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Living in the Paris of the Ottawa Valley, over 20 y now. Lovely, feels like home, better than TO. Yet sometimes feels like behind the lines of alien pod people.

[PinneddowninNCR @RogueOttawan]

“Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites…in proportion as they are more disposed to listen to the counsels of the wise and good, in preference to the flattery of knaves.../

[PinneddowninNCR @RogueOttawan]

@CA_Dem World Cup players and team and FIFA staff will have entered the US legally under a variety of short-stay non-immigrant visas, probably B1/B2 combined for business and tourism, or P1 for international athlete. Essentially not about immigration, still less illegal immigration.

[PinneddowninNCR @RogueOttawan]

@CA_Dem In what country has any electorate ever been given the chance to vote for, or against, immigration?

[PinneddowninNCR @RogueOttawan]

@skenzyme @xwanyex @FischerKing64 Only white people can get their heaters delivered? Or only white people have to go through this rigmarole? And in what way do life's many bureaucratic hoops privilege white people, the people most likely to try to comply with them?

[PinneddowninNCR @RogueOttawan]

@OC_Transpo like an idiot in the admittedly modest cold.
I have no idea why it was rerouted. All the 2 hours I stood there regular traffic was moving normally and unimpeded in every direction.

[PinneddowninNCR @RogueOttawan]

@OC_Transpo What was up with the 9 today? I waited 2 hours 1145-145 for #9 to show up at stop 3009 Rideau C at the Rideau Centre. I might have just missed one at 1145 but did not see it in the distance. In theory, the gap might therefore have been even longer.
I saw hours later,

[PinneddowninNCR @RogueOttawan]

@OC_Transpo when I had web access, in Alerts that the bus had been rerouted today for reasons not specified. I would have appreciated it if someone had bothered to put a "Stop not in service" sign or handbill at Rideau C, per normal practice. I would not have wasted 2 hours standing around

[PinneddowninNCR @RogueOttawan]

@CTV Any reason #CTVLife ditched Next Level Chef s. 3 in the middle of Top Ten, to start running MasterChef Canada from 2016 in the middle of its top ten? 11PM slot. That was weird. I know both are reruns. Still weird.

[PinneddowninNCR @RogueOttawan]

@TrumpsHurricane Don't come to Canada.

[PinneddowninNCR @RogueOttawan]

@Geniustechw Leaving aside anything else, the nun voluntarily joined a religious order, one that comprises a tiny & dwindling minority of women in any society that has them, she is not obeying a mass cultural or legal norm. Also, all cultures actually are allowed to prefer their own norms.

[PinneddowninNCR @RogueOttawan]

@tommyboy0690 How many of those 4,000 had entered the US illegally?

[PinneddowninNCR @RogueOttawan]

@Colin_Lougheed The goose thing was also a pretty valid response to former and unlamented PM Justin's comment.

[PinneddowninNCR @RogueOttawan]

@Colin_Lougheed That's MUCH better than "silver shines as bright as gold", which was the copiest cope that ever coped.

[PinneddowninNCR @RogueOttawan]

@colingorrie Cool. I did not expect the Norman era one to be even that comprehensible. The Chaucer era Middle English even more so, though I expect some would be thrown off by Wende. Wend is like fare- words still extant but few hear or even read them. "Fare" helped me with German fahren once

[PinneddowninNCR @RogueOttawan]

@ProjectLambert @BasilTheGreat All that proves is how few it take for conquest- were this an actual fight, there would not be nearly enough of the enemy yet in England. Also, don't be so optimistic about the US. Watch carefully before assuming the current pushback will win, and remember that Woke is American.

[PinneddowninNCR @RogueOttawan]

@jac_carlson1 @BasilTheGreat "Dat's the joke", given her origins.

[PinneddowninNCR @RogueOttawan]

@EndWokeness Toronto wasn't stolen land. It was a Purchase. The Toronto Purchase. Settled over 200 years ago, though the Mississaugas extorted more money this century.

[PinneddowninNCR @RogueOttawan]

@OldeWorldOrder @EndWokeness Clever, but you can't embrace half a premise. If Canada is on stolen land, so is the US. They have to give it back too. Or we could just both stop this business.

[PinneddowninNCR @RogueOttawan]

@Breaking911 If it helps, I'll withhold tears.

[PinneddowninNCR @RogueOttawan]

@CTV just registering a complaint that the Blue Bloods marathon on CTV Life aired multiple episodes out of order before and after the end season 9, and then cut short at the end of season 11, omitted three last seasons, then aired much of season 1 before ending altogether.

[PinneddowninNCR @RogueOttawan]

@DrunkRepub Did he also call for the killings in advance? He's still a jackass on this, but at least there's that.