10.13.10 Bee-otch of the Day: Rick Snyder

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Name: Rick Snyder
Age: 52
Occupation: Republican candidate for Michigan governor
Last Seen: Ann Arbor, MI
Bee-otched For: being wishy-washy  

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Well, Virg Bernero got what he wanted: a debate, and he got it.
 
Last Sunday, the two candidates for Michigan governor - Lansing Mayor Virg Bernero (D) and former Gateway chairman Rick Snyder (R) - duked it out in the only scheduled televised debate for Michigan governor at Detroit PBS affiliate WTVS. During the debate, Bernero asked Snyder about the fact that he has workers in China, and all Snyder could do is make up some lame-assed answer.

But guess what I saw the other day? Something I haven't seen yet this election season: an ACTUAL ad for Snyder! In the ad, Snyder explains that Michigan's business tax is the reason why jobs aren't coming to Michigan, and it's lead to half of America's jobs disappearing. In the end of the ad, a young black man named CJ Lee, a manager for Ann Arbor's SPARK program and U of M basketball player says "Rick is our one chance for jobs."

Of course Rick will create jobs... FOR CHINA! Plus, he'll lower taxes... For the rich. While us Michiganders CONTINUE to slave away making substandard wages, our bosses will use that extra money to go on more vacations and spend his money elsewhere.

I think it's sad that Jennifer Granholm couldn't use her time in office to fix this state. Yeah, Snyder's blaming taxes for killing businesses, but the real truth is that the auto industry died because of people buying more-reliable Toyotas and Hondas built in right-to-work states like Mississippi. People down there don't mind $8 per hour, but here, it's unlivable.

Folks, we need to tax the shit out of the rich so this great nation can have a middle class. However, it's dirtbags like the Tea Party who claim that the extra money actually goes to them crackheads in Detroit. Look, if anybody's seen Capitalism: A Love Story, you'd know that the rich were taxed like crazy back in the 1960's and they still lived their hoidy-toidy lives. But then, Reagan came to town and the rich only got richer while the middle class ended up in the same class of the Detroit crackheads Sarah Palin and her teabagger kin oh so despise.

And the tragedy is that Snyder still has a 20-point lead over the passionate Bernero, who unlike Snyder gets to the point. He's passionate while Snyder will only further bankrupt the state job-wise. So what if Lansing's unemployment rate's 12%? IT'S BECAUSE ITS BIGGEST EMPLOYER'S GM! As a matter of fact, GM had a plant that made electric cars there in the 90's. Guess why they shut it down? SO THEY COULD MAKE HUMMERS! Gee, we all know why they got rid of that nameplate. Maybe the government bailout of that company WAS a good thing.

In the end, I'm going to stand up and vote straight-ticket Democrat on November 2nd. It's time that people need to wake up and realize that a lot of our problems are still Bush's and Obama's trying to fight his red tape just to get through. It took our nation over a decade and a half to get out of the Great Depression. It won't take a year and 10 months to get out of what Bush had created.

Rick Snyder: One Tough Turd.

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10.12.10 Bee-otch of the Day: Dish Network

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Name: Dish Network
Age: 14
Occupation: satellite provider
Last Seen: Englewood, CO
Bee-otched For: replacing the rattle with a baby toy  

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Sometimes, insurance companies - other than GEICO - do make funny TV commercials.

In the latest ad from Travelers Insurance, a rattlesnake is ready to attack a small, innocent rabbit. However, the little bunny begins rollicking in laughter because the snake's rattle is that of a baby's. At the end of the commercial, the announcer talks about how other insurance companies will screw you over after an accident by replacing your car's parts with cheap ones while the snake is shown ashamed.

That to me, is Dish Network.

Tragically, I have Dish because where I'm at, my choices are limited. I'd like to have DirecTV, but I live in a spot where I can't have a dish, plain and simple. I have Dish through a broadband connection. I'd like to have AT&T's U-Verse, but until they come to my area...

End result: I'm paying $85.83 per month for nothing. 

The reason why I'm comparing Dish to the rattlesnake is because right now, Dish is in a feud with Fox and its parent company, News Corporation over carrying Fox's regional sports networks, FX and the National Geographic Channel. In my case, I'm missing out on Fox Sports Detroit, which is the TV home of my Detroit Red Wings.

