http://www.ibm.com/smarterplanet/us/en/business_analytics/ideas/index.html?cm_mmc=agus_brspintllp-20090227-106aw01w-_-v-_-intelligence-_-youtube

By organizing information into data, IBM is looking for ways to manage information. Organized data can lead to better pattern predictions and smarter decision making.

“IBMer: Everyday we generate 8 times the information found in all US libraries.
IBMer: Where did it come from?
IBMer: Store transactions, market movements.
IBMer: Emails, photos
IBMer: Videos
IBMer: Blogs
IBMer: What if technology could capture all this information
IBMer: and turn it into intelligence.
IBMer: We could identify patterns faster
IBMer: We could predict with greater confidence
IBMer: Convert data into action
IBMer: Smarter information means smarter decisions.
IBMer: Smarter decisions build a smarter planet
IBMer: Thats what Im working on.
IBMer: Im an IBMer.
IBMer: Im an IBMer.
IBMer: Im an IBMer.
ALL: Lets build a smarter planet.”

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http://www.weforum.org 31.01.2009
WELCOM: Connecting Leaders to Global Issues
There is growing grassroots awareness about the impact of economic interdependence and how global challenges are now strongly interlinked.

How can the information revolution of the last decade — which has enabled the public to share information, knowledge and opinion worldwide — be extended to leaders from government, industry and civil society to assist them with decision-making and problem-solving?

The session focuses on WELCOM, an interactive platform built on Web 2.0 technology and developed by Industry and Strategic Partners of the World Economic Forum, which in 2009 will drive the Global Cooperation initiative and integrate all of the Forum’s communities into this exciting new endeavour.

Matt Bross, Chief Executive Officer, BT Innovate, and Group Chief Technology Officer, BT, United Kingdom
Jean-Philippe Courtois, President, Microsoft International, Microsoft Corporation, France
David Schlesinger, Editor-in-Chief, Thomson Reuters, United Kingdom
Robert Tarkoff, Senior Vice-President and General Manager, Business Productivity Business Unit, Adobe Systems, USA

Chaired by
André Schneider, Managing Director and Chief Operating Officer, World Economic Forum

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An accounting information system communicates data to help businesses make better decisions.
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External auditors examine financial statements to verify that they are prepared according to generally accepted accounting principles.
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External users include lenders, shareholders, customers, and regulators.
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The Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) does not require public companies to apply both accounting oversight and stringent internal controls.
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A sole proprietorship is one or more individuals selling products or services for profit.
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Accounting information is communicated to various parties through financial statements.
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The business entity principle means that a business will continue operating for an indefinite period of time.
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As a general rule, revenues should not be recognized in the accounting records until it is received in cash.
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Understanding generally accepted accounting principles is not necessary to use and interpret financial statements.
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Objectivity means that financial information is supported by independent unbiased evidence.
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The idea that a business will continue to operate until it can sell its assets to pay its creditors underlies the going-concern assumption.
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The three common forms of business ownership include sole proprietorship, partnership, and non-profit.
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Expenses decrease equity and are the costs of assets or services used to earn revenues.
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Withdrawals by the owner are a business expense.
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An account balance is the difference between the debits and credits for an account including any beginning balance.
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In a double-entry accounting system, the total amount debited must always equal the total amount credited.
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Debits increase asset and expense accounts.
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A revenue account normally has a debit balance.
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A transaction that decreases an asset account and increases a liability account must also affect one or more other accounts.
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If insurance coverage for the next three years is paid for in advance, the amount of the payment is debited to an asset account called Prepaid Insurance.
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If a company purchases land paying cash, the journal entry to record this transaction will include a debit to Cash.
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When a company bills a customer for $600 for services rendered, the journal entry to record this transaction will include a $600 debit to Services Revenue.
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The higher a company’s debt ratio is, the higher the risk of a company not being able to meet its obligations.
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Hamilton Industries has liabilities of $105 million and total assets of $350 million. Its debt ratio is 40.0%.
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A compound journal entry affects no more than two accounts.
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A trial balance that balances is not proof of complete accuracy in recording transactions.
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Ethics:
Are beliefs that separate right from wrong.
And law often coincide.
Help to prevent conflicts of interest.
Are critical in accounting.
All of these.

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If a parcel of land that was originally acquired for $85,000 is offered for sale at $150,000, is assessed for tax purposes at $95,000, is recognized by its purchasers as easily being worth $140,000, and is sold for $137,000, the land should be recorded in the purchaser’s books at:
$9

I don’t have time to answer all of them, but here’s a few:

4.2 False

8.2 False

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Google Tech Talks
January, 17 2008

ABSTRACT

Team Cornell was one of six teams to complete the 2007 DARPA Urban Challenge, completing over 55 miles of autonomous driving in an urban environment in approximately seven hours, including competition stops. The competition included many urban driving scenarios such as staying in a lane, merging into traffic, passing, intersections, parking, and even robot-robot interaction. Team Cornell designed and built a vehicle around technological innovations in vehicle automation, a real time UDP based data distribution system, tightly coupled pose estimation, scene estimation including localization within an urban environment and tracking all obstacles with a fusion of laser, radar and vision sensors, and hierarchical intelligent planning. Team Cornell’s vehicle was designed to drive “human-like” with smooth, intelligent behaviors, even in the presence of a vast array of uncertainties. The systematic approach taken by Team Cornell led to an innovative, robust solution to the complex problem proposed in the 2007 DARPA Urban Challenge. This seminar will present the key technologies, semi-final and final results, and plans for future research.

