Thursday, May 21, 2015

5.21.15 Hero of the Day: David Letterman


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A SPECIAL HERO OF THE DAY!


Name: David Letterman
Age: 68
Occupation: retired talker
Last Seen: New York, NY
Awarded For: giving us many years of laughter... and something to think about
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Last night was an emotional night for those who stay up a little later.

It was the final night David Letterman ever hosted a talk show. After over 6,000 episodes of NBC's Late Night from 1982-1993 and CBS's Late Show 1993 to last night, the funnyman officially called it a career. He had his great moments and even a few bumps along the way.

It was Letterman who had the longest-running career in late night TV, beating Johnny Carson by one year. When he first hosted Late Night in 1982, we only had three major over-the-air TV networks, Pac-Man was a must for any video gamer, audiences packed movie theaters to see "E.T." and your humble webmaster was pooping in Pampers.

Of course, getting into late night TV wasn't a total breeze for Dave, who started in college radio and moved on to the third-place ABC-TV affiliate in his hometown of Indianapolis, WLWI-13, now top-rated NBC affiliate WTHR. He moved to Los Angeles where he became a regular at The Comedy Store, and from there on, it was The Tonight Show With Johnny Carson. Dave and Johnny became good friends and remained so until Johnny's death in 2005. Letterman even guest-hosted for Carson for many years while he also became a regular on game shows such as The $25,000 Pyramid.

Letterman even had his own talk show on NBC, The David Letterman Show, which aired in the morning in 1980. However, it was canceled after 90 episodes due to poor ratings despite positive reviews and the debut of some of his regular features, such as Stupid Pet/Human Tricks.

However, Dave made his big comeback two years later with Late Night. The show was a monster success because quite simply, it was different. It wasn't another show where everybody had to dress up and be hoidy toidy. It was casual and fun. Letterman had his usual suspects of comedy sketches, interviews and that quirky Top Ten list. For years, he wanted that coveted 11:30 spot held by Carson, but it went to Jay Leno instead, thus creating one of the greatest rivalries in TV history. Everybody knew that Carson wanted Letterman for The Tonight Show, so Letterman settled by moving over to CBS to launch The Late Show.

Yes, I think we all have had our favorite moments with Dave, such as the reunion of Sonny and Cher to Drew Barrymore flashing Dave her tits to Howard Stern's many appearances from a short-haired geek in 1984 to the cross-dressing vixen promoting "Miss America". There was Dave throwing objects off the Ed Sullivan Theater and visits to the Hello Deli. Let's not forget Calvert DeForest and Biff Henderson and yes, Paul Shaffer.

When I was a young teen, I would stay up late on school nights to watch Dave. Growing up in boring northern Michigan where you had to be a senior citizen to enjoy anything, I had little joy as a teenager, especially when my parents divorced at age 12. Yes, my parents tried to get me to turn the TV off at around 10 p.m., but they had to pry the remote from my cold, dead hands. Watching David Letterman and Conan O'Brien took my mind out of the depression I felt from school, growing up north, and life in general. Yes, I got only four hours of sleep most nights, but I didn't care. To me, Dave was the best friend that I never had.

True, we now have Fallon, Kimmel and virtual newcomers James Cordon and Seth Meyers, and oh, yes, Nightline is still on the air, the honest truth is that it was David Letterman who set the modern standard for late night TV. Not as a funnyman, but also somebody who told it like it was. When he came back after 9/11, Dave exclaimed that those responsible for crashing the planes into those buildings did it for religious fervor and said "if it makes you live to 1,000 years old, does it make any goddamn sense?" When Indiana's governor recently passed the state's anti-gay law, it was Dave who said that "this isn't the Indiana I grew up with". He was also very vocal about his heart problems and the affairs he had with co-workers.

When the news broke that David was retiring, it wasn't shocking for me one bit. He was around the same age as Carson when he retired (he was 67) and worked in late night one year more than Carson himself. Now that his son Harry is 13, it's time for him to be a dad. I hope he and Regina give him the best love any parent can imagine giving their son.

One last thing: I, like many of you wonder if Dave will still be around after retirement or if he'll end up reclusive like Carson. The world may never know, but all I can say is this:

He had a good run.


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Wednesday, May 20, 2015

5.20.15 Bee-otch of the Day: Rush Limbaugh


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Name: Rush Limbaugh
Age: 64
Occupation: OxyContin-infused taker
Last Seen: West Palm Beach, FL
Bee-otched For: getting baked in Boston
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WRKO has given El Rushbo the KO.

