Pulled over to the river to take a rest
Pulled out a pair of pliers and pulled the bullet out of my chest
Fear and loathing across the country listening to my 8 track
I Reached behind the seat and grabbed a Kool from the pack
Long distance from my girl and I'm talking on the cellular
She said that she was sorry and I said yeah the hell you were
Check my rear view mirror check the gold tooth display
Check out the odometer and I was on my way
Cause I'm a high plains drifter the best that you can get
A strapped shoplifter a pirate on cassette
Bust a Travis Bickle when I feel that I'm getting pushed
Don't step to me or you're gonna get mushed
I'm Doing 120 plowing over mail boxes
Radar detector to tell me where the cops is
Spend another night at the Motel 6
It's five dollars extra get the porno flicks
Concoct a black and tan in my brandy snifter
I'm a kleptomaniac K-Mart shoplifter
Cash flow getting low so I had to pull a job
I found a nice place to visit but a better place to rob
I left my car outside and the engine still revvin'
Time to get busy at 7-Eleven
Then I went inside to make my withdrawal
I saw what he had had but I had to take it all


Knucklehead deli tried to gyp me on the price
So I clocked him off the turban with the bag of ice
Cause I'm mellow like Jell-O cool like lemonade
I made my getaway and I thought that I had it made
I feel like Steve McQueen a former movie star
Look in my rearview mirror seen a police car
Ballantine quarts with the puzzle on the cap
I couldn't help but notice I was caught in a speed trap
Dirty Mary Crazy Larry on the run from Dirty Harry
Stash the cash in the dash but my gun I did carry
I'm seeing blue and red flashing deep in the night
I got my alibi straight and I pulled over to the right
Cop knocked on my window and said Boy where's the fire
you've got a mailbox on your bumper and a bald front tire
Outta the car longhair your goose is cooked
Read me my rights fingerprinted and booked
Makin' like a D.T. driving a Gran Fury
Wherever I hang my hat's my home and my past is kind of blurry
Every dog will have its day and mine will be in front of a jury
I'm the High Plains Drifter and I'm never in a hurry
Read me my rights as if I didn't know this
Threw me in the tank with the drunk called Otis
With his five o' clock shadow he smelled of 3-day old beer
My man turned to me and said why are you here?
I said I'm charming and dashing I'm rental car bashing
Phony paper passing at Nix Check Cashing
I went before the judge he sent me to the Brooklyn House of D.
He said you behave son or we'll throw away the key
Harry Houdini'd out the cuffs I kicked the screw in the knee
Took the bailiff's wallet and went straight to O.T.B.
I had a good feeling easy come easy go
I bet on one horse to win and another to show
And sure enough that knak came in
Brought my ticket to the window and collected my win
Broke into my new car with a wire coat hanger
Hot wired hot wheeled and Suzy is a headbanger

>> ^Duckman33
If by "evidence" you mean the testimonial of a money grubbing bitch, her coached kids, and a scumbag lawyer, and psychiatrist. I don't believe a word of it. Never did. I think it was all a scam to get some of his money. Nothing more. Sure he was a little fucked up in the head. I just don't buy the whole child molestation thing.

Thank you. I think most people have chosen to believe that Jackson was guilty just because the media has told them to / it's easier / MJ was quite eccentric (putting it mildly). But if you actually take the time to look into the case, you start to find out things like the whole family of the accuser has a history of committing crimes and launching phony lawsuits. When you actually read about the trial, it's suddenly much less clear-cut than what most people seem to think.

>> ^TangledThorns:
The View needs to get Carrie Prejean with Hasslebeck. Soooo tired of the rest of the left wing phonies on the show.


Yes, because Carrie Prejean knows exactly what she is talking about.

If she hadn't been asked that question, she'd be working a strip club right now.



>> ^EMPIRE:
In that video, everyone sitting to the left of Jesse Ventura is a complete moron.


You can tell Ventura is also thinking "Everyone sitting to my left is fucking stupid!"

