Showing posts with label HypocrisyInAction. Show all posts
Showing posts with label HypocrisyInAction. Show all posts

Tuesday, December 12, 2017

Dougie v Woody - Today


Today, Alabama voters go to the polls to choose between Dougie Jones (from Twin Peaks, but better...  since the Alabama Dougie Jones can complete full sentences, prosecuted hateful racists and segregations who bombed churches and schools in an effort to terrorize black Alabamians) and Woody (from Toy Story, only worse... since Woody would never try to seduce or molest a mall worker, a 16 year old, or a 14 year old girl; Woody never got banned from the Gadsden AL mall for hitting on high school girls in the food court).

When I look back at Bob Packwood, Gary Hart, and William Jefferson Clinton's inappropriate sexual misconduct and behavior while in office, it makes my mind spin and leaves me in disbelief that miscreants like Drumpf and Roy Moore can appeal to more than 10 or 20% of the voting population who think just like them, or who idolize them.  How can CINOs (Christians in name only) line up in support of Drumpf and Moore?  I understand how neanderthals who think just like Moore and Drumpf can align themselves, rally, and support such creepy adolescents who never learned how to be a civilized adult man in modern society.  I get that, I know - and have worked with people - who think a lot like Drumpf and Moore in many ways... I've met them, and I know they exist.  I know they are not a majority (though they are delusional enough to THINK they are the vast majority).

When I hear people on television refer to the "Great State of Alabama" I ask myself "how can a state's voters elect anyone who has a recidivist history of sexually preying upon teenage girls, calling them at high school while they're in trig class, approaching them at the mall, trying to make out with them and grope them in his car parked behind restaurants in Alabama, when he was More Than Twice As Old as they were?"  This was not 18 or 19 year olds with someone in their 20s.  This was 14 and 16 year olds with an adult man who was TWICE as old as the teens at the time.  District attorney, State Judge, then State Supreme Court Judge... twice, after he refused to up-hold the Constitution of Alabama and the Constitution of the United States, and had to be removed from office, twice.  In ANY OTHER State, Roy Moore would be toxic, polling no higher than 20% of the other troglodytes in the electorate who make the worst people in society feel better about themselves.

Steve Bannon - (approximation)

I used to live in South Carolina, for 16 years, and in South Carolina, Governor Mark Sanford was run out of office for Far Less. Roy Moore could not be elected to any office in South Carolina, despite what Steve Bannon might try to spin.

Monday, March 7, 2016

Trumping Hypocrisy

Jesse Drucker has an excellent piece in Bloomberg News this week, (link here) about how Donald Trump is using his son in law's company (Jared Kushner) to get cheap Chinese financing for buildings with Trump's name licensed on them, in exchange for getting not only quick and effective investor 2 year visas for the richest Chinese, who don't have to wait in line or earn it the hard way, as 98% of most immigrants, but also permanent residency for the investor and his family.  All it takes is $500,000 of investment in an American company, and if that investment creates jobs, then after 2 years, the rich Chinese investor gets to come and go into The United States as they please (can't come and go into and out of China as you please, as visas are required) and have permanent residency in the US.

While the program has been around for 25 years, in the last 5 to 6 years it has really taken off with Chinese investors who don't care about a return on investment, they just want the green card. 10,000 EV-5 visas given out last year by the US, with 85% of them to China.

"They’ve taken our jobs, they’ve taken our money, they’ve taken everything,"  Trump has said, calling it the "Greatest single theft".  Trump is raising money through a government program that many regulators see as "very troubled", and could be enabling dirty money from criminal ventures to enter the US economy.  Congress is worried that Chinese money laundering is happening with these rich investors, who have virtually no vetting... money talks.

Yeah, Donald Trump knows the Chinese.  He's been taking their money.  "Good at buziness."  Sure.

Sunday, February 28, 2016

Make America Great, Again?

Make America Great, Again?