The iconic Boston 50,000-watter - named for the legendary movie studio whose logo is a transmitting broadcast tower - just announced that Limbaugh's radio show will be canceled in the not-too-distant future. The Entercom-owned station could not come to terms on expanding their contract with the show. Rush has been demoted to smaller stations in big markets in recent years due to decreased ratings and revenue all sparked by his diatribe against Georgetown law student Sandra Fluke. In 2012, Rush called Fluke a "slut" over her opinion that religious institutions could not be exempt from the rule in the Affordable Care Act that forces businesses to hand out free birth control.

Rush's syndicator, iHeartMedia/Clear Channel-owned Premiere Radio Networks released a statement: "We were unable to reach agreeable terms for The Rush Limbaugh Show to continue on WRKO. A final broadcast date will be announced in the near future. Rush Limbaugh airs daily in every measured media market in America, and we look forward to announcing exciting news for our Boston listeners soon."

According to RadioInsight.com, the only other station in Boston that might be interested in Rush is WMEX 1510, a brokered talk station with a very, very crappy website.

Rush's canning in Beantown happens only a month after WIBC in Indianapolis announced that they will be dropping the show in July. No word on what station will be carrying his show afterward.

WIBC is third place in the ratings in Indy while WRKO is at a pitiful 18th place in the April 2015 Nielsens. No wonder why in WRKO's case, they're dumping Rush. Bear in mind that Cheap Channel had Rush on 1200 a few years back as "Rush Radio" and it was a ratings disaster.

Honestly, I hope that this is the end for Rush in Boston. The city is simply too liberal for him. Plus most of his fans are upper-demo baby boomers who are retired or looking at retirement. I was on Freedom 95/Indy's Facebook page, and some geezer told the station that he hopes they pick Rush up and that he's also retired. If I was a potential advertiser, it would be a cop out. Retirees don't have much money and us gen-xers and millennials simply avoid AM radio like the plague.

Look, Rush is 63 and his contract is up for renewal next year. If he keeps losing big affiliates like flies, he might as well retire to his vast Florida estate with his gold digger wife and his Oxy pills. Time for El Blimpo to move on. Conservatism in America is dead and Rush is another kook nailing the coffin shut.

Maybe if Rush asks for a raise in his next contract, iHeartRadio will give him crow instead.




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Tuesday, May 19, 2015

5.19.15 Bee-otch of the Day: News Corp/Fox


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Name: News Corporation
Age: 92
Occupation: media behemoth
Last Seen: New York, NY
Bee-otched For: trying to break up the band
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As us fans of The Simpsons know, the show has been renewed for another two years. But, it will be without one of its most-crucial members.

It was announced after the contracts were signed and sealed that longtime cast member Harry Shearer, the voice of Mr. Burns, Ned Flanders, Otto, Principal Skinner, Dr. Hibbert and a few score of others will not be a part of the show anymore. As a matter of fact, he claims that he was actually fired from the iron horse show.

According to sources, Shearer wanted a raise, but for the past few years, the rest of the cast - Dan Castellaneta, Julie Kavner, Nancy Cartwright, Yeardley Smith and Hank Azaria - have all had to take a HUGE pay cut despite the show still making millions per year in repeats and merchandising. Part of it is due to the fact that Fox's parent, News Corporation restructuring to become two different companies: NewsCorp (which focuses on print media) and 21st Century Fox (which handles 20th Century Fox, the Fox TV network and yes, The Simpsons).

Executive Producer Al Jean claims that most of Shearer's voices will be recast; in the past, when a cast member dies (i.e. Marcia Wallace or Phil Hartman) or simply leaves the cast (Maggie Roswell), they simply kill off the character. Of course, hearing somebody else do Mr. Burns or Ned Flanders might be kinda weird, like in a when Jim Henson died and Kermit the Frog started to sound funny kind of way. I wouldn't be too shocked if Billy West takes over Shearer's voices; I hope he can nail them good.

The point is, these people have been a part of television history and deserve to get paid well for using - and in Kavner's case, abusing - their voices. Maybe the folks at NewsCorp/21st Century Fox need to scale back on the shit spewed on Fox News Channel and give Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa and even Maggie a big, fat paycheck, eh? Same goes with the rest of the cast.

