Week Sixteen of Extra Ordinary Time

 

Welcome all to the Sixteenth 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. 

Thank you, it is good to hear you are in such high spirits, the prophets approve of your “outlook” on life despite our government’s incompetence. 

 

 Please open The Holy Text volume 1 to episode 23 page 317 where the prophets say …

Praline	Excuse me, I would like to buy a fish license, please. (the man behind the counter points to next grille; to camera) The man's sign must be wrong. I have in the past noticed a marked discrepancy between these post office signs and the activities carried on beneath. But soft, let us see how Dame Fortune smiles upon my next postal adventure! (he goes to next grille) Hello, I would like to buy a fish licence, please.
Man	A what?
Praline	A license for my pet fish, Eric.
Man	How did you know my name was Eric?
Praline	No no no, my fish's name is Eric, Eric the fish. 'E's an 'alibut.
Man	A what?
Praline	He is an halibut.
Man	You've got a pet halibut?
Praline	Yes. I chose him out of thousands. I didn't like the others, they were all too flat.
Man	You must be a loony.
Praline	I am not a looney! Why should I be tied with the epithet looney merely because I have a pet halibut? I've heard tell that Sir Gerald Nabardo has a pet prawn called Simon and you wouldn't call him a looney; furthermore, Dawn Pailthorpe, the lady show-jumper, had a clam, called Stafford, after the late Chancellor, Allan Bullock has two pikes, both called Chris, and Marcel Proust had an haddock! So, if you're calling the author of 'A la recherche du temps perdu' a looney, I shall have to ask you to step outside!

Open your hymnal to page 32 and join us in singing “A Medical love song” verse 3

My heart is very tender,  Though my parts are awful raw
You might have been infected,  But you never were a bore
I'm dying of your love, my love,  I'm your spirochaetal clown
I've left my body to science,  But I'm afraid they've turned it down

Now please open The Holy Text volume 2 to episode 38 page 227 where the prophets say …

Continuity Voice	Tomorrow night comedy returns to BBC TV with a new series of half-hour situation comedies for you to spot the winners. Ronnie Thompson stars in 'Dad's Doctor'... (cut to a doctor with no trousers)
	SUPERIMPOSED CAPTION: 'DAD'S DOCTOR'
Continuity Voice	... the daffy exploits of the RAMC training school. He's in charge of a group of mad medicos, and when they run wild it's titty jokes galore. (medical students run past him waving bras) Newcomer Veronica Papp plays the girl with the large breasts. (a young lady runs past wearing only briefs)

Homily  This week, as we say goodbye effectively to the Biden administration and watch the rise of the Harris attempt on our nation, I thought it a good idea to look at some of the staggering incompetence of our government.  No look at the government at work would be complete without a consideration of that beast of the swamp Anthony Fauci.  Recently the Washington Post admitted that Fauci DID sedate Beagle puppies and allow Sand Fleas to feast on the poor creatures (https://archive.ph/qMq3k).  They were quick to point out that it was NOT in the study previously linked to Fauci and his hatred of Beagle puppies being fed alive to Sand Fleas, but rather as different, second, study where Beagle puppies were sedated and exposed to ravenous Sand Fleas.  It is important to keep those facts straight! 

Next, much gnashing of teeth was performed when the Biden/Harris administration hired 85,000 armed IRS agents, but apparently, there was a rather massive failure to properly vet the hires.  It turns out that more than 5,800 of the IRS agents owed a combined 50 million dollars in back taxes (https://www.scribd.com/document/754068274/Audit-the-Irs-Tigta-Report-2024 )!  However of these 5,800 agents only 20 were actually fired!  I guess the Biden/Harris administration is more interested in the number of agents rather than the quality of those agents. 

Meanwhile, in the Biden/Harris administration’s constant concern over the “environment” it was decided to increase the drilling costs by 15 fold on federal lands to artificially make electric vehicles more competitive with internal combustion engines (https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2024/04/12/oil-drilling-federal-lands-biden/).  It is vaguely refreshing that they are standing to their beliefs despite the obvious impact this will have on gasoline and home fuel oil prices. 

Speaking of which, in a blatant effort to try and off set the above mentioned impact on gasoline prices the Biden/Harris administration also decided to drain the entire NE Gasoline reserve in an obvious effort to drive down gasoline prices at the pump heading toward the election (https://www.zerohedge.com/energy/biden-drains-entire-northeast-gasoline-reserve-bid-lower-gas-prices-he-trails-trump-double).  However, once again the Biden/Harris administration has released this gasoline too soon as the price reduction will have passed long before the election still three full months from today.  And now they have nothing left to try and “fix” the price at the pump.  Surely, they know what they are doing though. 

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.