You're a Rotter, Mr. H

Stephen Harper has made promises. And he intends to keep them. Not the one about senate reform, not the ones about appointing friends to power, and not the one about keeping government accountable.

But this one, he wants to keep.

What he's saying is, in order to keep his commitment to "defending marriage" he's perfectly willing to try and dissolve thousands of perfectly legal (and socially acceptable) marriages.

What a ©µŋڂ!

There's a pattern here: first, attempts to find the limits of his power. Then when he realizes he's not omnipotent, the muzzling of criticism. A few harmless-seeming "mom-'n-butter-tarts" motions in the house; and finally the wholesale attempt at stripping of civil rights from minorities.

I don't believe he can win a "free vote"--at least I don't think he can. The Bloc Quebecois members may be homophobes, but they're not quite that stupid, I think. The NDP can likely be relied upon to support gay rights as a bloc, and I can't see a good reason for a Lib to vote against; the Liberals gave birth to the legislation.

But that's all irrelevant. Gay marriage is legal. Period. How the hell does Harper think he's going to strip out a law based on the Canadian Constitution and the Charter of Rights and Freedoms? It's quite likely illegal to overturn it.

Of course, Harper's very firm about what politically powerful people in trouble should do . . . or else maybe not. Yeah, probably not.

Elsewhere

If he'd been at Guantanamo he'd have been just doing his job.

But then again, I'm fairly sure no-one in Gitmo has acess to a camera. They learned their lesson the first time, right? Or maybe not.

This May Not Be Good News

It probably means she can't spell "colour", "honour", or "valour" correctly, nor "cheque", "centre", "cauldron" . . .

By the way

If you're perhaps a bit worried or perplexed as to what ©µŋڂ means, you might be relieved to find that if you do the appropriate math on the grid of "Symbols" in MS-Word, it spells out "zero". You might well be relieved to find that.