Bud Wise Errrrr

Okay, so Belgian mega-beverage company InBev is offering 46.3 Billion for Anheuser-Busch company. I'm flabbergasted, and have just one question: have the Belgians actually tasted Budweiser?! The well-known trope has it that American beer is like making love in a canoe (fucking close to water), and Budweiser is the iconic American beer. At my favorite bar, I was only slightly done in, probably by Black and Oranges, when I thought there was Bud coming out of the bathroom taps. Hey, it's an honest mistake! If those silly Belgians had tasted the stuff, they would have considered buying something drinkable, like Anchor or Guinness.

Anheuser-Busch seems to be trying to nip this in the Bud (hee!) by merging with Mexico's Grupo Modelo SAB. According to the AP article linked above, "Anheuser-Busch approached Carlos Fernandez, chief executive of Modelo and an Anheuser-Busch director, about a deal in recent weeks." Oh, great! So where you can't drink the water, you can at least get fucking close to it by drinking El Bud.

I did not know this: John McCain's wife, Cindy, according to the AP article above, "shares roughly $1 million worth of Anheuser-Busch stock with the McCain children. Cindy McCain's father founded...the third-largest Anheuser-Busch wholesaler in the United States." If the offer goes through, it might leave the Republican nominee wealthier from the trend of foreigners buying up a weakening America. I wonder if he has finished reading Greenspan's book yet?

Adam Cote's ill-fitting donkey suit

It's no secret that Adam Cote, one of the six Democratic candidates for Maine's open congressional seat, was once a Republican. Nor is it a secret that Republicans, aware that they won't win the seat any time soon, have changed their registration to "D" temporarily, in order to vote for him in the Primary tomorrow.
I think, however, that not enough Democrats know just how little he thinks of the party that he is nominally belongs to now. I just received campaign literature from the Pingree campaign that spells out his disdain for Democrats. In giant type, "While most Demodcrats spent from 2000 to 2006 trying to stop the Republicans, ADAM COTE was a Republican!"
There's more. "Adam Cote's priorities aren't the priorities of Maine Democrats...oppses raising Maine's minimum wage...dismisses discussion of single payer health care...endorsed by BI-PAC, a...Republican PAC...wants to continue funding the war in Iraq."
Maine Democrats, there are several better choices. Cote wants the Republican vote, and that's fine, but he doesn't need yours. We have Ethan Strimling, Chellie Pingree, and Steve Meister (another Veteran, and an actual Democrat), for starters. Check them out. Then Vote! That would be TOMORROW, June 10, in case you've missed how fast it came along...
Are you willing to gamble that Adam Cote will REMAIN a Democrat if elected? I'm not.