Code Red

“WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Homeland Security Chief Tom Ridge on Tuesday unveiled a new color-coded U.S. threat advisory system to create "a national framework and a common vocabulary" so that government and the private sector can deal effectively and efficiently with threats of terrorist attack.

The warning system has five levels starting with green, the lowest alert level, followed by blue, then yellow, orange and red, the highest state of alert. Each code will trigger specific actions by federal agencies and state and local governments.

Code RED: The USA is on FIRE!

Code ORANGE: Bush's approval numbers declining in face of a scandal. Induce public paranoia.

Code YELLOW: YELLA = Cowards, Bush administration staffers should hide in your bunkers.

Code BLUE: Dick Cheney is having another heart attack.

Code GREEN: Hug a tree... no terrorists in the woods.”

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“GREAT!

If only the Chicago Tribune had put this real explanation along side it's five color bars in Mar. 13 front page article.

'Course, notice Homeland Security didn't say what anyone is to do when any color is proclaimed!”

“Great. All the colorblind people are screwed.”

“This should help the illiterates.

Who the hell needs education.

How are Butch's approval numbers doing anyway?”

“Dang, all the nay sayers beeatch and whine cause the government puts out these alerts and claim they are just trying to scare us. So Mr.Aldridge comes up with a system and they still whine and cry. You'll are the biggest bunch of enabled pusies I've ever seen. just can't please some people. What are ya, a bunch of wives?




[back to the political correctness thread for me]”

“Who the hell's Aldridge?

Nigal-
You just want the government to do every thing for you!
Can't you look under your own bed for terrorists?”

“Ha! That's the liberal calling the kettle black! I can do most everything without the government. My point was that the government brought the solution to a problem many were crying about and it's still not enough. I believe you yourself were one of them and now you act as if the government is dumbing down for the country and even being over protective. How ironic.”

“Solution to what problem?

We don't need the government to create paranoia......we ought to be perfectly capable of creating our own.

Now all the "carping little conservatives" will be running around like Chicken Little when Tom Ridge-Runner turns on the smoking light.”

“Afghanistan has only had to use one color code: Brown. Rumor has it they named it after the color of the seats of their pants when we started bombing their sorry a$$e$.”

“Now that's FUNNY!!!!”

“Well, we're all gonna be #&%!$ting a brick after the first nuke goes off in Washington D.C.

Thanks Bush and Dick for leading us down the path to nuclear war!!”

“Don't worry dude. We stil have the Shadow Government to fall back on. If that's a shadow of our current government, as in, a second rate one, we may be better off getting nuked. LOL!”

“How can I get in on the Shadow Citizenry? I wanna be one of the guys who pops outta the bunker after everyone else gets fried?

Or do I gotta join the government?”

“Tom has gotten back to his old self since crawling out of his hidy hole following 9-11. Now the concept of terror attacts is paranoia. Back in September too busy trying to change his shorts to think about paranoia.”

“And of course if they had no warning system or warnings at all and we got hit again he'd be the first one cryin' about the government keeping it the foreknowledge from us.”

“Speculative morons....

Tell me, what else do I think?

You'll safe in your Arkansas cave, ya big ape!

And Nigal, well, I mean, who wants Ohio?

I'll let y'all know what the fireball looks like from Baltimore.

Just as long as they smoke Lott and Deeeeelay........”

“DeLay is such a cockroach, he'd probably survive a direct hit, LOL”

“"Tell me, what else do I think?"

How should I know? Hell, you don't even know. You say you don't need the government when it comes to terrorists but yet, your the same guy who thinks the government should disarm it's own people. Me think you put on whatever face is the most unpopular at the time.

"AH, champain wishes and Ridalin dreams."”

“I don't know what goes on in Tom's head, my comments were a response to what has come out of it.”

“Tilt, you have some funny stuff.

I can do most everything without the government. -nigal

The internet hardware was set up by the government. You wouldn't be chatting here if it weren't for Al Gore. In fact, you would be long dead if it weren't for liberal programs such as health care for children. Remember those dreaded shots when you were a kid?”

“Ice Tea is the product of a librial home environment.”

“yeah...he's Alex "tea" Keaton...”

“At first I thought he meant his parents were both Libras.”

“Oh, I don't know... I'm imagining Al Gore in high school: slaving over DARPANET at St. Albans during the week, jetting home on the weekend to farm tobacco...

I heard Eric Seagal was Al's roommate in college and actually did model the characters in "Love Story" on Al & Tipper... except for the dropping dead part.”

“So somebody looking out a window in the world trade towers sees the plane coming straight at the building. He yells to alert others of the danger. Thus creating paranoia. Interesting idea.

I liked the old warning method. I think I am capable of analyzing information for myself. Now we have a system designed for those that get their new from 10 second sound bits. I think the old style information will be available for those the look for it. I to marginalize the need for government in most aspects of my life BUT this warning stuff is a legitimate function of government. It is in the category of national defense and law enforcement.

In my opinion the internet would be here without the government or Al Gore. That doesn’t mean they did not contribute to the present web. But do you really think no one else could have done it.”

“I continue to think that the "government" are the terrorists. All the press releases about "potential" threats, dirty bombs, and now the 5 stage alert increase the fear and paranoia across the land!”

“"The internet hardware was set up by the government. You wouldn't be chatting here if it weren't for Al Gore."

This statement alone should disqualify you from any type of reasonable political debate.”

“George Orwell was right!


So was the dude, or dudette, who wrote "Chicken Little".


I can't help but picture one of those USFS fire dager signs......."Today's Terror Danger"
........Moderate and continued Moderate to High until the election.”

“Just because you are paranoid it doesn’t mean they are not out to get you.

I think we should trust Tom. He appears to have a lot of experience with paranoia.”

“What color would it have been at say noon, 9/11/01?”

“Thing that dissappoints me most is that James Woods saw 2 of the terrorists on a flight casing things out just a few weeks prior to 9/11, he reported it and it went nowhere... do you think a color coded warning system is gonna make a beauracracy work better?”

“Tell me nigal, who hardwired the internet?”

“I have heard people speculate that the internet would be better if the government had not been involved. I don’t know, or care to learn, enough to know if that is true. Was not the web started by Universities and science research institutions? Ya, I know where much of their money comes from.”

“I've heard it was the US military that did much of the groundwork for the internet, as well as the universities.”