So far so good with Barry. He appears to have the gravitas sadly missing from the role these past eight years. He seems a big man, but I fear he's got an even bigger job ahead of him. Whether he can unite the American people and get them all pulling in the same direction is questionable: there may be worse ahead than just our petty internecine squabbles about p'litics or the God/NotGod question.
You remember that rock that is going to miss us in twenty years time or so....well it is going to miss then....but depending on the degree of perturbation or whatever it may be a lot closer on the next pass, which is some short-ish time later (a couple of decades if I recall rightly).
This aside from '4 years to save the world' as we know it.
In their latter years the educated skeptical few watched the superstitious masses in their orgy of willful ignorance and feared for their children and their children's children. But such is the end of all civilisations. 'Not with a bang, but a whimper' as the poet said. Or not in this case, perhaps. Hey-ho there you go, there's always something worse just around the corner.
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Date: 2009-01-24 11:04 am (UTC)You remember that rock that is going to miss us in twenty years time or so....well it is going to miss then....but depending on the degree of perturbation or whatever it may be a lot closer on the next pass, which is some short-ish time later (a couple of decades if I recall rightly).
This aside from '4 years to save the world' as we know it.
In their latter years the educated skeptical few watched the superstitious masses in their orgy of willful ignorance and feared for their children and their children's children. But such is the end of all civilisations. 'Not with a bang, but a whimper' as the poet said. Or not in this case, perhaps. Hey-ho there you go, there's always something worse just around the corner.
'We're doomed' said John Laurie.