BREAKING: Canadian Government Falls (updated with poll)

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Monday November 28, 2005 · 4:24 PM PST

2005/11/28 · 16:24

From the CBC website:

The opposition parties banded together Monday to defeat the Liberal minority government and set the stage for an election that is expected to culminate in a mid-January vote.
In a 171 to 133 vote, the House passed an historic no-confidence motion exactly one year and five months after Canadian voters elected the Liberals.
Prime Minister Paul Martin will now have to go see Governor General Michaëlle Jean Tuesday morning and ask her to dissolve Parliament.
As the vote was conducted, parliamentarians stood up to applaud MPs who will not be running in the next election.

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Saturday November 12, 2005 · 6:05 PM PST

2005/11/12 · 18:05

An interesting story in tomorrow's Sunday Times of London. MI-5 has intercepted a video in which al-Qaeda's Ayman al- Zawahiri names Queen Elizabeth II as "one of the severest enemies of Islam," because of her role as the Governor of the Church of England. MI-5 is treating this as an incitement to violence against Her Majesty, and security has been beefed up.

Perhaps as worrying is a portion of the video in which Mohammad Sidique Khan, ringleader of the London bombings which killed 52 commuters, urges British Muslims to ignore moderate Islamic leaders who want integration with British society, and to take part in jihad and seek martyrdom. Read More

Bob Novak: Ending Rove's Career (Cheney's, too?) - with poll

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Sunday October 30, 2005 · 2:27 PM PST

2005/10/30 · 14:27

Well, we all remember Bob Novak's meltdown on CNN's "Situation Room." But few of us appreciated at the time that Novak's antsiness here and in earlier "Capitol Gang" exchanges with Margaret Carlson and Al Hunt actually represented a legitimate source of stress for the ol' Douchebag of Liberty. That stress was the realisation that he was about to play a pivotal role in bringing down Karl Rove and - perhaps - the Vice President of the United States.

Amazing revelations await below the fold!
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Canadian PM Takes Condi to the Woodshed (with poll)

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Tuesday October 25, 2005 · 8:26 AM PDT

2005/10/25 · 08:26

Condoleeza Rice arrived in Ottawa yesterday for a long-delayed visit (she cancelled earlier because Canada wouldn't play ball on the missile defence "shield"). I am delighted to report that she was greeted with an earful on the US theft of $5 billion dollars from Canada, lax American border security that is allowing guns to be smuggled into Canada, and the US plans to require passports at land borders. More below the fold. Read More

"Joe McCarthy...was a hero" - Rep. Steve King

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Thursday October 06, 2005 · 7:37 PM PDT

2005/10/06 · 19:37

Steve King, representative for the 5th district of Iowa, deserves to be booted from office perhaps more forcefully than any other GOP incumbent. Why? Because Senator Joe McCarthy is a hero of his.

King was instrumental in blocking an effort to name a post office in Berkeley after longtime Berkeley Councilwoman Maudelle Shirek, questioning whether the 94-year-old activist represents American values. Berkeley Rep. Barbara Lee, in a statement after the vote, blasted King, saying his "campaign of innuendo and unsubstantiated 'concern' is better suited to the era of Joe McCarthy and J. Edgar Hoover than today's House of Representatives."

To which King responded: "I think that if Barbara Lee would read the history of Joe McCarthy, she would realize that he was a hero for America."

More on King and the shitstorm below.
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Brother Roger, Founder of Taize, Murdered

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Wednesday August 17, 2005 · 1:57 PM PDT

2005/08/17 · 13:57

Shocking news from the Taize community in France, where Br. Roger, the 90 year old founder of the Taize movement was murdered during a service before 2500 people at the Church of Reconciliation. The link to the story is here:

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Bombings in London are Small Potatoes

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Friday July 08, 2005 · 9:44 AM PDT

2005/07/08 · 09:44

I don't rant very often - I'm the guy who posts my sermons, after all. But I'm gonna just let rip.

