ve got 2 spies.
6. Sister Toldjah says:

   April 30, 2007 at 9:17 pm

   Or maybe the mistresses’ b/f …
7. steveegg says:

   April 30, 2007 at 9:22 pm

   That’s what I was refering to, but he still didn’t have the chance to get the word out to the Russians.
8. Sister Toldjah says:

   April 30, 2007 at 9:31 pm

   ruh roh – trouble brewing in Daniels’ office …
9. steveegg says:

   April 30, 2007 at 9:32 pm

   Serious trouble. At least Daniels wasn’t two-timing.

   Doyle to Jack – “Make it look good.”
10. NC Cop says:

    April 30, 2007 at 9:34 pm

    Who is this guy? V.P. Bill Clinton!!!!
11. Sister Toldjah says:

    April 30, 2007 at 9:38 pm

    steve, wouldn’t CTU be able to pull up video to see that Doyle unlocked Jack’s cuffs?

    NC – heh. At least Daniels’ wasn’t married
12. Sister Toldjah says:

    April 30, 2007 at 9:39 pm

    Looks like Nadia and Doyle are going to be having a major battle soon …
13. sanity says:

    April 30, 2007 at 9:40 pm

    Rex and the City: Opponents want dirt on Thompson

    Former Tennessee U.S. Senator Fred Thompson is drawing nationwide attention for his ongoing flirtation with running for president. He is also drawing a little unwanted attention here in Nashville of a very different kind.

    Nashville law circles were abuzz last week about professional snoops – either private investigators or opposition research political types – combing public records in Metro buildings looking for potential dirt on Thompson. Property records seemed to be at the top of their list.

    The word trickled up to Republican Party sources, who insist it is Thompson’s potential GOP primary opponents looking for ammo to use should the television star make the race.

    Thompson running is a lock, according to GOP sources in the state who know him well. In fact, leading Tennessee Republicans surmise Thompson staying away from actively campaigning and being selective with media appearances is another sign he is going to get in the White House 2008 race.

    Link
14. steveegg says:

    April 30, 2007 at 9:47 pm

    Where do you think Chloe went? There is a time-honored tradition of altering surveilance in CTU, and Chloe’s been the designated fixer since Season 3.
15. Drewsmom says:

    April 30, 2007 at 9:47 pm

    I don’t like Nadia’s attitude since she took over as acting director — they need Bill back bad and poor Audrey is really messed up. The rotten Chinese really did her in — the Chinese dude better hope Jack doesn’t get hold of him.
16. steveegg says:

    April 30, 2007 at 9:48 pm

    Looks like Nadia and Doyle are going to be having a major battle soon …

    “Here comes the bride!”
17. Sister Toldjah says:

    April 30, 2007 at 9:50 pm

    I wouldn’t want to be on Daniels’ bad side …
18. steveegg says:

    April 30, 2007 at 9:52 pm

    After all, he’ll give you the choice of a Two-One Zebra or Kool-Aid.
19. Sister Toldjah says:

    April 30, 2007 at 9:56 pm

    Poor Jack .. can’t catch a break
20. steveegg says:

    April 30, 2007 at 9:59 pm

    Heller does have a point. Let’s review the women of Jack Bauer:

    Teri Bauer – dead
    Nina Myers – dead
    Kate Warner – dumped
    Audrey Raines – shell-shocked
21. Sister Toldjah says:

    April 30, 2007 at 10:01 pm

    Yeah, but everybody needs somebody to love, and Jack needs Audrey
22. steveegg says:

    April 30, 2007 at 10:05 pm

    Guess Jack moves on to Chloe next season.
23. Sister Toldjah says:

    April 30, 2007 at 10:06 pm

    Hmm. There’s a thought.

    Weird that the previews didn’t show Chloe. Will we see her again before the season ends, I wonder.
24. NC Cop says:

    April 30, 2007 at 10:08 pm

    What about Jacks brothers wife? She’s a hottie!
25. steveegg says:

    April 30, 2007 at 10:09 pm

    I knew I forgot someone (though it’s only conjecture that Josh is really Jack Jr.).
26. Sister Toldjah says:

    April 30, 2007 at 10:12 pm

    What if we find out that Jack is gay …?

