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Monday, November 25, 2013
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Thursday, November 21, 2013
11.21.13 Bee-otch of the Day: retailers open on Thanksgiving
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Names: Walmart, Sears, Kmart,
Old Navy, Banana Republic and others
Ages: various
Occupation: retail giants
Last Seen: various
Bee-otched For: ruining Thanksgiving
Ages: various
Occupation: retail giants
Last Seen: various
Bee-otched For: ruining Thanksgiving
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On the day of Thanksgiving, when the turkey's stuffed, cooked and trimmed with care,
sadly, dear mother won't be there.
Her bosses at Walmart are forcing her to work that day,
or else their asshole CEOs won't get their pay.
Yes, Thanksgiving seems to be a time that's surely dying for a lot of people, especially those who work in the glorious business of retail. For years, people came together on Thanksgiving and ate and farted to their hearts' content. After all, it's all about being thankful and being around family.
Usually, the day after meant waking up at 3 a.m. so you could be at the store at 4 to get those Black Friday specials. But now, the big, greedy retailers are forcing their employees to work that holiday so you can eat up that turkey and trimmings (minus mom, of course) in record time to get to the store to get those doorbuster specials. In the end, the Walmarts of the world get more profit while Thanksgiving... Thanksgiving? What's a Thanksgiving?
You see, this is why I'm proud to have parents that want nothing from me for Christmas. They give me money, and that's great. I don't need to unwrap gifts, but the thought is nice. True, I'd like a few things here and there, but they're too expensive, and no Black Thursday deal will ever be cheap enough to make it affordable.
But maybe it comes to this: I'd rather stay home with family on Turkey Day and watch the Lion game over going out to hunt for a parking spot and find deals. I'm not stupid. I'd rather be one of the smart people who would be proud to contribute to giving an overworked and underpaid Wally World worker that day off over forcing them to work that day only to make the Waltons richer.
For me, this is a topic that's close to home. My mother works in a pet hotel and has to work that day AND Christmas. Therefore, I haven't spent a holiday with her in years. I understand why, and it's because dogs and cats can't watch themselves. However, that's something else that I am thankful for, and that's the fact that I have a lot of family here in Michigan, so I'll never be alone on any holiday.
What's next? Open on Christmas? (I better not give anybody any ideas.)
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Wednesday, November 20, 2013
11.20.13 Bee-otch of the Day: Walmart
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Name: Walmart
Age: 51
Occupation: retail nightmare
Last Seen: Bentonville, AR
Bee-otched For: proving that their employees are broke
Age: 51
Occupation: retail nightmare
Last Seen: Bentonville, AR
Bee-otched For: proving that their employees are broke
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Recently, Walmart launched a series of new ads called "The Real Walmart", which makes the claim that they treat their employees well and that many of them get promoted daily.
But still, it's polishing a giant, nasty turd.
In Canton, OH, their store is now running a food drive. It is for the local poor, but not just any people.
It's for.... THEIR EMPLOYEES.
A bin in front of the store asks shoppers to please donate so their associates could have a Thanksgiving. However, it's creating outrage amongst a lot of people, mostly its shoppers. Some say that if Walmart paid their workers a living salary, this would never happen. A spokesperson for the chain is defending the food drive, since employees do care about each other.
However, the food drive is PROOF that Walmart is all about profits and not about people, whether it's their employees or their shoppers. The Waltons have more money in their bank accounts than the lower 40% of all Americans. Even worse, each Walmart costs taxpayers $900,000 per year in taxes since many of them are on food stamps, Medicaid, Medicare and other programs. It's no question that the Waltons will have a wonderful Thanksgiving this year while their employees will be lucky to even have one.
Folks, THIS IS WHY PEOPLE NEED TO STOP SHOPPING AT WALMART. Yes, they have low, low prices, but it comes at a cost: PEOPLE. People have lost jobs because their factories have been sent overseas because of Walmart's bullying and the average employee at Walmart makes around $14,000 per year. My father and an uncle of mine have worked at Walmart in the past, and they don't recommend it.