Quit being distracted! The bombings in London are small potatoes compared to the thousands of preventible deaths every single day in the developing world. The media - and this site - could have worked to hold the feet of the leaders of the G8 to the fire on Africa and climate change. Instead, we've allowed them to get off the hook, saying that they'll deal with this in 2010, without a whimper.

Just disgusting. Nothing on the front page about this. How fucking insular are we?

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IT'S OFFICIAL! Canada is the third country to approve gay marriage!

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Tuesday June 28, 2005 · 6:08 PM PDT

2005/06/28 · 18:08

Tonight, Canada became the third country in the world to expand its legal definition of marriage to include gay and lesbian couples. The vote was 158-133

Of course, it is already legal for over 80% of Canadians living in the 7 provinces whose high courts have overturned discriminatory legislation. Hundreds of couples have since been married - my partner and I will soon be doing this ourselves, and having our union blessed by our Anglican parish.

The reason is simple. It's the Canadian Charter of Rights, stupid. Namely article 15: "Every individual is equal before and under the law and has the right to the equal protection and equal benefit of the law without discrimination and, in particular, without discrimination based on race, national or ethnic origin, colour, religion, sex, age or mental or physical disability." Clearly, the old Marriage Act didn't pass muster, as successive provincial courts and the Supreme Court of Canada have ruled.
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Focus on the Family Fuckup: Killer DVDs

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Monday May 02, 2005 · 6:14 PM PDT

2005/05/02 · 18:14

I'm the pastor at a liberal, mainline congregation deep in the burbs of Greater Vancouver. I'm not accustomed to getting wingnut materials in the mail, so imagine my arched eyebrows when I discovered a thick packet from "Focus on the Family Canada." Little did I suspect that lurking deep inside was a DVD which would have the potential to alter my life in profound ways! None of them good, incidentally. Read More

Once again, dKos gave me a sermon idea

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Sunday April 24, 2005 · 12:45 PM PDT

2005/04/24 · 12:45

It was the entry posted by Hunter - "People of Faith" - that did it. I knew that, as per the Anglican lectionary, we would be reading about the stoning of Stephen from Acts and the living stones built into the spiritual house faith, described in First Peter.

My sermon talks about the kind of "virtual martyrdom" - not outright homicide, but the killing of reputations, of souls practiced by the religious right. This making of martyrs, practiced by pseudochristians against Christians is nothing less than an assault on the gospel. Here is my sermon. Read More

My Easter Sermon: Culture of Life vs. Culture of Death

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Saturday March 26, 2005 · 6:37 PM PST

2005/03/26 · 18:37

Easter is the most joyful day of the Christian calendar. It is a day filled with affirmations of love and life - affirmations in our readings, in our music, and (perhaps most poignantly) in the baptismal vows which will be made here this morning. Yet, as I tried to prepare my heart for the uplifting message of the empty tomb and the risen Christ, I found myself strangely distracted by current events. New Testament ethics - my field of specialization - was in the news, and I found myself facing a barrage of emotions, not all of them positive. But I followed the path on which these distractions led me, and found the empty tomb of the living God once again. Now I invite you to re-trace this past week's journey with me. Read More

Good Friday Sermon: The Banality of Evil - A Cautionary Tale

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Thursday March 24, 2005 · 7:37 AM PST

2005/03/24 · 07:37

Around this time three years ago, I read a remarkable book called Eichmann in Jerusalem, Hannah Arendt's inquiry into the nature of evil. I read it in the wake of the events of 9/11, and events since then have brought it to mind again and again since then.

The subject of the book, Adolf Eichmann, was an unexceptional civil servant, who happened to be in charge of organizing the transportation of Jews to the Nazi death camps. Israeli agents kidnapped him in Argentina in 1960, and brought him to Jerusalem to stand trial for war crimes. What comes across clearly and chillingly in this book is just how ordinary and inoffensive the defendant was. It is the story of a man who became an accomplice to mass murder, not through the force of his will, but through the force of acquiescence and denial. It is the story of what Arendt calls "the banality of evil."
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