{"id":1302,"date":"2007-03-01T14:18:00","date_gmt":"2007-03-01T19:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=1302"},"modified":"2007-03-01T14:18:00","modified_gmt":"2007-03-01T19:18:00","slug":"mid-week-musings-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=1302","title":{"rendered":"Mid-Week Musings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>1. Paul <span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_0\">Hellyer<\/span> has proven himself to, yet again, be a <a href=\"http:\/\/torontosun.com\/News\/OtherNews\/2007\/02\/28\/3676270-sun.html\">man of ideas<\/a>. His solution for global warming? Use alien technology. Had he simply brought up this idea a year ago, I think the <a href=\"http:\/\/calgarygrit.blogspot.com\/2006\/01\/draft-paul-hellyer.html\">Draft Paul <span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_1\">Hellyer<\/span><\/a> campaign would have been a lot more <span class=\"blsp-spelling-corrected\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_2\">successful<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>2. Speaking of Kyoto solutions which will never ever happen in a million years, Toby Heaps (who crown Mulroney the greenest PM) has proposed his Kyoto plan which includes, among other things, a 10 cent gas tax. The article also mentions how the Liberals are now considering a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/servlet\/story\/RTGAM.20070301.wxenviro01\/BNStory\/National\/home\">carbon tax<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>3. Cerberus is back! And he&#8217;s got a good run down on the <a href=\"http:\/\/canadiancerberus.blogspot.com\/2007\/03\/ontario-liberals-surge-tory-in-trouble.html\">political landscape in Ontario <\/a>as we build up to their fall election.<\/p>\n<p>4. It ain&#8217;t quite Vote Out Anders, but I thought I&#8217;d send some props to the <a href=\"http:\/\/davidsweetwatch.blogspot.com\/\">David Sweet Watch<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>5. I&#8217;m sure you all saw it already on Wells site, but Hill and <span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_3\">Knowlton<\/span> has a very flawed, but very fun, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.predictionshkdp.com\/\">seat predictor <\/a>for the Quebec election up on their site.<\/p>\n<p>6. There&#8217;s a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politicalstaples.com\/2007\/03\/01\/new_decima_poll.html\">new Decima Poll <\/a>out which will certainly tempt Harper to go for a spring election. Tories up 36-27, including a sizeable lead in Ontario.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1. Paul Hellyer has proven himself to, yet again, be a man of ideas. His solution for global warming? Use alien technology. Had he simply brought up this idea a year ago, I think the Draft Paul Hellyer campaign would have been a lot more successful. 2. Speaking of Kyoto solutions which will never ever [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1302"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1302\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}