This BUD's for EU

It is amazing how family squabbles can turn into international incidents. Granted, family squabbles in the past were much worse, with wars of succession, sometimes lasting a hundred years. Eleanor of Aquitaine’s progeny were particularly troublesome as were some of Queen Victoria’s bunch. Usually those who felt it worst were the peonic pawns who were dragged in as cannon fodder, or earlier, lance fodder.

Now we have the Busch family….not to be mistaken for the Bush family whose troubles are well known. I am talking specifically about Uncle Adolphus and his nephew August. And who will suffer most….the peonic pawns….the American beer drinker. Even as Uncle Adolphus and his Belgian cronies at InBev swallow up the Busch legacy, the de-Americanization of the brew has already begun. Clydesdale’s are being retired and, possibly, being sent to some Belgian glue factory while some European draft horse muscles its way in. That should cause a bit of a row at the next Pasadena Rose Parade! And what of the Bud name itself. Now that the Belgian’s have control, will they kill the brand in favor of the Czech Republic upstart…Budvar?

While we were looking towards Asia, the Europeans snuck in and stole our culture…our soul…and, shamefully, with the help of Benedict Adolphus Busch! It is truly the time of the St. Louis Blues!!

Trumping the Flag

It is a disgrace to see Donald Trump once again raising an oversized American flag over one of his properties for the express purpose of advertising. He did this in Florida and he is now doing this in California. I have no doubt that this is the same oversized American flag. I am sure he knows the local zoning ordinances of the areas in which he is purposely disobeying the law, all in the name of his self-importance and his pretense of being a patriot. He is not a patriot. He is a lawbreaker or... at the very least, an ordinance-breaker. It is clear from the sale of his property in Florida that the only purpose of this flag-waving is to get attention for his property and himself and to get a good price for his property. It is un-American... Well, maybe not so. Clearly Donald Trump is a patriot of the all-American dollar. With the weakness of the dollar brought about by the administration in the last seven years, what he probably should have done, instead of raising a large American flag, was to raise a large inflated dollar. Perhaps that would have gotten the point across better.

The American people should be OUTRAGED by the way the American flag has been appropriated for greedy personal reasons... certainly I am. As the American flag continues to be used by both leading politicians and leading businessmen for their own purposes... Americans remain silent!!!