Growing Older

I'm beginning to understand why growing older is so difficult, especially when one is growing older alone.  And I hate being alone.  Two things: not being able to express oneself in the same manner as one use to be able and the irrational deductive reasoning ability of the youth.  I use to wonder why someone might become isolationist as they grow older, these I believe are two of the main reasons.

It boggles the mind how anyone could come to the conclusion that Obama is any in manner a good president.  I'm guessing the basis of their augment has no foundation within the constitution.  In fact, my guess is that anyone who endears himself to Obama has never read the constitution.

I got into an argument with someone who I'd thought would be a conservative but he should sounded like a die-hard liberal by liberal theology he was espousing .  When you have to reach back to the old "there were no WMDs in Iraq" to justify any statements you are making 10 years later then your mind and your ideology is stuck in a quagmire so deep you'll never be able to think straight again.  Every government intelligence service in the world thought Iraq had WMDs.  Hind is always 20-20.  He tells me his father or someone related to him new Iraq didn't have WMDs.  Dang!  I knew we had the wrong people in the intelligence services.  There is always a Nostradamus around some where knowing more than anyone else knows and there is always others around to believe in this lone person more than all of the intelligence services in the known world.  And whether they were right or not is not the question, it is where does that person receive his knowledge to base his decision - from one person who happen to get it right "this time" or from multiple sources that more than not get it right.

And anyone with any intelligence knows given a years warning that "we are going to attack you" you can move packages from one place to another.  The only evidence I need of whether Iraq had WMDs or not is proven by what SH did to his own citizens - the Kurds.  I'm sure the chemical weapons that they were overwhelmed and killed with must have been in Iraq at one time or another.  So this guys arguments against this fact is to bring up the American colonists spreading small pox among the American Indians?  Hmmm, I'm thinking; "I never knew the Colonists had the technology to develop a Small Pox strain and disseminate it among the American Indians so many years ago."  Of course irrational deductive reasoning (an oxymoron if there ever was one) would never lead one to understand that a "naturally occurring disease" is completely different from one developed through man-made means.

Talking to the asinine youth who have no ability to reason rationally will drive me to isolationism.  If not for my own sanity, then so I don't keep abusing my children's friends.