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[wickedflea]

from cnn.com: "U.S. terror threat level lowered to yellow, or 'elevated.' Details soon."

I don't know what I'd do without this handy-dandy new color system. If the government didn't let me know just exactly how terrified to be, I'd be a nervous wreck. Way to go, D.C.!!!

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[saintclaire.livejournal.com]

My sister and I were just talking about this, watching CNN. We were like "yea yea, make it breaking news and let us know when its green"

stupidest thing.

[wickedflea.livejournal.com]

Seriously. We live in strange times.

[shigolch.livejournal.com]

Code Yellow. Yeah, that's great. Sounds like a system they'd use in a preschool to let one of the workers know when a toddler's tinkled its britches.

"Diane, could you take Timmy to the toilet? We've got a CODE YELLOW over here."

[wickedflea.livejournal.com]

Haha, exactly. "Terror alert--everyone piss themselves!"

rant alert code: RED

[lunchboxface.livejournal.com]

The thing is, people (because of the media) pay way too much attention to that colorized code system. It's more of a system for the fed gov't to use to recommend to its lower echelons and the states that they beef up security in certain areas - it has little to no relevance to the civilian public. They just made it a simple color code so that the public could latch on to it, and so it would appear to us that they were "tough on terror" and "really getting something done." It's also a nice distraction from any further analysis of a potentially financially devestating tax cut.

I also don't think it's based on any inside information. Think about it: we start a pre-emptive war on Iraq, they elevate it. Saudi Arabis gets bombed to fuck and back by terrorists, they elevate it. Any monkey could tell you these are terror red flags!

Dude, I swear to god those CDs are coming. I've never copied CDs with my new burner before (just made mp3 cds), and somehow all the ones I burned for you were coasters. Fuck Windows XP. I feel like such a retard.