Because of Fox's actions, I think I finally see The Simpsons' first shark popping out of the water.

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Monday, May 18, 2015

5.18.15 Bee-otch of the Day: ASUS


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Name: ASUS
Age: 26
Occupation: tech giant
Last Seen: Taipei, Taiwan
Bee-otched For: making one shitty laptop
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A few months ago, my beloved Toshiba laptop seemed to be starting to show its age.

Despite only being three years old, the sound system started to make gitchy noises that reminded me of Jim Breuer's "Goat Boy" sketches from SNL and sometimes, it would disconnect itself from the internet.
 Despite running my antivirus and malware software, it wasn't fixable. I even called Toshiba's hotline and made me waste $40 to diagnose the problem to no avail. So, when my tax returns were deposited into my bank account, I decided to make a trip out to my local ABC Warehouse.

I was told that Lenovo computers were the one to try, but they didn't have any. Instead, they had a few HPs and a few other brands. But, they had one computer that they were desperate to purge itself of, and it was an ASUS.

I wasn't 100% positive on buying a computer whose brand I wasn't 100% sure on, but at $499 for a laptop that had 1TB storage and lots of memory, it seemed to be a steal. I also bought an extended warranty since my Toshiba had a one-year and fixing that glitch would be cost prohibitive in the age when laptops are only designed to last three years tops.

Well, I took it home and got acquainted with it. The sound wasn't glitched up, so that was a plus. But, it's biggest downfalls included the fact that the keyboard sucked. I'm a fairly fast typist, and every time I didn't hit a key hard enough, I ended up misspelling a word. With a blog like this, it's aggravating and time consuming every time I had to go back and fix text just because typing on that thing involved having to press the damn thing too hard, especially the space bar.

But another issue was the fact that if I was on a website that involved a lot of graphics - like YouTube or Facebook - it would always disconnect itself from the internet. Strange, since my smartphone is also hooked to the same wifi system in my apartment and it never disconnects itself unless it has any issues. I did some reading, and it appears that it's an issue with Windows 8.1.

Well, the final straw came on Friday when I was watching the Tiger game online when I decided to hook my phone into the laptop. Just before I plugged in the USB, the computer itself shut off. Even worse, the LED lights indicating that it was plugged in were shut off, too. So, I went online to see if there was a quick fix. One site said to take out the battery. But, the laptop was designed so if I needed to change the battery, that it would take a technician to do so. Thankfully, since my faith in ASUS had been iffy since day one, I kept the original, briefcase-type box it came in and located the owner's manual. It said that the best way to contact ASUS was to go to their support site and type in the problem. REALLY? NO NUMBER TO CALL?!?! So, I Googled "ASUS support number" and it led me to some Asian hotline that wanted to charge me. I hung up on them right away. So, I got my dusty Toshiba out of storage and did what ASUS wanted me to do: go to their support site, report the issue there and then they gave me a number to call since I now had a case number. The guy on the other line was actually quite helpful (unlike the strange Asian chick that Toshiba had who jipped me out of $40) and gave me instructions on how to send the unit to a repair center.

Now, my crappy little ASUS computer is on its way to California to get fixed and I'm back to my more-reliable Toshiba to bring you the BOTD. I can type faster and it hasn't disconnected from the web once. The sound is still wonky at times, but for now, oh, well. Honestly, I hope I can get a refund on my ASUS so I can get something more reliable. If not, I might as well get an external keyboard so I'm not trying to kill myself when I'm typing. But that's the price you pay when you buy a computer on blind faith vs. going to Amazon.com first, reading the reviews and then buying the damn thing.

Apparently to ASUS, "Inspiring Innovation, Persistent Perfection" means something else in America.

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Thursday, May 14, 2015

5.14.15 Bee-otch of the Day: George Heartwell


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Name: George Heartwell
Age: 65
Occupation: mayor
Last Seen: Grand Rapids, MI
Bee-otched For: endorsing a bitch to do his job



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Very soon, it will be the end of an era in Grand Rapids.

After 12 years, former preacher George Heartwell will be stepping down as mayor of Michigan's second-largest city thanks to recently-passed term limits. Now, several people want his job, and the Independent has chosen the woman whom he thinks is most-qualified for the job.

It's none other than current city commissioner Rosalynn Bliss, who was the first person to announce their candidacy to run for GR mayor. Like Heartwell, Bliss does have several Democratic credentials and has the support from several Democrats themselves.

