CNN reports that the national threat level will be lowered from orange to yellow within the next week, but certain sectors are expected to be kept at the higher level. Therefore, be afraid and alert when you're near airports and chemical plants; be relaxed and careless when you're in shopping malls and casinos. How much more insane can things be.
Meanwhile, 9 more soldiers die, 33 are wounded, and the story is quickly buried by talk of going to the moon. God help us.