Is this Gunther or Rudy?

More Rudy Giuliani in Drag

Rudy in Drag

Thanks to Shakesville for this gross clip of our future president.

Tasered for Being an Asshole

Did you see the video of a Florida student being dragged out of a Kerry speech and tasered? He had a right to ask those questions, but he wouldn't leave the podium and the security and crowd turned against him .
I agree that the untrained campus security police were way too heavy handed.They could've handled thiswithout tasers-but he really was being an asshole, and many You Tubers agree:

"When i saw this on the TODAY show i was pissed at the cops but now i see the whole story, they cops had every right to do that."
"Freedom of speech my ass. That was pathetic. America is officialy a fascist regimn."
"They didn't arrest and taser him for voicing his opinion. They were going to escort him out of the room, but he had to keep making a scene. He was acting crazy and they clearly warned him that they would taser him, but he kept acting like an ass!"
"Obviously this person has a lack of respect for authority as well as control issues. Not only do I think the police were completely in line by using a taser, I also think that someone this volatile may need to be evaluated to see if they pose a risk to other students on campus."
"He should have asked the one question .. BUT, in no way did he deserve tthe treatment he got. Shame on Kerry for not standing up for this kid. Kerry just mumbles on as they were manhandling him. Disgraceful. That kid asked some important questions that Kerry needs to answer."
"well at least he can say he got his fifteen minutes of fame, by the way was this a public or private function?"
"If 10 people from the audience had stood up to help the guy"
"In case you didn't notice, they were cheering when he was escorted away from the microphone because he was being a jerk. Then he hyped the incident to try to get sympathy and it looks like he was successful. You are being played for a fool."
"In NYC, if you resist being handcuffed by officers for a few minutes, you better hope you only get tasered....maybe a few blows to his head with a night stick would of been better way to subdue him."

By the Way, EVERYTHING this butthead said was TRUE, and I laughed when he asked the Skull and Bones question.
Also he gave a false name at the beginning of his rant.
I heard today that this student was Andrew Meyer, a U Florida student in the College of Journalism and Communications,and was a known prankster and provocateur.
They should've asked the crowd if they wanted him off the podium.

What do YOU think after watching the video?
Watch the video here:

In Defense Of Britney

By now you've seen the footage of Britney Spears at the MTV Awards. A lot of people are laughing, saying she can't lip sync, can't dance and is too fat. But most of the comments are overly mean spirited.
As much as I like to make fun of rich overpaid drug addled celebrities like Britney,I think that it has become a major league sport to dwell on the failures of our bloated "stars". All too frequently it's the blonde young females that are the easy targets. Yeah , I'm no fun anymore. I guess you are officially considered an old fart when you prefer to monitor the criminals running our government rather than the bread and circus.
But even tho' Brit looked like a deer in headlights and shook like a bowl of Jello I think it took BIG BALLS for her to try to stay in the public eye after being
seen totally wasted in public for the last few years. And I'd like to see any of you reading this get up in front of the world half naked and try to sing, dance and remember words and moves to stupid songs.
It wasn't your best performance Britney. But I love you anyway.

Bush Is an Ass Man

And so am I--especially when it comes to about 50 Aussies showing their Asses to protest Bush at APEC!This is where Bush referred to the summit as OPEC and called the Australian Army "Austrians". Like I said....

Come To My Birthday Party!

Party Naked Sunday Morning in the privacy of your own living room as Rev. Marc Time has his Birthday Party ON THE AIR!
Sing along, help cut the cake and open presents, and dance to my fave Party songs.The Party starts at 10 AM on KWVA Radio 88.1 Eugene OR
www.kwvaradio.org
Listen or Download this broadcast HERE

I'm Not Gay

Junction City's Water Tower

This our landmark for our sleepy little town of 4500 people--it is our only tall structure. The bottom photo was taken by me 3 years ago at the Scandi Fest and the top night photo was taken at last week's Scandi Fest by my friend Peter Herley.

Family Pic of the Week

Me and My cousin, Chris Bruning, in Chris' backyard, Orange Terrace West Haven Connecticut 1961.

