I’ve been visiting my folks in Kentucky over the holidays, and have yet to get my internal clock aligned with their schedules. Not only am I a card-carrying night owl, it’s two hours earlier here so it’s not been unusual for me to find myself reading a book or surfing the net as the sun creeps over the eastern horizon. In case you didn’t know, there’s a LOT of stuff on the internet!

So after countless clicks one night, I found myself on a government website extolling the virtues of the new RealID that’s apparently in our very near Orwellian future. That’s a whole nuther post, but click on over if you want yet more evidence that the current powers-that-be are doing everything they can to ensure that we stay on a collision course with Big Brother. But of course, I digress…

The point here, is that while I was reading up on the RealID, I noticed that Homeland Security is showing a national threat advisory for all domestic and international flights at “High, or Orange.” In other words, if this was WarGames, we’d be at DefCon 4 — on the verge of a Russian nuclear attack!!! Now before you freak out, please read the site’s official explanation of what this means.

While there continues to be no credible information at this time warning of an imminent threat to the homeland, the department’s strategic threat perspective is that we are in a period of increased risk.

Now let me get this straight, “While there continues to be NO CREDIBLE INFORMATION at this time warning of an imminent threat to the homeland” the national threat advisory is one step from As-Bad-As-It-Can-Be? (Read the Rest…)