4.30.14 Bee-otch of the Day: Donald Sterling AGAIN!

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FOR THE SECOND DAY IN A ROW...

Name: Donald Sterling
Age: 81
Occupation: real estate magnate, lawyer and owner of the Los Angeles Clippers
Last Seen: Los Angeles, CA
Bee-otched For: getting the boot
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It's official: the most-hated man in sports has been given the boot.

Yesterday afternoon, NBA commish Adam Silver made the announcement that Donald Sterling has been banned from the NBA for life. Sterling can no longer make business decisions, attend NBA games or participate in anything regarding his own team. NBA team owners will now decide if they want Sterling to bequeath his team or not.

Also yesterday afternoon, the Clippers posted simply three white words with a black background and an abbreviated version of the team's logo: WE ARE ONE.

Sterling was also fined $2.5 million for the racial outbursts that he made to girlfriend V. Stiviano that she recorded where Sterling criticized her for a picture of her standing next to NBA legend Magic Johnson and taking black people to Clipper games.

Without a doubt, Sterling is the most-controversial sports team owner since Marge Schott and her support for Adolph Hitler that caused her to lose managing control of the Cincinnati Reds baseball team from 1996 to 1998. Because of her unpopularity, she ended up selling the team in 1999. Racial slurs were a part of her vocabulary; often using terms such as "million-dollar n*ggers" to describe her baseball players.

Now that Sterling's no longer in control, time will only tell how the Clippers will do the rest of the playoffs or if the name "Clippers" is tarnished for good. Maybe now, Donald will use his time off from basketball to hang out with his precious sugar momma.

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4.29.14 Bee-otch of the Day: Donald Sterling

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Name: Donald Sterling
Age: 81
Occupation: real estate magnate, lawyer and owner of the Los Angeles Clippers
Last Seen: Los Angeles, CA
Bee-otched For: being a bigot
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For 30 years, the Los Angeles Clippers were the Lakers' bitch.

While the Lakers were winning championships, the Clippers were "that other team" in L.A. The team originally played in Buffalo and then San Diego. They moved to L.A. in 1984 when three years prior, real estate magnate and lawyer Donald Sterling bought the team for $12.5 million.

The Clippers never won an NBA championship and never had a better record than the Lakers. But in recent years, their fortunes were turned around when the Lakers started to fizzle out and thanks to great players like Chris Paul and Blake Griffin, they became one of the NBA's top teams.

Now, it's the Clippers' turn for dominance as they're currently getting set for Game Five of the NBA Playoffs vs. the Golden State Warriors tonight at Los Angeles. But it will be a bittersweet homecoming for the Clippers since it's their first game since all hell broke loose last weekend when a recording of owner Donald Sterling arguing with his girlfriend surfaced on TMZ.com.

In the call, Sterling was angry that his 31-year-old girlfriend, Maria Vanessa Perez, aka Vivian Stiviano was pictured on her Instagram account with former Laker Magic Johnson. In the lengthy call, Sterling is angry at Stiviano for bringing blacks to the games, even though Stiviano is 1/2 black herself.

As we all know by now, Sterling is now pretty much the most-hated man in sports. Several fellow NBA owners such as Michael Jordan have admonished his statements, celebs have bashed him and even President Obama have commented on Sterling's rant. Even his estranged wife of nearly 60 years, Rochelle rebuked his comments.

Rumor has it that the reason why Stiviano recorded his comments was due to the fact that Sterling - who is 81 - might be coming down with either Alzheimer's or dementia. She claims that she's not the one who leaked the tape to TMZ, especially since she's embroiled in some legal battles with Sterling's wife right now. Rochelle claims that V. is a gold digger and dates wealthy older men like Sterling.

Nonetheless, the damage is done. On Sunday's game in Oakland, Clippers players removed their warm-up jerseys and turned them inside-out as a sign of protest. Now that the series is coming back to the Staples Center, people wonder if it's right to support a team whose owner is a racist who won't even apologize for his comments. As expected, the NBA is investigating Sterling and his consequences might be hurtful.