Like the graphic says, always corporate greed. Always.
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Tuesday, November 19, 2013
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This week's topics:
*DeathStorm™ 2013,
*Lauren Podell's F-bomb,
*a follow-up on Randi Rhodes' re-signing with Clear Channel,
*Townsquare's buyout of some Cumulus stations
*and my advice to WGRD jock Jackie Green on her new marriage!
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11.19.13 Bee-otch of the Day: Sarah Palin
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Name: Sarah Palin
Age: 49
Occupation: veep wannabe
Last Seen: who cares
Bee-otched For: bringing us bad weather
Age: 49
Occupation: veep wannabe
Last Seen: who cares
Bee-otched For: bringing us bad weather
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NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
For the umpteenth time in just a few years, the cunt of Wasilla had to pay another trip to Grand Rapids.
Sarah Palin just came out with yet another book - this time, it's about Christmas - and spent Thursday night signing books at the Barnes and Noble at the Woodland Mall not too far from Chuck69.com World Headquarters. Thankfully, the media wasn't as gaga about her in years past, so it wasn't big news at all.
When Palin came in 2009 to the same mall to sign Going Rogue, over 1,000 people showed up. I would imagine that not as many people showed up only because Sarah's star in the political world has dwindled due to her near-retarded stupidity.
Ironically, Palin came at the same time a man whose intelligence is a near-perfect 180 of hers, astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson came into town to speak at Grand Valley State University. The famous author answered questions to a sold-out crowd about how science could answer life's questions, such as the death of the planet Pluto.
I'll betcha that if you asked Ms. Palin that same question, she'd be like, "huh?" and would talk a mile about abolishing women's rights like her fellow Republican buddies.
Since Palin's visit, the weather here has really started to suck. It got real cold Friday, but warmed up this past weekend thanks to a warm front that unfortunately brought us a ton of rain and damaging winds. As a matter of fact, the Bears game in Chicago was delayed all due to the same storm system.
And that's what happens, my friends, when somebody who's pure evil plants his or her seed in our community.
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Thursday, November 14, 2013
11.14.13 Bee-otch of the Day: Clear Channel
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Name: Clear Channel
Age: 41
Occupation: radio giant
Last Seen: San Antonio, TX
Bee-otched For: canning Randi
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In the next few weeks, the fine folks at Clear Channel will release their list of people who will be canned.
Well, we know one of them: Randi Rhodes.
Yep, it was made official: The Randi Rhodes Show will be off the air come year's end. The show is one of the very few left-leaning shows on Clear Channel's Premiere Radio Networks, the home of righties such as Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity. The show had only 30 affiliates; its last Michigan affiliate, WDTW 1310 in Detroit, signed off on New Years Day this year.
Yet, Rush has 600.
After being a hit in her home in West Palm Beach, FL for years, Rhodes finally got syndicated as part of Air America's schedule in 2004. However, she left AA in 2008 after comments she made against Geraldine Ferraro during an event for her San Francisco affiliate. She moved over to Nova M, another progressive network. However, both Air America and Nova M went belly up, but thankfully, Rhodes moved over to Clear Channel/Premiere in 2009.
Sadly, thanks to big radio groups like Clear Channel and the fact that they syndicate yes men like Rush, Randi's show was swept under the rug. Despite being on a few good stations, Randi suffered from 1) being on the same time slot as Thom Hartmann, preventing her show from airing live and 2) being owned by a big, evil company like Clear Channel, which did nothing to promote her program.
It was announced yesterday that Clear Channel and Randi will part ways and she could be looking for a new syndicator. She'll likely end up on Westwood One, which syndicates Hartmann, Ed Schultz, Stephanie Miller, Bill Press and other libs, but the problem is, that company is getting bought out by Cumulus, and they're a pretty conservative company. So, who knows?
But with the way radio's being run, it's no reason to bounce your boobies. Clear Channel - and others - invested in progressive talk radio only to shut it down. They cry that there's no audience for it. However, they dumped their shows on throwaway stations with weak signals while Rush and Hannity get the 50,000-watt sticks. There's your answer.