Speaker: Dan Huttenlocher
Dan Huttenlocher is the John P. and Rilla Neafsey Professor of Computing, Information Science and Business at Cornell University, where he holds a joint appointment in the Computer Science Department and the Johnson Graduate School of Management. His research interests are in computer vision, social and information networks, collaboration tools, geometric algorithms and financial trading systems. He has been recognized for his research and teaching contributions on several occasions, including being named an NSF Presidential Young Investigator, New York State Professor of the Year and a Fellow of the ACM. In addition to academic posts he has been chief technical officer of Intelligent Markets, a provider of advanced trading systems on Wall Street, and spent more than ten years at Xerox PARC directing work that led to the ISO JBIG2 image-compression standard.

Speaker: Mark Campbell
Mark Campbell is an Associate Professor in the Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Cornell University. His research interests are in the areas of autonomous systems, probabilistic models of human decision making, nonlinear estimation theory, cooperative vehicle control and estimation, and sensor fusion. He has been recognized from NASA for his modeling and control work on the Middeck Active Control Experiment, flown on STS-67 in 1995. He received best paper awards from the AIAA and Frontiers in Education conference, and teaching awards Cornell, University of Washington, and the ASEE. He was also an Australian Research Council International Fellowship in 2006 while on sabbatical at the University of Sydney. He is an Associate Fellow of the AIAA, an Associate Director of the AACC board, and member of the AIAA GNC Technical Committee, and is active in both IEEE and ASEE.

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Please explain you answer so I can determine and make my decision accordingly. Thanks in advance… FYI, I already have bachelors degree in Information systems management. I want to add something to it so I can get a job.

hmmm…. there are different certifications ,and as i konw the solaris depends on ur ability. so you can write anyone you like .

Good luck!

This clip belongs to a series of videos showing the results achieved in the FP6 European project SOCRADES. What you see has been implemented in a live demo at Tampere University of Technology in collaboration with Schneider Electric, Prodatec Oy and SAP. The demonstrator features the Electromechanical Assembly domain in the industry.

The video shows the combination two powerful technologies on the factory floor: Multi-Agent Systems & Web Services. A Multi-Agent System having a global view of the production system and collaboration capabilities, can help improving the decision making process required when dealing with loosely-coupled systems.

For more information check http://www.socrades.eu

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2009/may/25/federal-reserve-bailout-transparency

To my knowledge, no one has proposed waterboarding the US Federal Reserve. But the hostile reaction of much of the country’s political leadership to suggestions that the Government Accountability Office (GAO) audit the Federal Reserve Board might lead people to think that waterboarding was being called for.

The basic story is straightforward. The US Congress has lent more than $700bn, via the Treasury, to bankers at below market interest rates through the troubled assets relief programme, or Tarp. This was to keep the banks from going belly up. At the same time, the Fed has lent more than $2 trillion to banks and non-financial institutions to maintain liquidity in the financial system.

The congressional oversight panel, led by Elizabeth Warren, has frequently complained that the Treasury has not always been altogether forthcoming in providing information about its lending practices under the Tarp. However, there is at least a public paper trail. We can find out how much money each bank received and under what terms.

By contrast, there is no public paper trail for the Fed’s loans, even though it has more than three times as much money outstanding as does the Treasury through the Tarp. The Fed has only provided aggregate information on the amount of loans in each of its various lending programs, and general information on the terms of the loans and the types of collateral received.

However, it is not possible to find out in detail how much money Goldman Sachs borrowed, for example, at what interest rate, and which assets it posted as collateral. The Fed has explicitly refused to make information about specific borrowers public. In fact, the inspector general who has the responsibility for overseeing the Fed told congress that she does not have this information. Apparently the Fed doesn’t even trust its inspector general with information on its lending practices.

It is difficult to understand the rationale for this secrecy. There may be times where it is necessary for America’s central bank to lend money to a bank without immediately making the information public in order to avoid a panic. However, it is difficult to understand why this information cannot be made available weeks or even months later. After all, this money does not belong to the Fed – it belongs to us.

The proposal for a GAO audit of the Fed is a first step towards reasserting democratic control over this institution. In many respects, the Fed has more direct control over the direction of the economy than the president or congress, yet it carries through its actions largely outside of the public’s view.

