{"id":921,"date":"2009-09-10T17:43:55","date_gmt":"2009-09-10T21:43:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=921"},"modified":"2009-09-15T23:42:29","modified_gmt":"2009-09-16T03:42:29","slug":"random-links","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2009\/09\/10\/random-links\/","title":{"rendered":"Random links"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few links that I found interesting or amusing:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It was 70 years ago <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/news\/opinions\/going-to-war-parliament-will-decide\/article1281065\/\" target=\"_blank\">today<\/a>. Then: &#8220;Parliament will decide.&#8221; Now: \u201cwe require that military deployments &#8230; be supported by the Parliament of Canada.\u201d Chalk one up for Mackenzie King, as he was right then and Stephen Harper is right to follow his precedent.<\/li>\n<li>Let&#8217;s all hear it for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2009\/09\/09\/conservative-califor.html\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Open Mike&#8221; Duvall<\/a>, former California Republican state representative. Everyone needs standards, and Duvall sets a very low one indeed.<\/li>\n<li>The Minnesota Vikings cut <a href=\"http:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/nfl\/news;_ylt=AsxTDvJnNFjvt9pwRY5a91pDubYF?slug=ap-vikings-wade&#038;prov=ap&#038;type=lgns\" target=\"_blank\">WR Bobby Wade<\/a> (in spite of him having taken a big pay cut to stay with the team this season) and replace him with former Philadelphia Eagles\/New England Patriots WR Greg Ellis (who played for Brad Childress).<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcworld.com\/article\/171724\/wifi_isnt_the_best_way_to_networkright.html?tk=nl_dnx_t_crawl\" target=\"_blank\">Wi-Fi Isn&#8217;t the Best Way to Network&#8230;Right?<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/godscopybook.blogs.com\/gpb\/2009\/09\/paths-of-canadians.html\" target=\"_blank\">The CBC shocks us all . . .<\/a> and decides to broadcast a program that offends certain groups in Quebec.<\/li>\n<li>Two Royal Marine officers traverse the Northwest Passage <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mod.uk\/DefenceInternet\/DefenceNews\/TrainingAndAdventure\/RoyalMarinesNavigateNorthwestPassageByOpenBoat.htm\" target=\"_blank\">in an open boat<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reason.com\/blog\/show\/135984.html\" target=\"_blank\">Thinner is not cheaper<\/a>: the paternalistic urge to get us all to lose weight won&#8217;t make healthcare any less expensive.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Oh, and last, but not least, &#8220;The Guild&#8221; Season 3, Episode 2 (belated H\/T to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ghostofaflea.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ghost of a Flea<\/a> for bringing it to my attention):<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><object classid=\"clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000\" id=\"1bbma7v0\" width=\"432\" height=\"415 \" ><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/images.video.msn.com\/flash\/customplayer\/1_0\/customplayer.swf\" \/><param name=\"bgcolor\" value=\"#ffffff\" \/><param name=\"base\" value=\".\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\" \/><param name=\"flashvars\" value=\"player.v=bdab0fe5-ecc7-4f5e-a946-feefa45d531b&#038;configName=syndicationplayer&#038;configCsid=msnvideo&#038;mkt=en-US\" \/><\/object><noembed><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/video.msn.com\/video.aspx?mkt=en-US&#038;vid=bdab0fe5-ecc7-4f5e-a946-feefa45d531b\" target=\"_new\" title=\"Season 3 - Episode 2: Anarchy!\">Video: Season 3 &#8211; Episode 2: Anarchy!<\/a><\/noembed><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few links that I found interesting or amusing: It was 70 years ago today. Then: &#8220;Parliament will decide.&#8221; Now: \u201cwe require that military deployments &#8230; be supported by the Parliament of Canada.\u201d Chalk one up for Mackenzie King, as he was right then and Stephen Harper is right to follow his precedent. Let&#8217;s all [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[35,109,126,113,162,264],"class_list":["post-921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-randomness","tag-california","tag-computers","tag-minnesotavikings","tag-quebec","tag-socializedmedicine","tag-theguild"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-eR","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/921","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=921"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/921\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":992,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/921\/revisions\/992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}