Wednesday, July 21, 2004
The Right Wingers are starting to really piss me off....
Apparently the right to a political opionion belongs only to the Right Wing masses - and amazing bad behaviour is not only okay but encouraged when practice by the Right Wing hordes. I am ASHAMED of you all!!!! Apparently you feel that you are the only ones who have a right to the 1st Amendment too. Try again folks - It is Liberty and Justice for ALL - NOT just Right Wing Extreme Conservatives.
And if you are asking what set this off, the crowd reaction to Linda Rondstadt and her believing in her right to express her political beliefs at her concerts. Fie on you that think offensive public behaviour will make anyone with differing beliefs will change them in the face of hooliganism?
For more details, check this out.
Whether or not you want to believe in Michael Moore's movie (btw - there are plenty of articles from newspaper ACROSS the country - not to mention TV news stories that reflect the same image as this movie. Like Clinton before him, Bush is NOT perfect, and it is ridiculous to even elude that this is so, much less assume it. At least with Clinton we were well assured he had the intellect to assume his role as a world leader - I have yet to see solid evidence that this is so in our current President Bush. I see someone who cannot look someone in the eye (watch as how his eyes dart about in an uncontrolled manner when he is doing briefings) and someone who had shown deliberate disrespect to others around him (his penchant for patting bald heads and using others clothes as eyeglass wipes), not to mention his willful chosing NOT to face other ethnic groups, such as his chosing NOT to speak at the NAACP convention four years running -something not done by ANY other president, Republican or Democrat. I am not impressed. Show me something impressive done by Dubya that was not carefully staged by his handlers and I might change my mind, but I am highly sceptical that you can.
And if you are asking what set this off, the crowd reaction to Linda Rondstadt and her believing in her right to express her political beliefs at her concerts. Fie on you that think offensive public behaviour will make anyone with differing beliefs will change them in the face of hooliganism?
For more details, check this out.
Whether or not you want to believe in Michael Moore's movie (btw - there are plenty of articles from newspaper ACROSS the country - not to mention TV news stories that reflect the same image as this movie. Like Clinton before him, Bush is NOT perfect, and it is ridiculous to even elude that this is so, much less assume it. At least with Clinton we were well assured he had the intellect to assume his role as a world leader - I have yet to see solid evidence that this is so in our current President Bush. I see someone who cannot look someone in the eye (watch as how his eyes dart about in an uncontrolled manner when he is doing briefings) and someone who had shown deliberate disrespect to others around him (his penchant for patting bald heads and using others clothes as eyeglass wipes), not to mention his willful chosing NOT to face other ethnic groups, such as his chosing NOT to speak at the NAACP convention four years running -something not done by ANY other president, Republican or Democrat. I am not impressed. Show me something impressive done by Dubya that was not carefully staged by his handlers and I might change my mind, but I am highly sceptical that you can.
Thursday, July 01, 2004
Heh Heh... it is nice to know that I am on the higher end...
Interesting Tidbit on Presidential IQs - and it explains a great deal.
Subject: JUST MENSA
In a report published Monday, the Lovenstein Institute of Scranton, PA,
detailed its findings of a four-month study of the intelligence quotient
of President George W. Bush. Since 1973, the Lovenstein Institute has
published its research to the educational community on each new
president, which includes the famous "IQ" report among others. There
have been twelve presidents from F.D. Roosevelt to G. W. Bush who were
rated based on:
1. Scholarly achievements
2. Writings that they produced without aid of staff
3. Their ability to speak with clarity, and
4. Several other psychological factors which were then scored using the Swanson/Crain system of intelligence ranking.
The study determined the following IQs of each president as accurate to within five percentage points. In order by presidential term:
142 - Franklin Delano Roosevelt
132 - Harry S Truman
122 - Dwight David Eisenhower
174 - John Fitzgerald Kennedy
126 - Lyndon Baines Johnson
155 - Richard Milhous Nixon
121 - Gerald R. Ford
175 - James Earle Carter
105 - Ronald Wilson Reagan
098 - George Herbert Walker Bush
182 - William Jefferson Clinton
091 - George Walker Bush
In IQ order:
182 - William Jefferson Clinton
175 - James Earle Carter
174 - John Fitzgerald Kennedy
155 - Richard Milhous Nixon
147 - Franklin Delano Roosevelt
132 - Harry S Truman
126 - Lyndon Baines Johnson
122 - Dwight David Eisenhower
121 - Gerald R. Ford
105 - Ronald Wilson Reagan
098 - George Herbert Walker Bush
091 - George Walker Bush
The six Republican presidents of the past 50 years had an average IQ of 115.5, with President Nixon having he highest at 155. President George W. Bush rated the owest of all the Republicans with an IQ of 91.
