Only the president can order a national emergency alert. The system was initially designed to warn Americans of a nuclear attack, but President Bush last month ordered Homeland Security to extend the alert "for situations of war, terrorist attack, natural disaster or other hazards to public safety and well-being."
Agency works on emergency alert system - Boston.com
Like, for example, "wardrobe malfunctions," I suppose.
Oh, and by the way, in case you were wondering, WETA will downlink but PBS will link up. You can read all the acronymic details in a press release dated April not 1 but 13, located here.
"Nitwit" is a really, really excellent word, isn't it? Don't hear it much anymore. But it seems a shame to waste. And I've been playing around with the idea of using tags on posts - you know, like the real bloggers do (and what, by the way, Boston Globe, is a "regular American," pray tell. I assume they're different from irregular Americans, but how?) - and - where the hell was I, anyway? - oh, right - tags, but I've never been any good at that sort of thing, getting organized and categorizing things and all that. In fact, I suck. So Prudence suggests I do the tag thing sort of gradually, like one at a time.
To wit.
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