Tuesday, May 31, 2016

THE BACK PAGE: Northern Star sold, northern Michigan could be seeing radio ratings again


5.31.16 
BIG RADIO NEWS FROM NORTHERN MICHIGAN

Northern Star is sold while we could be seeing Nielsen ratings again
*NSB SOLD: Last week, it was announced that Del Reynolds' Northern Star Broadcasting was being sold to Detroit-area-based Black Diamond Broadcast Group for $1.95 million. NSB owns several radio stations up in the Traverse City-Petoskey market, including classic rock The Bear, Rock 105, Easy 95-5/106-3 and the Big Country Hits and Gold stations.


The price covers for the stations themselves; not included in the sale are the stations' transmitter sites (Del, a legendary engineer in the market will retain them) and The Bear simulcaster WCKC 107.1 Cadillac is being sold to radio legend (and Glenn Beck buddy) Dom Theodore, who owns CHR WCDY 107.9.

Black Diamond is headed by former Greater Media exec Mike Chires and partner Norm McKee, who runs several radio stations in San Diego and Tijuana including CHR Z90.3 and heritage alt-rocker 91X. The company also owns several stations in mid-Michigan including classic hits WUPS 98.5 and country 92.1 The Twister.

In a post on the Michigan Radio and TV Buzzboard, Del claims the sale is due to his wife, Mary's ailing health. He said that his 57-year-old wife had several strokes in the past year and even had neck surgery. As a result, she can no longer handle her job as co-owner and sales guru and Del felt that he couldn't handle her job, either.

Del and NSB go back to 1989 when Del and Mary bought WCBY-AM 1240 and WQLZ 105.1. WQLZ became classic rock WGFM "W-Gold-FM" and soon, Reynolds' media empire grew to stations from the Sault down to Cadillac. Previously, Reynolds owned heritage CHR WYSS "99.5 Yes FM" in Sault Ste. Marie. In 1998, Reynolds sold his company to the newly-formed Calibre Communications which re-branded WGFM as The Bear, re-branded KC Country to Big Country and killed smooth jazz Coast FM and replaced it with alt-rock as The Zone. Eventually, Calibre reorganized as Northern Star Broadcasting. The sale price was $7 million.

In the 2000's, NSB also purchased several stations in the UP, which they eventually sold to Sovereign Communications. In the mid-2000's, Del and Mary were brought back to manage the company and in 2011 re-bought the stations they sold for $1.6 million, a massive loss for the previous owners of the company.

Since re-purchasing NSB, there was some controversy when on April Fools' Day 2014, the popular Real Rock 105 and 95-5 simulcast was split and 95.5 Glen Arbor flipped to a simulcast of 106.3 Onaway as Easy 95-5/106-3. 105.1 was rechristened Rock 105 and dropped the popular Free Beer and Hot Wings morning show claiming that the ratings were no longer there. However, a peek at the Nielsen ratings showed that Real Rock was NSB's strongest station with twice the ratings of sister station The Bear, a station that had been the bitch of WKLT 97.5/98.9 for quite a while. The fact that Bob and Tom had seen better days didn't help matters, either. Of course, I even wrote a nasty letter to Del on Easy 95-5/106-3's Facebook page expressing my anger for his moronic decisions that was happily deleted from their page.

Look, I never wished ill-will on Del or any of his employees. True, I'm still very angry that the fat tub of goo known as Cartman Photoshopped a picture of himself urinating on 106 KHQ's van some 10 years ago and posted it on his MySpace page. But then, I posted it on the Buzzboard because hey, it's his MySpace page, right? Well, some rumor was passed that he told people that I made the image which was completely false. Of course, he's also doing afternoons at WIXX/Green Bay now. So, if Rock 105 dropped him, it wouldn't be a huge loss to him.

All I can say is that at church on Sunday, I asked the congregation to pray for Del and Mary. It's sad when anybody can have a stroke at an early age, but it happens. But I also hope that Mike and Norm can do something positive with the NSB stations and make them bigger players in the market. At least keep an active rocker on the air up north.

*COULD WE BE SEEING RATINGS? A friend of mine from Traverse City wrote to me that Midwestern Broadcasting, the owner of WTCM-AM/FM, WCCW-AM/FM and Z93 could be subscribing to the Spring 2016 Nielsen ratings for the first time in years. Traditionally, Midwestern's stations had been at or near the top of the ratings, but rumor has it that it's no longer the case.