Furthermore, it is structured so that the banks have a hugely disproportionate influence over the Fed’s actions. The Fed’s 12 district bank presidents are appointed through a process dominated by the banks within each district. These 12 presidents sit on the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC), the Fed’s key decision-making body on monetary policy, far outnumbering the seven governors who are appointed through the democratic process. (Only five of the 12 bank presidents are voting members of the FOMC. The president of the New York Fed is always a voting member. The other 4 voting positions rotate among the other 11 districts.)

In a democracy, it is difficult to justify a situation in which the most important economic policy making body is, by design, more answerable to the banking industry than democratically elected officials. The Federal Reserve Transparency Act is a step toward making the Fed accountable. It would simply require that the Government Accountability Office audit the Fed’s books and report to Congress on the bailout and other issues.

While more than 130 Republican members of the House of Representatives have signed on as co-sponsors of the bill, just over 30 Democratic members are co-sponsors. No one in the Democratic leadership has signed onto the bill. It is difficult to reconcile the Democrats’ position with President Obama’s often- repeated commitment to transparency. The resistance to transparency at the Fed will only encourage the public to believe that there actually is something to hide.

The Fed bears primary responsibility for the economic collapse. Alan Greenspan failed to take any steps to rein in the housing bubble and arguably even promoted it. It was inevitable that the collapse of an $8tn bubble would lead to a serious downturn of the sort that we are now seeing.

This incredible failure of the Fed should raise fundamental questions about its structure. Certainly it would be a positive step if the Fed were more answerable to democratically-elected officials and less accountable to Wall Street bankers. A GAO audit would be a big step in the right direction.

What do you think?
The that wrote that article describes is more of a "progressive", economically speaking, similar to Paul Krugman, by the way. According to this article.
http://www.ruthgroup.org/2009/01/13/dean-baker-economist-for-the-rest-of-us/
*The guy that wrote that article
*The guy that wrote that article describes himself as more "progressive"

Damn I can’t type for sh*t tonight

Why don’t we just abolish it instead?

Water is such a scarce commodity; we shouldn’t waste it. Just fire them all.

http://www.endthefed.us/

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1. Management Information System consists of people, equipment, and procedures to gather, sort, ____________, evaluate, and distribute information to marketing decision makers.

a. Test
b. Arrange
c. Analyze
d. Control

2. The systematic collection and analysis of publicly available information about competitors and developments in the marketing environment is very useful. It is known as:

a. Marketing data
b. Marketing intelligence
c. Web Master

d. Secondary data

3. Which of the following steps in the marketing research process has been left out: defining the problems and research objectives, implementing the research plan, and interpreting and reporting the findings?

a. Developing the research budget
b. Choosing the research agency
c. Choosing the research method
d. Developing the research plan

4. Harvard University is using the systematic design, collection, analysis, and reporting of data relevant to marketing its programs to minority students. What do we call this?

a. Promotion
b. Self-study
c. Marketing research
d. Cost-benefit analysis

5. Which one of the following schemes is TRUE regarding marketing research?

a. Gathering data, analysis, interpretation
b. Analysis, gathering data, interpretation
c. Interpretation, gathering data, analysis
d. Interpretation, reporting, analysis

6. The objective of which of the following research is to gather preliminary information that will help define the problem and suggest hypotheses?

a. Descriptive
b. Exploratory
c. Causal
d. Corrective

7. Which form of data can usually be obtained more quickly and at a lower cost?

a. Primary
b. Census
c. Secondary
d. Tertiary

8. Which one of the following is NOT one of the stages that customers go through in the process of adopting a new product?

a. Awareness
b. Interest
c. Evaluation
d. Culture

9. Which one of the following statements BEST characterizes marketing research?

a. Research is a continuous process, providing a constant flow of information
b. Research is conducted on a special-project basis
c. Research is performed when routine information is required
d. Research is the basis for making recurring marketing decisions

10. If ABC Ltd knows that its market share in Pakistan has dropped 13 percent in the first quarter of the year but does not know what might have contributed to this decline; it is in which stage of the marketing research process?

a. Hypothesis development
b. Symptom identification
c. Problem identification
d. Data interpretation

11. A person on the University Book Shop’s survey asks respondents to tell the shop, in their own words, what they like least about textbook shopping. What is a type of this question?

a. An open-ended
b. A dichotomous
c. A multiple choice
d. A scale

12. Marketing researchers usually draw conclusions about large groups of consumers by studying which of the following small components of the total consumer population?

a. Group
b. Sample
c. Target group
d. Audience

13. The process by which people select, organize and interpret information to form a meaningful picture of the world. It refers to which one of the following?

a. Personality
b. Perception
c. Selective group
d. Habitual behavior

14. Which one of the following concepts refers to the “set of actions and activities associated with each position one holds within a family, club and organization”?

