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Was trolling the Internet, searching for things on the new MSN search site and put in a search for good ol’ Gaylord,Mn. Somewhat suprised to see the city’s website at the top of the ranking, but hey that’s good for them.

The listing even had current news of new mayor, so I clicked through to the site. First thing to notice is new site design. The first and most humorous image you see is a folksy image of a couple guys out in a fishing boat. Hilarious! If anyone knows a little something of Gaylord, it’s a fact that fishing like that does not take place anywhere near here. Even more amusing is the fact that the town’s gem Lake Titloe is a joke, similar to a toxic cesspool, even though there seems to be some constructive talk about changing things.

I realize the folksy photos were probably stock with the setup, but it may be of better interest to include something that better fits the town. I also like the tagline ‘Community, Agriculture, Industry’. It reminds me of the SimCity line of games where your main concerns were the Commerical, Residental and Industry segments of your town. Ah yes, innovativation reigns supreme.

Had a issue today that got me thinking about Capitalism if you could call it that.

Since when is acceptable for someone to get something from you for nothing while maintaining that everything they have is intrinsically more valuable. Is that some awful kind of double standard or is just a inherent flaw of capitalism? Buy low, sell high? I’d beg to differ.

I’m sure most people you could find would give you a decent price on an object taken at random and well known to them. Almost everyone will tell you a small bottle of pop (not soda, mind you) is priced about a $1, give or take. It’s only when you get charged a $5 for same bottle or heaven forbid maybe just a nickel. I’m sure most people would have no issue with a nickel for a pop if it was lawfully sold that way. But at $5 a pop, it would seem a line would be crossed, albeit that it may viewed as sensible at a sporting event / middle of parched desert, but I think you see the point.

But how do you draw the line at something less common yet similar in pricing? I think when you barter or trade, the price is usually agreed upon between the two parties with both giving something in order to make the deal worthwhile and agreeable to all involved. Maybe it’s when one party assumes a value that is out of line with common value and the other fails to realize that they are being robbed blind.

Maybe it’s just things are ALWAYS costing more, but when is enough enough? I hate getting robbed for what I own, while the next guy can get away with highway robbery for same thing they own.

Why is it so easy for cell phone companys to always give you a new cell phone when you start up a plan with them, but so difficult to get rid of the old cell phone that’s put out of commision by newer and fancier technology?

You have a prefectly good cell phone that worked up to the minute you switched phones, but now begs to have something useful done with it. Sure you can donate or even sell it through some places online, but why can’t you just buy a cellular phone card and use it as an emergency or backup phone? That irks me.

Maybe it’s better to give it out to someone in a needy location but it’d be easier to keep it as a spare. It kinda worries you too that almost every family in America has one or two of these phones and it seems like they constantly need to be upgrading, posing a huge environmental burden on things as well. I just don’t get the reasoning of the industry.

I suppose it would be easy to just go into someplace like Midwest Wireless, but after all the shoddy personal customer service we’ve recieved from them, I could hardly see why they’d care. Stupidity reigns supreme.