Remember the color coded terror alerts?

Pharaoh

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Sat Nov-22-08 05:31 PM
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Remember the color coded terror alerts?

Edited on Sat Nov-22-08 05:32 PM by Pharaoh

:shrug: What was up with that?

And they mysteriously disappeared without explanation.

http://www.dhs.gov/xinfoshare/programs/Copy_of_press_release_0046.shtm

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JI7

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Sat Nov-22-08 05:32 PM
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1. it was a campaign strategy for 2004

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skepticscott

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Sat Nov-22-08 05:34 PM
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2. They're still around

They still announce at airports that the threat level is "orange", even though they haven't changed it in years and nobody (including the TSA people at the airports) even knows what the f**k that means.

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RB TexLa

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Sat Nov-22-08 05:35 PM
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3. When did it disappear?

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Pharaoh

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Sat Nov-22-08 05:38 PM
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4. from the media I mean

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ColbertWatcher

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Sat Nov-22-08 05:42 PM
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5. I think Olbermann pretty much showed they were politically motivated. n/t

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cosmik debris

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Sat Nov-22-08 05:44 PM
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6. It converted to the tinsel alert level in the Global War on Christmas

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lib2DaBone

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Sat Nov-22-08 05:47 PM
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7. Yes, Tinsel alert on X-Mas,war on Terra, war on drugs, war on sanity..

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Pharaoh

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Sat Nov-22-08 05:53 PM
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8. But people forget so fast

and the anthrax stuff that was clearly targeting liberals and democrats. Can we get real investigations into things like that now? The memories of most Americans are so incredibly short, ya know?

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trusty elf

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Sat Nov-22-08 06:11 PM
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9. Have you seen this?

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TwixVoy

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Sat Nov-22-08 06:33 PM
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10. We are half a nation of fools and cowards

half the country is willing to duck and cover the moment the neocons change a color to scare them enough to let them get away with anything.

Thankfully the other half figured them out.

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NV Whino

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Sat Nov-22-08 08:03 PM
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11. They are in the store room

with the duct tape and plastic.

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