Video: Thousands of Sharks Filmed off of Florida Coast

Goodbye 1984: Motorola Goes After Ipad in Upcoming Super Bowl Ad

folks, the tablet wars are heating up....open (Google) versus closed (Apple)

U2 Until The End Of The World Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame Induction Ceremony

Hedge Fund Honcho Paulson Earns $5 Billion in 2010

Henry Ford, a guy who actually made something, is rolling over in his grave.  

This is so mind boggling, so wrong, and so illustrative of what ills society on so many different levels--

GOP 2012 Like Democrats in 2004?

Obviously this needs to be taken with a big grain of salt, but it is interesting nonetheless.  One thing that is for sure: Just as Bush Jr. won re-election in 2004, President Obama--barring catastrophe, will win re-election in 2012...

from Taegan Goddard's Political Wire

First Read: "While it's still very early, and we don't yet know who'll actually run, the potential GOP presidential field right now looks very similar to the Democratic one that lined up against George W. Bush in 2004. Consider: Mitt Romney is John Kerry (the early front-runner from Massachusetts who looks the part but is viewed negatively as a flip-flopper); John Thune is John Edwards (the good-looking young senator who's better known for winning a Senate race than the legislation he's produced); Sarah Palin is Joe Lieberman (the ex-VP nominee who's not trusted by some in the party); Newt Gingrich is Dick Gephardt (the nationally known former House leader); Haley Barbour and Mitch Daniels are Bob Graham (the respected grown-up who's viewed more enthusiastically by the elites than the base); and Herman Cain is Al Sharpton (the long-shot who grabs headlines)."

"Perhaps the most consequential similarity between the 2004 Dem field and the emerging 2012 GOP one is this: No one really seems to be exciting both the base and the establishment -- the way Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama excited Democrats in '08, or the way George W. Bush excited Republicans in '00."

PATTY SMITH - PEOPLE HAVE THE POWER LYRICS

I was dreaming in my dreaming
of an aspect bright and fair
and my sleeping it was broken
but my dream it lingered near
in the form of shining valleys
where the pure air recognized
and my senses newly opened
I awakened to the cry
that the people / have the power
to redeem / the work of fools
upon the meek / the graces shower
it's decreed / the people rule

The people have the power
The people have the power
The people have the power
The people have the power

Vengeful aspects became suspect
and bending low as if to hear
and the armies ceased advancing
because the people had their ear
and the shepherds and the soldiers
lay beneath the stars
exchanging visions
and laying arms
to waste / in the dust
in the form of / shining valleys
where the pure air / recognized
and my senses / newly opened
I awakened / to the cry

Refrain

Where there were deserts
I saw fountains
like cream the waters rise
and we strolled there together
with none to laugh or criticize
and the leopard
and the lamb
lay together truly bound
I was hoping in my hoping
to recall what I had found
I was dreaming in my dreaming
god knows / a purer view
as I surrender to my sleeping
I commit my dream to you

Refrain

The power to dream / to rule
to wrestle the world from fools
it's decreed the people rule
it's decreed the people rule
LISTEN
I believe everything we dream
can come to pass through our union
we can turn the world around
we can turn the earth's revolution
we have the power
People have the power ...

People Have The Power - Roll Hall of Fame 2007

Egyptian Dictator Flips Switch, Turns off Internet and Mobile Phone Services

So all of you right wing screwballs in America should probably quit obsessing about some government agency storming into your houses guns blazing--the very reason you ostensibly carry 10 glock pistols in your home, and concern yourselves a bit more with something like this happening to you.

And by the way, I'm not too sure how effective your guns would be against tanks, stealth bombers, nuclear weapons, etc....

Maybe time to drop the G.I. Joe thing and turn on the old brain??

The Tea Party Wags the Dog

 

 

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The Tea Party Wags the Dog

via NYT > Frank Rich by By FRANK RICH on 1/28/11

The Republicans, who sold themselves as the uncompromising champions of Tea Party-fueled fiscal austerity, have discovered that most Americans prefer compromise to confrontation.

 

 

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Charlie Sheen Partying at Unfathomable Rate

At one point, a designer briefcase containing "bricks" of cocaine was delivered to the house, the site said.

There were already four women there when he had a friend call porn star Kacey Jordan, 22, to join the bash Wednesday afternoon, Radar Online reported.

--Minor Ripper hereby proclaims that Charlie Sheen has officially now broken every single party record in the history of mankind.