a. Personality
b. A role
c. Perception
d. An attitude

15. Marketing stimuli consist of the four Ps. Which is NOT one of these Ps?

a. Product
b. Price
c. Political
d. Promotion

16. Groups of people with shared value systems based on common life experiences and situations in a culture represent which one of the following options?

a. Cognitive dissonances
b. Subcultures
c. Motives
d. Attitudes

17. A change in an individual’s behavior prompted by information and experience refers to which one of the following concepts?

a. Learning
b. Role selection
c. Perception
d. Motivation

18. Person’s pattern of living as expressed in his or her psychographics represents which one of the following concepts?
a. Personality
b. Culture
c. Lifestyle
d. Motive

19. Maslow has a list of human needs from the most pressing to the least pressing. They include all of the following EXCEPT:

a. Physiological needs
b. Safety needs
c. Need recognition
d. Self-actualization

20. A transaction in which the organization is making an initial purchase of an item to be used to perform a new job refers to which of the following purchases?

a. Straight rebuy purchase
b. Delayed purchase
c. Modified rebuy purchase
d. New-task purchase

•1. C
2. B
3. A
4. C
5. B
6. B
7. A
8. D
9. D
10. D
11. A
12. B
13. B
14. B
15. C
16. B
17. A
18. C
19. C
20. D

Courtesy PASSUR/AGI http://www.passur.com/

PASSUR(R) Captures Data for Flight Path of US Airways Flight 1549 Made Available to Investigators Minutes After Plane Lands on Hudson River
Wednesday February 11, 12:00 pm ET

GREENWICH, Conn., Feb. 11 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — PASSUR Aerospace, Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: PSSR – News) announced today that it had provided the exact data points for the flight track of US Airways Flight 1549 to the investigators researching the incident, from its departure at LaGuardia Airport to its descent into the Hudson River. The data, with PASSUR’s 4.6 second update rate, was available within seconds of the event, and provided to investigators and US Airways within minutes. A high resolution animation of the flight, created with PASSUR’s partner Analytical Graphics, Inc. (www.agi.com) is now available on PASSUR’s home page at www.passur.com.
“As we have done many times before, we collaborated closely with accident investigators, and in this case with US Airways, in providing data and analytics derived from our national network of PASSUR radar and our live aviation database,” said Jim Barry, President and CEO of PASSUR Aerospace. “And, as always — because information security is our number-one priority, and because of the unique nature of our data — we wait until we have concurrence from investigators and the airline before releasing our data to the public. We are pleased to make the simulation of this extraordinary flight available to the public at this time.”

PASSUR provided the information immediately to the National Transportation Safety Board, FAA, US Airways, and the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey.

The PASSUR radar systems located at Newark Liberty International Airport and John F. Kennedy International Airport identified the flight at 400 feet from lift-off from LaGuardia Runway 4 on January 15th and tracked it down to 400 feet above the Hudson River. There are a total of 49 PASSUR radar hits which feed the US Airways Flight 1549 simulation with detailed data.

PASSUR is a unique aviation resource because of:

– Rapid-update rate of data: PASSUR tracking data updates every 4.6 seconds

– Instant availability and replay: PASSUR flight and airspace data become available in real time on a variety of applications

– The International PASSUR network: there are more than 100 PASSUR installations worldwide

– Integrated database: PASSUR data is instantly correlated with multiple additional sources of aviation data to create a single comprehensive flight and airspace management resource

About Analytical Graphics, Inc.

Analytical Graphics, Inc. develops commercial off-the-shelf analysis software for land, sea, air, and space that is relied upon by the national security and space communities in more than 35,000 worldwide installations. AGI’s software includes desktop applications, an application engine, and lightweight component libraries, with a wide range of licensing and pricing options. For additional information about AGI, e-mail info@agi.com or explore http://www.agi.com.

About PASSUR Aerospace, Inc.

PASSUR Aerospace owns and operates a unique database of flight information with proprietary decision-making software, primarily powered by a growing international network of passive radars (PASSURs) located at more than 100 airports world-wide, including all of the top 35 U.S. airports — from which it provides PASSUR information, analytics, and decision support tools to improve the financial condition and operational efficiency of aviation organizations. PASSUR Aerospace offers unique user-friendly information as well as decision algorithms which provide innovative commercial air traffic solutions to more than 50 airports, including customers at 8 of the top 10 U.S. airports; to dozens of airlines, including 7 of the top 10 U.S. airlines; and to more than 200 corporate aviation customers, as well as to the U.S. Government. In addition, the company has created and implemented collaborative web-based software that allows the company’s customers to instantly share information to improve individual and joint decision making, creating additional value for those customers. Visit http://www.passur.com for updated products, solutions and news.

Contact:
Ron Dunsky
(203) 622-4086
rondunsky@passur.com

Source: PASSUR Aerospace, Inc.