The WORST of ELVIS

I don't know why I am jumping on all this 30 year Elvis anniversary crap but one of my fave CD's is called "Elvis' Greatest Shit".
It features the worst songs Elvis ever committed to tape and today on the Hangover at 11AM I am going to play the worst of the worst Elvis. Why play the best? Everyone else is already doing that.
Now available for download HERE.
KWVA

Myself, Dad and Michael -Easter 1962 ish

Me and Paul Xmas 1964ish

Sleepy Christmas Morning

That's me and brother Michael opening presents Xmas1961 or 1962. Note Flintstones game and Etch a Sketch.

Four Brothers Circa 1964

My Brother Michael found the missing family slides and sent them to me-I am so Happy!! I hope more are on the way! This is My Brothers Skip, Paul Me and Mike 1965(?).

BALLBUSTER

My fave blog is the WFMU site and here is a great video of my fave game.

Diggin' Nancy Sinatra

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nancy_Sinatra
This show is now available HERE

In the words of my friend Armin: "Swingin' with Nancy- Part 1 of today's show is a special tribute to the career and recordings of Young Blue (brown?)-Eyes, Miss Nancy Sinatra. This great show was broadcast prior to the annoucement of the passing the previous day of Nancy's producer, writer and singing partner, the great Lee Hazelwood . Great stuff."

Airship Radio Theatre Crashes

This is how I found out that our radio show and all other local shows were no longer to be aired.:The Register-Guard
Liberal station KOPT scraps local content
By Ilene Aleshire
Published: Thursday, August 2, 2007

Liberal-leaning KOPT radio station has pulled the plug on local programming, switching to a nationally syndicated format as of today.

"Despite gaining a loyal listenership, the station, which debuted in November 2004, has been a challenging business venture for Churchill Media," the company said in a statement.

"The challenge is going up against the big guys, the Clear Channels, satellite feed talk radio programs," Churchill Media General Manager Paul Danitz said. Although KOPT did include some satellite feed programs, it also ran a full line news department - an expensive proposition, Danitz said.

Syndicated programming essentially "costs nothing," he said. "You give them a couple of commercial units per hour and they provide you with programming." The only cost to the station is the equipment, and one person to run it, he said.


In contrast, KOPT spent more than $250,000 per year to staff its local news department, Danitz said. Nine news people have now been laid off, he said. One remains.

"Progressive/liberal talk radio is having a very difficult time surviving around the country," Danitz said. "We felt that, with the liberal attitude of the Eugene-Springfield market, we could swim upstream. We couldn't."

The station was never able to get the commercial sponsorship it needed, he said.

Churchill will now concentrate on its core market of Hispanic radio, Danitz said. Churchill owns and operates seven other radio stations in Oregon, Washington and Idaho, six of them Hispanic stations.

Churchill got in on the ground floor of Hispanic programming in the Pacific Northwest, and that division is doing well, Danitz said, to the point that KOPT could have survived if it only broke even. In this region, it's still a small market, he said. "But the cost of operating a Hispanic property is far less than the weight of full-line programming."

KOPT will continue to carry syndicated Air America shows - at least for now. Churchill Media President Suzanne Arlie said Wednesday that she is open to selling KOPT. If the station is not sold within three months, she said, it may be converted to a jazz format.

Danitz said that he's been in radio for 37 years, but that Wednesday was a hard day.

"Today when I went down to deliver the news, to a news department that won 20 awards in 18 months, people knew they were under the gun," he said. "But they gave it everything they had, until the last second."

Letter from my Congressman about Impeachment

The Following is a response to my last email to my Congressman Peter DeFazio urging him to join the others in Congress pushing foe Impeaching George Bush and Dick Cheney for the many crimes.:::

