Tuesday, March 31, 2015

3.31.15 Bee-otch of the Day: John Engler


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Name: John Engler
Age: 66
Occupation: ex-Michigan governor
Last Seen: Grand Rapids
Bee-otched For: kissing pRick Snyder's ass
---I really don't miss the days John Engler was the governor of Michigan.

When Pothole Johnny was the head dickhead in charge, he screwed over our schools and roads were littered with potholes. You know, the same shit that's happening today here in our state. Even worse, Engler was our governor for 12 long depressing years.

So, what's the ex-gov doing now? Well, yesterday, he was the keynote speaker at the Peter F. Secchia breakfast at Grand Valley State University's Seidman College of Business. There, he spoke about how he feels that our current governor, Rick Snyder is bringing Michigan back on track in regards to the economy.

The fat pile of shit told WOOD-TV 8, "I remember leaving Michigan with a AAA bond rating and we had money in the bank. Then we saw a pretty precipitous decline for about 8 years and Governor Snyder has been able to turn that around." Fat Boy continued, "Just look at the numbers…that’s all you need to look at. You see under this governor the budgets are being passed by the legislature. We’re in the middle of a debate right now, but they’re also setting priorities and moving the state forward and they’re dealing with big issues."

So raising taxes on the middle class and busting the unions by making Michigan a Right to Work state will help Michigan's economy? Plus, proposing raising sales taxes by airing scary ads on TV that talk about the treacherous state of our roads will help things further? Fat chance, Johnny. After all, I remembered when he also raised sales taxes from 4 to 6% as a kid.

As governor, Engler privatized state services, raised taxes and screwed over pensions. What I'll never get is the fact that he was our governor for 12 years. Under Engler's reign, our state became the first state to have a whole K-12 public school system shut down because they ran out of money. I even remember signs at my school that said that if our bond doesn't pass, my school system would be next.

I can go on about Engler and his character, like the fact that he lived off of the government tit until he was 30 and even cheated on his first wife with his current wife, Michelle. I remember listening to Dave Barber back in the day and he talked about how his security even beat him up after he asked him about cheating on his ex-wife.

Guess what? I had the (mis)fortune of meeting Engler at Ford Airport here in GR after I got back from a trip from Arizona some years back. Apparently, we were on the same flight since the two of us were at the baggage carousel waiting for our luggage. People were asking him about the triplets, etc. But since I had come back from my mother's, plus listening to the pain and suffering Dave Barber went through, I kept my mouth shut. Besides, one of my packages was a big-ass computer tower and one of his people were nice enough to give it to me as it was coming my way.

I could care less about Engler's "accomplishments". Personally, I think this state really improved when Obama was elected and he and Jennifer Granholm worked together to save the automobile industry. Now that were stuck with 'ol pRick, God only knows what will happen in four years. Hell, I even heard that our state even has a "Religious Freedom Restoration Act" in the pipeline.

And WHY don't I vote Republican?

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Monday, March 30, 2015

3.30.15 Bee-otch of the Day: Mike Pence


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Name: Mike Pence
Age: 55
Occupation: governor
Last Seen: Indianapolis
Bee-othed For: being the most-homophobic governor in America
---In 1970, a Canadian named R. Dean Taylor became a household name because of a little ditty he wrote called "Indiana Wants Me".

The tune - which peaked at #5 on the Billboard Pop Charts - has a chorus that goes, "Indiana wants me, Lord I can't go back there". And thanks to a new bill that state's moronic governor has signed, some companies are now singing that same tune.

Last week, governor Mike Pence signed Indiana's Religious Freedom Restoration Act, which allows companies to basically reject people based on their religious freedoms. What this means is that if a black man or gay person walks into a shop owned by a Christian, the owner or manager could kick him or her out because that person offended their religious beliefs.

Basically, this law is to protect many Christian-owned companies, such as Chick-Fil-A and Hobby Lobby. Many of those companies believe that they don't need to give their employees free birth control or serve those they feel sin the most.