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President Bush’s Accomplishments

Abortion & Traditional Values
1. Banned Partial Birth Abortion — by far the most significant roll-back of abortion on demand since Roe v. Wade. 2. Reversed Clinton’s move to strike Reagan’s anti-abortion Mexico Policy. 3. By Executive Order (EO), reversed Clinton’s policy of not requiring parental consent for abortions under the Medical Privacy Act. 4. By EO, prohibited federal funds for international family planning groups that provide abortions and related services. 5. Upheld the ban on abortions at military hospitals. 6. Made $33 million available for abstinence education programs in 2004. 7. Supports the Defense of Marriage Act — and a Constitutional amendment saying marriage is between one man and one woman. 8. Requires states to conduct criminal background checks on prospective foster and adoptive parents. 9. Requires districts to let students transfer out of dangerous schools. 10. Requires schools to have a zero-tolerance policy for classroom disruption (reintroducing discipline into classrooms). 11. Signed the Teacher Protection Act, which protects teachers from lawsuits related to student discipline. 12. Expanded the role of faith-based and community organizations in after-school programs.
Budget, Taxes & Economy
1. Signed two income tax cuts, one of which was the largest dollar-value tax cut in world history. 2. Supports permanent elimination of the death tax. 3. Turned around an inherited economy that was in recession, and deeply shocked as a result of the 9/11 attacks. 4. Is seeking legislation to amend the Constitution to give the president line-item veto authority. 5. In process of permanently eliminating IRS marriage penalty. 6. Increased small business incentives to expand and to hire new people. 7. Initiated discussion on privatizing Social Security and individual investment accounts. 8. Killed Clinton’s "ergonomic" rules that OSHA was about to implement; rules would have shut down every home business in America. 9. Passed tough new laws to hold corporate criminals to account as a result of corporate scandals. 10. Reduced taxes on dividends and capital gains. 11. Signed trade promotion authority. 12. Reduced and is working to ultimately eliminate the estate tax for family farms and ranches. 13. Fight Europe’s ban on importing biotech crops from the United States. 14. Exempt food from unilateral trade sanctions and embargoes. 15. Provided $20 million to states to help people with disabilities work from home. 16. Created a fund to encourage technologies that help the disabled. 17. Increased the annual contribution limit on Education IRA’s from $500 to $2,000 per child. 18. Make permanent the $5,000 adoption tax credit and provide $1 billion over five years to increase the credit to $10,000. 19. Grant a complete tax exemption for prepaid or college tuition savings plans. 20. Reduced H1B visas from a high of 195,000 per year to 66,000 per year.
Character & Conduct as President
1. Changed the tone in the White House, restoring HONOR and DIGNITY to the presidency. 2. Has reintroduced the mention of God and faith into public discourse. 3. Handled himself with enormous courage, dignity, grace, determination, and leadership in the aftermath of the September 11, 2001 hijackings and anthrax attacks. He almost single-handedly held this country together during those searing days:
Just three days after the attacks, in his address at the National Cathedral, the President reassured the nation when he said: "War has been waged against us by stealth and deceit and murder. This nation is peaceful, but fierce when stirred to anger. This conflict was begun on the timing and terms of others. It will end in a way, and at an hour, of our choosing."
On Friday, September 14, 2001, President Bush visited Ground Zero. Standing on a crushed and burned fire engine atop the smoldering pile at Ground Zero, he put his arm around a retired firefighter who had volunteered to help, and began speaking to the crowd. Rescue workers shouted that they could not hear him. Someone handed him a small American flag and bullhorn. The President spontaneously shouted: "I can hear you. The rest of the world hears you. And the people who knocked these buildings down will hear all of us soon." The crowd roared with cheers and chants of "USA! USA! USA!" Then he raised that American flag and rallied a nation.
Education & Employment Training
1. Signed the No Child Left Behind Act, delivering the most dramatic education reforms in a generation (challenging the soft bigotry of low expectations). The very liberal California Teachers union is currently running radio ads against the accountability provisions of this Act. 2. Announced "Jobs for the 21st Century," a comprehensive plan to better prepare workers for jobs in the new millennium by strengthening post-secondary education and job training, and by improving high school education. 3. Is working to provide vouchers to low-income students in persistently failing schools to help with costs of attending private schools. (Blocked in the Senate.) 4. Requires annual reading and math tests in grades three through eight. 5. Requires states to participate in the National Assessment of Education Progress, or an equivalent program, to establish a national benchmark for academic performance. 6. Requires school-by-school accountability report cards. 7. Established a $2.4 billion fund to help states implement teacher accountability systems. 8. Increased funding for the Troops-to-Teachers program, which recruits former military personnel to become teachers.
Environment & Energy
1. Killed the Kyoto Global Warming Treaty. 2. Submitted a comprehensive Energy Plan (awaits Congressional action). The plan works to develop cleaner technology, produce more natural gas here at home, make America less dependent on foreign sources of energy, improve national grid, etc. 3. Established a $10 million grant program to promote private conservation initiatives. 4. Significantly eased field-testing controls of genetically engineered crops. 5. Changed parts of the Forestry Management Act to allow necessary cleanup of the national forests in order to reduce fire danger. 6. Part of national forests cleanup: Restricted judicial challenges (based on the Endangered Species Act and other challenges), and removed the need for an Environmental Impact Statement before removing fuels/logging to reduce fire danger. 7. Killed Clinton’s CO2 rules that were choking off all of the electricity surplus to California. 8. Provided matching grants for state programs that help private landowners protect rare species.
Defense & Foreign Policy
