Ridge to raise Terror Alert, news conf. 1:30 pm Eastern

Fox News-TV

[putupon]

announcement, nothing furthur

[Cultural Jihad]

The real reason is that they are Johhny-One-Notes, who are angry at Mr. Ridge for not machine-gunning those (brown-skinned) women and children at the (Southern) border.

[debg]

look where that kinda thinking got saddam!

[Unmarked Package]

Unless they've always had black-clad, helmeted, weapon-carrying teams at Wall & Broad.

Uh...those were stock brokers. It makes it easier to extort your retirement funds.

[relee]

They were not very specific on the CBS radio news report. I think they noticed a similar pattern of unusual activity in the futures market - similar to the activity the before Sept. 11, 2001.

[eno_]

This would be why:

Guaranteed overtime pay for the unionized TSA drone always comes in handy this time of year.

No, they are not above scaring people needlessly to gain money and power.

[meyer]

I'm giving ammo this Christmas

If any terrorists come looking for gifts, I'll be giving them ammo as well. :)

[riri]

In my family, it would make you a "gun whacko". Not joking.

[Trust but Verify]

The poeple who are mocking Tom Ridge and HS are memebers of the Nuke Mecca and Medina Club. Their one-size-fits-all solutions are silly, but make great bumper stickers.

[Glenn]

I'm so sick of people asking this question.

Geez. Why didn't I think of going to the Red Cro$$ site for all the answers?

Cut back on the coffee. It's making you hysterical.

[Wild Irish Rogue]

" I don't know about you, but I am getting really tired of people mocking Tom Ridge and Homeland Security."

Add me to the list that doesn't find elevated terror chatter and threats- hilarious.Regardless of the messenger.

[Miss Marple]

It means that your female relatives do not travel in the same circles as my nieces. LOL!

[SierraWasp]

Check out who's heavily "shorting" Airline or Energy Stocks, etc. We didn't ever uncover who did that on 9-10-01!!!

[oceanview]

I sort of agree, but look at the flipside, if he actually came out and said "watch for middle eastern looking women who appear to wearing heavy coats", the bomber would probably dress up as a biker to detonate the device. there really is no perfect way to issue a warning like that to the public.

[des]

Whistling through the grave yard, so to speak.

[John Beresford Tipton]

"unusual activity in the futures market"

Likely:
Year end book squaring,
and rolling from December to March Futures

[WackyKat]

I'm with you. I personally think it is irresponsible to not take the alert program seriously. It is all we have and frankly the best the government can do to notify us of danger. I haven't heard of any other ideas and until I do I plan on respecting the program.

You're right.

And those of us who support raising the alert level to Orange have agreed to mount "Ernie" dolls on the grills of our vehicles to publicly show our support and as a rebuke to those who scoff at terror alerts

[Glenn]

Eh, nothing to worry about, IMHO.

In my head I know you are exactly right in your observations. But in my heart I still wonder.

[relee]

Friday was a triple-witching day too.

[Apple Pan Dowdy]

Rob.... You are right, we really should take this warning seriously. I think, though, that there is a lot of frustration out there among those of us that think there is a LOT more that they should be doing for homeland security that they refuse to do...and this causes all this silly (nervous) joking around.... not good, but just human nature.

Until the rest is done, then all the code oranges and duct tape will not keep us safe. They need to stop ALL illegal entry at the borders, send ALL illegals home, and "profile" a bit during searches, for a start.

By-the-way..... A Merry Christmas to you and your family from your FReep McKinney buddy. :)

[oceanview]

we likely did, it was the Saudis, that's why it was never publicized.