I originally supported Bliss in the beginning, but I withdrew my support because of a friend of mine.

Darren Gibson is the host of Southpaws Tuesdays and Wednesdays 10a-noon on WPRR 1680/95.3 here in Grand Rapids. He's also a manager at Parkway Tropics here in Grand Rapids. For years, PT was a beloved topless club, but that all changed in 2006 when the city passed a no nudity ordinance, forcing PT and other strip clubs in GR to become bikini clubs. According to Darren, Bliss was invited to come to the club to see how clean and well-run they were, but thanks to the negativity spread by the right-leaning news media, she voted for the ordinance anyway.

Darren, me and others believe that the DeVos family played a role in creating the ordinance, especially since the brainchild of the law, Judy Rose appeared in a campaign ad for Dick DeVos' failed gubernatorial campaign run in 2006. Of course, the DeVoses THINK that they own this city, but as somebody who doesn't go to Griffin games or buys cars from Fox Motors, I've learned to create mental blocks around their ventures.

Folks, Grand Rapids NEEDS real strip clubs. Maybe Heartwell and Bliss should walk a mile in my shoes for a while. I bust my ass daily at my job and come home to a nearly-empty apartment, except for my pet fish. I've tried the bar scene and the girls are ignorant. Plus, I've been hit on too many times by guys and one even took me to his house and masturbated in front of me. Unless I'm with somebody, I will never walk into a bar alone. I've tried three different dating sites; since joining, I've only had one serious relationship. Currently, the only person it seems that is giving 1/2 a damn about me lives all the way up in a small hick town called New Era - 80 miles away - even though I specified that I max out at 50 miles. I used to frequent the Deja Vu in Kalamazoo once a month. Most of the girls were nice and friendly. I've never mistreated them one bit. The club itself was well-run and sadly, even the city banned nudity because of a stupid ordinance.

The point is, Grand Rapids has more single men than women. Even worse, a co-worker of mine from Vietnam offered me $10,000 to marry his sister and move her to America. Look, I want somebody local, but as long as there's nothing out there woman-wise, I might as well go to a strip club.

But thanks to the lies created by the Dutch Mafia and other conservatives, not gonna happen. I don't want to pay a woman $20 for a half-assed lap dance when she used to do it in the buff. I might as well spend my Saturday nights alone watching TV drinking a beer, which is what I usually do anyway.

Folks, if Rosalynn Bliss gets elected mayor, we can kiss bringing real strip clubs back to GR bye-bye. I don't live in GR, so I can't vote for her. I hope people get involved and give this misguided cunt a message at the polls. Don't tell a woman that she can't get naked in front of a bunch of grown men just because of your fucked-up religious beliefs.

In this case, happiness doesn't equal bliss. 

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Wednesday, May 13, 2015

5.13.15 Bee-otch of the Day: Saturday Night Live


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Name: Saturday Night Live
Age: 40
Occupation: sketch comedy show on NBC
Last Seen: New York, NY
Bee-otched For: ripping off.... again



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Last Saturday's SNL should have been one of the funniest of the year.

Some of the sketches killed, like the cold opening where Cecily Strong portrayed a DJ introducing the Repukes running for president next year. Of course, there was a montage of all the cast members as kids and yes, that Picture Perfect sketch where contestants were forced to draw Mohammed for a million bucks.

Personally, I thought that sketch was hilarious and unpredictable, like many of the skits SNL did 40 years ago. But, there's a small problem: it's a ripoff.

Yep, how dare SNL ripoff somebody else, especially when we're dealing with Lorne Michaels' homeland of Canada? The sketch was a knockoff of a similar one that aired on CBC's This Hour Has 22 Minutes last January. The two sketches are quite similar, only that the 22 Minutes version was a parody of  Win, Lose or Draw, the 1980s celebrity drawing show originally hosted here in the states by the late, great Bert Convy and the SNL version was a little longer and had the great acting of Kenan Thompson as the dude who played the dad from Family Matters.

Nobody from the SNL camp has responded to the charges, but THH22M has been having fun with SNL's alleged plagiarism. The show's writers has bashed the show and even the official Facebook from the program stated that they're waiting for SNL to say something so they can do the same thing, only shorter.

