{"id":422,"date":"2005-08-01T16:47:00","date_gmt":"2005-08-01T20:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=422"},"modified":"2005-08-01T16:47:00","modified_gmt":"2005-08-01T20:47:00","slug":"glad-as-hell-rocks-halton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=422","title":{"rendered":"Glad as Hell Rocks Halton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src=\"http:\/\/img78.imageshack.us\/img78\/8193\/gladashell24uh.gif\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>Stop 4: Halton, Ontario<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Although I touched on Harper&#8217;s visit to Halton and <a href=\"http:\/\/calgarygrit.blogspot.com\/2005\/07\/glad-as-hell-mini-update.html\">the construction hat picture bellow<\/a>, someone has let me know that Harper was there to support local candidate Garth Turner. And Garth has a blog! Thanks to Garth&#8217;s blog, you can read a full recap of the event <a href=\"http:\/\/www.garth.ca\/2005\/07\/22\/the-photo-op\/\">here<\/a>. I also decided to skim through the back pages of Garth&#8217;s blog for fun. Among the highlights:<\/p>\n<p>1. Apparently <a href=\"http:\/\/www.garth.ca\/2005\/07\/19\/free-speech\/\">Garth gets hits for &#8220;Stephen Harper Conservative Cowboy&#8221; too<\/a>! If only Conservatives were willing to talk about gay people, his traffic would triple due to the incredible surge in &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.ca\/search?hl=en&#038;q=Stephen+Harper+gay+cowboy&amp;meta=\">Stephen Harper gay cowboy<\/a>&#8221; searches we&#8217;ve seen this summer.<\/p>\n<p>2. Garth also <a href=\"http:\/\/www.garth.ca\/2005\/07\/18\/hey-no-prblem\/\">tells a Stephen Harper joke in his blog<\/a>: <em>Why did Stephen Harper become an economist? Because he didn\u00c2\u0092t have the personality to be an accountant<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>3. He also links to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.elections.ca\/content.asp?section=pas&#038;dir=38e\/resval&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;document=35030&#038;lang=e&amp;textonly=false\">the riding&#8217;s previous results<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family:times new roman;\"><em>Gary Carr (Liberal Party of Canada) 27,362<br \/>Frank Marchetti (Green Party of Canada) 2,889<br \/>Dean Martin (Conservative Party of Canada) 21,704<br \/>Anwar Naqvi (New Democratic Party) 4,642<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Boy, if Dean Martin can&#8217;t even win for the Tories, I don&#8217;t know what chance Garth has.<\/p>\n<p>Garth also touches on the hard hats:<\/p>\n<p><em>We don them, and after receiving assurances from the four political aides now present that we do not look like dorks, go back outside.<\/em><br \/><em><\/em><\/p>\n<p>heh heh. OK &#8211; now, the <u>Glad as Hell<\/u> recap:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Location: <\/strong>Halton, Ontario (as an aside, anyone notice the lack of Quebec stops on the Glad as Hell Tour?)<br \/><strong>Positives<\/strong>: Garth didn&#8217;t tell any of his Stephen Harper jokes in front of the media.<br \/><strong>Negatives<\/strong>: See the village people jokes <a href=\"http:\/\/calgarygrit.blogspot.com\/2005\/07\/glad-as-hell-mini-update.html\">bellow<\/a>.<br \/><strong>Human Index:<\/strong> Dick Chenney. Harper scores 6 out of 7 on the human index this week&#8230;it takes a true leader to don headgear and not look like a dork, but I think Harper actually pulls it off.<\/p>\n<p><em>Previous Editions:<\/em><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/calgarygrit.blogspot.com\/2005\/07\/glad-as-hell-lets-rock-barrie.html\">Barrie<\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/calgarygrit.blogspot.com\/2005\/07\/glad-as-hell-tour-05-calgary-stop.html\">Calgary<\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/calgarygrit.blogspot.com\/2005\/07\/glad-as-hell-tour-05.html\">Nova Scotia<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stop 4: Halton, Ontario Although I touched on Harper&#8217;s visit to Halton and the construction hat picture bellow, someone has let me know that Harper was there to support local candidate Garth Turner. And Garth has a blog! Thanks to Garth&#8217;s blog, you can read a full recap of the event here. I also decided [&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":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422"}],"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=422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}