Along the airport highway leading from Knoxville, Tennessee, south to the bedroom community of Maryville, there was for many decades a fixture known as Madame Renee’s Fortune Telling, looking just like thousands of similar fixtures across the land, right down to the gaudy neon sign and the painted palm. It had already been there for some time when I moved down there in 1968, and I was saddened to notice it has fled the coop sometime in the past year or so. So now I have to go it alone.
I was looking into my own crystal ball this afternoon, and I saw several items of interest. First of all, I saw myself voting for Rand Paul in 2016. It’s not unusual to have weird dreams at my age, sometimes chocolate induced, sometimes not, but usually they do not occur in the middle of the afternoon. My son has been telling me for years to support Rand's dad Ron Paul, and of late he has been muttering just under his breath when near me, “change we can believe in.”
I am highly amused by those who attribute socialist leaning to our current president, when he is lock, stock and barrel owned by Goldman Sachs. And my son is simply repeating the oft heard “the two political parties are exactly the same” meme, and that it doesn’t matter who we elect. I am not even certain "Supreme Court nominees!" is a strong enough rejoinder anymore.
My second peak into the ball foretold an interim government in Syria supervised by U.S. military personnel, after a massive military intervention in early 2014. Now, I don’t know if Rand Paul is an isolationist, and I am sure in 2016 any candidate after the Syria fiasco would claim to be an isolationist if it got them elected, but I know how to add, and eight years of “W” and eight years of Obama makes sixteen years of perpetual war, which is a great start toward insuring a bankrupt third world status for good old We’re-number-one-USA.
As Rachel would say, can anyone talk me down from this isolationist viewpoint? And by the way, after seeing no diaries relating to Syria on the front page, I would merely point out that the pressure is building for some sort of response to the chemical weapons attack in Damascus.