Can he keep shattering his own records like this?  The bar keeps getting higher and higher--

Bill O'Reilly Defends His Nazi Analogies

http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/thu-january-27-2011/bill-o-reilly-defends-his-nazi-analogies?xrs=rss_tdsvids

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Report: Social Networking Leads to Faster Sex

I don't doubt this for a nanosecond....

If you're married, I see very little upside and tremendous, vast downside to being on Facebook...

Cantor, Kicking and Screaming, Admits President is a US Citizen

Mr. Canter, look out for the oncoming onslaught of birther wrath....

from Think Progress by George Zornick

This morning on NBC’s Meet the Press, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA) repeatedly refused host David Gregory’s invitation to call questions about President Obama’s citizenship illegitimate, and he also declined to call such rhetoric “crazy,” saying “I don’t think it’s nice to call anyone crazy, ok?” After several prompts from Gregory, Cantor eventually said he believes the president “is a citizen of the United States”:

GREGORY: This is a leadership moment here. There are elements of this country who question the president’s citizenship, who think that his birth certificate is inauthentic. Will you call that what it is, which is crazy talk?
CANTOR: [laughs] David, you know, a lot of that has been an issue sort of generated by not only the media but others in the country. Most Americans really are beyond that and they want us to focus —
GREGORY: Is somebody who brings that up engaging in crazy talk?
CANTOR: David I don’t think it’s nice to call anyone crazy, OK?
GREGORY: Alright. Is it a legitimate or illegitimate issue?
CANTOR: I don’t think it’s an issue that we need to address at all. I think we need to focus on trying –
GREGORY: His citizenship should never be questioned in your judgment, is that what you’re saying?
CANTOR: It’s not an issue that even needs to be on the policymaking table right now.
GREGORY: Because it’s illegitimate? Why won’t you just call it what it is? Because I feel like there are a lot of Republican leaders who don’t want to go as far as to criticize those who –
CANTOR: I think the president is a citizen of the United States.

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Cantor’s first attempt to deflect blame for birther conspiracies onto the media and “others in this country” is a dishonest denial of the fact that birth certificate conspiracies have distinctly right-wing origins, as Gregory notes. The theories frequently bubble up at Tea Party rallies and on popular conservative websites like World Net Daily. Fox News also frequently traffics in conspiracy theories about the president’s birth certificate.
In addition, there are several elected officials who have raised questions about Obama’s real birthplace, including several Republicans in the House of Representatives that Cantor leads. For example, Rep. Tim Walberg (R-MI) has said “I really don’t know” if Obama was born in the United States. Rep. Paul Broun (R-GA) has also said he doesn’t know if the president is a citizen. In fact, a tally kept at World Net Daily claims that the following members of Cantor’s caucus doubt the president’s citizenship: Reps. Bill Posey (R-FL), Dan Burton (R-IN), Ted Poe (R-TX), Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), John Campbell (R-CA), John R. Carter (R-TX), John Culberson (R-TX), Bob Goodlatte (R-VA), Randy Neugebauer (R-TX), Trent Franks (R-AZ), Louie Gohmert (R-TX), and Kenny Marchant (R-TX).
Gregory offered Cantor a “leadership moment” to repudiate the “crazy talk” coming from many members of Cantor’s caucus, and his reluctance to do so was unfortunate particularly in the wake of President Obama’scalls for a more civil discourse. Instead, Cantor sheepishly claimed it’s not “nice” to call people crazy. But he’s less restrained when it comes to liberals. During a June 2009 appearance on Morning Joe, he called the Democrats’ health care plan “crazy talk.”

Romney Cruises to New Hampshire Straw Poll Win

The guy was the former governor of neighboring Massachusetts, and owns a home in New Hampshire--home of course to the nation's all important first primary.

Romney Wisely Steers Clear of Tea Partiers

This guy is a billionaire, and make no mistake about it.....absolutely no dummy.  

As a matter of fact, he's razor sharp....

He knows a short term political fad when he sees one, and he also knows these Tea Party freaks scare the bejesus out of most mainstream, moderate American voters....

The very smart money is on Romney squaring off against Obama in 2012.  Presidential elections are won in the middle, not on the fringes.

Let Sarah Palin have the weirdo, wingnut fringe.

Olbermann Shitcanned by MSNBC

Gee I wonder if Faux News will axe O'Reilly now....Um, that would be a no.

