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 KO responded to his friends on twitter tonight with a hashtag that reached the top of the non - promoted trends; #FOK "Friends of Keith" With all apologies to Trey Parker. (Sung to the tune of  "Team America") Keith Olbermann... Keith Olbermann... Keith Olbermann, #FOK YEAH! Coming again, to save the mother #Fok king day yeah, Keith Olbermann, #FOK YEAH!! Freedom is the only way yeah, Fox News your game is through cause now you have to answer too, Keith Olbermann, #FOK YEAH! So lick my butt, and suck on my balls, Keith Olbermann, #FOK YEAH! What you going to do when they come for you now, it's the dream that we all share; it's the hope for tomorrow..... #FOK YEAH! Fox News, #FOK YEAH! Glenn Beck, #FOK YEAH! Limbaugh, #FOK YEAH! Baseball , #FOK YEAH! NFL, #FOK YEAH! Sarah Palin, #FOK YEAH! The Internet, #FOK YEAH! MSNBC, #FOK YEAH! #FOK YEAH! Bachman, #FOK YEAH! Angle, #FOK YEAH! Boehner, #FOK YEAH! Kyl, FUCK YEAH! Cheney, #FOK...

I do not want to blog about KO today. The greatest movie I never wanted to watch is "Fight Club". When it came out it looked like a steroid and testosterone, underground boxing movie. Well it sorta is, but it is so much more. Little did I know it was one of the greatest counter culture, zen, philosophical movies about transforming your life EVER. Having gone through such a transformation a few years earlier, I really related to the movie,  I just watched the movie again recently. There are so many great quotes from the movie, I could write all day. (Video after the jump)

"You want to vomit from her" "I don't know how any one would want to see this woman become President." Howard Stern takes Sarah Palin to task for making the AZ shootings all about HER victimization. Gabby got shot but they called Sarah names!! Warning! Howard uses Howard language..I don't like the word either...but he's right on. He praised President Obama for his speech, and explains how sickened he was by Palins video response. "She put crosshairs on a map with representatives names on it. Who does that?"

I was reading the old testament today and thought this passage applied to the G.O.P. who got their huge unjustified tax cuts and now seek to repeal HCR. Proof again the the Christian Right DOES NOT KNOW NOR FOLLOW SCRIPTURE. Jeremiah 22:13 - 22:18 13 Woe to him who builds his house by unrighteousness , and his upper rooms by injustice; who makes his neighbors work for nothing , and does not give them their wages; 14 who says, ‘I will build myself a spacious house with large upper rooms’, and who cuts out windows for it, panelling it with cedar, and painting it with vermilion. 15 Are you a king because you compete in cedar? Did not your father eat and drink and do justice and righteousness? Then it was well with him. 16 He judged the cause of the poor and needy ; then it was well. Is not this to know me? says the Lord . 17 But your eyes and heart are only on your dishonest gain, for shedding innocent blood, and for practicing oppression and violence.

I received this email from Former Congressmen Alan Grayson. He is missed, as one of the only Dems with any balls. Gabby Was Right, Palin Is Wrong Dear Raymond, When I opened my web browser yesterday, at yahoo.com , there was Sarah Palin, smiling at me. “Oh, God,” I said to myself, “what has she done now?” The headline was “Palin Defends ‘Blood Libel’”. That’s interesting, I thought. What else might Palin be defending? Cannibalism, maybe? Well, it turned out to be a report on Palin’s disjointed remarks on Sean Hannity’s show, regarding the shooting of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords. I then watched the report. Let me summarize it for you: Palin: I am so misunderstood. Hannity: I am so misunderstood. Palin: I am so misunderstood.

Tony Soprano, Michael Corleone, Snoop Dogg, Dr. Dre - Not real Gangstas Ben Bernake, Bill Gates, Henry Paulson, Tim Geithner - Real Gangstas Jasiri X and George Carlin speak truth to power. What I referred to in an earlier post as " raptivism " is perhaps better described as " Cognitive Hip-Hop " Here's a dose of reality for you. It's called " Organized Crime " for a reason. They are well organized. " It's called the American Dream because you'd have to be asleep to believe it " George Carlin

Pentagon officials try to pervert Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s message. They try to say Dr. King would approve of our endless War. He would not, anymore than Jesus would, or Ghandi. War is a direct attack on the poor of our own Nation. Today is not just a day off. Go on YouTube and listen to his speeches. More relevant today than ever. A true Christian, a true believer, and a true man of God. Don't take my word for it. Watch the video.

On twitter and to my face I have been called a homosexual, a loser, a scumbag, a commie, a socialist, a treehugger, and my favorite: A dirty fucking hippie. As if any of these slurs bothers me. They don't. In fact the last one I wear as a badge of honor. Because we were right. Peace and Love. I don't know who made this video, but may God bless you. Say it with me: The Dirty Fucking Hippies WERE RIGHT! We told you so...

Update : original image removed due to overwhelming readership requests. New image by Gary Larson is used with out permission. I had created an image. I was not advocating violence. It was in response to the Team Palin statement that the cross hairs on Sarah Palin's map , were surveyor symbols when her own tweets refered to them as targets . Congresswoman Gifford spoke out about these crosshairs after the healthcare vote, when her offices were vandalized. Whoopi Goldberg warned that what ever happened as a result of this map would be on the G.O.P.'s hands. The "don't retreat, reload" rhetoric. Yesterday the Blood Libel thing, (Sarah claims attacks from the left are a blood libel) when Congresswoman Gifford is Jewish . I pray for this woman that she will get off facebook and twitter and read the Word of God she claims to worship. Earlier in the week Barbara Walters said she felt sorry for Sarah Palin. The Twitterverse (myself included) was outraged at Walt...

It is my firm belief that Christian Conservatives, have neither read the bible nor know Jesus. (Ayn Rand yes, Jesus, not so much.) I could point to scriptural verse after verse showing how God and Jesus feel about the greedy. Stephen Colbert and Merle Haggard (covering Woody Guthrie) will explain. Funny you never hear about Christian Socialists. Have a Blessed Sunday H/T to Joe. My. God.

I'm an old white rocker from the 'burbs of NJ. Tony Soprano country. My Mom and siblings are Brooklynites, Dad's side from Long Island. Me, the baby was raised in suburbia. The phrase "Keep it real" comes to mind. I have never lived in the city. I love most music but Hip-Hop has for the most part eluded me. I don't want to read the Jay-Z dictionary. I am what I am and I don't want to sound like Michael Steele. MC's I have liked are generally East Coasters from Queens or Brooklyn. I could understand them. I like Snoop even though I've never been to Cali let alone Compton. But I could understand him and he used to sample Funkadelic and Parliament who I love. But I couldn't relate. There was no message for me . Raps about guns, pimping, and gangsterism, (despite my being Sicilian), had no meaning for me. I was not raised on the mean streets. Rock & Roll during the Vietnam era was full of political awareness that few contemporary bands ...

Well 2010 is over, and I say good riddance. Sadly 2010 was NOT they year we made contact. 2010 was the year I spent busting my ass in school at age 49 to get a 100%. In a field with no jobs, I have had one interview in a year. So fuck 2010. As we look to the future, we ponder the past year. Arthur C. Clark got it wrong. Who better to tell us where we have been and where we are going than Tom Tomorrow. His cartoon retrospective of 2010's wacky politics summed it up better than I could. Perhaps do the credo action alert or pick up Tom's new childrens book "The very silly mayor" . 2010 The year in crazy part 1 2010 The year in crazy part 2 H/t to Salon.com and credoaction.com