The Traverse City/Petoskey market hasn't had access to the full Nielsen numbers for around ten years, and that was when Todd Martin, former PD of the now-defunct AC 106.7 You FM (now ESPN 106.7) and his family sent in fake diaries to the ratings service, tampering with the numbers. In recent years, Nielsen had been publicly releasing numbers from subscribing stations - namely MacDonald-Garber and Northern Star - but they haven't released a book to the public since Fall 2012. Traverse City/Petoskey is next to Altoona, PA as being the most-delayed Nielsen book.

One rumored reason for stations not subscribing to Nielsen is money. According to my source, it's $27,000 for a book. But without knowing how well a station is doing in the ratings, it's tough to determine what audience a station has, if any. With the sale of NSB to Black Diamond, station owners should worry.

IF the northern Michigan Nielsens are released, we should be seeing them this Summer.

Tuesday, May 24, 2016

5.24.16 Bee-otch of the Day: Trinity Academy


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Name: Trinity Academy
Age: 24
Occupation: Christian school
Last Seen: Wichita, KS
Bee-otched For: pissing off Jesus
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Even though the Bible tells us not to judge, some people - especially when the issue is LGBT-related - think that it's OK to bend the rules a little.

Trinity Academy in Wichita, KS - the same state that ironically gave us the good 'ol Westboro Baptist Church in Topeka - is now kicking out students simply if they have family members who are LGBT.

The school sent out a "Statement of Understanding" - seen above - that will give the school a right to kick students out if they live a home life that counteracts with living a so-called "Biblical lifestyle". Part of the edict is the one that allows the school to kick kids out if they have LGBT family members.

On the school's website, they explain that they respect the sanctity of life and an abhorrence towards things such as  idolatry, abortion, sexual impurity among other things, plus the abuse of the body through drugs and alcohol.

Since the news broke out last week regarding the school's decision, both their website and Facebook pages have all ceased to exist for the time being.

You know, it's sad knowing that people for centuries have misused the Bible to attack minorities, women and now, gays. I look at my own family: I have relatives who drink, smoke and have done hard drugs in the past. Does that make me immoral? Does living a "Biblical lifestyle" mean that even if members of my family do things that are immoral to Trinity Academy's eyes that I'm going to hell?

Sorry, but only God can judge me. Fuck them and their school. The only time Jesus ever talked about homosexuality was in the same book, Leviticus where he abhors eating lobster and getting inked. He personally revoked the Old Testament later in the Bible. If I personally went to that school as a teen, I'd be wearing a Marilyn Manson shirt daily until I was expelled.

No wonder why in "The Wizard of Oz", the Kansas scenes were all in red.
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Monday, May 23, 2016

5.23.16 Bee-otch of the Day: Ken Havard


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Name: Kenneth Havard
Age: 45
Occupation: state representative
Last Seen: Baton Rouge, LA
Bee-otched For: trimming the fat the wrong way
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This has got to be a sad time to be a stripper.

Here in Grand Rapids, nude dancing has been banned for almost 10 years now thanks to the city ordinance passed by then-mayor George Heartwell and several city commissioners, including our stupid cunt of a mayor, Rosalynn Bliss. Almost elsewhere in our state, nude dancing is A-OK.

However, down in Louisiana, there was a politician who used the floor of the state house to show how moronic he is.

State Rep. Kenneth Havard (R) told his fellow reps that he was prepping a bill that would help control the state's prostitution problem; the bill claimed that some of it stemmed from strip clubs and living in homes without proper parents. The bill would limit dancers' age limits to those between 21-28 and would ban dancers from weighing over 160 lbs. After receiving plenty of laughs and some groans from his fellow lawmakers, Havard removed the bill, claiming that it was simply a parody of a lot of the bills proposed in the state capital.

But one fellow rep and fellow Republican, Julie Stokes was pissed. She claimed that the tomfoolery against women in the state chamber is getting to be too much for her. OK, so I ask this: THEN WHY ARE YOU A FUCKING REPUBLICAN?!?!

As somebody who used to frequent strip clubs, I know that most of them are properly run and girls of all ages, shapes and sizes work there. There's girls who don't have an ounce of meat on their bones and others who do have cellulite on their ass. Hell, I've even gone to the bathroom simply because the girl on stage was simply too butt-ugly for my taste. I've even received lap dances from women which privates so stinky that I was thisclose to vomiting.... LITERALLY.

