Bee-otch of the Day: February 2020

Thursday, February 27, 2020

2.27.20 Bee-otch of the Day: people trying to sabotage Bernie Sanders

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Names: various
Ages: various
Occupation: various
Last Seen: everywhere
Bee-otched For: not feeling the Bern

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In a perfect world, you might be in front, but the world will want to destroy you.

Nationwide, Bernie Sanders has enjoyed double digit leads in the polls. But on Tuesday, his competition wanted a piece of him.

At times, the Democratic Debate got ugly with the candidates talking over each other. If a bell rang, it would have been just like Jerry Springer with punches and chairs flying.

Right now, Sanders is in second place in the polls in South Carolina, whose primary is on Saturday. Some blame his stance on guns for his standing in a state that's very pro-gun and was the setting for a mass church shooting five years ago.

But in Bernie's case, the South won't rise again.

Bear in mind too that Super Tuesday is a few days later. Hopefully, it'll mean a huge lead for Bernie and some candidates will drop out, like Tulsi "Present" Gabbard.

Sadly, there's the superdelegates who claim that they will fight against Bernie being the Democratic nominee for president. A few days ago, my Republican friends on Facebook were all crying that Bernie claimed that he would force the middle class into paying 52% in taxes. You know that the Russians are once again feeding shit onto Facebook to make Drumpf look good, right?

Truth be told, if Bernie wins the Democratic nomination like he did in 2016, but gets fucked over again because of corporate Dems who are our friend until they accept bribes, it's another four years of Drumpf. Look at the Coronavirus situation. Drumpf put his asshole VP in charge, who also caused HIV cases to rise in Indiana because he fucked over needle sharing programs. Look at the latest mass shooting in Milwaukee at the MillerCoors plant. I'll betcha that the shooter had mental health issues. But they won't be addressed because too many people don't have access to a decent health system.

But, hey! 1,300 people bitched to the FCC about J.Lo and Shakira's Super Bowl Halftime Show. Wanna bet that they will slap CBS with a fine instead of the rest of the government protecting innocent people from guns? Remember, the government did a witch hunt over Janet Jackon's boob but did nothing after Sandy Hook.

The point is that it's been three years since Drumpf became POTUS and now, we're getting fucked. Just today, the Dow had its biggest one-day drop, EVER. Our economy is getting to be as bad as it was in 2008 and it's gonna get worse if shit doesn't get done.

Since I was born, we've had four Repukes and only two Dems as president. Yes, Clinton boosted the economy, but also fucked over the broadcast industry and did nothing for healthcare. Obama was better, but he was a centralist at best. Obamacare was an improvement for healthcare, but there's still too many without real healthcare.

The media - especially NBC - seems to make it sound like Bernie needs to lean a little more to the right to get into the White House. I disagree and so does Bernie. Besides, what hurts the Dems the most is when they act too conservative. I look back to 2000, the first presidential election I could have voted for. I hated Bush and even though Gore was better, I was pissed that he chose Lieberman as his running mate. Same problem in 2016: Drumpf won in part to him exposing Hillary as somebody who helped to get us into Dubya's fake wars. He pretended to be the good guy, but let's face it: his supporters aren't all that smart.

And speaking of NBC, ever notice that when he's on the Nightly News during his rallies that he sounds muffled? Rumor has it that they're intentionally trying to make him sound like the teacher from the Charlie Brown TV specials simply because Sanders is against big media and, well, NBC is owned by an evil cable company. Want proof? Listen to last week's Southpaws.

Back to the 52% remark: this year, I paid $500 more in taxes than I did the year before. That money's going to Drumpf's golf trips. If I pay more in taxes, I would want it to help me in case I need to go to the hospital. I would want it to help a poor person go to college. Hell, I would want it to go to the troubled kid who needs mental help before he shoots up a school. We need change, and it's not gonna happen at the links of Mar-A-Lago.

And if the DNC's not gonna give us what we want, The world will be a dust bowl by 2024.

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Tuesday, February 25, 2020

2.25.20 Bee-otch of the Day: Zeeland, Michigan

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Name: Zeeland
Age: 173
Occupation: city
Last Seen: Ottawa County, MI
Bee-otched For: not feeling the zeal

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Every day, I feel blessed that I live in a blue state.

But sadly, there's parts of my home state that are hemorrhaging red. And one of those parts is close by.

Patrick Cooper owns a tattoo shop in downtown Zeeland, pop. 5,500 called Z.ink. Zeeland has long been a haven for conservative Republicans. In 2016, Drumpf won Ottawa County with 68٪ of the vote. Last week, Cooper opened Grimlock’s Emporium for the Misbehaved Lady, a store that sold adult novelties. Its storefront was pretty much clandestine from the rest of downtown, with only the word "Grimlock" on its front door.

But in this age of social media, word travels fast.

Grimlock's opened on Thursday and by Friday afternoon, the city's Chief of Police told Cooper to shut it down. Despite being notoriously ultra-conservative (the town once banned the sale of alcohol), Zeeland does allow adult businesses. But, it's only allowed in the city's industrial area.

Even tame stuff like cat 'o nine tails and handcuffs were ordered off the shelves. However, cleaning supplies were allowed to stay on their shelves.

In an interview with WOOD-TV Grand Rapids' Heather Walker, Cooper said it best: "The idea that I could sell a chainsaw to a four-year-old but then get in trouble for selling his mother a pink plastic replica of the male anatomy is silly to me, it’s crazy, but that’s where we are at right now."

Cooper has even set up a GoFundMe page to help his legal expenses in fighting City Hall.

The sad tragedy in all this is that Patrick Cooper is right. This is 2020 and the city fathers pretend that sex is a bad, bad thing. And it's not just Zeeland, it's America, too. When Janet Jackson accidentally showed her right boob on TV 16 years ago, the FCC performed a witch hunt. But when the shootings at Parkland, Sandy Hook and others occurred, nothing happened.

Personally, I think it's sad knowing that people are scared of sex. Playboy even stopped publishing nudity a few years ago only to bring it back after an outcry. Cinemax has stopped showing their fare of late night softcore flicks. Here in Grand Rapids, nude dancing is a no-no, yet this city's crime rate keeps rising. It seems that having a safe space to talk about sex and sexual desires is a thing of the past, especially in the #MeToo movement. And because of this, birth rates in America are decreasing.

Last week, I read this interesting article from The State News from Michigan State about the stigma surrounding the strip club industry. For years, people bitched that strip clubs are nasty, the women are prostitutes and so on. I totally agree that for the most part, it's all false. True, the strip club industry does have bad apples. But, I totally agree that most strippers are normal, everyday people who have personal lives and can be model citizens for the community. Hell, most of them are better people than preachers who rob from people.

It's funny how conservatives will attack anything having to do with sex, and yet, they worship a man who hung out with prostitutes. Funny how Christians will cry "be like Jesus". OK, but then again, strip clubs aren't necessarily houses of ill repute, either.