1. Successfully executed two wars in the aftermath of 9/11/01: Afghanistan and Iraq. 50 million people who had lived under tyrannical regimes now live in freedom. 2. Saddam Hussein is now in prison. His two murderous sons are dead. All but a handful of the regime’s senior members were killed or captured. 3. Leader by leader and member by member, al Maida is being hunted down in dozens of countries around the world. Of the senior al Qaeda leaders, operational managers, and key facilitators the U.S. Government has been tracking, nearly two-thirds have been taken into custody or killed. The detentions or deaths of senior al Qaeda leaders, including Khalid Shaykh Muhammad, the mastermind of 9/11, and Muhammad Atef, Osama bin Laden’s second-in-command until his death in late 2001, have been important in the War on Terror. 4. Disarmed Libya of its chemical, nuclear and biological WMD’s without bribes or bloodshed. 5. Continues to execute the War On Terror, getting worldwide cooperation to track funds/terrorists. Has cut off much of the terrorists’ funding, and captured or killed many key leaders of the al Qaeda network. 6. Initiated a comprehensive review of our military, which was completed just prior to 9/11/01, and which accurately reported that ASYMMETRICAL WARFARE capabilities were critical in the 21st Century. 7. Killed the old US/Soviet Union ABM Treaty that was preventing the U.S. from deploying our ABM defenses. 8. Has been one of the strongest, if not THE strongest friend Israel has ever hand in the U.S. presidency. 9. Part of the coalition for an Israeli/Palestinian "Roadmap to Peace," along with Great Britain, Russia and the EU. 10. Pushed through THREE raises for our military. Increased military pay by more than $1 billion a year. 11. Signed the LARGEST nuclear arms reduction in world history with Russia. 12. Started withdrawing our troops from Bosnia, and has announced withdrawal of our troops from Germany and the Korean DMZ. 13. Prohibited putting U.S. troops under U.N. command. 14. Paid back UN dues only in return for reforms and reduction of U.S. share of the costs. 15. Earmarked at least 20 percent of the Defense procurement budget for next-generation weaponry. 16. Increased defense research and development spending by at least $20 billion from fiscal 2002 to 2006. 17. Ordered a comprehensive review of military weapons and strategy. 18. Ordered a review of overseas deployments. 19. Ordered renovation of military housing. The military has already upgraded about 10 percent of its inventory and expects to modernize 76,000 additional homes this year. 20. Is working to tighten restrictions on military-technology exports. 21. Brought back our EP-3 intel plane and crew from China without any bribes or bloodshed.
Globalization & Internationalism
1. Challenged the United Nations to live up to their responsibilities and not become another League of Nations (in other words, showed the UN to be completely irrelevant). 2. Killed U.S. involvement in the International Criminal Court. 3. Told the United Nations we weren’t interested in their plans for gun control (i.e., the International Ban on Small Arms Trafficking Treaty).* 4. The only President since the founding of the UN to essentially tell that organization it is irrelevant. He said: "The conduct of the Iraqi regime is a threat to the authority of the United Nations, and a threat to peace. Iraq has answered a decade of UN demands with a decade of defiance. All the world now faces a test, and the United Nations a difficult and defining moment. Are Security Council resolutions to be honored and enforced, or cast aside without consequence? Will the United Nations serve the purpose of its founding, or will it be irrelevant?" We all know the outcome and the answer. 5. Told the Congress and the world, "America will never seek a permission slip to defend the security of our country."
Government Reform
1. Improved government efficiency by putting hundreds of thousands of jobs put up for bid. This weakens public-sector unions and cuts undeserved pay raises. 2. Initiated review of all federal agencies with the goal of eliminating federal jobs (completed September 2003) in an effort to reduce the size of the federal government while increasing private sector jobs. 3. Led the most extensive reorganization the Federal bureaucracy in over 50 years: After 9/11, condensed 20+ overlapping agencies and their intelligence sectors into one agency, the Department of Homeland Security.* 4. Ordered each agency to draft a five-year plan to restructure itself, with fewer managers. 5. Converted federal service contracts to performance-based contracts wherever possible so that the contractor has measurable performance goals.
Health
1. Strengthen the National Health Service Corps to put more physicians in the neediest areas, and make its scholarship funds tax-free. 2. Double the research budget of the National Institutes of Health. 3. Signed Medicare Reform, which includes:
A 10-year privatization option.
Prescription drug benefits: Prior to this reform, Medicare paid for extended hospital stays for ulcer surgery, for example, at a cost of about $28,000 per patient. Yet Medicare would not pay for the drugs that eliminate the cause of most ulcers, drugs that cost about $500 a year. Now, drug coverage under Medicare will allow seniors to replace more expensive surgeries and hospitalizations with less expensive prescription medicine.
More health care choices: As President Bush stated, "…when seniors have the ability to make choices, health care plans within Medicare will have to compete for their business by offering higher quality service [at lower cost]. For the seniors of America, more choices and more control will mean better health care. These are the kinds of health care options we give to the members of Congress and federal employees. What’s good for members of Congress is also good for seniors.
New Health Savings Accounts: Effective January 1, 2004, Americans can set aside up to $4,500 every year, tax free, to save for medical expenses. Depending on your tax bracket, that means you’ll save between 10 to 35 percent on any costs covered by money in your account. Every year, the money not spent would stay in the account and gain interest tax-free, just like an IRA. These accounts will be good for small business owners, and employees. More businesses can focus on covering workers for major medical problems, such as hospitalization for an injury or illness. At the same time, employees and their families will use these accounts to cover doctors visits, or lab tests, or other smaller costs. Some employers will contribute to employee health accounts. This will help more American families get the health care they need at the price they can afford.
Homeland Security, Border Enforcement & Immigration
