{"id":337,"date":"2003-10-12T20:42:00","date_gmt":"2003-10-13T01:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crazedmonkey.com\/blog\/uncategorised\/not_ashamed_of_chretien.html"},"modified":"2006-10-15T18:57:09","modified_gmt":"2006-10-15T23:57:09","slug":"not_ashamed_of_chretien","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/crazedmonkey.com\/blog\/politics\/not_ashamed_of_chretien.html","title":{"rendered":"I am not ashamed of Chr&eacute;tien &#8230; this time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m <a href=\"http:\/\/www.the-g-spot.ca\/archives\/00000035.htm\" title=\"The G Spot - I'm Not Ashamed!\">siding with The G Spot<\/a> against the <acronym title=\"United States\">US<\/acronym> drug czar and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.canada.com\/national\/story.asp?id=6798A1BE-EA51-4921-9716-386155D5FDB9\" title=\"Canada.com: PM's jokes on marijuana outrage US.\">his perception that Canadians are ashamed of Chr\u00c3\u00a9tien&#8217;s jokes about smoking pot once he retires<\/a>. Sure, it was a bad joke, but so is the wisdom behind our current anti-drug legislation.<\/p>\n<p>I am, however, ashamed of Canadians who post to right-wing American comment forums and <em>beg<\/em> Americans to invade and &#8220;liberate&#8221; Canada. In many other countries, such talk would land you behind bars on charges of treason. Me, I&#8217;ll be civil and offer some advice. If you people dislike Canada so much, perhaps it would be best for your cause if you coordinated the attack from outside its borders. The rest of us will even help you pack your bags. Hell, we&#8217;ll even hide some prime <acronym title=\"British Columbia\">BC<\/acronym> bud in your luggage as a surprise to share with your friends at the Immigration and Naturalization Service<sup>1<\/sup>!<\/p>\n<p><sup>1<\/sup>Now a subsidiary of Homeland Security.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m <a href=\"http:\/\/www.the-g-spot.ca\/archives\/00000035.htm\" title=\"The G Spot - I'm Not Ashamed!\">siding with The G Spot<\/a> against the US drug czar and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.canada.com\/national\/story.asp?id=6798A1BE-EA51-4921-9716-386155D5FDB9\" title=\"Canada.com: PM's jokes on marijuana outrage US.\">his perception that Canadians are ashamed of Chr\u00c3\u00a9tien&#8217;s jokes about smoking pot once he retires<\/a>. Sure, it was a bad joke, but so is the wisdom behind&nbsp;&hellip;&nbsp;<a class=\"read_more\" href=\"http:\/\/crazedmonkey.com\/blog\/politics\/not_ashamed_of_chretien.html\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Continue reading &ldquo;I am not ashamed of Chr&eacute;tien &#8230; this time&rdquo;\"><span>Read more<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[22,19],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/crazedmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/crazedmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/crazedmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crazedmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crazedmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/crazedmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/crazedmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crazedmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crazedmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}