I am trying to understand, I mean Really Understand, what is meant by the slogan “Make America Great, Again” used by the “billionaire” front runner, Donald Trump (“billionaire” is in quotes, because so far, Trump refuses to release his tax returns… so his claim of being a lavishly wealthy billionaire are unsubstantiated, just as his claims of giving proceeds of events to veterans groups have never been proven to be factual).

How is America not already the greatest, most prosperous, most upwardly mobile, most tolerant, most multi-cultural, wealthiest Western Democracy with the most freedom (of movement, of religion, of speech, etc) in the entire world?  How will Donald Trump (thrice divorced, thrice bankrupt, outsourcing both his brides and his Trump brand manufacturing to foreign countries, never held elected office ever in his life) make it “great again”?  I am struggling to understand the reasoning behind this nationalist slogan, and I cannot come up with a cogent argument in favor of it.

Some people would say that Trump wants to reform campaign financing, since he is self funded and not “beholden to special interests”, but that’s Bernie Sanders whose been saying that.  Trump just lambasts his Republican primary “opponents” as representing special interests, but he has not proposed any plan to roll back or repeal the Citizens United decision


In fact, Trump has been intentionally vague on any details about his plans, be it Citizens United, getting Mexico to finance his fantasy border wall, how he’d round up 12 million undocumented immigrants, or how he’d get the US Armed Forces to intentionally bomb civilians in Syria and Iraq in violation of the Geneva Convention.  


If an intelligent person can make a rational argument as to 
1) why America is not great now
and
2) how Donald Trump will make it “great again”
… I would be very happy to have a civil dialogue with that intelligent person, so I can understand better what I am missing about this jingoistic, vocal bully, who appears to be America’s version Jean-Marie & Marine Le Pen, combined.  


I am really not looking for trolls or rhetoric, or some profanity or obscenity filled emotional rant by a devout Trump supporter who is caught up in the moment, and who just likes Donald Trump because “he’s strong” or because “he doesn’t take crap from anyone.”  Those arguments don’t hold up for what qualifications are necessary to be POTUS, or to lead the strongest & wealthiest democracy on the planet.  I AM looking for a cohesive, intelligent, logic argument as to why Donald Trump would “Make America Great Again”. And, why is not still great, now?   It was great when my father came here in the 50s.  It was great when my great grand parents on my mother’s side came here before the Depression.  Why is it not great now, and how will Donald Trump & the policies and proposals he’s articulated make it “great again”?  

I promise to post any comments that are not profanity or obscenity laced, whether they make a cohesive argument or even if they just reinforce my point that there is no logical argument to be made and voters in primary states are coming out in droves because of an irrational emotional response, voting for a candidate who makes them feel good, but they can’t articulate why he makes them feel good.

I really hope someone can help me understand this.  I’ve been troubled with trying to wrap by head around the fervent embrace of Donald Trump by 100s of thousands of US voters for the last month… and cannot comprehend what they see in him, logically and rationally.

Thursday, February 4, 2016

Republican Hyperbolic Allergies to Islam

The Washington Post has a nice article today about how Republicans presidential candidates and primary voters are all in a tizzy about President Obama visiting a Mosque yesterday... yet 15 years ago, George W Bush did the same thing and there WAS NO OUTCRY.  (Link here)


The hypocrisy is so thick, it's ridiculous.  W can visit a mosque and no one denounces him, or says he's being divisive.  President Obama visits a Mosque and he's obviously a secret Muslim, or trying to divide Umerika, or stirring up religious divides??? No Rubio... you're incorrect, again.  Short-sighted, fear mongering, myopic fools.
Bush visits a Mosque in 2001... no Republican Outcry resulted.

Monday, June 2, 2014

John Oliver Explains Net Neutrality, Perfectly


Last Week, Tonight's host John Oliver is another person who is perfect for the job he is in.  He does an amazing job in HBO's Last Week Tonight each Sunday.  I laugh, I want to cry, it's funny, enraging & relevant all at the same time.

Last night he explained Net Neutrality, and how evil the Obama administration is for taking Comcast's top lobbyist (Tom Wheeler)  and installing him as the head of the FCC.  (Vice covered it here (link) as well, but I didn't see it on Vice last month, and Oliver made it MUCH funnier)

Hooray for John Oliver!

