1.25.12 Bee-otch of the Day: Americans For Prosperity

BECOME AN AFFILIATE OF T-SHIRT HELL AND MAKE SOME MONEY! Bee-otch of the Day honors are awarded Monday through Thursday, Bee-otch of the Week is awarded Friday on Chuck69.com. DON'T FORGET TO "LIKE" BEE-OTCH OF THE DAY ON FACEBOOK! ------------------- Name: Americans For Prosperity Age: 8 Occupation: right winged asshole group Last Seen: Washington, DC Bee-otched For: making me love Obama more--- Love it or hate it, America's coming back. At last night's State of the Union address, President Obama proclaimed the good news regarding our once-truly ailing economy. The best news came to us Michiganders, that GM is now the world's top automaker again. Factories are being built again and businesses are hiring. But somehow, the Repukes love to shove the wrench in the gears. One such organization is the Americans For Prosperity, a far-right-winged group that claims to promote business by urging legislators to reduce regulations that make things easier to run one. From the sounds of things, AFP wants America to return to the olden days of no minimum wage, unions or even the laws that keep us safe. Recently, AFP has released several commercials that bash Obama over his administration's handling of failed alternative energy giant Solyndra, bashing them by saying that they wasted major tax dollars on their funding and that even they knew that the company was on a crash course of failure. But, guess who heavily funds AFP? THE KOCH BROTHERS! Yep, as in the people who own the namesake company that makes over $100 billion per year polluting our environment through everything from mining to petroleum. They're HUGE spenders on the Republican party, even buying candidates like Wisconsin governor Scott Walker. Basically put, the Kochs are buying these ads to tell people that alternative energy - especially earth-safe solar power - will always fail and that the only way to a good life is to pump out fossil fuels from the earth. Look, I know that the Solyndra debacle was damning to Obama's career, but hey! Bush wasted even more tax money on a war that cost us $800 billion and killed thousands of innocent people! Under Obama, spending has decreased in comparison to Bush and other Repukes. Even though I'm not 100% with Obama, he's definitely the lesser of the evils, especially against Congress. Hell, I learned tonight that the average American loves PARIS HILTON more than them! All AFP wants to do is scare people into hating Obama and spreading more BS so the lowest common denominator will show up at the polls, vote Republican and watch this great nation sink back into the doldrums Bush created. May the Koch brothers choke on the smoke they create. --- Got a Bee-otch to nominate? E-mail us @ chuck69dotcom@gmail.com. All suggestions (except for me) are welcome! Bee-otch of the Day Archives can be seen on http://beeotchoftheday.blogspot.com ! Bee-otch of the Day is a production of Chuck69.com, Grand Rapids' site for Stern, politics and more!

1.24.12 Bee-otch of the Day: Joe Paterno

BECOME AN AFFILIATE OF T-SHIRT HELL AND MAKE SOME MONEY! DON'T FORGET TO "LIKE" BEE-OTCH OF THE DAY ON FACEBOOK! ------------------- Name: Joe Paterno Age: deceased Occupation: head coach, Penn State Nittany Lions Last Seen: State College, PA Bee-otched For: deservingly dying in vain--- I know, I know. It's not nice to stomp on somebody's grave. But when you have known for years that one of your friends did something so disturbing and disgusting, I'll get my heaviest boots. For over half a century, Joe Paterno was probably the most-beloved football coach, period. But when the news of his longtime assistant, Jerry Sandusky's sexual abuse involving young boys came out, the word was that Paterno himself knew about it, but hardly did a thing. He acted like the usual old fart that he was and pretended that men don't have sex with young boys. I'll betcha he never heard of Nambla. But, the news was true. Paterno knew, and was fired. Coincidentally enough, he was diagnosed with lung cancer not long after his firing. Even though they claimed it was treatable, bear in mind that it's still lung cancer, which is hard to treat. Even though Paterno proclaimed that he wished he knew better just two weeks before his death, I still think that he should have chosen helping poor, innocent boys over his career. Jerry Sandusky's a sicko for showering with those children and molesting them in the process. Paterno was even sicker for allowing it to continue for years. Maybe before I stomp on his grave, I'll drink some water, hint, hint.    --- Got a Bee-otch to nominate? E-mail us @ chuck69dotcom@gmail.com. All suggestions (except for me) are welcome! Bee-otch of the Day Archives can be seen on http://beeotchoftheday.blogspot.com ! Bee-otch of the Day is a production of Chuck69.com, Grand Rapids' site for Stern, politics and more!

