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*Bottom Scholars *

Posted 07/02/2010 06:59 PM ET

*Academic Fraud:* A new ranking of U.S. presidents has been released. No. 15 — three spots higher than Ronald Reagan — is a chief executive who’s been in office less than 18 months. This would be funny if it weren’t so sad.

The list was compiled by the Siena College Research Institute, which asked 238 “presidential scholars” to rank the 43 presidents in 20 categories. FDR finished first, buoyed by a No. 1 rating in “handling the economy.” Theodore Roosevelt was second, then Lincoln, Washington and Jefferson. Rounding out the top 10: Madison, Monroe, Wilson, Truman and Eisenhower.

It’s in the second 10, however, that things get funny. Barack Obama and his record-low approval ratings, tottering economy and feckless foreign policy somehow end up 15th while Reagan, who ended the Cold War, turned the U.S. economy around and set the stage for 20 years of unprecedented prosperity, is 18th.

John Kennedy, Bill Clinton and Lyndon Johnson also outrank the Gipper, who scored highest on “luck” and lowest on “intelligence .”

The bias in Siena’s latest rankings begins with the choice of categories. Some are legitimate: economic stewardship, foreign policy accomplishment, domestic achievement, leadership ability, court appointments, integrity. But others are simply asinine.

Besides luck, “family background, education and experience” are dubious measures. Here too, Reagan ranked low (34th). No getting around that Eureka College degree. But so did George W. Bush (36th), despite his Yale B.A., Harvard MBA and a father who ranked 11th. Overall, Bushes 41 and 43 finished 22nd and 39th.

And while ability to communicate can be helpful, it’s not necessarily a key to greatness or even competence. “Ability to compromise” can be a sign of weakness or lack of principle, and “party leadership” doesn’t mean much if the party is led in the wrong direction.

Opinions on “handling the economy” are particularly interesting.

Here, Reagan ranks a mediocre 21st, lower than Obama, who stands 17th based on the bang-up job he’s done so far, and well behind LBJ (10th), JFK (7th) and — despite two recessions in less than eight years — Harry Truman (6th).

Clinton stands a lofty third on economic stewardship, behind the two Roosevelts, and far ahead of Calvin Coolidge (30th), who only presided over the boom of the Roaring ’20s.

Clinton is also considered by the scholars as our ninth-most-intelligent president, a notch behind Obama. Reagan is the seventh least intelligent, two spots behind Gerald Ford, and George W. Bush is second from the bottom in the brain department.

We are not making any of this up. You can see all the ratings at our Web site (ibdeditiorials.com). Why, if they’re so silly, are we mentioning them at all? Because they’re another example of the sorry state of American education. These people are teaching our kids.

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-the next stage in the JUZIS takeover of America….take away the guns…..people if they disarm you its all over….please get active on this ” Right to Bare Arms” ….if you lose this Constitutional Right to Defend yourselves….the Tyranny will increase and the ” Police State” will become America’s worse nightmare….these Traitors in D.C./ the District of Criminals want to enslave you totally to their Authority……B:/

-the next stage in the JUZIS takeover of America….take away the guns…..people if they disarm you its all over….please get active on this ” Right to Bare Arms” ….if you lose this Constitutional Right to Defend yourselves….the Tyranny will increase and the ” Police State” will become America’s worse nightmare….these Traitors in D.C./ the District of Criminals want to enslave you totally to their Authority……B:/

*BofA to limit duration of trades with BP* Untitled 297

http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE65E5W520100615

NEW YORK (Reuters) – Bank of America Merrill Lynch (BAC.N: Quote , Profile , Research , Stock Buzz ) has ordered its traders not to enter into oil trades with BP Plc (BP.L: Quote , Profile , Research , Stock Buzz ) that extend beyond June 2011, a market source familiar with the directive told Reuters. The order to the bank’s traders came from a high-level executive and was made on Monday, according to a source familiar with it. It told traders not to engage in trade with BP for contracts beyond one year from this month. The directive didn’t state a reason for the limit on longer-duration trades with the oil company, which comes as the British oil giant scrambles to stop an oil spill in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico for which it could eventually face billions of dollars in economic liabilities. Limiting the duration of trades with a counterparty is one way in which banks can seek to protect themselves against risk that a company will be unable to meet its long-term obligations. A BofA spokesman declined comment. BP spokesman Toby Odone said the company doesn’t comment on market rumors or speculation. The company’s U.S.-traded shares (BP.N: Quote , Profile , Research , Stock Buzz ), which have plummeted around 47 percent since the disaster, rose 2.4 percent on Wall Street during Tuesday trading, then fell after the closing bell. At 5:45 p.m. EDT (2145 GMT), BP’s shares traded at $30.66, after closing at $31.40. Also after hours, a team of scientists appointed by the government to assess the flow-rate of the BP spill in the Gulf, boosted its estimate to as much as 60,000 barrels per day. A source familiar with BP’s trading operations said they have not been curtailed since the oil spill in April. BP wasn’t informed of any new trading limits with BofA, which is a relatively small player in oil markets and not among BP’s top trading counterparties, the source said. The source familiar with the BofA directive said it reflects a cautionary stance toward trading with BP. However, the directive did not reference any reduction in overall credit volume the bank would extend to BP. BP’s credit rating was downgraded six notches on Tuesday by Fitch Ratings, which cited the high costs BP may face for compensating victims of the company’s Gulf spill. Fitch downgraded BP to BBB from an AA rating. A source familiar with the BofA directive said it could include any trades in physical commodities, derivatives and swaps for crude oil and products. The British energy giant ranks among the world’s top oil producers and traders in physical energy markets and derivatives. BP’s Macondo well in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico continues to spill oil into the Gulf after deadly explosions sank the Transocean Horizon rig in late April. The potential for soaring liabilities related to clean up costs, economic damages and legal penalties that BP could face after the Gulf spill has led some analysts and bankers to speculate that the oil giant may throttle back its trading operations. Several fuel oil traders have recently resigned from BP, including four traders from its Singapore office last week, industry sources told Reuters. Banks typically require companies like BP to put up collateral to back trades in the private derivatives market, though for highly rated firms such as BP, the collateral may be a small portion of the size of the exposure.