Of course, this isn't the only time SNL has been accused of stealing, at least this season. In October, the show was accused by The Groundlings of copying their "River Sisters" sketch that involved skanky old women singing "Proud Mary" with them telling strange stories in between verses. Years ago, the show even ripped off Howard Stern by airing a commercial sketch called"Sofa King"

Sadly, the allegations of plagiarism are adding up to the problems the show has had in the past few years. Last year, it was too many new faces, and many of them ended up canned. This year, it's everything from unfunny sketches to the lamest Weekend Update desk in years. Comedy-wise, this is all Colin Jost's fault and maybe, just maybe this might be his last year at SNL, god willing.

I'm also fuming at the fact that musical guest-wise, this was a horrid year for rock bands appearing on the show. If you were an indie pop act or rapper, this was a good year. But sadly, the only band to have a hit on the mainstream rock charts to appear on SNL was Zac Brown Band, the country act who scored a surprise hit on the charts with "Heavy is the Head", a duet with Chris Cornell. Otherwise, when the musical guest came on, it was a good time to hit the bathroom or raid the fridge.

As usual, SNL has missed the mark this season. They only have one show left and they better not phone it in. Who knows? Hopefully, one of the ladies might have a wardrobe malfunction (better not be Aidy Bryant)! Otherwise, I hope Lorne will sharpen his ax soon.

Maybe if they actually drew Mohammed during the sketch, things would have improved 1,000%. If only Michael O'Donoghue was still alive...  


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Tuesday, May 12, 2015

5.12.15 Bee-otch of the Day: Tom Brady


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Name: Tom Brady
Age: 37
Occupation: NFL quarterback
Last Seen: ??
Bee-otched For: paying the price



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The NFL has dropped the ball on Tom Brady.

And that ball was inflated right.

The league announced Monday that the New England Patriot quarterback and Super Bowl MVP has been suspended for four games next season without pay because of his involvement in Deflategate, where he allegedly used slightly deflated balls to catapult the team's win over the Indianapolis Colts in the playoffs earlier this year. Eventually, the Pates won the Super Bowl, barely beating the previous year's champions, the Seattle Seahawks.

The NFL has also penalized the Patriots, eliminating their 1st and 4th draft picks in 2016 and 17 respectively. The team has also been fined $1 million.

Ironically, Brady will return on week five when the team will play (drumroll please) Indianapolis. On their home turf. There should be a lot of boos at Lucas Oil Stadium.

Brady's agent, Don Yee claims that he will appeal his suspension with NFL commissioner Roger Goodall. He calls Brady's suspension ridiculous and had no basis.

The million-dollar fine against the Pates is now tied for being the highest in NFL history. In 1999, the league fined San Francisco 49ers owner Ed DeBartolo for his involvement in a Louisiana gambling scandal. In 2007, the Pates were fined a combined $750,000 for coach Bill Belichick spying on other coaches.

Personally, I think that the punishment *does* fit the crime somewhat, but if I were the NFL, I would take away the Patriots' Super Bowl victory. They cheated fair and square. As for Brady, he needs to take the punishment like a man. I don't give a flying fuck if he wants to play football. This asshole lives in a mansion bigger than the White House and is married to a top supermodel. This prick only has to work 20 days a fucking year and gets paid millions.

I hope that without Brady, the Pates will sink so low that they won't make the playoffs this year. I'd love to finally see my Lions actually go further into the playoffs this year. Who knows?

All I know is that unlike the Pates, the Lions don't need deflated balls to win.

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Monday, May 11, 2015

5.11.15 Bee-otch of the Day: The Republican Party


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Name: The Republican Party
Age: 161
Occupation: the right wing
Last Seen: Washington, DC
Bee-otched For: becoming a cavalcade of clowns



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If you missed the opening sketch of Saturday Night Live this past weekend, it summoned up this year's candidates so far to a tee.

Cecily Strong played a DJ to a Republican gathering showcasing the candidates and their plans to basically, well, fuck up the working class. Hey! At least one guy is 420 friendly, but he still ain't getting my vote.

That's all I've heard so far from the Repukes this year: "I'll get rid of Obamacare!" "I'll slash Social Security!" "I'll overturn Roe V. Wade!" The whole she-bang. Hell, it's sad when one of the candidates, Carly Fiona never held public office and was fired from Hewlett-Packard after she caused a mass exodus of 30,000 people. Kinda reminds me of a fellow who once ran Gateway Computers; he kept outsourcing workers overseas and eventually sold the company to Taiwanese-based Acer. Sadly, that asshole, Rick Snyder is now the governor of my home state of Michigan. Since taking over our state, he's downgraded us to a right-to-work (for less) state, he's slashed funding for schools and our roads are embarrassing. He even encouraged voters to pass Prop 1 last week that would have raised our sales tax to 7% and it was shot down four-to-one.

