New Blogsite URL – change your bookmarks for Scott’s Diatribes.
Just an administrative notice: I have changed my domain server after having been on canflag.com for basically a decade. I want to thank the owner of that domain for his longtime hosting of my site.
The new URL address is going to be: http://scottdiatribes.ca — the old canflag.com site will redirect to here for a bit before being disconnected.. but make sure you edit your bookmarks/change the URL to the new one before that.
A big thanks to Kelly John Rose – a former blogger affiliate of mine at Progressive Bloggers – for getting me set up on the new domain.
Today is a pretty neat day – I’ll be in Toronto gathering with some of our blogging afffiliates past and present to celebrate the 10 year anniversary of Progressive Bloggers – the original blogging aggregator of progressive blogs in Canada. It was started up in June 2005 by Wayne Chu, aided by Dan Arnold (of CalgaryGrit fame) with some advice from me and others on forming something to show the then very active blogosphere there were more then just the Blogging Tories online. (The blogosphere back then was seemingly dominated by conservative blogs – I’d like to think we helped counter that a tad).
Anyhow, to all my political friends, foes, and in between, I hope you had a very Merry Christmas, and I wish you the best for the upcoming New Year.
Some folks are dog-gone crazy in Ottawa – and I dont mean the politicians.
If you hadn’t seen it yet, Progressive Bloggers is back up and in a new format with some new features. We’ve managed to figure out what was causing the crashes before, and the corrections seemed to have stopped that, though the site can still grind a bit at loading when there is peak traffic.
It’s still a work in progress, but we’re getting it close to where we want it to be.
Bruce blogged at at Canuck Attitude. I have just heard this evening that he passed away last week, according to his family at his Facebook page.
There are some tributes being left on the page, and I encourage you to leave something there if you feel so compelled. His family members say there is some tribute of some sort being planned for this upcoming Friday (Dec 10).
I don’t care what anyone says, repeated prorogation of Parliament, as a political strategy, is an affront to democracy.
This guy is mad with power!
That’s more objective and critical of Harper then I’d bet 99.9% of the Blogging Tory aggregate, which Free Dominion isn’t even a member of. I don’t know if Connie just pulled a radical conversion (as Little Green Footballs in the US recently did) or if this is just a 1 day thing, but credit where it’s due.
I see the Cons ‘base’ is getting hopeful.
Shorter Stephen Taylor (head honcho of the Blogging Tories aggregate) could be summarized from his tweet as being Those of us who are Conservative activists want a Conservative majority so they can actually start implementing the more contentious parts of our right-wing agenda we’ve kept under wraps.
– In a followup to my blogpost of yesterday, regardless of whether Sheila Copps is being hypocritical or not, I agree with her premise and disagree with James – remove the position of Quebec lieutenant. If it’s not necessary elsewhere in the country, it certainly doesn’t need to be necessary in Quebec. It concentrated too much power in the hands of 1 individual who may or may not use it wisely. As for primaries and the power of appointment et. al., read yesterday’s blogpost for my position on those.