Mercury Banned by Euros

If there's anything worse than gummint, it's world gummint.

“ It is the stuff of legend, the key to alchemy and witchcraft, a deadly poison and yet also a potent medicine. We use it to weigh the air, generate reflections and also to measure our temperature. And now Brussels is banning it. Of course, not even the European Commission has the power to ban a chemical element, but what they have done is forbidden its use in traditionally made scientific instruments on health and safety and environmental grounds. Britain's traditional barometer makers now face closure, effectively bringing to an end more than 350 years of a unique craft. Mercury thermometers - every mother's godsend - are similarly under threat. [The magical properties of Mercury, the metal the EU wants to ban] ” Europe's gene pool is obviously damaged beyond recovery. Here's how I see the progression.  Addle brained Euros are overrun by the Islamic Horde, who promptly execute most of them.  The United States carpet nukes the entire region, including all of Arabia.  Too bad about all those old castles, and such, but we'll have pictures.