http://www.easternecho.com When the final seconds tick off the clock May 24, our nation will bid adieu to its greatest hero. Jack Bauer will end his final day and a chapter in the American story will close. en-us Gryphon 2.3.1-dsw (pewabic)/Foundry5 Mon, 05 Apr 2010 21:08:20 -0400 webmaster@easternecho.com http://www.easternecho.com/index.php/comment/view/774 Farewell to one of the best sitcoms ever! http://blog.seattlepi.com/24day8/ Mon, 05 Apr 2010 15:35:05 -0400 http://www.easternecho.com/index.php/comment/view/774 http://www.easternecho.com/index.php/comment/view/775 Uh..Jack Bauer is a make believe character from a lame TV show..he is not a real secret agent or national hero.I know its hard for you…but its all just pretend…like the news.. Mon, 05 Apr 2010 18:05:06 -0400 http://www.easternecho.com/index.php/comment/view/775 http://www.easternecho.com/index.php/comment/view/776 And, of course, Kiefer Sutherland is Canadian… Mon, 05 Apr 2010 18:24:33 -0400 http://www.easternecho.com/index.php/comment/view/776 http://www.easternecho.com/index.php/comment/view/777 Movielady, 24 is not a sit(uation) com(edy) …. … I stopped watching 24 when Jack started using torture. We become desensitized to the worst in humanity this way. Torture is illegal, immoral, and ineffective: illegal according to U.S. and international law, immoral according to all major world religions and humanists, and ineffective according to the CIA (among others). It is too bad, I quite liked the concept, am/was a fan of Keifer, and in the early seasons they seemed to understand and explore the issues around international terrorism. In Web 2.0 parlance … “Fail”. Mon, 05 Apr 2010 19:05:11 -0400 http://www.easternecho.com/index.php/comment/view/777 http://www.easternecho.com/index.php/comment/view/778 I know it makes many of you feel superior and more highly developed in thinking to believe that pain and the fear of it is inefffective in obtaining information, but let me assure you that there are more people like Jack Bauer in the field than many would like to think. One way to make the public understand what’s really happening out there is to couch some reality in a lot of melodrama and allow them to see something approaching the truth while being entertained by tghe implausible. Another show that did this was “The Unit.” That series was based on members of Delta Force. As much as anyone else,I wish that we had a world in which we could put our peaceful side forward and not be saen as weak and easily manipulated, as a country not willing to hold on to the strength of character needed to remain strong in the face of the outspoken evil that brazenly confronts us with threats and ongoing nuclear testing while we bow and apologize to them. The really sad thing is that the real people that are represented by the character of Jack Bauer at best only get a star carved on a wall, a medal for some secret operation that even the person’s family never gets an explanation for, and most of the time an empty casket to bury. I just thank the Lord that there are people like that out there in spite of all the back stabbing and betrayal of the current administration, which is a clear demonstration of the many reasons that the presidency is not a job done with on the job training. I just hope we can, as a people, survive such a neophyte in the White House. And I thought Jimmy Carter was bad. Mon, 05 Apr 2010 21:08:20 -0400 http://www.easternecho.com/index.php/comment/view/778