and much more. Sure, I still need to do a bit of tweeking to the site, but will save that for tomorrow..... or.... Must get NNECA newsletter finished!
CHURCH PLUG:
The Very Dr. George Werner: “My Life as President of the House of Bishops”
Celebrant: The Rev. Tony Clavier
Preacher: The Very Rev. George Werner, former Dean of Trinity Cathedral, Pittsburgh, PA. President of the House of Deputies, 2000-2006
Went to the Cancer Center today to have more labs drawn. Saw a wonderful Indian doctor, and it was like ole home week between him and Tony, since the doctor was trained in Birmingham, UK. We saw our Dr. Craig roaming the halls, but didn't get to say hello. Poo! I wonder how his kitty is doing with that ball of catnip. grin
Potassium is low! White blood cells are up... infection! Hrumph. We return on Friday for more labs. Doctor's think the antibiotics may be doing so well, they've offset the fungal/bacterial balance of things. Fr. Tony has sore throat, and sorer esophagus. (thrush, possibly). Left with yet another prescription, though insurance company wants doctor to call and explain if the med is "medically necessary"! Now, I ask you... why would the doctor write the prescription IF it were not medically necessary? OY!
MOVIE NIGHT
If I've yet to give ole Blockbuster a shameless plug... I'll do it now. Their new online movie rental program is GREAT! If you have Netflix... guess what? You can now go to Blockbuster and get a free movie on them! Yep! Not only can you rent legions of films on line, through Blockbuster, for a song, but, you can also rent them in the local store, free, if you take one of your online rentals in for return! I guess all the years of late fees Blockbuster accumulated out of us procrastinators, is now being paid back, in spades! YAY!
On tap for tonight?
The 2nd in the series of ... oh.. the Johnny Depp pirate movie.. Ah... Pirates of the Carribean.
and
Joyeux Noel
WONDERFUL PHOTOS FROM OUR MEGAROO!!!
Megan is discovering more and more how very difficult it will be for her to leave Thailand in about 6 months. There's SO much work to be done, and so few to do the work. Ohhh, if only money really did grow on trees. I've posted a letter from her on the parish website. It's well worth a read.
PRESIDENTIAL REPORT! I don't think you'll be surprised to find out...
A report published Monday, by the Lovenstein Institute of Scranton,
Pennsylvania, 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 over the past 50 years, from F.D. Roosevelt to G.W. Bush, who were rated based on scholarly achievements:
1. Writings that they produced without aid of staff.
2. Their ability to speak with clarity, and several other psychological factors, which were then scored using the Swanson/Crain System of intelligence ranking.
Drum roll pleeeeease....
In order of IQ rating:
182 . . William Jefferson Clinton [D]
175 .. . James Earle Carter [D]
174 . . John Fitzgerald Kennedy [D]
147 . . Franklin Delano Roosevelt [D]
132 . . Harry S Truman [D]
126 . . Lyndon Baines Johnson [D]
122 . .. Dwight David Eisenhower [R]
121 . . Gerald R. Ford [R]
105 . . Ronald Wilson Reagan [R]
098 . . George Herbert Walker Bush [R]
091 . . George Walker Bush [R]
The six Republican presidents of the past 50 years had an average IQ of 115.5, with President Nixon having the highest at 155. President George W. Bush rated the lowest of all the Republicans with an IQ of 91.
The six Democratic presidents of the past 50 years had an average IQ 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). Note the institute measured him at 175.
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 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, which made it more difficult to arrive at an assessment. We relied 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 For more information on the Lovenstein Institute, go to http://lovenstein.org//
TIME IS FLITTING BY.... MORE TOMORROW
TA TA AND KEEP WARM!
