It was 1948 when British author George Orwell's alarming view of life in the future was presented in the chilling novel "1984."  Orwell inverted the last two numbers as he wrote about a society existing 36 years into the future.

Robert Kane Pappas brings the story forward 20 years to 2004, when his penetrating documentary "Orwell Rolls in His Grave" was released.  This is the year of a presidential contest between two former Yale University Skull and Bones members that resulted in what serious experts who have carefully studied the November presidential election concluded was a stolen result.

It is to be noted that rigged elections have been an active part of election machinery in dictatorships.  Pappas' film represents a stern warning about what would culminate that November, followed quickly by Skull and Bonesman John Kerry conceding to George W. Bush, later explaining that he did not want to be perceived as a "sore loser."  

The Kerry "explanation" reeked of absurdity on its face.  Four years earlier two deciding votes of the Federalist Society wing of the U.S. Supreme Court "installed" Bush as the nation's chief executive after thousands of African Americans in Florida had been denied the right to vote and Al Gore had secured more popular votes than his rival.  

Last week's incredulous activities once more revealed how Bushspeak seeks to divorce America from reality and how the mainstream media is willing to carry out spin control based on fiction disseminated from the White House and the Cheney bunker.

Scott McClellan was a worth successor to Ari Fleischer, whose own father bemoaned how low his son had stooped to earn a prosperous living.  As resident White House spin disseminators it was their responsibility to deliver lines that would make any non-practitioner of Bushspeak choke.  

Who can forget Ari Fleischer displaying righteous indignation by tartly declaring that White House policy decisions were not based on politics?  

That day there were not enough Armstrong Williams style paid cheerleaders in the audience to prevent an eruption of laughter from the assembled reporters, upon which an offended Fleischer stormed angrily out of the room, abruptly concluding the news conference.

I've seen a few polls over at dKos polls that said that about 50% or so of Kosmopolitans do not know much or anything about the Republican Study Committee (RSC), which is disturbing, considering the group's members are those behind the proposed Federal Marriage Amendment, (H.J.Res. 56).

Beyond that, RSC members have proposed legislation that would allow churches to make political endorsements. The Houses of Worship Free Speech Restoration Act (H.R. 235) would repeal the authority of the IRS to revoke the tax status of a church, temple, or mosque whose clergy speak out on political issues.

So I snuck around on the RSC website and wrote up something about the RSC's more amusing and scary activities, which I posted over at dKos and am posting here as well in abbreviated form.