The View needs to get Carrie Prejean with Hasslebeck. Soooo tired of the rest of the left wing phonies on the show.

Don't go on these idiot shows.
The best way to marginalize fox and right wing conservatism is to refuse to give them validity by your presence.

example: evolutionists are winning the day because they refuse to engage in the phony intelligent design debate.

I don't know what the Iraqi people want. I don't think the Iraqi people are unified about what they want.

Like I said, I recognize that the government might not be representative of the country, but they're the ones who have the power to sign treaties right now, and they signed a treaty with us that calls for us to withdraw over the next couple years.

I'm not sure I agree with the blanket statement that justice is solely about restitution. If you kill someone's son or daughter, there's not really any possible way for the killer to provide restitution for that. They can be punished in any number of ways, but as many victims of such a thing say "it won't bring them back".

Same principle applies here; we can't undo what was done to Iraq. We can try to help them recover (which I think we are at least partially doing), and we can hold the people who did this to account for what they did.

In many senses justice is about enforcing a code of behavior, and punishing infractions thereof, so that most people will follow the code.

I think a society should try to make sure that code is informed by a sense of morality and practicality, and that by and large it's done with the consent of the people who are bound by it, but sometimes you have to override people who think they should be free to steal, murder, torture, etc.

To someone like me who flirts with religious ideology while remaining mostly atheist, I do often feel that immoral acts stain a person in some permanent, invisible way. They can cleanse that stain by seeking and receiving forgiveness from the aggrieved, or by receiving and serving punishment from a court, and yes, possibly if they transform their moral calculus by way of religious revelation.

I think some people understand (or have been trained by parents) that acting outside a moral code requires some form of penance, and that this is a good way for people to self-reinforce the idea that some behaviors can threaten their own personal survival, mostly because of the way society will treat them.

To tie that back into our discussion of the Iraq situation, I think the same is true not just on a personal level, but at the level of an entire nation. We drummed up a phony case for war on Iraq, and that is bad in and of itself, but I'm more concerned about the question of torture.

I don't know about everyone else, but it troubles me to know that my country was involved in torturing people, and continues still to try to justify and excuse it rather than seek forgiveness or own up to the crime (or even call it a crime).

I want that fixed, and I see our justice system as being the chief vehicle for fixing it. I'm not worried about whether Bush winds up doing time in jail or executed, or pardoned, I'm worried about the idea that we might just say "let bygones be bygones", because it sets precedent for others to do the same in the future.

On a personal level, I want to think of my country as being a good (read: moral) one. If we insist on building a legal case and set of precedents for the use of torture, that goes out the window.

I writes rhymes for rehearsal
but first chill
I gotta little story to tell ya
how I almost caught a
bad one
add one to the list of 2,000 and 1
stupid things to do
I had crew when they stepped at a party
hardly even known I own a Smith & Wesson
but it's resting at home
in a shoe box
they see crews jock
so they wanna step and test the rep I got
I said 'Wait a second,
check inside my coat for a shank'
they must be imagining that I'm money in the bank
they'll get spanked
cause I'm not the nigga
I got bigga brothers waiting in the bushes
to mush kids
I talk when I wanna talk
never silence
violence erupts when I clown ya
catch a beat down ya
cause I never back away from niggas
even if you gotta pistol
I dare ya pull the trigga
but that's suicide
either you must die
or I must
so why bust me
cause I'm guilty
of being in the wrong place
at the wrong time
comin' at ya in the wrong state of mind
I'm now in a hurry
a pow when a flurry
of bullets come speeding by
I needn't die
I gotta make tracks & take back my words
I eat 'em
cause everybody knows I didn't beat 'em...