Because of this controversial ruling, several companies are now planning to move out of the state or simply won't expand. Angie's List had planned to expand its Indianapolis offices, but have now abandoned their plans. GenCon, a comic book convention has been canceled because of RFRA's passing. Even Tim Cook, Apple's openly-gay CEO has bashed the Republican governor for passing the bill.

To me, RFRA is simply the equivalent to what America did before the Civil Rights Movement was passed. There's so-called "Christians" who think that hiring blacks is sacrilegious because they should be slaves. Some refuse service to them just because they think all blacks are bad in their mindset. Personally, I try to avoid supporting businesses that call themselves "Christian" because many tend to view Jesus as somebody who doesn't support the poor or supports gun use.

The point is: WE'RE ALL SINNERS. WE'RE NOT PERFECT! If I was kicked out from a business for being me, damn right I would open a can of whoopass and attack them online! Look at what happened toDon Julio's Restaurant here in Grand Rapids: they kicked an Iraq War vet out because he had a service dog. Thanks to public backlash, the place ended up closing, and even today, the building is still vacant.

Republicans think that passing stupid laws that only protect business owners work, but they don't. Instead, they basically tell the middle class "fuck you". In the case of Mike Pence, his law simply says that Jesus loves your employer, but not you, or gays, blacks or those with faiths other than conservative Christianity. Sorry, but that's not the Jesus I grew up with.

Even worse, I have to drive through that boring-ass state to see my father in Kentucky. True, it's given us great things such as the Indianapolis 500, David Letterman, Garfield and Bob and Tom (OK, Bob and Tom isn't necessarily a good thing), it's a shame that the people of the Hoosier State have allowed this prick to pass this hate-filled law. Amazingly, even Indianapolis' Republican mayor is against the law, too.

Thankfully, Pence is up for reelection next year. Hopefully, unlike the abortion of an election year we recently had, Indiana will send this faux Jebus freak down the Wabash. Anybody who tries to turn their part of America into Jackson, MS in the 1950s is truly stuck in the past.

Indiana doesn't want him, but he's stuck there.

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Thursday, March 26, 2015

3.26.15 Bee-otch of the Day: Rick Snyder


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Name: Rick Snyder
Age: 57
Occupation: governor
Last Seen: 
Ann Arbor, MI
Bee-otched For: scaring us into voting for his stupid proposal
---*SIGH..* Is it May yet?

It's amazing that we just went through another long,pitiful election year, and now, we have (GASP!) another election in May. This time, it's to determine if we the Michigan people want to raise our sales tax to help fix the state's crumbling roads.

Now, the man who is championing Proposal 1 is apparently using scare tactics to force people into voting for the proposal.

In one of the ads for Prop 1, a woman talks about the fact that she was on the freeway when a massive rock was picked up by a truck's tires and slammed into her windshield. The moral of the story it seems that if you don't vote for Prop 1, everybody's windshields will resemble hers.

In the five years I've owned my car, I've only had one rock thrown at my windshield, and it wasn't big at all. But, it was big enough to call my insurance company to have Safelite come over to seal the damage to eyelash status at no cost. I highly doubt if 99% of Michiganders have had a massive rock thwacked at their cars just because the roads are crumbling.

Thankfully, somebody did launch an ad to attack Prop 1. Sadly, I haven't seen it outside of YouTube. The pro-Prop 1 ads have been all over TV here in Grand Rapids and I've even seen one when I turn on my Slacker app on my phone. They do say that it will ad 15,000 jobs, but it's not about jobs, it's about where the money is coming from: us.

I have a hunch that a lot of the money - if Prop 1 passes - will end up in the hands of Snyder's wealthy buddies, namely the Devoses. It will go to building another winter home in Florida or even another Fox Motors dealership. No matter what, Michiganders are FUCKED because they're stupid enough to elect an asshole for her governor... TWICE.

When I think of failing roads, I remember the infamous I-35W bridge collapse in 2007 in Minnesota that killed 13 people. That bridge had been poorly maintained for years, sealing its demise. And who was Minnesota's governor at the time? Tim Pawlenty, a Republican. Now, the governor is Mark Dayton, a Democratic-Farmer-Laborer who raised taxes on the wealthy, and guess what? It's one of the fastest-improving states in the country, which is the COMPLETE opposite of what Snyder is doing.