You see, the Clippers are a franchise, just like McDonald's, Burger King, Subway and so on. You can own a franchise, but you must adhere to their rules. Franchises have different rules and different payment agreements. My mother owned a computer repair franchise with her now-ex-husband several years ago in Arizona. They wanted a partner and found one who owned several shops of his own. However, he was caught cheating his employees and his shops himself by embezzling money. He'd report that the billing was low when it was much higher. He was caught and surprise, he was forced to sell off his stores... for only $1.

Just because you own a piece of Mickey D's doesn't make you king of the world by any degree. Hell, I know of two former Burger King locations right here in Grand Rapids. They failed probably because they didn't make enough money or the location just wasn't right.

In the case of Donald Tokowitz Sterling, there's a variety of things that are possible regarding the Clippers' future. One is for Sterling to give the team to Rochelle and another is for the NBA to force the team off his hands and make it an NBA O&O until a new owner emerges. IMHO, it might be possible that a future owner of the Clippers would want to move the team to Seattle, a town still infuriated after the Sonics moved to Oklahoma City in 2008. It would be no huge loss to L.A. since they still have the Lakers, but is still wondering why an NFL franchise hasn't been interested in the city since the Raiders and Rams abandoned the city 20 years ago.

In the end, I think that Donald Sterling is a pure asshole for using blacks as a key for his success but ended up spitting on them just because when it's his team's turn to play the Staples Center, he wants 20,000 lily white folks to cram the stands to watch some black folks entertain. I agree that it's time for the old man to throw in the towel and have somebody with many degrees more tolerance to own the team.

At least the Lakers' owner, Jeanie Buss did Playboy about 20 years ago and yes, I have that issue in my (albeit small) collection. Jeanie-1, Donald-zip.

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4.26.14 Bee-otch of the Day: Cliven Bundy

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Name: Cliven Bundy
Age: 67
Occupation: rancher
Last Seen: Clark County, NV
Bee-otched For: having a few cows
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I guess it's time for me to put in my two cents on this issue.

For 20 years now, a cattle rancher from Nevada named Cliven Bundy has been fighting the US government over the fact that he's been using federal land to graze his cattle. Bundy claims that his family had been using that land for 140 years, but the feds had cut Bundy off due to the fact that the land has a rare species of turtle on there. Now, the government is seizing any of Bundy's cattle that enters their land

In recent weeks, many on the right such as Sean Hannity had defended Bundy for being anti-government and pro-business. But last week, their support dwindled when he made statements against blacks claiming that they're lazy and that they've never learned how to pick cotton. Now, Bundy is in bigger cow shit than ever.

Ranchers allowing their cattle to graze on public land is nothing new. Even King of the Hill tackled the topic in an episode when Peggy's family's farm is in danger of closing because of the fact that they could no longer graze their cows on land now owned by Henry "The Fonz" Winkler. The end result was that they found a new place to graze their cattle: the trendy business district.

Of course it's natural that Hannity and others withdrew their support of Bundy; his comments are extremely stupid and did nothing but make Mormons and conservatives look undesirable. Then again, they already are. I hope that the government takes all of his cattle away and that Bundy will be forced to retire.

Cliven and Donald Sterling should share a room.

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4.24.13 Bee-otch of the Day: Terri Lynn Land

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Name: Terri Lynn Land
Age: 55
Occupation: former Secretary of State of Michigan
Last Seen: Byron Center, MI
Bee-otched For: being a cow who eats hamburger
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  The 2014 elections are heating up, especially here in Michigan.

One of the coveted seats is Carl Levin's senate seat, which he's held since 1979. Now that the 80-year-old Democrat is retiring, chances are that it will be a battle between former Republican Secretary of State Terri Lynn Land and Democratic congressman Gary Peters from the Detroit area. Already, the attack ads are all over Michigan television.

In her newest ad - seen above - Land is at a table asking why Peters claims that she's against women. For a few seconds, game show-style think music plays while she sips from a cup and looks at her watch. In the end of the 30-second ad, she proclaims, "I'm Terri Lynn Land, and I approve this message, because as a woman, I might know a little bit more about women than Gary Peters."

