{"id":1369,"date":"2007-04-22T16:28:00","date_gmt":"2007-04-22T20:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=1369"},"modified":"2007-04-22T16:28:00","modified_gmt":"2007-04-22T20:28:00","slug":"mandatory-blogging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=1369","title":{"rendered":"Mandatory Blogging"},"content":{"rendered":"

Two topics which I just could not go without some comment:<\/p>\n

1. My bestest<\/span> bud Rob Anders will have to go through with a nomination after a judge denied the request to delay it on the grounds that “[Rob] cannot fairly and effectively fight a new nomination battle while performing his duties as a sitting MP in a minority government.” Uh-huh. This from a man who, according to Hansard<\/span>, has not uttered a single word in the House on Commons since last spring.<\/p>\n

That last little fact and many more like it, can be found in Don Martin’s Saturday Herald column titled “pulseless<\/span> Anders stayin<\/span>‘ alive<\/a>“. <\/p>\n

[As an aside, I found it amusing to see the Herald cite “wikipedia<\/span>” as their source for Saturday’s front page story on dwindling resource revenues]<\/p>\n

2. I’m hesitant to comment on this <\/a>because, quite frankly, whatever Stephen Harper’s taxpayer-funded stylist does in her spare time really isn’t relevant to the controversy. So long as she picks out a nice tie, combs Stephen’s hair, and gives him his bath, I don’t really care if she’s communing with Mackenzie King’s mother on the side.<\/p>\n

And if she is giving him advice? Well, given the tactical moves Harper has made over the past year in a half, she’s worth every penny he<\/strike> we are paying her.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Two topics which I just could not go without some comment: 1. My bestest bud Rob Anders will have to go through with a nomination after a judge denied the request to delay it on the grounds that “[Rob] cannot fairly and effectively fight a new nomination battle while performing his duties as a sitting […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"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=1369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1369\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}