But guess what? You can't please everybody. The more money a stripper makes, the more likely they're going to stay employed by their respective club. True, there's some strippers who would like to retire from shaking her tits at 30 or so, but I've met some girls who were strippers way past 30 and they ALL begged me to go back to the VIP Lounge for a dance. At my young age, it wasn't gonna happen. There are those her age who go to the club, so why not beg them instead?

Folks, this is why I don't vote Republican. They're nothing more than a bunch of anti-women turds and the women who are Repukes are nothing more than those who bow to them. Showing full frontal nudity on front of a bunch of horny dudes should be a woman's right, no matter her age or size. The real decision makers are those who come to the club with money.

Maybe the next stripper Ken Havard comes near should kick him in the balls. 

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Thursday, May 19, 2016

5.19.16 Bee-otch of the Day: Wendy's


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Name: Wendy'
Age: 46
Occupation: fast food joint
Last Seen: Dublin, OH
Bee-otched ForBaconating jobs to the curb
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Yesterday, the Obama Administration and the Labor Department brought some good news to Americans, especially those who work white collar jobs.

Four million Americans will now get overtime pay if they work in a salaried position. Under the new rules, employers will now deny overtime pay for those making more than $47,500. The old rules were set at $23,660.

Since Obama became president, Americans are getting paid more money and have better health care. However, some companies are now screwing over their employees, especially if they're at or around minimum wage. One of those companies is none other than our nation's #2 burger chain, Wendy's.

The red-headed square burger giant announced last week that they are going to roll out ordering kiosks at all their 6,500 locations. With California and New York now at $15/hr. for minimum wage and other states trying to follow, those wealthy Wendy's execs think that having a reduced work staff will help their bottom line. Many other fast food joints have online ordering that allows skipping the line, but with the kiosks in place, there could be some hassles, such as being stuck behind somebody who is computer illiterate or elderly.

Here in Grand Rapids in just 2016 alone, TWO Wendy's locations have shuttered: 44th and Stauffer (adjacent to the Citgo/AGO station, which is now being transformed into a (BARF) Subway and Division near 36th. The sign at the latter Wendy's tells customers to check out their new store further down the road at 54th St. Ironically, there's an abandoned Burger King across from that Wendy's that's been closed probably 20 years and a shell of a KFC nearby that's now a seedy used car dealership.

True, the restaurant race is getting tougher here in GR with newer, hipper and fresher concepts such as Qdoba, Five Guys and Potbelly. Plus, the aforementioned places tend to be a lot more healthier than a burger that will look the same if left in the open one year later. True, Wendy's isn't dead, at least yet here in Grand Rapids, but there's plenty of ways that can save the chain. One is that a little remodeling won't hurt. And another: PAY YOUR DAMN EMPLOYEES A LIVABLE WAGE!

One good reason why I won't eat at McDonald's is because I've been given the stinkeye from those working the cash register (mainly *ahem* African American women) and one time, the cashier tried to take $5 from me in change. Many think that minimum wage workers are young and still in high school or never graduated high school. In reality, most of them are around 35 and well-educated. They simply have a hard time getting a decent job and are doing the best they can to make it.

Here's a novel idea: BOYCOTT WENDY'S. Instead, I'll go to Five Guys or another burger place that treats their workers with respect. Hell, I wish that Michigan had In-and-Out since their managers can make six digits at their stores. Maybe it's an awesome idea that Wendy's is losing ground to places that can make a burger better. Maybe those who work there can find better work elsewhere.

Somewhere, Dave Thomas is spinning in his grave.

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Wednesday, May 18, 2016

5.18.16 Bee-otch of the Day: Alex Jones

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Name: Alex Jones
Age: 42
Occupation: wackjob
Last Seen: Austin, TX
Bee-otched Foronce again thinking that the sky is falling
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Sometimes, I wonder what keeps this guy in business.

There's a pathetic amount of people who actually listen to Alex Jones, whose radio show is loaded with weird conspiracy theories. Hell, one of his fans was none other than one of the Boston bombers a few years ago.

Now, he's proven that he IS a nutjob.

On his show yesterday, the conspiracy theorist claimed that First Lady Michelle Obama was really a man. He claims that some doctor said that her shoulders are similar to a man's, plus her physique  is that of a man's as well. Really?!?

