It never ceases to get more interesting, does it? Tonight, I offer you two links. The first is to the website of the Zogby polling organization, which has reprinted an article called "I Smell a Rat," analyzing the statistics behind the recent presidential selection. This was republished tonight by truthout.org

http://www.zogby.com/Soundbites/ReadClips.dbm?ID=10398

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http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/111604Z.shtml

To wit, quote:

The first sign of the rat was on election night. The jubilation of early exit polling had given way to rising anxiety as states fell one by one to the Red Tide. It was getting late in the smoky cellar of a Prague sports bar where a crowd of expats had gathered. We had been hoping to go home to bed early, confident of victory. Those hopes had evaporated in a flurry of early precinct reports from Florida and Ohio.

 By 3 AM, conversation had died and we were grimly sipping beers and watching as those two key states seemed to be slipping further and further to crimson. Suddenly, a friend who had left two hours earlier rushed in and handed us a printout.

 "Zogby's calling it for Kerry." He smacked the sheet decisively. "Definitely. He's got both Florida and Ohio in the Kerry column. Kerry only needs one." Satisfied, we went to bed, confident we would wake with the world a better place. Victory was at hand.

 The morning told a different story, of course. No Florida victory for Kerry -- Bush had a decisive margin of nearly 400,000 votes. Ohio was not even close enough for Kerry to demand that all the votes be counted. The pollsters had been dead wrong, Bush had four more years and a powerful mandate. Onward Christian soldiers -- next stop, Tehran.

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Second selection. This came through one of those multiple recipient emails, and I tracked down this link. I've passed it onto people in the Planet Waves network good at tracking this kind of thing down. It's about an allegedly proposed law called the Constitutional Restoration Act, supposedly HR 3799. Please let it be a hoax. [We have checked into it and it is not a hoax. Google it and see for yourself: "Constitutional Restoration Act."

http://www.yuricareport.com/Dominionism/HR3799ConstitutionRestorationAct.html

And here is a bit from the heathens over at the Moscow Times:

http://context.themoscowtimes.com/index.php?aid=131199

Everything dates back to spring; not sure why it's suddenly sprung up now.

To wit:

`Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, the  Supreme Court shall not have jurisdiction to review, by appeal,  writ of certiorari, or otherwise, any matter to the extent that  relief is sought against an element of Federal, State, or local  government, or against an officer of Federal, State, or local  government (whether or not acting in official personal capacity),  by reason of that element's or officer's acknowledgement of God as the sovereign source of law, liberty, or government'.

I like to stay focused on solutions, but as A Course in Miracles says, "Let me recognize the problem so it can be solved." The floor is open for suggestions.