Is nothing sacred? It’s the end of the world! When Belgians attempt to buy Budweiser you would think a beer brand name is more important than sex the way some people are objecting. On the plus side, it diverts some unwanted attention from my native county of Kern and the brouhaha here over homosexual so-called “marriage.” Legislators will pass laws, judges will make decisions, but society will eventually determine the outcome when the lunacy of it all comes crashing down upon us; the kind of lunacy that the potential loss of Budweiser, a name many believe to be synonymous with all that is good in America, arouses in the righteous.

The madness of it all leaves me often wondering who the real lunatics are. But we may as well face it; America is for sale and waving the bloody shirt over Budweiser isn’t going to prevent profits being the driving force behind refusing to secure our borders and selling off America a chunk at a time in the name of globalization. However, the fact that our sorry excuse for leadership has driven America into bankruptcy speaks of a much darker game afoot in my opinion, one in which America is becoming a pawn rather than the King or Queen of the game.

It is well for me that I no longer have any delusions about changing things of even minor moment, let alone such monolithic things like government. I am fortunate to be able to take the position of the elderly and detached observer, taking note of things that interest me without any expectation of changing anyone’s mind or having to make the tiresome effort of attempting to advance my own opinions and beliefs beyond a cursory note at one time or another here and there.

For example, it was during the time Caesar Bush and Company was claiming to be looking for Saddam’s WMD that I wrote about the old fellow looking for his lost truck keys. He knew they must have been somewhere in his house, but he was out in his yard searching for them because the light was better outside and his eyes were going bad. If you know anyone like this old fellow you also know you can’t win arguing with them. Obviously there is something wrong in their brain, and just as obviously they shouldn’t be driving. But you can’t reason with such people; they are much like the drunk that believes they are a better driver after hoisting a few before getting behind the wheel.

Our government reminds me of that old fellow and the drunk driver. Neither should be driving but there they are, and no amount of reasoning with those in government will change them. There is something wrong in their brain that causes them to believe they should be looking for the keys in the yard rather than the house, something that causes them to believe they are better drivers when they are drunk. Unhappily for America, there they are out on the road and all we can do is hope we don’t get in their way. How much better if the oldster after losing their mind and vision would just stop driving, and the drunks would just not get behind the wheel. But there is as little hope of that as there is of changing the ways of those in government. No one of noble character aspires to becoming a politician.

It may be that the darker game afoot is an actual conspiracy of evil dedicated to the destruction of America as a free and sovereign nation. The pieces on the larger board seem to be moving in that direction, but I’m as helpless to prevent this as I am trying to convince drunks not to drive. How many decades ago was it suggested that the way to fix our government was to clean out all the scoundrels and start anew. Decades ago it was claimed the only way to save our educational system was to abolish the schools of education on all university campuses and start afresh. But it takes a revolution to change such monolithic structures; whether it replaces the flawed institutions of a society with better or not.

But history takes some very strange turns, and who knows but what Budweiser may be held by some to actually be sacred to their system of American worship. Will the worshippers file suit in the name of their religion or threaten to leave America if things don’t go their way; and just where would such latter day Pilgrims find a welcome?