Folks, it's getting tougher and tougher to be a normal person in Michigan. Already, I got less on my state tax returns because Snyder cut the homestead tax. Now he wants to raise more taxes? Sorry, but this is why I vote Democrat. The only reason why Repukes vote for their people is because they "don't want their taxes to go to the n*ggers in Detroit". Well, I DON'T WANT MY TAXES TO END UP IN THE HANDS OF THE DEVOSES!!! I think if people got off their asses and voted last November, we wouldn't see more of this shit on TV here in Michigan.

Don't look at me, I voted for Mark Schauer.

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Wednesday, March 25, 2015

3.25.15 Bee-otch of the Day: FCC


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Name: Federal Communications Commission
Age: 71
Occupation: broadcast regulators
Last Seen: 
Washington, DC
Bee-otched For: giving a TV station a huge fine over an editing error
---In this post-Janet Jackson nip-slip world, TV stations are a little scared to show just the slightest inch of skin.

But in the case of the ironically-named WDBJ-TV in Roanoke, VA, they're learning the hard way that just because they think nothing indecent passes their screens doesn't mean that they're not gonna get caught by the big, bad FCC.

On Monday, the government broadcast regulators slammed the CBS affiliate with a Notice of Apparent Liability for showing indecent content on a 6 p.m. newscast in 2012. The report was on a former porn star who joined a volunteer rescue squad. However, during the report, they showed an image of a woman stroking a man's erect penis on an adult website. The small image was on the edge of the screen, and was only shown for three seconds.

The FCC is proposing fining WDBJ $325,000, the highest-ever indecency fine for an individual TV station.

According to WDBJ President and General Manager Jeff Marks, he claims that the image was only seen on certain TV screens because the person editing the video did not see the image on the editing bay. Marks has a point, since on my TV, I have several functions for 16X9 function. One is called "just scan", which shows the FULL picture while the 16X9 function does show some cutoff from the 16X9 image. For an example: if there's a full-screen graphic, sometimes, the top part or bottom part is cut off because that image was formatted on a machine for 16X9 images.

Confusion and total dorkiness aside, I think that WDBJ made a mistake, but shouldn't pay such an embarrassingly-high fine over something that's beyond their control. Even though I've tried to find the video story online, I couldn't find it. But, I think most TV stations are very careful about the news stories they air and they make sure nobody is offended. After all, the 6 p.m. news is a show for people ages 1-101 and older and younger.

I understand, some kids might have seen that cure porn star treating that man's cock like it was a Shakeweight, and WDBJ should have been given a slap on the wrist. $325,000 is a kick in the nuts for any broadcaster. Hell, I see occasional indecencies during the national news all the time. A few weeks ago during the NBC Nightly News, they showed a football player wearing a shirt with Tupac Shakur holding two middle fingers. Later in the broadcast, Brian Williams apologized for the incident (and it's not the only time he's apologized this year, don't we know).

Only in America, where a TV station can show a guy all bloodied from violence and it's no biggie, but God damn us all if an erect penis is shown. In other countries, it's OK to show nudity, but thanks to the religious reich, America gets laughed at when one saggy mammary is shown. This is why if I were president, the FCC would go bye-bye.

Besides, doesn't the FCC have better things to worry about, like a certain broadcaster with a ton of silent radio stations in Michigan and Texas who makes up excuses as to why those stations are silent? I don't think there's copper thieves or a broken pipe....

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Tuesday, March 24, 2015

3.24.15 Bee-otch of the Day: Ted Cruz


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Name: Ted Cruz
Age: 44
Occupation: senator
Last Seen: 
Lynchburg, VA
Bee-otched For: starting his presidential campaign at the wrong spot
---If this schmuck ever gets elected president, he could be the first-ever commander-in-chief who'll be animated on South Park with his head detached from his body and all of his mentions of the word "about" as "uh-boot".

It's official: Ted Cruz is the first contender to run for president in 2016. He announced his bid on Sunday, selling his teabagger principles to the masses on Sunday. As president, Cruz would (wait for it) eliminate Obamacare and eliminate the IRS and go with a flat tax.