    Then the left really could say that “24″ is a liberal show
27. steveegg says:

    April 30, 2007 at 10:17 pm

    They’re saving that for the last episode of the last season.
28. Sister Toldjah says:

    April 30, 2007 at 10:23 pm

    LOL steve!
29. Incognito says:

    April 30, 2007 at 11:35 pm

    I’m sorry, but this season has pretty much sucked..and gotten worse since they found the suitcase bombs. Can’t imagine what more they can do with another 2 or 3 seasons.

    And what happened to his Dad?
30. Tango says:

    May 1, 2007 at 8:12 am

    Anyone care to bet that by the series finale, Jack ends up as president?
31. Ryan says:

    May 1, 2007 at 12:51 pm

    Incognito – agreed. This season has turned 24 into a soap opera. It was nice to see William Devane tell Jack that he was cursed. He’s absolutely right! Maybe this is where the writers finally decide to cut off all personal relationships for Jack and just turn him loose. If they do that, they could avoid at least some of the soap opera for next season.

    President Powers Boothe is great. When he told Tom Lennox that he “felt better now” that was classic.
32. sanity says:

    May 2, 2007 at 4:36 pm

    Obama camp takes control of a Obama supporters Myspace page.

    WASHINGTON (AP) – Is MySpace always mine or can it belong to someone else? At the cost of losing 160,000 friends, Democrat Barack Obama’s presidential campaign has taken over control of the MySpace page listed under his name on the popular social networking site.
    For the past two and a half years, the page has been run by an Obama supporter from Los Angeles named Joe Anthony. At first, that arrangement was fine with the Obama team, which worked with Anthony on the content and even had the password to make changes themselves.

    But as the site exploded in popularity in recent months, the campaign became concerned about an outsider having control of the content and responses going out under Obama’s name and told Anthony they wanted him to turn it over.

    In this new frontier of online campaigning, it’s hard to determine the value of 160,000 MySpace friends—about four times what any other official campaign MySpace page has amassed. But the Obama campaign decided they wouldn’t pay $39,000, which is what Anthony said he proposed for his extensive work on the site, plus some additional fees up to $10,000.

    MySpace reluctantly stepped in to settle the dispute and decided that Obama should have the rights to control http://www.myspace.com/barackobama as of Monday night, while Anthony had the right to take the contact information for all the friends who signed up while he was in control. That includes the right to tell them exactly how he feels about the Obama campaign.

    Anthony referred The Associated Press to his MySpace blog, where he has written that he is heartbroken that the Obama campaign was “bullying” him out of the page he built. He said the candidate has lost his vote.

    Meanwhile, the Obama campaign is trying to rebuild his friends network from scratch and was up to more than 17,000 by midday Wednesday. “We support the MySpace community, and look forward to building our relationship,” said campaign spokesman Bill Burton.

    Link

    Way to use and abuse your supporters Obama, and good way to lose a vote too.

    The former supporter of Obama has moved to another Myspace page after essentially having his Myspace page stolen from him (myspace gave it to Obama camp) and explains what happened behind the scenes:

    5.01.01 What happened to the Obama profile?
    Current mood: disappointed

    Friends,

    Many of you are probably wondering what happened to the Obama profile. The campaign, with the help of Myspace, have seized control of the profile without my consent, and are using it to refer traffic to a new profile they created. I have been blocked from having access to the profile. The campaign will probably have a different perspective on the events leading up to this, but until my personal profile is deleted, I’m going to take a stand on this. I believe what they did is just wrong, and someone should say something.

    Here is an email I sent to Micah at techpresident.com. Any questions, let me know:

    Thanks Micah,

    I want to be careful about this, but also I think it’s unfair that they deleted this community when they could have left it up as an unofficial fan site as it has been for the last two and a half years. The campaign may say that this was my decision, and this is not true.

    I did want to be paid, if we were to continue working together . This was not an attempt to use this profile for commercial purposes. This was an attempt to keep working my ass off on this profile, for Barack Obama, and for the enormous community of supporters on Myspace.

    Since January, as you may know, and as many in the Myspace community know, I’ve been working on the page around the clock. I started this profile in November of 2004 and it grew steadily since then. In January and February the media started to notice, and I began to work even harder because I reallized what an impact the Myspace could really have.

