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George Bush - As Stupid As He Looks? |
Phillipx
Time: 00:28
Date: 06 Nov 2006
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We've all heard the rumours - George Bush is stupid, the evidence being the way he reacted after hearing the news of 9/11. But is he really stupid. My reply to that has always been 'you just cannot be stupid if you are the President of the USA!'.
I saw something about this earlier. Apparently someone analyzed the president oficial writings and came up with a list of the most intelligent presidents based on what was proven to be actual work of each one.
Additionally Yale and harvard have a policy of a "Gentlemans C" Which means if you show up for the class, no materhow well you do you will never get worse than a C.
Now although the following is widely reported as a hoax, its interesting what they actually came up with:
The Presidential IQ Report
WASHINGTON --In a published report, the Lovenstein Institute of Scranton, Pennsylvania has detailed 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 education community on each new president, which includes the famous "IQ" report among others.
According to statements in the report, there have been twelve presidents over the past 60 years, from F. D. Roosevelt to G. W. Bush who were all rated based on scholarly achievements, writings that they alone produced without aid of staff, their ability to speak with clarity, and several other psychological factors which were then scored in the Swanson/Crain system of intelligence ranking. The study determined the following IQs of each president as accurate to within five percentage points:
| 147 |
Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) |
| 132 |
Harry Truman (D) |
| 122 |
Dwight D. Eisenhower (R) |
| 174 |
John F. Kennedy (D) |
| 126 |
Lyndon B. Johnson (D) |
| 155 |
Richard M. Nixon (R) |
| 121 |
Gerald R. Ford (R) |
| 176 |
James E. Carter (D) |
| 105 |
Ronald W. Reagan (R) |
| 98 |
George H. W. Bush (R) |
| 182 |
William J. Clinton (D) |
| 91 |
George W. Bush (R) |
The six Republican presidents of the past 60 years had an average IQ of 115.5, with President Nixon having the highest IQ, at 155. President G. W. Bush was rated the lowest 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 GW Bush, his low ratings were due to his apparent difficulty to command 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 a 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, so in many ways that made it more difficult to arrive at an assessment. We had to rely more heavily on transcripts of his unscripted public speaking."
The Lovenstein Institute of Scranton Pennsylvania think tank includes high caliber historians, psychiatrists, sociologists, scientists in human behavior, and psychologists. Among their ranks are Dr. Werner R. Lovenstein, world-renowned sociologist, and Professor Patricia F. Dilliams, a world-respected psychiatrist. This study was commissioned on February 13, 2001, and released on July 9, 2001, to subscribing member universities and organizations within the education community. |
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Phillipx
Time: 00:37
Date: 06 Nov 2006
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“
George Bush’s vice-president, I’ve
severed all of my ties with the
company, gotten rid of all my financial
interest. I have no financial
interest in Halliburton of any kind.
Since I left Halliburton to become”
—
SEPTEMBER 2003
FORMER CEO DICK CHENEY, Meet the Press,
Halliburton
“
kind of company.”
Halliburton is a unique
—
DICK CHENEY, SEPTEMBER 2003
Total value of contracts given to Halliburton for work
in the Bush-Cheney “War on Terror” since 2001:
More than $15 billion
Amount that Halliburton pays to the Third World
laborers it imports into Iraq to do the work in its
$6 per 12-hour day
dining facilities, laundries, etc.:
(50 cents an hour)
Amount that Halliburton bills us taxpayers for
each of these workers:
$50 a day
Amount that Halliburton bills U.S. taxpayers for:
A case of sodas:
$45
Washing a bag of laundry:
$100
Halliburton’s campaign contributions in Bush-Cheney election years:
In 2000:
$285,252 (96% to Republicans)
In 2004:
$145,500 (89% to Republicans)
Plus $365,065 from members of its board of directors
(99% to Republicans)
Increase in Halliburton’s profits since Bush-Cheney
took office in 2000:
379%
Halliburton’s 2005 profit:
$1.1 billion
(highest in the corporation’s 86-year history)
Annual payments that Cheney has received from Halliburton since
he’s been vice-president:
2001:
$205,298 2004: $194,852
2002:
$162,392 2005: $211,465
2003:
$178,437
The official White House claim before the invasion
of what the war and occupation would cost U.S.