But guess where Cruz announced his run? None other than Liberty University in Lynchburg, VA, the infamous Christian college founded by the late - but not great - Jerry Falwell. Yes, the same Falwell who decided to blame gays, liberals and women for the events on 9/11 during an episode of The 700 Club with Pat Robertson just two days after that horrific event. The same Falwell who tried to save the struggling PTL ministry by going down their waterslide in a suit at their now-shuttered amusement park. And the same Falwell who unsuccessfully sued Hustler Magazine and publisher Larry Flynt over a Dewar's ad parody where he talks about the first time he had sex, and it was with his mother in an outhouse.

But it's not just the fact that Cruz decided to make his presidential bid at Liberty U., it's the fact that technically, he can't be president of the United States of America. Why? IT'S BECAUSE HIS FATHER WAS A CUBAN CITIZEN WHEN HE WAS BORN, AND HE'S TECHNICALLY CANADIAN!

Yes, Ted Cruz was born to an American mother, but his father was Cuban. He didn't become a naturalized US citizen until 2005. Even more, Cruz was born in Canada. I love the fact that Cruz and his fellow teabaggers cry about President Obama's US citizenship and the forever-moronic and untrue claims that he was from Kenya, but surprise! Ted Cruz is LESS QUALIFIED to be US president!

I don't give a damn, but in 2016, I'm still voting Democrat. I don't give a damn if Hillary is the frontrunner, but our country cannot afford a repeat of the 2000s. We need to stay the course with Obama's policies, which have created jobs instead of taking them away like Dubya did.

Maybe Mr. Cruz has breathed in too much oil.

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Monday, March 23, 2015

3.23.15 Bee-otch of the Day: Paul LePage


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Name: Paul LePage
Age: 66
Occupation: governor
Last Seen: 
Augusta, ME
Bee-otched For: pissing off his state's most-famous son
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(Insert movie trailer announcer voice with smooth, creepy music): In the picturesque state of Maine, there's a horrific creature that's lurking and intends to scare the living daylights out of his victims. But instead, he just simply, well, (insert the sound of a needle scratching off the record) pisses them off instead.

And its name is Paul LePage (R-ME).
(Back to normal voice): Yes, the governor of the 23rd state of the USA is one creepy ass dude, and he's a pathetic liar to boot. On his weekly radio address, LePage told Maine's residents that several residents of the state now live in Florida as part of a tax loophole and to escape Maine's high taxes. One of them is none other than legendary author Stephen King.

He claimed that in his weekly radio address that even the former governor who introduced higher income taxes, Ken Curtis now lives in the Sunshine State to avoid paying yearly income taxes and even mentioned King and Roxanne Quimby, the founder of Burt's Bees.

Now, the governor is scrambling to erase the mentioning of King's Florida tax haven from his speech. The reason is because that that the "Salem's Lot" and "The Shining" author is not too happy. In a statement, King said that the governor is "full of what makes grass green" and "(wife) Tabby and I pay every cent of our state income taxes and proud to do so".

It is worth mentioning that LePage is one big, fat hypocrite when it comes to taxes too, and it's because his wife Ann was fined $1,400 for claiming Florida as her primary residence in 2010 to avoid paying them. Yet, she and Paul now govern the state.

Personally, I find the story quite funny. Stephen is a proud liberal who owns several radio stations in his hometown in Bangor, including a progressive talk station, WZON. He's done more good to his fellow Bangorians than the idiot teabagger will ever do to his own people. According to his Wikipedia page, LePage is a racist and even referred to lesbians as "little beards". Tragically, he recently won re-election by only 5%, so the fine people of Maine are stuck with this fat asshole for another few more years.

If this pig dies someday, he should be buried in a (ahem) Pet Semetary. 

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Thursday, March 19, 2015

3.19.15 Bee-otch of the Day: Aaron Schock


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Name: Aaron Schock
Age: 33
Occupation: former congressman (R-IL)
Last Seen: Illinois
Bee-otched For: proving how big assholes Repukes are 

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In the world of politics, age might not be just a number, but rather in some cases, I.Q.