FCC.GOV/Comments...  come on internet trolls & haters.... there's just 118 days left for you to let the FCC know exactly how you feel.

Tuesday, June 25, 2013

Minorities Today, Gays Tomorrow

SCOTUS today struck down the key enforcement clause in the voting rights act.  John Roberts handed Reince Priebus exactly what Republican state legislatures have been working so hard to do: suppress the minority vote.  It's not a big surprise, since Roberts has wanted to do this since he was a lawyer int he Bush whitehouse.  Sad how the voting rights act was last renewed 98-2 in the Senate, and +400-30 in the House, but can be struck down because of 5 activist Republican "Justices".

Tomorrow, I would be VERY surprised if SCOTUS does not uphold DOMA, and rule against equal rights for gay couples.  While SCOTUS referenced an "antiquated map" in the voting rights case, there will probably be no mention of an antiquated paradigm.

Maybe the silver lining will be that these stupid states who keep voting against their own self interests, will begin to change their defective state legislatures and governors... but I doubt it.

Welcome back to the trends of the segregated 1950s....  =(

Saturday, February 16, 2013

United States of Drone Strikes

If you're not comfortable with being a country who reigns death from above onto not just jihadists planning on killing Americans, but on everyone else around them, , check out the Bureau for Investigative Journalism:

They've been keeping track of all the drone strikes the US has been doing around the world.  In 2013, we've gotten better, killing just 3 children (and a 153 terrorists).  I don't think any child should die from a drone strike - or killer robot in the sky strike - and probably most of the 153 terrorists who've been killed had 1 or 2 or more kids themselves, who will each grow up to try and avenge their fathers by strapping on a bomb, or trying to learn to fly a plane into a building, or blowing up a ship in the gulf of Adan, or driving a truck into an embassy laden with explosives, or something more heinous.  

I never was comfortable with W's targeted robot killings.  I am still not comfortable with the Obama administration's (the CIA's mostly) targeted killings.   If Venezuela, Iran or Cuba had these, and they were flying over the US or Canada or any of our allies, think we'd be pissed off about it?  Do you think we'd be "at war" with that country (not just the organization piloting the drone, but the who country who harboured them?).

I don't know what a good ratio of "terrorists : children" kills are.   I would think "zero" would be the best number.  Yes, there's not been a successful terrorist attack on the US since Obama took office - the underwear bomber blowing his own genitals off doesn't count.  But if it was President Palin, or President Romney, and they were blowing up Yemenis, Pakistani, Sudanese, Malian, Somalian, or any other country's citizen, even if those citizens were really really evil people who wanted to kill Americans but who had not done anything against America yet...  do you think the nation would be OK with it?

Monday, February 11, 2013

Menaced by Denis

I've been Menaced by Denis.  Lemme explain.  I needed to get my first Californian haircut.  It's been almost 3 months now, and I was getting a bit shaggy.  So I go to the place Dr Desert Flower gets her hairs cut, but it was Monday, and they had some kind of hair demonstration, CEU, training session going on, so everyone (about 20 women) ignored me as I stood by the front door and receptionist podium.

No problem, I had a Target run to do - Rainex for the cars' windshields, bike gloves to replace the ratty ones my son left, new socks to replace the holey-ed ones.  Went to Target, cruised a couple of strip malls looking for another possible hair salon - found 2 closed salons, one Vietnamese nail salon/hair combo place whose acetone vapors hit me before I got out of my Mazda, and one "one chair" salon that had just one stylist doing a color job, and 9 or 10 empty chairs.  No thanks.