Love it or hate it, America is still a nation built on capitalism. If you like a business, you buy from it. If you love a product, you buy it over and over again. But, if you don't like it, you don't buy it. I hate Walmart. I don't buy from there because their employees are in the poor house while the Waltons are worth over $50 billion apiece. Yet, I wish people would stop buying from them. It's just me. If I owned a supermarket, I would definitely sell bacon and pork products. I haven't heard of any Muslims telling grocers to stop selling it. Personally, I think they simply don't care. If they don't like pork, that's their prerogative.

This is why I think Jebus freaks are pissed that they're under attack. They're the ones who create silly laws to tell people like me and you what we can or can't watch or listen to. They're the ones who judge us because we buy sex toys instead of spending that money on them so they can buy that same sex toy. You know, it's funny when they say "there's one God, and you're not him" and they're the ones who judge.

Look, if somebody loves sex, let them love sex. If somebody wants sex, hopefully they can be with somebody who loves it as much as they do. But what happens in one's bedroom is no one's business but theirs. I think it's time for the people of Zeeland to simply wake up.

Or maybe, it's time for somebody to *ahem* whip them into shape.

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Monday, February 24, 2020

2.24.20 Bee-otch of the Day: terrestrial radio

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Name: terrestrial radio
Age: 100
Occupation: entertainers and informers of the general public
Last Seen: everywhere
Bee-otched For: going to Jesus

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Friday night marked a sad, painful moment in Boston radio history.

Several former DJs at Boston rocker WAAF clamored into the station's broadcast booth to bid adios to their loyal fans. At about 11:55 PM, they played their final song, which was "Black Sabbath" by Black Sabbath.

At the stroke of midnight, the station switched over to their new format: Christian Contemporary Music.

WAAF was Boston's only home for new rock music in recent years. But poor decisions made in management and programming had sunk the station below a one share in the ratings. Before they signed off Friday night, one of the jocks admitted that they were going to revamp the station a week from today. They claimed that the station was going to play more new music from newer artists and they were also going to rid themselves from their syndicated night program The Men's Room.

But, it wasn't meant to be.

WAAF's parent, Entercom announced late last week that they were selling the station to Educational Media Foundation for $10 million. The news was a shock to everybody in the radio business, especially since it was a fast change. WAAF is now playing EMF's K-Love format, whose artists include For King and Country (an ex of mine's favorite band... barf), TobyMac, Casting Crowns and Hillsong Worship.

In the past few years, EMF and K-Love have purchased many commercial-band FM stations, especially in major markets. Classic Rock WLUP 97.9 The Loop in Chicago, Hot AC WPLJ 95.5 New York City and Detroit's WPZR Praise 102.7 (which was Z-Rock in the 1990s) have been among the stations sold to EMF in recent years and are now K-Love stations.

And the K-Love bug has had an effect on my old stomping grounds of northern Michigan as well.

As I've reported since late last year, geezer rock WKLT 97.5 was sold to Midwestern Broadcasting, which also owns WTCM-AM/FM, WCCW-AM/FM and Z93 for $450,000. However, because Midwestern was now capped regarding the number of FM stations they could own, simulcaster 98.9 WKLZ Petoskey was not included in the sale. So, WKLT's old owners, Northern Broadcast sold the station for a mere $400,000 to EMF. Well, today marked the first day of Midwestern running KLT and there were some notable changes. One was that Steve "Omelette" Normandin is back in mornings as speculated for some time. Afternooner Derek, aka "Sasquatch" is now his sidekick. For the time being, weekender "California Girl" is handling afternoons. The station's former morning host "Racin Jason" has been sacked.

And yes, there's been no change in the music. Same shitty 1970s butt rock that they've been murdering to death for 30 years.

But guess what? KLT lives in the Petoskey area, sadly. At midnight, WBCM 93.5 - which has been simulcasting WTCM 103.5 Traverse City for some 30 years - will flip to KLT's new simulcaster for the Straits region. It will mark the first time in its 42 years on the air that 93.5 - which started as WCLX and broadcasted from a dairy barn - will not be a Country-formatted station.

WTCM will now lose the Straits area, especially since their transmitter is in northern Wexford County. Of course, Country fans will still have plenty to choose from, including Big Country 102.9 and Big Country Gold 1240. I was going to say "Straits Country 97.7", but that was recently sold to one of the morons, "Trucker Randy" Bishop who owned failed teabagger talker 94.5 WYPV in Mackinaw City. It's now a hybrid of his tinfoil hat diatribes and Oldies from artists who probably wouldn't agree to his politics.

Meanwhile, as I'm typing this, 94.3/92.5 The Fox is alive and well for the time being. The 80s and onward station's 94.3 signal in Leland was sold to CMU, though 92.5's fate in uncertain. I'll betcha as soon as CMU gets their shit together, all business at 1020 Hastings Street, Suite 102 in Traverse City will cease to exist.

Granted, I'm not surprised that KLT didn't really change music-wise and neither did the addition of 93.5. But, I've also heard that KLT might be getting a THIRD(!!!) signal. they have a few stations in Alpena, including another popular Country outlet, WATZ 99.3 and 96.7.

But here's another question: will KLT be involved in yet another sale?

You see, Midwestern's been around since 1939. Its founder, Les Biederman passed it to his son, Ross when he died in 1986 at the age of 75. Ross is now 80. I know some folks who work inside the hallowed halls of both the Paul Bunyan Building and Radio Centre. Ross has no biological family to pass Midwestern to when he dies or is unable to run the company. But, he has his stepson, company Business Manager Chris Warren. Warren's father died and his mother, Brenda married Ross. Biederman has been a father figure to Chris so much that he pretty much has the keys to Midwestern. Rumor has it that Ross no longer runs the company day-to-day. Even though he apparently is a nice guy, Chris is just like Matt Hanlon when it comes to broadcasting. He's a suit and not a broadcaster. He's all about making money and not giving the people of northern Michigan a quality product. Case in point: Z93. For a CHR, the imaging is bland and it doesn't help that morning man Ron Pritchard is known for posting some pretty hateful shit on Facebook. Z93 is currently in the shitter ratings-wise and yet Warren will put Pritchard in a hotel if the roads are bad since he lives over by Boyne City.

There's rumors that Midwestern is for sale, and Townsquare - which owns radio stations here in Grand Rapids, plus Flint and Lansing - is interested. Part of the reason why Midwestern wanted KLT was because they wanted some type of rock station in their portfolio. Townsquare is a pretty friendly company when it comes to rock, especially classic rock.

But then again, Townsquare does raise another issue and it's part of the reason why WAAF's ratings sucked towards the end. That issue is the fact that many rock stations that are the home of current rockers like Disturbed, Tool, Five Finger Death Punch and Green Day think they now have a license to play geezer rock from Lynyrd Skynyrd, Queen, ZZ Top and even fucking Kansas. Yes, I've heard "Carry On Wayward Son" just moments after I've woken up and those beginning five seconds of that flaming piece of boomer shit have almost given me a heart attack. But sadly, that's the price I've paid for having an old alarm clock that has WGRD tuned to it.

