Seventh Week of Extra Ordinary Time

 

Welcome all to the Seventh week of Extra Ordinary Time. 

Please open your Hymnal to page 3 and join in our processional  “O Lord Please Don’t Burn Us” Verse 1

O LORD, please don’t burn us,   Don’t grill or toast your flock,

Don’t put us on the barbecue,  Or simmer us in stock,

Don’t braise or bake or boil us,  Or stir fry us in a wok. 

“Who let the dogs out indeed?  Having adopted a new rescue dog I can proudly state that it was I that let the Dog out, thank you to our amazing Musical director for making that musical rendition come together. 

Please open The Holy Text volume 1 to episode 19 page 252 where the prophets say …

Interviewer	Mr L. F. Dibley's 'Finian's Rainbow'. And now over to me. (close-up of interviewer) Exclusively on the programme today we have the Foreign Secretary, who has just returned from the bitter fighting in the Gulf of Amman. He's going to tell us about canoeing.
	On the bank of a river seen from the other side. There is a canoe on the bank a man in a pinstripe suit stands beside it. SUPERIMPOSEN CAPTION: 'THE FOREIGN SECRETARY' He gives a little cough and gets in. Two Arabs run in from other side of frame, lift up the canoe and throw it and the Foreign Secretary into the water. Cut back to the interviewer.
Interviewer	That gives you just some idea of what's going on out there. Today saw the long-awaited publication of the Portman Committee's Report on Industrial Reorganization...

Open your hymnal to page 22 and join us in singing “Henry Kissinger?”  Verse 1

Henry Kissinger,  How I'm missing yer
You're the Doctor of my dreams,  With your crinkly hair and your glassy stare

And your machiavellian schemes,  I know they say that you are very vain
And short and fat and pushy but at least you're not insane,  Henry Kissinger

How I'm missing yer,  And wishing you were here

Now please open The Holy Text volume 2 to episode 42 page 280 where the prophets say … trivializing the war

General	Five shillings a dozen? That's ordinary cabbages, is it? And what about the bombs?... Good Lord, they are expensive.
	A corporal rushes in.
Corporal	Sir!
General	Yes, what is it?
Corporal	News from the Western Front, sir.
General	Yes ... ?
Corporal	Big enemy attack at dawn, sir ...
General	Yes ... ?
Corporal	Well, the enemy were all wearing little silver halos, sir ... and ... they had fairy wands with big stars on the end ... and ...
General	They what ... ?
Corporal	.. and ... they had spiders in matchboxes, sir.
General	(in disbelief) Good God! How did our chaps react?
Corporal	Well, they were jolly interested, sir. Some of them ... I think it was the 4th Armoured Brigade, sir, they ... well, they went and had a look at the spiders, sir.
General	Oh my God! All right, thank you, Shirley.
	A girl emerges from under the table. She is a blonde WAAF.
Corporal	Sir!
General	(to a sergeant) Get me the Prime Minister. (the sergeant opens the door, Churchill stands outside) Not that quickly! (the sergeant shuts the door) Gentlemen, it's now quite apparent that the enemy are not only fighting this war on the cheap, but they're also not taking it seriously.
Ageing General	Bastards ...

Homily  Well parishioners, it is always amazing to see incompetence make its own unique idiocy obvious and of course the Biden administration is truly above and beyond all others in the field of incompetence!  I though this week I would take a look at the amazing interplay of “goals” being pursued by the current “adults in the room” in the field of EV adoption. 

I will start with a “right wing conspiracy theory rag” called “The Washington Post”.  This obviously “Trumpite” waste of pulp recently ran a story quoting that after 2 years and 7.5 Billion dollars working on nationwide EV charging stations the “adults” have managed to create SEVEN charging stations – that is more than a billion dollars per station (https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-solutions/2024/03/28/ev-charging-stations-slow-rollout/)!  They have also managed to create 38 parking spots!  I am inclined to presume that the half billion dollars paid for the parking spots! 

While it eluded The Washington Post to figure out where all the money went, it turns out that their story prodded “The Wall Street Journal” to get to work and they managed to figure out at least one problem – too much bureaucracy (https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-politicized-ev-charger-revolution-b72b2930)!  Naturally, the “Dumbocan adults know” that using Union workers is the only way to get things done right, so all workers are dues paying union (overpaid) folks,  Additionally, D.E.I. concerns are forefront in the “Dumbocan adults” plans so the (in)appropriate “consultants” have been “employed” to make sure that all is done in accordance with Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. Guiding the process.  Because NOTHING screams D.E.I. like a 78,000$ electric vehicle!  Even the WSJ notes that the implementation is “faltering”, but at least faltering Diversely and Equitably! 

Meanwhile, a group of National Security leaders recently penned and signed a letter to the “Adults in the room” pointing out that in the rush to establish the Green EV “utopian future” said “adults” are allowing the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) a chance to cripple our infrastructure through their monopoly on the materials required for this “EVtopia” (https://mma.prnewswire.com/media/2321657/National_Security_Leader_Letter_to_President_Biden.pdf?p=pdf).  So put another way, the entire EV boondoggle is a race to oblivion because the “adults” are making bad choices at EVERY turn!  Glad to see the “adults” are in charge. 

Amen

Please join us in our recessional on page 3 of your hymnal “O Lord Please Don’t Burn Us” second verse. 

Oh Please don’t lightly poach us,  Or Baste us with hot fat,

Don’t fricassee or roast us,    Or boil us in a vat,

And please don’t stick thy servants, Lord,  In a Rotissomat.