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That's like asking if anyone "heard" about the sun coming up this morning. Put SAS anywhere and he's a jackass.

The show's writers must feel pretty good about somehow having Russian terrorists hook up with two drug addicts who somehow had a key card they needed to improvise an attack on CTU using nerve gas that should be on its way across the Pacific right now. All in a four hour span. Then again, almost nothing about the plot of this season has made sense so I don't think anyone is concerned about stuff like that anymore. Just to really screw with people like me who notice the complete lapses in logic and continuity, they should just have Edgar show up again later in the season and act like nothing happened. He could walk by in the background or maybe hand Chloe a CD or file or something.

I just read that the other two times were in Season 2. First when Mason was told to go home (and die of radiation poisoning) and the last shot was him leaving CTU. The next was when he flew the plane with the nuke on it into the desert and died.

They've done that a few times. The first was the very end of season one when Jack found his wife's body.

Before they could get any info from him, unfortunately.

Double sad.

Link Well, it only took them two days to figure out what the hell they were reporting. Nice time to get your story straight, long after it has done its damage. Un-friggin-believable.

The mayor is there every day. New Orleans is his problem EVERY DAY. And still there were a couple hundred school buses under water. Why do we even have local government if they can just pass the blame on when they !@#$ up? It's not POTUS's job to evacuate every city and he can't personally inspect the levees in places like New Orleans (not to mention he's not an engineer). The Admin may have been tone deaf and done some things wrong but we still had the fastest and largest rescue effort in US history. Christ, people act like Bush forgot to hit the "make everyone do their job correctly" button and that's why everything went to hell. And we still have the drive-by soundbytes about "Bush knew about the breaches" which aren't even close to true. By the time anyone wants to correct that, it's the next news cycle. If you want to complain about the rebuilding effort, go right ahead, but any time you let the Federal Government do something, it's going to go poorly.

There isn't even that much talk about breaching. The word "breach" doesn't come up very much in the transcripts. I misspoke before. Some levees were topped by the storm surge but the main problem was that the levees were breached. It's a huge difference and the new video doesn't provide any evidence that they knew it would happen. Thanks, I thought I was the only one who remembered that.

Breached or Topped? The crisis didn't begin until the levees were breached. The concern before the storm was if they levees would be topped and, as GG pointed out, that's not as bad.

Yes, that was my point, but it's clear it doesn't matter what I write as the response is always "Bush is pathetic, and furthermore Bush is pathetic." All the while I'm wondering if anyone will ever discover these mythical posts of mine where I praise the Bush administration.

From the article: Alright, so the guy starts his editorial by citing an outlier poll that clearly oversampled Democrats. Most other polls show him in the 40-43% range. No, the main concern during the tapes was if the levees would be "topped." As we know now, the levees were not topped, they simply fell apart when Katrina hit NO even after it had weakened significantly. I stopped reading after that because it's clear this guy is willing to omit/distort information to get his point across. Nice to know I can learn more from the politics section of a football message board than from some guy paid by Newsday.

Not necessarily. Maybe they like him because he's a good teacher (obviously I disagree) or maybe they like him because he's the "cool" teacher who would rather be their friend before anything else. I've had teachers I liked at the time who, in retrospect, weren't teaching me all that much. Plus the fact that a student decided to record his rant means it probably wasn't the first one he's gone on. He isn't teaching them to think; he's teaching them the exact wrong way to think. Bumper stickers.

What on earth are you babbling about? The main points of my post above (in order): Exactly zero attention has been paid to the people who were part of the rescue efforts in the wake of the storm and to the successes in the response. Mayor Nagin is NOT being propped up as a good leader by the media, as far as I can tell. The media's portrayal of Michael Brown has been all over the map since Katrina. Seriously, how does your response have anything to do with that I said? The GOP spin slogan factory??

Apparently all of the people who worked to make this the largest and fastest rescue effort in U.S. history don't count. I mean, who cares about that? Maybe they tried that right after the storm when he was grandstanding about his rants being the only reason the National Guard was on the way, but his recent crazy rants (think "Chocolate City") have him more as a punchline than anything else. What is amazing is how "Brownie" went from punchline to trustworthy authority figure overnight pretty much just because the media wanted him to. First this guy was an unqualified buffoon who was more concerned about his dinner plans than the tragedy and proof that Bush gave out jobs to the wrong people and now he's the only one we can trust when it comes to Katrina/DHS. For the love of God, let me know when the press gets their story straight with this guy. Until then maybe they should just stick to the missing girl in Aruba story.

You're right, in theory, but what you're describing is not what this guy was doing. He was going off on some crazy rant that was incredibly loose with the facts (marvel at the transcript). Yes, we need teachers to challenge their students but why not do it by providing both sides of complex issues instead of saying crap like "Bush is like Hitler" and "We're the reason Israel exists"? High school is probably a good time to learn that you can't explain world issues with bullet points and bumper sticker slogans. This jackass teacher apparently made it all the way through college without learning that, which is even more disturbing.

I noticed that too. That was not a big bunker. I wonder where the "Escape Hatch" led to. It seemed like they wanted us to be able to read that.

My favorite line was when Ethan told Claire: "I could explain everything right now, but I'm afraid it would be a little overwhelming." Nice nod to the fans, IMO.

During that scene, I remember thinking that this could be the rest of the episode and I'd be good with that. Ethan was great. I wish they hadn't bumped him off. There was a scene in part one of last year's season finale where Locke asks Rousseau about the scratches on her arm and she says she got them "in the brush" or something. Locke sort of grunts and it sounded like he was pretty skeptical. Talk about tying up loose ends. Right now, I actually have some confidence that the producers might now where they're going with this show. Next new episode is March 22nd.

What will amaze you is that it has always been this good. Season 2 is probably my favorite. Armadillo and the Money Train, that's all you need to know.

Supposedly the reason it may be ending is producer/creator Shawn Ryan doesn't want to do it any more (probably concerned about quality as the years go on). I don't think FX is the one that wants out. I can respect him for not wanting to do the show until it's completely horrible and way past its prime (NYPD Blue, the last year of Seinfeld, the last 8 years of Simpsons), but there have to be some more stories left.

Reading 1960s TANG documents that just happened to be typed up using Microsoft Word for one..... People don't remember this crap?

This might be the last season, though, so you never know. (And by "last season" they mean the 11 episodes they're showing now through the end of March followed by 10 more new episodes later this year. They don't know if the show is continuing after that.) The brilliance of the show is that they follow through with EVERY storyline. They pack more story and plot weaving into one episode than most shows can in an entire season.

Kind of a crappy comparison. I imagine most Americans are aware of the freedoms guaranteed by the First Amendment even if they aren't aware that they are specifically guaranteed in that part of the constitution. And once you know you have that right, how often are you going to check back to the constitution to see where exactly it is. On the other hand, I imagine anyone who has watched an episode of the Simpsons over the past, I dunno, 15 years (new episodes or syndicated) or has even known someone who is a big fan of the show (or just noticed all the merchandise) could toss out the names of a character or two. Similarly, I've never watched an entire episode of Sex and the City but I know two of the four girls are named Carrie and Miranda. Which is not to say that Americans don't have some serious "book learning" to do but this is the type of article that just screams "Here's a poll; let's overreact to it!!!" A skilled pollster can spin almost anything into a "surprising find." In summary, I don't like polls.

Oh SNAP!