Dick Cheney’s Heart – ‘Logan’s Run’ 45 Years in the Making

William F. Nolan and George Clayton Johnson really were futurists. We didn’t want to believe their 1967 novel, Logan’s Run, about the annihilation of “old” people—anyone over 21—so by the time the 1976 movie came along, the studio had stretched the death-age to 30. Whoohoo. This week reality hit the fan …

“As Dick Cheney recovers from heart transplant surgery, questions are being raised about whether the former vice president is too old for a new heart.

            Cheney, 71, who received the new heart Saturday at a hospital in Falls Church, Va., has been on the cardiac transplant list for more than 20 months.

            Some medical centers will not perform a heart transplant on patient over 65, but other major centers will perform transplants on patients who are as old as 72. …”

The only difference between then and now is our death sentence reaches all the way to 65, and it isn’t a book or a movie—it’s reality. My sweet Grandma Connelly’s pink-cheeked face floated through my mind. She was 73 in 1976. Based on the movie, I wouldn’t have been born—wow—great population control.

Death Notice from the Motor Vehicle Department

Government stupidity is rampant, not only in your food …

@ 10:34a.m./PT - The first rant today was just an example regarding food. Want another stupid example? A friend has become nearly homeless (birds of a feather, ya know), and is still struggling just to pay bills—never mind maintaining any type of credit score—he long ago, gave that up.

He’s over 60, worked in an industry devastated by the recession (I maintain it’s a depression) until he lost his business and his home. This upstanding, law-abiding, hardworking man now has only Social Security to support him—applied for early not because he wanted to, but because he had to—certainly not enough, as we all know.

His vehicle registration is four months overdue—his poor ol’ gas-guzzler won’t pass emissions, it’ll cost a thousand dollars or so for repairs that might make it pass, and he’s being hounded by the motor vehicles department.

The shocker, however, is the threatening notice he received from the state-run facility. Do you know that “Law enforcement may seize and impound vehicles found on highways, public lands or offstreet [sic] parking facilities, with expiration dates in excess of six months”?*

Sweet Taxes and Government Stupidity

@ 10:11a.m./PT - Stupid people have ruined this country. “One way to do that (stop US obesity and bad health) is to put a tax on soda.”

Are you CR-A-ZY??! Yeah, that’s it, add a tax to people who are already taxed to death. Oh—that’s the plan! Tax them ‘til they don’t have enough money to eat at all?! THAT will solve the obesity problem!

The inane statement above was recently declared in a highly read Sunday news supplement by a very popular television morning show host—someone who many people watch and idolize—ready to act on her every utterance. These are the idiots we have for spokespeople. And it’s people like them who somehow create a convincing argument for their lunacy, all the way to Congress. No wonder …