Welcome to Bush's America? ;)

The GPS theft item was in a "fear of the day" piece.

Ditto.

Today I fear I will become a spinster!

That my worst fears will come true

Fear mongering is as old as the wheel. It sells. Just ask religious text publishers.

Looks like Morrigoon's attempt at demonstrating the ridiculousness of the media's fear mongering actually instilled fear in MouseWife.



I fear that we do not fear fear itself.

Visible mojo for comprehension, CP :)

I fear that no-one will take me seriously.












......Yes, really.

Really.


I'm not kidding, you guys.



True.



Why won't you believe me?




Bugger.

I fear you were implying that I thought that Bush came up with fearmongering. ;) I fear that I need to add more winky faces when I write.

I must not fear.
Fear is the mind-killer.
Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration.
I will face my fear.
I will permit it to pass over me and through me.
And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path.
Where the fear has gone there will be nothing.
Only I will remain.
(Dune, Litany Against Fear)

"All these failings generate fear, a soul-sickness in its own right... we loaf and procrastinate, or at best work grudgingly under half-steam. These fears are the termites that ceaselessly devour the foundations of whatever sort of life we try to build." (AA 12&12, page 49)

Life is full of really bad sh*t sometimes. It's bad enough worrying about the things you CAN control, let alone those you can't.

Can't speak to how widespread catalytic converter theft is, but commodity metal theft is a quickly increasing category of crime and if catalytic converters are easy to take and get the metal out of, I'm sure it's being done.

Locally we had someone steal the copper wiring out of all the street lamps along a couple miles length of road. Monuments and graveyards are having quite a bit of trouble with copper plaques and insets being stolen. I have a coworker who recently told that his condo building has replaced all the brass door knockers with something else because someone kept stealing them right off the doors (probably an idiot since I don't think there is much market for brass).