1.23.12 Bee-otch of the Day: broadcasters that erased anything over 30 years ago

BECOME AN AFFILIATE OF T-SHIRT HELL AND MAKE SOME MONEY! DON'T FORGET TO "LIKE" BEE-OTCH OF THE DAY ON FACEBOOK! -------------------   Names: various Ages: various Occupations: broadcasters Last Seen: all around the world Bee-otched For: erasing history--- The video I have posted above was the first TV appearance of the legendary rock band AC/DC. In the video from a 1974 episode of the Australian TV series Countdown - kinda like our American Bandstand - the late Bon Scott is dressed like Zorro. The group made many more appearances on the show throughout the 70's - one rememberable appearance had Scott dressed like a sexy schoolgirl, singing "Please Don't Go" - until Scott's untimely death in 1980. OK, so now, you're wondering, why is this video just a mere two seconds? The answer is a sad one: presumably, the rest is lost. As a matter of fact, 100 episodes ofCountdown from 1974 to 1978 have been erased off the tape, per the network that aired the show, ABC, or the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. What you see is what you're gonna get. Sorry, folks. Last week, one of my Facebook friends, Steve Mindykowski posted this trailer for a documentary for Wiped: The Destruction of Australia's Television History. The four-minute 17-second clip talked about several Australian shows that met the fate of erasure to cut costs and create new shows. Countdown wasn't the only show with an incomplete library; many soap operas also got wiped as well, such as the steamy Number 96. If you saw the clip, yes, that was a naked woman sitting with her breasts exposed. And yes, that was from the 1970's, which proved that even 40 years ago, the Australians were edgier than the still-tame fare that over-the-air networks have to offer. And yes, a lot of boobies were probably erased off the tape, too. Of course, the Australians weren't the only broadcasters who erased their broadcasts. Virtually every nation in the world's broadcasters erased their shows up until the late 70's because videotape was too darned expensive. It was two-inch quadraplex tape, which ran on huge reel-to-reel tape machines and the tape itself costed $500 per reel. However, the programs that were on those tapes were more expensive to produce themselves, plus it has been discovered that the programs themselves that still exist still make their authors millions per year. Look at the BBC. Throughout the early years of television, they wiped thousands of their old programs: Dr. Who, The Likely Lads, Dad's Army and another rock program,Top of the Pops were erased over. It's believed that of all the episodes of TOTP from the 60's, only four complete shows survive, and that their 1970's archive is spotty until 1978, the final year of that show's erasure. Thankfully, the BBC has recovered many of their lost programs thanks to private collectors who somehow got their hands on these shows. Recently, an appearance from David Bowie on TOTP from 1973 performing "The Jean Genie" resurfaced in a former cameraman John Henshall's attic. He specialized in trick photography and bummed a copy from the now-erased master to show prospective clients and employers his work. He claims that he has over 100 clips in his attic, and many of them may have came from now-lost episodes of TOTP and other shows. After rediscovering the tape, the BBC did show the lost Bowie clip as part of a Christmas special last month. Intrestingly enough, the BBC was thisclose to wiping Monty Python's Flying Circus! Members of the troupe even took the masters of the show from the vault - slated for wiping - and bummed their own copies in case it was going to happen. Thankfully, since the show was a worldwide success, Auntie Beeb recanted and today, we still have Dead Parrots, Funny Walks and Spam. It can be kinda funny considering that the Australians wiped AC/DC and the Brits gave The Beatles and Bowie the same treatment. But, we still have Elvis from the waist up and The Beatles beginning the British invasion on The Ed Sullivan Show, plus The Who's Keith Moon blowing up his drumkit on The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour. Yet, the first ten years of Johnny Carson's Tonight Show, the first few Super Bowls and countless game shows and soap operas in America prior to 1980 are long gone. Yes, even rock moments are gone, too; out of 3,000 episodes of American Bandstand, only 883 survive. It's believed that most of the lost episodes are from the 1950's and 60's, especially when the show was live and daily. Amongst the lost include Buddy Holly's last TV appearance before hid untimely death in 1959. From the early 60's onward, it was weekly. According to somebody who worked at ABC, the network needed the shelf space and tapes for Wide World of Sports, so Dick Clark took the tapes, made 16mm copies of them and called it good. Some tapes did survive from the 60's, however, such as the episode of Van Morrison miming his iconic "Brown Eyed Girl" (and his second song, where he misses his beginning harmonica cue). Even though classic moments like those still exist, and there's a lot that has been recovered over the years, there's still a lot to find. After all, the early 70's episodes of The Joker's Wild and many long-lost Hollywood Squares tapes have been redsicvered. Heck, somebody might have all of the original episodes of the 1960's Match Game in his or her basement. How about the seven missing episodes of The David Letterman Show from 1980? Where's Chuck Woolery's hosting of Wheel of Fortune? They're out there somewhere. Please check your attic.   --- Got a Bee-otch to nominate? E-mail us @ chuck69dotcom@gmail.com. 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1.19.12 Bee-otch of the Day: Francesco Schettino