Personally, I think that's what happens when we allow something like the Fairness Doctrine to be dissolved and companies like Clear Channel to swallow up every station they can get their mitts on. The audience loses by getting crappy shows from hypocritical talking heads who don't care about any middle class. They slam the small guy while they sit back in their leather chair in their big ass mansion sucking on cigars and Oxy. And poor Randi - who cares about you and me - is going to stand in the soup line at Christmas.
And that's why, my friend, I don't work in radio.
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Wednesday, November 13, 2013
11.13.13 Bee-otch of the Day: Gilda's Laughfest
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Name: Gilda's Laughfest
Age: 4
Occupation: charitable event
Last Seen: Grand Rapids, MI
Bee-otched For: getting a scumbag disguised as a comedian
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During her five years on Saturday Night Live, Gilda Radner made us laugh and entertained.
She was one of the female members on what many called "The Beatles of Comedy", or in other words, The Not Ready For Primetime Players which also included Dan Aykroyd, John Belushi, Chevy Chase, Jane Curtin, Garrett Morris, Bill Murray, Laraine Newman and Harry Shearer. To many, Gilda was the star attraction. While Jane was the mature blonde whose serious tone gave us some serious chuckles through Weekend Update and Laraine was the big-haired brunette sexpot, Gilda proved that she had the ability to transform herself from the geeky (Lisa Lupner) to the senile (Emily Litella) to the wacky (Baba Wawa).
When she - and the rest of the show's cast - left SNL in 1980, Gilda had her successes, like a Broadway musical that became a movie (Gilda Live) but most of the success died, even when she married Gene Wilder. Her ovarian cancer diagnosis shocked many, and when the disease silenced her for good on May 20, 1989 at the age of 42, it was nothing more than heart-wrenching.
Since Gilda's passing, her family and friends helped to create Gilda's Club, an support group for those with cancer, along with their families and friends. However, in recent years, they've merged with The Wellness Community to become the Cancer Support Community. One other reason for the dropping of the name "Gilda's Club" is because many younger people don't know who Gilda Radner was. 1970's-era SNL reruns have rarely been shown on TV over the years, hampering her legacy.
Thankfully, the Grand Rapids chapter of Gilda's Club is maintaining her existence and have no plans to change their name. After all, Gilda was born and raised in Detroit. For the past four years, the Club has presented Gilda's Laughfest, a several-day comedy festival that's for people of all ages. All of the acts at the Laughfest range from family-friendly to X-rated and from the obscure to the world-famous.
I blasted the first Laughfest because their headliner was Bill Cosby, a man who is, well, not funny. After all, this is a schmuck who used Fat Albert to teach kids to stay away from drugs and gambling, yet he smoked big fat cigars and appears regularly at casinos. Not to mention the fact that he *allegedly* cheated on his wife multiple times since he was always at the Playboy Mansion in the 1970's.
The next two Laughfests were off the hook since they didn't have dipshits headlining them. This year, however, is an exception.
The co-headliner of this year's Laughfest is Lily Tomlin. Now, I have nothing against Ms. Tomlin. As a matter of fact, yesterday morning, I had received a notification from my WOOD-TV app that started with "Lily Tomlin has....." and my instant thought was that she had passed on. Thankfully, she's alive and well and will be at Laughfest in March.
Now, I have no problems with Ms. Tomlin. As a matter of fact, she's perfect for the festival. Both she and Gilda were Detroiters, both portrayed little girls on their respective shows (Tomlin was on Rowan and Martin's Laugh-in from 1970-73), both had famous characters from their shows (ie Earnestine the Operator) and not forgetting the fact that Lorne Michaels was a writer on Laugh-in before creating SNL. She was the Gilda of her time, and is still quite active at 74.
Sadly, it's the co-headliner of this year's event that's pissing me off. That, of course, is Jay Leno.
