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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[miss-chance.livejournal.com]

I think Red just exists to make Orange more ominous. I imagine it'll go to Orange once in Spring, and again in early Sept. of 04. Red is too dramatic, the martial law aspects of it are un-enforceable because of the gutting of the cities and towns budgets. Orange, on the other hand, make slightly more modest requirements of local governments, which most still can't really afford. They put extra cops on the beat, and then they can't afford to run senior shuttles to the polls. People here "orange" and they have this small creeping feeling of fear and are a little more reluctant to make big sweeping governemental changes "just in case." So, "orange" it will be, a couple more times before the election next year. These guys are not going to give up all thier ill-gotten power.