BECOME AN AFFILIATE OF T-SHIRT HELL AND MAKE SOME MONEY! DON'T FORGET TO "LIKE" BEE-OTCH OF THE DAY ON FACEBOOK! ------------------- Name: Francesco Schettino Age: 52 Occupations: cruise ship captain Last Seen: Italy Bee-otched For: putting himself in front of women and children --- For almost this past week, the news has been buzzing about the cruise ship Costa Concordia, which ran aground on some rocks and sank off the coast of Italy. As of this publishing, 11 people are dead and many more have been injured. Many speculate that the ship's captain, Francesco Schettino was showboating during the disaster and didn't cooperate when his ship was sinking while hundreds of peoples' lives were being in danger.Schettino abandoned ship, long before everybody else did. As a matter of fact, while the ship started to tilt, an announcer told everybody on the intercom that everything was OK and that a slight tilt was normal. But in the end, the ship started to sink while its passengers were freaking out. Of course, Schettino's life is now at stake, being charged for manslaughter and abandoning ship. His lawyers contend that he is innocent, and that the rocks he hit couldn't be seen. Ya know, Schettino was a wuss for what he did. If I were captain, I would warn the passengers to abandon ship and be the last one off, dead or alive. Remember Sully Sullenberger? He accidentally hit some birds with his plane, but proved to be a hero for landing his plane in the river, saving all on board. Sully's a hero, Schettino's a pussy. Period. I hope this jerk gets life for what he did. His ship's the one that's sinking now. --- Got a Bee-otch to nominate? E-mail us @ chuck69dotcom@gmail.com. All suggestions (except for me) are welcome! Bee-otch of the Day Archives can be seen on http://beeotchoftheday.blogspot.com ! Bee-otch of the Day is a production of Chuck69.com, Grand Rapids' site for Stern, politics and more!

1.18.12 Bee-otch of the Day: supporters of SOPA and PIPA

BECOME AN AFFILIATE OF T-SHIRT HELL AND MAKE SOME MONEY! DON'T FORGET TO "LIKE" BEE-OTCH OF THE DAY ON FACEBOOK! ------------------- News Corp. is one of many supporters of SOPA. Names: various Ages: various Occupations: various Last Seen: everywhere Bee-otched For: supporting internet censorship --- If you want to go to Wikipedia today, you better know a foreign language. The popular internet encyclopedia has shut down their English sites for 24 hours in protest of two bills flying around in both the House and Senate that are clearly anti-First Amendment. The Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and the Protect Internet Protocol Act (PIPA) are two bills that are clearly pro-big business. Basically put, if anybody is selling or distributing anything not truly belonging to them and it affects the profits of big business, that site will be shut down. Although the two bills' supporters claim that they're only targeting foreign sites, many feel that the bills are just an excuse for more policing on the internet. Case in point: look at some of the companies supporting SOPA: News Corp., Disney, TimeWarner, Walmart, Nike, Sony, Comcast, Visa and MasterCard. Yep! All billion-dollar companies that could care less about the small guy like you and me. Even worse, guess who also supports the two bills? BOTH DEMOCRATS AND REPUBLICANS ALIKE.  Sadly, the two bills show that the issue of internet piracy is nowhere close to being a Democrat or Republican issue. It's all about how much one will buy out a candidate for. But, it's the same thing for the people who oppose SOPA/PIPA too. Republicans like Ron Paul and Michigan's Justin Amash (and amazingly, Michele Bachmann) and Democrats Nancy Pelosi and Virginia senator Mark Warner have all opposed the bill. But guess who also is against SOPA/PIPA? OBAMA! Earlier in the week, the president weighed in, stating that he would veto both bills, especially since they're basically designed to curtail to big business and kill jobs. Thankfully, the government is starting to backpedal on this issue as more opposition from the general public is coming out against the bills. It's also worth mentioning that most of the companies that oppose SOPA/PIPA are internet-related: Google, Yahoo!, Wikipedia, Facebook, Twitter and Zynga. craigslist posted on their website that one reason why they're against the bills is because Monster Cable is crying that 2nd hand sales of their cables are costing them huge profits of new cables. Look, this is America. I shouldn't be sued by Samsung just because I sold one of their old TVs to a pawn shop. True, a lot of stuff you see online isn't totally legal. Hell, I ganked the News Corp. logo off another website some time ago and is now on my server. Is Uncle Rupert going to sue me for using his logo without permish? Prolly not. In all, count me in as one of SOPA/PIPA's opposers. Censorship is beyond un-American, and we shouldn't allow corporate America to screw us over just so they can see more profits while we suffer more. Let's keep the internet, and freedom free. Or in my case, let's prevent the web from turning into a Grand Rapids strip club. --- Got a Bee-otch to nominate? E-mail us @ chuck69dotcom@gmail.com. All suggestions (except for me) are welcome! Bee-otch of the Day Archives can be seen on http://beeotchoftheday.blogspot.com ! Bee-otch of the Day is a production of Chuck69.com, Grand Rapids' site for Stern, politics and more!

