Eideard

Sometimes keeping a straight face is the hardest job in the world.

Can we all just lay off and admit that Tom Ridge did one helluva job presenting this alert system to the public. He must have been up all night making the posters. Suppose you had been told to get in front of the cameras and pretend that this thing was supposed to help anybody. You think you could have done better?

The U.S. Homeland Security Department has appointed a task force to conduct a 60-day review of the nation’s color-coded terror-alert system.
The five-color coding system, created after the Sept. 11 attacks, goes from green, signaling a low threat of attack, to red, signaling a severe threat. Since its introduction in March 2002, the level has been changed 16 times but remained most of the time at mid-level yellow (elevated) or orange (high), the statement said.

The threat level has never been lowered to blue (guarded) or green.

Stop laughing. All this stuff kept us safe for eight years!