[at bay]

You want confirmation? There's your confirmation. I'd rather increase security to scare off the terrorists and keep them atbay, then listen to the likes of an ill(bay)-tempered whining.

Let's get the attitude rolling. The threats are credible, particularly in S.F. All trucks must be inspected and the Coast Guard must own the waters adjacent.

[henbane]

Might be a good idea to let threads develop for more than six minutes before leaping in with a rude "worthless" dismissal.

FR is generally one of the first media venues to report these kinds of key information points. Your hair-trigger and somewhat overweening dismissal of news-alert threads has an ugly tone about it.

The last thing we want to do is to pour your kind of abrasive sand into FR's smoothly running engine of rapid information dispersal.