Really, Terri? Just because somebody has tits and a twat doesn't make them an expert on what it's like to be female. This broad supports eliminating the Affordable Care Act and deregulation that would only create low-paying and dangerous jobs for Michiganders. Women need both the ACA and good-paying jobs to get by. Hell, the ACA helps pay for things women need like mammograms and prevents them from losing their coverage over a pre-existing condition.

Remember those ads that featured that old lady from the Detroit area who claimed that the ACA caused her to lose her coverage, even though she found a better plan for less premiums? Remember who was responsible for them: Americans For Prosperity, or in other words, the Koch brothers. They want Ms. Land to win so they could keep running this state into the red, literally. It's also worth noting that like the Kochs, Land is Dutch and a member of the ultra-right-wing Christian Reformed Church.

IMHO, a woman who is a Republican is like a cow eating hamburger, or even worse, a black man wanting to join the KKK. The Repukes have been against women for years in terms of jobs and being independent. If Terri Lynn Land wins, she'll be nothing more than a female Uncle Tom to women.

But that's what we'll get from a woman who looks a little like John Denver.
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4.23.14 Heroes of the Day: 97.1 The Ticket and Detroit Sports 105.1

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TWO SPECIAL HEROES OF THE DAY!
  

Names: WXYT-FM, WMGC aka "97.1 The Ticket", "Detroit Sports 105.1"
Ages: 73, 54
Occupations: sports talk radio stations
Last Seen: Detroit, MI
Awarded For: creating a slam dunk of a deal
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  It's official: Detroit Sports 105.1 - despite currently being the Motor City's lowest-rated FM station - will have a future.

Plus, Red Wing fans will no longer have to have to sit through static to sit through the games.

Yesterday at 3 p.m., a blockbuster deal was made between the Detroit Pistons NBA team and 105.1. Effective immediately, 105.1 is now the flagship station of the Pistons, which had been on 97.1.

97.1 had carried all of Detroit's major sports teams - Pistons, Red Wings, Tigers and Lions - until the deal. However, if a Pistons game was on the same time as a Red Wing game, the Wings were forced onto 97.1's lowly sister station, WXYT 1270, a station with a lousy nighttime signal. Even worse, the Pistons are an also-ran in Detroit sports; they ended the 2013-14 season in 4th place in the Central Division. The only team worse than the Pistons in their division is the worst team in the NBA, the 15-67 Milwaukee Bucks.

Personally, this is good news for both stations since 97.1 will keep the winning Tigers and Red Wings while 105.1 will have whatever audience the Pistons have these days. Of course, the team will have yet another rebuilding year after coach Mo Cheeks was fired mid-season and fairly-new owner Tom Gores is still trying to teach himself how to run a successful sports franchise. The Pistons haven't had a winning season since 2008 when Flip Saunders coached the team. Around that time, long-time owner Bill Davidson died and his wife silently owned the team. Gores bought the Pistons in 2011 and has yet to turn around the team.

The constant pre-emptions of Red Wings for Pistons on 97.1 also hurt ratings. Normally, they're in first place. Now, they're in eighth place because of the Pistons lame playing plus the fact that the Red Wings barely made the NHL playoffs this year.

Now, with the Pistons gone, 97.1 can breathe easier. But, what about 105.1? I don't expect the Pistons to be in the W column next year, or anytime soon. It takes years to build a successful team, especially one that has seen better days. The only decent player I see on their roster is Chauncey Billups, who helped the team win their 2003 championship. Too bad his good days are behind him.

Also, once the Red Wings' new arena is finished in the next few years, the Pistons will be stuck with the oldest arena in Detroit, The Palace. Even worse, it's in Auburn Hills, a lily-white suburb of Detroit. I think if they're smart, the Pistons either A) convince the cash-strapped city of Detroit to build them a new arena to replace The Palace or B) share the new arena with the Red Wings. But, who knows? I honestly think that the Pistons are hell-bent on keeping The Palace, which was built in 1988 and is one of the last great hopes for Detroit's deteriorating northern suburbs, still stuck with the eyesore known as the Silverdome and the long-abandoned Big Buck Brewery (at least that Showcase Cinema bit the dust).