Look, I'll be 39 in a few months and I sure as hell don't want to hear the same tired, burned-out horseshit my parents forced me to listen to growing up. KLT was sadly the de facto rock station in northern Michigan in the 90s and they spat on the music of my generation. I was too young for KLT and too old for most of the wussy-ass pop shit on KHQ and The Peak. I've even heard from people from Detroit and other major cities saying on social media something to the tune of "I love northern Michigan! BUT THE GODDAMN RADIO UP THERE SUCKS!" Now with Pandora, Spotify, SiriusXM and other digital radio platforms, us youngin's can have good, quality radio on our phones while the fogeys have terrestrial radio.

And the funny thing is that Rock 105/95-5 has a better playlist than GRD! I just peeked at their last ten songs and it's a nice mix of 90s (Pearl Jam, Black Crowes and Nirvana), 00s (Red Hot Chili Peppers, Switchfoot and Stone Sour), 10s (Ghost and Arctic Monkeys) and YES! CURRENTS! (Blue Stones and Shinedown). In some situations, one would wonder where the Pink Floyd, Def Leppard and Jimi Hendrix is. I know! THEIR SISTER STATION, THE BEAR!

If terrestrial radio wants me and others back, they need to be more like Rock 105 and 95-5 and less like GRD. Leave the Classic Rock to the Classic Rock stations and knock it off thinking that butt rock will work on a station that spins the latest Slipknot. Most Oldies stations don't even play music from the 50s and 60s anymore, so why should I have to sit through Molly Hatchet to get to Foo Fighters? Sorry, but the music my drunk polack ex-stepdad listened to doesn't and never will define me.

And if this trend continues, more stations could be finding themselves seeing Jesus.

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Thursday, February 20, 2020

2.20.20 Bee-otch of the Day: Mike Bloomberg

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Name: Michael Bloomberg
Age: 78
Occupation: old billionaire
Last Seen: New York City
Bee-otched For: crashing and Berning at the Democratic Debate

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It's no secret that I'm no real fan of Elizabeth Warren.

But, I'll give her credit because in last night's Democratic debate in Las Vegas, she boldly attacked the biggest elephant in the room. And I DO mean elephant since he was a Republican.

Warren proclaimed that she was running against a billionaire who was calling women "fat broads" and "horse-faced lesbians", and it wasn't Drumpf. It was Bloomberg.

Bernie Sanders touched on the fact that as New York City mayor, Bloomberg created programs like "Stop and Frisk" which was racist to people of color. Bloomberg apologized. NBC's Hallie Jackson noted that many women who work for his company felt hurt because of his crude remarks toward them. Bloomberg covered his ass with "none of them are accusing me of anything".

Sadly, a sizable chunk of the debate was about the fact that Bloomberg is using his own money to buy the election. With the amount of commercials that he's buying, he's using the power of the media to brainwash Americans into thinking that he's the only person out there to defeat Drumpf. Yes, unlike the centralist candidates, Bloomberg seems to be several notches to the left. But, he still has a lot more money than Drumpf. True, I'll give Bloomberg credit. At least he built his empire from the ground up as opposed to inheriting it from Daddy. But since he's in it to make sure the wealthy in America don't get taxed more to pay for the programs that he claims he supports, it will be sad if he's elected.

Like I've said in previous posts, Bloomberg's campaign is too similar to Shri Thanedar's. He was the Indian immigrant who ran for governor here in Michigan two years ago and lost on the Democratic ticket. He ran a shit ton of ads claiming that he was a progressive, even though he's extremely wealthy and as a scientist, he abused defenseless animals in his labs. He ended up in third place behind our current governor Gretchen Whitmer and a real progressive, Abdul El-Sayed.

I'm happy that in the national polls, Bernie's in the lead with double digits. We don't need an elitist telling us to vote for him every time our local TV stations cut to break. Hell, I'm a hard rock and metal guy and was forced to grow up with way too many radio stations overplaying the shit out of John Mellencamp in northern Michigan, even our so-called "Rock Station" KLT. Hearing "Small Town" in one of Bloomberg's ads gave me a vicious case of earworm.

We needed Bernie four years ago and even more now. Drumpf is freeing white collar criminals and yet, there's still innocent people rotting in prison for smoking a fucking joint 40 years ago. Awards are being given to disgusting pigs like Rush Limbaugh and not people who really deserve them. Hell, I just found out that I'm getting WAY less on my taxes than I thought I was because Turbotax fucked up my state returns! I plan to amend, BTW.

Folks, Bernie's the only candidate for president who's the real deal. He's humble, he's down to Earth, and most importantly of all, he has a plan to fix our country. He's not a sell out like other so-called Democrats. It's time Americans get treated the same as other nations in terms of healthcare, education and safety. Yesterday's Bee-otch of the Day was suggested by a Canadian reader of mine. In a few e-mails, we discussed our appreciation for the CBC, especially with them being a more-fair alternative to the corporate media especially when it comes to news. I always thought about how it seems that the Canadians were right all along when it comes to the media. Years ago in the middle of the night, I was watching a CTV station out of Sault Ste. Marie show a program about sex. For one second, they showed a tight closeup of a woman's vagina as it's being rubbed. Here in America, Janet Jackson's right breast is exposed during the Super Bowl and the religious right and the FCC perform a witch hunt. Sad, since right around the same time, several media companies in America create fake umbrella groups to own more than one TV station in a single market. My old media market of Traverse City, MI is a shining example.

The point is, is that America needs to wake up. The only reason why Mike Bloomberg is running for president is simply because he's creating an oligarchy. Drumpf might be more evil, but Bloomberg has more money and too many of the same problems Drumpf has. I hope as the caucuses and primaries move forward, Bloomberg will realize that spending over $400 million of his own money to try to rule the world was a big mistake.

Only nine more months of this shit....

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Wednesday, February 19, 2020

2.19.20 Bee-otch of the Day: Wendy Williams

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Name: Wendy Williams
Age: 54
Occupation: TV talk show host
Last Seen: New York City
Bee-otched For: having her career come on down

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(Thanks to Mark for the suggestion)

One can say that The Price is Right is as American as apple pie.

It's a show that's almost as old as television itself. It originally debuted in 1956 on NBC with Bill Cullen accepting the bids and ended its original run on ABC in 1965.

The version most of us know and love has been on CBS since 1972. For generations, Bob Barker entertained millions of Americans with Plinko chips and a man climbing up a mountain to rhythmic yodely music. TPIR was supposed to be in Barker's words, a show that was passed from mother to daughter and now to her son and children. When many of us were sick from school or on vacation, we relied on 'ol Bob to keep our minds off of why we were out of school in the first place.

Of course, Bob retired in 2007, handing that long-stemmed microphone over to Drew Carey. He's kept the show entertaining and modern, attracting younger audiences while using his folksy image to keep the show a hit among its older viewers. Most important - and especially to Barker - is that he kept telling viewers to keep the pet control controlled by spaying and neutering their pets.

For more than 30 years, Carey has been one of the most-beloved comics, actors, Marine vets and game show hosts. He's a man who overcame so much to get to where he is now. At eight years old, he lost his father to a heart attack. Carey himself had one in 2001 which encouraged him to diet and exercise, which not only caused him to lose weight but also cured his diabetes.