I know, the election is over a year away and not everybody has thrown their hats into the ring. Personally, I would vote for Bernie Sanders because he seems to be more down-to-earth than the rest of the candidates, even Hillary Clinton. True, I think Clinton will ultimately take the Democratic nomination for president, but my views on her are skewed because she tends to be a flip-flopper, especially regarding healthcare. True, Joe Biden is yet to announce his run for prez, but remember, the last time a veep held a successful two-year term as president was Harry Truman.

As long as the Repukes keep talking about screwing over the middle class and doing what's best for the 1%, they ain't getting my vote, period. The 2000s were supposed to be happy years for me when I was in my 20s, but realized that thanks to our weak economy, I had to borrow the American Dream instead of buying it. Thanks to Obama, our economy is up and so is my pay.

Like the old saying goes, "are you better off now than four years ago?" DAMN RIGHT I'M HAPPY!

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Thursday, May 7, 2015

5.7.15 Bee-otch of the Day: Rick Snyder


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Name: Rick Snyder
Age: 58
Occupation: failing governor
Last Seen: Michigan
Bee-otched For: seeing his little road bill get shot down in flames

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Looks like the governor will have to find other ways of getting our roads fixed here in Michigan.

Yesterday, the voters did turn out and Prop 1 was a complete disaster, getting shot down 80% to 20%. The bill would have shot up the state's sales tax from 6 to 7% and given the state an extra $1.2 billion in road funding.

Since the bill was introduced, it had seen its fair share of opposition from folks like myself who claim that it would only benefit the wealthy in tax breaks. However, even Democrats like former Sen. Carl Levin appeared in ads supporting the bill.

Now, the state is looking into what they can do to fix the failing roads, especially with the potholes created by the hot summers and cold winters. Here's an idea: TAX THE FUCKING WEALTHY ALREADY!

You know, the Devoses are worth $7 billion and the Meijers are worth slightly more. Do they need all that money? NO! Oh, they do since they want to give the Repukes more money in kickbacks. Never mind.

Folks, the more money you make, the more you should pay in taxes. There's those in the middle class in Michigan who pay more than the wealthy! So why should the middle class - who tend to buy more with their money - be forced to spend more? Duh!

Well, the people have spoken. It's time for Michigan lawmakers to find a new way to fix the roads. If we voted Democrat last fall, this situation would be done. Jennifer Granholm was a helluva better governor over this clown. If there's anybody saving Michigan right now, it's Obama, not the Stuffed Turd.

And to think that he might be running for president in 2016. I guess I'll be moving to Canada....

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Wednesday, May 6, 2015

5.6.15 Bee-otch of the Day: non-voters


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Name: various
Age: various
Occupation: various
Last Seen: Michigan
Bee-otched For: not voting

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So if you came here thinking that I was going to blast Proposal One for passing/not passing. Well, here's the ordeal: I write my BOTDs usually around 7 p.m. at night and I get the thing posted at 5 a.m. the next day. I personally don't know if Prop 1 will pass or not.

Currently, the exit polls claim that it's not gonna pass, period. Sometimes, when people see that the majority of the people are going to vote 'no' anyway, they say 'fuck it' and avoid having to drive to the polling station, stand through a line and finally getting to vote. Well, that wasn't the case yesterday.

When I arrived at my polling station at around 2:30 yesterday, I had the place to myself. Literally. The people running the polling center told me that I was only the 104th voter in yesterday's election. That's right! I live in a town of nearly 50,000 people and I was #104.

True, the polls closed at 8 p.m., which translates into more people, but if 400 people came to vote, IMHO, I wouldn't be too surprised.

Folks, I vote because I want good things to happen. If you want something, you must do it yourself. I didn't vote in the 2000 elections, and we ended up with the worst president of all time. I think if people - especially those my age - voted, we could have more progress in our society instead of a government that's similar to The Jerry Springer Show. I'm still pissed over the outcome of the last election. But if people didn't vote yesterday, Prop 1 will raise our taxes and put more money into the pockets of the Devos family. We need to find better ways to fix our roads, such as taxing the wealthy.

Remember, a vote for Prop 1 is a vote for that guy above.

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