Take Aaron Schock, for example. He was a rising star in the world of politics at the tender age of 33 (and even more, he's two days younger than I am!). He was elected to Congress at 28 and was the third-youngest congressman. Now, he is resigning, partly due to his love of a dorky British TV series.

Schock announced Tuesday that he's stepping down because he used federal funds to decorate his office in the style of the sets used on Downton Abbey, his favorite show. He also used funds for private flights, tickets to the Super Bowl and even treating his staff to a meet and greet at a Katy Perry concert. All this, my friend came from you, John Q. Taxpayer. Even the conservative news mag National Review called Schock a crook.

This coming from an asshole who voted against Obamacare and voted to repeal it, too.

You know, people, you get what you vote for if you vote Republican. Schock is supposed to be a man of family values but ended up ripping off taxpayers to support his lavish lifestyle. He's basically a white Kwame Kilpatrick. I'm glad he's going away and maybe the people of Illinois will think next time.

Besides, what man even WATCHES Downton Abbey in the first place?

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Wednesday, March 18, 2015

3.18.15 Bee-otch of the Day: alternative rock stations


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Name: alternative radio
Age: 45
Occupation: radio stations that play alternative "rock" music
Last Seen: everywhere
Bee-otched For: sucking 

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Monday was a sad day for alternative rock fans in mid-Michigan.

94.1 WVIC signed off for good with its modern rock format after six years. It was previously a rebirth of The Edge, originally on 92.1 in East Lansing (now all-sports 92.1 The Team), which ran from 1993 to 2003. Despite its success, piss-poor station management caused the station to flip to extremely unsuccessful hot AC My 92.1, which lasted six months. In the time since, 92.1 has aired many formats including sports, oldies and country.

As for 94.1, it is now "Duke FM", playing 80s and 90s-era country. The format itself is on several other stations owned by parent Midwest Communications; a Duke station launched the same day in Green Bay. The stations are named for Duke Wright, whose family owns Midwest.

Thankfully, several of 94.1's jocks are now at sister station 92.9 WLMI, which plays classic hits. WLMI's former morning man, Tim Barron has moved on to internet radio. However, Free Beer and Hot Wings is the biggest casualty of the Duke switch; then again, Q106 does air the bland and dated Bob and Tom.

With the death of WVIC, there's only one alternative rocker left here in Michigan, and it's sister station WZOX/Z96.5 in Kalamazoo. That station does OK in the ratings, although some claim that they have little advertising.

So, why did The Edge/Alternative Radio/WVIC die? Well, 1) they were taking a ratings bite out of sister station WJXQ/Q106, 2) their signal isn't the best on MSU's campus, 3) their ratings were meh, but most of all, 4) the modern state of alternative rock sucks.

Let's face it: many alternative stations hardly do shit in the ratings. Look at 89X in Detroit. The February Nielsen book came out for Detroit yesterday, and they're 20th place out of 29 ranked stations with a puny 1.7 share. Only a few years ago, they were around a 3 share. However, they didn't fight to keep their morning show, Dave and Chuck the Freak, who ended up over the border at WRIF. They also decided to soften their playlist to more of a corporate alternative sound. However, I just checked their playlist and I do see more hard rock titles in the mix, but you're gonna have to sit through Vance Joy (seen above) and Mumford and Sons to get to Rob Zombie and KoRn. As for D&CTF's new home, WRIF, they're in 11th place with a 4.8, its best book in ages.

To me, alternative is simply wuss music, and it doesn't do well in here in Michigan. Look at northern Michigan and The Zone: when that station came to town in 1998, it came in a time when alt-rock had the hard route with KoRn, Rage Against the Machine, Tool, Nine Inch Nails and so forth and the wuss route with Dave Matthews Band, Matchbox 20 and everybody who ever played Lilith Fair. The Zone took the wuss route and lost. Two years later, they finally added harder bands and Sheryl Crow and Jewel disappeared from the playlist. End result: better ratings. The Zone disappeared in 2009 and became Real Rock 105/95-5 and is now Rock 105.

But then there's WGRD here in Grand Rapids. It was alternative for about a decade when it gradually flipped to active rock in the mid-2000s. For years, it was KLQ's bitch. But thanks to former PD Jerry Tarrents and the addition of Free Beer and Hot Wings, they're now one of the top stations in town.

