So there..........

What you got to do is imagine that a shopping cart is a chest of drawers on wheels.......& everywhere you go, why you take all your belongings with you. Why, you’re as free as the wind. You’re not tied to a mortgage. You don’t spend your evenings in front of a teevee & you never have to slave over a hot stove. If you’re a guy, you don’t have to shave anymore. You don’t have drycleaning bills & you don’t have to wonder what you’re going to wear tomorrow. Nobody is going to hassle you about unpaid bills & income tax is no problem. It’s no wonder that reg’lar, hardworking folk envy your freedom. Why, they just ain’t got the guts to let ever’thing go & embrace life on the street.
At least, that’s what I was thinking after someone near & dear told me that homeless people were homeless thru choice. Yessir! Opt for the freedom of the road & forget your worries.
Prob’ly the same kind of reasoning makes our prisons so popular. They are so overcrowded that there must be a waiting list to get in. I s’pect that the inhabitants of our prisons are much happier than the rest of us. They have all their needs taken care of by the rest of us. All they must do is sleep & eat, play sports & watch television. They don’t even have to think for themselves. Talk about the good life.
Speaking of vacation spots, wonder how life without Fidel is going to be down there in Cuba, ‘cause I’m pretty sure Raul is gonna be a ‘hole ‘nother kind of ballplayer.
On the homefront however, the game is politics. But, it ain’t politics as usual. Will Roger said he wasn’t a member of an organized party, he was a Democrat. I was a Democrat for a long time. Well, heck, I was born into a Democrat family in a Democrat county in a Democrat state. I didn’t know until I was grown that my Mother was a closet Republican and I ain’t saying that I was ashamed of that fact but I didn’t broadcast it. I don’t quite know how I ended up being a Republican myself but I don’t brag about it. ‘Course, I wouldn’t brag about being a Democrat this year. It’s almost embarrassing just watching the Democrats. It ain’t really a war ‘tween Dems, it’s more of a ‘police action’.......like the thing in Korea where we’ve now had troops since 1949. That, of course, is in reference to the Dems yelling about McCains remark that we might have troops in Iraq for a hundred years. Well, we’ve had troops in the Phillipines for more than a hundred years. And as far as the American Indians are concerned, we’ve occupied ‘their’ country for over 400 years.
‘Course, it ain’t really ‘their’ country, is it? It’s our country & our includes them for they are us. Or we are them. I think it might’a been Pogo who said, “we have seen the enemy and he is us.” The one really great thing about the US of A, the thing that sets us apart from almost every other country that has ever been, the thing that makes us unique is that we are all, every one of us, Americans. Whether we are white or black or brown or red doesn’t make any real difference. Heck! We could be polka-dotted & still be Americans. Entitled to fight & squabble among ourselves, to spit in each other’s eyes, to quarrel & call names as much as we want. That, by God, is our constitutional right.
So there!..........Justin Other Smith