The Pew Research Center provides some interesting polls regarding Dubya, check them all out here.
Below is just one of them.
Bush and Public Opinion
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God’s Postbox
God has a postbox and an address. All you need write is “To God, Jerusalem” and the postman in the holy city’s dead-letter office will deliver it for you.
Yet, of the 2,000-odd notes delivered to the almighty yesterday, many were addressed in such elaborate ways that even the most ardent of God’s ancient correspondents would have blushed.
As if the post office might be confused about the identity of the recipient, some of the envelopes read: “The Holy, The Great and Big Temple”, “His Reverence, The High Priest, The Holy Temple of God, Jerusalem Holy City of God, Holy Land of Israel” and “To Almighty God, Alpha and Omega, Jerusalem, Israel.”
While most oddly labeled letters meet their end in the “undeliverable” pile at Jerusalem’s post office these ones get a second life.
As long as the envelopes have some form of address, the postman is obliged by international law to deliver.
The head of the office, Avi Yaniv, says he knows where he can get closest to God on earth.
Every year he has the envelopes opened, the messages neatly folded and slipped between the cracks of the Western Wall, Judaism’s holiest site. Known as the Kotel to Israelis and as the Wailing Wall to others, it is venerated as the last remnant of King David’s temple.
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Sun Jar
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Fortune Magazine’s Best Stocks for 2008
This article is from December 14, 2007:
Of course, some stocks will thrive even when the market as a whole is on the ropes. After interviewing dozens of analysts and money managers and poring over reams of Wall Street research, we’ve identified ten stocks we believe are poised for big gains in 2008.
For the record, our past Investor’s Guide selections have excelled. Our ten stock picks for 2006 returned an average of 26% that year, vs.13% for the S&P. And through Dec. 3, our ten stocks for 2007 have outpaced the S&P 14% to 6%.
From their ten stocks, only one has a positive gain for the year. I threw the stocks in this chart, but feel free to click the one below to enlarge it.
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