You see, I don't know why station owners and record labels see positive in many of the lame-o alternative acts out there. Many of them seem to fit this description: some douchebag with long, dark hair with a white t-shirt and khaki shorts and flip-flips strumming a ukelele and singing with high notes. If Beavis and Butt-head were still on today, most of these assclowns would see their videos get slammed by the two.

Here's an idea: how about promoting active rock artists more than wimpy-ass alternative ones? It's proof how labels and station owners are both stupid. ROCK ISN'T DEAD! It's the assholes who release it and play it who are killing it.

Let's replace that ukelele with an actual electric guitar, shall we?

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Tuesday, March 17, 2015

3.17.15 Bee-otch of the Day: Creflo Dollar


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Name: Creflo Dollar
Age: 53
Occupation: preacher
Last Seen: Atlanta, GA
Bee-otched For: crash landing 

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Another day, another asshole preacher to award Bee-otch of the Day.

Last week, controversial televangelist Creflo Dollar (and allegedly, that's his real name) made headlines when he started begging his followers to give him "$300 or more" to buy him a new $65 million jet plane. It's because his old plane, a 1984 Gulfstream jet crashed off the runway in London last year with his wife and three daughters on board and he just has to have the best plane available to spread the gospel of a man who wore rags during his 33 years on Earth.

According to his ministry, Dollar flies all over the world, which is why the plane is so important. Hey, asshole, ever hear of FLYING IN COACH?!? I do it at least once per year to see my mother in Arizona. It sucks, but if I can do it, so can you. Since Dollar received a ton of backlash for his plane campaign, he's since semi-retired it

Bear in mind that this is the same Dollar whom I handed the Bee-otch of the Day in 2009 to for having malnourished and dead horses on his ranch in suburban Atlanta. One of the people whose horses stayed at the ranch even contacted me and told me that they could have allowed her horse to go out and graze and eat grass, but they kept it locked up all the time and it died from neglect (and sadly, the article itself no longer exists thanks to that no-talent douchebag asshole Justin Timberlake's fucking up of MySpace, where I kept a lot of my pre-September 2010 Bee-otch of the Day articles). Dollar was even investigated in 2007 as part of Iowa senator Chuck Grassley's investigation as to whether several ministries were profiting off of their donors. Other targets included Benny Hinn, Joyce Meyer and Kenneth Copeland.

You see, Creflo Dollar is yet another snake oil salesman who is nothing more than an asshole begging for money on TBN. Even worse, as a black man, he begged a lot of his donors - many of whom are black and poor - to give him $300. IMHO, that makes Dollar nothing more than an Uncle Tom.

Here's an idea: if I ran a ministry and begged for $65 million, I would use it to help people with their medical bills and give the poor a reasonable place to live and food to eat. You know, THINGS JESUS ACTUALLY DID?!?! People need to stop giving assholes like Creflo Dollar money and do things God wants them to do.

Maybe I oughta start going to the strip club again. After all, strippers need the money more than preachers.


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Monday, March 16, 2015

3.16.15 Bee-otch of the Day: Clint Echols


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Name: Clint Echols
Age: 45
Occupation: preacher
Last Seen: Zeeland, MI
Bee-otched For: causing Jesus to make a face palm 

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It seems that any church with the name "Baptist" in its name has the God-given right to judge. Just ask Westboro in Topeka, KS.

Now, it appears that the Phelps family has a friend right here in Michigan, and he's in Zeeland, not far from here in Grand Rapids.

Clint Echols, the main pastor of the First Baptist Church is under fire when during a recent sermon, he compared gays to axe murderers. Because of this, a former member of the church decided to stage a protest.

Daniel VanderLey - who is openly gay - told local ABC-TV station WZZM 13 that "we need to love because hate hurts". Thirty protesters stood outside First Baptist Sunday morning holding signs with Bible verses and pictures of hate victims. Former state representative Lorence Wenke - who happens to be a Libertarian - was one of the protesters. He told WZZM that he cannot believe that even in this day in age, people stand up and say such insensitive remarks, especially from a pulpit. According to Echols, he wants to change the church's mission statement to not allow gays into his church.

