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I’ve never heard of such a thing, especially the plastic baby Jesus part, so I had to look it up.

King Cake

And everytime I type ‘baby Jesus’, I immediately think of the movie Talladega Nights.

In the hugely popular television series 24, federal agent Jack Bauer always gets his man, even if he has to play a little rough. Suffocating, electrocuting or drugging a suspect are all in a day’s work.  As Bauer – played by the Emmy Award winner Kiefer Sutherland – tells one baddie: ” You are going to tell me what I want to know – it’s just a matter of how much you want it to hurt.”

But while 24 draws millions of viewers, it appears some people are becoming a little squeamish.  The US military has appealed to the producers of 24 to tone down the torture scenes because of the impact they are having both on troops in the field and America’s reputation abroad.  Forget about Abu Ghraib, forget about Guantanamo Bay, forget even that the White House has authorised interrogation techniques that some classify as torture, that damned Jack Bauer is giving us a bad name.

The United States Military Academy at West Point yesterday confirmed that Brigadier General Patrick Finnegan recently travelled to California to meet producers of the show, broadcast on the Fox channel. He told them that promoting illegal behaviour in the series – apparently hugely popular among the US military – was having a damaging effect on young troops.

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Speaking of Jack Bauer and torture, I found this new website:

The Jack Bauer Torture Report

And one final 24 note, WifeGeeding and I finished watching season 2 over the weekend.  Season 3 will probably be watch on our 20-something-hour-flight to Vietnam.  I have only one big gripe about the DVD’s, especially for those who are watching it for the first time.  Before you play an episode, you see an image from that episode you are about to watch on the DVD menu – you can’t avoid this image.   It’s not that I don’t think there needs to be an image, but the image they usually use gives away the big plot.

For instance, one episode ends with the president and vice-president fighting over who should be commander in chief – that’s the cliff hanger.  In the next episode, the image you see on the DVD menu is the vice-president taking the oath of office.  Urghh.

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Six-year-old Heather Martin, accompanied only by her mother on piano, has become an overnight Internet sensation for a song performed at their rural Oklahoma church. Written for her brother Shaun serving in Iraq, the song became one of YouTube’s most requested videos of all time in December after a member at Cache First United Methodist Church recorded and posted Heather’s performance on the video-sharing Web site. The video had received 1.7 million hits as of early February.

Since then, the song has aired on radio station KMGZ-FM in nearby Lawton, Okla., and has become a hit among soldiers overseas.

Cindy wrote “When Are You Coming Home?” after learning that 22-year-old Shaun would not be home for Christmas. She and Heather performed the song to give Shaun as a Christmas gift.

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