So Bill Gates and Michael Bloomberg are funding an “anti tobacco” campaign are they?

I have nothing to say about Bloomberg but Bill Gates? I nearly fell off my chair laughing when I heard the news.

Perhaps it’s guilt that is the motivation for the founder of Microsoft…..

How many of us have gone to our computers to install Bill’s latest offering at 6 in the evening to find that “Start Me Up”  is really code for “Keep me up” as installation problems have kept us up into the small hours of the morning?

How making times have we spent endless hours trying to get Windows something which is critically urgent and Microsoft claims (like be an operating system) it can do only to find that it either can’t; or it will only do after several hours and only if you are standing in one corner of the room with the opposite trouser leg rolled up and having already sacrificed the cat!

How many of us come away from our computers after many  frustrating hours only to realise that they are times in your life that you will never be able to get back and even if you have defeated the “Death Star” (known as Windows) the exhilaration of victory is beyond you because you are tired enough to be beyond caring?

Most of us have experienced this and then realised that they were clean shaven when they began and those divorce papers look so strange because you hadn’t even realised that your wife and children had left you a month ago.

At that moment; when you either have declared victory or sulked off into the night to hunt down an axe for your computer, your final glance back reveals the horror of your miserable  existence. The clean ashtray (which was the size of a bucket) has overflowed onto the desk and carpet and that new Marlboro carton is empty and screwed up, thrown across the room to lie forlornly atop the light shade.

And all this from a rabid chairman of an anti smoking help desk……….

In about 5 years a new form of lung cancer will be discovered….. Windows Cancer

No wonder Bill might feel guilty.

What next Bill? An anti alcohol campaign? Bill donates in 12 steps…..

Let me see…..

How many of ush…. (hic!)

T.T.F.N

I left home at the crack of dawn this morning to the news that one of America’s brewing organisations had been bought by a Belgium company.

I arrived home some 12 hours later to find CNN reporting that there has been some sort of outcry amongst the public with the Internet being awash with postings decrying the takeover.

My immediate thought was that some people need to take a deep breath and smell the reality of their lives. One of my earliest perceptions of the American people is that they love their freedom, it is other peoples freedoms that they seem to have a problem with. Dubya has apparently brought freedom to Iraq but were the Iraqi people free to choose their own idea of freedom? They weren’t even free to choose whether or not they wanted to be free. Everybody here espouses this as “The land of the Free” but if Iranians decide they are free to burn the American flag then Americans then the American people decide that they have too much freedom and America should declare war.

European companies are free to bid for American military contracts….. Just as long as they don’t have the audacity to actually win otherwise Congress has to get involved.

And so it is with Budweiser it seems. Sure; it is an “American Institution” just as Aston Martin was a “British Institution” when Ford bought them. It seems that America is free to buy any company in the world that it wants but the world is not free to buy American.

I can understand the pride of the American people in Budweiser but I can promise them that the Belgium version of “Joe Public” is even more horrified!

Europeans generally regard American beer as weak and little more than soda water (I personally have always liked it) and Inbev does brew more notable beers such as Beck’s and Stella Artois But will this be the end of it? I think not!

The mighty U.S. Dollar is now valued somewhere below a snakes belly compared to the other currencies of the world and across the world companies are looking at the United States like the American public looks at the Wal - Mart Thanksgiving sale.

Is this the end of truth justice and the American way…? No it is just business as it actually is in the rest of the world and America should wake up and smell the coffee before it get’s bought out as well. America will go on; just as Britain survived the sale of it’s car industry to the Germans (before they sold part of it to India) and America (before they tried to sell it because they are on their “uppers.” In the meantime’ if you see some funny looking gentlemen with bulging pockets and speaking in tongues then the rough translations are probably “Look at my wad” and “is that all????” Please remember that they are supposed to be free as well, even if you can’t get your head around the fact that American companies almost are to them.

T.T.F.N.