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ORIGINAL: dcnovice

I'm not usually one for panic, but I fear too many of my fellow Americans, particularly of the leftish persuasion, fail to grasp that two different, rapacious, terrifying foes threaten our lives, our nation, and perhaps civilization itself.

Which will get us first?

<cue "Jaws" soundtrack>

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ORIGINAL: DaddySatyr

Fucking idiotic poll. Why am I not surprised?

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You forgot one DC.
Terminal ignorance.
Its a killer

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ORIGINAL: kdsub

DC I thought you would know...all transgender people are of low moral standards... this is exactly the type of person that would commit voter fraud... so you should change the poll so we here in Missouri can pick both.

Butch

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ORIGINAL: dcnovice

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You forgot one DC.
Terminal ignorance.
Its a killer

Good point.

As Dickens warns us,

From the foldings of its robe, [the Spirit of Christmas Present] brought two children; wretched, abject, frightful, hideous, miserable. They knelt down at its feet, and clung upon the outside of its garment.

“Oh, Man! look here. Look, look, down here!” exclaimed the Ghost.

They were a boy and girl. Yellow, meagre, ragged, scowling, wolfish; but prostrate, too, in their humility. Where graceful youth should have filled their features out, and touched them with its freshest tints, a stale and shrivelled hand, like that of age, had pinched, and twisted them, and pulled them into shreds. Where angels might have sat enthroned, devils lurked, and glared out menacing. No change, no degradation, no perversion of humanity, in any grade, through all the mysteries of wonderful creation, has monsters half so horrible and dread.

Scrooge started back, appalled. Having them shown to him in this way, he tried to say they were fine children, but the words choked themselves, rather than be parties to a lie of such enormous magnitude.

“Spirit! are they yours?” Scrooge could say no more.

“They are Man’s,” said the Spirit, looking down upon them. “And they cling to me, appealing from their fathers. This boy is Ignorance. This girl is Want. Beware them both, and all of their degree, but most of all beware this boy, for on his brow I see that written which is Doom, unless the writing be erased. Deny it!” cried the Spirit, stretching out its hand towards the city. “Slander those who tell it ye! Admit it for your factious purposes, and make it worse. And bide the end!”

“Have they no refuge or resource?” cried Scrooge.

“Are there no prisons?” said the Spirit, turning on him for the last time with his own words. “Are there no workhouses?”

The bell struck twelve.

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ORIGINAL: dcnovice

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ORIGINAL: kdsub

DC I thought you would know...all transgender people are of low moral standards... this is exactly the type of person that would commit voter fraud... so you should change the poll so we here in Missouri can pick both.

Butch

Another good point!

Indeed, few terrors match the prospect of transgendered people committing voter fraud by filling out absentee ballots in public restrooms.

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Love Dickens, he was i guess my first social awakening as a child.
Oh a recommendation for you if you like Dickens on the screen.
Recently there was a series built around his characters, set before the stories he wrote. Combining the characters.
it was 20 parts long and if you can find it(maybe BBC America) its worth watching.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt4531728/

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ORIGINAL: dcnovice

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Love Dickens, he was i guess my first social awakening as a child.
Oh a recommendation for you if you like Dickens on the screen.
Recently there was a series built around his characters, set before the stories he wrote. Combining the characters.
it was 20 parts long and if you can find it(maybe BBC America) its worth watching.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt4531728/

FDR used to read A Christmas Carol to his family every year.

Thanks for the TV tip; I hadn't heard of it and will check it out.

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I cant claim to read it often, BUT the B&W movie version with Alastair Sim is a ritual that has only been missed twice since I was about five:)

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ORIGINAL: PeonForHer

I couldn't answer your poll, DC, because I what's obviously going to kill off the USA first is hordes of transgender Muslim terrorists swimming the Atlantic in order to commit voter fraud then deliberately use the wrong restroom immediately after.