1.17.12 Bee-otch of the Day: LIN Media

BECOME AN AFFILIATE OF T-SHIRT HELL AND MAKE SOME MONEY! DON'T FORGET TO "LIKE" BEE-OTCH OF THE DAY ON FACEBOOK! ------------------- Name: LIN Media Age: 51 Occupation: media conglomerate Last Seen: Providence, RI Bee-otched For: making WOTV 4 even worse --- When you polish a turd, no matter how much you rub it, it's still a turd. West Michigan has the honor of having not one, but two ABC-TV affiliates: WZZM-13 Grand Rapids for the north end and WOTV-41 Battle Creek/Kalamazoo for the southern portion. It's kind of a long story as to why the two stations have ABC, and it's kinda boring. OK, I'll tell it to you anyway: in the 1950's, there were two TV stations in west Michigan: WOOD-TV 8 Grand Rapids and WKZO-TV 3 Kalamazoo (now WWMT). Both stations aired all three major networks in the beginning, including the ill-fated DuMont Network. However, in the late 1950's, the owners of both stations felt that the two towns were too close together, and the FCC ruled that GR and K'zoo were in the same market. So, both 3 and 8 moved their transmitters to central locations between the two cities, which allowed 3 to air more CBS programs and 8 with NBC. Both stations aired a few shows from ABC, and since the area was big enough for a third TV station, somebody made the idea a reality by convincing 3's owner, John Fetzer to move another station he owned, WWTV-13 in Cadillac/Traverse City to channel 9, which helped boosted its power and created a channel 13 for Grand Rapids. However, at the time, 13 was still going to interfere with the channel 13 in Toledo - ABC/NBC outlet WSPD (now full-blown ABC WTVG) - so they were forced to transmit from the Muskegon area, missing the Kalamazoo area by a longshot. They did broadcast a low-powered signal on channel 12 in Kalamazoo until 1971 when WUHQ-41 signed on from the Air Force Base in Battle Creek. Mind you, cable didn't exist back then, and neither did TV sets with UHF capabilities until 1964. However, 13's owner, Gannett almost bought 41 in 1990, creating a simulcast, but the merger was flanked when 8's owner, LIN bought the station instead. Now, you should know why 1) there's two ABCs in west Michigan and 2) why I can't get laid. For years, despite having no signal in Kalamazoo or Battle Creek, WZZM has been the dominant ABC of west Michigan. Oddly enough, I don't have cable, and through my rabbit ears, WOTV comes in clear as a bell while WZZM doesn't exist. I always wondered how that worked, but that's west Michigan for ya. Sadly, WOTV is at the bottom of the ratings, and it's been that way forever. Recently, WOTV and its sisters, WOOD-TV and MyNetworkTV outlet WXSP have been running promos stating that a new TV station for women is coming its way. I was thinking that either 1) WXSP would be toast or 2) they were going to get something like the Living Well Network on their .2s. But, that's not the case. Just in the past few days, it became apparent as to which station would get the makeover, and it's WOTV. Yep! The promos, featuring Maranda, Jordan Carson and a few others are telling viewers that a new ABC station is coming to town, and it's for WOMEN! Yeppers! Stick my finger down my throat and gag. So far, the new name for the station hasn't been revealed or more details have been released, but as far as I know, the new WOTV would be the first of its kind: a major network TV station aimed exclusively for women only. True, it would still clear the whole ABC schedule, but local and syndicated programming-wise, it would be nothing but shows for women. Already, WOTV airs Dr. Oz, The Wendy Williams Show, Better, and the soon-to-be-canceled Nate Berkus. And yes, speaking of ABC, they did recently can a few soaps for a new cooking show The Chew and a lifestyle program, The Revolution. I do wonder if the irritating eightWest will move to WOTV. Doubt it. Ya know, this new "ABC station for women" concept is so goddamned retarded that it makes me want to purchase a struggling network TV station myself and introduce aNaked News concept to their newscasts. Hey! The FCC might be out of the indecency-fining business soon, so it could happen. For years, there have been radio stations for women (WSRT 106.7 in northern Michigan comes to mind) and they've all bombed. Now, a network TV station for women? Jesus on a pancake. All I can say to LIN is good luck because I hear lots of laughing at a certain competitor over at their studios in Walker. An all-womens' station might work for a .2, but not for an ABC affiliate. I think over time, LIN will once again abandon this concept and WOTV will be a regular TV station again. And maybe when that happens, they'll replace the radar they air overnights on the weekends with girls jumping on trampolines. --- Got a Bee-otch to nominate? E-mail us @ chuck69dotcom@gmail.com. All suggestions (except for me) are welcome! Bee-otch of the Day Archives can be seen on http://beeotchoftheday.blogspot.com ! Bee-otch of the Day is a production of Chuck69.com, Grand Rapids' site for Stern, politics and more!

