Let's draw a picture

This week's JuliusBlog has some important information on it.

Click on the picture below to view a chart of President Bush's approval ratings transposed against his terror alerts.



An earlier post assembles a timeline (scroll down the posts) of world events against the timing of the terror alerts. I am grateful he did this, because I was in the process of researching the same thing.

The Homeland Security Threat Warning System is clumsy. The means to evaluate the credibility of the warnings are not available to the common observer (you and me). Also, the range of viable actions one can take in response to warnings is limited. The combination of these two factors generates a heightened sense of fear and powerlessness.

I do not have the means to evaluate whether or not terror alerts have been issued with the intent of manipulating the public, warning the public or a combination of the two. We can only observe that warnings have been issued in concert with either positive events for the Democrats or Negative events for the President. I am not one to place my faith in coincidence.