{"id":456,"date":"2005-09-07T18:59:00","date_gmt":"2005-09-07T22:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=456"},"modified":"2005-09-07T18:59:00","modified_gmt":"2005-09-07T22:59:00","slug":"meanwhile-in-the-usa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=456","title":{"rendered":"Meanwhile, in the USA&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m well over my CanCon levels for September, so I think I&#8217;ll plow into US politics for a little bit&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>1. George <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mg.co.za\/articlePage.aspx?articleid=250319&#038;area=\/breaking_news\/breaking_news__international_news\/\">Bush is going to head an inquiry <\/a>into finding out&#8230;how he messed up dealing with Katrina! Gosh, with all the problems of the Gomery Pyle show, why didn&#8217;t Martin just appoint himself to head the Adscam Inquiry? Or, if he was too busy, maybe he could have found <a href=\"http:\/\/jasoncherniak.blogspot.com\/\">a young law graduate <\/a>to handle it.<\/p>\n<p>2. 410 google news stories on <a href=\"http:\/\/news.google.ca\/news?hl=en&amp;amp;lr=&#038;tab=nn&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;ncl=http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/business\/feeds\/afx\/2005\/09\/07\/afx2210373.html\">Hillary Clinton criticizing Bush <\/a>for his handling Hurricane Katrina. It sounds to me like somebody is running for President.<\/p>\n<p>3. John Roberts is now in line to be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsday.com\/news\/printedition\/opinion\/ny-vpsco074414242sep07,0,5482181.story?coll=ny-opinion-print\">Chief Justice<\/a>. Talk about career advancement! I wish there were more companies that dished out juicy promotions <em>before<\/em> they&#8217;d even hired you. Say what you want about Roberts but this is still a nice slap in the face to the other neo-cons on that Court.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m well over my CanCon levels for September, so I think I&#8217;ll plow into US politics for a little bit&#8230; 1. George Bush is going to head an inquiry into finding out&#8230;how he messed up dealing with Katrina! Gosh, with all the problems of the Gomery Pyle show, why didn&#8217;t Martin just appoint himself to [&hellip;]<\/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-456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456","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=456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}