So I head back to DDF's preferred salon, and the training class is STILL going on.  I stand at the door, ignored.  So I leave, and walk across the vast parking lot to Supercuts.  I don't normally go for the corporate express hair cut...  but I was getting frustrated.   I walk in, there's 5 or 6 people waiting.  "How long will it be?"  (there's 2 stylists working) "About 30 or 40 minutes" was the polite receptionist's reply.
"Can I make an appointment for later?"
"We don't take appointments more than 30 minutes in advance"
Ugh!
"That's okay, I'll come back another day".
In my car, I realize, it is 3 days before Valentine's Day, and likely everyone who wants a hair cut to impress their beau or belle is getting one...  so I drive home, and google "stylists" in my zip code.   A 20 stylist salon pops up, just a mile south.  I've biked past this place...  I know where it is.. and they'll take walk in's at 4:15.   Kewl.  I'm there.

I walk in... and I am introduced "This is Denis, he'll be your stylist".  Ok.   That's fine.   I haven't had a guy cut my hair since the Barber in Highland cut it when I was a teenager, 2 blocks from my parents' home.  But that's fine.   I show Denis print outs of options 1, 2, and 3, and ask if he can do "Option 1" (the Affleck).  "No problem" he reassures me.  And starts shampooing me.   Why do hair stylists try to talk to you when your head is in a bowl, and they are squirting water into your hair?

Dried off, I get in the chair.  Denis then precedes to tell me (non stop, without me able to get a word in edge-wise) all about
- his world travels
- his hatred of Chicago and fans of Chicago sports teams
- his love of the German language
- his hatred of the French, and how America is "the opposite of France"
- his love of curry and Indian food
- how much he loved visiting China
(I mentioned how Sheldon Addleson, Gingrich and Romney's financial backer, gets more than 1/2 his income from Macao casinos, as Denis waxed on and on about taking his mother to Macao and how much he loved it)
- how this has become a nation of takers who expect to be given everything "I've WORKED for my living!", Denis exclaimed "for anyone to expect their employer to Give Them Anything, ughhh!!!"

As Denis trimmed my side burns, he remarked how most people's ears are not the same height or shape.   I commented on how Colbert's ears are disproportionate, and he said 'I watched him for the first time last week, but I CAN'T STAND that Jon Stewart!"

I remarked how The Daily Show is an equal opportunity satirist show, lampooning BOTH Republican and Democrats, as they each warrant it... and he dismissed my comment summarily.  "if you're not a liberal when you're young, you don't have a heart, and if you're not conservative when you're older, you don't have a brain"  ... ok Denis, your tip is shrinking, exponentially now.

I asked him not to put product in my hair, and he slathered "bed Head" through my short blond and gray.   He then put The Rest of the bed head In His Own Hair...  ew!   I don't want his hair stuff in mine!   (or mine in his, cross pollinated!)

All the while, as Denis was cutting my hair, he would (about every 15 seconds) GRIP my head in his fingers, and RE-TILT it to the position of his choosing, forcefully.  He'd grip my hair, yank it tight, before shearing it.   Not really painfully...  but not pleasantly, and at the strangest angles.   Had I come in with any cervical vertebrae issues, he would have severely injured me.   I've never had any hair stylist ever do that to me before, ever.

When we were all done, he talcum powdered my neck with a horse hair brush, making me EXTREMELY itchy.  I waited until DDF came home to show her my Affleck cut, before I ran upstairs to go shower to get the talc and product out of my hair.  "So you don't want to go to Monday trivia tonight?" - No.   I just want to wash Denis's menacing out of my hair.

DDF does like the hair cut, as my buddy Ron recommended in the comments section...  so that's good.  But I won't be back to have Denis harangue me about the evils of liberals, his love of curry, or have his unlicensed chiropractic services applied to my upper spine.

Now...  off to dinner!  =)


Friday, January 4, 2013

Stone Brewery Loves To Brew Beer

Stone Brewery LOVES to brew beer.  Real beer.  Quality beer.  Not mass produced swill.  Craft beer.  Not industrialized, corporately mediocritized, least common denominator beers, like InBev, SABMiller, Molson-Coors, and Heineken.  These "big 4" control 95% of all world beer.  That's Ninety Five Percent of ALL World Beer.  The true Craft Beer producers make and sell just 5% of the beer in the world, but that 5% is the good stuff, the high quality stuff, the stuff that is not padding the wallets of corporate titans in mahogany paneled board rooms.  That 5% - Stone included - is being loving made by small companies that understand beer making, who are fiercely independent, and who are some of the nicest people on earth.  My beer drinking dollars will go towards supporting their efforts, going forward.

