{"id":1501,"date":"2007-09-03T23:41:00","date_gmt":"2007-09-04T03:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=1501"},"modified":"2007-09-03T23:41:00","modified_gmt":"2007-09-04T03:41:00","slug":"four-quick-hits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=1501","title":{"rendered":"Four Quick Hits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Municipal, provincial, federal, and American political links on this Labour Day Monday.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Municipal:<\/strong> The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goalnoor.com\/\"><span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_0\">Alnoor<\/span> <span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_1\">Kassam<\/span> campaign <\/a>will be running the first batch of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goalnoor.com\/radio.html\">radio ads <\/a>this week, on traffic. They&#8217;re kind of cute, so feel free to give them a listen <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goalnoor.com\/radio.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Provincial:<\/strong> Apparently <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Harry_Strom\">Ed <span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_2\">Stelmach<\/span><\/a> is getting the always unpleasant <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/servlet\/story\/RTGAM.20070903.wstelmach0903\/BNStory\/National\/home\">Mr. Dithers label<\/a>, according to the Globe. As much as I&#8217;m not a fan of <span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_3\">Stelmach<\/span>, I&#8217;ve actually never heard him called Mr. Dithers. I&#8217;ve heard &#8220;Unsteady Eddie&#8221;, &#8220;Mr. Ed&#8221;, &#8220;Special Ed&#8221;, &#8220;Harry <span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_4\">Strom<\/span> Jr.&#8221; and about 50 other insults, but never Dithers. The article also has this inspirational quote:<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cWill there be people without homes? Yes. Will there be some sick people that we can&#8217;t save, despite all the medical technology that we have? Yes, there will be. <strong>But people are continuing to move here because where else are they going to go in Canada?<\/strong>\u201d<\/em><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I think we may have a new slogan to replace wild rose province. &#8220;<em>Alberta: Where else are you gonna go?<\/em>&#8220;<\/p>\n<p><strong><\/strong><br \/><strong>Federal: <\/strong>The Tories continue to try and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/servlet\/story\/RTGAM.20070903.wafghanpolitics03\/BNStory\/Afghanistan\/home\">neutralize <\/a>the Afghanistan issue.<\/p>\n<p><strong>US: <\/strong>Lots of Republicans seem to get themselves into sex scandals. And, for whatever reason, a large <span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_5\">percentage<\/span> of them seem to be <a href=\"http:\/\/ap.google.com\/article\/ALeqM5gRJGSs-yFrEfcgYg59711FM0EdpQ\">gay sex scandals<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Municipal, provincial, federal, and American political links on this Labour Day Monday. Municipal: The Alnoor Kassam campaign will be running the first batch of radio ads this week, on traffic. They&#8217;re kind of cute, so feel free to give them a listen here. Provincial: Apparently Ed Stelmach is getting the always unpleasant Mr. Dithers label, [&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":[49,141,114],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1501"}],"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=1501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1501\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}