Couldn't follow the link, oj; was this a front page story? The last sentence you quoted is much tougher than most of what I've read on the web. Think Minnesota might be a swing state?

But it's August and the Olympics are on so no one is paying attention? Kerry might have erred in fighting this thing - it will now get dragged out through Labor day when people start paying attention.

Fred:

MN is already pretty much a red state.

Forgot to mention.
Fred - Gore only won MN by 2% in 2000 and in 2002 the GOP picked up the governorship and a Senate seat. Polls have showed Bush and Kerry close in this state but Kerry consistently holding a small lead. Polls aside I think MN has a very good chance of being a Bush pickup in 2004.

This is the link.

Uncle Bill

How do you do the linkage type thingy on your post? Then again if you think it's too difficult to explain, don't bother.

AWW:

The Olympics? Is anyone watching?

The authors of this piece are the principals of Powerline, an excellent conservative blog.

http://www.powerlineblog.com/

OJ:

As a matter of fact yes. And I must say that, IMHO, NBC is doing a great job covering the games. In past Olympics I've hated their coverage as it amounted to a two week long series of human interest pieces occasionally interspersed with actual sports coverage. This year they seem to have cut back significantly on the warm and fuzzy pieces and are providing an unprecedented variety of Olympic events by broadcasting on not only their national over-the-air network, but also on their cable channels CNBC, MSNBC, USA, Bravo, and Telemundo.

I don't know how they're doing in the ratings, or if the model they're using this year is financially viable, but as a sports enthusiast I believe in giving credit where credit is due.

H:

The format is [a href="URL"]HIGH-LIGHTED LINK WORDS[/A], where URL is the site you want to reference and the left and right brackets are replaced by the less-than and greater-than symbols.

So, Uncle Bill's link is: [a href="http://www.startribune.com/stories/1519/4933509.html"]This is the link.[/a] Or, with the proper symbols put in: This is the link.

You'll be able to see the proper formatting by viewing the source file (in IE, right click anywhere in the comment box and select "View Source") and searching for "This is the link".

h-man:

It is hard to show in the comments of a blog because the comment program interprets what is written in the comment box.

So we will start by replacing the left corner bracket (shift-comma ',') with the left square bracket '['. Also replace the right corner bracket with the right square bracket.

Then the syntax is:

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Where you see '[', press shift-comma.
Where you see ']', press shift-period.

URL is to be replaced by the link, such as: www.brothersjudd.com/blog/

Note that there is no http:// preceeding the link.

TEXT is to be, as it suggests, replaced by the text which, on this blog will show as underlined blue.

Be sure to use preview and check to see if the post looks good. I.E. the desired text and only the desired text shows as underlined blue.

If not, you have messed up the syntax and have to try again.

Once everything looks good, click the link in the 'Previewing your Comment' area to see if it takes you whrere you want to go.

If not the link you used is not the one you want or is broken (i.e. bad url syntax).

The biggest problem with all of this is getting the syntax 'picture perfect' because if it is not the translation engine will make a mess of it.

The comments processor on many blogs make this process much easier. In the simple case, in the neighborhood of the comments box, examples which can be highlighted and pasted are shown. In other cases 'buttons' are supplied which when clicked insert the approprate syntax at the current cursor position.

OJ - I'm not due to lack of time (mostly) and being interested in only a few sports (I'm not following badminton, judo, etc). I was just noting the conventional wisdom that there wouldn't be much focus on politics until Labor day.

Uncle Bill:

I always stick the "http://" into my links, just cause it's easier just to copy and paste the link from the address bar.

True or False:

When asked about the discrepancies in his previous comments about spending Christmas in Cambodia in 1968, Senator John Kerry replied, "I was there when the event in question never occurred."
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False, of course, but isn't this fun?

Kerry will have to be institutionalized after the press conference where he attempts to explain all his Cambodia tales. Check out the Captain's Quarters blog (from MN) about the timeline of Kerry's first combat experience (as reported in Douglas Brinkley's book) and his first Purple Heart.

Is that Roger Mudd I see on the horizon? Or Ed Muskie?

Geez, no wonder I make a mess so often, I can't understand any of that.

MB:

The manufacturers of performance enhancing drugs?

OJ:

Which one, Cialis or Viagra? Or are you alluding to something else? ;-)

MB:

"giving credit where credit is due" All the Olympics are at this point is contests between steroidal freaks,

STEROIDS! BREAKFAST OF CHAMPIONS!
-- cereal box in Attack of the Killer Tomatoes

OJ:

"All the Olympics are at this point is contests between steroidal freaks"

No more so than baseball.

OJ:

Oh, that's nothing. I understand that transsexuals will be allowed to compete as their new genders in future games...

I'm sure there are lots of "new women" waiting to compete in the female shot put.

Thanks to David and Uncle Bill

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