Their love story was a driving plot force in three seasons of 24.
But it seems that Jack Bauer and Audrey Raines’ romance has come to a dramatic end, as the first official pictures from the upcoming new miniseries 24: Live Another Day show that she has well and truly moved on – and is now married to someone else.
Audrey, played by Kim Raver, is now married to Tate Donovan’s character Mark Boudreau – the White House Chief of Staff.
from the Daily Sheeple:
A 10-year-old boy was suspended for three days last week for pointing a “lookalike firearm” at another student.
The lookalike firearm was the boy’s FINGER.
That’s right – Nathan Entingh, a fifth-grader at Devonshire Alternative Elementary School in Ohio, was suspended for pointing a finger gun at the back of another kid’s head.
The suspension letter referred to the finger gun as a “level 2 lookalike firearm”, which is a ridiculous Orwellian-sounding term for something completely harmless.
Nathan said other kids have gotten caught playing pretend gun games at his school, but weren’t suspended:
“I was just playing around. People play around like this a lot at my school.”
But the school district isn’t playing around – they have no tolerance whatsoever for such shenanigans.
Jeff Warner, the district spokesman, told The Columbus Dispatch that Devonshire Principal Patricia Price has warned students about pretend gun play numerous times this year, and everyone should know the rules by now. Nathan put his finger to the side of the other student’s head and pretended to shoot “kind of execution style,” Warner said.
“The kids were told, ‘If you don’t stop doing this type of stuff, there would be consequences,’” Warner said. “It’s just been escalating.”
Warnings included three newsletters sent home with kids, Warner said.
The boy’s father, Paul Entingh, pointed out that no one felt threatened, as the other student didn’t even see Nathan make the gesture. Paul says it’s the adults who are acting childish in their response to typical 10-year-old behavior:
This has to be the most romantic spot in Germany. That was my first thought on seeing Schwanenwerder Island, a tiny peninsula on the edge of Berlin’s Grunewald, so named after the swans that swim on its sparklingly clear lake.
But wandering past handsome houses with large gardens and high walls, I found something decidedly less romantic at its heart.
The stately white mansion at No 28 Inselstrasse, with lush lawns rolling down to the water’s edge, once housed the first Nazi bride school, an institution established by the regime to train young women in obedience, housekeeping, child-raising and – most importantly – loving the Führer.
The schools, called Reichsbräuteschulen, were all but forgotten until recently, a quirk of Third Reich history that had somehow been overlooked. But last year a manual unearthed in Germany’s Federal Archive in the city of Koblenz gave a rare glimpse into their strict routine and the sinister vows sworn by women who attended them.
The schools were the brainchild of Heinrich Himmler, head of the SS, Hitler’s own paramilitary defense force. Himmler was obsessed with ensuring that women marrying into the SS were suitable consorts, so in 1935 he established the schools to train girls to become perfect wives.
But it wasn’t easy to qualify. Himmler wanted to keep his elite force ‘racially pure’, so if a woman became engaged to an SS officer, she first had to have her pedigree assessed by the SS Race and Settlement Office to be certain she had no Jewish or mixed blood. read more
A lady was filling her tank at a gas station, smoking a cigarette, even though all the signs say not to. The fumes that came out of the gas tank ignited, severely burning her hands.
But it also lit up her arm, too!
Instead of rolling on the ground to put it out, she panicked. She took off running down the street. read more
by: the Common Constitutionalist
This ain’t your grandfather’s military. It’s not your father’s or even your older brother or sister’s military. Today’s military, Obama’s troops, look nothing like the military we have come to know, love and respect, and I feel for so bad for our troops.
Obama’s new military has become a politically correct social experiment. And those that don’t buy into the “changes” are purged.
Over the past five years of Obama’s reign, he has overseen the ouster, according to sources at WND, of approximately 200 generals, flag and senior officers.
Many retired officers and war heroes have characterized Obama’s actions as an all-out attack on our Armed Forces.
Senior, battle hardened officers are being replaced with those who fit a diversity model and who will tow the new enlightened military line. Retired Navy Capt. and many times decorated war hero, Joseph John summed it up. “The truly sad story is that many of the brightest graduates of the three major service academies witnessing what the social experiment on diversity is doing to the US military, are leaving the service after five years. We are being left with an officer corps that can be made to be more compliant, that is, exactly what Obama needs to affect his long-range goals for the U.S. Military.” read more
Perpetually rushed New Yorkers have been telling cabbies to ‘step on it’ for as long as there have been taxis, but the city wants to brake that hurry-up habit, in part by attacking the financial incentive to speed.
Cabs could be outfitted with black-box-style data recorders and devices that would sound warnings – or even pause the fare meter – for going too fast, even as speed limits on most city streets would drop from 30 to 25 mph.
Mayor Bill de Blasio, who made the proposals as part of his broader safe-streets plan, says drivers of New York’s signature yellow cabs rightly should play a particular role in his push to curb traffic crashes.
‘They set the tone on our streets,’ de Blasio said.
Top Ten reasons you know you’re too old to trick or treat:
10. You get winded from knocking on the door.
9. You have to have another kid chew the candy for you.
8. You ask for high fiber candy only.
7. When someone drops a candy bar in your bag, you lose your balance and fall over.
6. People say, ‘Great Keith Richards mask!’ and you’re not wearing a mask. read more
by: the Common Constitutionalist
Just when we thought we’ve heard all the dire warnings regarding global warming there are to hear, along comes another.
This time it is from Chipotle Mexican Grill. The company is warning that they may have to suspend the sale of guacamole at their restaurants.
And why is that? Evidently it is mainly due to the extended drought in California that has adversely affected avocado crops. And this is of course due to climate change.
Chipotle uses about 34 million pounds of avocados every year. It also has a policy of purchasing only organically grown avocados. I would expect nothing less from a company that blames “man-caused” global warming for the drought in California.
A press release from Chipotle on this development read as follows: “While scientists understanding of drought and climate change is evolving rapidly, mainstream climatologists view of drought is that it is directly linked to man-made climate change.” read more
British scientists are aiming to grow ears and noses in a laboratory to transplant then into humans.
Scientists from Great Ormond Street Hospital and University College London have managed to use abdominal body fat and turn it into cartilage.
It is now hoped that the technique could help patients who have been born with microtia, which means the ear fails to develop properly, or who have been in an accident.
A contractor was speaking with a woman about a job.
In the first room, she said she would like a pale blue.
The contractor wrote this down and went to the window, opened it, and yelled out “GREEN SIDE UP!”
In the second room, she told the painter she would like it painted in a soft yellow. read more
