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Junkdrawer

(27,993 posts)
4. Substitute "the release of tundra methane and hence runaway GW" for "Giant Asteroid"....
Mon Mar 19, 2012, 10:34 AM
Mar 2012

and there are other climate change tipping points....

JHB

(37,160 posts)
3. Reminds me of the "missing line" from Deep Impact (1998)...
Mon Mar 19, 2012, 10:12 AM
Mar 2012

...where Morgan Freeman played the POTUS. I imagined there was a missing bit of dialogue from him along these lines:

"It's a hell of a thing... when I was elected there were people who acted like it was the end of the world for a black man to be elected president. So what happens? The end of the world! You just can't win."

yurbud

(39,405 posts)
11. wow--that would have been great, but too satirical for that movie
Mon Mar 19, 2012, 12:46 PM
Mar 2012

That would have been better in a pure satire about a black president like WAG THE KENYAN or something.

kenfrequed

(7,865 posts)
14. You know...
Mon Mar 19, 2012, 01:05 PM
Mar 2012

Usually when you drop a comment like that you sort of have to... I dunno... corroborate it or something. Or at least explain what your analogy is on this.

Fozzledick

(3,860 posts)
6. "The destruction of the planet would be GOOD NEWS for REPUBLICANS!"
Mon Mar 19, 2012, 12:15 PM
Mar 2012

"At least until, you know, the destruction of the planet."

yurbud

(39,405 posts)
12. meanwhile, no discussion of how to stop the asteroid because...
Mon Mar 19, 2012, 12:51 PM
Mar 2012

all candidates agree: asteroid destruction should be privatized and whether it is destroyed at all shall be left to seven Wall Street banks shorting the survival of the human species.

 

baldguy

(36,649 posts)
13. And if Obama somehow pulled an Space Ark big enough to save everyone out from under his desk
Mon Mar 19, 2012, 01:05 PM
Mar 2012

The GOP would criticize him for keeping it secret - AND for spending too much money on it.

leveymg

(36,418 posts)
15. Boffo. More factual than Fox News on any given Monday.
Mon Mar 19, 2012, 04:46 PM
Mar 2012

Right up there with (school of) Roy Lichenstein's masterpiece:



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