Bud-Light Maybe To Be Sold?

 The Busch family who used to own Bud-Light....spoke up this week that they'd like to work up a deal to buy Bud-Light back.

How this would work?  Unknown. 

The original sale?  $52-billion.  Yeah, with a B.  That was in 2008. 

Value lost?  I would suggest that it's a minimum of $5-billion gone.  

The family cost here?  I would imagine that in present day sales and value....maybe they'd offer $35-billion....to see how AB InBev would react.  

But how to fix this?  If I were the Busch family....I'd arrange a 60-second commercial.

There would be some James Jones-like voice.....'Before woke, we were a kinder, more patient society, with a different sense of reality'.

Then I'd have Roseanne Barr, Jay Leno, Adam Sandler, Pat Sajack, Vanna White, and maybe five or six others.....sitting at a bar-b-q table.  

I'd ease into some Appalachian Mountain music...where your heart breaks...because storms come up and shook things up.  But if you got the right view...you stand up and shake off the problems.  

Five Questions That Linger In My Mind

 1.  Why aren't storm troopers on Star Wars always men?  You never see women or trans storm troopers.

2.  Every year, I have to go in to a military clinic to get a new yearly prescription deal.  Every single time.....they want to ask me about my 'feelings'....if I'd down-and-out, or hardcore depressed?  Then after that, they want to ask if I smoke.  Is this really necessary?  

3.  Is there any living person who really reads 'Rolling Stone' magazine?

4.  So you know anyone who utters 'dancing with glee'?

5.  If Disney flipped Cinderella into a lesbian, would it bother you if the Prince was really a Princess?

Do Numbers Matter

 This is a statistics story.  Most engineers would review it for 8 seconds and just quickly agree.

Non-engineers would argue for twelve minutes, that you can't count group 'A' and group 'B' in the same pool of numbers.

If there were a CNN panel?  They would consume an entire hour arguing about  this.  

My stance is....we need more engineers....than journalists or 'experts'.  

The General's Problem

 Everyday, I open up Twitter, and I browse on certain subject.  

Senator Tuberville, and the woeful no-general's appointment thing is typically like number 5 to 10 on my list.

You see....since March time-frame....when the Pentagon said it would fund abortion trips for members because of the Supreme Court stuff....Tuberville has said it's against the law in effect (for roughly 3 decades).....that says you can only fund via the Pentagon if the life is in danger, there's incest, or a rape involved.  Any other funding?  By law, you can issue funds.  But the Pentagon said 'no'....we got power.  

So Tuberville said he has power to slow-down and halt General appointments.  The Democrats could easily side-step Tuberville, but so far, they haven't desired this type of tactic.  They think the delay works to their advantage.

What I look at?

Literally tens of thousands of dimwits who really don't know much about generals or the situation, but they immediately side against Tuberville.

I've had some people try to suggest that the whole military structure is falling apart.  Some say readiness is now affected.  Some even want to suggest our enemies are watching.

Bullshit....of the 5-star variety.

Ships and subs are leaving on schedule for duty.

Fights, bombers, tankers and cargo planes launch on schedule.

Army privates go out to the range on schedule, or march for eight hours to stay in shape.

NCO clubs are still operating.

Commissary are open....I might suggest the prices are higher, but that's not a general's problem.

Toilets in the Pentagon seem to be flushing as designed.  

Women in need of abortions are getting their orders, and paid services via the Pentagon....with no break in time or funding.

Navy flyers are still seeing UAP/UFO action.

Nothing seems to have gone downhill since the stall on general appointments have occurred. 

So this is an imaginary issue?  Yeah.  It's like saying a new tank comes out of the factory with a lucky rabbits foot, and people seem to believe the bogus story.

Why Can't Hollywood or Disney Produce Anything Today 'Original'?

 This is one of those forty topics that revolve around my head each week.  

If you asked me about quality movies worth watching from the 2020 era to today....there's probably fewer than ten movies that I'd recommend.  The other 500 productions?  Marginally worth the effort, or a total failure.

So I have three observations here:

1.  I think most producers/studios want mega-hit 'wonders'....where you spent $150-million and made more than $500-million upon release.  So once you have that 'wonder'.....your mental side says....don't risk nothing, just make version II, III and IV.

2.  The studios want films that 15-to-25 year olds generally rank 'high' because they will attend.  In their mind, the script is marginally important......you just need the face.

3.  Inventing anything new?  Risk is involved.  No one wants to produce something like 1940's Philadelphia Story, or 1956's King and I, or 1959's North By Northwest.

Lot of crap?  That's the curious thing.  A lot of the younger generation of today haven't watched anything from prior 2000.  

A Stupidity Story

 In the early 2000s, I worked with a guy who had a older sister (late 30s) who had attended a legit community college in the 1980s, and gotten a associate's degree.

By the late 1980s....the sister wanted to progress on....without any added 'weight'.  So she found this college degree-'mill' where you could buy a bachelors or master's degree, without classes.

I'll just say that she was a resident of a west coast state at the time.

She purchased a bachelor's degree....pursued a step-up in management and was accepted for the improved position.

About three years into this....she buys the master's degree and starts to submit for high levels of management within the state system.  

A year or so later....she moved up to another level. 

I asked at this point in the story he was telling....didn't they investigate her or challenge the degree?  No was the response.  Either the state system was not smart enough, or she'd found the right people to influence.  

So I asked the next natural question....was she really qualified for the leadership level?  My associate was amused.  He responded....no one in the family really considered her that bright or gifted.  She had a overly nice house....an expensive car, and spent a week or two on some Caribbean Island every year.  She could show return on the investment, but measuring her on brightness was not possible.

We came to this odd subject....just how many people exist like this?  Either with a fake degree, or marginally employed in some profession that their education really doesn't fit.

My thought was that 10-percent of management/leadership position were occupied by this trend.  His thought was that it might be closer to one out of three managers being ill-fitted (either with a fake degree or a real degree) for the work required.

It's like bringing up the George Bush 'Junior' situation, and most people grinning to the idea that he was not that gifted or bright, but his name was Bush.  (Note, I see the same trend with Hunter Biden).

I often come back around to this discussion, and wonder where this guy's sister is today?  She's probably retired, and clearing $100,000 a year on some state pension deal.  I'm also guessing that as time went by....she recruited others like herself, and that there's probably a hundred faked-up managers within the state system.  

In a way, without any prevention going on....it's like a work-cult that developed.....where we have stupid managers and relying upon them for guiding us in life. 

Harris Quote

 "Electricity from wind and solar farms in the Arizona desert will be delivered to people MILLIONS of miles away."

-- VP Harris yesterday

I pondered over this. 

From San Diego to NY City, is 2,760 miles. So to reach millions (plural, assuming 2-million)....it'd be 750-odd trips between San Diego to NY City (one-way trips) to get electricity from 'X' to 'Y'.

Maybe in her mind, this was a 3rd-grade moment where you were shipping something 'contained' from point 'A' to point 'B'.

But then I considered...if you were in the powerline business.....a million miles of line would be something of amazement.  

Maybe Harris just starts each day like this....learning something new and preaching about it....as if you were as limited as she was....in terms of knowledge.