Allegedly, Carey is worth $190 million. But not all the money in the world can bring a man happiness.

Carey never married and never had children, though he is a father figure to the son of a woman he was engaged to. In 2018, Carey announced his engagement to sex therapist Amie Harwick, but later that year, the engagement was called off. Sadly, Harwick was found murdered earlier this week in front of her home near Hollywood. She was just 38. Harwick was pushed from her third story window by her ex-boyfriend, whom she had a restraining order against. On Monday, Carey tweeted, "I hope you’re lucky enough to have someone in your life that loves as much as she did."

Since Harwick's death, many of her and Carey's fans have shown lots of love and support for the two. TPIR canceled tapings for this week so Carey could grieve, though they are planning to resume next week.

But leave it to lowly daytime talk show host Wendy Williams to throw gasoline onto the fire.

On her program Tuesday, Williams was talking about Harwick's murder when she said TPIR's catchphrase "COME ON DOWN!" referring to when her ex threw her off the balcony. It was meant to be a joke, but it turned out to be a giant groaner among her audience.

It seems that Williams' show is mostly on shitty stations. Here in Grand Rapids, she's on WOTV 41, whose sole purpose is to be the de facto over-the-air ABC affiliate for Kalamazoo and Battle Creek. Her only other Michigan affiliate is Detroit's Fox 2.

Williams has received mega amounts of backlash regarding her botched joke. On Twitter, people bashed her simply because she was a victim of classless domestic violence. People who knew Harwick personally have called Williams to apologize for her tasteless joke. Even Jack Osbourne - Ozzy's son - called Amie a friend bashed Williams. Shinedown's Zach Myers also called Williams a piece of shit. Many have been nice enough to post Williams' infamous collapse on live TV three years ago.

How ironic that her name is Wendy. When I was a kid, there was a big, fat, white trash girl at my school also named Wendy. She smelled so bad that I literally retched every time I was near her. Same with my classmates. She was as ugly on the outside as Williams is on the inside.

Williams was also recently bashed for making fun of actor Joaquin Phoenix's facial scar and told gay men to stop dressing like women. 1) Joaquin is a very bright and talented actor unlike Wendy and 2) if a man wants to cross dress, let them. Don't tell me or anyone else what to wear or bash me because I was born with something that God gave me.

I know, I can be mean at times. Years ago, I poked fun at Rush Limbaugh because he now had a weird wire on his head. It's a cochlear implant that was installed after he went deaf. Some guy who had a kid with a cochlear wrote a mean letter to me. Well, guess what? RUSH HAD TO HAVE THE IMPLANT BECAUSE HIS DEAFNESS WAS CAUSED BY HIM POPPING OXYS! Sorry, not sorry. If it makes you happy, I once dated a woman with a cochlear. She turned into a cunt. But as for Rush, who is now dying of lung cancer, he smoked for years and I don't feel too bad for him.

If one died and they were an asshole, yes, I don't mind bashing them and pissing on their grave. But Amie Harwick was a brilliant, smart young lady whose death shouldn't have been made fun of. I hope Wendy Williams gets canceled and will disappear from the face of the Earth. That ugly, dog-faced crackwhore should take her Oprah wannabe show, turn it sideways and shove it up her fat ghetto ass.

Wendy Williams is the one who needs to be spayed and neutered.

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Tuesday, February 18, 2020

2.18.20 Bee-otch of the Day: NASCAR

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Name: The National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing
Age: 71
Occupation: racing organization
Last Seen: Daytona Beach, FL
Bee-otched For: becoming a porno for Repukes

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It's always something when you come from a family that's always passionate about automobiles.

My Grandfather and Father owned their fair share of Mustangs. As a matter of fact, some 50 years ago, my Grandfather drove from Detroit to the UP to go deer hunting. Along the way, the engine blew in his Mustang. He ended up at a dealership along I-75 and got himself... a new Mustang.

Now, I've never owned a Mustang, simply because they're usually rear wheel drive. Here in Michigan, it's a no-no on snow-capped roads. But, I'm happy to say that I've never owned a foreign car. I'm a lead foot who can't stand slow drivers, which seem to be the norm in Grand Rapids. I once drove my mother's old Kia, which probably went 0-60 in maybe two minutes.

My Father loves watching racing on TV. NASCAR, NHRA, Indy, you name it. I grew up watching people with names like Earnhardt, Gordon, Marlin, Waltrip and Petty who boogedy boogedy boogedied their way into our hearts. He always cracks up when John Force is on TV. When Brad Keselowski became a NASCAR star years ago, he started telling me stories about how he used to hang out with his father, Bob. When they were kids, Bob would come over to my Dad's for sleepovers. The Keselowskis had a service station just down the street from where my Dad grew up.

Sadly, my Dad also loves *ugh* Drumpf. When the de facto president gave out the command at the Daytona 500 on Sunday, Dad asked me via text if I "saw Don and The Beast driving around the oval". I called him, saying "what's 'The Beast'? Melania?" He thankfully laughed his ass off. He told me that it was Drumpf's beloved Cadillac limo. Watching Drumpf and his precious beast circle the track at Daytona as his hillbilly fans applauded loudly reminds me of telling an obnoxious person to go away and they wait 10 minutes to do so.

Well, the race was a disaster. After only several laps, it was red flagged due to rain. By 7 p.m., officials called off the race until the next day. On Monday, the race continued and by the end, it seemed like everybody and their Dutch uncle had crashed. Even Keselowski was done with 16 laps to go.

At the end, Denny Hamlin became only the third Daytona 500 winner in history to win two consecutive races back to back. The other two being Cale Yarborough and Sterling Marlin. It was Hamlin's third win at Daytona. But, Hamlin's victory was shrouded with shock and horror when 20-year NASCAR veteran Ryan Newman's car crashed and flipped over on the last lap of the race. Newman, 42 was unable to escape his car as fuel quickly drained near open flames. First responders immediately drove to the scene to shoot repellent onto the #6 car. The media was told to leave the scene as NASCAR officials installed black shields guarding the audience in the stands and at home from seeing if Newman was dead or alive. They flipped the mangled car over, took Newman out and rushed him to Halifax Medical Center. Later today, it was announced that Newman woke up and has been talking to both doctors and family. He's still in serious condition, but doctors claim that his injuries are not life-threatening.

Personally, I feel bad for Newman, a devoted father who also runs an animal rescue charity called Rescue Ranch. With the shocking passing of Kobe and Gianna Bryant a few weeks ago, the world of sport does not need to lose another hero. True, some may claim that NASCAR isn't really a sport, but the injuries drivers can face from high-speed accidents could be more severe. And as we all learned 19 years ago today with Dale Earnhardt, even death.

Yes, NASCAR has made their cars safer over the years thanks to special restraints and new designs. Sr.'s crash was nothing comparing to Newman's. Many experts and analysts all claim that if those restraints weren't installed, Newman would have instantly died.

Sadly, however - and I hate to be Debbie Downer in this situation - ever noticed who Newman's sponsor is? A little company called Koch Industries. Yes, THAT Koch, who has done wonders to pollute our world and fight government restrictions to make sure that our world stays safe. Of course, Koch LOVES Republicans and where else to promote their evil operation but on a NASCAR vehicle.