If you put any Dish Network receiver on channel 430, you'll get a message from Dish Network CEO Charlie Ergen claiming that he has made all of his sports channels free for the time being until their conflict with Fox is resolved. However, last Saturday night, I tried to put my receiver on Comcast Sports Chicago to see if I could get the Red Wings/Blackhawks game. Boy, was I wrong. The game was blacked out.
Once again, $85.83 for nothing.

Now, if I want to watch ANY Wings game, 1) I could get a hockey package (yeah, right), 2) I can upgrade my package from the Top 200 package to the Top 250, so I can get Versus (what a joke: Versus on their top tier package... Geez) or 3) just go to the damn bar.

Thing is, I'm working six days a week and I'm tired. I'm already spending a lot of money on a new car that's been a lemon to me so far. It's a shame that my money's going to a company that can't provide to their customers because their CEO - worth $4 billion - is a cheap bastard. So what if Fox (whose CEO's worth $6 billion) wants a 50% increase? Dish Network has 15 million subscribers vs. DirecTV's 20 million.
As a matter of fact, I was watching Undercover Boss on Sunday, and DirecTV's CEO was featured, (sorta) installing a new dish. Guess what? Next to the new dish was an old dish, which was Dish Network's. Watching somebody switching dishes makes me smile. It shows that Dish Network's subscribers aren't happy, and if I could, I would be switching, too.

When billionaires fight, people lose.

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10.11.10 Bee-otches of the Day: bullies

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Name: various
Ages: various
Occupations: various
Last Seen: everywhere
Bee-otched For: picking on the small guy

 

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As the poster says, you can't make 500 million friends without making a few enemies.
 
For the past two weekends in a row, The Social Network has been the #1 movie in America. It has grossed nearly $50 million, which is how much it took to make. The movie exposes Mark Zuckerberg, the man behind the internet phenomenon which has made him the youngest billionaire in America with a net worth of $7 billion. There were many folks who helped him along the way, but he ended up screwing them over. The end of the story was that he had to pay these people millions, including Eduardo Saverin, Zuckerberg's Harvard roommate and basically put, the only friend he had when Zuckerberg created Facebook.
In the end, Zuckerberg became a rich man, but thanks to some legal wrangling, Saverin is still rich; he still owns 5% of the company, but is only worth a meager $1.3 billion.

Then again, Saverin has joined the Paul Allens and Ronald Waynes of the world. However, unlike the latter two, he got jerked over and lost.

Zuckerberg was just another dork loser with a computer and an internet connection who used the keyboard as a weapon. He used his earlier creation, FaceMash to insult female students at Harvard. Despite its popularity, women viewed him as a pig just because he viewed them as farm animals who don't listen to men.
Ya know, I kinda wish my website was like Facebook. I mean, I'm older than Zuckerberg, Chuck69.com's been around a lot longer and so on and so on. Billionaire? I wish. I'll admit that despite my ad-whoring of TShirtHell.com, I haven't sold a shirt in years. But you know, I am happy. I know that people out there will read this and think that I'm either A) a dork on the same league of Zuckerberg's or B) a friggin' genius. But hey, one site's the second-highest-ranked website in the world, and the other's #6,726,096.... Out of some 30 million sites ranked by Alexa.

But, like Zuckerberg, I have my enemies and I've been bullied for my beliefs. Look at the fucktards known as Opie and Anthony's retarded fans. Years ago, when I was doing the "Poll My Finger" feature of my website, they wrecked it by putting in rude comments. But ya know, that's their problem. Maybe they have the time since they live in mommy's basement. Same goes with a popular message board I used to post on. I went to several meet-and-greets that were organized by some of its posters and they decided to bash me publiclly by creating a fake user name. I bashed one of the idiots responsible in a private MySpace blog, but he somehow hacked into my account and made a fool out of me. Somehow, he made the other posters join his little crusade against me and I quit.

In the end, sometimes walking away works and time heals all wounds. Plus, karma's a bitch. Since my absence, that pathetic asshole's wife left him.