taxpayers:
$50 billion
As of July 2006, the total amount appropriated
by Congress for Bush’s ongoing war and
occupation:
$295,634,921,248
Current Pentagon spending per month in Iraq:
$8 billion
(or $185,185.19 per minute)
Assuming all troops return home by 2010,
the projected “real costs” for the war:
More than $1 trillion
(
billions Bush has borrowed to pay for his war, etc.)
When signing a particular congressional act into law, a few presidents have occasionally issued a “signing statement” to clarify their understanding
of what Congress intended. These have not had the force of law and have been used discreetly in the past.
Very quietly, however, Bush has radically increased both the number and reach of these statements, essentially asserting that the president
can arbitrarily decide which laws he will obey.
includes veterans pay and medical costs, interest on the
Number of signing
statements issued by Bush as of July 2006: more than 800 (This is more than the combined total of all 42 previous presidents.)
A few examples
a ban against torture of prisoners by the U.S. military
a requirement that the FBI periodically report to Congress on how it is using the Patriot Act to search our homes and secretly seize people’s private papers
a ban against storage in military databases of intelligence about Americans that was obtained illegally
a directive for the executive branch to transmit scientific information to Congress “uncensored and without delay” when requested
of congressionally passed laws he has effectively annulled through these extralegal signing statements:
Provision of the Constitution
Provision of the Constitution
Name of the young lawyer
concentrate more power in the executive branch, as Bush is now doing:
clearly stating that Congress alone has the power “to make all laws”: Article 1, Section 8clearly stating that the president “shall take care that the laws be faithfully executed”: Article 2, Section 3in the Reagan administration who wrote a 1986 strategy memo on how to pervert the use of signing statements in order toSamuel Alito, named to the U.S. Supreme Court by Bush this year
The New York Times
that Bush was running another spy
program. This one was snooping
through international banking records,
including millions of bank transactions
done by innocent Americans. George
reacted angrily to the exposure, branding
the
reported this JuneTimes report “disgraceful” and
declaring that revelation
program “does great harm to the
of his spy
The imperial
presidency
Signing statements: Follow the money:
These are secret executive writs that the infamous 2001 Patriot Act authorizes the
FBI to issue to public libraries, internet firms, banks, and others. Upon receiving an
NSL, the institution or firm is required to turn over any private records it holds on
you, me, or whomever the agents have chosen to search.
Who authorizes the FBI to issue these secret writs? The FBI itself.
Surely the agents
a court’s approval?
But to issue an NSL
searched has committed some crime, right?
Well, don’t officials
so they can defend themselves or protest?
Number of NSLs
have to get a search warrant, a grand jury subpoena, orNo, an agent must show probable cause that the person beingNohave to inform citizens that their records are being seizedNoissued by various FBI offices last year alone: 9,254
National security letters:
“
and relatively soon.
MARCH 2003
We’re dealing with a country that can really finance its own reconstruction,” —“HOWLING PAUL” WOLFOWITZ, deputy defense secretary, testimony to Congress
“
the interesting thing about being the president. Maybe somebody needs
to
I’mthe commander—see, I don’t need to explain—I do not need to explainwhy I say things. That’sexplain tome why they say something, but I don’t
feel like owe
anybodyan explanation.”
—
GEORGE W�� AUGUST 2002
The war president
Annual salary of Stuart Baker, hired by the Bushites to be
the White House “Director for Lessons Learned”:
$106,641
Number of lessons that Bush appears to have learned:
0
“
and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm
our country and our people, and neither do we.
Our enemies are innovative and resourceful,”
—
GEORGE W, AUGUST 2004
Number of Americans killed in Bush’s
Iraqwar as of August 2006:
2577
What Bush press flack Tony Snow
said the day the total number of
American dead reached 2,500:
“It’s a number”
Number of Americans killed since Bush declared “Mission
Accomplished” on May 1, 2003:
2,438
Number of Americans wounded
includes such horrors as brain damage, limbs
blasted off, eyes blown out, psyche shattered, etc.)
