White Noise Maker

(written by: Frank Black)

from Teenager Of The Year

You know I hear a lot of talk
So I'm headed for the stereo store
To get a white noise maker and turn it up to ten

Or maybe the interior
Of somewhere like Siberia
Yeah, the yak is back again

Like harvest moon o'er my head
Yes, it was
That billboard prose shining on me
And it shines because
It's been so long since my telstar
I hope it crashes in the sea

Or maybe the interior
Of somewhere like Siberia
Yakety-yak is back again

You know I hear a lot of talk
So I'm headed for the stereo store
To get a white noise maker and turn it up to ten

Like harvest moon o'er my head
Yes, it was
That billboard prose shining on me
And it shines because
It's been so long since my telstar
I hope it crashes in the sea

House Votes To Impeach Cheney and NO ONE notices

This article by Dave Lindorff here at http://www.buzzflash.com/articles/lindorff/036 sums up what happened this week. This was a very HISTORIC vote and NO ONE Covered it in the News! I told people at work, they didn't believe me-I told my good friend and he accused me of being on LSD!
If this vote took place and no one heard it, does it mean it didn't happen?:
Highlights from Dave's excellent summation:

"Dave Lindorff: Suddenly, Impeachment Hearings are Starting to Look Likely

You wouldn't know it if you just watch TV news or read the corporate press, but this past Tuesday, something remarkable happened. Despite the pig-headed opposition of the Democratic Party's top congressional leadership, a majority of the House, including three Republicans, voted to send Dennis Kucinich's long sidelined Cheney impeachment bill (H Res 333) to the Judiciary Committee for hearings.

The vote was 218 to 194.

For the Judiciary Committee to sit on it now and not schedule a hearing would be a gross travesty of parliamentary procedure and custom.

Indeed, some House members not associated with Kucinich's resolution are now openly calling for immediate hearings into Cheney's impeachable actions -- specifically lying the country into a war in Iraq and threatening war with Iran.

One indication of the change in the political climate in the House is the announcement by Rep. Robert Wexler (D-FL), a six-term congressman and a member of the House Judiciary Committee, that he will call for the Judiciary Committee to take up Kucinich's impeachment bill. This is significant because Wexler, no left-wing hothead, is not a co-signer of the Kucinich bill.

In an e-mail message to constituents, Wexler said: "I share your belief that Vice President Cheney must answer for his deceptive actions in office, particularly with regard to the preparations for the Iraq war and the revelation of the identity of covert agent Valerie Plame Wilson as part of political retribution against her husband."

"...Cheney and the Bush Administration have demonstrated a consistent pattern of abusing the law and misleading Congress and the American people. We see the consequences of these actions abroad in Iraq and at home through the violations of our civil liberties. The American people are served well with a legitimate and thorough impeachment inquiry. I will urge the Judiciary Committee to schedule impeachment hearings immediately and not let this issue languish as it has over the last six months. Only through hearings can we begin to correct the abuses of Dick Cheney and the Bush Administration; and if it is determined in these hearings that Vice President Cheney has committed High Crimes and Misdemeanors, he should be impeached and removed from office. It is time for Congress to expose the multitude of misdeeds of the Administration and I am hopeful that the Judiciary Committee will expeditiously begin an investigation of this matter."

Also calling for prompt action by the Judiciary Committee in the wake of the Tuesday House vote was Carol Shea-Porter, a first-term Democrat from New Hampshire, who also is not a sponsor of the Kucinich measure. In explaining her vote to send the Kucinich bill to the Judiciary Committee, she said:

"It is the duty of the Vice President to faithfully execute the laws of the United States of America and to defend the Constitution. There is growing evidence that the Executive Branch has ignored some of our laws and has attempted to bend the Constitution to its will. Members of both parties decided that this issue is too important to ignore. I voted with my Republican and Democratic colleagues to investigate the Vice President's actions in office."

She characterized the resolution sending the bill to the Judiciary Committee a "strongly bipartisan vote."

With these kinds of endorsements and calls for action, it is clear that Speaker Pelosi is looking increasingly pathetic and out of touch with her "impeachment is off the table" mantra, and also that Judiciary Chair John Conyers (D-MI), who seems to have been intimidated by the Speaker for the past year, but who earlier had been a leader in exposing the crimes of the Bush/Cheney Administration, is getting strong support for taking a bolder stand.

