Increased chatter

For the past 1,909 days (since August 12, 2005) the Department of Homeland Security has said that the United States is under threat level yellow: "significant risk of terrorist attack."

Of all the things that have happened in the last 1,909 days -- threats to burn the Koran, warnings about the dangers of traveling to France,  FedEx-ed mail bombs from Yemen, an alleged Satanic witchcraft dabbler running for the Senate -- nothing seems to change the threat level.

I'm not sure how our intelligent intelligence experts determine the threat level, but one of the signs they seem to use is "increased chatter" among evil-doers. I may be wrong, but I think Homeland Security may soon be increasing the threat level.

We're seeing increased chatter from our resident evil-doer, Dempsey, who tried stealing some pumpkin bread before we made him work for it. Check out the evidence.