http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060731/ts_nm/security_alert_dc

I feel so safe now!

I particularly loved this part of the article...

A comparable four-grade system in Australia has remained unchanged at the third level, medium -- "terrorist attack could occur" -- since its introduction in June 2003.

Could Occur!! Oh Shi.t! Better hide.

This is ridiculous. The current system in the US is utterly redundant. Can anybody tell me that they know of any major differences between the different colors?
Does Red mean we're actually about to die?
What about puce, maybe that means it's safe to practice our perverted anti-Islamic sexual fetishes.

I don't know what everyone else thinks about this system, do you see it as an excise in futility or actually find solace in being told we're still yellow?

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060731/ts_nm/security_alert_dc


This is ridiculous. The current system in the US is utterly redundant. Can anybody tell me that they know of any major differences between the different colors?


I dunno, how 'bout:
Green or yellow, you're a safe fellow.
Orange or red, look out you're dead!

How are blind people supposed to know?  What about just colorblind people?

I can only hope in 30 years this will be regarded with same perverse humor as was "Duck and Cover" when the Atomic Cafe came out in the early '80s!

http://www.accd.edu/pac/history/hist1302/duckandcover.jpg

I dunno, how 'bout:
Green or yellow, you're a safe fellow.
Orange or red, look out you're dead!

How are blind people supposed to know?  What about just colorblind people?

I can only hope in 30 years this will be regarded with same perverse humor as was "Duck and Cover" when the Atomic Cafe came out in the early '80s!

http://www.accd.edu/pac/history/hist1302/duckandcover.jpg


It's about the equivilant of putting a paper bag over your head.  ;D

Red means Stop.
Green means Go
Yellow means Go very fast.
Orange is what I had for lunch.





Cat

Red means Stop.
Green means Go
Yellow means Go very fast.
Orange is what I had for lunch.





Cat


;D

Pretty much.

I'm trying to remember if we were ever told what the different colors actually mean?

What about puce, maybe that means it's safe to practice our perverted anti-Islamic sexual fetishes.

;D

I seriously think if we were about to die the government wouldn't alert us. If we were all just doing our usual thing watching Law and Order and eating french fries instead of panicking it would give the Bushes time to get into their underground city or whatever.

;D

I seriously think if we were about to die the government wouldn't alert us. If we were all just doing our usual thing watching Law and Order and eating french fries instead of panicking it would give the Bushes time to get into their underground city or whatever.


Ah yes, the salt flats.

Actually, that wouldn't be a bad description for the mid-level alert.

It is safe to watch Law & Order.

Next stage up..

CNN should be viewed at all times.

Final Stage..

'Look out the window.'

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Love it!

Especially the alert system Rubik cube.  ;D

;D

I seriously think if we were about to die the government wouldn't alert us.

Condi Rice would just use the memo for scratch paper!
:P

Someone points a gun at your head you don't know if they will shoot it or not.  So it could happen and it could not happen as well, just depends on whether the person shoots it or not.  Now once it's shot directly at your head I suppose it's not 100%, but most likey then you could say "Will" die. 

Funny anology I came up with because the only guarantee 100% for certain thing about life is that a day will come when you do die.  Other than that could  and more often should are as good as it gets.

Someone points a gun at your head you don't know if they will shoot it or not.  So it could happen and it could not happen as well, just depends on whether the person shoots it or not.  Now once it's shot directly at your head I suppose it's not 100%, but most likey then you could say "Will" die. 

Funny anology I came up with because the only guarantee 100% for certain thing about life is that a day will come when you do die.  Other than that could  and more often should are as good as it gets.

Huh?
http://www.inthe00s.com/smile/06/jinnwink.gif

You are either sick or well. If you are well, you have nothing to worry about. If you're sick, you will either get better or die. If you get better, you have nothing to worry about. If you die, you don't have to worry about anything anymore.

You are either sick or well. If you are well, you have nothing to worry about. If you're sick, you will either get better or die. If you get better, you have nothing to worry about. If you die, you don't have to worry about anything anymore.



I heard it a bit differently.

You only have 2 things to worry about. Either you are sick or you are well. If you are well, you have nothing to worry about. If you sick, you only have 2 things to worry about. Either you are going to get well or you are going to die. If you get well, you have nothing to worry about. If you die, you only have 2 things to worry about. Either you are going to Heaven or you are going to Hell. If you go to Heaven, you have nothing to worry about. If you go to Hell, you will be too busy saying hello to all your friends to worry. So, WHY WORRY!!!




Cat

oh my god! somebody wants to kill us! why? when we're so selfless and wonderful?

i'm not sure anybody really buys the color-coded system anymore, i notice they don't seem to be fiddling with it much anymore. it's hard to know what to do with it when now the demos are polling as being better at dealing with terrorist threats than the repubs -- that means the repubs are no longer guaranteed a bounce in the polls when they elevate the threat level. they could maybe take a risk and jack it up as the november elections start looming, but that could backfire.

plus there was the time when the people duct-taped themselves into their own house and suffocated.

the vichy france one is my favorite for some reason.

I think it's all a conspiracy created by Home Depot, Menards and Lowe's.  They want us to go buy "protection" in the form of cellophane window wrap, plywood, and of course, the nails/duct tape to attach all of this to our homes.....which, btw, would do absolutely nada if someone DID attack us.  When sales are down, the "alert level" goes up.  It's their little way of keeping the shareholders happy ;)

I must confess, I did read the news this morning about liquids being thrown out.

I could have made a mint by walking into the airport with a sign around my neck saying "Will Pay $10/Bottle For Wine or Whisky!  Why throw it in the garbage or give it to the TSA when you can at least get $10 from me?"

I wonder how much money Proctor and Gamble is gonna make when every passenger has to buy the (highest-margin) smallest bottle of toothpaste and other toiletries on each leg of every airplane flight taken?