After being warned that the camp would be cleared, a number of protestors left.  The remaining hard-core people barricaded themselves at the fountain. 

On Monday the police came in and posted eviction notices everywhere and taped notices to the tents. 

At t… Read full post »

"Watcha gonna do when it's winter?" I asked.  But they were going to bring in more tents, propane and kerosene heaters, and somebody was donating a yurt.  A yurt would be good, presumably, having been developed for the kind of weather that is coming.

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 The first instalment was posted last night. 

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 SEE ADDITION AT END

The forecase had been for rain.  There were occasional splashes, and some gusts of cool wind, but mostly it was a beautiful fall day.

The site was Confederation Park between the court house and city hall, pretty with fall leaves.

One accoun… Read full post »

So I watched the Republican debate last night.

And I am puzzled - and indignant - about the politeness and deference of the questioners.  The candidates can spew nonsense and the media lap-dogs make the occasional feint, but essentially let them get away with it.

Perry was asked what he thought… Read full post »

I saw very few fat people in my recent trip thru north Italy and around the edges of France.  (I was in southern Italy and Sicily last year, and same story.)

How do they do it?  I threw myself enthusiastically into their pastries-for-breakfast diet, but it was counter-productive for me. &nb… Read full post »

It's perfect snowball weather in Ottawa - fresh snowfall, temperature a little above freezing.  But not recommended to try lobbing one at Obama. The secret service would probably shoot you dead.

Anyway, due to the metal barriers put up all around Parliament Hill for his five-your visit to Canada… Read full post »

After in vitro, of course.

She's East Indian.  Got the in vitro done in India.  Where she's not the oldest - a woman there gave birth at age 70.  

Our Canadian East Indian elderly mother had twin boys.  Of course they would have to be boys - would she have… Read full post »

A Pagan blogger, Gus diZerega, wrote a post on Beliefnet yesterday with this title, after reading an alarmist article on this subject by Catherine Edwards on an United Methodist site (http://confessingumc.org/confessional_statement/resources/items_of_general_interest/wicca_infiltrates_the_chur… Read full post »