Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Come on, media. you have one job. start doing it.

“What are Republicans afraid of?” Everything.

If you’re pissed about Biden’s speech, he was talking about you.

Let’s not be the monsters we hate.

They are lying in pursuit of an agenda.

Russian mouthpiece, go fuck yourself.

Good lord, these people are nuts.

Jesus, Mary, & Joseph how is that election even close?

If you are still in the GOP, you are an extremist.

Whoever he was, that guy was nuts.

Let us savor the impending downfall of lawless scoundrels who richly deserve the trouble barreling their way.

Too often we hand the biggest microphones to the cynics and the critics who delight in declaring failure.

Let’s finish the job.

They traffic in fear. it is their only currency. if we are fearful, they are winning.

We are builders in a constant struggle with destroyers. let’s win this.

Proof that we need a blogger ethics panel.

“Jesus paying for the sins of everyone is an insult to those who paid for their own sins.”

So it was an October Surprise A Day, like an Advent calendar but for crime.

T R E 4 5 O N

Give the craziest people you know everything they want and hope they don’t ask for more? Great plan.

Republicans seem to think life begins at the candlelight dinner the night before.

I really should read my own blog.

Following reporting rules is only for the little people, apparently.

Republican obstruction dressed up as bipartisanship. Again.

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Bloggers have been making fun of this for a while now:

A new Congressional report has found that the government’s much ridiculed color-coded terrorist alert system is so vague in detailing threats that the public “may begin to question the authenticity” of the threats and take no action when the alert level is raised.

The review by the Congressional Research Service, a nonpartisan branch of the Library of Congress, offered lawmakers options for replacing or overhauling the system, including a proposal that the five-color palette of alert levels be replaced with “general warnings concerning the threat of terrorist attacks.”

I don’t know what would work better in place of this, but there is no doubt this system is pointless.

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  1. 1.

    Robi

    YES! Agree 100% – even further – like the little boy who cried wolf.. dangerous – few will heed warnings when the threat is known to be real, tangible and detailed.

  2. 2.

    Matthew

    I personally liked the color coding, if only because it could inspire Crayola to issue new colors like “High Orange,” “Severe Red,” and “Guarded Blue.”

    (I’m kidding, really I am.)

  3. 3.

    bear, the (one each)

    Every time they discuss this, I think of that one episode of Red Dwarf where Kriton lays broken under a pile of rubble. The perspective is his mind, and in the corner we see “condition toup”, “condition mauve”, “condition heliotrope”…

  4. 4.

    RedLion

    This all started when the ninnies complained that Geo Bush and the powers that be weren’t issuing warnings.
    ====================

    “Why weren’t we given any waaaaarnings?!!!”

    “Ummm… Because we didn’t have any conclusive evidence and didn’t want to create mass hysteria. 99.99999% of the time, even though we might have some suspicions, nothing happens.”

    “We want warrrrrrnings!”

    “But nothing usually happens. It’ll jus…

    “WE NEEEEEEED WARRRRRRRRNINGS!”

    “(sigh) Okay, okay. Here ya go. Color codes. Green is good, red is bad. Are you happy now?”

    “Waaaiiit, which is baaaad?”

    “Red. Red is bad. Green is good.”

    “We don’t liiiike greeeeen. It’s the color of eeeeevil money. HEY! You orange warned us and nothing happened.”

    “Yeah, we know.”

    “But you said…”

    “We said it was useless. We said it would be silly because…”

    “Which is bad? We’re confused!”

    “(sigh)”

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