1.16.12 Bee-otch of the Day: Tim Tebow

BECOME AN AFFILIATE OF T-SHIRT HELL AND MAKE SOME MONEY! DON'T FORGET TO "LIKE" BEE-OTCH OF THE DAY ON FACEBOOK! ------------------- Name: Tim Tebow Age: 24 Occupation: quarterback, Denver Broncos Last Seen: Boston Bee-otched For: learning a new 3:16 --- One would say that Tim Tebow is God's bestie. After all, he has lived a life honoring his far-right-winged view of Jesus. His mother risked her life to give birth to him, he was homeschooled (because those gub'ment-run public schools talk about sex, evolution 'n stuff) and even bowed to Focus on the Family by appearing in one of their ads (which was supposed to run during the Super Bowl but was nixed due to its overbearing message of life). When he became starting QB for the Broncos, he helped the then-struggling team win games and often celebrated by kneeling on the field. But on Saturday night, Tim Tebow showed that he was no match for the much-more-established Tom Brady and the New England Patriots. The Pats beat the Broncos in the Divisionals, 45-10, proving that for some odd and strange reason, God seemed to not bless his given son, Tim Tebow, the magic needed to advance his team to the AFC Championship. Now, Tebow gets to spend the off-season wondering why his 'ol buddy Jesus let him down. But hey! John Parr decided to re-work his signature to honor him. However, unless he gets severely injured or quits football sooner or later, we're stuck with him for the next many years. Sadly, I expect this dweeb to make outrageous statements about certain people and things like most Jebus freaks love to do. After all, for him, it's God first and everybody else - even his fans - second. Now, I respect Mr. Tebow's religion and faith. The same goes to a man deciding to be gay, but when he throws his gayness on me, I run off. Same goes with Jesus freaks. If I'm in a public place and somebody ends up lecturing me on their faith, I try to find a way to get out of it without becoming The Incredible Hulk on the outside. But, if the Lions are playing the Broncos, I'll proudly root for my Lions (and yes, they bear Tebow and the Broncs this past year). In the end, Tebow is bowing to a new 3:16. Instead of John, it's Austin. --- Got a Bee-otch to nominate? E-mail us @ chuck69dotcom@gmail.com. All suggestions (except for me) are welcome! Bee-otch of the Day Archives can be seen on http://beeotchoftheday.blogspot.com ! Bee-otch of the Day is a production of Chuck69.com, Grand Rapids' site for Stern, politics and more!