Worse Than Drunken Sailors

Remember the movie Deep Impact? In the film, a comet has been detected traveling on a course that will cause it to impact the Earth in one year, destroying all surface life. The government decides to keep this knowledge secret to prevent mass panic and institutes a coverup. Enterprising TV newswoman Téa Leoni discovers that a massive government coverup is underway, but wrongly thinks the White House is hiding a high-level sex scandal; the White House for its part wrongly thinks that Leoni has found out about the comet. Soon thereafter she is detained by the Secret Service to prevent her from going with the story. Taken to the basement kitchen of the White House, Leoni is astonished to find herself in the presence of the President of the United States (played by Morgan Freeman). After sternly warning her to keep quiet about the affair in the interest of national security, the President sighs and says words to the effect of "We knew the media would catch on to us eventually due to the amount of money we've had to spend." A mystified Leoni discovers later that the money has been spent secretly building a giant nuclear-powered spacecraft that will be dispatched to attempt to deflect the comet.

I often wonder if the President and the others Up Top know something we don't. Not that a comet is coming, probably, but, gee, they really are spending an awful lot of money these days. I wonder what kind of "deep impact" they're expecting?

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