A post in which I raise the National Threat Level

Tom Ridge is on national TV, again, telling every man, woman and child in the United States something that, essentially, contains no information whatsoever.

Warnings are wonderful. I live by them. Here is a warning. It is an all purpose warning. It is a warning for all times, well, the next ten years at least. I am only going to say this once. It doesn't need to be repeated. Here it is:

Al Qaeda is planning to attack us.

I do not know how. I do not know when. I do not know where.

I have other warnings to give you, good, useful warnings. Don't let anyone say I didn't tell you so. I would like to put the nation on alert. I have received credible, verifiable evidence of the following:

You will get older.
A car is coming.
Bad people are in the world.
You will eventually blink.

Tommy Ridge aint got nuthin on me. I can warn with the best of them. Here is my best warning yet. It's good for the next 4 months:

The current administration will use the Homeland Security Advisory System to keep the war on terror front and center during the election season in order to dominate headlines. Their national terror alert warnings will roughly coincide with key Kerry campaign announcements. Note, please, the timing of this one: the day after Kerry picked Edwards as his running mate.

Look for something big around the Democratic National Convention.