colorblindness for the blue hues

[lapsedmodernist]

The New York Times today says that The Crayonmasters at Homeland Security are getting a newer, tigher leash, in an attempt to make them less trigger-happy to raise the terror alert level from yellow to orange. As the article correctly points out, since the implementation of this Berlin-and-Kay inspired system (green/blue=calm, red=blazing inferno with subsequent and inevitable death in said blazing inferno), the terror level has been bouncing between yellow and orange, with the other colors as incomprehensible and imperceptable to our government's vision as they would be to a dog's eye. They name-reference some New Jersey democrat who is happy about this, possibly in an attempt to balance the fact that it was Sid Casperson, director of New Jersey's office of counter-terrorism who, to ACLU's horror briefed the Gannet State Bureau this March how Code Red would work: "Red means all noncritical functions cease. Noncritical would be almost all businesses, except health-related." He elaborated, "The state police and emergency management people would take control over the highways." This means you literally are staying at home: what we're saying is, 'Everybody sit down.' If you are left standing, you are probably a terrorist."

Seemingly good, right? Someone is pushing for more responsibility when it comes to spinning Wheel of Terror (pretty colors!) But the news is like the Matrix, and when you read it for a while, you can see the code. What this story literally says, to me, at least, is that after this new "better" and more "responsible" approach is substantially profiled in the AP, this will give BushCo a greater leeway to engage in a few more rounds of "boy who cried wolf" with freshly manufactured cred supporting the quickly-rotting infrastructure. This should come in handy when the jaundiced terror level will blush, come the elections next November.

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Hey!

[nuncstans.livejournal.com]

Look what your post did!

My inner child is six years old!

Look what I can do! I can walk, I can run, I can
read! I like to do stuff, and there's a whole
big world out there to do it in. Just so long
as I can take my blankie and my Mommy and my
three best friends with me, of course.


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Re: Hey!

[lapsedmodernist.livejournal.com]

wait, why did my post do that???

My inner child is ten years old!

The adult world is pretty irrelevant to me. Whether
I'm off on my bicycle (or pony) exploring, lost
in a good book, or giggling with my best
friend, I live in a world apart, one full of
adventure and wonder and other stuff adults
don't understand.


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your third job

[(Anonymous)]

about decoding the matrix: i think it was socrates who said that everyone has two jobs: the one they do for a living and the job of philosopher. now, thanks to the internet, we can add the job of newspaper editor. if you want to find out what is happening in the world, you have to read widely from a variety of sources. the internet has made blindingly clear to some of us that each of the major media sources (nytimes, wash post, time, newsweek, ws journal, abc, cbs, nbc, etc.) are all out promoting their own interests. they carefully select the news items that describe their viewpoint and say "look, here's reality (nevermind that we don't acknowledge other media outlets and what they've published. it's what our reporters have said that counts. and we decide who reports what.)" of course, that brings up the question "who has time to do this?" even among the small number of people who realize it (small number relative to the several hundred million who have internet access worldwide).

-mjm