Stephen Cohen (D-TN), a member of the Judiciary Committee who is a co-sponsor of the Kucinich resolution, says he thinks that there will be an impeachment hearing in the committee.

The 22 House members who have already signed on as co-sponsors of Kucinich's Cheney impeachment resolution are: Jan Schakowsky (D-IL), Maxine Waters (D-CA), Hank Johnson (D-GA), Keith Ellison (D-MN), Lynn Woolsey (D-CA), Barbara Lee (D-CA), Albert Wynn (D-MD), William Lacy Clay (D-MO), Yvette Clarke (D-NY), Jim McDermott (D-WA), Jim Moran (D-VA), Bob Filner (D-CA), Sam Farr (D-CA), Robert Brady (D-PA), Tammy Baldwin (D-WI), Donald Payne (D-NJ), Steve Cohen (D-TN), Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX), Carolyn Kilpatrick (D-MI), Ed Towns (D-NY), Diane Watson (D-CA), and Danny Davis (D-IL).

The change in attitude toward impeachment among the rank and file, and the evident increasing willingness to buck the Speaker, reflects growing awareness of the groundswell of popular anger with the Bush Administration and the Democratic Congress over continued funding of the Iraq War, and over continued erosion of Constitutional government and civil liberties by an administration that wants unfettered executive power and by a Congress that is afraid to act.

The latest polls show three in four Democrats in favor of impeaching the vice president and president, while a majority of all Americans favor impeaching the vice president and roughly half of all Americans favor impeaching the president.

This is before hearings and presentation of evidence have even begun!

As recently as a month ago, it didn't look like impeachment was in the cards; Now it's starting to look like Cheney's going to be put in the dock.

It may not be long before we start to see bills of impeachment filed against President Bush too.

The corporate media enjoy making fun of Rep. Kucinich, a height-challenged but dedicated progressive who has made a career of standing tall for his views. If his bill ends up leading to impeachment hearings against Cheney, Kucinich will end up having the last laugh. "
http://www.buzzflash.com/articles/lindorff/036

Cheney Hunting Costume

My fave new Halloween outfit is the Dick Cheney Hunting Costume--posted by the NY Times HERE
Note the drunken smile and hip flask.

Sunday: Halloween Program!!

Music for a Halloween party-a little late cuz most of the parties are Saturday Night. If if you want to hear some crazy-ass scary dance music tune in to the Hangover this Sunday morning at 10 AM.
88.1 KWVA Eugene Oregon .
On line streaming at www.kwvaradio.org
archived at http://www.ahammer.com/marctime/

Autumn Radio

Thanks to my friend Armin, there are Two New Shows available:
Go To: http://www.ahammer.com/marctime/

9/30/07 *NEW* September Song- Inspired by the great WFMU's Beware Of The Blog, Marc pays multiple tribute to the last day of September by way of Kurt Weill's classic composition, performed here by James Brown, Gene Bianco, Lee Hazelwood, Santo and Johnny, Arthur Lyman, Ian McCulloch and Lou Reed (to name but a few); also some stormy visit from ELO & Steve Lawrence; The Rev. gets spiritual with Edwin Hawkins and the Scala Belgian Children's Chorus and organic with The Band, Booker T. and Spencer Davis. And what, you think he'd forget Tom Jones & Zoltan?

9/23/07 *NEW* Welcome To Autumn- Pavarotti? Andy Williams? Chevalier? Uncle Junior? The Rev. waves goodbye to the summer, the picks things up in Part 2 with Norman Greenbaum, Eric Burdon, Daffy Duck, some cool rare stuff from the 99-cent bins, and of course visits from Zoltan and Tom Jones.

Found These Right-Wing Notes on my Windshield:Part 2

You may not remember my post from July 15 about finding these anti-lib anti-muslim righty war- monger's note on my windshield at Smith Family Books Parking lot.
Well, here we go again.All this was brought on by my Move On bumpersticker.
Has this happened to anyone else in the Smith Family/Feinstein's area of Eugene?

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.