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Monday, February 11, 2008

ELE

posted by on February 11 at 9:45 AM

This cosmic event…
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…and this social event?
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They met exactly a decade ago, 1998, in this movie. Remember the president in that disaster flick? This is no joke. As the rap group The Coup learned on September 11, 2001, the traffic between reality and fiction is not one-way. It also moves from fiction to reality. Shamwari (my friend), if Obama is elected, daily do your best to keep one eye on the sky.


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1

Your posts are much better when you post risque pictures of Monica Bellucci.

Posted by bma | February 11, 2008 9:45 AM
2

That movie was so fucking boring. Elijah Wood makes me want to puke my fucking guts out.

Posted by Mr. Poe | February 11, 2008 9:45 AM
3

I'm sure some evangelical somewhere has made the argument that God will punish America if it elects a bi-racial child of miscegenation. Oh, and God sees that middle name, Barack, and He's not amused.

Posted by Ziggity | February 11, 2008 9:51 AM
4

@1: Risque? When?

Posted by Gloria | February 11, 2008 9:52 AM
5

All pictures of Monica Bellucci are risque. She'd look hot in a burqa.

Posted by Fnarf | February 11, 2008 10:02 AM
6

Thanks for the reference, Chuck. I loved that movie.

Posted by cubra | February 11, 2008 10:20 AM
7

Oh Brother Where Art thou =
Hurricane Katrina

??

Posted by brad | February 11, 2008 10:23 AM
8

The Day After Tomorrow was better.

Posted by kid icarus | February 11, 2008 10:28 AM
9

When I first got to NM I kept meeting real-live alien believers that kept telling me stories that basically added up to the old TV show "V".

I guess that isnt really the same thing, but close and funny.

Posted by catnextdoor | February 11, 2008 10:29 AM
10

My favorite scene in Deep Impact -- much better than Armageddon because I like Robert Duvall much more than Bruce Willis -- was when President Beck (Morgan Freeman) goes on national TV to announce that their plans to destroy the comet didn't work. After finishing his address, he gets the hell outta there!

Posted by Bub | February 11, 2008 10:29 AM
11

Morgan Freeman and Dennis Haysbert on "24" have done their part to sell America on the idea of an African American president, for sure.

@8, I call troll -- "Day After Tomorrow" is of course the second worst movie of this century so far, after "Lady in the Water"

Currently, there's no identified Near Earth Object in danger of hitting us during an Obama administration. 2036 is the year to watch, though even Apophis looks to be a long shot now.

Posted by NEO | February 11, 2008 10:57 AM
12

RE: The Dead Zone, the motion picture starring Christopher Walken. That movie came to mind when Bush was elected. I could just imagine him and The Penguin (sorry, Cheney)in a room ready to blow up the world and make history. Came close though.

Posted by Stella | February 11, 2008 12:06 PM
13

I know Mudede's post is meant to be a bit ridiculous, but isn't this sort of like the blogging equivalent of jumping the asteroid--er--shark?

Posted by MR. Language Person | February 11, 2008 12:08 PM
14

wait, so that meteor will be deflected by hillary's magical pants suit if/when she's elected? maybe her campaign should use that: vote for hillary, because if you vote for obama, we'll all die when that big giant meteor hits the earth. and then the terrorists will have really won.

Posted by kim | February 11, 2008 12:18 PM
15

@12,

I could totally see Bush using an infant to protect himself from an assassination.

Posted by keshmeshi | February 11, 2008 3:35 PM

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