1. *See Government Reform above. Under President Bush’s leadership, America has made an unprecedented commitment to homeland security. 2. Has CONSTRUCTION in process on the first 10 ABM silos in Alaska so that America will have a defense against North Korean nukes. Has ordered national and theater ballistic missile defenses to be deployed by 2004. 3. Announced a 9.7% increase in government-wide homeland security funding in his FY 2005 budget, nearly tripling the FY 2001 levels (excluding the Department of Defense and Project BioShield). 4. Before DHS was created, there were inspectors from three different agencies of the Federal Government and Border Patrol officers protecting our borders. Through DHS, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) now consolidates all border activities into a single agency to create "one face at the border." This not only better secures the borders of the United States, but it also eliminates many of the inefficiencies that occurred under the old system. With over 18,000 CBP inspectors and 11,000 Border Patrol agents, CBP has 29,000 uniformed officers on our borders. 5. The Border Patrol is continuing installation of monitoring devices along the borders to detect illegal activity. 6. Launched Operation Tarmac to investigate businesses and workers in the secure areas of domestic airports and ensure immigration law compliance. Since 9/11, DHS has audited 3,640 businesses, examined 259,037 employee records, arrested 1,030 unauthorized workers, and participated in the criminal indictment of 774 individuals. 7. Since September 11, 2001, the Coast Guard has conducted more than 124,000 port security patrols, 13,000 air patrols, boarded more than 92,000 vessels, interdicted over 14,000 individuals attempting to enter the United States illegally, and created and maintained more than 90 Maritime Security Zones. 8. Announced the Student and Exchange Visitor Information System (SEVIS), an internet-based system that is improving America’s ability to track and monitor foreign students and exchange visitors. Over 870,000 students are registered in SEVIS. Of 285 completed field investigations, 71 aliens were arrested. 9. This week, the US-VISIT program began to digitally collect biometric identifiers to record the entry and exit of aliens who travel into the U.S on a visa. Together with the standard information, this new program will confirm compliance with visa and immigration policies. 10. Eliminated INS bureaucratic redundancies and lack of accountability. 11. Split the Immigration and Naturalization Service into two agencies: one to protect the border and interior, the other to deal with naturalization. 12. Signed the workplace verification bill to prevent hiring of illegal aliens. 13. Established a six-month deadline for processing immigration applications. 14. Information regarding nearly 100% of all containerized cargo is carefully screened by DHS before it arrives in the United States. Higher risk shipments are physically inspected for terrorist weapons and contraband prior to being released from the port of entry. Advanced technologies are being deployed to identify warning signs of chemical, biological, or radiological attacks. Since September 11, 2001, hundreds of thousands of first responders across America have been trained to recognize and respond to the effects of a WMD attack.
Judiciary & Tort Reform
1. Is urging federal liability reform to eliminate frivolous lawsuits. 2. Killed the liberal ABA’s unconstitutional role in vetting federal judges. The Senate is supposed to advise and consent, not the ABA. 3. Is nominating strong, conservative judges to the judiciary. 4. Supports class action reform bill which limits lawyer fees so that more settlement money goes to victims.
Politics
1. His leadership resulted in Republican gains in the House and Senate, solidifying Republican control of both houses of Congress and the presidency. 2. Signed an EO enforcing the Supreme Court’s Beck decision regarding union dues being used for political campaigns against individual’s wishes.
Second Amendment
1. Ordered Attorney General Ashcroft to formally notify the Supreme Court that the OFFICIAL U.S. government position on the 2nd Amendment is that it supports INDIVIDUAL rights to own firearms, and is NOT a Leftist-imagined "collective" right. 2. Signed TWO bills into law that arm our pilots with handguns in the cockpit. 3. Currently pushing for full immunity from lawsuits for our national gun manufacturers. 4. *See Globalization & Internationalism.
Traditional Values, Compassion & Volunteerism
1. Endorses and promotes "The Responsibility Era." President Bush often speaks of the necessity of personal responsibility and civic volunteerism. He said, "In a compassionate society, people respect one another and take responsibility for the decisions they make in life. My hope is to change the culture from one that has said, if it feels good, do it; if you’ve got a problem, blame somebody else — to one in which every single American understands that he or she is responsible for the decisions that you make; you’re responsible for loving your children with all your heart and all your soul; you’re responsible for being involved with the quality of the education of your children; you’re responsible for making sure the community in which you live is safe; you’re responsible for loving your neighbor, just like you would like to be loved yourself." 2. Started the USA Freedom Corps, the most comprehensive clearinghouse of volunteer opportunities ever offered. For the first time in history, Americans can enter geographic information about where they want to get involved, such as state or zip code, as well as areas of interest ranging from education to the environment, and they can access volunteer opportunities offered by more than 50,000 organizations across the country and around the world. 3. Established the The White House Office and the Centers for the Faith-Based and Community Initiative — located in seven Federal agencies. The faith-based initiative supports the essential work of these important organizations. The goal is to make sure that grassroots leaders can compete on an equal footing for federal dollars, receive greater private support, and face fewer bureaucratic barriers. Work focuses on at-risk youth, ex-offenders, the homeless and hungry, substance abusers, those with HIV/AIDS, and welfare-to-work families. 4. The White House released a guidebook fully describing the Administration’s belief that faith-based groups have a Constitutionally-protected right to maintain their religious identity through hiring — even when Federal funds are involved. 5. Issued an EO implementing the Supreme Court’s Olmstead ruling, which requires moving disabled people from institutions to community-based facilities when possible. 6. Increased funding for low-interest loan programs to help people with disabilities purchase devices to assist them. 7. Revised the Department of Housing and Urban Development’s Section 8 rent subsidies to disabled people, permitting them to use up to a year’s worth of vouchers to finance down payments on homes. HUD has started pilot programs in 11 states. 8. Committed US funds to purchase medicine for millions of men, women and children now suffering with AIDS in Africa. 9. Heeding the words of our own Declaration of Independence, the president laid out the non-negotiable demands of human dignity for all people everywhere. On January 29, 2002, he said, "No nation owns these aspirations, and no nation is exempt from them. We have no intention of imposing our culture. But America will always stand firm for the non-negotiable demands of human dignity." As stated by the President, they are a virtual manifesto of conservative principles:
Equal Justice
Freedom of Speech
Limited Government Power
Private Property Rights
Religious Tolerance
Respect for Women
Rule of Law