Olbermann was absolutely a blowhard, but I found him entertaining and a bearable alternative to the completely unwatchable O'Reilly factor shown on Faux at the same 8pm time slot.

Will CNN hire him now?  They certainly should....

Freak: Police Seize ‘Large Amount’ Of Weapons From Blogger Who Praised Gifffords Shooting: ‘1 Down And 534 To Go’

Right wing talk radio is turning millions of Americans' heads into soft mush....
from Think Progress by Alex Seitz-Wald

Police in Arlington, MA this week seized a “large amount” of weapons and ammunition from local businessman Travis Corcoran after he wrote a blog post threatening U.S. lawmakers in the wake of the shooting of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ). In a post on his blog (which has since been removed) titled “1 down and 534 to go” — 1 referring to Giffords and 534 referring to the rest of the House of Representatives and the Senate — Corcoran applauded the shooting of Giffords and justified the assassination of lawmakers because he argued the federal government has grown far beyond its constitutional limits. “It is absolutely, absolutely unacceptable to shoot indiscriminately. Target only politicians and their staff and leave regular citizens alone,” he wrote in the post.
“We certainly take this as a credible threat,” Arlington police Captain Robert Bongiorno told reporters, adding that “multiple federal law enforcement agencies” were involved. Authorities also suspended Corcoran’s gun license, though he is currently not facing any charges.
Corcoran calls himself “an anarcho-capitalist” and while his blog has been taken down, based on his Twitter page, he appears to hold views similar to those of many in the anti-government libertarian wing of the conservative movement, like many tea party activists. Anarcho-capitalism is a radical subset of libertarianism, and is often referred to as “libertarian-anarchy.” For example, echoing calls from many on the right, Corcoran tweeted, “it is unconstitutional for the Feds to even run a department of education.”
In a Twitter exchange with reporter Laura Leslie, Corcoran lays out a conventional anti-government philosophy, and explains in depth why he views assassination as legitimate:

“I assert that the US federal gov has grown unconstitutionally large, and the legislature exceeds the powers delegated to it by the people,” Corcoran wrote. “As per the Declaration of Indep, when a gov becomes destructive those ends, it may be abolished,” he continued, “and the most moral approach is that which spares the maximum number of lives. Thus, assasination is a legitimate tool.”
He goes on to further justify assassination as “morally legitimate,” citing “Catholic Just War doctrine” among other theories, and explains, “It’s illegal, yes, but it’s not un-American. America was founded on the idea of shooting gov officials. Lexington Concord!” In another tweet, he writes, “I disagree with murder. …but shooting politicians who pass illegitimate, unconstitutional laws is not murder.” And in case there’s any doubt about his sincery, he writes, “Nope, it’s not a joke. I’m 100% serious.”

He also appears to be a fan of Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY), re-tweeting a positive message about him in May: “Lefties: Before you start fringe-baiting Rand Paul, note that he’s better on civil liberties than most Democratic senators. And Obama.” He seems to dislike liberals, writing, “You so-called liberals make me laugh – you’re all for free speech until someone disagrees, then it’s ‘report him!’” He also accuses the Daily Kos of “Stalinism.”

All Class: Rush Mocks Chinese on Premier's Visit to America

Ladies and Gentlemen....Your leader for the past 30 years of the Republican Party!!

Palin Makes 2012 Moves

Shockingly, Amazingly....Unfathomably....this woman actually seems to believe she is qualified to be president.

And that she could win!

She couldn't, could she??

Right Wing Darling New Jersey Governor Christie Attacked by Right Wing for Appointing Muslim Judge

Sometimes I wonder if we are living in 1711, and not the year 2011--

from Think Progress by George Zornick

Last week, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie (R) announced seven judgeship appointments to the New Jersey Superior Court, including the appointment of Sohail Mohammed to serve on the court in Passaic County. Mohammed is an immigration lawyer in Clifton, NJ who notably defended many Muslims caught up in post-Sept. 11 dragnets, in which the Department of Justice quickly and secretly arrested hundreds of Muslims in the wake of the attacks. Often, the false pretense of an immigration violation was used to hold these men for many months, even though a vast majority of whom had no connection to terrorism whatsoever .
Several prominent anti-Muslim voices on the right have reacted with characteristic vitriol to the elevation of a Muslim in the U.S. justice system, calling Mohammed “the enemy” and accusing Christie of turning New Jersey into a “Sharia State.” A sampling of their response:

– In a widely linked post, “Governor Christie’s Dirty Islamist Ties,” blogger Daniel Greenfield writes that “New Jersey, the Garden State, has just taken its first step toward becoming the Sharia State,” and criticized Christie for being “willing to stand up to the teacher’s union, but not to the terrorist’s union.”
– Hate blogger Pamela Gellar, in a post titled “Governor Christie’s Hamas Pick for Superior Judgeship,” declared Christie’s political career over: “Governor Christie looked and sounded like he could be presidential. He’s not. He’s in bed with the enemy. All the other stuff doesn’t matter if you don’t have your freedom.”
– At Commentary magazine, Jonathan S. Tobin wrote a post about Christie’s “troubling appointment,” and charged that Christie’s “appointment of Sohail Mohammed to the court shows that his judgment on the issue of support for terrorism is highly questionable.”
– The Investigative Project on Terrorism warned Christie’s appointment of an “Islamist” to a judgeship “betrays either naivete or calculation. Either is troubling.”
– PowerLine blog took extra pains to note that “The attorney’s name is Mohammed, first name Sohail — Sohail Mohammed.”

The writers frequently label Mohammed a defender of “suspected terrorists,” but uniformly fail to note that the dragnet resulted in no substantial terrorism prosecutions. They also cannot point to clients of Mohammed’s who were a “terrorist” — except for poorly-sourced allegations against one client, Mohammed Qatanani, the head of one of New Jersey’s largest mosques. He was nearly deported for alleged connections to Hamas, but was latercleared of the charges and allowed to stay in the country, with the support of then-U.S. Attorney Chris Christie. Of course, even if Mohammed did indeed defend “terrorists,” that’s perfectly acceptable and ethical in the American justice system, as the Constitution mandates that everyone is entitled to legal defense and due process.
Mohammed has been a consistent advocate for increased dialogue between the Muslim community and law enforcement. The New York Times noted that Mohammed “helped arrange a law enforcement job fair at a Paterson mosque in which young Muslims were encouraged to apply for jobs with law enforcement agencies. The session also featured a question-and-answer session for mosque members with the police and prosecutors.” Mohammed has also given F.B.I. agents training sessions on Islam and Muslim culture. One would think this type of outreach would be appealing to bloggers who claim radical Islam is the nation’s greatest threat.

GOP Hierarchy Wants No Part of a Palin 2012 Presidential Run

These guys are scared shitless of the Thrilla from Wasilla, though--make no mistake about that....

You see this vapid, abject dunce has a legion of millions of followers and has the power to rip the GOP apart and eliminate any real chance (already a long shot) the party has of making Obama a one term president in 2012.

So guys like Newt Gingrich, Jeb Bush, Tim Pawlenty, etc. continue to needle Palin and throw jabs at her from afar....only a matter of time before Mitt 'Android' Romney joins in the chorus.  But for now he's been able to keep his hands clean while others in the establishment rough Palin up.

The question remains: is she that much of a narcissist to run for president knowing how polarizing her candidacy would be and how little chance she would have of actually winning, and how damaging her candidacy would be to her party as a whole?

What do you think?

Sign of The Times: Crass "Show Me Your Genitals" Video Gets 40 Million YouTube Hits

GOP To Investigate 'Creeping Threat of Sharia Law'

the new GOP Congress....focusing on the big important things...

from Think Progress by Scott Keyes

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When pollsters ask Americans what the most important issues facing the country are, “creeping Sharia law” barely competes with the margin of error (and only does so by generously grouping it with “other”). But this hasn’t prevented Republicans from tripping over themselves to make combating Sharia law a central focus of their legislative agenda.
In November, Oklahoma became the first state to ban the cipher threat of Sharia law. (Native American law may have been inadvertently affected as well.) Next month, Republicans will again target Muslims when Rep. Peter King (R-NY), chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, holds hearings on the threat posed by radical Islam. King, who has said that Muslims aren’t “American” when it comes to war, is already compiling a radical right witness list for the hearings, including Dutch critic Islam Ayaan Hirsi Ali, who believes that “Islam is a cult,” that “there is no moderate Islam,” and that “we are at war with Islam.”
This week, Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX) joined the growing chorus of Republicans clamoring for hearings to look into the threat of “creeping Sharia law.” Appearing on Frank Gaffney’s radio show (Gaffney is of course the chief architect of the “creeping Sharia” threat), Gohmert told the host he hoped they would “have some hearings” and that he would “be pushing for them”:

GOHMERT: The biggest shock out of all of this is that the women’s liberation groups have not just gone berserk over this creep into our society that diminishes women as it does.
GAFFNEY: This creep of Sharia law you’re talking about, Congressman Louie Gohmert. You’re absolutely right, they’re nowhere to be seen as this is such an affront to everything that they supposedly hold dear. It’s really extraordinary and it’s why we’re so delighted that you are in place in the United States Congress and that you will be holding forth I know as the Judiciary Committee begins its deliberations this session to look at the creep of Sharia law.
GOHMERT: I’m hoping we’re going to have some hearings because I’m going to be pushing for them. To discuss this issue because it does diminish the Constitution when you bring any law in that doesn’t allow women to be full equal citizens of the United States.

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This is not idle banter. As chairman of the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security, Gohmert has the power to hold such hearings. Rep. Allen West (R-FL), who serves on the House Armed Services Committee, has also said that the 112th Congress should prioritize the threat of “infiltration of the Sharia practice” in the United States. Between King, Gohmert, and West, three separate House committees could decide to spend valuable congressional time combating a phantom threat. Unfortunately, this Muslim scapegoating will do nothing to make America a more free, secure, or just society.

VIDEO: House Republicans Explain Why They Won’t Give Up Their Own Government-Sponsored Health Care

as they say....Talk is cheap.

from Think Progress by Scott Keyes

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With the Republican legislative agenda increasingly focused on repealing health care reform, many observers arebeginning to question whether GOPers in Congress will personally abide by their beliefs and take the next step of forgoing government-sponsored health insurance for themselves.
In sum, only eight GOP congressman, or three percent of all House Republicans, have opted out of the Federal Employees Health Benefits Plan. One Republican loudly complained about having his own government-sponsored health insurance delayed approximately four weeks. But most GOPers have quietly continued to accept government-sponsored health care while loudly decrying the government’s role in helping provide health care to a segment of the American public.
ThinkProgress recently caught up with a number of congressmen to ask whether they too planned to continue receiving health insurance through the federal government. Their reasons for continuing to take government-subsidized health insurance ran the gamut — from Rep. Aaron Schock (R-IL), whose justification was that he was “actually lowering” premiums for older members of Congress, to Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX), who admitted that accepting government-sponsored health care “could be” hypocritical, but shrugged it off nonetheless.
ThinkProgress compiled a video of other Republican congressmen explaining why they want to repeal health care reform for the nation but plan to keep government-subsidized health care for themselves. Watch it:

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On average, congressmen receive $700 per month in taxpayer subsidies to help pay for their health insurance. Members use these subsidies to choose a health insurance plan available through a government-sponsored exchange which, among other regulations, bars discrimination based on preexisting conditions. As Lee Fang of ThinkProgress notes, “The federal system mirrors the reforms enacted by Democrats and President Obama, which end health insurance abuses by regulating coverage through an exchange, while offering subsidies to individuals and small businesses to make coverage more affordable.”

WikiLeaks Helps Take Down Corrupt Tunisian Government

All it takes is a spark to set off a revolution, and arguably the immensely controversial WikiLeaks provided it in this case...

What's wrong with transparency, anyway??

Exit Lieberman

Over the past 5 years or so Joe Lieberman has managed to pull off the Harry Houdini like act of pissing off and alienating just about every single political group in the country, making his proposed re-election as US Senator from Connecticut about as likely as Sarah Palin becoming an astronaut next year...

Who can forget his actively campaigning for the loser ticket of McCain/Palin two short years ago?

I mean Joe.....Sarah Palin...really?

Good riddance--

Meet The 25 Wealthiest American Members of Congress

Lots of Dems on this list.... They must just like paying higher taxes for the hell of it, I guess.  Fools.
Per the just released OpenSecrets list of top 25 wealthiest politicians in America,

