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Harper (not THAT Harper!) is a woman from Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

"If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all." Noam Chomsky

  • Dead Peasants Insurance FAQ : Questions & Answers about...

    Rated Oct 11 • 3 reviews • investing, law, corporations • deadpeasantinsurance.com

    I'm speechless.

  • The Scarlet Letter: Shunning The Homeless | Homeless Tales

    Rated Oct 11 • 2 reviews • blogs, poverty, homelessness, heath • homelesstales.com

    Voices from the street. Homelessness.

  • Limbaugh on Obama's Nobel: 'We all agree with the...

    Reviewed Oct 11 • 2 reviews • rawstory.com

    What Advena said:

    Rush Limbaugh: "I'm on the same side of something with the Taliban" Yeah we knew that already. Not news. There is possibly no other group on earth that has more in common with the Taliban than US extreme right fundamentalists

  • Exxon's Climate-Victim Candles | The Yes Men

    Rated Jun 18 2009 • 2 reviews • activism, canada, oil, corporations • theyesmen.org

    If the Yes Men were "bad guys", they'd be billionaires by now.

  • This Aint Flint

    Rated Apr 23 2009 • 4 reviews • economics, ottawa, flint • thisaintflint.ca

    Self-serving crap.

  • Starting the Conversation: Are These Virgin Radio Ads...

    Rated Feb 11 2009 • 2 reviews • feminism, blogs, advertising, sexist • blogspot.com

    Thank you, Leonard.

  • Council of Conservative Citizens

    Rated Feb 09 2009 • 6 reviews • cofcc.org

    We need to study these people in order to determine which of their two brain cells is back-firing.

  • TheStar.com | Opinion | Canadians fail democratic...

    Rated Dec 04 2008 • 3 reviews • politics, canada • thestar.com

    God, I'm irritable.

  • http://www.parliamenthill.gc.ca/text/hillcam_e.html

    Rated Dec 04 2008 • 1 review • canada, ottawa • gc.ca



    It's about time someone cleared the frickin' snow off the cam, eh?

    You're looking at the center block of Parliament. I think that's what it's called. I'm not too up on these things, despite having lived here most of my life. There are other magnificent buildings on either side of of this one. That's the peace tower with the clock on it. And in the box down in front on the path... that's the Eternal Flame. Don't ask me why it's in a box. You've got me there.
    Note: I do believe the flame has been released.
    There's almost always someone protesting something on the Hill. And I'm usually right there with them.

    If you haven't been to Ottawa, the Ottawa River is immediately behind/below Parliament, and the lights you see in the distance at night are in Hull, Quebec. On the other side of the river.
    Oh, and if you like to skate, you really should come here in the winter (I'm assuming there will be another cold winter, although the ways things are going, I sort of doubt it), because as you may know, we have the world's longest skating rink. If you're not a whinger (as I am), it can be fun skating the length of the canal. While eating a Beaver Tail.
    brrrrr.

    ps If you look at the webcam at around 7ish AM (my time) on a sunny morning, you will think that the spire is made of gold. Which it is, of course.

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    Had to bring this back to page one.

    The Prologue to Bertrand Russell's Autobiography
    "What I Have Lived For
    Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind. These passions, like great winds, have blown me hither and thither, in a wayward course, over a great ocean of anguish, reaching to the very verge of despair.

    I have sought love, first, because it brings ecstasy - ecstasy so great that I would often have sacrificed all the rest of life for a few hours of this joy. I have sought it, next, because it relieves loneliness--that terrible loneliness in which one shivering consciousness looks over the rim of the world into the cold unfathomable lifeless abyss. I have sought it finally, because in the union of love I have seen, in a mystic miniature, the prefiguring vision of the heaven that saints and poets have imagined. This is what I sought, and though it might seem too good for human life, this is what--at last--I have found.

    With equal passion I have sought knowledge. I have wished to understand the hearts of men. I have wished to know why the stars shine. And I have tried to apprehend the Pythagorean power by which number holds sway above the flux. A little of this, but not much, I have achieved.

    Love and knowledge, so far as they were possible, led upward toward the heavens. But always pity brought me back to earth. Echoes of cries of pain reverberate in my heart. Children in famine, victims tortured by oppressors, helpless old people a burden to their sons, and the whole world of loneliness, poverty, and pain make a mockery of what human life should be. I long to alleviate this evil, but I cannot, and I too suffer.

    This has been my life. I have found it worth living, and would gladly live it again if the chance were offered me."

    Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) won the Nobel prize for literature for his History of Western Philosophy and was the co-author of Principia Mathematica.
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