the blog quebecois

This is why I never joined. I figure someone would find some reason to object to what I write.

I think there needs to be a general conservative blogroll for those who don't want to be part of the Blogging Tories.

Suzanne, there are plenty of people who object to what you write RIGHT NOW, whether you're a member of the BT's or not.

Hmm. That's weird. Our political posts are WAY over 50%, and they've never asked us to join.

I meant I thought I would be pressured to leave because of what I write.

I also think there should be a general conservative blogroll for like minded folk that don't want to be necessarily and forever associated with the CPC; a right wing equivalent to the progressive bloggers, if you will.

Sorry to hear about that. I got punted from their group a year ago for being "inflamitory".

In response however, I ended up setting up my own group called the Anti-PC league. It was extremely easy. All I had to do was get a logo and start-up the blogroll. What started out as a group of one (me) has grown into a listing of over 300 international members. Once I moved my blog to my own server and started using wordpress to publish I was able to set-up an aggregator where "all" members posts show up.

It seems as though you folks may wish to do the same, only for Canadian conservatives who don't want to be a part of the BT echo chamber.

If you're interested in putting something like that together, let me know and I'll give you a hand and space on my server for the aggregator.

By the way, I saw the blog québécois was still listed today on BT. Just thought you should know.

By the way, I saw the blog québécois was still listed today on BT. Just thought you should know.

What exacty does that mean, SUZANNE?

...stupid bitch.

Well, well a driveby anonymous attack. You don't shut me up by calling me a "bitch", you make twice as determined to make myself heard.

gnotalex: I meant my for my comment to be FYI.

politics is a competitive business. a lot of image to keep up. i thought of joining BT during a time when i was caught up between wanting to remain nominally "non-partisan" or doing away with pretenses of "neutrality", because, when it comes down to it, i believe in some things that people may or may not identify with. this was a time when i was worried that the BT label could potentially be a liability to me.

but aside from that there are a lot of times when i just want to have fun with my blog in non-political ways. and, in retrospect, if this is what Stephen Taylor wanted from the BT members, then i'd probably be more of a liability to them than they'd be a liability to me. which is kinda sad, now that i think of it.

but anyway, hope to see more non-political whimsical stuff from you gnotalex, or Pierre, or whatever you prefer to be called. i will never forgot the day when you posted pictures of nekkid women to celebrate the electoral victory of Stephen Harper. it was at that time when i told myself "THIS CONSERVATIVE ROCKS!" (although i was a bit surprised that BT allowed this - they're the blogging TORIES, after all)

speaking of sex & blogging, anybody know what the deal was behind that weird sex blog under the name of Andrew Scheer that had been on BT for some time? hmm.

aaaaanyway... um yeah. >_>

No loss really. I briefly flirted with the BT last year before the election, when I was writing quite a bit (and frequently) about Canadian politics from a Conservative point of view. I thought I should be on the list because I am a party member and was actually working on a campaign. But I refused to list hundreds (so it seems, anyway) of mostly inactive blogs on my site, so I didn't make the cut. (But I'm pretty sure Monte Solberg didn't have to -- what a double-standard!) Which convinced me that, like most blog 'groups', the BT goal is just to get lots of reciprocal links so each member can 'evolve' on the TLB ecosystem.

That said, I bear no grudge against Stephen Taylor. He's a good blogger and works hard at what he does. I just don't want to change my blog to meet his standards. *shrug*

As an admin for Blogging Tories, I'll try express that the job is often a balancing act. We try to integrate as many small c conservative blogs as possible and the aggregator intends to be a collection of conservative Canadian political discussion. Off topic posts in the aggregator tend to diminish the quality of what we try to deliver as a conservative political product to our audience. Since everyone is free to write about whatever they wish, there's an obvious conflict here... and that problem resides on our side and the onus is on Blogging Tories to come up with a solution.

I enjoy reading the "Blog Quebecois". In fact, it was one of Rutherford's favourite blog names as he was reading down the blogroll when he had me on air for an interview. I enjoy reading about the random pop culture blog posts, the flash games (and the occasional political post). If I could find a reliable way to "filter in" your political posts I would and I'd be happy to include you in the aggregator. I'm happy to include you on the blogroll now though.

Suzanne, we'd be happy to have you on the blogroll... however, you've never applied. You speak about your favourite issues with passion and respect for others. Some members of the blogroll may disagree with your position (on the other hand, many would agree), but this would be the same with the CPC itself (big tent). If you'd like to join, send me an email.

Pierre, I'd like to have you back on the blogroll. If that means poking around the aggregator's code for a few more hours... so be it. I'll let you know if I can get it to work. Thanks.

My thanks for everyone's comments; and especially for Stephen Taylor's contribution. Had the roles been reversed, I doubt that I'd have had the decency to respond.

I should apologize in return for the intemperate nature of some of this post (though nowhere near as intemperate as the first draft, heh).

I can certainly understand your desire to maintain BT as a consistently-political site, though I've said before that writing about politics exclusively isn't my strong suit.

This is where the aggregator would really be of use. I think it's fairly obvious from the excerpted paragraph if someone's being serious or flippant -- I, too, find it frustrating to click on a link only to find a "Me too!" post or "Look at what Kate says about it." (Nothing against Kate, of course. She is our North Star, to whom we look for guidance.)

So if you're willing to put this sordid dispute behind us, then so am I. Let not our occasional disagreements interfere with our common purpose of driving the Liberals so far into the ground that they'll emerge in a happier place, amongst their true comrades.

Eureka! Necessity is the mother of invention... or at least of the work-around solution.

I think I figured it out! I'll email you with the details.

Says it all: "Oh, piss off. I'll write what I like."

Good for you. To paraphrase Groucho, "I wouldn't join any blogroll that would have me as a member.

Glad to see you are back. You had "disappeared" for awhile.