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Donk Yore Donating Member (632 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-01-08 01:03 AM
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What do you need to be protected from?
Unprotected sex with others who refuse to wear condoms?

People who judge you unjustly?

Unscrupulous car salespeople?

Salmonella poisoning?

Murderers and rapists?

People and companies that will con you out of your money?

Liars, cheats and thieves?

Parents who abuse their kids?

Drug addicts looking for an easy mark and another fix?

Burglars who are discovered and get violent?



Terrorists?

What's on your list. Terrorists are not on mine.
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MADem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-01-08 01:05 AM
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1. Porgie the Wonder Monkey and his Cabinet of Thieves!! NT
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Kutjara Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-01-08 01:08 AM
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2. Christofascists, the GOP, and...
...clowns. Don't like clowns.
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TahitiNut Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-01-08 01:25 AM
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3. Hospital errors. Nursing home bedsores. Monster SUVs driven by cell-heads.
Crooked politicians. Predatory businesses. Etc.
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RB TexLa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-01-08 01:29 AM
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4. Nothing, if something happens to me it's my fault it happens to me
It might be someone else's fault the event happens, but it's my fault it happens to me.
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allalone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-01-08 01:32 AM
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5. wondered when I would find someone else
I've often wanted to post and ask if anybody is actually afraid of terrorists.
they're there,no doubt about it, but I'm more afraid of a traffic collision or not having enough money to get by.
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Donk Yore Donating Member (632 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-01-08 01:36 AM
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8. Please, do me a favor
I know you don't know me, but I am going to ask you to post that question regarding who is afraid of terrorists.

I double dare ya! (I'll be your first response)
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Kutjara Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-01-08 01:37 AM
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9. Well, since the average American...
...has more chance of winning the lottery or being struck by lightening that being the victim of a terrorist attack, it doesn't make much sense to be hiding under the bed quivering in fear that Al Qaeda is going to launch an attack on the local Applebee's. Try telling that to the dittoheads, though.
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kineneb Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-01-08 01:34 AM
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6. corporate crooks,
-idjets that cannot figure out how to drive the damned RV while on holiday

...and...little old people who go down long mountain grades at 35 mph, riding the brakes the entire way (talk about scary- smell of burning brake part way down)
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emilyg Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-01-08 02:53 AM
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16. Not all old people are little and
not all little people are old.
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kineneb Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-01-08 12:20 PM
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17. the ones I was following were...
I kept expecting their brakes to fail and to watch them fly off the road.

I realized I was using a yard-wide brush, but unfortunately, there are many people in my area who fit the description. They probably should not be driving any more.
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Journeyman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-01-08 01:36 AM
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7. Terrorists are on my list. . .
just not very high and with very little urgency. But they're on the list… they've impacted my past and could touch my future, so I encourage the responsible authorities to keep an eye out for them.
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Donk Yore Donating Member (632 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-01-08 01:38 AM
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10. What's a responsible authority these days?
I'm serious. To Serve and Protect is an antiquated notion.
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Journeyman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-01-08 01:49 AM
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11. So for you, there are no other Richard Clarkes or Valerie Plames in government. . .
and no one in the country serves anything but against your interests? Quite a narrow viewpoint, but if that's what you seek it's what you'll find.

Close to my own life, a young man I've befriended for years, the son of a friend from my high school days, now runs a gun interdiction unit for the local police. An unassuming individual, he puts his life on the line everyday to make a difference. What do you do?
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Donk Yore Donating Member (632 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-01-08 01:52 AM
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12. Quite a good response
Of course there are still many who strive for goals worthy of attaining ethically. I salute you and your family/friends.

What do I do? Well, that is a long and complicated story. I have put my life in danger in past situations many times in attempts to help others. That's as far as I'll go with that.
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Solon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-01-08 01:55 AM
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13. Old ladies swinging rolling pins...
Those motherfucking things HURT, and this one:



Can crack your skull open like a ripe melon.

:scared:
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Donk Yore Donating Member (632 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-01-08 01:56 AM
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14. Where can I
get me one of those?

It's shiny and purty!

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ordinaryaveragegirl Donating Member (853 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-01-08 02:06 AM
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15. Another 4-8 years of Repug nonsense.
Need I say more? :shrug:
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slackmaster Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-01-08 12:21 PM
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18. Bad drivers
:argh:
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bryant69 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-01-08 12:22 PM
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19. so you are saying we should just let the terrorists do whatever they want?
Bryant
Check it out --> http://politicalcomment.blogspot.com
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dysfunctional press Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-01-08 12:22 PM
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20. corporofascism, and "the man".
nt
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High Plains Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-01-08 12:24 PM
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21. People who want to protect me.
Fear-mongerers.

Armed, uniformed men (and women).

Republicans.

Nanny-staters.
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NOLALady Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-01-08 12:31 PM
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22. Police, who could stop my child for DWB.
Then shoot him as he reach for his WMD aka wallet.
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undeterred Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-01-08 01:26 PM
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23. Sex and age discrimination in the workplace.
Jobs in my field being sent overseas.
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