But, some have managed to bully in person. The latest target it seems are gay teens. In the past several weeks, many gay teens have committed suicide. They seem to be pressured by their straight counterparts and unaccepted just because maybe that's how God made them. One case in point: Tyler Clementi, the 18 year old freshmen at Rutgers University who jumped off the George Washington Bridge after he was humiliated by his roommate Dharun Ravi for having gay sex in their dorm room. Ravi decided to stream video images of Clementi having sex online and even alerted his Twitter followers when he would do so. Because of being humiliated, Clementi committed suicide on September 22, and his body was recovered on the 29th.
Now, I've had roommates before and it sucks having to adjust to their lifestyles, that I agree. Honestly, Clementi should have found another place to have sex, like a hotel room. But since he's 18 and probably no money, that's willing to happen. I will, however, give New Jersey governor Chris Christie some credit by stating "I don't know how those two folks are going to sleep at night", referring to Ravi and his partner, Molly Wei. Both face expulsion from the university and five years in prison for infringing on Mr. Clementi's rights. However, a prosecutor claims that there's not enough evidence that what the two did would be considered a hate crime.

I think the purpose of this post is simple, although lengthy. Nobody like a bully. However, like I said earlier, karma's a bitch. Will Facebook be popular five years down the road? Many thought that MySpace was unstoppable. Now, it's the 30th most popular website out there, and it was in the top 10 a few years ago. Facebook proved to be simpler and easier to load on the computer. Plus, hey! Who doesn't love FarmVille? But who knows? Right now, maybe somebody's creating the website that'll kick it to the curb.

And maybe along the way, its founders will also screw over another, too.  

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10.7.10 Bee-otch of the Day: Christine O'Donnell

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Name: Christine O'Donnell
Age: 41
Occupation: Republican nominee for US senator
Last Seen: Delaware
Bee-otched For: saying the four words you don't want your candidate to say  

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Quick! Somebody toss some water on her!
 
The loony candidate for Delaware US senator is at it again. With her sorry ass trailing Chris Coons in the polls, Christine O'Donnell has unleashed a new political ad that begins with four words you don't want your candidate to say:

"I'm not a witch".

Yeppers! O'Donnell is facing criticism because of several appearances she made on Politically Incorrect that she made years ago where she proclaimed that she practiced witchcraft in high school and even that she had a date on a Satanic alter.

Bear in mind that O'Donnell first made contact with us non-witch-like people in the mid-90's when she appeared on an MTV Sex in the 90's special where she talked about her crusade against masturbation. Plus the fact that now, she's a practicing, holier-than-thou Christian.

Therefore, she's still a witch.

Ya know, Christine, give it up already. Coons owns you in the polls and in funding. The Tea Party's not gonna save you now. Go and reture to your flying monkeys and leave us alone.

Excuse me, but it's time for me to rub one out. How about to an image of O'Donnell making out with a 1975 Dr. Laura?

You may stop tossing beer bottles at me now.

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10.6.10 Bee-otch of the Day: Blockbuster

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Name: Blockbuster
Age: 25
Occupation: video rental chain
Last Seen: Dallas, TX
Bee-otched For: going belly-up 

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Blockbuster, we hardly knew ye.

 

As speculated, the video store giant has filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy, claiming nearly a billion dollars in debt. The chain, which used to be quite profitable, has seen challenging competition from Netflix, Redbox and video on demand. 

This hasn't been a great time for the video business; Blockbuster's competitors, Hollywood Video and Movie Gallery also went belly-up and shut down all their stores. With improvements in technology, going out to rent a video seems to be too old-fashioned.  

For the time being, Blockbuster will still continue to operate their 6,500 stores worldwide, although the chain will close at least 900 of them by year end. Here in Michigan, Blockbuster pulled out of the Traverse City market several years ago after franchisee David Scheppe - who allowed his Horizon Video to merge into Blockbuster - decided not to renew his contract with the video giant. Since then, Scheppe has become an owner of several successful Grand Traverse Pie Company locations.

