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Ridge to raise Terror Alert, news conf. 1:30 pm Eastern
Fox News-TV

Posted on 12/21/2003 9:34:27 AM PST by putupon

announcement, nothing furthur


TOPICS: Breaking News; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: alqaeda; defconernie; homelandsecurity; orange; orangealert4; shieldsup; turbanalert; waronterror; wot
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To: mewzilla
They tell me that a sense of humor is invaluable, especially when you're in harm's way.

That's fine. But having 100 or so people telling the same identical joke on cue everytime there's a report about possibile terrorist activity just isn't funny. It's lazy and mindless.

501 posted on 12/21/2003 12:20:38 PM PST by WhistlingPastTheGraveyard
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To: cajungirl
something big is happening to cancel all those vacations. I take this very seriously...

Something that couldn't wait until Monday, no doubt.

502 posted on 12/21/2003 12:21:56 PM PST by relee
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To: snopercod
If the government was serious about doing anything, they would have already resurrected the Civil Defense organization of the 50s and embarked upon a training and preparedness program among the local populations. They would have activated the state militias to stand watch in various places. They would have locked down the borders with Mexico and Canada.

The Big Boys have spent a lot of our tax money on hardened shelters with layered defenses, air-filtration, etc and they're surrounded by cops with automatic weapons

They're pretty safe from attack-the rest of us are much lower priority

503 posted on 12/21/2003 12:22:25 PM PST by WackyKat
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To: Willie Green
Good thing I'm getting bullets for Christmas. Nothing like celebrating the birth of Christ by killing some terroists.
504 posted on 12/21/2003 12:22:39 PM PST by conservativefromGa
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To: Willie Green
I think you are supposed to keep your eyes open if you are in an airport, on a plane, on a boat in a river near a damn, near a nuclear power plant. If you are sitting at home posting on your puter, I think you can stand down and boil water if it helps make your tea.
505 posted on 12/21/2003 12:23:15 PM PST by cajungirl (I adore the Brits!! Tony Blair is my hero!!)
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To: putupon; LayoutGuru2
LayoutGuru2 just posted a picture on a long on going thread about terror info picked up from various sources, including jihadi message boards.

Here is the link to the post by LG2: LG2 post in "Al Qaeda again threatens New York, Washington and Los Angeles" thread

LG2: "Daleel has upload a new home page picture for his group. The second pic below is one that I resized and gamma-corrected."


506 posted on 12/21/2003 12:23:26 PM PST by FairOpinion
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To: oceanview
Given the fact that this should have been done years ago; I say better late than never. More than likely a grassroots revival will be necessary to force action from our sorry elected officials and recall elections to push the deadbeats out of office. We the People are still in charge after all is said and done;excuses don't matter and we shouldn't mind ushering them out of their Ivory Palaces!
507 posted on 12/21/2003 12:24:21 PM PST by winker
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To: relee
No. What was he saying?
508 posted on 12/21/2003 12:24:53 PM PST by jerseygirl
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To: At _War_With_Liberals
And, if an attack takes place, Clark will be able accuse Dean of knowing about the attack before it happened."

LOL. Should something happen, it might strengthen Dean's position in warning that we aren't any safer than we were before 9/11.

509 posted on 12/21/2003 12:25:44 PM PST by StarFan
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To: WhistlingPastTheGraveyard
Those of us who have worked in high pressure situations have learned to use humor to keep our emotional balance

Those who get wound too tightly tend to snap

510 posted on 12/21/2003 12:25:54 PM PST by WackyKat
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To: sinkspur
Well, Sinky, had the Packers been playing today instead of tomorrow night, I'd be watching them and not any cable news channels.
511 posted on 12/21/2003 12:27:19 PM PST by Catspaw
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To: relee
Very frightening. I do believe that they are going to try the simultaneous strikes they have been bragging about for months.
512 posted on 12/21/2003 12:27:25 PM PST by jerseygirl
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To: WackyKat
I don't see anyone wound up too tight. The reflex bash homeland security does get old and takes up bandwidth. We need two threads,,one for wisecracking and one for analyzing the news as we see it.
513 posted on 12/21/2003 12:27:35 PM PST by cajungirl (I adore the Brits!! Tony Blair is my hero!!)
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To: Willie Green
OK, so what're we supposed to do? Boil water???

Sure, boil some water, have a cup of tea and take a look at Ready.gov for more information.

514 posted on 12/21/2003 12:27:46 PM PST by relee
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To: relee
I think it was Neil Livingston of Global Options that I heard at 1 PM. Also, on the 3 PM CBS radio news I believe he said authorities will be checking the specificity and may have to raise it to the highest level. Does anyone know about Neil Livingston?

He's a highly regarded terrorism expert-I would take what he says seriously

515 posted on 12/21/2003 12:27:48 PM PST by WackyKat
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To: FairOpinion
What's that image in the top left? I can't decide if its the sun or if its an image of north and south America.
516 posted on 12/21/2003 12:28:20 PM PST by lelio
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To: WhistlingPastTheGraveyard
no offense intended ... but, I think it's the non-specificity of these alerts that is the problem ... what shall we do at Orange that we don't do at Yellow? ... our enemies plot for surprise ... they were here sometimes for years, before they executed ...
517 posted on 12/21/2003 12:28:41 PM PST by Bobby777
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To: FairOpinion
Thanks
518 posted on 12/21/2003 12:29:22 PM PST by putupon ("Borders? We don' need no steenkin' borders!"-Presidente Jorge Dubya del Rino Arbusto)
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To: Bobby777
I think law enforcement responds to the color, not us. But we don't want to hear a rumor from our brother in law the cop about the govt warning the cops and not us so they tell us.
519 posted on 12/21/2003 12:29:33 PM PST by cajungirl (I adore the Brits!! Tony Blair is my hero!!)
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To: lelio
I don't know what the image in the top left is -- it could be AQ's version of the Earth being destroyed by their nukes.
520 posted on 12/21/2003 12:29:44 PM PST by FairOpinion
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