OZschwitz funny: In the claim of the Father

Subject: OZschwitz funny: In the claim of the Father Fri Apr 03, 2009 6:36 pm

OZschwitz funny: In the claim of the Father

OUR KEVINLY FATHER climbed into the pulpit at St Paul's Cathedral, London, and told his adoring flock, now encompassing much of the free world: "Unfettered free markets became worshipped as God, and now we know that god was false."

Those assembled for Kevin Rudd's sermon on Tuesday may not have caught up with the latest Herald/Nielsen poll. It showed 74 per cent of Australians now had faith in our Prime Minister. This is just shy of the 79 per cent who profess a faith in God, or gods.

It's been a week of biblical disproportion.

In the beginning there was nothing. That was last Sunday, our time, when the nations of the world united - in the afterglow of Sydney's enlightened darkness - and switched off their lights.

"Let there be dark," the wise city had decreed years earlier, and now it was so across the planet, in more than 4000 cities. We called the light day and the darkness light - glimmers of hope twinkling from untold candles as 850 million people, at a rough headcount, joined Earth Hour.

It should have been a good warm-up for the next day, when Sydney called the darkness a blackout. This time, the wise city did not have its hand on the lever. And there was bedlam. Traffic lights failed, cars collided, computers crashed and lifts entombed claustrophobic workers with odiferous colleagues. Slow-cookers stalled, dinners were ruined. Our world, or small patches of it, became formless and empty. Everywhere, darkness.

It seemed the lights were on while no one was home at the addresses of two rugby league stars possessed by the demon drink. And a star swimmer, who had punched a fellow athlete's lights out, claimed he now saw the lite and was forsaking the binge.

As the leaders of the free world gathered at the right hand of the Kevinly Father, the heavens unleashed their fury at home - not quite biblical nor cataclysmic nor even catechistic, but thousands were isolated, livestock was swept down rivers and out to sea, and it was a serious test for the stormwater drains of Coffs Harbour.

Note this one in your diaries, pilgrims. It's been a week in history …

LNK

OZschwitz funny: In the claim of the Father

OZschwitz funny: In the claim of the Father

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