Blockbuster started in 1985 by David Cook with a single store in Dallas. However, it was Waste Management founder Wayne Huizenga who bought the company and made it even bigger by expanding the business, eventually selling it to Viacom in the 1990's for over $8 billion. However, Viacom spun off Blockbuster in 2004 and it's been downhill since then. With on-demand entertainment, Netflix and other sources to see Hollywood hits, Blockbuster's days were numbered. Not even a rip-off of Redbox called Blockbuster Express - kiosks in supermarkets and other retail outlets - could save the company from the inevitable.

But, to those who actually still want to drive all the way to the video store to rent a movie, fear not, because Family Video is still in business.

That's right! There's one chain in America that rents movies and they're growing. Family Video, based just outside of Chicago in Glenview has over 700 stores and is opening a new store every week. Dianna Lewis, a district manager of Family Video told the Evansville Courier and Press "It's the blue-collar workers who live paycheck to paycheck." They cannot afford the broadband internet that allows them to download movies or even the credit or debit cards they need to use Redbox. Plus, if Redbox gives them a bad disc, they're screwed, and if the kid's ball game's rained out, Netflix is no help.

Family Video's new releases cost only $2.29 plus 50 cents more for multiple nights. Many other DVDs are only 50 cents to rent and over 300 kids movies are free.

But despite its name, Family Video has what Blockbuster didn't, and maybe it was part of the reason why Blockbuster bombed: porn.

Yep! Family Video DOES have a back room porn section for the two eldest members of the family. After all, when the kids are done watching that annoying Barney video, it's time for mommy and daddy to realize the true reason why they went to the video store. True, X-rated movies only amount to about 2% of Family Video's business, I'd rather go there than Blockbuster.

Once upon a time, Blockbuster did rent porn, but that nasty old Hollander Wayne Huizenga bought the chain from Cook in the late 80's, the porn went bye-bye. After all, he did go to Calvin College, the backwards Christian school here in Grand Rapids funded by the wealthy Dutch Reformists. Even though the company had two successors post-Huizenga, the porn never came back. Even worse, when the NC-17 rating - designed to draw the line between porn and commercial films - was introduced in 1990, Blockbuster still refused to stock any titles.

So in the end, it sucks to be Blockbuster. I'll betcha that many local video renters - if there's any left - are rejoicing. Maybe if their business model was a little better and not as ass-kissy to the Dutch, they wouldn't be a pink sheet stock.

One less blue ticket to rip. 

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10.5.10 Bee-otch of the Day: Joe Miller

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Name: Joe Miller
Age: 43
Occupation: Republican nominee for US senator
Last Seen: Alaska
Bee-otched For: wanting to eliminate the minimum wage and almost everything else

 

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Oh, great. Hitler's running for U.S. Senate.
 
The great state of Alaska sure has its idiotic politicians, sure they? Whether it's Ted Stevens or Sarah Palin, Alaska has proven how out-of-touch they are with the rest of the country.

Now, meet Joe Miller.

Miller is an attorney from Fairbanks and is running for U.S. Senate. He made headlines recently when he defeated incumbent Lisa Murkowski in the August primary with 51% of the vote. He will run against Sitka mayor Scott McAdams and Murkowski, who is running as a write-in. However, Miller got major support from Palin and the rest of the Tea Party, catapulting his win. Apparently, the Tea Party spent some $600,000 on ads endorsing Miller and calling Murkowski - whose family has had a political grip on the state for years - "liberal".

The question is, just who did the people of Alaska vote for? A man who is pretty much to the right of Hitler, and somebody who wouldn't mind pushing FDR off a cliff in his wheelchair. According to Wikipedia, Miller wants to:

-eliminate the minimum wage,
-eliminate the Department of Education,
-reduce American foreign aid,
-repeal Obama's health plan,
-eliminate unemployment benefits,
-privatize Social Security,
-ban ALL abortions unless the woman's life is in danger,
-supports the death penalty,
-cut funding to the National Endowment of the Arts and the United Nations
-cut funding to anything he sees as "unconstitutional"

So, in other words, this idiot wants to return America pre-Great Depression when we didn't have a minimum wage and women didn't have many rights at all. Yep, another jerk-off who doesn't believe in the middle class and is practically telling people his age and younger "fuck you".

