Conservative politicians take note - this is how you write a blog entry.
Never mind that Canada/US relations may have reached their lowest point since we burned down the White House. That's not important. The real issue is that Mr Paul Martin Luther King is going to defend the Charter from those barbarians who would strip away the "right" to same sex marriage and return us to those backward times of, say, last Tuesday when only opposite sex couples could marry. Those were the days when knuckle draggers like Paul Mart....oh never mind. That's in the past now. He didn't understand about the fundamental human right thing. He was ignorant. Actually he was where a third of his own caucus is today. I guess they hadn't heard that Paul Martin Luther King has now decided that same sex marriage is a fundamental human right that is protected by the Charter. It was all along. We just didn't know about it until PMLK proclaimed it from the mountain top. Let freedom ring.
Now, Monte, you too, need to add a blogroll, and trackbacks, so we can start shovelling readers your way.
I thought it was the British who burned the White House? Or did you both burn it down and I missed that?
Oh, now I'm pissed.
Altho I have to admit after the first time we probably should have rebuilt it somewhere else, like Kansas maybe.
Do you think that politicians don't have blog rolls because they are afraid that by doing so they are somehow giving approval of their content and thereby exposing themselves? I am just thinking out loud here...
The whole trackback thing still confuses me :-(
But yeah, beauty post!
Martin's a goner.Crouton could garner sympathy,as he stuck in the shiv, but the Desmarais Dog Walker is becoming unsatirizable.I may as well have a cocktail.
I think that's the issue with the blogroll - it's really unfounded, considering the number of reliable sites one can link to without concern, given a little guidance and even a disclaimer "we do not necessarily endorse....".
In terms of cost/benefit ratio overall, I don't know how a blog can really succeed without one.
Actually, I've been in touch with Monte's "team" and the reason he has no feedback sections is really very simple, and quite sensible if one were to think about it. If there were a way to post on Monte's blogsite....how long do you think it would be before Scott Reid and other Liberal attack dogs started filling the site with garbage and innuendo?
I'm not suggesting he have comments - most of the large blog sites in the US do without them for that reason, and to control bandwidth. But the blogroll is essential, and trackbacks are quite managable. If someone tracks back with something vile, it's a simple process to delete it.
What the hell is a trackback??
Look at the line of information under each of my blog posts. You'll see "trackback" If you click on one that has a numeral indicated, you'll find it contains information from an outside blog, indicating that blogger has linked to that specific post. You can then "track back" to the post they've written. It is in such a way that opinion and information propogates in _both_ directions.
Thanks Kate, appreciate it.
okay, I think I understand about trackbacks; but what's this about a 'blog'?
Oh, oh! Seems that Monte's comments have caused outrage from the usual suspects.
Warren Kinsella can call Conservatives "knuckle draggers" every week on his site, but let a Conservative do it and suddenly it's news.
http://www.canada.com/montreal/montrealgazette/news/story.html?id=012867e2-c191-43bf-ada2-7587eea71a3a
"Conservative MP Monte Solberg came under fire yesterday after he posted comments to his personal Web blog mocking Prime Minister Paul Martin as Paul Martin Luther King and urging him to take his "hairy knuckles back to Selma, Alabama."
"Notre-Dame-de-Grace-Lachine Liberal MP Marlene Jennings said she was left speechless after reading it."