Wayne’s World foresight

Wayne Campbell and Garth Algar showed tremendous foresight as they described Bill Clinton, the president elect, during their cable access show in 1992.

The duo were running down a list of Top 10 reasons they like Clinton.

One the list was Clinton’s hometown of Hope, Arkansas.

“What if he was from Intercourse, Pennsylvania?” Wayne asked. “What would he give the country then?”

Who knew Wayne and Garth would be such apt fortune tellers.

To quote the Wayne’s World tag line, “You’ll laugh. You’ll cry. You’ll hurl.”

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First Tank: Movin’

Why does “smart politics” consist of Democrats moving to the center, and Republicans moving to the right?

Yeah, votes. But neither move demonstrates principle. I guess I shouldn’t have assumed that politicians had integrity.

John McCain, the once supposed maverick who worked both sides of the political aisle, has moved to the right on a slew of issues. Like a pimp in need of hoes. 

As Matt Taibbi points out in Rolling Stone, McCain has switched his opinion on two issues that once had his name on legislation with the other opinion. He has reversed course on immigration, Roe v. Wade, Bush’s tax cuts — and, in dizzying fashion, torture.

Meanwhile on the left …

Barack Obama now supports an “overhaul” to domestic spying legislation. (“Overhaul” is Republican code for another invasion of civil liberties.) Obama, who is often criticized for his most-liberal senator label, used to support a filibuster to the changes.

Now, Senator Russ Feingold, a seemingly true liberal, has to lead Obama’s ditched effort there.

Obama has tried to shield himself from the right’s tactics to associate him with Islam and – ostensibly — terrorism. At a recent event, his camp moved two Muslim women to try and shield the image of him speaking in front of them. And oops! He got busted. In additional reporting it was learned, he hasn’t campaigned in a mosque. I guess “hope” is only shared in churches and synagogues.

John Edwards had advice for Obama on how to beat McCain, ”By speaking from his heart — ’cause his heart’s in the right place — and not getting all tangled up in his head.”

TOOOOOOO late.

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Unquote” John Baker

“I wanna live a little before I die a lot.*”

* — patent pending.

Sota skies

I took these photos June 7 in Maple Grove.

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Sad truths

Lara Logan is difficult to look away from; she speaks truth about the Afghanistan and Iraq wars.

On The Daily Show this week, the CBS News Chief Foreign Correspondent talked about the U.S. public’s complacency with the wars. She said she doesn’t follow American media, but she should have made an exception with Wednesday’s New York Times.

The newspaper showed the realities of war in a story about at least 51 dead in a blast in Baghdad.

“Bystanders climbed onto rooftops 20 to 30 yards away to gather flesh strewn by the force of the blast. Iraqi policemen stacked bodies several feet high in a pickup truck, but some fell out of the truckbed when they drove away. Others rushed to the street to drape the bodies with sheets.

“At the hospital morgue, victims were placed in two rooms: one for bodies that were recognizable and could be examined by relatives, and one for charred and unidentifiable remains.

“Outside the morgue, one man was stopped by three others who asked him if he had seen one of their relatives. ‘I’m sure he’s all right,’ the man said. After the three men rushed off, the man revealed that he had seen the body of their relatives cut in half by the blast. ‘I couldn’t tell them the truth,’ he explained.”

I’ve subscribed to the the Times for nearly two years, and this is the most graphic story I’ve read there.

Logan talked about how more American soldiers died in Afghanistan than Iraq last month. That was surprising and proved that that war is the forgotten one — but not by much. Americans hide from the truth about war. Gas prices are more telling about ill-fated feelings.

I don’t want to quote news stories, but the Times’ piece was especially pertinent with the talk of the war supposedly dissipating. It’s simply ebbed; secretion segregation is the reason.

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First Tank: Duh!

Obesity – it’s an epidemic. I get it, but lets not make it something that it isn’t.

It’s about choice. Yesterday, I watched an overweight 20-something woman in the grocery-store line buy frozen pizza after frozen pizza, snack pack after snack pack and 12-pack of pop after 12-pack of pop. I don’t care how great Black Cherry Coke tastes, it foolish to buy that crap.

Class, certainly, plays a legitimate role in unhealthy lifestyles. I’ve seen the produce options in the neighborhood Ma and Pa Shop on 4th Street. It’s nothing I’d want to ingest.

Genetics, obviously, have their part, too. It’s my reasoning for my lack of a six pack.

After I saw the grocery bill, I felt like I had chocked on one of the grapes I had just bought for SIX! dollars. So maybe, she was felt wiser with the two-dollar pizzas.

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