What Are You, Yeller?

News brief: "Federal authorities lowered the terror alert status for areas around financial institutions in New York, Washington and Newark, N.J., saying Wednesday that additional security precautions had reduced the threat. Lowering the threat level from orange to yellow - the midpoint on the government's five-level terror warning system - comes three months after the alert was raised because of concerns the institutions and the areas around them could be al-Qaeda targets."

Translation: Not that there really ever was a threat, but those bastards in DC, NJ and NY voted for Kerry anyway, so they deserve whatever they get.