Beware...Just heard on KGO...

[King_Crimson]

The "security alert" could be ratcheted up to "ORANGE" by tomorrow! Citing the usual "Unknown" this and "Unknown" that! Betcha this shit goes on all summer! :crazy:

[Kremer]

1. This from the same agency that was "positive" just from a photo that the

lawyer in Oregon was a terrorist and it was "for sure" his fingerprint. Even if what they were saying was true, why would we have confidence in the K.B.I. (Keystone-cops Bureau of Investigation) that they would stop it or have any idea where it was going to happen? They were so sure about that fingerprint and we saw how that turned out! I'd have more confidence if Bareny Phife and Otis the town drunk were running the F. I mean K.B.I. As much as they like to think, Bin Laden et al are very smart. For that matter, Bin Laden has an engineering degree and probably got better grades than stay the course/fall off my mountain bike-kid!! I guess he wasn't quite "skull & bones" material though.What if the terrorists are putting out false info to divert our attention from the real attack? We sure wouldn't know it b/c were too busy trying to convict a lawyer in Oregon for a bombing in Madrid, Spain!! That's "connecting the dots" boys!

[Lucky Luciano]

2. Kind of reminds me of a funny cartoon

A king is at his balcony and below the balcony there are a lot of angry peasants with weapons. The king makes an announcement, "The dragon Alert level has been raised to Orange!!!!" The caption of the cartoon says, "Creation of the Imperial Scrutiny Diversion System."


It is hilarious. It is from the comic Non-Sequitur dated 9/11/2003. I saved it a long time ago to my computer and I do not know how to upload the .gif file to show people here, but it is great! If you want to pay for it, then you can go to www.ucomics.com and search around.

[Algomas]

3. I don't care what color they throw at me...

I just see red.

[newyawker99]

7. Hi Algomas!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[Unperson 309]

9. Welcome to DU, Algomas!

Stick around, enjoy the company and add your own insights!

Welcome!

:hi: :hi: :hi:

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[radfringe]

4. can we believe the intelligence sources for this?

don't forget the info we are getting for our Summer Terralert originates from our intelligence agencies

these are the same agencies that bush* blames for failures regarding September 11

these are the same agencies that bush* blamed for being WRONG about the Yellow-cake - Niger statement

these are the same agencies that bush* blames for being WRONG about WMD's in Iraq

these are the same agencies that bush* blames for being wrong about the Al-Qaeda - Saddam connection

these are the same agencies that bush* blames for being "fooled" by Chalabi

sooooo--how serious can we take this summer terralert when our intelligence has been "wrong" on so many counts?

bush*'s war college speech tanked, his numbers are in the toilet, it's not surprising that a terralert has been issued -- fear seems to be the only tool that gives his numbers a boost

meanwhile -- many cities/towns are seriously understaffed/under-equipped in the first-responder areas (layoffs, cutbacks due to lack of homeland insecurity funding)

sortof related question -- if we do go to ORANGE-lert, and remain on ORANGE-lert through the summer -- will bush* still take a vacation?

[King_Crimson]

6. I look for Numbnuts to take his vacation...

earlier this year...probably July! Gotta be rested and ready for the coming events!

[Unperson 309]

10. Hey! I LIKE Orange-A-Lert!

Heck, I remember that stuff from when I was a kid in Houston, TX!

It came in 12 ounce bottles and was delicious! Sitting on the back porch, listing to the katydids and sipping on an ice cold Orange-A-Lert on hot August nights was how we passed the time.

Grape-A-Lert was good, too. Howcome they don't make stuff like that anymore?

:toast: :thumbsup: :beer:

The Strawberry-A-Lert was nasty, though!

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[izzie]

5. Do these things go with the polls?

I can not make up my mind.

[radfringe]

11. I've been tracking it for past 2 years

http://radicalfringe.freeservers.com/custom2.html

[troublemaker]

8. Did the WP say the alert would last until the INAUGURATION?

Link anyone? Maybe I was dreaming...