For a FULL list of the corporate lords who dominate the industry, see the bottom of this listing.  I bet you find one or more of what you THOUGHT were your favorite "craft beers" there.  Now, those former "craft beers" are being made in massive industrial processes, the profit from their sales siphoned off to make the 0.01% even richer, and the big four are driving forward their predatory acquisitions of the remaining 5% of the independents.
5 Amazing and Unique Ales from Stone Brewery












The Sublimely Self Righteous Ale had a hint of mint and parsley in it; it was interesting.  The "Perfect Crime" was very good.  The "Vertical Epic" (aka 12-12-12) was a bottle of Christmas, with clove, nutmeg, cinnamon, all spice, al combined.  The "Double Bastard" is one of the best beers I've ever tasted.  And the Smoked Porter was smooth and delicious.  Awesome, all around.  Highly recommended.

And at the Stone Brewery in Escondido, they have a large restaurant and bier garten, where they not only pour Stone products, but Huntington Beach Brewery, Rogue, and other craft brews as well!  They're not cut-throat assholes.  They're genuinely nice people, who want to make as many converts to craft beer as possible, and preserve their industry from the corporate behemoths who are trying to destroy them.  They'll talk to you about craft beer, sustainable agriculture, helping the homeless and food banks, being localvores, and even chat about bicycles.  They're very nice people.

For a list of beers that are now part of the 'big four borg' or assimilated corporate profit driven culture, the list below is provided for your reference, and as an obituary to the small craft beers they obliterated:

InBev in the US, aka: Budweiser, Michelob, Natural Light, Natural Ice, Bare Knuckle Stout, ZiegenBock, Ascent 54, Redbridge (gluten-free), Rolling Rock, Landshark LagerShock TopSkipjack Amber LagerWild Blue, Sun Dog, Beach Bum Blonde Ale, Jack's Pumpkin Spice Ale, Winter's Bourbon Cask Ale, O'Doul's, 180 Energy Drink, Stone Mill Pale Ale, Wild Hop Lager, Bacardi Silver, Tequiza, Tilt, Jekyll & Hyde, Bluecoat Vodka, Cape North, Hammer and Sickle Vodka, Ku Soju, Margarittaville Tequila, Purus Organic Wheat Vodka, Vermont Spirits, Hurricane Malt Liquor, King Cobra, Red Hook Brewing, Widmer Bros. Brewing, Goose Island Beer Co., Kona Brewing Co., Ray Hill American Pilsner, Starr Hill Brewing, Fordham Brewing, Dominion Brewing, Harbin Lager, Tiger Beer, Kirin, Bass Ale, Boddingtons, Beck's, Hoegaarden, Leffe, Stella Artois, Löwenbräu, Tennent's Ale, Budvar Czechvar) .... and if you want a comprehensive list of all of InBev's international brands (many of which you probably thought were still micro brews or true craft beers, but are now governed, distributed, and manufactured and controlled by 

