“The old color coded system taught Americans to be scared, not prepared,” said Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.) in a statement.Wait. "Scared not prepared"?
Is Thompson running his own rhyme-of-the-day routine?
...the system, which has largely remained at yellow for domestic travel and orange for national security, has been widely criticized as ineffective.I have to admit, this decision will make no difference to me at all, because I was already ignoring the color levels.
The meanings were never sufficiently clear
to fill me with reassurance or fear.
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...and straight into the "See something, say something" citizen spy campaign.
For everything Bush did, Obama has a trump card.
Today Drudge had "see something say something" over an insane story about a woman who saw a man talking on a cell phone in his car - but she thought it was a gun.
"After identifying the vehicle and person in question, Hughes said a decision was made on the scene for police to attempt contact. They were able to communicate with him and he voluntarily exited the vehicle. No weapon was found and the individual was taken into custody without incident less than 20 minutes after police arrived on scene.
"The individual was talking on a cell phone at the time of the incident. It's likely that is the object the passerby identified as a gun.
"Hughes said no crime was committed and no additional information, including the person's name, would be released."
Also a Wal-Mart was locked down in the process of this spiffy investigation.
http://www.kirksvilledailyexpress.com/features/x1791707599/Report-of-armed-man-leads-to-lockdown-at-Wal-Mart
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