On his website, he even has a cartoon showing Mrs. Obama, built like a man next to the lady-like Melania Trump. Of course, if Obama is manly to Jones' standards, it's probably because as First Lady, she encourages young people to exercise and is a fitness nut herself.

Of course, this is Alex Jones we're talking about; a man who has more chins than a Chinese phone book yet he uses his radio show to promote these fake vitamins to fight the crap big food companies dump in their product. He also sells tubs of food like Jim Bakker does just in case the zombies come out.
What's also tragic is that celebrities come on his show all the time. One of his most-recent guests was Smashing Pumpkins lead singer Billy Corgan who bashed presidential candidate Bernie Sanders. Corgan claimed that Sanders would bring socialism into America and would raise taxes so high that people wouldn't want to lead. Apparently, Mr. Corgan never watched a single Michael Moore movie in his life. Plus, there's a difference between socialism and DEMOCRATIC socialism, similar to what FDR brought to us Americans in the 1930s that got us out of the Great Depression.

If that's the mantra of Alex Jones, spreading lies about whatever, that's his problem. Remember, he became famous for claiming that the collapse of the World Trade Towers were an inside job, yet there's enough proof that the force of the planes hitting the towers were enough for them to fall to the ground like a controlled implosion.

Alex Jones: creating one Dale Gribble at a time.
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Tuesday, May 17, 2016

5.17.16 Bee-otches of the Day: northern Michigan rock radio


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Name: WKLT 97.5/98.9, WGFM Rock 105 and 98.1/105.1/97.7 The Bear
Ages: various
Occupations: rock stations
Last Seen: northern Michigan
Bee-otched For: shitty morning radio
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When my parents moved to northern Michigan in 1977 from Detroit, I remembered my mother telling me that the local news on TV was totally dull.

"The top story tonight is that Little Linda Lou picked a flower," exclaimed my mother.

My 'rents grew up with CKLW, WKNR and WRIF playing their favorite tunes and watching seasoned newsmen like Bill Bonds and crazy weatherman Sonny Eliot. They traded all that for soulless, crappy radio and if you ask me who the lead newsman was at 7&4 in 1977, I would give you a dumb look.

Now, a former big city jock is now settling for the small town life herself and is now facing virtually the same shit my mom and dad faced nearly 40 years ago.

Recently, Cristi Johnson (nee Cantle) and her husband Scotty moved to the booming metropolis known as Alpena to help run Cristi's family's embroidery business. Fifteen years ago, Cristi was the night jock at WKLQ 94.5 (now Nash FM), which had Howard Stern in the morning. She also worked in other markets since, mainly Sacramento where she was the producer of the Rob, Arnie and Dawn show at 98 Rock.

Last week, she faced the sick, sad realization of local radio with this post from Facebook:

Wacky Morning Rock Radio DJ: Let's get the caller on the line, the topic today is 'What would your biker gang name be based on your appearance or personality."
Me: (puts head in hands)
Scotty: (Turns off radio) That's it. You're grounded from radio. 

Now, we're not sure who this "Wacky Morning Rock Radio DJ" is. I personally asked Mrs. Johnson who he is, but no answer. WKLT and Rock 105 have low-powered translators in Alpena, so it could either be Omelette or Cartman. Bear in mind that Cartman recently moved to Green Bay (as "Fife" on WIXX), so I wonder if it's possible for him to take calls on his show. I would imagine that it's good 'ol Steve Normandin asking that deep, thought-provokiing question.

As many of you know, I've always hated KLT. While my cousins downstate had WRIF, Z-Rock, K-Rock, KLQ and other kick-ass stations in Michigan's south, I was stuck having to switch the goddamned stations every two minutes so KLT could play the same 200 overplayed classic rock shit over and over mixed in with a Melissa Ethridge tune or two to please the drunks and methheads that helped made them #2 in the ratings all thoughout the 90s. It wasn't until 2000 when The Zone - now in a way, Rock 105 - started to kick ass and it was AFTER I graduated high school and moved to Grand Rapids.

In recent years, KLT has gone almost 100% butt rock (I just checked their playlist and they just played Journey's god-awful "Don't Stop Believin"... Why?!?) and their jocks are lame. There's Omelette, who is a Howard Stern wannabe with his own Wack Pack known as The Misfits, Terri Ray, who is the station's PD which explains their shitty playlist, The Afternoon Trainwreck which is a rip-off of Rock 105's old afternoon show and Ida, who happens to sound a lot like Terri Ray.