InBev international:  Absolut Cut (Sweden), Alexander Keith's (Canada), Andes (Argentina), Antarctica (Brazil), Apatinska pivara (Serbia), Jelen pivo, Pils Light, Aqua Fratelli Vita (Brazil), AstikA (Bulgaria), Baisha (China), BagBier, Bass, Beck's, Belle-Vue, Bergenbier (Romania), Boddingtons (United Kingdom), Bohemia (Brazil), Borsodi Sör (Hungary), Boomerang (France), Borostyán (Hungary), Brahma (Global), Breda (The Channel Islands), Cafri (South Korea), Caracu (Brazil), Castlemaine, Chernigivske, Diebels (Germany), Diekirch (Luxembourg), Dimix (Germany), Dommelsch (Netherlands), Double Deer (China), E-Generation, Dutch Gold (Holland), Franziskaner Weissbier (Germany), Gilde Ratskeller (Germany), Guaraná Antarctica (Brazil), Guaraná Brahma (Brazil), GuoGuang (China), Haacke-Beck (Germany), Hasseröder (Germany), Hertog Jan (Netherlands), Primator, Oud Bruin, Grand Prestige, Tripel, Dubbel, Winterbier, Bockbier, Meibock, Hoegaarden (Belgium), Hougaerdse Das (Belgium), Jinlin (China), Jinlongquan (China), Julius (Belgium), Jupiler, KK (China), Kamenitza (Bulgaria), Klinskoye, Kokanee, La Bécasse, Labatt Family (Canada) Acquired in 1995, Lakeport (Canada), Leffe (Global), Liber (Brazil), Löwenbräu, Marathon (Brazil), Mousel (Luxembourg), Pivara Trebjesa (Montenegro), Nik Cool, Nik Gold, Nikšicko pivo, Nikšicko tamno, Noroc (Romania), OB (South Korea), Oranjeboom (Netherlands), Permskoye Gubernskoye (Russia), Piedboeuf (Belgium), Quilmes (Argentina), Red Shiliang (China), Rifey (Russia), Rogan (Ukraine), Safir (Belgium), Santai (China), Sedrin (China), Sibirskaya Korona (Siberian Crown)(Russia), Skol (Brazil), Spaten (Germany), St. Pauli Girl, Staropramen (Czech Republic), Stella Artois, Sukita (Brazil), Taller (Ukraine), Tennent's, Tinkov Russian Lager (Russia), Tolstiak (Russia), Vieux Temps (Belgium), Wolters (Germany), Whitbread, Yali (China), Yantar (Ukraine), Zagrebacka pivovara (Croatia), Božicno Pivo, Ožujsko, Tomislav, Zizhulin (China), Zhujiang (China)