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4.22.14 Bee-otch of the Day: Dick Cheney

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Name: Dick Cheney
Age: 73
Occupation: ex-veep
Last Seen: Grand Rapids, MI
Bee-otched For: coming to Grand Rapids
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  When I hear the words "Dick Cheney is coming to Grand Rapids", my head slams onto the table.

Sadly, the ex-vice president came to my hometown yesterday, speaking at the Ford Museum about his heart surgeries and how he was close to death at some points. Cheney was born with a bad heart and has had multiple heart attacks.

Funny, I didn't know the cocksucker even had a heart.

I love it how he wants people to feel bad about him since he technically ran the country for most of the 2000's. He told president BusHitler what to do, like invade this country and invade that country and so on. Thousands of US soldiers and innocent civilians died so Cheney and his billionaire buddies could profit from others' blood.

But let's face it: this is Grand Rapids. The Devoses are in bed with Cheney and Bush and all the rest and that's why they come here more than Obama and most Democrats. Even worse, the media here seems to join in the asskissing. When Sarah Palin came to town several months ago to pimp her new book, the media was on her failed ass. Yet, Neil DeGrasse Tyson - the astrophysicist whose Sunday night TV show Cosmos is one of Fox's highest-rated - didn't get much attention when he came to town the same day.

You see, this is why I hate Grand Rapids: too many right-winged assholes come to town only because of the fucking Hollanders who live here. Even more, I'm happy that people here hate it when a Repuke comes to down. Just read the comments on WOOD-TV's website.

Personally, I won't shed a tear if Cheney dies. This scrooge is wanted in other countries for war crimes and so is Bush. I hope as God as my witness that we never have another Republican as president as long as I live. It's time to move on and having Cheney come to town to talk about his heart - or lack there of - won't help.

Maybe he'll accidentally shoot himself for once while duck hunting.
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4.21.14 Hero of the Day: Francis "Frank" Moore

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  A SPECIAL HERO OF THE DAY!

Name: Francis "Frank" Moore
Age: was 92
Occupation: retired; former auto worker
Last Seen: Flint, MI
Awarded For: giving us one of the greatest freedom fighters of all time
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  Fifty years ago, Frank Moore would probably never have imagined that he'd be looked at as a hero.

He was an auto worker, just like his father who helped to create the United Auto Workers union and participated in the 1936 sit-down strike that helped to bring more rights to workers. Moore was also a devout Catholic and a proud husband to his wife Veronica. He was also a proud father who sent his son to Catholic school and eventually University of Michigan.

His son, of course, was Michael.

Frank appeared in one of Mike's movies - Capitalism: A Love Story - where he showed off the ruins of the AC Delco plant in Flint where he worked. While Francis and his father both worked hard to maintain high standards for GM employees and customers, it was Michael's generation and onward that saw a massive decline in the automobile industry thanks to corrupt CEOs and union-busting. It was the major reason why Michael made his acclaimed 1989 film Roger and Me.

Tragically, Flint and Detroit have seen a mass-exodus of people thanks to GM's downfall. Even Michael himself abandoned the city and ended up in northern Michigan where he helped to save an abandoned movie theatre and made it the flagship of the Traverse City Film Festival.

Just imagine what this world would be like without Michael Moore. I understand that people hate him and call him "Commie" and whatever untruthful statement the right can come up this week. But all truth be told, he's a fighter for America's middle class. Why? Because he feels that all Americans should have everything his father had: a good-paying job that supports families and not a bunch of lies that corporate America has created. Sadly, that dream is still dying thanks to the Republicans that only want to fight to bring back the horrific system of healthcare that plagued Americans for years instead of creating good, high-paying jobs. It's without a doubt that Michael Moore's #1 inspiration for his movies were his father in hopes that one day, people will have it like he did.

Frank Moore died on Easter Sunday at the age of 92. Michael passed on the sad news to his fans on Facebook, where he's gotten mass support from his fans. I had a lonely Easter since my parents live in other states and my family here in Grand Rapids all went to Detroit. But with his father's passing, Michael's Easter was even lonelier.