(a vague term that
in Bush’s war:
Independent count - up to 48,000
Official count -18,777
Estimated number of Iraqi civilians
Bush’s war since Saddam Hussein was ousted:
(men, women, and children) killed in38,960
For Iraqis, the bloodiest month of the war so far:
June 2006
more than 100 civilians killed per day
Brig. Gen. Mark Kimmit’s advice to Iraqis who see TV reports of innocent
civilians being killed by occupying troops:
“Change the channel.”
Percent of Iraqis who want American troops to leave:
82
Stockpiles of Weapons of Mass Destruction found in
Iraq since Bush committed Americans to war in 2003
on the basis that Saddam had and was about to use WMDs:
0
Number of nations in the world:
192
Number that joined Bush’s “Coalition of the Willing”
(COW) to invade Iraq:
48
(The list includes such military powers as Angola, El Salvador, Eritrea, Estonia, Latvia,
Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Palau, Romania, Solomon Islands, and Uganda.)
Number of COW nations that actually sent any troops to Iraq:
39
(Of these, 32 sent fewer than 1,000 troops. Many sent no fighting units, deploying
only engineers, trainers, humanitarian units, and other noncombat personnel.)
Number of the 39 COW nations contributing troops that have
since withdrawn them:
17
(An additional 7 have announced plans to withdraw all or part of their contingents
this year.)
Number of COW troops in Iraq:
150,000
Number of these that are U.S. troops:
139,000
Number of White House officials and cabinet members who
have any of their immediate family in Bush’s war:
0
Regime
of secrecy
“
Democracies die behind closed doors.”
—
Ruling in a 2002 case that the Bushites
cannot hold deportation hearings in secret
APPEALS COURT JUDGE DAMON KEITH,
Increase in the number of government documents marked “secret”
between 2001 and 2004:
81%
Number of government documents stamped “secret” in 2001:
8.6 million
Number of government documents stamped
15.6 million
“secret” in 2004:
(a new record)
Cost to taxpayers of classifying and
$7.2 billion
securing documents in 2004:
($460 per document)
Number of previously declassified documents that the CIA tried to
reclassify as “secret” under a 2001 secret agreement with the
National Archives, even though many had already been
published and some date back to the Korean War:
25,315
Number of different “official designations” the
government now has to classify nonsecret in
formation so it still is kept out of the public’s reach:
Between 50 and 60
(They include such stamps as CBU - Controlled But
Unclassified, SBU - Sensitive But Unclassified, and
LOU—Limited Official Use Only.)
The only vice-president in history who has claimed
that he, like the president, has the inherent authority
to mark “secret” on any document he chooses:
“Buckshot” Cheney
Number of documents Cheney has classified:
That’s a secret.
(He claims he does not have to report this to anyone—not even the president.)
Of the 7,045 advisory committee meetings held by
the Bushites in 2004, percentage that were
completely closed
clear intent of the Federal Advisory Committee Act:
to the public, contrary to the64% (a new record)
Number of times from 1953 to1975 (the peak of the Cold War)
that presidents invoked the “state secrets” privilege, which
grants them unilateral power in extraordinary instances literally
to shut down court cases on the grounds they could reveal
secrets that the president doesn’t want disclosed:
4
Number of times the same privilege was invoked
between 2001 and 2006:
At least 24
Under Clinton, Attorney General Janet Reno issued an official memo
instructing agencies to release as much information as possible to
the public. In October 2001, AG John Ashcroft issued a memo
canceling Reno’s approach, expressly instructing agencies
to look for reasons to deny the public access to information and
pledging to support the denials if the agencies were sued.
