So what happened to the "Color Alerts" ? remember those?

[BlueStateMind]

2002-2005 we had all those "OMG THE TERRORISTS ARE COMIN TA KILL OUR MALLS" color alerts? and then Bush settled in for term #2 and they utterly disappeared?

has either candidate commented on whether or not they plan to keep the color system in place once Bush leaves office?

I'd be just fine with a complete dismantling of DHS into its respective agencies, just to erase any lasting vestiges of the Bush Administration, but that's just me, and it's probably grossly impractical.

still though.. I kinda got used to the Yellow and Orange Alerts. it felt good to know that the shadow of terrorism loomed over us alll......

[hedgehog]

1. I think we're in a permanent state of Orange Alert - they kept

announcing that at one of the airports I was through recently.

[Demeter]

2. Ridiculed Out of Existence By Overuse

When people stopped jumping, the colors all faded to gray.....

[Jade Fox]

3. Exactly n/t

[valerief]

4. You haven't heard? They're using the musical scale now. I think we're at La. nt

[Democrats_win]

5. It's orange, but it's been red-shifted because the stock market is falling AWAY from us.

[Lancer]

6. Does FOX still use them on the crawl?

I rarely watch FOX, but it seems to me that they were still running it long after the other networks quit.

[rwenos]

7. No Longer Politically Useful

To the Bush Crime Family.

Impeachment is truly "off the table" now, eh?

[Arctic Dave]

8. I think we have been at orange for so long

that it has faded to peach. (Not really a joke, I pass through TSA screening a couple of times a month and it has really faded to the point it looks like an old advertisement in a store window)

[soothsayer]

9. they're under Tom Ridge's bed, with the duct tape and plastic wrap

[Rabia]

10. Color Alerts

I remember those. After their initial stress factor they became somewhat annoying. I never knew what the color codes exactly meant. Nor did I at all know what to do as a result of the color code announcements.

I think they gave up when the color codes finally became comedic fodder for SNL, John Stewart, The Colbert Report, and Mad TV.

Those codes probably would have worked if each color had indicated an assigned public response.