But unlike me, he knows that he has a lot of people who have his back. Behind every good man is a good father.

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4.17.14 Bee-otches of the Day: Cumulus and Clear Channel

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Names: Cumulus and Clear Channel
Ages: 17 and 42
Occupation: radio giants
Last Seen: Atlanta, GA, San Antonio, TX
Bee-otched For: creating radio disasters
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  Ya gotta love a company that loves anything having to do with good 'ol country music (unless you're some Chicks from Dixie). It also explains why Forbes called broadcasting one of the worst occupations out there.

Not too long ago, Cumulus Media purchased the 94.7 frequency in Newark, NJ from the dude who told everybody that the world was going to end in 2011. Many speculated that the cloud would put rock on that 50,000-watt frequency.

But nope, they went with country.

Yep, country music. Like anybody in the New York metro speaks in a southern drawl, lives in a trailer and sleeps with his cousin. When Cumulus launched Nash FM January of last year, it was New York's first country station in 20 years. But of course, there's a good reason why: country doesn't do well in New York.

And the ratings are proof positive.

The latest Neilsen ratings were released for New York on Monday, and Nash FM New York is in 20th place with a 1.7. Amongst the stations beating Nash include three urban stations, two all-news stations and three Spanish outlets.

But here's a more-poignant question: WHERE'S THE ROCK?!?!

Sadly, New York has proven to be just as bad as small market radio when it comes to rock: One. Lousy. Rock. Station. And even worse, it's a classic rocker, Q104. It's shameful that New York, where The Beatles landed in 1964 and where CBGB's once reign supreme in the world of punk only has one measly rock station and they share nearly the same playlist as WKLT, the crappy-assed rock station in northern Michigan geared for white trash and old people.

Oh, I checked Q104's playlist, and I saw Charlie Daniels Band's "The Devil Went Down to Georgia". Yeah, that's a rock classic (not)....

I know, some of the people who run radio these days are probably saying that rock is dead and that they want an older audience. If people want rock, there's Sirius, Slacker or Pandora. My response is that they're right. As a matter of fact, I listen to Milk - Samsung's new service powered by Slacker exclusive to their phones - quite regularly and I love it. Plus, it's commercial free.

But the question is, will radio survive in 20 years, judging by the way companies like Cumulus, Clear Channel or CBS or even smaller companies like the ones in northern Michigan operate? I will tell you this: if I owned a business and somebody from a local radio station came in to sell ads, I would want to see their numbers first. If they can't, I'm calling the cops until they leave the premises.

What's even more cringeworthy is that Cumulus is trying to convert all their country stations to Nash properties; they already have it in Grand Rapids, Lansing and Detroit Michigan-wise.

All I can say is that Cumulus is definitely on the crackpipe for not making 94.7 rock. If it was, they'd be at least at a 2.7, not a 1.7. They could be beating WABC and WPLJ fercrissakes! But, nooooo....

But what's even more embarrassing is that Rush Limbaugh's new station in New York, WOR is doing even worse at a 1.5 while his old station, WABC is at a 2.4. Way to go, El Rushbo! I think calling that poor woman a slut did you well! Even his new station in Los Angeles, KEIB (gee, I wonder where those call letters came from?) ain't doing too well: .5.  I guess conservative talk is no longer a hot commodity.

Corporate radio: gee, they're smart!


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4.16.14 Bee-otch of the Day: The BOB

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Name: The BOB
Age: 111
Occupation: a building loaded with bars and restuarants
Last Seen: Grand Rapids, MI
Bee-otched For: overserving and paying the penalty
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  In a few weeks, if you want to drink at one of Grand Rapids' best-known venues, well, the good news is that there's other places nearby that you can do that.

From May 30 to June 1, all venues inside The BOB - aka The Big Old Building - will suspend all sales of alcohol because the state of Michigan ordered them to after they overserved 36-year-old Kevin O'Brien, who died when he fell four stories to his death last year in a stairwell in the building. O'Brien had a blood alcohol rating of .25, three times more than the legal limit in Michigan.