Yes, THAT Jay Leno. You know, the big-chinned asshole who raped David Letterman from getting The Tonight Show, screwed Conan O'Brien out of that same show, is very notorious for ripping off his skits from others (i.e. his Headlines is really Letterman's Small Town News) and so on. Of course, thankfully, he's bequeathing the show to Jimmy Fallon in a few months (I think NBC pressured him to quit since the show's not raking in all that much financially), but who knows how long that will last? I think he'll try to weasel himself back into late night.
The point is, I think it sucks that Laughfest will try to make some dough off this dickhead who is nothing more than a false prophet in the world of comedy. True, they do have some top-ranked talent coming this year - like Jim Gaffigan and Chris Tucker - but I think I'll pass. Jay Leno doesn't deserve my money.
I think I'll donate to my favorite women's charity instead, and it's in a Jolly part of Lansing.
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Tuesday, November 12, 2013
11.12.13 Bee-otch of the Day: WYPV
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Name: WYPV
Age: 2
Occupation: teabagger talk station
Last Seen: Petoskey, MI
Bee-otched For: getting cut in half
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It looks like Tea Party talk is not working in northern Michigan.
WYPV 94.5, licensed in Mackinaw City at the tip of the mitt (and that's their old logo, BTW) is divesting their 93.9 signal in Mio, which serves Gaylord, Grayling, Houghton Lake and the I-75 corridor. The station is currently off the air as the new owners are getting new studio space.
The new owners and new format for WAVC haven't been announced. In the past, 93.9 has carried AC, alternative (twice as The River and The Zone), smooth jazz, country and classic rock. The station has never been a huge revenue grabber and has fallen silent several times in the 20 years it's been on.
Throughout most of its history, it was owned by either Del Reynolds and his successor, Northern Star Broadcasting. Reynolds purchased the station in 1997, which used to be "93.9 The River", an adult-leaning alternative station (the call sign, WAVC kinda spells "wave", get it?). He flipped it to smooth jazz with WJZJ 95.5 Traverse City and WLJZ 94.5 Mackinaw City as "Coast FM". However, in 1998, he sold the stations to NSB, which flipped them all to alternative as The Zone. Over the years, NSB used 93.9 as a repeater for their stations, depending on the time of day.
When Reynolds re-acquired his stations from Northern Star recently, he was forced to sell off some stations to meet FCC rules and regs. So, he traded 94.5 and 93.9 with 106.3 Onaway, which was the original WYPV. Reynolds got 106.3 and flipped it to soft AC while 94.5 and 93.9 became the new WYPV, carrying a far-right-winged Tea Party talk format.
Shows on WYPV include Alex Jones, Mark Levin and local hosts Brian Sommerfeld (who I think is one of the station's owners) and Trucker Randy with Greg Marshall.
I listened to WYPV when I was up north last Summer and I didn't hear a lot of local advertising. Most of the local spots seemed to be from barter from vitamin companies and a Mexican restaurant in Petoskey. Sometimes, I wondered why in the hell people in northern Michigan would ever support a station aimed towards the anti-government pricks who know nothing about American history... Oh, wait, there's parts of the Straits area where only 15% of the people graduated college, like Alanson! DERH!
Folks, I hope the fucknuts at WYPV are learning their lesson. People don't want right-winged bullshit on the FM. I hope the new owners of 93.9 put something on that people in that region will like. Sadly, I think it'll be country (again) especially since that region of the state now hardly has one since 100.3 flipped from country to rock earlier this year.
But in the world of radio, sometimes, if wishes were trees, they would be falling.
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Monday, November 11, 2013
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11.11.13 Bee-otches of the Day: Carrie Underwood and Brad Paisley
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Names: Carrie Underwood and Brad Paisley
Ages: 30, 41
Occupations: country music singers
Last Seen: Nashville
Bee-otched For: making the Country Music Awards a political event
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If you ask me what songs Carrie Underwood and Brad Paisley do, I'd go, "Huh?"
