What we fear

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.41Dave

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We sure have made progress in the last 74 years...

Things to fear – 1933:
Fear itself

Things to fear – 2007: (A partial list in no particular order. Feel free to add more)
Terrorists
Radical Islamists
Insurgents
Anything vaguely Islamic
Evangelicals
Pat Robertson
Mormons
The ADL
Jehovah's witnesses
Public christmas trees
Public nativity scenes
Public display of any religious sentiment whatsoever (especially if it is not in line with our religious sentiments, whatever they may be)
Anything vaguely religious
Fluoride
PCBs
Food additives
Food supplements
French fries
Cheeseburgers
Bacon
McDonalds entire menu
Dieting
Not dieting
Obesity
Anorexia
Spinach
Ebola
Bird Flu
AIDS
Doctors
Pen knives
Box cutters
Nail clippers
Tweezers
Anything pointy
Shampoo on airplanes
Hair gel on airplanes
Bottled water on airplanes
Expressed breast milk on airplanes
Any liquid on airplanes
Shoes
Cholesterol
Transfats
Soy
Cat food
Dog food
Violence on TV
Violence in movies
Sex on TV
Sex in movies
Evil Black Rifles
Handguns
Magazines that hold more than 10 rounds
Paintball “markers”
Toy guns
Pictures of guns
Drawings of soldiers with guns
Index fingers being pointed in a vaguely gun-like way
Anything else vaguely gun-like
Bullets
Patriarchal oppression
The Glass Ceiling
Radical feminists
Male chauvanists
Right wing fascists
Left wing communists
Pesticides on produce
E. Coli on organic produce
Carbon dioxide
Warm weather
Water
Sharks
Stingrays
Hurricanes
Floods
Tornadoes
FEMA
Republicans
Democrats
Mexicans
Guatemalans
Salvadorans
Darfur
Hezbollah
Cuba
China
Russia
Iraq
Iran
Syria
North Korea
All things vaguely foreign
Hurt feelings
Insensitivity
Political incorrectness
Mean words
Low self esteem
Depression
Anxiety (ok, maybe that is fear itself?)
Taking too much medication
Not taking enough medication
Vioxx
The FDA
The FBI
The CIA
The DEA
The BATFE
The NSA
NAFTA
The NAU
The USA PATRIOT Act
Any government acronym
 
one thing we don't fear

NOT the government

Definately DO NOT fear the government.

they are here for our protection.
 
1933?

Fascism in Europe (Spain, Germany, Italy)
Increasingly aggressive Japanese empire
Capitalism (yes there were many more Marxists then than now, because the world economy collapsed)
Organized Crime (why do you think NFA 34 went through?)
Invading space aliens
Unemployment
Bankruptcy
The Dust Bowl
Tuberculosis
Polio
Starvation
Stalin

And those are just off the top of my head.

We should learn to look past our fears BECAUSE of history, not because we don't know history.
 
1933?

Fascism in Europe (Spain, Germany, Italy)
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Bzzzzzt. Wrong. Spain was still in the 'Second Republic' in 1933. A little early for the Spanish Civil War, although after about 1940 it really wasnt fascism, more like a military dictatorship..if thats any better.

I always felt sorry for the Spaniard of 1937 - their choices were Communism or Autocracy. Most choice the latter.
 
What about spiders? Especially big, hairy ones. They're worse than anything on your list.
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Why are you afraid of a cuddly little spider? Even the largest and most aggressive ones can't get much larger than a dinner plate. Their respiratory systems can't handle anything bigger, and the concentration of O2 in the atmosphere won't support anything larger with their current respiratory system.

Lets see, you forgot:

Global warming
Sudden onset Ice Age
Asteroid impact
Black Holes
Gamma ray bursts
Super Volcanoes

to name a few. :neener:
 
Fears...............though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death....

The Sum of All Fears..........Faith! USA! Freedom! Patriotism!

The Cause of all Fears.............The evening news! liberalism! Communism

I thank GOD for those that are fighting for our freedom...There is no greater sacrifice, than for one man to lay down his life for another.

Good thread .41Dave
Good Addition Armed Bear

The list could go on and on!

A Different World....Bucky Covington

We were born to mothers who smoked and drank
Our cribs were covered in lead based paint
No child proof lids no seat belts in cars
Rode bikes with no helmets and still here we are, still here we are
We got daddy's belt when we misbehaved
Had three TV channels you got up to change
No video games and no satellite
All we had were friends and they were outside, playin' outside

It was a different life
When we were boys and girls
Not just a different time
It was a different world

School always started the same every day
The pledge of allegiance then someone would pray
Not every kid made the team when they tried
We got disappointed and that was all right, we turned out all right

No bottled water, we drank from a garden hose
And every Sunday, all the stores were closed

It was a different world
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When the time for action has come... The time for preperation has past!
Abraham Lincoln
 
Leftists who want to control your mind and program you with their fantasy world. :eek:
 
Tomcat 47:

So your saying we should say a prayer and swear allegiance to our country every morning?

So if we pray to Allah every morning and say the pledge of allegiance you would be ok with it? I dont want my children to have a religion forced upon them while they are growing up and nor do I feel that they should swear allegiance to the government every day. What if the government is corrupt or evil?

Remember that way back when we had a lot of different issues. Such as racism, feminist mistreatment, corrupt LE, and numerous other problems that many people conveniently overlook when they talk about "the good 'ol days".
 
1933 has only "Fear Itself" listed because that is when FDR gave his first inaugural address in which he uttered the famous line "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself."

I thought this was an interesting contrast to our current leadership (Both parties) who constantly ring the alarm bells and attempt to convince the population that everything from evil foreigners to our own dinners will destroy us and WE ARE ALL DOOMED unless, of course, we immediately curtail liberty, burn the Constitution, and promptly fork over unlimited power and lots and lots of cash to our politicians who will then and only then be able to save us from the bogeyman of the hour.
 
1933 has only "Fear Itself" listed because that is when FDR gave his first inaugural address in which he uttered the famous line "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself."

I thought this was an interesting contrast to our current leadership (Both parties) who constantly ring the alarm bells and attempt to convince the population that everything from evil foreigners...
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Lest we forget FDR's decision to issue Executive Order 9066, the Japanese-American internment authorization, which he signed on February 19, 1942.
 
Clowns?

On the approved list:
Anthrax
Bin Laden
Hijackers
Iran
Jihadists
Guns
Socialized health care
The slippery slope

Not on the approved list:
Mad cow disease
IEDs
Global Warming
$12,000,000,000,000 in debt
China
Pollution
Running out of cheap oil
Bankrupt social security







People fear the same thing they have always feared. The unknown and the unknowable.
 
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