Who are Christian PeaceMaker Teams and why are people confused?
Peace agitists, peace activists and pacifists are not one and the same. They can work very different ways toward similar goals. Or not.
I piled into the dust up at connexions, I’d like to point attention to an article by Deborah Cambell of thetyee.ca.

When two CPTers were badly [...]

The names of four aid workers kidnapped in Iraq have been made public.
The Jawa Report has the video and other information. Two of the four workers are Canadian. They are members of The Christian Peacemakers Teams.

James Loney, 41, is a community worker from Toronto, Canada. He has been a member of Christian Peacemaker Teams since August 2000, [...]

After a small blog convention was held in the US and I took some flack for my observations, a post appeared on a US blog by someone who took exception to my observations, and my lack of understanding regarding a bad joke made by another organizer that targeted a couple of mild critics.
I thought I’d let John Schroeder, [...]

Ar arr arrrr! Rick Mercer’s Letter from the Prime Minister.

Hello Fellow Liberals and Merry Elexmas one and all.Wow! Can you believe it’s holiday Newsletter time again?As you know, today the Governor General dissolved the 38th parliament of Canada. It seems like barely 18 months ago we were celebrating the birth of our recently deceased minority [...]

Ganns Dean of Superblessed has a breakdown of  finalists in the Philippine Blog Awards in the four categories – Filipino Blogger of the Year, Most Informative Blog, Blog Site of the Year and Best Photo Blog.
Over 650 blogs were submitted, the semi finalists are waiting, winners will be announced on December 5th. This is the second year this show [...]

Given all the anger I solicited today asking about the none confidence vote, I could use a good laugh.
Carl Hiaasen is one of my favorite authors, his writing is black, funny and his books make me laugh out loud.
I just found another author like that in the San Francisco Weekly – Harmon Leon aka: The Infiltrator. He is [...]

An Australian web hosting company is holding an open blog awards.
The winner actually gets money.:^)

SmartyHost said the competition was accepting entries from any Australian regardless of the where their blog was hosted, and out of 25,000 visitors to the entry page, 500 had so far put their blog forward for the top prize.
Anoosh Manzoori, managing [...]

Now that the NDP is throwing it’s support behind the Conservatives and Bloq I’ll tune into CPAC tonight to watch the federal Liberal government fall.
It’s a winter election, the first in 25 years and it will cost us more because of the small things. Planes need to be de-iced. Weather will prevent candidates from getting from [...]