The Morning Rant: Buck Shots [Friday 7/8/2022]

Is Europe Heading Toward a “Versailles 1789” Moment?

The farmer uprising in The Netherlands is starting to get some attention. It’s in response to their government’s “climate saving” requirement that livestock be eliminated and fertilizer use be slashed.

By going green and abandoning domestic petroleum production, Europe is also dealing with the reality that there will be blackouts this upcoming winter.

THE EU is on red alert as six nations brace for blackouts over the coming winter [Express – 6/28/2022]

The European elite, in obedience to their apocalyptic climate religion, have reached a point where they have decided that commoners will just have to live without food and electricity if that’s what is necessary to please their angry climate God.

Well then, how are the elite faring? They’re doing just fine.

Remember the World Economic Forum just a few weeks ago in Davos, attended by the most fervent believers in the Sustainable Organic Church of the Carbon Apocalypse? They might think you shouldn’t be allowed to eat hamburger, but THEY were not going to be denied some gourmet beef.

Steakhouse Ochsen, which is famous for bringing punters slabs of meat on a hot stone, said that they were still as busy as usual.

“They come for the steak,” the waitress remarked.

Did you hear that the EU has voted to ban the sale of gasoline powered cars by 2035? Do you know who this hurts? Commoners, who can’t afford electric vehicles.

But what about the super-rich? Don’t worry, the EU is looking out for their Davos buddies who still own yachts and fly private jets.

EU Carbon Pricing Plan Has Special Exemption For Yachts [The Blaze – 01/14/2022]

Corporate jets to escape EU’s ‘green’ aviation fuel tax [Irish Times – 7/13/2021]

Europe is rapidly approaching a “Versailles in 1789” moment. The modern equivalents to King Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette are patting themselves on the back for how they will save the planet by subjecting commoners to a cold, dark winter without food. They ought to start reading some history.

Yet Another reason to Revoke MLB’s Anti-Trust Exemption - Racism

A Major League Baseball umpire is accusing the league of manipulating its umpire grading metrics, with a deliberate and racist intent to discriminate against minority umpires.

I believe him.

Umpire Angel Hernandez alleges MLB manipulated reviews to make minorities look bad [The Athletic – 6/08/2022]

Angel Hernandez alleged in a legal filing with the Second Circuit Court of Appeals that Major League Baseball manipulated its internal umpiring metrics to disadvantage minorities, thereby excluding them from becoming crew chiefs.

Hernandez is a controversial umpire, at times known for missed calls and confrontations with players and managers.

There is no doubt that Angel Hernandez is a bad umpire. He’s probably the most well-known umpire in MLB, because of his difficulty in getting calls right.

But I don’t care. He has accused Major League Baseball of being racist and I believe him. Actions must be taken against the racist sports league.

Remember back in 2021 when - based only on emotion and not facts - MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred yanked the All-Star game from Atlanta and moved it to Denver, just because his left-wing media pals told him that Georgia’s new voting laws were racist.

Well guess what, Manfred and MLB are now accused of racism. And as a taxpayer I’m not going to countenance their racism.

Congress needs to revoke the anti-trust privileges of Major League Baseball.

MLB, unlike any other sports league, has a peculiar Congressional privilege – it has been granted exemption from anti-trust laws. Dating back about 100 years, MLB has been given the right to act as a monopoly, with the full blessing of the federal government.

I don’t know about you, but I would not be OK with the KKK receiving anti-trust exemption from Congress. Why then should we be OK with Rob Manfred’s racist sports league having an anti-trust exemption?

And just for fun, here is some video of Angel Hernandez at work.

Let’s head into the weekend with something that will give you Gen-X and older readers a smile.

(buck.throckmorton at protonmail dot com)

posted by Buck Throckmorton at 11:00 AM

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