Whether or not Newman will return to driving this season or at all is anybody's guess. But I'll betcha that Koch will look at other cars to slap their evil logo on there.

But Koch isn't the only evil, nasty right-winged entity to have a driver strut their name around like a peacock. Ever hear of William Byron? He drives the #24 car once driven by Jeff Gordon. Well, guess who his sponsor is? Liberty University! Yep, the far-right-winged POS school founded by Jerry Fartsmell-er, Falwell. Funny how they've gone after so-called "indecency" and the LGBTQ+ community for decades. And yet, they own a shopping mall in Virginia that has Victoria's Secret, Spencer's, Hot Topic and even a movie theater that shows R-rated movies.

You know, NASCAR needs to know that liberals and progressives love the adrenaline-induced action of racing, too. Hell, my friend Darren Gibson from the radio show Southpaws loves NASCAR and is a walking encyclopedia when it comes to wrestling. It's amazing how other major sports leagues put politics aside (well, maybe not the NFL and their no taking a knee policy). But when it comes to NASCAR, their fans are afraid that Bernie and AOC will force them to drive electric cars (and guess what? Electric car racing is indeed a thing).

Look, if NASCAR wants to keep doing what they're doing, fine. Their average viewer is 60 years old, which is not really what most advertisers want. True, Drumpf's appearance on Sunday *did* increase their audience by about a million.

Maybe more people would have watched if Drumpf was driving that #6 car with no restraints.

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Monday, February 17, 2020

2.17.20 Bee-otch of the Day: piss-poor restaurants

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Name: certain members of the restaurant industry
Age: various
Occupation: servers of food
Last Seen: everywhere
Bee-otched For: not knowing how to be successful

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Way out in the boonies of Montcalm County, Michigan is a log home. The inhabitants of this house are a distant cousin of mine and his wife.

In the 1960s, he helped to run an A&W with his father. In the 70s, he owned a bar. However, he immediately hated the bar business. Every competing bar owner he knew was cheating on their spouse. And being a family man, it was just not what he wanted. He put the bar up for sale about six months after he bought it and finally sold it off a few years later.

I've been to his home a few times, and one of the best features of his property is a brick oven on his deck. Over the years, he's mastered the art of baking bread and cooking dozens of delicious thin crust pizzas for family and friends. I asked him if his old bar made pizzas, and his response was yes, but they were frozen. I did tell him that if he mastered the art of making brick oven pizzas back in the day, his bar would have been more of a family destination instead of boozing up the locals. Well, we were both right.

Granted, a restaurant cannot be successful if they're serving Tombstones or DiGiornios to their customers. They need to be famous for good food. Since I moved to Grand Rapids 18 years ago, many restaurants have come and gone. In my neck of the woods, the closures include BD's Mongolian Grill, Happy's Pizza (whose founder is a convicted felon), Smashburger, Penn Station, a Tim Horton's, a Moe's Southwestern Grill, Wokbox, Bar Louie (which just filed for bankruptcy) and two Big Boys just to name a few. Even bigger chains like Chili's are down to just one location here in Grand Rapids.

Nine years ago, a restaurant called Don Julio's created controversy when they booted out a family because the father and husband had a service dog with him. He was an Iraqi War vet with PTSD and the dog was needed. Shortly after what happened, the family went to the IHOP adjacent to Don Julio's where they were treated with dignity and respect. Don Julio's faced backlash as a result and closed soon after. To add insult to injury, the building has been abandoned since, with their signs still up.

Same thing with Steak 'n Shake. Sadly, there have been too many instances where I've been to one and the service was horrid. One time, I went to one in Battle Creek while driving back from seeing my Dad in Kentucky. The roads were slick ice and I was white-knuckling it from Indianapolis northward. They took me to a booth and I sat there for 15 minutes while they ignored me. Pissed off, I stood up and left. I ended up going to the Denny's up the street and got way better service.

Other times, I've waited an hour for food and when I got my chili, it was stone cold. Another time, the waitress got me a salad instead of chili. Yes, Steak 'n Shake has decent food, but piss-poor service.

Late last year, the chain announced that over 100 locations would be "temporarily" be closing. One of them is by me in Cascade, which has been closed for over a year. At this point, I would be SHOCKED if it were to reopen.

Steak 'n Shake is owned by Iranian Sardar Biglari, who bought it in 2008. Biglari also owns roughly 20% of Cracker Barrel and Maxim Magazine. I've heard rumors that Biglari is quite the shady individual since his properties are losing money. One rumor I've heard is that Biglari is known to snoop around his models' photoshoots when they are in various states of undress, making them very uncomfortable.

Where I grew up in northern Michigan, the restaurant business has its own issues. The Denny's in Traverse City had been operating on limited hours due to staffing problems. The Ruby Tuesday closed (the one here in GR closed six years ago and Trader Joe's is in its place) and poor, sweet 'ol Bardon's closed as well. Like many other restaurants, they pay their workers shitty wages.

Recently, I was alerted that another well-known restaurant up north shuttered their doors after five decades of service. The owners were trying to sell for years but no takers. So, they sold off their equipment and called it good. In an interview, the owner claimed that business had been challenging for years. Online reviews didn't help, with people claiming that the food was too expensive, the food was microwaved and tasted like dog food. It was a hit for locals, but thanks to the internet, people were avoiding the place like the plague. For shits 'n giggles, I went there one weekend last Summer and I think there were only ten people there on a Saturday night. It didn't help that 1950s music was playing in the background and some of the clientele looked like they were 90. To me, the food wasn't bad. But then again, I grew up with this place.

You see, I worked there throughout high school as a dishwasher. I always was on time and even came into work when others didn't show up. Hell, my boss even loved me by giving me raises all the time. Yes, things were hunky-dory... until they hired somebody who shouldn't have been near me or any of the teens who worked there.

This asshole was the worst person I ever worked with. He was in his 40s, lived in a small, run-down cabin and drove a nasty 1970s car. He worked at the town supermarket where he was fired for asking his boss for a raise. He stocked shelves and often put items on the shelves backwards. As a dishwasher, he was the worst. You asked him to do something and he'd swear at you. He was very disrespectful. But, we only had to deal with him for two years. Two years too many.

Several years before my restaurant hired him, he was charged with fondling and performing oral sex on a six-year-old boy. However, he was acquitted because during his trial he didn't recall telling police that he did it, even though he didn't deny it. While he worked with me, he told me that he babysat a neighbor's kid and admitted that he used to cuddle with him. To make matters worse, my boss told me that she was too nice to fire people. Simply put, she thought that everybody needed a job, even those who couldn't be hired elsewhere. I quit to go to school downstate but came back a year later after I graduated. However, I quit for the last time because they hired another older moron to wash dishes.

Well, not long after I quit, the child molesting retard was busted again. This time, he lured an 11-year-old boy into a shed and grabbed his penis. He was charged with second degree sexual assault and was sentenced to six to 15 years in prison. I heard he only served two.

