If loading seems slow, it’s because SDA is currently under traffic demands caused by links from both Michelle Malkin and The Corner (among others) to the Cat Ownership Offset post. It would help out a little if you’d go easy on the commenting for a couple of hours.
Thanks (and thanks to Michelle and Jonah Goldberg).
Kate – reader tip here:
http://www.macleans.ca/homepage/features/article.jsp?content=20070322_085414_5788
The exchange between Dion and Harper is AWESOME – just search on the word “passion”.
I’ll just pussy foot in with this.
The trouble with dairy marketing boards.
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2007/03/22/oconnor-liberal.html
Later that night around the dung fire;
Ahmed! Did you watch CBC tonight?
“Liberal defence critic Denis Coderre’ “Harper put the lives of Canadian soldiers in jeopardy by “inflaming our enemies and turning the Afghan people against us.”
You inflamed?
Aahch!
Better cut down on the cheddar.
Wayne in Wetaskiwin
25,000+ visits today !!
Uhm, Kate? Problem here I think.
Speaking of blog notes, the morning after I posted my essay on the budget, here at SDA – tinyurl.com/2az4ao – my blog referenced under my name below got a visit from the PCO. I hope they liked my effort. Maybe their seeing how many of us are counting on the systemic decentralization effort will help them get there 😉
I’d just like to take a moment here in this blog notes thread to thank you once again, Kate, for your most excellent SDA. Though the signal to noise ratio in blog comments is always difficult to maintain, we appreciate your hand on the tiller keeping SDA the most important site there is to discuss Canadian politics. We know that it takes a lot of work to keep SDA running, and deal with junk posts, &c, so I just want to reiterate the high value we place on the efforts you make toward enabling reasonable public discourse.
I second Vitruvius’ comments. SDA is indeed the most important Canadian political blog – and it’s due to ‘Kate’s hand’ – providing a constant update of important topics, weeding out trolls and enabling public discourse.
Such discourse is vital – Canada is undergoing a ‘seismic shift’ in its political and economic structure, the MSM are embedded in the old structure, and the emerging decentralization must be recognized, discussed and encouraged. Blogs are vital in this process – and Kate’s blog is indeed, The Best.
I agree ET, but let’s not stop at the written blog.
My wish is that Kate would dedicate some of her time to BlogTalk radio as well, even if it was only to discuss Miniature German Schnauzers and how they are groomed and shown and maybe have her leave room to discuss cats?
And if things went really well she might take on the loony left in some political debate as well.
And THEN IF THINGS WENT REALLY, REALLY WELL, the CBC might find they would survive by finally putting a conservative commentator (Kate?) into their leftist band gaining some badly needed credibility in the eyes of (forced to fund the CBC) Canadian taxpayers.
Too bad we can’t take a poll here with Kate’s
readers eh?
It’s called
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/default.aspx
I think Kate should make a million painting buses for Conservative rock bands, and blog on the side for fun.
Oh, and the CBC should go private after a Conservative majority wins, and then go broke shortly thereafter.