Even worse, KLT has the asshole of a troll known as Tom Devitt, who apparently is the station's afternoon newsman. In 1999, he was the morning host at The Zone and he was lame as hell. Station management wanted him to be shitty so everybody could listen to Bob and Tom on The Bear, their sister station. He knew the writing was on the wall, so with his tail between his legs, he ended up at tiny WIDL 92.1 in Caro, a low-budget, mostly-satellite-fed soccer mom hot AC station called The Coyote. Yes, they were a hot AC station with that name, not country or even classic rock (which was a previous format). Anyway, Dipshit was nice enough to bomb a popular broadcasting message board that I was a regular on with stupid messages like "I wonder if it's as good as Rabid Radio" and "I wonder how Rabid Radio is doing in the ratings". Turns out that it was him all along, posting as "radiostudtd". I outed him, and apparently, he got into Shit Creek with management. Hell, he apparently ended up working at another station in the Thumb, but ended up coming back to WIDL when management changed.

Somehow, this asshole and his wife Nikki - whom he met at WIDL - ended up back in northern Michigan at The Zone's sisters - The Bear and Big Country 102.9 - in 2007 and one of the first things that Tom did was email me that Ted Cramer had been let go at The Bear and wanted me to tell the board. My post turned into a giant shitstorm and I was bullied off the board. Turns out that Cramer posted on that board as "Zzand" and there were a few folks who knew him well. Cramer was responsible for "optimizing" The Bear's format in the mid-00s by adding a crap ton of 80's pop artists to give it a Jack FM feel that resulted in piss-poor ratings. He's now at a shitty little country station, WIFE in rural Indiana.

The point is that there's a reason why radio as a medium is dying: they hire shit talent and expect killer ratings. But since Nielsen hasn't released northern Michigan radio ratings in several years, it's sad to know that somehow, there's stations with only five listeners up north that's somehow making money... Or are they? Sorry, but the morons who own the three aforementioned stations - Del Reynolds of Rock 105 and The Bear and the North Dakota-based Gokeys of KLT - seem to not give two flying shits on the quality of their stations. If they're bankrupt in ten years, don't look at me.

But in the meantime, I hope Cristi and Scotty listen to internet or satellite radio a lot.

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Thursday, May 12, 2016

5.12.16 Bee-otch of the Day: Hillary Clinton


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Name: Hillary Clinton
Age: 68
Occupation: president wannabe
Last Seen: ??
Bee-otched For: losing a lot of ground to Bernie 

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I love the media sometimes.

A few weeks ago, I remember watching WOOD-TV 8's Sunday night newscast when airheaded anchor Heather Walker was talking about the Democratic delegates of Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders. Her words: "it's mathematically impossible for Bernie Sanders to win the Democratic primary".

Oh, really?

Of course, about 40 % of American states haven't voted in a primary yet, and California, where 475 delegates are up for grabs ain't voting til June. By next month, the dust will settle and we'll know if Bernie can beat Hillary. But let's face it: Bernie's not out yet. After all, he won every county in West Virginia on Tuesday.

With Donald Trump the only Republican left in the primaries, many are upset that a man of his demeanor is the only person left. With many on both sides hating Hillary, some on the right are giving Bernie a chance. After all, he's old and well, he ain't Hillary.

The sad thing is, with the Democratic Party and Debbie Wasserman Schultz behind Hillary and the superdelegates to boot, chances are that yes, she still has a chance of taking the nomination. But if he loses, Bernie might give running for president a chance as an Independent and polls show that if that happens, he STILL has a chance of defeating the Donald. People simply hate Donald and Hillary and want a real liberal in the White House.

Of course, Bernie might not run at all, and yes, I'll still vote for Hillary because Trump would make an abhorrent president. But remember, true, I thought that Clinton was an OK president, but he still fucked up with NAFTA, outsourcing, Telecom 96 and yes, Monica. As for Hillary, there's that issue with Benghazi which might send some over to Bernie, too.

But as the delegates gestate, the plot thickens.  

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Wednesday, May 11, 2016

5.11.16 Bee-otches of the Day: the Koch Brothers


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Names: Charles and David Koch
Ages: 81, 76
Occupations: polluters
Last Seen: Kansas
Bee-otched For: making sure that the media doesn't bitch about global warming



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This has been a sad week for the Canadians.

