Dodgers Win World Series, But...

Above, the last Dodger game I attended was on September 1, 2015. Photo by Armand Vaquer.

While I am glad that the Los Angeles Dodgers won the 2024 World Series in Yankee Stadium last night, I can't get past the fact that I am done with them and Major League Baseball in general. I did not watch any of the games.

The reasons were their support for the Black Lives Matter Marxist group. I stated my outrage here. That was later reinforced when Major League Baseball pulled the All-Star Game from Atlanta in 2020. I wrote about that here.

Then, the Dodgers did something even more stupid last year:

From Newsweek:

But inclusion for some has come to mean exclusion for others. As part of their Pride Night celebrations, the Dodgers invited, then uninvited, then reinvited the "Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence," a self-described "Order of queer and trans nuns" who "use humor and irreverent wit to expose the forces of bigotry."

Their target is frequently the Catholic Church. The group's roster includes such faux-religious ribaldry as Sister Risqué of the Sissytine Chapel, Father Fellatio, Sister Missionary Position, and other less printable mockery of traditional Catholic figures and beliefs. Their motto: "Go forth and sin some more!"

The Dodgers saw fit to bestow the team's Community Hero Award on the group, despite a fairly pedestrian record of actual impact; per their documents filed with the IRS, the group offers modest grants, between $50,000 and $60,000 to community groups each year. Backlash ensued, but after an initial backtrack, the team reinvited the "Sisters."

The news came as a betrayal to many longtime Dodger fans, who remembered devout Catholic Vin Scully melodically commentating games for 67 seasons, the "Nuns Days" that used to fill Chavez Ravine with (real) wimples and habits, and the Catholic Bronze Star recipient Gil Hodges playing at first base. The Dodgers seemed content to throw that history away, to the dismay of Catholics like Bishop Robert Barron, until recently an auxiliary bishop in the Archdiocese of Los Angeles, who called for a boycott of the team.

Since I was already done with the Dodgers and Major League Baseball, I didn't bother to comment on that.  

I will always treasure being a Dodger fan while the team was owned by Walter and Peter O'Malley. But, I am no longer a fan under the current ownership. 

Newsom's Marxist Electric Bills

The Looney Left Report

If there is ever a reason to be grateful for moving out of Commiefornia, this one gets the grand prize!

Last year, the one-party state passed legislation making people's electric bills based on income rather than actual usage. Sounds like something out of a socialist/communist country, doesn't it?

A post in The Federalist blog today caught my attention. So I did some searching. It didn't take long.

According to the Washington Free Beacon:

California governor Gavin Newsom is standing by the state’s soon-to-be-implemented "equitable" policy to base electricity bills on income, rather than usage, even as public and political opposition to the idea builds in the Democratic coalition.

A spokesman for the governor said on Tuesday that Newsom is looking forward to seeing a final proposal from the state's utilities commission "that is consistent with" the 2022 law that required the agency to devise an income-based billing system.

"California must combat climate change by rapidly expanding the use of clean electricity in our vehicles and buildings, while at the same time making it more affordable for low-income Californians," the spokesman said in a statement.

Newsom’s commitment to California’s income-based electricity billing plan followed a press conference by a group of Democratic lawmakers who want to reverse the policy, after they voted in its favor as part of a 2022 budget bill. Citing public outcry, they condemned the plan as another price hike for Californians’ astronomical energy bills that would punish conservation-minded households while also subjecting everyone to invasive income checks. 

See? This is what you get when a Marxist political party has total control of the state's government. They are using the excuse of "climate change" (which is total bullplop) as an excuse to impose this Marxist act.

To read more, go here. 

Biden's Marxist Banking Nominee

Above, Saule Omarova facing senate questioning. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs photo.

Where the hell does Biden find these people?

His nominee for Comptroller of the Currency is a full-blown Marxist who wants to end banking as we know it and have all deposits by citizens controlled by the federal government.

It is obvious that the Democrat Party is infested with communists. Jack Kennedy would never recognize his party if he came back today.

From Fox News:

President Biden's nominee to run the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) may face trouble making it out of the Senate Banking Committee as Republicans target her nomination as the next potential Biden pick to block. 

That nominee is Saule Omarova, a Cornell Law School professor who has a history in private law practice and who worked in the Treasury Department under former President George W. Bush. She also has a history writing about Marxism, calling the banking industry she would regulate in her potential new job the "quintessential a------ industry," and calling for an end to banking "as we know it," by "the complete migration of demand deposit accounts to the Federal Reserve." 

Demand deposit accounts are the standard checking and savings accounts most Americans have with private banks. 

"It’s not every day that we’re presented with a nomination for a Lenin scholarship recipient who attended the Moscow State University and wants to end banking as we know it in the United States," Sen. John Thune, R-S.D., told Fox News Monday. "If her nomination advances out of the Banking Committee, it will be an easy ‘no’ vote from me. And as we’ve seen with other flawed nominations from the Biden administration, I think hers would face a similarly uphill battle in the Senate."