According to witnesses, O'Brien had at least two vodka and Red Bulls and two lemon drop shots. He apparently came to The BOB with an additional four drinks in his system. At 1:30 in the morning last May, he tried to ride down the stairwell at the BOB when he fell to his death. In four years, three people have died from drunken stupidity at the popular Grand Rapids hotspot.

Representatives for The BOB, which include owner Greg Gilmore say that they will honor the state's ruling, but in the meantime, they will fight it.

In my adult life, I've been to bars countless times, mostly here in Grand Rapids. I've been to good bars that have sadly come and gone (Stooges and Ten Bells) to ones that are still rockin' (Stella's, The Meanwhile and Hopcat to name a few). However, I've been to a few places I want to forget. One place - the Sazarac Lounge - overserved me one time with too many IPAs. I learned the hard way that an IPA should be drank in moderation and the fine folks at the Sazarac had to clean up my puke. Of course, payback was a bitch to them when they were forced to change their name to the Reservoir Lounge because of a lawsuit over the name "Sazarac".

Sadly, there's plenty of bars in Grand Rapids whose barkeeps aren't trained enough to learn that overserving is a bad idea. Some places even learned the hard way, such as the Margarita Grill (now abandoned) and The Tap Room (now a Buffalo Wild Wings). Yes, when the booze flows like wine, so do the profits. But when somebody's BAC looks like it's way over the limit, it's time for the booze to stop. Hell, even up in Mackinac Island - where there's no automobiles - my cousin was refused service because the bartenders knew he drank too much and he spent the time walking home in a fashion similar to Jeffy from The Family Circus. Yes, there's no such thing as drinking and driving on Mackinac Island, but public drunkenness is still a crime.

Personally, I could care less about The BOB. To me, it's just another douchebag dance club where the girls are total skanks and the guys are tools. Plus, there's a dress code and it's a major turn off for me. I only go to the club in T-shirt and jeans, not dressed like I just walked out of Abercrombie and Fitch.

Thanks, but I prefer good 'ol DJ's Lounge. Oh, wait, they're closed? Damn....

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4.15.14 Bee-otch of the Day: Glenn Miller

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Name: Glenn Miller
Age: 73
Occupation: white supremacist
Last Seen: Kansas City, MO
Bee-otched For: getting in the mood to kill some Jews
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  On Sunday, tragedy struck the Kansas City suburb of Overland Park when a monster opened fire on several Jews.

Glenn Miller, aka Frazier Glenn Cross and a few other names has been charged with three counts of hate crime after three people of Jewish decent were killed in a shooting spree at a Jewish community center and a Village Shalom retirement home. Oddly enough, the three people who were killed were not Jews. They were all Christian, oddly enough.

Miller was seen at a nearby elementary school and was declared a suspect. During the shootings and as he was taken into custody, Miller was yelling, "Heil Hitler" multiple times.

Glenn Miller was a diehard member of the Ku Klux Klan for years but left the group to form his own, the White Patriot Party. Miller even ran for public office many times; he ran for Democratic governor of North Carolina in 1984, Republican senator for the same state in 1986, independent congressman for Missouri in 2006 (where he received 23 votes) and US senate for that same state in 2010. He was even noted for his campaign ads, which attacked blacks and Jews. 

Miller even made an appearance on The Howard Stern Show several years ago, talking about his senate run. In the interview, Miller called Adolf Hitler "the greatest man who ever walked the Earth" and claimed that history has censored the good things he did. He's talked about how Jews are destroying the Earth and that they're allowing the blacks to multiply even more.

Look, what Miller did was beyond idiotic. It's people like him who are making Christians look bad and using his hate to attack others just because the Jews killed Jesus. Point is, people are entitled to their opinion. But when you use murder to get your point across, it makes you look like an even worse whack job.

I hope this loser gets the death penalty. Period. Anybody who still supports Hitler 70 years later probably needs to get their head examined and away from everybody. What Glenn Miller did is not normal. A true Christian forgives the Jews for what they did and move on.

Wake up, it's 2014.
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