The Fish and Chips Offer...

A few years back a moron named Elihu Harris was running for office, yet again, in Oakland, a town that for a few decades seemed to vote for him no matter what he was running for. He blended the twin toxins of racial identity politics with the Democratic machine, and so long as he kissed who he was told to kiss things went pretty well, for him at least.

He was a grossly incompetent mayor, and the town breathed a sigh of relief when he was on his way.

Now, we have a new mayor elect, a criminal shyster, machine politician, arrogant, cynical, old-style Oakland Democratic racialist named Ron Dellums. To the people who did not turn out to the polls, figuring that there would be a runoff, well #$%% you. To those people who actually think that it was smart to vote for Dellums, well double, triple #$%# you.

He's not my mayor.

Somewhere in the Oakland Hills, Montclair Village has lost its idiot.

Don't blame me. I voted for De La Fuente.

Oakland should be written off as a lost cause. The people here are too stupid to govern themselves. When the legions come in at the start of the Keilholtz Dictatorship, there will be a certain extra glee when I watch them march down Broadway. Almost as much as when they arrest Tom Ammiano.

Anyway, the point of this post is not to mourn what was probably already lost.

The point was to talk about good news, which is the fracturing of the Anglican Communion, and to offer a suggestion from the annals fo Elihu Harris. Old Elihu, he thought in his last bid for public office that it would be a smart thing to offer free fried chicken dinners to anyone with a ballot stub in certain neighborhoods in Oakland.

I shit you not.

Elihu didn't win.

However, I think that we should, as parishes, confraternities, individuals, offer free fish and chips dinners to those who leave Canterbury for the One, True, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Church.

Maybe a free fish and chips dinner every Friday for the first year, and a pint of Watneys on Sundays.

Now, with ideas like that, could someone please tell me why I am not in charge of ecumenical affairs?