Terror Alert Level to be moved down to YELLOW at 11:30am 1-9-2004

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[Hillary's Lovely Legs]

The Office of Homeland Security will announce at 11:30am today that the terror level will be lowered from Orange to Yellow.

That is level BERT for those of you using the Sesame Street Level Indicators.

[Hillary's Lovely Legs]

Adjust your schedule accordingly.

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[CrashCole]

Is this 11:30 eastern time?

[CholeraJoe]

Does this mean I can depressurize the flame thrower and stand down the machine gunners?

[Hillary's Lovely Legs]

Yes, eastern standard time. 8:30am Pacific.

[50sDad]

But it is important you remember: We are no safer today than before we captured Saddam!

[CholeraJoe]

When I need a lecture on National Security from that sawed-off pi$$ant Dean, I'll stand him up against a wall and slap it out of him.

Love your tagline.

[Sender]

Meanwhile, as we relax our guard, I found this on another board:

I live in NC and was talking to an ex-Secret Service agent who had worked in the banking industry. Anyway, that person told me that he/she had heard (from freinds in the service) that around Dec 23rd a group of "foreigners" had visited virtually every Office Depot in the state had purchased all their Cricket cell phones for cash. As of today they have not been activated. May be nothing, but that is a heck of a lot of cell phones and when tracing one of the vehicles plates they were shown as stolen. anyone heard anything on this?

Prepaid cell phones, purchased with cash. What a perfect communications web for an attack cell, untraceable (to buyer's real ID) and disposable.

[BigSkyFreeper]

Thank you for that reminder Dr. Dean

[Constitution Day]

Terror Alert Level to be moved down to YELLOW at 11:30am 1-9-2004

Queen Rosie pronounces herself "pleased".

The Yellow (by Rosie O'Donnell)

[OXENinFLA]

Really?

[Coop]

If they paid with cash, how does anyone know it's the same group of people, much less foreigners? Videotape analysis from each store seems doubtful.

Stores selling out of something two days before Christmas? That's unheard of! :-p

[familyofman]

Whoo hoo!!! Time to party. The skies are blue and birdies are singing in the trees and meadows.

[NYC GOP Chick]

    +    = which color alert?

[ConservativeMan55]

I wouldn't recommend doing that just yet.

[New Horizon]

I feel safer already.

Bert bump.

[IncPen]

I think there are tremendous opportunities for the government to cash in on this phenomena.

For instance as Official Sponsor of Homeland Security Color®, Crayola could become the beacon for all the children, and sell boxes of Security Scare® crayons. Depends could offer Official Homeland Security Undergarments® for the liberals as they wring their hands over the ups and downs in the terror war.

Smirnoff could offer Official Homeland Security Vodkas®</b? (Ted Kennedy as spokesman?) in Hot Pepper, Tangerine, Lemon, Blueberry, and Lime

I really think that we could offset the cost of this war- and simultaneously p!ss off the mullahs and get real American brand-loyalty out of this if we Just Do It®

Who's with me?

[renosathug]

Well I heard from my neighbor's ex's sister's brother's friend that a "foreign-looking" guy told her not to drink Coca-Cola starting this week.

[eno_]

Prepaid cell phones, purchased with cash. What a perfect communications web for an attack cell, untraceable (to buyer's real ID) and disposable.

When privacy is outlawed, only outlaws have privacy.