To me, country music is all the same: just a bunch of hicks singing about their dog getting run over by their pickup truck, their wife leaving them and hating black people, maybe not all in that order. But last week at the Country Music Awards, the two decided to sing a song that proved that there's still a huge line between those who love pop and rock music and country.
During the CMAs, the two did a duet about of all things, Obamacare. In the song, the two sang about how slow their website is and how they've gotten all sorts of diseases just waiting for the site to load.
After the performance, many country fans took to Twitter (and it's a shock that many of them can even write) and joked that they've had to sit through the Emmys, the Oscars and other awards and heard anti-Bush jokes for years, and now, it's their turn. True, but the difference between Obama and Bush is simple: Obama didn't kill millions over oil (although his military policies are still left to be desired). I understand that there's a lot of criticism over the ACA, but people need to realize that it's a helluva lot better than the crap that the Republicans have created over the years.
I think country music fans need to read and find the truth behind the ACA, but there's a problem: most of them probably barely done graduate from learnin' school.
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Thursday, November 7, 2013
11.7.13 Bee-otch of the Day: Blockbuster
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Name: Blockbuster
Age: 28
Occupation: video rental chain
Last Seen: Englewood, CO
Bee-otched For: dying a pitiful death
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Blockbuster, we hardly knew ye.
Growing up in northern Michigan, it was almost amazing that Blockbuster didn't even make it up north until the late 90's when Dave Sheppe decided to transition his Horizon Video chain to all Blockbusters. The switchover didn't last too long, though, as in the early 2000's, all northern Michigan Blockbusters closed and Sheppe decided to invest in a chain of restaurants that serve pie.
And the investment was a good one.
It was announced yesterday that Dish Network was closing all remaining Blockbuster Video stores and that the Blockbuster name would be retired once and for all. Once upon a time, Blockbuster was the cool video store in America in an age of VHS and Betamax and of course, "be kind, rewind". People would weather out into the open to get to a store to find a flick to watch that evening to kill two hours. However, those days are passed now since many Americans now have ways to watch movies at home without having to waste a drop on gas.
Looking back, I was happier to support the mom-n-pops over Blockbuster. I had an uncle that worked in the record business, and he vehemently barred his family from going there. He claimed that Michael Eisner, the former head of Disney and Blockbuster owner Wayne Huizenga had a phone fight, and in the end, Eisner uttered "those mafia bastards" under his breath. Now, I'm not positive if Blockbuster was a part of the mob themselves; Eisner could have meant "Dutch Mafia" since Huizenga is a Dutch man and had a religious upbringing. After all, his ala mater is the ultra-conservative Calvin College here in Grand Rapids. But bear in mind that Huizenga also once ran Waste Management, and according to my uncle, the trash business is one that nobody wants to be a part of, but there's a lot of dough in it. The same went with porn.
But, when it came to porn, Blockbuster didn't want a part of that, either.
Because of Huizenga's conservative leanings, Blockbuster never rented films NC-17 or higher. They even ordered the film Showgirls to be re-edited to an R-rating to keep up with its standards. Soft-core titles and unrated films, however, were OK.
Thankfully, Huizenga's control of Blockbuster didn't last long. He sold Blockbuster to Viacom in 1994, but they spun it off in 2004. In 2011, the chain was broke and Dish Network bought them out at auction. Now, the remaining 300 Blockbusters will close.
True, there's still some spots in America where video stores are still doing OK - mostly smaller, rural towns where broadband internet access is spotty to non-existent - but with the death of Blockbuster and Hollywood Video and Movie Gallery beforehand, there's no real reason to "be kind, rewind" anymore, or even pop a disc into a DVD or even Blu-Ray player. Everything's off the web now, and from the looks of things, it'll be the standard for years.
For the mom-n-pops that are still around and still doing well, they're the ones laughing. They don't have a stranglehold on distributors and they can rent out any porno they want. If they're still making money, good for them. But when the Redbox comes to town, they might end up pissing their pants.
But thankfully for them, they have porn.
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Wednesday, November 6, 2013
11.6.13 Bee-otch of the Day: WFUR
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