BP’s credit default swap costs have surged in the past two months on increasing concerns over the company’s credit worthiness, and traders and analysts have said some of the increase has come from banks hedging exposure to the oil company. Credit default swaps are used to protect against the risks of a company or other borrower defaulting on its obligations, or to speculate on its credit quality. BP’s five-year CDS costs have jumped to 515 basis points, or $515,000 per year to insure $10 million for five years, from around 40 basis points in April, according to Markit Intraday. BofA Merrill equities analysts maintained a “buy” rating on BP’s London-traded shares on June 10, but cut their price target to 575 pence a share, down from a previous 700 pence. © Thomson Reuters 2010. All rights reserved. Users may download and print extracts of content from this website for their own personal and non-commercial use only. Republication or redistribution of Thomson Reuters content, including by framing or similar means, is expressly prohibited without the prior written consent of Thomson Reuters. Thomson Reuters and its logo are registered trademarks or trademarks of the Thomson Reuters group of companies around the world. Thomson Reuters journalists are subject to an Editorial Handbook which requires fair presentation and disclosure of relevant interests. This copy is for your personal, non-commercial use only. To order presentation-ready copies for distribution to colleagues, clients or customers, use the Reprints tool at the top of any article or visit: www.reutersreprints.com .

[mailto:We-Are-Change-East-Bay-list@meetup.com] On Behalf Of greg fernandez Sent: Wednesday, June 09, 2010 5:01 PM

Keep running and we are change will keep supporting you!

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To all my supporters,

Well, I didn’t win the primary, but our election results were impressive.

In a five month campaign with a handful of volunteers and $4,200, I took 16% of the vote from 36-year incumbent George Miller, the second most powerful Congressman in the House. I literally ran the campaign out of the back of my pickup truck while painting houses and bidding on jobs.

And I did this under a total corporate media blackout. The Contra Costa Times refused to mention our name unless we spent thousands of dollars on advertising, KGO and other corporate radio stations wouldn’t let us on the air and corporate TV stations filming my Memorial Day speech started breaking down their gear as soon as I exposed their complicity in lying to the American people about the wars. Foundation-funded “progressive” blogs like the Huffington Post, MoveOn.org and the Daily Kos were just as complicit in the blackout.

But Truth and Responsibility still exist in the independently-owned media. The Martinez Gazette, Vallejo Times Herald, the Globe Newspaper Hour and others were unafraid to let me expose the private Federal Reserve and the need for a fully independent 9/11 investigation. I thank you all for demonstrating why we need what’s left of our First Amendment.

But most of all, I want to thank everyone who voted for me, volunteered your time, handed out flyers, made phone calls, contributed your hard-earned money and spread the message of our campaign at home, at work and in your communities.

I’m not going away – this was only my first battle. I’ll keep running until I get to Congress and expose the corruption at the heart of our corporately-owned government. To quote Thomas Jefferson again: “If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around [the banks] will deprive the people of all property until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered.”

I’ll be there in your communities, your churches, community centers, schools, festivals and parks, continually campaigning for we the people to bring truth and responsibility back to Washington. I fully expect to be ignored, attacked or smeared by the corporate media, but I welcome it, as long as they spell my name right. They can ignore me, but they can’t ignore all of you. People are waking up, and the corporate media’s plunging ratings confirm it.

Again, I want to give my heartfelt thanks for your votes and support. You’ve sent Washington a powerful reminder; we’re supposed to have a government of, by and for the people – not the corporations.

Thank you.

John Fitzgerald http://johnfitzgerald2012.com http://johnfitzgerald2014.com http://johnfitzgerald2016.com http://johnfitzgerald2018.com

Here’s a better idea:

Why not fully fund all elections with tax dollars, and disallow all private money from the campaign? Then the candidates will have to receive funding directly from the taxpayers instead of indirectly from the tax payers, through PR organizations, and will therefore be forced to address the concerns of the citizenry, instead of the monopolistic corporations who have no interest in the general welfare whatsoever.

Dana Carson (aka FH)

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