Darkness at the break of noon
Shadows even the silver spoon
The handmade blade, the child's balloon
Eclipses both the sun and moon
To understand you know too soon
There is no sense in trying.

Pointed threats, they bluff with scorn
Suicide remarks are torn
From the fool's gold mouthpiece
The hollow horn plays wasted words
Proves to warn
That he not busy being born
Is busy dying.

Temptation's page flies out the door
You follow, find yourself at war
Watch waterfalls of pity roar
You feel to moan but unlike before
You discover
That you'd just be
One more person crying.

So don't fear if you hear
A foreign sound to your ear
It's alright, Ma, I'm only sighing.

As some warn victory, some downfall
Private reasons great or small
Can be seen in the eyes of those that call
To make all that should be killed to crawl
While others say don't hate nothing at all
Except hatred.

Disillusioned words like bullets bark
As human gods aim for their mark
Made everything from toy guns that spark
To flesh-colored Christs that glow in the dark
It's easy to see without looking too far
That not much
Is really sacred.

While preachers preach of evil fates
Teachers teach that knowledge waits
Can lead to hundred-dollar plates
Goodness hides behind its gates
But even the president of the United States
Sometimes must have
To stand naked.

An' though the rules of the road have been lodged
It's only people's games that you got to dodge
And it's alright, Ma, I can make it.

Advertising signs that con you
Into thinking you're the one
That can do what's never been done
That can win what's never been won
Meantime life outside goes on
All around you.

You lose yourself, you reappear
You suddenly find you got nothing to fear
Alone you stand with nobody near
When a trembling distant voice, unclear
Startles your sleeping ears to hear
That somebody thinks
They really found you.

A question in your nerves is lit
Yet you know there is no answer fit to satisfy
Insure you not to quit
To keep it in your mind and not fergit
That it is not he or she or them or it
That you belong to.

Although the masters make the rules
For the wise men and the fools
I got nothing, Ma, to live up to.

For them that must obey authority
That they do not respect in any degree
Who despise their jobs, their destinies
Speak jealously of them that are free
Cultivate their flowers to be
Nothing more than something
They invest in.

While some on principles baptized
To strict party platform ties
Social clubs in drag disguise
Outsiders they can freely criticize
Tell nothing except who to idolize
And then say God bless him.

While one who sings with his tongue on fire
Gargles in the rat race choir
Bent out of shape from society's pliers
Cares not to come up any higher
But rather get you down in the hole
That he's in.

But I mean no harm nor put fault
On anyone that lives in a vault
But it's alright, Ma, if I can't please him.

Old lady judges watch people in pairs
Limited in sex, they dare
To push fake morals, insult and stare
While money doesn't talk, it swears
Obscenity, who really cares
Propaganda, all is phony.

While them that defend what they cannot see
With a killer's pride, security
It blows the minds most bitterly
For them that think death's honesty
Won't fall upon them naturally
Life sometimes
Must get lonely.

My eyes collide head-on with stuffed graveyards
False gods, I scuff
At pettiness which plays so rough
Walk upside-down inside handcuffs
Kick my legs to crash it off
Say okay, I have had enough
What else can you show me?

And if my thought-dreams could be seen
They'd probably put my head in a guillotine
But it's alright, Ma, it's life, and life only.

Posted by jayson on Sunday, November 18 @ 13:27:35 CST (549 reads)

(Read More... | 4720 bytes more | 85 comments | Score: 0)

Ken Meaney , CanWest News Service
Published: Friday, November 16, 2007

The provincial police force in Newfoundland has suspended the use of Tasers following the death of a Polish immigrant who was tasered at Vancouver's airport on Oct. 14.

The Royal Newfoundland Constabulary which polices mostly urban areas of the province, said the move was in response to the death of Polish immigrant Robert Dziekanski.

Posted by jayson on Friday, November 16 @ 09:44:07 CST (419 reads)

(Read More... | 1783 bytes more | 43 comments | Score: 0)

Mike writes "Cracked did an article on 5 reasons why the Zombie Apocalypse is a scientific possibility... SHIT!

Cracked.com"

Posted by jayson on Tuesday, November 13 @ 11:18:16 CST (315 reads)

(Read More... | 95 comments | Score: 0)

Have an eye at this now: http://www.loosechangeguide.com/LooseChangeGuide.html

Take that Zeitgeist!

Posted by jayson on Tuesday, November 13 @ 10:10:56 CST (326 reads)

(Read More... | 77 comments | Score: 0)

Mike writes "Five Second Movies

funny abbreviated versions of many popular movies. they are listed in the favorites section, see the "How this channel works" movie for an explanation of that."

Posted by jayson on Thursday, November 08 @ 07:50:09 CST (340 reads)

(Read More... | 89 comments | Score: 0)

Some popes are total badasses...

"It used to be that to become pope, you had to sit pantsless in a horseshoe-shaped chair and let a couple of cardinals see if you had the goods. If you passed, they'd yell "Testiculos habet et bene pendentes!" (He has testicles, and they hang well!) It's true, in those days it took balls to become Pope. Back then, the Papacy was reserved for the hardasses, guys you wouldn't mess with--the gangsters, the demon-summoners, the corpse-digger-uppers. Here are the ones we consider the biggest badasses. And, no, we didn't make any of this up."

http://www.cracked.com/article_15648_five-biggest-badass-popes.html

Posted by jayson on Monday, November 05 @ 04:33:04 CST (401 reads)

(Read More... | 81 comments | Score: 0)

Posted by jayson on Saturday, November 03 @ 13:18:09 CDT (308 reads)

(Read More... | 78 comments | Score: 0)

REX 84 is scary. WTF?

"Rex 84, short for Readiness Exercise 1984, was a plan by the United States federal government to test their ability to detain large numbers of American citizens in case of massive civil unrest or national emergency. Exercises similar to Rex 84 happen periodically. Plans for roundups of persons in the United States in times of crisis are constructed during periods of increased political repression such as the Palmer Raids and the McCarthy Era. For example, from 1967 to 1971 the FBI kept a list of persons to be rounded up as subversive, dubbed the "ADEX" list."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rex_84#_note-1

Posted by jayson on Friday, November 02 @ 08:36:53 CDT (325 reads)

(Read More... | 34 comments | Score: 0)

Mike writes ""

Posted by jayson on Friday, November 02 @ 08:22:15 CDT (389 reads)

(Read More... | 85 comments | Score: 0)

Posted by jayson on Wednesday, October 31 @ 05:48:37 CDT (413 reads)

(Read More... | 40 comments | Score: 0)