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leftyladyfrommo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-14-06 08:55 AM
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Have You Noticed - No Color Coded Terrorist Alerts for
months now.

Does that mean that we are safe? Or does it simply mean the whole idea was really stupid so it was just kind of dropped. Kind of like every other stupid thing just kind of gets dropped.
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Richard D Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-14-06 08:58 AM
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1. Didn't they stop . . .
Edited on Tue Mar-14-06 09:34 AM by Richard D
. . . like the day after the last election?
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leftyladyfrommo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-14-06 08:59 AM
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2. Yea. I think it did now that you mention it.
We had a whole bunch of alerts and then the election and then nothing.
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bullimiami Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-14-06 09:01 AM
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6. thats proof they were were just being played.
as if we needed more proof.
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madame defarge Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-14-06 09:00 AM
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3. Can't raise it to "Orange"...
because that's the color of Cheney's hunting vest and that would remind everyone all over again of Deadeye Dick's greatest adventure...
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Atman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-14-06 09:01 AM
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4. I thought they officially retired the color coding
After it was revealed they were manipulating public fear with it. Of course, BushCo didn't say that was their reason, they just said it was no longer needed, or something. Just more lies. We've already been given our warning about when BushCo launches the next attack...in about 6 months, right around election time. That's when they whip up the Bird Flu Panic and urge people to stay indoors (read: don't go to public polling places). It will skew the voting results so much that all the pre-election polling will once again -- once again! -- have been "proven" unreliable, as the GOP waltzes back in to power.
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0007 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-14-06 09:10 AM
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9. junior took the color coded alert down because it wasn't fair to
the people who were color blind.
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Richard D Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-14-06 09:44 AM
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12. It's still up . . .
. . . yellow as *'s heart (and teeth), on the DHS site.

http://www.dhs.gov/dhspublic/display?theme=29
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dogday Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-14-06 09:01 AM
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5. 2006 Elections coming up, what do you
bet we see a whole spectrum of colors?
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leftyladyfrommo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-14-06 09:10 AM
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10. Or worse.
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tanyev Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-14-06 09:04 AM
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7. We've now moved on to the tuna and powdered milk alert system.
3 cases = RUN FOR THE HILLS!!!!!!
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soothsayer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-14-06 09:58 AM
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15. What about people with platform beds? Will they die?
Edited on Tue Mar-14-06 09:59 AM by soothsayer
if they can't shove tuna (no can openers mentioned) and powdered milk (no water mentioned) under their beds?
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tanyev Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-14-06 10:03 AM
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16. Screwed. Sucks for them.
:D
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skylarmae Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-14-06 09:08 AM
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8. they ended after the 04 election - just like we knew they would...
they are leading up to something for the 06 ones, you just watch...IMHO, of course, but I don't trust this bunch of conivers and master manipulators.....

Why are some Americans the only ones in the world that seem to be falling for his bullshit lies any more, not even his supposid pre-war collalition.
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marmar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-14-06 09:11 AM
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11. Watch for a bunch of them in November...
And remember the rash of airplanes being diverted because of "suspicious" passengers on board? I bet that program will resume this fall as well. They've got to clean and restock the bullshit machine.
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ecstatic Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-14-06 09:45 AM
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13. Now that everyone knows Bush has not made us safer
Color coded alerts would only cause Bush to plummet further in the polls. That's why they dropped it.
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Minnesota Libra Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-14-06 09:51 AM
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14. Oh but just wait - November is coming - and of course there will.......
.....be some kind of reminder - as November approaches - that people are still supposed to be:scared:
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mdmc Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-16-06 01:33 PM
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17. church fires = no terra threat increase
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