Ignore the last 17 warnings. Ignore the fact that Cheney can’t make his dire predictions without rubbing his hands together in glee at an American populace that, dumbstruck, slowly succumbs to the leeching of personal and civil liberty until our neighborhoods look like one of the towns that IT controls in A Wrinkle in Time.

The terrorists are still coming, you have to believe us; we’re here to protect big oil your interests and keep you cowed and pliable safe. Believe us.

You do? Good. Now go outside and play — remember to bounce those balls in unison, chilluns.

"Sen. John McCain, an Arizona Republican, said on CNN, "I worry that over time with so many warnings with such frequency Americans begin not to take them seriously."

Kind of between a rock and a hard place. If you warn too much, people stopl istening, if you don't warn enough, people want to investigate.

Oh, and lay off big oil, thats where I want to be working when I get out of school.

That scene in A Wrinkle in Time was, without a doubt, one of the most terrifying passages I read as a kid.