VanderLey used to be a member of First Baptist until 15 years ago but left because he felt that it was too difficult to be a gay man in a church whose message targets the LGBT community. He now wants Pastor Echols to apologize for his sermon.

You know, there's no real verse in the Bible that either promotes or is against homosexuality. There's Leveticus 18:22 "Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination", but that's an Old Testament verse. Personally, I think most people who are against homosexuality are on a sick power trip and probably are gay deep down inside. Bear in mind, too that Echols is from North Carolina, a state that is very homophobic and racist (ie Jesse Helms).

REAL Christians know that it's simply not cool to judge others, especially on their sin, or what they perceive is sin. It's not my business if a man sleeps with another man or the same thing with women. It's not my business if somebody is transgender, either. However, I personally hate it when people trump their beliefs on me. When a person throws their religion onto me, I hate it. When another man tries to persuade me to have sex with him, same situation. I've dealt with both in my life, and the thing is, I do respect both gays and Christians, just as long as I 1) don't drink the Kool-Aid and 2) I don't end up with another man's penis inside of me.

Personally, I think this church needs to fire Clint Echols and hire somebody who realizes that only God should do the judging and not some nutjob from south of the Mason-Dixon Line. I know that Zeeland is a bass ackwards town, but that doesn't mean that people have the right to play God themselves.

If First Baptist has a brain, they'd hire this guy very quickly.


  



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Thursday, March 12, 2015

3.12.15 Bee-otch of the Day: SAE


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Name: Sigma Alpha Epsilon
Age: 159
Occupation: fraternity
Last Seen: University of Oklahoma
Bee-otched For: being a bunch of racist assholes
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Sometimes, people need to grow up before making stupid decisions.

Case in point: the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity at the University of Oklahoma. This week, the school ordered their facility shuttered after video surfaced online of a busload of their residents singing a racist song in the tune of "If You're Happy and You Know it". In the video (which I posted above), students chant "there will never be a n*gger in SAE, there will never be a n*gger in SAE, you can hang him from a tree, but he'll never sign with me, there will never be a n*gger in SAE."

According to some students, they started singing the tune after they were drinking before a bus trip. Two of the students on the bus were expelled from the school and even their cook - an African American - was fired as well.

SAE - a frat founded in 1856 in Alabama - has had a long, sad history of racism. Last year, the chapter at Clemson held a "Cripmas" party poking fun at gangs and some members were suspended for attacking a Jewish fraternity. In 1982, the SAE at University of Cincinnati held a racially insensitive party on Martin Luther King's birthday.

So, why is SAE so racist towards blacks? That's a good question. As a trade school graduate, I can somewhat explain. I had two roommates at two different times, and they were both black. Roommate #1 was from Detroit and was an asshole. One of our requirements was to clean our dorm, and he NEVER cleaned. One time, asshole took a shit ALL over the toilet that I had just cleaned and our hall president screamed at ME, not HIM. It turned into an argument and in the end, after we got the hall president back into our dorm, we made the agreement that we would only clean half the bathroom while the other dorm using it would clean the part with the toilet. Also, I heard rumblings that he himself only liked black people and called another student a "dirty old man" for having a bikini girl poster on his wall (and mind you, asshole was deeply religious).

But guess what? He left after 3/4 of a semester and another roomie came in. He was black too, but guess what? HE ACTUALLY WASN'T THAT MUCH OF AN ASSHOLE! He helped clean the dorm and didn't cry when he saw a chick in a thong.

You see, Depeche Mode is right: People Are People. I've met blacks who are wonderful and some who aren't. Same goes with Asians, Hispanics and even my fellow whites. It's amazing that a frat whose house mother chants the n-word to a rap song won't allow people of the same race who did that tune in their home. Then again, what do you expect from a frat that's based in the deep south?

Just think, if I was in that video and I saw it a decade later, I would be thinking, "what the fuck was I doing?" after I got home from bumming people for money since no real employer would hire me after seeing it themselves. Twentysomethings, if you do shit like this, think first.

Remember, you are the future.



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