In my honest opinion, if you own a business that hires minors and you hire adults, they need to have a squeaky clean record. Of course, this especially goes to businesses in small towns. True, Yelp and other review sites weren't around back in the 1990s. But gossip has always been around. It wouldn't shock me that one reason for this particular restaurant's demise was due to the town knowing that they hired this sick fuck to work with teens. When you live in a small town, you're an instant celebrity because everybody knows you. They know when you eat, when you sleep and when you poop. Even if you're in the closet, everybody knows you're gay. Even if you go around town dressed up like a clown and give kids candy, everybody knows that you're a sex addict with a massive gay porn collection and will perform BJs to any guy who wants it. The list goes on. If you hire child molesters to work with children themselves, kiss your credibility goodbye.

A restaurant is like any other business. Once something bad happens, it's over unless you change. I know some people wanted to put a pox on Hardee's when they bought out Burger Chef and gradually closed the chain down. At one point, Burger Chef was the #3 fast food chain in America. Well, in the end, Hardee's became known for their poor reputation and they ended up merging with Carl's Jr.

Look, I don't wish any business to fail. But if you fuck up, kiss it goodbye. Poor service, treating people like shit and hiring the wrong people are the keys to failure. I've worked at four different places when I lived in northern Michigan and all four either closed or changed owners. My current workplace's former president almost ran down the company by not giving people like me raises and belittling his employees. He retired, his partner took over the company and business is much better now.

Sometimes, the only thing that will save your business is if the idiot in charge isn't there. It reminds me of what I wrote to my boss when we all passed a card for his retirement: "this place won't be the same without you".

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Thursday, February 13, 2020

2.13.20 Bee-otch of the Day: the Republican Party

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Name: The Republican Party
Age: 166
Occupation: right-winged morons
Last Seen: Washington, DC
Bee-otched For: allowing an Amazon to grow too much

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This morning at 3:30, I turned on NBC's Early Today. One of the top stories dealt with somebody buying a house.

That man was Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon.com.

Bezos - a billionaire 120 times over - bought a monstrosity of a mansion from entertainment mogul David Geffen. It was built for Jack Warner, one of the Warner Bros. in 1937. Geffen - who once used Warners as a distributor for his movies and music - bought the estate for $47 million in 1990.

Bezos bought the mansion for $165 million.

Reportedly, the nearly-14,000 square-foot mansion has several guest houses, a nine-hole golf course and a tennis court.

The news comes a few months after it was announced that Lachlan Murdoch, the son of Fox's Rupert Murdoch bought the mansion used on The Beverly Hillbillies for a paltry $150 million. Lachlan is reportedly worth $7 billion; a chunk of that came from father Rupert's sale of 20th Century Fox to Disney last year.

Tragically, While Bezos, Murdoch and other billionaires get to live in quiet, spacious mansions, hard-working people like me are stuck in neutral. Years ago, if you rented for a long time, you had a problem. Now, it's the normal. While housing costs more, many Americans are being forced to live with crappy wages. It's been over a decade since the minimum wage was raised and with college costs rising and people living in massive debt, who can afford a house right now if they don't have a lot of cash their pocket?

I know, some of you will cry that Bezos deserves it. He started a business over 25 years ago that sold books online and it grew to selling, well, everything. Others tried to copy his ideas and failed miserably at it. Now, it's having an effect on traditional brick and mortar stores and especially malls.

I grew up near Traverse City, MI, where Grand Traverse Mall is the only indoor mall within a 150-mile radius. Sometimes, I would talk to people from towns 50-plus miles away and they would tell me that they used to make the trek to GTM all the time in the 90s and 2000s. Why? Because towns like Gaylord, Cheboygan and Petoskey sure as hell didn't have a Hudson's (though Petoskey does have a very old school downtown JCPenney). Many people didn't want to be caught dead wearing shitty Kmart clothes. Now, if you wanna wear Tommy Bahama and the closest store to you might only do Joe Boxers (no, wait, Kmart's only down to one location in Michigan... Oh, well.), here, they sell their wares online. Grand Traverse Mall these days isn't the cool mall it once was two decades ago. People from 50 or so miles no longer need to go there if they have an internet connection and a credit card. But, hey, I've heard rave reviews about their new Indian restaurant in the food court.

Bezos made his billions by making shopping at home cool, along with that little disc named Alexa that knows everything. In a way, he's doing the same thing Walmart did years ago by creating a lotta abandoned storefronts. Walmart abandoned downtowns while Amazon has made ghost towns out of even the biggest shopping malls. But to Amazon, it's no big deal since they've turned the remains of those old dinosaurs into their distribution centers.

Granted, Amazon does pay their workers better than Walmart and their associates. It is sad, however that I've heard about Amazon's workers being forced to wear diapers to achieve good numbers. After all, those customers gotta have their Tommy Bahama shirts within two days.

Yes, I've ordered from Amazon before and yes, it's not very often, especially since I live in a heavily-retailed part of Grand Rapids. When I do, the experience isn't very positive. Several years ago, I ordered bed sheets and Amazon used a delivery service that lost them. I had to reorder them, but guess what? I ended up with a pair of them by mistake. I did complain since I had to hard time understanding the operator, and he was nice enough to put a big, black dildo in my cart.

But, that's not all. I have a cousin who has a vast vinyl collection and a lot of his wax came from Amazon. One time I was at his house, he ordered a Ghost album and it came severely warped. Since he doesn't live too far from record stores, **maybe** he should have bought it there instead of waiting two extra days to get a new copy. My mother ordered yarn from Amazon and got a giant pack of electrical cover protectors instead. At least Kohl's has an Amazon return center.

If I wanted to buy a vinyl album, I would be rushing to my local Best Buy or even the two-story Barnes and Noble in my neck of the woods. Barnes and Noble.... 'Memba them? They were sold not long ago for just under $500 million.

I know, starting a business is risky. Jeff Bezos tossed the dice and won big, so he gets to sleep in the same bedroom Jack Warner probably banged his future stars 80 years ago. Good for him. Me? My upstairs neighbor seems to have his kids over every weekend and they're LOUD. Every other minute, it sounds like the running of the bulls with them prancing around. And speaking of banging, I sometimes hear squeaking from upstairs at 2 a.m. in the morning. I think somebody needs to pay a visit to Art Van, and it ain't me.

The reality is that I should be thankful. I make a living wage and have more money stashed away in my 401 (K) than my parents ever did. Yes, I'm pushing 40 and still single and yes, my apartment sucks. But at least I'm not living with a parent or even worse, living in a trailer park loaded with toothless MAGA hat-wearing hilljacks and losers who post hateful on certain websites devoted to broadcasting in the state of Michigan.

We the people deserve better. Bezos, Bill Gates and Warren Buffet have more wealth than the rest of us. And guess what? They don't pay taxes. Back in the day, 94% of their wealth went to taxes. Because of the high tax rate, the middle class had it all: a house, a wife that didn't need to work, paid-for colleges and so much more. Even the Republicans of the past like Eisenhower promoted growth in America, especially with the building of the Interstate Highway system.

