24 Hours Carbon Footprint

OK, so Monday night I am watching my favorite television program "24" which is a two hour program that night.

For those of you not familiar with "24", it is about Jack Bauer, a United States Government Agent that kills and tortures the bad guys all to save the United States from harm.

Jack Bauer, some would say, is like our newly appointed Treasury secretary Timothy Geithner, the only qualified person in the United States for the job at hand.

So to continue, there the wife and I are eyes glued to the T.V. screen to see if Jack can stop an imminent attack that is going to take place somewhere in Washington D.C.

Let me tell those of you that are not familiar with this show, it is cutting edge when it comes to how bad our security is and why Jack is the only one to stop all of these attacks.

You see Jack does whatever it takes to get the job done and if a few of the bad guys are tortured or killed along the way, that is how it is because his country comes first and as far as he is concerned, the bad guys are bad guys.

In one part of the show the F.B.I had a heavily guarded bad guy in the hospital waiting for him to wake up so they could extract crucial information from him as to the exact location the attack will take place.

Along came a guy in green hospital scrubs who the F.B.I. casually look at his hospital id and then let him pass by and walk right up to the bad guy, inject him with an unknown substance, walk away, toss the syringe in the trash and continue down the hall and escape while the guy he injected flat lines and dies while the doctor is trying to save him.

Once again, here is a case of an undocumented worker in the country illegally, doing the work evidently no one else legally in the United States wanted to do.

Jack is not aware of it but the F.B.I. has determined the target of the attack is the White House.

Jack would have known before the F.B.I. did but seconds before he was finished torturing the bad guy, who was about to talk because Jack tortures good, the President of The United States had Jack arrested.

Well wouldn't you know it a group of heavily armed bad guys have broken through White House security, gone into the White House and Jack will be the only one that can save the President of The United States from the terrorists who want to kill the president.

How did the break into the White House happen you ask? Easy, they had an inside man that once again, is another case of an undocumented worker in the country illegally, doing the work evidently no one else legally in the United States wanted to do.

So as you can see this is very intense and as I said the wife and I are riveted as to how Jack will pull this off.

Then as we are waiting for the previews for the next week, there stood Jack Bauer who turns to the camera and said:

"Here at "24" we are committed to reducing our impact on climate change. We believe we can't solve this problem in 24 hours. By making energy-conscious decisions on our set, we are contributing to a solution. Please go to Fox.com to learn more about how you can join "24" in helping solve the climate problem."

Of all the dumb things I have ever seen, the most intense rogue agent in the world, is worried about his so called carbon footprint, while the president's fate is resting on his shoulders.

You're killing me Jack and I am a good guy!!!