speaking of bert the yellow muppet...

[rmd]

looking at http://www.geekandproud.net/terror/, i notice we've been at yellow alert for quite a while, continuously. we're not "guarded", we're not at "high" alert. we're just continually "elevated". which has become ... "normal".

considering the confusion and mockery that resulted the last time we went to orange (quick! seal yourselves in an airtight room with tarps and duct tape!), want to bet we're never going to budge from "yellow" unless there's an actual attack on US soil? at which point we'll go to red (that is to say, martial law)

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[emmacrew.livejournal.com]

It went back up to orange at the beginning of the summer, and that wasn't the time of the duct tape frenzy. Nobody seemed to freak much that I noticed. One of the other moms asked "did you hear they raised the terror alert level?" and me not having heard it had gone down to yellow first thought "fuck, he's declaring martial law" but then she said "yeah, it's at orange again" and my reaction was "oh, orange, who cares." So I think orange isn't that unlikely. But yeah, I can see red if it looks like Dubya's gonna lose.