Right now, a massive firestorm is racing though the country, destroying the town of Fort McMurray and its surroundings. The fire is feeding on dry trees, which light up like a match when lit. Thousands have lost their homes and one person even released footage of his home burning down. Some 80,000 residents are now homeless.

Personally, I've never heard of a Canadian wildfire, especially one this big. But let's face it, it's caused by global warming.

Sadly, it's a reality that Mother Earth is sick. It's supposed to be that we have cold winters and hot summers. A few weeks ago, my trip to Phoenix was delayed by one day because my layover was in Denver, which had gotten a foot of snow.... IN MID-APRIL. A week later, the Mile High City was in the 70s and all the snow had melted.

Rarely if ever, the news ever talks about global warming and its dangers. Why? True, they'll talk about tornadoes and wildfires and such, but why it's happening is now a taboo issue. The reason? Just watch the commercials.

There's the Quilted Northern ads with the toys in the bathroom. There's some skank dressed like a fairy hawking Sparkle paper towels. Oh, and there's those stupid ads talking about the importance of fracking for shale.

Yep! It's all brought to you by the ultra-wealthy Koch brothers, who make sure that regular people like you and me suffer through weather catastrophes so they could pocket their billions.

You know, I remember doing research on Centrailia, PA last week. That town is famous for the fact that over 50 years ago, it was a mining town. However, the fire department set the town dump ablaze and the flames hit a vent to the mine. Over the years, the fire spread and the ground got so hot, that a gas station couldn't operate in the borough. Fumes exited the ground and people got sick. Guess what happened? The government stepped in and forced everybody out of town. Today, Centrailia is a ghost town with only 10 residents, down from 1,000 half a century ago. As for the mine fire, it's still going on.

The irony of all this: Centralia is near a town called "Frackville". Go figure. Plus, there's several wind turbines outside of town.

This is why I'm kinda proud that I almost never get advertisers knocking on my door: I want as much freedom as possible. I probably talk about global warming than the media does. Folks, don't buy anything from Koch Industries! This means Georgia-Pacific, Bounty, Sparkle, Viva, Stainmaster Carpets, Brawn, Quilted Northern and others. The Kochs think that the environment is theirs. Nope, it's ours.

Oh, and fracking causes earthquakes. I hope it never happens here, especially the travesty going on in Flint. 

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Tuesday, May 10, 2016

5.10.16 Bee-otch of the Day: Pat McCrory


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Name: Pat McCrory
Age: 60
Occupation: governor
Last Seen: Raleigh, NC
Bee-otched For: being quite possibly the most bigoted governor of America



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Since the legalization of gay marriage last year, many politicians have worked feverishly to create other laws to piss off the LGBT crowd.

And yes, the word "piss" has been emphasized.

Some states like Indiana and most of the south have passed so-called "religious freedom" laws that claim to protect those of faith, but they're thinly-designed to anger and offend homosexuals. Now, one state is suing the Obama Administration because they told them to knock it off.

North Carolina recently passed a law that prohibits transsexuals from using the bathroom of their choice. The law states that if somebody was born male, they must use the men's room to go pee-pee. In NC terms, Caitlyn Jenner is still Bruce and she must use the men's room, even though she now wears women's clothes and has made the full transition to female.

But guess what? The Obama Administration is fighting back with Attorney General and North Carolina native Loretta Lynch slapping NC with a lawsuit of its own. Speaking yesterday, Lynch recalled the time in the not-too-distant past 50 years ago when her home state did the same thing now to gays as they did to people of color by ordering whites to use their own bathrooms and the same for "coloreds". Some say that the battle between NC and its Republican governor, Pat McCrory and the US Government could lead to a landmark decision.

As many of us Howard Stern fans know, Richard and Sal used to make a ton of prank calls to radio stations that air Tradio, aka the classifieds of the airwaves. One station they bombed was WTAB in Tabor City, NC and its Swap Shop, hosted by the long-retired Jack Miller. I had a fascination with WTAB since it seemed so Mayberry to me. Not long ago, WTAB had a morning host named Lloyd Gore, who was a man in his late 70s. Sadly, the dude reminded me of what's wrong with North Carolina. The dumbass blamed everything on Obama and even claimed that the Bible spoke out volumes against homosexuality. He even talked about a verse about no two trees merging together to produce the same fruit, which he claimed was a verse against biracial marriages. Yet, one of WTAB's biggest sponsors is a restaurant called "Adam's Seafood and Steak". Oddly enough, eating seafood and having gay sex are both mentioned in Leviticus and are the only times Jesus even talked about those subjects in The Bible. Later on, Jesus himself told his people to simply ignore the Old Testament.