    People were actually registering to vote, making contributions, asking questions, putting banners on their pages, etc. I know this because I constantly received emails about this, and I replied to every single one to thank them or point them in the right direction if they needed more information.

    The campaign got involved in February and although at first it was very exciting, it quickly became clear that they just had no interest in me or my involvement. They only wanted to take control of the profile and get on with it. I bit the bullet for a while and kept working for the good of the campaign, but they quickly went from passive aggressive, to aggressive, and then eventually just rotten and dishonest.

    For the past few weeks, the campaign decided it would be better if they just took control of the profile and we decided to try to come to some agreement. By this time, I didn’t have quite as much respect for the campaign guys, and frankly felt like I was just being used. They knew about this profile the entire time, and really just waited until it got enough media coverage and friends request so they could step in and bully me out of it.

    The last few weeks were just insane. They kept scheduling phone conferences with me, I would wake up early that day after barely sleeping the night before, I’d take time off work, etc. and each after another would be postponed at the last minute. This went on for weeks.

    It got to the point where I didn’t feel comfortable turning the profile over to the campaign unless they paid for it. This was largely symbolic. The same campaign that inspired me to work so hard to build this community, the same campaign whose underlying message stresses “the power of the individual to have an impact on politics”, was constantly downplaying my role in this, bullying me, and a couple of other things that were just rotten and dishonest (specifically in connection with Myspace, and the campaign quashing a recent NPR interview about the profile).

    In a conversation with Chris from the campaign last week or the week before, Chris suggested a one-time fee to transfer over the profile to them and that they discussed this with Myspace and they were agreeable with any arrangement we could work out. He did not suggest how much, or what sort of a fee. He did say that he needed it by the next morning so we scheduled another meeting and I stayed up all night working on a proposal that I thought would be fair to everyone. This was a positive conversation and he seemed sincere enough.

    That meeting finally happened yesterday. It was clear at that time that there was no “one-time fee”. I felt like it was a bit of a setup so that they could have a reason to take the profile without my consent.

    I was accused of using this profile for commercial purposes. I was threatened that I would be responsible if the profile was deleted (they even followed up via email to be sure I knew it was my fault!) The conversation really was about them taking control of the profile. There was no counter offer, or anything to suggest that they had any intention of paying me anything at all.

    At this point there was no way I would turn this community over to them and would rather keep it as an unofficial site and keep doing what I’ve been doing. I expressed this, and they said that if I did not turn the profile over to them immediately, they would delete it and all of my hard work would go to waste. They reiterated this several times, and repeated “You are the one making the decision to kill this profile”. In fact, I responded each time, that I have no plans to delete this profile, and that decision would be between them and Myspace. (I even added that he sounded like Bush telling congress/senate it was their decision not to fund the troops. How hypocritical is this!)

    Finally, Chris from the campaign emailed me, indicating that Myspace needed my consent to give them access to the profile. I replied that Mypace did not have my consent to grant access to the profile to anyone.

    An hour or so later, I was blocked from the profile and the content was altered to redirect traffic to the new, “Official” profile. Myspace has in fact granted access to the profile without my permission.

    This was not about money and I don’t believe that one person who has interacted with me via the Obama profile over the past couple of years would be able to say that my efforts were anything but sincere. This was about holding a campaign to their message, about acknowledging my work, and taking this community seriously.

    I think I did the right thing. I wanted a fair outcome for everyone, but unfortunately that’s not what happened. In fact, I think this was enormously offensive to both me and the Myspace community. I could understand Myspace/Newscorp doing this, but didn’t think Obama’s campaign could have the audacity to do such a thing.

    Apparently the message here is, as an individual, if you have too big of an impact, you’re just a liability.

    This is how Obama lost my vote, and one of his strongest supporters.

    Sincerely,

    -Joe Anthony

    p.s. Like I said, I’m passionate about this right now. All this work, all this progress is down the drain, and I’m absolutely heart-broken.

    Link

    This must be the sticking up for the little guy they always talk about.

    If it doesn’t suit their agenda they arrange for the owner to lose all his rights and they take over.

    Obama, no so shining anymore…..

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