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06/06/2003 Archived Entry: "Ridge: 'Alert System Sucks'"
Ridge: 'Alert System Sucks'
After countless raised alert levels that no one paid attention to, which were vague to the point of uselessness and seemed to always coincide with damaging news items concerning the White House, Homeland Security director Tom Ridge has finally admitted that the Terror Alert System as it stands is the worst idea since 'Law & Order: Crime & Punishment:'
"We worry about the credibility of the system," said Mr. Ridge, an architect of the five-color alert arrangement, which was adopted in March of last year. "We want to continue to refine it, because we understand it has caused a kind of anxiety."
But once you settle into a groove, it gets hard to climb back out of it. When asked when the overhaul would take place, Ridge said there was no timetable for improving the system. Thanks Tom. You moron.
Replies: somebody speaks up.
I think you're being way too harsh on Tom Ridge. He is merely a sad, clownish tool of the policy setters: Cheney, Rumsfeld, Ashcroft.
And I still maintain that Ridge is gay. I would propose scrapping the current color scheme (green-blue-yellow-orange-red) with a "gayer" palette (sea form-aqua-chartreuse-fuchsia-cranberry).
Tom Ridge, you go, girl!
Posted by Metropolitan99 @ 06/06/2003 09:54 AM NY