SABMiller:
A
• Aguila
• Aguila Light
• Americana
• Arany Ászok
• Arequipeña
• Atlas
B
• Bahia
• Balboa
• Balimi
• Barrilito
• Barena
• Blue Sword
• Brava
• Brutal Fruits
C
• Carling Black Label
• Costeña
• Costeñita
• Castle Lager
• Castle Lite
• Castle Milk Stout
• Chairman's Extra Strong Beer (ESB)
• Chibuku Shake-Shake
• Ciucas
• Clausen
• Club
• Club Colombia
• Club Especial
• Club Pilsener
• Club Premium Lager
• Club Shandy
• Cristal
• Cusqueña
• Cusqueña Light
D
• Debowe Mocne (Oak Strong)
• Del Altiplano
• Dog In The Fog
• Dorada
• Dorada Especial
• Dorada - Peru
• Dorada Pilsen
• Dorada Sin (Low Alcohol)
• Dreher Classic
E
• Eagle Extra Lager
• Eagle Lage
F
• Frisco
• Fusion Banana - Botswana
• Fusion Banana - Zambia
• Fusion Ice - Botswana
• Fusion Ice - Zambia
• Fusion Pineapple - Botswana
• Fusion Pineapple - Zambia
• Fusion Tropical - Botswana
• Fusion Tropical - Zambia
G
• Gambrinus
• Gambrinus Dia with lower sugar content
• Gambrinus Premium
• Golden Light
• Golden Pilsener
• Gran Riserva
• Green Leaves
• Grolsch
H
• Hansa Marzen Gold
• Haywards 5000
• Henry Weinhard's Amber Light
• Henry Weinhard's Blue Boar Pale Ale
• Henry Weinhard's Hefeweizen
• Henry Weinhard's Northwest Trail
• Henry Weinhard's Private Reserve
• Hansa Pilsener
• Huadan Dry Beer
• Huadan Yale
I
• Icehouse
• Imperial
K
• Kilimanjaro
• Knock Out
• Kobányai Sör
• Ksiazece Tyskie
L
• Largo
• Lauretina Clara
• Lauretina Preta
• LECH Free
• LECH Lite
• LECH Mocny
• LECH Pils
• LECH Premium
• Legenda
• Leinenkugel's Amber Light
• Leinenkugel's Berry Weiss
• Leinenkugel's Big Butt Doppelbock
• Leinenkugel's Creamy Dark Lager
• Leinenkugel's Honey Weiss
• Leinenkugel's Light
• Leinenkugel's Northwoods Lager
• Leinenkugel's Oktoberfest
• Leinenkugel's Original
• Leinenkugel's Red Lager
• Lion Lager
• Lowen
M
• Malta Arequipeña
• Malta Cusqueña
• Malta Polar
• Maluti Premium Lager
• Manica
• Mickey's Malt Liquor
• Miller Chill
• Miller Genuine Draft
• Miller Genuine Draft Light
• Miller High Life
• Miller Lite
• Milwaukee's Best
• Milwaukee's Best Ice
• Milwaukee's Best Light
• Mosi Lager
• Moya Kaluga
N
• Nastro Azzurro
• N'gola
• Nile Special Lager
• New Three Star
O
• Olde English 800 Malt Liquor
P
• Peroni
• Peroni Nastro Azzurro - International
• Pilsen
• Pilsen Callao
• Pilsen Trujillo
• Pilsener
• Pilsener - Ecuador
• Pilsener - El Salvador
• Pilsener Light
• Pilsner Urquell
• Poker
• Port Royal
R
• Radegast Birell
• Radegast Original
• Radegast Premium
• Raffo
• Raiz
• Redd's Apple
• Redd’s Dry
• Redd’s Premium Cold
• Redd's Sun
• Regia Extra
• Rhino Lager
• Royal Challenge Premium Lager
S
• Safari
• Salva Vida
• San Juan
• Saris Light
• Saris Dark
• Saris Premium
• Sarita
• Shengquan
• Shenyang
• Singo
• Sip
• Smadny mnich Light
• Snow beer 11°P
• St. Louis
• Stejar
• Sterling Light Lager
• Stone Strong Lager
• Suprema
T
• Tianjin
• Timisoreana
• Topvar
• Tusker
• Tri Bogatyrya Bochkovoye
• Tri Bogatyrya Svetloye
• Tropical Pils
• Tropical Premium
• Tyskie Gronie
U
• Ursus Premium
V
• Velkopopovický Kozel
• Velkopopovický Kozel Cerny
• Velkopopovický Kozel Premium
• Velkopopovický Kozel Svetly
• Vitamalt
W
• Whisky Black
• Wührer
X
• X-Cape
Y
• Yingshi
Z
• Zero
• Zolotaya Bochka Klassicheskoye (Golden Barrel Classic)
• Zolotaya Bochka Svetloye (Golden Barrel Light)
• Zolotaya Bochka Vyderzhannoye (Golden Barrel Aged)
• Zubr (Bison)
2
• 2M

Molson Coors owns:
Coors "Banquet Beer", also known as "Coors Original"
• Coors Light
• Killian's Irish Red
• Blue Moon
• Keystone
• Zima
• Winterfest (Seasonal)
• Wildwood Westlake lager
• Coors NA (Coors Non-Alcoholic)

Outside of the U.S.:
• Allbright
• Arc
• Breaker
• Caffrey’s Irish Ale
• Carling
• Hancock’s
• Lamot
• Mitchells & Butlers
• Stones Bitter
• Toby
• Worthington

Molson beers
• Molson 
• Black Ice
• Carling Black Label
• Old Style Pilsner
• Rickard's 
• Laurentide (Ale only available in Québec)
• Black Horse (only available in Newfoundland)
• India Beer (only available in Newfoundland)
• O'Keefe's Extra Old Stock (only available in Newfoundland)
• Dominion Ale (only available in Newfoundland)
• Old Vienna