Now, Repukes will talk about tax cuts and it's all for the wealthy. Jeff Bezos only spent not even 1% of his wealth and he has a nice house in Los Angeles. Me? I don't even have money for a down payment for a plot of land in the ghetto. Until I win the Lottery, it's going to be squeak, squeak, squeak unless my upstairs neighbor moves out.

But if Bernie Sanders gets elected President of the United States, it will be in the great words of a certain cartoon pig that Jack Warner's studio owns, "Th-th-th-that's All, Folks!" to the overly wealthy.

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Wednesday, February 12, 2020

2.12.20 Bee-otches of the Day: all Democrats running for president except Bernie

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Name: various
Age: various
Occupation: various
Last Seen: everywhere
Bee-otched For: not dropping out of the presidential race quite yet

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Well, it's official: the media has no choice but to declare the truth: Bernie Sanders is for real.

In yesterday's New Hampshire primary, the independent Vermont senator won with 26% of the vote. Pete Buttigieg had 24% while Amy Klobichar had just under 20% of the vote.

Elizabeth Warren and Joe Biden rounded out the top five.

Meanwhile, former tech exec Andrew Yang - who told his followers that he would pay every adult in America $1,000 per month - and some guy from Colorado both dropped out of the race. Judging by footage I saw on the news, one of the candidates' rallies was on a street corner. It reminds me of an old sketch on Conan showing the Acer Computers convention, complete with an ICP wannabe for the entertainment.

Now, some people love Mayor Pete. He's younger than I am, he's gay and he's more in the center than Bernie. Not to mention that his husband, Chasten is from my neck of the woods, Traverse City, MI. But guess what? I have a friend on Facebook who happens to be an openly-lesbian pastor and even SHE wouldn't vote for him. Why? Because Pete's pro-military. He supported our invasion of Afghanistan and opposed Obama's commuting of Chelsea Manning's sentence for her sending documents to WikiLeaks. True, he supports improving healthcare, women's rights and combating climate change. But, come on! We've been in Afghanistan for too fucking long.

To me, Pocahontas Warren is done, especially after what she did to Bernie not long ago with her "he doesn't support a woman president" bullshit. Biden is simply a creep, and his quick jaunt to South Carolina was a simple white flag for his election.

The Nevada Caucus is a week from Saturday while South Carolina's primary is a week afterward. My home state of Michigan's primary is on March 10, roughly a month from now.

The voters have spoken, and America is tired of establishment candidates who sound like they talk out of their ass. Biden and Warren are two glowing examples. Soon, I'll suspect more candidates like Tulsi "Present" Gabbard and Tom Steyer will drop out.

It's becoming a dead heat between Sanders and Buttigieg, but personally, Bernie deserves it better. It's time for universal healthcare, it's time for our young people to pay off their debts and it's time for us to get the FUCK OUT OF FAKE WARS. The farther to the left the next POTUS is, the better.

And I hope there's not another superdelegate system out there to fuck it all up again.

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Tuesday, February 11, 2020

2.11.20 Bee-otches of the Day: anybody who thinks that Bernie will lose to Trump

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Name: various
Age: various
Occupation: various
Last Seen: everywhere
Bee-otched For: thinking that Bernie doesn't have what it takes

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Today is a huge day in New Hampshire without a doubt.

The state's citizens are voting on who should go against Drumpf for President of the United States in November. So far - and without surprise - Bernie Sanders is in the lead.

According to polls, Bernie's numbers vs. Drumpf's are pretty good. People are lining up to see him in droves. The other candidates are playing in small bars and half-empty places. People are simply tired of middle of the road politics.

But some still think that if the DNC actually allows Bernie to be the Democratic nominee for president in 2020 unlike 2016, Drumpf will enjoy another four years of fucking up America.

Take for an example Pulitzer-winning political cartoonist Clay Bennett. This morning, I saw this cartoon and I got pissed. Now, I do like Bennett's cartoons generally, but from the sounds and looks of things, he simply doesn't like Bernie. He attacks Drumpf, but if Bernie wins, he might lose ideas for material.

The sad truth is that I don't know why some people think that Bernie is poison for the Democratic Party. Apparently, they fell asleep when their high school history teacher talked about FDR and the New Deal. He was the most-elected president of all time for a reason: his ideas created a stronger America. And if he didn't die in office in 1945, we would have had all things he proposed: free healthcare, free colleges and even a free home.

Seventy-five years later, healthcare in America is a joke. Our students are trillions in debt and many Americans are being forced to live with their parents or strangers simply because the fucking rent is too goddamn high. In my lifetime, we've had four Rethugs and only two Dems, and the most-leftist Dem, Obama was very middle-of-the-road. Obamacare is nice, but our country needs a true healthcare system that will benefit EVERYBODY, and not just the privileged few. Even my mother - who was brainwashed to love Rethugs because of her now-ex-husband - says she'll vote for Bernie. Her biggest reason is because of his stance on climate change and how it's affecting animals.

Look, the DNC and others need to wake up. Bernie is the only real hope the Dems have in 2020. Yes, he had a heart attack and he was alive during FDR's final term in office. But simply put, it's time to tell the other Dems to pack it up since Americans are tired of do-nothing politicians. In 2016, America voted for Bernie, but got Hillary instead. Because of this and the fact that we learned about the DNC's cover-up, people got angry. People got angry and voted for somebody else. End result: Drumpf in the Oval Office.

You know, Bernie has it right. Tonight on the NBC Nightly News, he talked to Lester Holt about his competition, especially Mike Bloomberg. Here in Grand Rapids, his ads run all the time on TV, especially one with John Mellencamp that's really starting to piss me off. God bless Mr. Cougar for his support of farms and the middle class, but boy, his music is as boring as his home state of Indiana. Sadly, Bloomberg and other billionaires want to buy the election. Hell, as I've recently mentioned, Bloomberg even mentioned that he's not interested in giving the middle class a tax cut. See? If this ends up being a Bloomberg/Drumpf election, guess who'll be the good guy in all this? Here's a hint: Bloomberg is worth $60 billion while Drumpf is worth a pittance of $3 billion.

True, Bernie's rich in his own right since he's worth $2 million. But at the end of the day, he's definitely the lesser of all the evils since he's anything but. He works for the people and not big corporations. As somebody who has been screwed over by former bosses, I'll once again put in my vote for Bernie in this year's Michigan primary like I did in 2016. Voting for a Democrat shouldn't just be about stopping the Repukes from taking away women's rights, rights for minorities and abolishing the First Amendment. It should be about moving forward and following the dreams FDR had. Dreams that are in other countries like Canada, England and Japan, but not here.

It's not "vote blue no matter who", it's vote BERNIE no matter what.

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Monday, February 10, 2020

2.10.20 Bee-otch of the Day: political correctness

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Name: political correctness
Age: ageless
Occupation: the ruiner of good things
Last Seen: everywhere
Bee-otched For: crying over the Oscars

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Last night was another historic night for the Academy Awards.

For the first time in its history, a foreign language movie, "Parasite" won Best Picture. The South Korean film's director, Bong Joon-ho won the award for Directing. It also won Best Foreign Film and Best Original Screenplay.