You know, the south needs to know that they've lost their battle decades ago. They tried to fuck over the blacks with slavery and segregation and lost. Now, it's the LGBT crowd's turn. In the end, the government and the folks who elected them in will win. In the end, I think the Supreme Court will decide on this landmark case and the Lloyd Gores of the world will lose. If a woman wants to pee in the men's room, go for it.

At least they have perfect aim.

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Thursday, May 5, 2016

5.5.16 Bee-otch of the Day: The Republican Party


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Name: The Republican Party
Age: 162
Occupation: right-winged morons
Last Seen: Washington, DC
Bee-otched For: emptying out the clown car but leaving the village idiot inside



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It seemed that not long ago, the Republican Party was loaded with everybody and their Dutch uncle running for the white house.

All the sudden, names like Rubio, Carson and Fiorina became words heavily spoken during the 6:30 network newscasts. There were so many people running for president that debates ended up being split into two, with the leading debaters taking prime time while those struggling to survive ended up in the debate some dubbed the Junior Varsity. Well, eventually, the clown car started to empty and the man with the most money, Donald Trump ended up riding alone.

After their lackluster results in the Indiana primaries, both Ted Cruz and John Kasich announced the end of their campaigns for president. Of course, with Donald running alone, some are very pissed that a man who vows to build a wall blocking out Mexicans and acting so unpresidential is now the dead ringer for the Republican ticket in the November election. Some are even burning their membership cards to the Republican Party.

There's even a longtime Republican I know who's angry about Trump, and it's my own mother. She claims that if he's elected president, he'll have us all killed. She's so pissed that she might even vote for Hillary if she gets the Dems' ticket.

But thankfully, the war between Hillary and Bernie Sanders ain't even over yet, even though I wish it was Bernie way out on top.

With only Trump left as the Republican frontrunner, the question is, will Trump's haters cross over to the other side and vote for either Hillary or Bernie? My sole fear is that Hillary might get a slight bump because she is center-right on some topics, but otherwise, who knows?

And the plot thickens.... 

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Wednesday, May 4, 2016

5.4.16 Bee-otch of the Day: Kevin Adell


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Name: Kevin Adell
Age: 49
Occupation: seedy broadcaster
Last Seen: Metamora, MI

Bee-otched For: gradually turning his radio station into a bigger piece of shit



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Once upon a time, there was a little radio station in Flint called WFDF.

WFDF was Flint's pioneer radio station, founded in 1922 by its namesake, Frank D. Fallain. Over the years, the station carried many formats: MOR, CHR, talk and standards. It was the long-time home of my dear friend, the late, great Dave Barber.

However, the station was sold by then-owner Cumulus to Disney in 2002, who turned it into a Radio Disney format. Four years later, with the blessing of the FCC, the station moved from Flint to the Detroit suburb of Farmington Hills. But then, Disney decided to spin off their Radio Disney stations - which were unprofitable since most eight-year-olds could care less about lo-fi, staticky AM radio - and sold 910 to Kevin Adell two years ago. Adell is the owner of WADL-TV 38 in Detroit, the market's sole independent station. He's also the owner of The Word, a religious channel aimed towards African Americans.

In recent years, 910 - known as "910 AM Superstation" - has become a black-oriented talk station. But now, the station has a new focus: being the "TMZ of radio".

In an interview with the Detroit Free Press, Adell is taking his station in a new direction, and guess who he hired to have their own shows? Why! None other than those Congresssluts Todd Courser and Cindy Gamrat. Both are now hosting weekly shows on the station, which has scored a whopping 0.0 in the ratings.

Other hosts on the revamped station include Kwame Kilpatrick mistress Christine Beatty and several other Detroit area lawpeople caught up in scandal.

The only good news is that none of the station's new hosts will make a dime off their shows, but if they sell their own ads, they can keep that money.

Of course, this is coming from a man who uses his media empire to reach black people in one eye, but exploits it in another. I think it's sad when a man uses Jesus to suck money out of some of society's most-vulnerable people. But that's Kevin Adell, a man some call a savior when Detroit's first black-owned TV station, WGPR 62 was sold to CBS in 1994 after the wild TV swap that occurred in the market. But judging by the pic of him that I have above this article, it simply screams, "fuck you, I'm rich. Now, give my preachers your money so they can buy time on my station!"