"Thanks for your message in support of impeaching the President, Vice President, or both. I appreciate the opportunity to respond.
I share your outrage at the administration's many transgressions over the last six-plus years. I have used my voice and my vote to oppose the administration on multiple fronts. I have always opposed the war in Iraq. I voted against the so-called USA PATRIOT Act. I voted against the legislation establishing military tribunals, which also included provisions retroactively immunizing administration officials for authorizing torture and provisions allowing the President to detain American citizens indefinitely without charge. I voted against legislation authorizing warrantless wiretapping of American citizens. I have led the effort to prevent the administration from attacking Iran without congressional authorization. Despite my long and vocal record of opposition to the administration's harmful policies, I believe that impeachment is a dubious strategy that will fail to bring about the change our country needs.
Supporters of impeachment need to ask themselves a question: is the primary goal to attempt to personally punish the President and Vice President or is it to reverse the many detrimental policies that have been enacted over the last six years?
If it is the former, then I can understand why individuals would believe an attempt to impeach is the best option. But, if it is the latter, which is what I think the goal should be, then impeachment will not work because even if Members of the House put aside all urgent issues and consumed the next six months with impeachment and then voted to impeach, the Senate will never vote to convict the President or Vice President and remove them from office, meaning at the end of the process they will remain in office with their policies unchanged and all that will have been accomplished is a 6-12 month delay in trying to overturn their harmful policies.
The reason I draw that conclusion is based on the math in the Senate. Even with the Democratic takeover of Congress last November, there are only 51 Senators that caucus with the Democratic Party (including two independents, Joseph Lieberman of Connecticut and Bernie Sanders of Vermont). Even if all of these individuals supported impeachment (an unlikely prospect given the large number of conservative Democrats, not to mention Senator Lieberman), it would still require 16 Republicans to vote to convict the President or Vice President (2/3rds of the Senate, 67 votes, are needed to convict and remove from office). There is no evidence that any Republicans, let alone the 16 or likely more that would be required, will consider voting in favor of impeachment.
Just because an impeachment strategy is certain to end in failure doesn't mean Congress is impotent in terms of holding the administration accountable or reversing harmful policies.
I have advocated for an aggressive strategy of hearings, investigations (including the use of subpoena power) and legislation to overturn the administration's harmful policies.
This strategy is already bearing fruit. Although there are not yet quite enough votes in Congress to force a change in the President's Iraq policy, the President has been seriously challenged on Iraq since the Democratic takeover via both hearings and legislation. There have been multiple votes on bringing our troops home and establishing enforceable benchmarks for the administration's policy. This is something that did not happen under Republican control when the President was provided whatever he wanted with no questions asked. Further, the aggressive Democratic oversight has contributed to crumbling support for the President and his war even among members of his own party as evidenced by the recent public defections of key Republican senators.
Further the investigation and hearings into the political firings of U.S. Attorneys (again, something that never would have happened under the prior Republican leadership in Congress) have led to the resignation of several senior Justice Department personnel and hopefully will force out the Attorney General as well.
The Democratic takeover also led the administration to cave-in on its warrantless wiretapping program, agreeing earlier this year to subject future requests to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) Court. Though, what the administration is actually submitting to the FISA Court needs further oversight.
And, while the administration continues to try to obstruct various investigations, Democratic leaders have not been shy about threatening to issue contempt citations and to take the administration to court to enforce subpoenas for testimony and documents.Finally, I am concerned that pursuing impeachment would suck all of the oxygen out of Congress, bringing all other issues to a halt and making it impossible to make progress on other priorities, such as taking on the oil companies; reorienting our energy policies toward clean, renewable electricity and fuels, as well as conservation; reforming and funding the No Child Left Behind law; expanding access to health insurance and affordable health care; among many other issues you and I care about.Since impeachment will not succeed in the Senate, pursuing it will not actually do anything to hold the administration accountable or overturn harmful policies. It would be a hollow effort. So the choice is real action via hearings, investigations and legislation, or symbolic action that won't change anything via impeachment. I prefer real action.
That said, for those concerned that a message needs to be sent to future presidents, I am a cosponsor of H.Res. 530, a resolution censuring President Bush for his manipulation of intelligence leading up to the war in Iraq, the leaking of the identity of an undercover CIA agent's name, and the pardoning of I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby. Passage of this resolution, which only requires a majority vote, would send a powerful signal to future presidents and congresses.
Thanks again for contacting me. Please keep in touch.
Sincerely,
Rep. Peter DeFazio
Fourth District, OREGON "

It's Armin Hammer Time

I want to take this brief moment and space to thank the man responsible for archiving and recording my radio shows, Mr. Armin Hammer. As well as being a member of San Francisco's amazing True Margrit he also has over 27 years experience as an audio recordist, mixer, mastering engineer, film transfer engineer. 5 years experience as Multimedia Production, and is now cosidered the Hardest Working Man in Showbusiness now that the great James Brown is gone.
Check his extensive credits HERE and HERE
Also he used to be my bandmate in some of my musical projects including late 70's new wave band The Jars. And Girls, he's single and available!
I could go on and on but please take a moment to meet the man who works so hard for nothing but the love of music, comedy and radio-the guy responsible for archiving my shows listed below, -Thank You Gary Hobish!!!