2005 FOIA requests still awaiting a response at year’s end:
31%
(a one-third increase over the 2004 backlog)
Median waiting time to get an answer on FOIA request
from Bush’s justice department: 863 days
863 days
Cash bonus paid to Cheney by Halliburton just
before he took office:
$1.4 million
Retirement package he was given in 2000 after
only 5 years as CEO:
$20 million
Number of times in the past two years that Republicans have killed
Sen. Byron Dorgan’s amendment to set up a Truman-style committee
on war profiteering to investigate Halliburton:
3
Naughty word Cheney used during a Senate photo session
in 2004 to assail Sen. Patrick Leahy, who had criticized
Cheney’s ongoing ties to Halliburton:
“Go #@!% yourself.”
United States.” The White House and
its right-wing acolytes promptly
launched a
campaign.
Name the guy who was the first to
reveal that such a
was in the works:
a September 2001 press conference,
he announced that he’d just signed an
“Hate-the-Times” politicalbank-spying programGeorge W. Bush! At
executive order
bank transactions.
to monitor all international
From the Bushites’ ill-fated Total Information
Awareness program (meant to monitor all of
our computerized transactions) to the robust
efforts by Rumsfeld’s Pentagon to barge into
the domestic surveillance game, America
under Bush has fast become The Watched
Society.
Number of data-mining programs being run
secretly on us by the federal government:
Nearly 200 separate programs
at 52 agencies
Number of “local activity reports” submitted
to the Pentagon in 2004 under the “Threat and
Local Observation Notice” program (TALON),
which directed military officers throughout our
country to keep an eye on suspicious
activities by civilians:
More than 5,000
(They included such “threats” as peace
demonstrators and 10 activists protesting outside
Halliburton’s headquarters.)
Number of official “watch lists” maintained
by the feds:
run by 9 different agencies
More than a dozen
Number of Americans on
the Transportation Security
Administration’s “No-
Fly” list:
That’s a secret.
(TSA concedes that it’s in the tens of thousands.
In 2005 alone, some 30,000 people called TSA
to complain that their names were mistakenly on
the list.)
Most famous citizen
who is on the No-Fly
list and has been repeatedly
pulled aside by TSA for additional
screenings at airports:
Sen. Ted Kennedy
How can you get your name
removed from TSA list?
That’s a secret.
In 2001, Bush issued a secret order for the National Security Agency to begin vacuuming
up massive numbers of telephone and internet exchanges by U.S. citizens,
illegally seizing this material without any judicial approval or informing Congress,
as required by law.
Number of Americans
communications taken by NSA:
who have had their phone and internetJust about everyone!
(NSA is tapping into the entire database of long-distance calls and internet messages run through
AT&T and probably other companies as well.)
In May of this year,
was trying to uncover the name of the top officials who had authorized NSA’s warrantless,
unconstitutional program. Who killed this probe, which was requested by Congress?
the Justice Department abruptly halted an internal investigation that
George W himself!
department’s legal investigators.)
(He directed NSA simply to refuse security clearances for the
What happened to NSA Director
illegal eavesdropping program and the one who would’ve formally denied clearances to
Justice Department investigators?
This past May,
NSA’s spy program could be prosecuted under the antiquated Espionage Act of 1917.
Michael Hayden, who was the key architect of Bush’sIn May, Bush promoted him to head the CIA.Attorney General Alberto Gonzales warned that journalists who report on
Times in U.S. history
Margin by which
the Espionage Act apply to journalists:
this act has been used to go after the press: 0the U.S. House in 1917 voted down an amendment to make184-144
NSA eavesdropping:
Watch lists:
In 1966,
elders to cosponsor the original
valiantly declaring that public records “are public property.” He said
that FOIA “will make it considerably
bureaucrats to decide arbitrarily that the people should be
denied access to information on the conduct of government.”
Who was that virtuous law maker?
Only
of staff strongly urged him to veto the
continuation of FOIA. Who was that
dastardly staffer?
a young Republican congressman stood against his party’sFreedom of Information Act,more difficult for secrecymindedeight years later, Gerald Ford’s chief
Who is now
chief “secrecy-minded
bureaucrats”
who routinely
violates
OIA’s
principles?
one of the
Donald Rumsfeld!
Donald Rumsfeld!
Right,
him again!
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