I'm out on the town
I don't frown at people
cause they tend to get offended
and then the heat will
be on my ass
I got class
never out of line, cause
I'm standing here without a nine
pistols I wish will not blast me
TAZ be circlin' corners
lookin' for Warners
you know the Brothers
me & you
we didn't do shit
but we get hassled
because we crew & we rollin'
this is my car
it isn't stollen
I hope you catch a slug
straight in your colon
when ya walkin' the beat
I bet ya gotta sheet hangin' up in ya closet
phuck this law shit
but there is two laws to follow, you know
there is laws of the city
and there's laws of the ghetto
I go to clubs with a smile on my face
just in case niggas look & wanna whyle in the place
cause of jealousy
Del is me
only me
niggas walkin' in poppin' shit
that's who the phonies be
peep it one night
and you'll see it it's quite clear
since we all know now
that's why we're
never in the wrong place @ the wrong time!

Damn, I hate cops!
I need to bust they chops
always gettin' props for the niggas they pop
peep,

I smoke weed
get weeded
cause I need it to calm my nerves before a pig get bleeded
I got busted for less than a gram of hash
they wanna cram my ass
in the slammer
that punk po-po
bringin' back hash from Amsterdam is a no-no
I didn't know they would catch me
punk mutt fetch me
stretched me out at Customs
gotta bust 'em
I can't call it
they found it in my wallet
now Customs got me
and I just can't stall it
I wish they would leave me alone
dog lookin' at me like
feed me a bone
he might bite me
very likely
they had to strike me with a fine or time
I said fine
mines was 500 bones
for a gram of hash
my mind was blown
come back to Michigan
so we can pitch again
federal offense
now I better go & convince the judge...

I really like Schaal, but she's dumbing down to her air-head personae.

'Cougar' isn't a term that was invented by men, unless she's conceding that it's men who invent the language.

And it's not insulting, either, unless you consider the fact that almost nobody would deign to call her a cougar. She's hot, but she's no cougar.

This phony-baloney feminist outrage died out about fifteen years ago, if I'm not mistaken.

Phony outrage over AIG is a diversion from the 3-pronged truth:

1) "Moderate" Repubicans played a part, but primarily Democrats caused this economic crisis via Fannie and Freddie corruption. No fking Repubican woke up one day and said, "I'll buy votes by forcing banks to give mortgages to people who can't afford them!"

2) The scamulus is a massive theft and failure, and it's also a creation of Democrats plus 3 moron Repubicans.

3) The morons on both sides of the aisle who thought AIG was "vital" enough to save with taxpayer dollars are like rescuers at a sinking ship, disgusted that some of the rescuees are criminals obliged to be saved as well. In fact, Congress is so disgusted they hope no one notices they're the ones that sank the ship in the first place.

That is a great find.

I think that in 1991 the Rocky Mountain News tried its first stab at publishing an online paper. They quit after a few months because they failed to get the readership they were expecting. I remember hearing a few people say that internet newspapers would never work.

Two, maybe three years later, they were back at it again and so was the Denver Post and Westword, too.

I might not have the whole story straight since the internet was still pretty new to me and most of the people I knew back then, but that's basically what happened.

If we can survive this next economic crisis--which shouldn't be a crisis at all, but an illusion of paper money and phony debt--who knows what we'll see in 2019?

According to Wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucia_di_Lammermoor#Trivia, it's been used in;

The "Lucia Sextet" (Chi mi frena in tal momento?) was recorded in 1908 by Enrico Caruso, Marcella Sembrich, Antonio Scotti, Marcel Journet, Barbara Severina, and Francesco Daddi, (Victor single-sided 70036) and released at the price of $7.00, earning it the title of "The Seven-Dollar Sextet". The film The Great Caruso incorporates a scene featuring a performance of this sextet.

The "Lucia Sextet" melody is best known to some from its use by the American slapstick comedy team the Three Stooges in their short films Micro-Phonies and Squareheads of the Round Table, sung in the latter with the lyrics "Oh, Elaine, can you come out tonight...." But the melody is used most dramatically in Howard Hawks' gangster classic "Scarface": Tony Camonte (Paul Muni) whistles "Chi mi frena?" in the film's opening sequence, as he guns down a ganglord boss he has been assigned to protect.

