Stalog

What Stalog shall you visit today? The Stalog that has a posted sign that says, "No loitering, no skateboarding, no buying of products sold by private merchants manufactured in Mexico a la NAFTA or soon to be Middle America, or Tiawan, or Korea, or any other country of "outsourcing" choice?" What shopping center is going to dictate its terms as you drive into the very bowels of its asphault meadows, mandating how you are doing to buy your products. "You must have your papers! You can not enter here without your papers! Call the Gestapo! He does not have the proper VIC or MVP card. Put him in the cooler!" Free trade? Stand in line for ten minutes, bite your tongue, search through endless racks of clothing, bargain for the most recent advertisement in the local newspaper? Shopping is so much fun! Listen to whatever droning music someone sees fit as the proper canvas for you to make informed purchases. Kenny G.?... I for one to want to listen to any stinking music when I shop . I can't concentrate on the prices, the nutritional information, observe and compare the different brands, hide from other shoppers, mutter under my breath about MVP and VIC cards. Well, the beauty of a free America is you can go wherever you want to shop. If a particular place is not tickling your fancy, you can get in your ride, spend $2.25 a gallon, and motor on over to the next place that will be exactly the same, sort of like the internet. Seems this website and that, both selling the same item, somehow look amazingly the same. Seems our store and yours have the same prices. Caramba! A brainstorm. How about a little kioske in Home Depot, Lowes, and the rest, with little maps of the store. Where to find the product you really need. Look on the map, which lists the products one each aisle, and walk calmly to your purchase. No needless wandering, chasing clerks, roaming the aisles for days and nights. Boom. A map, and here is your stuff. Don't take a genius to figure that one out. Could be the same in the grocery store. Walk in, a little shelf right next to the Apartment Finder and Real Estate Guide, and a guided tour of the store, before you even set foot inside. Be prepared! The Boy Scouts motto.
Is America really free? Are we really free? Does our president really care about us? Is someone looking out for the best interests of Mainstream America? Go Hillary, Go! While George is off on his pillage for foreign oil, Al Gore would be marketing the first hybrid gas/electric automobiles reducing our reliance on petroleum. The graven image of the automobile. "Don't rip up that light rail going to the beach! Who says we want an interstate instead of a trolley snaking along our waterfront? " Hmmm. Sound familiar? "We don't need no stinking cars!" Get up on that Lance thing and pedal to work tomorrow, and put your groceries in that big basket over the front wheel. "Auntie Emme!" Sure wish I could lose this Acid Reflux that didn't exist a decade ago, or neither did ADD, Sudden infant Death Syndrome, Panic/Anxiety Disorder, blah, blah. We the people can't seem to figure it all out. What is your drug of choice to make life tolerable in the good old US of A? Money.