{"id":105,"date":"2006-09-20T13:33:53","date_gmt":"2006-09-20T13:33:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valianthosting.ca\/clients\/daemon\/?p=105"},"modified":"2008-04-07T02:28:08","modified_gmt":"2008-04-07T02:28:08","slug":"links-such","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/?p=105","title":{"rendered":"links &#038; such"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Emotionally, I&#8217;m drained. Instead of reading my babbling, today you get to view a list of links and reasons why I think you should click on them&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cfra.com\/red-fridays\/index.asp?id=8\">CRFA 580<\/a> (Talk Radio in Ottawa) is holding a public rally in support of Canadian Troops on <span class=\"bodytext\">Friday Sept 22, 2006 at Parliament Hill in Ottawa from 12:00 Noon &#8211; 1:00 pm.<\/span><\/li>\n<li>Take a few minutes to visit the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cfpsa.com\/\">Canadian Forces Personnel Support Agency<\/a> (CFPSA). Buy something nice. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cfpsa.com\/en\/services\/media\/newsReleases\/2006_09_06_e.asp\">Grapes<\/a> recommends the hats.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/barkingmadly.blogspot.com\/2006\/09\/on-picking-and-choosing.html\">The Amazing Wonderdog<\/a> dissects the study published by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.policyalternatives.ca\/\">Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives<\/a> titled <a href=\"http:\/\/www.policyalternatives.ca\/documents\/National_Office_Pubs\/2006\/Canadas_Fallen.pdf\" target=\"_doc\">Canada&#8217;s Fallen:<\/a> Understanding Canadian Military Deaths in Afghanistan. Actually, I can&#8217;t honestly call this a study and look my ethics professor in the face ever again. It&#8217;s a prime example of making statistics match a pre-set theory and discarding or refusing to acknowledge any dissenting data. I should not be surprised though. Both of the authors are affiliated with the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.polarisinstitute.org\/\">Polaris Institute<\/a>. One of the authors is the very same Steve Staples that I&#8217;ve <a href=\"http:\/\/valianthosting.ca\/clients\/daemon\/?p=12\">ranted<\/a> about before. Realizing this, it&#8217;s hard to be surprised by the content and quality (or, imnsho, lack there-of) of the report. After all, if Mr. Staples can&#8217;t get something as simple as AWOL right, then it&#8217;s hard to give creedence to anything else he has to write relating to the Canadian Forces.You can also mosey on over to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dustmybroom.com\/?p=4520\">Dust my Broom<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/prairiewrangler.blogspot.com\/2006\/09\/centre-for-policy-alternatives-bunk.html\">The Prarie Wrangler<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tartcider.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/09\/the_new_alterna.html\">Tart Cider<\/a> to read their take on the offending report.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span class=\"technoratitag\">Technorati Tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tags\/red+friday\" rel=\"tag\">red friday<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tags\/support+the+troops\" rel=\"tag\">support the troops<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tags\/rally\" rel=\"tag\">rally<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tags\/canadian+forces\" rel=\"tag\">canadian forces<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tags\/polaris+institute\" rel=\"tag\">polaris institute<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tags\/CRFA+580\" rel=\"tag\">CFRA 580<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tags\/stephen+staples\" rel=\"tag\">Steven Staples<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tags\/AWOL\" rel=\"tag\">AWOL<\/a> <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Emotionally, I&#8217;m drained. Instead of reading my babbling, today you get to view a list of links and reasons why I think you should click on them&#8230; CRFA 580 (Talk Radio in Ottawa) is holding a public rally in support of Canadian Troops on Friday Sept 22, 2006 at Parliament Hill in Ottawa from 12:00 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-soldier-on"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}