To read more, go here. 

Rumble posted:

Rumble — Senator Tim Scott (R-SC) to Biden's Comptroller of the Currency nominee: "I don't have any questions for you because there's nothing you can say today to undo what you've said for years, including this year."

Check out this video, it is quite telling:

 

Second Amendment: More Important Now Than Ever

Above, yours truly at home in New Mexico.

After the highly questionable election results of last year (and that's putting it mildly), the left-wing Democrats have been hell-bent on chipping away our Second Amendment rights through legislation in congress and in various state legislatures.

Fortunately, gun rights people have been fighting back.

The American Thinker has a new article on why the Second Amendment is more important now than ever.

They begin it with:

The tyrants are in charge, and they want your guns.

While the left has denied it for decades, anyone who pays attention knows that the ill-named "progressives" want to totally eliminate the Second Amendment.  Period.  The so-called "red flag" laws popping up around the country, as well as the gun-hating zealot nominated by Biden to head the ATF, are just two examples of Marxism's accelerated drive to disarm law-abiding citizens.  It won't be long before the Democrats attempt to push through a gun registration law, always the final step before total confiscation.

We can't allow this to happen.  We can hope that Republicans in Congress, aided by a handful of rational Democrats (assuming there are any left), will make a stand...but don't hold your breath.

To read more, go here. 

Done With Major League Baseball For Good!

Above, an autographed baseball signed by Nolan Ryan. Photo by Armand Vaquer.

The 1994–95 Major League Baseball strike virtually killed my interest in major league baseball for about 20 years.

Six years ago, my interest in MLB (specifically, the Los Angeles Dodgers) started coming back. But that has proven to be short-lived.

Last year, MLB decided to back the Black Lives Matter movement. Many of us are aware that the BLM is a Marxist organization from their own statements and websites. Politics has no business being injected into professional sports and I decided that this was enough for me to say "sayonara". At the time, I was unsure if this were temporary or permanent.

But I'm sure now.

Georgia passed their voting law, which calls for voter identification, Major League Baseball, under pressure of His Fraudulency Joe Biden and leftist Democrats, moved the All-Star Game from Atlanta. The funny thing is, much of what the left is complaining about is not even in the new law. (To read the law's full text, go here.)

It appears that Major League Baseball, Coca-Cola and other corporations are siding with those who would engage in voter and election fraud over those who support voting integrity. 

Well, the hell with all of them. I am now permanently done with Major League Baseball. The only professional sport I will support from here on is rodeo. At least rodeos are still patriotic.

Pearl Milling Company, Aunt Jemima's New Name, Gets Battered

Above, the new brand name replacing Aunt Jemima.

Of all the stupid things to come out of the Marxist-driven Black Lives Matter frenzy last year, it is renaming iconic product symbols that takes the cake (pun intended).

The name change for the Aunt Jemima brand is getting slammed. Deservedly so!

The New York Post reported:

Aunt Jemima’s new name, Pearl Milling Company, is getting battered online for sounding like an unappetizing “gravel mining company” or “a James Bond villain.”

The unsavory reviews are pouring in from Twitter, with some breakfast buffs threatening to switch to Pearl Milling’s competitors, Mrs. Butterworth’s or Log Cabin, over the revamp.

“I think it sounds like a gravel mining company,” lawyer Michelle Rozovics wrote.

Another said Pearl Milling Company sounded like “something owned by a James Bond Villain.”

Meanwhile, one critic noted, “Pearl Milling Company? Sounds like a generic house brand for Dollar General.”

Some even vowed to boycott the brand altogether.

 

Above, probably my last box of Aunt Jemima pancake mix. Photo by Armand Vaquer.

That includes me. I have a box of Aunt Jemima pancake mix in my kitchen cupboard. Once that's gone, unless the company comes to its senses, no Pearl Milling Company pancake mix will grace my kitchen. 

The family of Aunt Jemima is steadfastly opposed to the name change.

Hopefully, the name change will go into the "ash heap of history" like new Coke. Aunt Jemima/Pearl Milling Company brands are owned by PepsiCo.

To read more, go here.

L.A. Dodgers Win The 2020 World Series

Above, the last home game I attended in 2015. Photo by Armand Vaquer.

Finally, since 1988, the Los Angeles Dodgers won a World Series.

Until they decided to join in the misguided stunt of having "BLM" on their field at Dodger Stadium when the season started, "BLM" jerseys and giving money to "BLM" organizations, I have been almost a lifelong fan. Many, along with me, have shunned professional sports over politics (Black Lives Matter are Marxist organizations). 

Because of that, I did not follow the World Series this year. Back in the late-1970s to the early-1990s, I spent a lot of time (and cash) at Dodger Stadium.

I have no idea if, or ever, I will ever become a fan again.