😆 thanks for the day brightener!
]]>It’s hard to imagine that Bud could get worse, but based on the reviews of what they make in Europe, it will get worse.
The Clydesdales will have a new purpose in the company.
]]>It seems another huge US company is going OS (one that should REALLY upset all true Amerikans!) 😉 LOL
Anheuser-Busch Cos. has approved a $52 billion takeover bid by InBev in a deal that will create the world’s largest beer maker and transfer ownership of the iconic American brewer to the Belgian-Brazilian giant.
The new company, to be called Anheuser-Busch InBev, would have had net sales of about $36.4 billion in 2007. Anheuser-Busch and Belgian-based InBev together operate 300 brands, including Anheuser’s Budweiser and Bud Light and InBev’s Stella Artois and Beck’s.
St. Louis will be the North American headquarters for the new company, which will be headed by InBev Chief Executive Carlos Brito.
The new board will include InBev’s 12 current directors plus Anheuser-Busch CEO August Busch IV and one other current or former Anheuser-Busch director, they said.
Anheuser-Busch accepts $52 billion InBev offer
I’m not surprised to see Anheuser-Busch take the deal considering the climate. If the deal were done 4 or 5 years ago, I suspect it would have cost a lot more than $52bill. I expect to see other companies doing the same thing.
As for my view on it… go for it! It’s not doing us any good in the ground. 😉 And China has all the money! SO long as the usually stupid politicians don’t give it away, as they have with just about all our resources in the past, take the money and build our country to where it should be, and was going BH (Before Howard)!
An American friend working at GD in the 80’s-90’s told me they discovered one flaw in the design of the M1 during the ’91 Gulf war. One of the roles for a main battle tank is as an advance guard of Infantry. He said that when an M1 sat in one spot too long in the desert, that sand became like molten glass! Makes it a bit difficult for Infantry (or anything else). Venting the hot exhaust upwards wasn’t a viable option. Might as well paint the tank iridescently red and paint a big bulls eye on it for the heat-seekers. 🙂
]]>For years major sections of Boeing aircraft were/are built in Italy.
US corporations have been training their competition for years, and the competition is now better able to do the job because they started out with newer plants and have been up-grading.
]]>Now that’s Thinking Big. That’s the sorta Thinking Big that built the current (decaying) American infrastructure and took America to the moon. Sadly, can-do America is can’t-do America nowdays. Can’t provide health care for all its people. Can’t solve the problem of homeless junkies shooting up in public restrooms. Can’t built a replacement for the Space Shuttle before the last Shuttle is junked. Can’t find Osama bin Laden. Can’t solve the problem of people’s jobs getting exported overseas. Can’t. Can’t. Can’t. It’s damned depressing, to tell you the truth, to live in a country that’s so obviously over the hill. About the only thing the United States can do nowdays is build military hardware, but even that capability is decaying… the United States, for example, could not build a new M1A2 tank today even if it wanted to. The industrial capacity isn’t there anymore. The gas turbine engine used in the M1 isn’t made anymore. The tooling for the rest of the tank was sold to Egypt. Etc. We’re living on stored Cold War gear, and that gear is going to run out sooner or later, and then what?
– Badtux the Depressed Penguin
]]>The Apollo years were truly the heyday. An era long gone.
]]>There may be an industrial base in the US in 20 years, but it will be owned by Asian companies “exploiting the cheap labor”.
If we had followed Carter’s advice on energy we would still have the largest economy in the world. but Republicans don’t want to sacrifice anything. They are, as a group, obsessed with clocks, and have no use for calendars.
]]>Twenty years from now, we’re going to look up at the moon, and watch it twinkle as the first Moon city shines in the dark. And erected over that city will be a red flag with a large gold star and four smaller gold stars. Prepare to say hello to your new Chinese overlords…
— Badtux the Chinese-ruled Penguin
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