I think this is a lovely "fuck you" on the heels of the promotion of the rottweiler to the position of pope. I'm really quite surprised really to hear Spain, I would have thought with all of those Catholics, but what a pleasant surprise.

In similar news, we're undergoing a bit of a battle right now in Canada. Our Prime Minister is having a terrible time over the "sponsorship scandal" and it's looking like his minority government might be brought down in May unless he can get one of the other parties to side with him. (Short story: There's a mess over how money was divied up and spent by the ougoing Prime Minister's government. That's Jean Chretien. Our current PM Paul Martin was the finance minister under JC and he barely squeaked into power in a federal election awith a minority government after JC resigned/retired. A minority government is pretty helpless because if all other parties in the House voted against them on any given issue, they would lose. And if the party in power loses a vote in the House, we have an election.)

So now Steven Harper is threatening to topple the government in the next vote, which will result in an election. And the last thing we want right now is an election. People are pissed over this sponsorship scandal inquiry, so they're all likely to say, "Fuck them, let's vote Conservative." And if we end up with Steven Harper in power, we're about as fucked as our friends south of the border were last year when Dubya got back in because Steven Harper is just a conservative Christian Dubya wearing a red and white beaver coat.

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