And Heineken owns:
  • 1 Heineken brands
    • 1.1 Heineken
    • 1.2 Buckler
  • 2 Subsidiaries' brands
    • 2.1 Europe
      • 2.1.1 Heineken Italy
        • 2.1.1.1 Birra Dreher
        • 2.1.1.2 Birra Ichnusa
        • 2.1.1.3 Birra Moretti
      • 2.1.2 Affligem Brewery
      • 2.1.3 Athenian Brewery in Greece
      • 2.1.4 Amstel Brewery
      • 2.1.5 Beamish & Crawford
      • 2.1.6 Bochkarev Brewery
      • 2.1.7 Bralima Brewery
      • 2.1.8 Brand Brewery
      • 2.1.9 Caledonian Brewery
      • 2.1.10 Cruzcampo Brewery
      • 2.1.11 De Ridder Brewery
      • 2.1.12 Fürstenberg Brewery
      • 2.1.13 Krusovice Brewery
      • 2.1.14 Murphy's Brewery
      • 2.1.15 Pelforth Brewery
      • 2.1.16 Skopje Brewery
      • 2.1.17 Starobrno Brewery
      • 2.1.18 Zagorka Brewery
      • 2.1.19 Zlatý Bažant Brewery
      • 2.1.20 Żywiec Brewery
    • 2.2 Africa and the Middle East
      • 2.2.1 Almaza Brewery
      • 2.2.2 Al Ahram Brewery
      • 2.2.3 Nigerian Breweries
      • 2.2.4 Sedibeng Brewery
  • 3 In partnership with Fraser & Neave
    • 3.1 Asia Pacific Breweries
    • 3.2 DB Breweries
      • 3.2.1 Tui Brewery
      • 3.2.2 Monteith's




Tuesday, August 28, 2012

Jindal's Hypocrisy Continues To Amaze!

Bobby Jindal's Hypocrisy Continues To Amaze!  CBS news (along with many other outlets) reports (link here) that Republican Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal has said that Federal funding for Hurricane Isaac's land fall are not enough, and his state needs more reimbursement.  Seriously?  What ever happened to Republican small government?  To conservative self sufficiency?  Where's Louisiana's boot straps? 

How does Bobby Jindal have the gall to ask for more federal funding while his entire party wants to SHRINK government, lower taxes, defund all programs that are not corporate welfare for the richest donors?  The hypocrisy is deafening, and it gives me a severe case of cognitive dissonance.

Tuesday, July 3, 2012

Just When Did Romney Leave Bain?

It was right after Bain signed that Stericycle deal at the end of 1999. The one where the company hauled medical waste that included aborted fetuses (link here).  Wonderful conservative family values waste hauling, but hey, there's a ton of profit in it.  And Mitt's always been about putting profits before personal values.

Thanks to David Corn for this excellent reporting.  Ahhh, and efficient government bureaucracy, the Signed Documents filed within them, and a savvy reporter who knows the right places top go digging for them!

Wednesday, February 22, 2012

Republican Deregulations

I forgot the "deregulation" mantra, that will be repeatedly chanted tonight in Mesa.

Saturday, February 11, 2012

Pro-Life Conservatives

I do miss having George Carlin around.  His observations were remarkable in their clarity and acerbic poignancy. 

Saturday, January 21, 2012

To "gingrich"

Urban Dictionary already has 4 accurate definitions of "gingrich", but this week brings a 5th aspect into the public's view.  The Daily Show clip below sums it up nicely:
"Every night he'd call me from his hotel room, and end the call with 'I love you' and Calista was there with him, hearing him say that to me."
It's sort of a fundamentalist Mormon 'family value' I guess, as well as in concordance with Old Testament Hebrew, Koranic Muslim, and feudal reign
"But you want me all to yourself, and Calista doesn't care."

So I propose the following 5th & 6th definitions: 
5) Gin-grich  \'gin-(,)grich, -(,)rich\   verb, transitive
To try and persuade one's wife that the polygamous sexual exploits in which one is already deeply involved and practicing are justified and logical, based upon the hubris filled douche bag hypocrite's myopic view point of the universe, disregarding any previous marital infidelities, spousal chronic disease diagnosis, or Presidential Special Prosecutions on-going.

6) Gin-grich  \'gin-(,)grich, -(,)rich\   verb, transitive
To cause one to vomit in one's own mouth