propaganda warning

background entertainment: Jethro Tull, "Living With The Past," DVD

The Department of Son-of-a-Bush Security ("SS") has broadcast another warning about potential disaster. Odd that they haven't done so since roughly the start of the Attack on Iraq; but, now they have to divert public attention from another BushCo PR snafu so it seems appropriate.

We must remember of course (despite the vehement protestations from the misAdministration) that our invasion of Iraq has bred a new league of terrorists. A large number of new recruits were won through the efforts of the Wolfman and the Rumsfeld-who-couldn't-shoot-straight.

So I ask you : how seriously do you take the SS's color-coded warnings?

We haven't seen anything less than a 50% alert since they came up with that great system for hopping up the public; nothing has happened, or even come close to happening, since they came up with their Fruit Loops method of defining risk. To me, this means that the color in the middle means "standard operating condition." Nobody seems overwrought then. Can you tell that I don't know off the top of my head what "the color in the middle" is? Not only that, but I don't care. I don't believe a word that these Goebbels wanna-bes say anyway. The color of the day has no impact on my neighborhood; the drug dealer down the street doesn't change his habits no matter what color Ashcroft thinks the sky is on any given day. The shady characters I pass on my walk to the corner store don't look any more or less threatening no matter the color of the day. I carry my knife (and sometimes my gun) without consulting the Gub'mints daily pallette first.

Speaking of the Feds, it's illegal to tamper with mailboxes. I don't see Asscroft or his goons protecting my mailbox, nor my neighbor's; yet both of our boxes look as if they've been beaten with a cricket bat -- and both of our (metal) mailbox flags have been torn off. Is it any wonder that I refuse to put any outgoing mail in my box? Do I have to booby-trap the damn thing at night? Hey, it's a Federal offense to tamper with mailboxes. Maybe I should put up a new box and sit outside with my 9mm in my lap, and shoot the bugger who's f***ing with it. Then, I can claim "national security" as my defense. Send that damn teenager to Guantanamo for tampering with Federal property, and get a Medal of Honor in the process.