Rank	Name	Minimum Net Worth	Average	Maximum Net Worth
1	Darrell Issa (R-Calif)	$156,050,022	$303,575,011	$451,100,000
2	Jane Harman (D-Calif)	$151,480,522	$293,454,761	$435,429,001
3	John Kerry (D-Mass)	$182,755,534	$238,812,296	$294,869,059
4	Mark Warner (D-Va)	$65,692,210	$174,385,102	$283,077,995
5	Jared Polis (D-Colo)	$36,694,140	$160,909,068	$285,123,996
6	Herb Kohl (D-Wis)	$89,358,027	$160,302,011	$231,245,995
7	Vernon Buchanan (R-Fla)	$-69,434,661	$148,373,160	$366,180,982
8	Michael McCaul (R-Texas)	$73,685,086	$137,611,043	$201,537,000
9	Jay Rockefeller (D-WVa)	$61,446,018	$98,832,010	$136,218,002
10	Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif)	$46,055,250	$77,082,134	$108,109,018
11	Frank R. Lautenberg (D-NJ)	$49,083,204	$76,886,611	$104,690,018
12	Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif)	$-7,356,915	$58,436,537	$124,229,990
13	Alan Mark Grayson (D-Fla)	$31,411,044	$54,966,522	$78,522,000
14	James E. Risch (R-Idaho)	$19,468,057	$54,517,026	$89,565,995
15	Gary Miller (R-Calif)	$19,365,053	$51,833,526	$84,302,000
16	Bob Corker (R-Tenn)	$9,778,047	$50,717,522	$91,656,998
17	Rodney Frelinghuysen (R-NJ)	$19,898,179	$43,797,589	$67,697,000
18	Nita M. Lowey (D-NY)	$14,900,036	$39,012,518	$63,125,000
19	Kenny Ewell Marchant (R-Texas)	$13,303,385	$38,204,868	$63,106,351
20	Brian P. Bilbray (R-Calif)	$25,143,635	$37,819,629	$50,495,623
21	Harry Teague (D-NM)	$21,119,041	$37,102,019	$53,084,997
22	Denny Rehberg (R-Mont)	$6,598,014	$31,421,505	$56,244,997
23	Hillary Clinton	$10,727,014	$31,243,506	$51,759,999
24	Olympia J. Snowe (R-Maine)	$12,556,055	$28,612,527	$44,669,000
25	Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn)	$11,342,046	$28,116,022	$44,889,998

YouTube: The Sarah Palin Battle Hymn--THIS IS NOT A JOKE

horrifying...

House GOP Moving Blindly Ahead on Obamacare Repeal

We don't like it!  It's unconstitutional!!  No! NO! NO!

from AMERICAblog News| A great nation deserves the truth by John Aravosis (DC)

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They know they want to repeal health care reform, though I doubt any of them could describe what health care reform even did last year, but they have no idea what they want to replace it with. Nice. No plans, other than to say "no" over and over again, alongside "we're number one!"

We're really not number one in health care. We're way down on the list. But these jokers have the best health care in the world because the US government is subsidizing their care, and, if they get sick, they all go to Walter Reed.

It's good to be king.

Fearing High Gas Prices, Sean Hannity Proposes Re-Invading Iraq and Kuwait To ‘Take All Their Oil’

never mind the million or so Iraqi civilians who died the first time around, Sean, really...details.  and the first invasion went so swimmingly!!

from Think Progress by George Zornick

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Tonight’s Hannity on Fox News featured a discussion by the Great American Panel about high gas prices, which host Sean Hannity claimed are “now gonna go up to three, four, five dollars a gallon again.” The panel ruefully noted that Arab sheiks possess great amounts of oil, and pointed out a recent statement by Kuwait’s oil minister that he believes the market can withstand $100-per-barrel oil. After noting that Kuwait is a country that “would not exist [but] for us,” Hannity angrily offered his remedy:

HANNITY: There’s two things I said. I say why isn’t Iraq paying us back with oil, and paying every American family and their soldiers that lost loved ones or have injured soldiers — and why didn’t they pay for their own liberation? For the Kuwait oil minister — how short his memory is. You know, we have every right to go in there and frankly take all their oil and make them pay for the liberation, as these sheiks, etcetera etcetera, you know were living in hotels in London and New York, as Trump pointed out, and now they’re gouging us and saying ‘oh of course we can withstand [these prices].’”

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In the most recent invasion of Iraq, there have been 4,442 American combat deaths and over 30,000 injuries, many of them traumatic and debilitating. The cost of the war is at $3 trillion and counting, and the invasiondemolished America’s global standing. Apparently, Hannity would be willing to re-pay this cost for cheaper gasoline.
Hannity also acts as if Iraq should be grateful for the invasion and turn over its natural resources. Of course, anywhere from 100,000 to one million Iraqi civilians died during the unwanted invasion, which destroyed much of the country’s infrastructure and cultural heritage.
On the other hand, Hannity has previously noted that he “travel(s) on private planes, [and] I have an SUV that I’m proud of.” Surely, the hundred-millionaire would be hurt by $3-per-gallon gas.