For American films, it wasn't all bad news. "Joker" won Best Actor for Joaquin Phoenix and Best Original Score for Hildur Guonadottir, Renee Zellweger won Best Actress for "Judy" and the Best Supporting Actor Oscar went to Brad Pitt for the Quentin Tarantino love letter to the 1960s, "Once Upon A Time... In Hollywood". Best Supporting Actress went to Laura Dern for her role in the Netflix flick "Marriage Story".

Yes, it's true: all four acting Oscars went to whites this year, which has once again caused many to throw out the hashtag known as #oscarssowhite. But, people of color were well represented in this year's ceremony. Of course, the Best Director was an Asian and the Best Animation Short Film Oscar went to an African American and former NFL player Matthew A. Cherry for "Hair Love". To further prove Oscar's diversity, this year's Best Original Song was written and performed by a gay man, Elton John.

But, for too many, it's not enough.

Natalie Portman raised eyebrows with a Christian Dior cape listing the names of female directors she felt were snubbed by the Academy. The names included Lorene Scafaria ("Hustlers"), Greta Gerwig ("Little Women"), Mati Diop ("Atlantique") and "Queen & Slim"'s Melina Matsoukas, just to name a few. However, many pointed out that Portman herself is a hypocrite because her production company - handsomecharlie films (named after her late dog and not after me, sadly) - has made several films since its foundation over a decade ago and only one female has directed for them: herself.

Look, blacks should not be treated differently than whites and whites shouldn't be treated differently than blacks. Same with men and women, gays and straights and so on. Remember last year's Best Picture winner, "Green Book"? It was an awesome movie about how African Americans - even those who were well-behaved - were treated like shit in the 1960s. But guess what? Some people shunned the movie because it was told through the eyes of a white man. I'll admit, the movie was quite educational since I never even heard of the Green Book - which was a list of gas stations, restaurants, motels and other amenities that were friendly towards folks of color during segregationist times - before the movie was released.

Plus, Matthew A. Cherry should definitely be damn proud of his Oscar. Eighty years ago, his award usually went to either Walt Disney or MGM. Both studios were known for putting out films loaded with racist humor. Of course, MGM's Tom and Jerry shorts had a character named "Mammy Two Shoes" who was a black maid. True, "Hair Love" lacks the typical gags found in old 1940s cartoons - i.e. anvils landing on heads, characters falling off a cliff and getting blown up by TNT - but it shows the dedication a father has for her daughter, even if the mother isn't around. The film was funded by hundreds of people on Kickstarter and the results are very desirable. Of course, way more desirable than a steaming pile of shit made by a has-been pedophile animator from the 1990s.

IMHO, the Academy doesn't need to make changes to please anybody. Yes, some films do get shunned. I thought Eddie Murphy was brilliant in "Dolemite is My Name". Adam Sandler proved that he's well-above making baby noises in "Uncut Gems". Two great films that didn't get any Oscar attention. "Parasite" only grossed $35 million in America. I'll betcha it never played in a lot of smaller towns, like the area where my dad lives in Kentucky, where the only movie theater has just eight screens. But, that's life.

The Detroit Lions have never been in the Super Bowl. I don't expect the NFL to give them anything because they suck. They just need to prove themselves.

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Thursday, February 6, 2020

2.6.20 Bee-otches of the Day: those offended by Shakira and Jennifer Lopez's Super Bowl halftime show

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Wednesday, February 5, 2020

2.5.20 Bee-otch of the Day: The Republican Party

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Name: The Republican Party
Age: 166
Occupation: right winged losers
Last Seen: Washington, DC
Bee-otched For: swinging to the wrong side

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The late, great Ed Schultz never wore a medal around his neck.

But, he deserved one.

Thirty years ago, Big Eddie was a TV sportscaster and radio talk show host in Fargo, ND. He was passionate about sports, but also was an asskisser to conservatives like Ronald Reagan.

But a trip to The Salvation Army changed his life forever.

One of Ed's callers talked about how Reagan and his policies caused so many people to lose their jobs. Those policies hurt Fargo hard, forcing people to seek refuge in homeless shelters and food banks. Schultz himself drove by a Salvation Army soup kitchen and there was a line of people wrapped around a city block. This shook Ed to the point where he no longer looked up to Reagan, but also criticizing Bill Clinton for not doing enough to fix the problem.

Eventually, Schultz would find his calling as a progressive talker from America's Heartland. With the launch of Air America in 2004 to provide Americans with an alternative to right wing propaganda radio, that and Schultz's show delivered the type of radio normal Americans wanted. Even when AA dissolved six years later, Schultz's show still thrived, even when he moved to the infamous "prime time" slot of noon to 3 p.m. He even had his own show on MSNBC, one of the highest-rated on the network.

However, Schultz stopped his radio show in 2014 to focus on his TV program. But in 2015, Schultz was fired from MSNBC. He later revealed that the reason was because MSNBC - owned by media giant Comcast - objected him for covering Bernie Sanders' campaign for president. Soon, he resurfaced on Russian-owned RT America where he hosted a few shows. According to Schultz, he claimed that RT simply had more journalistic freedom.

Ed Schultz died in 2018 at the age of 64 from natural causes. He did win a few broadcasting-related awards, but nothing as big as the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

True, Schultz was under fire for calling Laura Ingraham a "talk slut" in 2011, but otherwise, he cared about people. When he did his podcast, he did it on the streets as opposed to being in a studio. But the fact that Rush Limbaugh - who coined the term "feminazi" and shunned laborers - is now in the same boat as Rosa Parks, the now-passed Kirk Douglas and Mother Teresa is truly damning to the likes of Schultz and others. As a matter of fact, Blimpo's only the third radio personality to win the medal, the other two being Lowell Thomas and Paul Harvey.

Limbaugh was awarded the medal Tuesday night during Drumpf's State of the Union. On Monday, the 69-year-old pill-popping, prostitute-fucking sack of shit announced on his show that he's battling stage four lung cancer. Rush is known for being a cigar connoisseur and a defender of the tobacco industry.

What's funny is that the man who handed Rush the medal was a long-time guest of Howard Stern's. But since Stern did not support Drumpf in the 2016 election, plus the fact that Stern had Hillary Clinton as a guest on his show recently might have pissed off Drumpf a little too much.

Not even Nancy Pelosi's ripping of her copy of the State of the Union could stop Drumpf. As we all know by now, the Senate Repukes gave Drumpf one more chance by acquitting him. So now, I guess the only way of getting him out of office is for vote against him this Fall.

With the Caucus bullshit in Iowa, I hope Bernie Sanders' road to the presidency isn't as hard as it seems. But, the DNC will bullshit their way to make sure that an establishment-type will be chosen and not chosen by the people. If that happens, Drumpf will be a two-termer and we'll be in a full recession by 2024 like 2008. Trust me. Macy's is closing 125 stores. Don't tell me that the economy's getting better when minimum wage hasn't increased in 11 years.

Because of the bullshit that's wrecked our government, we're stuck with an asshole conservative with a medal around his neck and not a noose.

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