Interesting.  We've had this juvenile paint-by-numbers terrorist alert system in place far too long anyway.

http://content.usatoday.com/communities/ondeadline/post/2011/01/ap-...

However, it light of what's been developing recently with the beginnings of FEMA ordering food, blankets and fuel to "support 7M survivors" during a supposed exercise in May 2011 in the New Madrid fault zone, I'm thinking the color-coded alert system's deactivation prior to that exercise is suspiciously timely, given that once 'they' set off an horrendous earthquake throughout the southeastern U.S. that damn near splits the country in two that stupid alert system wouldn't make a whole lot of difference any more anyway.

And that's my paranoid thought for the day....