Ya know, I'm like many Americans. The last time I saw a wage increase, Bush was in his first term in office and Jennifer Granholm had just become our governor. However, I have it decent comparing to some of my cousins; one has two college degrees but can't get a job in Michigan with either, so now he's doing crime scene cleanup in Texas. Another is 26, unemployed and living with mommy. Part of the reason why is because we've allowed eight years of abuse from Bush and the fact that he gave tax cuts to the wealthy while the middle class working poor paid the price. End result: high unemployment, lack of production, and people losing their jobs and homes.

Folks, we don't need a failed politician like Sarah Palin or Joe Miller to decide what's good for America.

What we need is not just jobs, but good, high-paying ones. If Miller has it his way - and several Repukes are behind him - we'll be going back to the days of $5 per day on the assembly line. I think we all need to end the Tea Party in their tracks in November and vote straight ticket Democrat.

Too bad Miller wasn't in the same plane Ted Stevens was. 

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10.4.10 Co-Bee-otches of the Day: News Corp and Dish Network

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Name: News Corp
Age: 31
Occupation: media giant
Last Seen: New York/Surry Hills, New South Wales

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Name: Dish Network
Age: 14
Occupation: satellite television provider
Last Seen: Englewood, CO

Both Bee-otched For: screwing over sports and Rescue Me fans

 

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Friday SHOULD be an exciting day for us Red Wing fans.

It's the beginning of the NHL hockey season when the Wings fight off the Anaheim Ducks at Joe Louis Arena. Many fans will wonder if the Red Wings can have a better season after being thisclose to not being in the playoffs last year.

But, many Wing fans won't be seeing the game. That's unless both Fox and Dish Network get their shit together.

As of last Thursday, Fox Sports Net, FX and the National Geographic Channel are no longer seen on Dish Network. According to CEO Charlie Ergen, it is due to the fact that Fox parent News Corporation gave Dish a massive 50% rate hike that would have diminished profits for the satcaster and jack up rates for subscribers.

Fox has set up a website, GetWhatIPaidFor.com, that explains what's going on between them and Dish. So has Dish.

On Fox's website, they explain that they didn't ask Dish for that whopping 50% rate increase. They claim "We are simply asking DISH to compensate us fairly out of their massive profits for Fox’s entertainment and sports programming services they sell to their subscribers. We have made what we believe are fair and reasonable proposals to DISH – ones that are consistent with our agreements with the hundreds of other cable and satellite companies with whom DISH competes for your business. To date, DISH has not responded with a proposal that is reasonable by comparison to the hundreds of other deals we have in place for these same channels."

Dish Network has had a long history of not playing nice with their channels. Over the years, the satcaster has had similar battles with Viacom (MTV, VH1, Nickelodeon and Comedy Central) and Disney that resulted in them yanking some of their HD channels from Dish.

However, Charlie Ergen is trying not to be the bad guy; he has made available all non-Fox regional sports channels free to customers for the time being. Red Wing fans will be able to see Saturday's game against the Ducks on Comcast Sports California (ch. 9660) unless it's blacked out locally.

But, remember, my Sirius brethren, that Dish Network was thisclose to buying out Sirius/XM when it was in financial dire straits, and that Mel Karmazin ended up getting Liberty Media - rival DirecTV's owner - to get his company instead so Charlie and Co. wouldn't dick around with it like they're dicking around with their customers. Hell, maybe Charlie wouldn't consider re-signing Howard "to keep costs down".

You see, when two companies like Fox and Dish fight, everybody loses big time. Sadly, I have Dish, and I can't dump it because of my current living arrangements. I really want AT&T U-Verse, but lord only knows when they're coming to my area. I truly can't stand Dish, especially since I'm paying $85.83 per month and I'm not getting all the channels I want.

But, with the economy the way it is, what I REALLY want is ala carte programming, where I would pay only for the channels I watch. Right now, I'm paying $2-something per month for Fox News Channel, and I don't watch it. Same goes for Lifetime, BET, MTV, Nickelodeon and others. But since the economy blows and people are ditching the dish and cable since all their favorite shows are online as-is, maybe that's what they oughta consider.

Charlie Ergen and Rupert Murdoch: when they fight, we all lose.

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