It has also been used in Warner Brothers cartoons: Long-Haired Hare, sung by the opera singer (Bugs Bunny's antagonist); Book Revue, sung by the wolf antagonist; and in Back Alley Oproar, sung by a choir full of Sylvesters, the cat.

The "Lucia Sextet" melody also figures in two scenes from the 2006 film The Departed, directed by Martin Scorsese. In one scene, Jack Nicholson's character is shown at a performance of "Lucia di Lammermoor", and the music on the soundtrack is from the sextet. Later in the film, Nicholson's cell phone ringtone is the sextet melody.

The Sextet is also featured during a scene from the 1986 comedy film, The Money Pit.

In the children's book "The Cricket in Times Square," Chester Cricket chirps the tenor part to the "Lucia Sextet" as the encore to his farewell concert, literally stopping traffic in the process.

An aria from the "mad scene," "Il dolce suono" (from the 3rd Act), was re-popularized when it was featured in the film The Fifth Element in a performance by the alien diva Plavalaguna (voiced by Albanian soprano Inva Mula-Tchako and played onscreen by French actress Maïwenn Le Besco). A loose remake of this film version of the song was covered by Russian pop singer Vitas.

The "mad scene" was also used in the first episode of the anime series Gankutsuou (in place of L'Italiana in Algeri which was the opera used in that scene in The Count of Monte Cristo).

The "mad scene" aria, as sung by Inva Mula-Tchako, was used in an episode of Law & Order: Criminal Intent involving the murder of a young violinist by her opera singer mother (who performs the song right after the murder).

The "mad scene" was released as a music video by Russian male soprano Vitas in 2006.

Among other selections from the opera, the "mad scene", "Verranno a te sull'aure", and "Che facesti?" feature prominently in the 1983 Paul Cox film Man of Flowers, especially "Verranno a te sull'aure," which accompanies a striptease in the film's opening scene.

The opera is mentioned in the novels The Count of Monte Cristo, Madame Bovary and Where Angels Fear to Tread and was reputedly one of Tolstoy's favorites.

"Regnava nel silenzio" accompanies the scene in Beetlejuice in which Lydia (Winona Ryder) composes a suicide note.

A portion of the opera is also used in a key scene of the film The Fifth Element, written and directed by Luc Besson.

Oh shit... how did I miss this?

I can't do that, MG. You're my muse! You're too predictable, shallow-witted, ignorant, and easily-incensed a bootlicking tool for me to resist. It's like poking a stick at a dog with no teeth. All you can do is laugh while he tries to gum your leg off. Let's pick up where we left off, shall we? This will be fun. Thank god your phony ass is still here. And please try harder next time. "Worthless troll" is so... well, predictable and shallow-witted. Give me something to work with here. Ooh-rah.

>> ^Ozmo152:
Without seeing this guy's 'show', the caller was pretty rude. The question asked, was a fair one. This guy did seem to sense it could have been a dialoge of sorts. Yes, the guy might have defended that Jesus was not gay. But we'll never know that, will we?
After all, being 'gay' does mean, being 'happy', not just one's sexual identity. From what I can read and learn of Jesus, he did try to lead a happy life, given all the stuff that came his way...


Ozmo. Lol.

And the funniest part of the clip was "You're not standing in front of the beach! You're a phony, a big fat phony!"

It is very obvious that Rev. Jackson is making sure the camera gets a good shot of those few fake tears he was able to shed. I mean could he at least wipe them away at "some point" during the entire broadcast? What a phony show of support for Obama he is giving for all to see. Well I am not one to be so easily fooled. His time of old school constant cries of racism have now come and gone. That is the real reason for the tears you see. Obama has managed to do within 2 years of campaigning what he attempted to do his entire Life! That was to build a "TRUE RAINBOW COALITION" of people here in our country. God truly has Blessed America!

"Wait! I thought I was on the beach! You're a phony!"