Hard to keep it straight

by Allez33

Posted to Poetry and Politics on 2003-12-22 11:04:00

Parent message is 567420
Code Orange, Code Red, Code XYZ, what code is it today? I’m never sure which color signifies which level of threat. Judging from the rhetoric of the Bush Administration, though, aren’t we always under imminent danger of annhilation?

I personally monitor the thermometer with much greater diligence than the terror alert codes. Whether it’s below freezing or not holds more importance for me than whether the spy networks have detected an “increase in chatter” among “the evildoers”, or whether the neo-con advisers in the White House decide it’s time to ratchet up the fear level a bit to keep good patriots silent and supporting their president.

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