In the end, WFDF will not be a factor in the ratings and it will fall flat on its ass. Good thing he ain't paying his hosts or else 910 won't be much of a Superstation anymore.

Oh, wait! It ain't. 

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Tuesday, May 3, 2016

5.3.16 Bee-otch of the Day: Ted Cruz


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Name: Ted Cruz
Age: 45 
Occupation: president wannabe
Last Seen: ??
Bee-otched For: hiring a bitch to be his wannabe veep



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You know, I don't seem to spank Ted Cruz enough. Ironic, since he told his Twitter followers that he'd spank a young boy mocking him at one of his rallies.

But last week, the man currently second place in the polls to Donald Trump announced that Carly Fiorina would be his running mate for president. Doesn't this prick know that 1) he can't be president because he was born in Canada and 2) he has no chance in hell that he would be president because Trump's kicking his ass? The truth is, the only good thing about Cruz running for president is that he's taking delegates away from Trump and so is another 'no chance in hell' candidate, John Kasich. As it stands, none of the three Republican stooges might have enough delegates to be able to win their party's nomination.

For the laughable but hopeful Ted Cruz, picking a failed CEO like Fiorina just shows how fucked up his campaign REALLY is. As CEO of HP, her company aborted something like 55,000 American jobs. The fact that she wants to get into politics and failed every time proves that businesspeople should NOT run for public office. Look at Rick Snyder and what he did to Gateway and now, the state of Michigan. I am so proud that I don't live in Flint right now.

Also, I'm tired of all the media bitching that Bernie Sanders has no chance in hell of winning. He's only 300 delegates behind Hillary, whom the media claims is in the lead because of her superdelegates. Wait and see when the primaries are over. I think most Americans are fed up with establishment politics. If Bernie ran as an independent, 1) I would almost definitely vote for him if the elections were today and 2) according to some polls, he has a chance of beating BOTH Hillary and Trump on Election Day.

Today is the primary for Indiana. Hoosiers, please vote for Bernie! 

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Monday, May 2, 2016

5.2.16 Bee-otches of the Day: idiot doctors


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Name: various
Ages: various
Occupations: doctors
Last Seen: everywhere
Bee-otched For: not doing their jobs right



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It seems that if you have a good doctor, you're in luck.

Since I moved to Grand Rapids many years ago, I've only had one doctor, and he's no longer my doc. A few years ago, I started seeing him because I needed a doctor after years of not seeing one. I was donating plasma at the time and I kept going to Biolife with a high heart rate, probably due to anxiety. Turns out that I had a regular heart rate, but when I was forced to move to the day shift at my job, the stress and anxiety grew.

So, I went and saw him again (actually her since there were two docs there), and she told me to kick out caffeine, which I did. A year later, I came back because I had an unbalance, so guess what he did? He doled me some Celexa, an antidepressant.

I consulted my family, and they told me that docs these days will give anybody anything simply because it's all about the money for them. Turns out that the imbalance was mostly from having a myriad of ear wax, so I had that professionally removed. But for the next year, I couldn't drink because of my doc whacking me out on Celexa. I gained a shitload of weight because of it. One day, I decided to call him up and tell him that I wanted to get off that shit, and he gave me excuses like, "ear wax doesn't lead to imbalance" and whatever. I weaned myself off and guess what? I'M FINE!

Not long after this debacle, this asshole of a doc made headlines when he shuttered his office without further notice or telling anybody. His excuse was water damage, but I always smell something fishy in a situation like this. Now, I have no doctor to call my own, and I have no plans on seeing one anytime soon, even though I haven't had a checkup in two years.

When I heard that Prince had meds in his possession, I had to wonder if he OD'd on purpose, or if his doc gave him the wrong medicine. Hell, look at Michael Jackson and the shit that killed him, too.

Oh, did I tell him that my ex-doc gave me some Xanax, too? I still got 'em. Maybe if I get too depressed, I'll down some with some Jack, lol.

The point is, can doctors be trustworthy anymore? Are they all whores for the drug companies, which seem to be the most-powerful companies out there? Hell, every other ad on TV is for prescription meds. Side effects include seizures, vomiting, nightmares and the poops. But hey! Anything to make our lives better, right?

Watch out, Piggies!

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