The six Democrat presidents had IQs with an average of 156, with President Clinton having the highest IQ, at 182. President Lyndon B. Johnson was rated the lowest of all the Democrats with an IQ of 126. No president other than Carter [D] has released his actual IQ (176).
Among comments made concerning the specific testing of President G. W.Bush, his low ratings are due to his apparently difficult command of the English language in public statements, his limited use of vocabulary [6,500 words for Bush versus an average of 11,000 words for other presidents], his lack of scholarly achievements other than a basic MBA, and an absence of any body of work which could be studied on an intellectual basis. The complete report documents the methods and procedures used to arrive at these ratings, including depth of sentence structure and voice stress confidence analysis.
"All the Presidents prior to George W. Bush had at least one book under their belt, and most had written several white papers during their education or early careers. Not so with President Bush," Dr. Lovenstein said. "He has no published works or writings, which made it moredifficult to arrive at an assessment. We relied more heavily on transcripts of his unscripted public speaking."
Subject: JUST MENSA
In a report published Monday, the Lovenstein Institute of Scranton, PA,
detailed its findings of a four-month study of the intelligence quotient
of President George W. Bush. Since 1973, the Lovenstein Institute has
published its research to the educational community on each new
president, which includes the famous "IQ" report among others. There
have been twelve presidents from F.D. Roosevelt to G. W. Bush who were
rated based on:
1. Scholarly achievements
2. Writings that they produced without aid of staff
3. Their ability to speak with clarity, and
4. Several other psychological factors which were then scored using the Swanson/Crain system of intelligence ranking.
The study determined the following IQs of each president as accurate to within five percentage points. In order by presidential term:
142 - Franklin Delano Roosevelt
132 - Harry S Truman
122 - Dwight David Eisenhower
174 - John Fitzgerald Kennedy
126 - Lyndon Baines Johnson
155 - Richard Milhous Nixon
121 - Gerald R. Ford
175 - James Earle Carter
105 - Ronald Wilson Reagan
098 - George Herbert Walker Bush
182 - William Jefferson Clinton
091 - George Walker Bush
In IQ order:
182 - William Jefferson Clinton
175 - James Earle Carter
174 - John Fitzgerald Kennedy
155 - Richard Milhous Nixon
147 - Franklin Delano Roosevelt
132 - Harry S Truman
126 - Lyndon Baines Johnson
122 - Dwight David Eisenhower
121 - Gerald R. Ford
105 - Ronald Wilson Reagan
098 - George Herbert Walker Bush
091 - George Walker Bush
The six Republican presidents of the past 50 years had an average IQ of 115.5, with President Nixon having he highest at 155. President George W. Bush rated the owest of all the Republicans with an IQ of 91.
The six Democrat presidents had IQs with an average of 156, with President Clinton having the highest IQ, at 182. President Lyndon B. Johnson was rated the lowest of all the Democrats with an IQ of 126. No president other than Carter [D] has released his actual IQ (176).
Among comments made concerning the specific testing of President G. W.Bush, his low ratings are due to his apparently difficult command of the English language in public statements, his limited use of vocabulary [6,500 words for Bush versus an average of 11,000 words for other presidents], his lack of scholarly achievements other than a basic MBA, and an absence of any body of work which could be studied on an intellectual basis. The complete report documents the methods and procedures used to arrive at these ratings, including depth of sentence structure and voice stress confidence analysis.
"All the Presidents prior to George W. Bush had at least one book under their belt, and most had written several white papers during their education or early careers. Not so with President Bush," Dr. Lovenstein said. "He has no published works or writings, which made it moredifficult to arrive at an assessment. We relied more heavily on transcripts of his unscripted public speaking."
