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Poliglut.org Poliglut.com (politics and opinion from the trenches) Changes It's been four years since cmoanz and I started this blog and a lot has changed. We had the President appointed by a team of judges (notice in particular my prescient comment "Of course Daddy Bush put together a war to help drive consensus behind his agenda, so maybe that's not such a good idea after all". Sorry folks, usually I like being right, not so much this time. We've had a terrorist attack and continue to survive its aftermath. We've seen war waged against a country which had little to do with 9/11 while one from which most of the terrorists came is still our bestest friend. We've seen trolls come and go. We've seen name and layout changes. Thanks to cmoanz for graphics and such over the years. It's been mostly a pleasure (trolls aside) to host this site over the years and the community, especially those I disagree with, has been really cool. But all good things must come to an end. I'm joining a startup and will be yet further time constrained than I have been to date and, frankly, Bush has sucked me dry. I can no longer muster the will to report on his daily attacks on the things which make this country great. So, it's time to move on. Best wishes to cmoanz, JayDaSinnFeinPimp, mjwellne, KatherineD, TTT, patrick, phutureboy, pdq332 and Qoheleth, QuantumFoam. Vote for change. Vote Kerry. The GOP End Game. A story which starts way back in the late 1970's or early 80's when a small group of people made a decision. They were going to overthrow the government of the United States and install a Theocratic Fascist Dictatorship. One nation under a extremist Christen Corporate State. The American version of the Taliban regime. Visit http://www.bluelemur.com/newsbone to read the whole story. Tampa Tribune would rather endorse no one than Bush 40 years of hard line GOP support broken by Bush. Nightline shows SBVT kids to be liars Nightline goes to Vietnam and gets to the bottom of the SBVT thing. Unsurprisingly, it turns out the right is lying to us. All the president's men redux Like the Nixon administration before it, the Bush administration arrived at the White House already obsessed with news management and secrecy. Nixon gave fewer press conferences than any president since Hoover; Mr. Bush has given fewer than any in history. Early in the Nixon years, a special National Press Club study concluded that the president had instituted "an unprecedented, government-wide effort to control, restrict and conceal information." Sound familiar? The current president has seen to it that even future historians won't get access to papers he wants to hide; he quietly gutted the Presidential Records Act of 1978, the very reform enacted by Congress as a post-Watergate antidote to pathological Nixonian secrecy. The author mentions this in his column, but I also have to say that Sinclair Broadcast Group is pure evil. Last debate a draw I'm declaring the last debate a draw and Bush the winner of the election. GOP hates cripples I'm not sure what else to say here. Reeve and Kerry have talked for a long time about stem cell research. Reeve did everything he could while he was alive to make stem cell research happen. Kerry supported stem cell research and made statements before Reeve died. Now, all of a sudden, the GOP says Kerry is being exploitive. Puh-lease. That's what they said about Reagans kid to. Fact is, the GOP cares more about mindless cells than they do about crippled people. $137B election day give away ready for Bush signature Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., called the measure the "worst example of the influence of the special interests I have ever seen." Republican vote fraud a serious concern Apparently folks have been signing up people to vote, but throwing away the registration if they are Dems. Nice. Last debate tonight Bush was better in the last one, let's see what happens tonight. It could be the make or break moment in the election for either candidate. Newsfeed display by CaRP