Whoever said that orange is the new pink was seriously disturbed!

Well, we're at Code Orange (Danger Tom Ridge! Danger!) and it doesn't seem like anyone is taking it too seriously. Some polls are saying that 70% of the public aren't going to let it affect them or their plans. Went down in the valley tonight with my daughter for dinner and there was a wait everywhere...even Hooters. Typical Friday night. People aren't cowering, people aren't hiding in their homes (although the number of posts on the warblogs will probably be up, but those guys never have dates anyway). So have we reached the point where the public is no longer taking Tom Ridge and John Ashcroft seriously?

With plans for a Patriot Act II (The Right Amends Your Rights) in the works at the More-or-Less Justice Department you have to wonder if, just if, the Government is going to allow a teensy weensy little act of terrorism happen to make a reluctant public get with the government plan. Call me Alcoa Boy, but I still believe that the administration knew that something along the lines of 9/11 was going to happen (based on Condoleeza Rice's post 9/11 comments), but that they believed that it was going to be a typical hijacking, that they were going to use to start the Iraq wardrums. Not being an imaginative group, I think they were stunned by massive coordination/destruction of it all.

So what's it going to be? A mall attack? A movie theater. Five will get you ten it's going to happen in a blue state.