This article helps us remember the hand wringers waxing on when Reagan became president..."hurry, hurry...move the atomic nuclear Holocaust clock forward by two minutes..no, make that 5 minutes...the sky is falling, the sky is falling...OMG..."

These people are not very good in a storm, so prone are they to sympathetic hyperbole and fear stoking; you know the sort of 'sympathetic' chain reaction one can see in a kindergarten class when one student gets sick.

Not good in a storm...not the people one could settle the west with. Hardihood and calm...not their traits.