Since no one minds...

[felis_ultharus]

Well, after Pat O'Brien left the Liberal Party, he said he'd rather bring down the government than let the same-sex marriage bill pass. O'Brien is a former Catholic school gym teacher, which just seems to fit the stereotype, doesn't it?

Anyway, after O'Brien left, a group of about a dozen Liberal politicans met with Martin and said they'd vote to bring him down rather than let the same-sex marriage vote take place. Martin told them that if they did that, they'd get kicked out of the party and have to run as independents -- they'd no longer have access to the party's name or money. That seems to have shut them up for now.

Current makeup of the House of Commons:

152 in the Liberal/NDP coalition
152 in the Conservative/Bloc coalition
4 independents

• Caroline Parrish will vote to keep the government up -- she hates the Conservatives. she was tossed out of the Liberals for being too far to the left.
  
• Chuck Cadman will vote to keep the government up, but he's sick and undergoing cancer treatments.
  
• David Kilgour will likely vote against it.
  
• Pat O'Brien is probably going to vote against it.

That's 154/154 with a tie going to us. But one sick person, or party members changing sides at the last minute, could force an election and risk putting Harper the Homophobe in power. And the same-sex marriage bill hasn't even hit the Senate yet.

On an unrelated note, Supergirl: Many Happy Returns is the campiest thing I've read in a long time. It's about Supergirl going from a world that's quasi-realistic except with superheroes (they fan clubs and stalkers and families), to a campy parallel universe of clichéd superheroes and -villains and grossly unrealistic storylines.

It also has the infamous storyline where Superman is turned temporarily gay by pink kryptonite -- I kid you not, this is a canon story -- but the whole thing lasts exactly half a page. Still, it's worth it to see Superman -- that symbol of hypermasculinity -- saying "what a fabulous window treatment."

Comments

[jenjoou.livejournal.com]

Wow! kryptonite can do anything! I have to see this. :D

(And even if I say nothing about politics does not mean I'm not interested. I tend to be stuck so far back in history, usually in another country that I barely know what's going on here and now. I'm actually glad to be caught up on what I'm missing. But my rather embarassing ignorance makes intelligent discussion of current events kind of difficult. But if you want dazzling comments like "Harper scares me." I'm your gal ;))

[felis-ultharus.livejournal.com]

Maybe we could settle this all this same-sex marriage business with a samurai-type duel?

And you're welcome to borrow Many Happy Returns if you like. It's a fun though very silly read, though the pink kryptonite think is only in passing.

[jenjoou.livejournal.com]

We could. And what's better is that the fight would be biased in our favor frm the start. Samurai we always pro same-sex relationships. ;)

Cool. I'll trade it for the Level-C :D I need to give you your "Onion" back too.

[felis-ultharus.livejournal.com]

Could I add more Maou to that list? We finished episode 38 less than a half hour ago, and I'm already beginning to jones ^_^

I can get you some blank CDs when we make the trade :)

[jenjoou.livejournal.com]

Already? You're as bad as me ;) But I only have 3 more episodes. I'll bring them to you of course but after that you'll be no better off than me and we'll just have to wait for them to decide to release the rest.

Don't worry about the CDs though. :)

[felis-ultharus.livejournal.com]

Thanks. And yes, I'm addicted. There are worse addictions than watching Yuuri and his travelling male harem save the world ^_^

[infinitecomplex.livejournal.com]

I fail to understand how *anyone* can still maintain that Canadian politics are dull. I feel like I've been on a rollercoaster for weeks, and that's more than politics in the UK ever did for me.

[felis-ultharus.livejournal.com]

I've always maintained that politics is far more exciting than sports, but then I've always found words more excited that a group of grown-up people chasing around a plastic ball.

And politics has real stakes -- not "who's going to have a brass cup" but "who's going to have a home" or "who's going to have clean air to breathe."

How could that be boring?