First of all you shoud be called a great BIG conservative. To be an American you should have respect for the Constitution and what it stands for. The current admin does not even recognize to Constitution. Mr. Bush considers it "A god damn piece of paper" Cheney cannot even remember that the military oath is to defend the Constitution. (His memory failed during a prepared speech to West Point graduates)
At the end of your dissertation you requote Mr Bush as stating he he stands firm for non-negotiable demands of human dignity.
So far during his watch:
Rescue workers at ground zero were lied to regarding their health.
Habeus Corpis was revoked after 200 years
Torture was instituted (including children)
Americans have had their phone conversations eaves dropped upon.
The public has been lied to regarding war.
Thousand of American soldiers have died
Hundred of thousands of Iraqi citizens have been murdered.
The deficit is at 3 Trillion dollars and the American dollar may collapse because of the debt.
Gas prices have risen dramatically and that is not due to the price of oil. The refineries are not working at capacitiy and the oil companies ( this admin. is a part of) have raked in record profits.
The middle class has eroded. Americans are now putting living expenses on their credit card.
The government has not been held accoutable to the people.
Women are certainly not respected when the ban on late-term abortions did not include emergencies concerning the life of the mother.
Religion is only tolerated if you believe in the approved God.
Property Rights are not respected when you consider "eminant domain"
Freedom of speech is only "free" when you agree with the policies of the admin. (or if your FOX noise)
There is NO equal justice since this current regime has taken power and eroded our civil rights. The same rights that we are supposedly defending with the war on terror.
The USA has not signed the Kyoto accords.
The USA has NEVER signed any UN resolutions regarding human rights.
The USA does not belong to the International Court so none of our leaders can be tried for human rights violations or crimes against humanity.
Stop listening to the propaganda and do some independent research before you regurgitate the "official line".
This president may think he has principles but he certainly does not abide by them. The sheep that are following are fellow Republicans (congress) and certainly NOT liberals!!!
So whose idea of "right" are you speaking of?