The James Holmes shootings in Aurora
Colorado has brought up some interesting topics. I believe that we all have the right to bear
arms. I feel that we should be able to
conceal carry if we are properly trained.
I also think that guns are too easy to get. Why would anyone other than a police officer
or someone in the service need or even want a rapid fire semi or automatic
gun. If you are a hunter these take out
the sport of the hunt and the only other reason I can see you having one is so
that you can shoot something many, many times.
Why? Also why do we need to buy
1000’s of bullets at a time? Why can we
buy them without ever having to see anyone, or register your bullets? If you are buying over a certain amount of
ammo don’t you think that it would be safer for us all if the person who bought
massive amounts of ammo should have to register it somewhere, or at least see
someone? Don’t get me wrong, I think we
should all have guns if we want but they should be registered legal guns. If you’re not causing problems or plan on
doing something illegal why would you care if your bullets are registered and
why would you care if someone knows you have the bullets?
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Tuesday, July 31, 2012
Monday, July 30, 2012
Daily Dose of BS July 30
The rabbits in La Crosse have been doing what is expected of
them. I don’t think I have ever seen
more rabbits in my life as I have around my neighborhood. I remember when I was a kid growing up in the
Twin Cities, that my buddies and I tried catching rabbits with a box and some
carrots, never having enough patience to wait until they actually jumped into
the box so that the string could be pulled.
To be honest with you I don’t know what I would have done with the
rabbit if I would have ever caught one. The
reason I bring these pesky four legged luck bringers up is that the luck on at
least one ran out this morning, it was on the other side of the road and wasn’t
moving, it didn’t move that is until I drove by then I am guessing the boredom of
being a rabbit overtook the rabbit and he decided to play chicken with my
tires, the car won. Too bad that he
chose my car to play it with, cause when it happened I felt bad, bad enough to
think about it for more than a minute, bad enough to write about it and talk
about it. Ok, I’m over it now, but come
on rabbits it’s not cool to play rabbit roulette with the four tires of a car,
eventually you will tire.
Friday, July 27, 2012
Daily Dose of BS July 27
We are going to be seeing the best of the best after the
Olympic opening ceremony opens up the annual 4 year games tonight. There has already been some controversy with
the uniforms that the American Athletes will be wearing; in fact Harry Reid called
for the burning of all uniforms and start over.
I don’t know about you but most of the clothing I am wearing unfortunately
is made overseas. I would more likely
say lets burn the uniforms because they are ugly rather than that they are made
overseas. I am hoping for lots of
positive stories to come from the Olympics, but as we know from prior years
there competition sometimes brings out the worst of the worst. Remember the Olympics from 18 years ago, if I
say skating and Olympics what is your first image? I think of Tonya Harding and Nancy Kerrigan,
I was ok with their friendly rivalry but once the clubbing happened, come
on. This isn’t the only time that
controversy has taken center stage at the Olympics either. Let’s hope for more of the positive stories
to come from the next couple of weeks as thousands of amateur athletes and
hundreds of professional athletes take center stage, here is to good
sportsmanship and positive outcomes.
Thursday, July 26, 2012
Daily Dose of BS July 26
Couple of things I am thinking about this morning there are
so many times that we let things go, for example I have a piece of siding that
got blown not off my garage but is not in the track and is about 16 feet off
the ground this happened last March when the tornado went through my
neighborhood, I see it once in a while, but it’s one of those things that doesn’t
bother me, it’s on the honey do list but is not at the top and someday it will
get done, most likely today since I am making a deal about it, but there are
many things on that honey do list that just keep sitting there like, paint the
door jamb in the basement or build shelves for the cabin I have a list that
keeps growing. I sometimes get to the
list but more often than not, the list grows, and I am guessing that mine isn’t
the only list to keep growing. Do you
have items on your list, if so what kind of items are on it? The second thing that is on my mind is that I
put together a lunch most nights so I don’t have to do it in the morning, I went
to grab my lunch this morning and over half of it was eaten, thanks to my 17
year old son.
Wednesday, July 25, 2012
Daily Dose of BS July 25
I really dislike the phrase No Worries. It implies that I was going to worry about whatever it was that I said that made someone say not to worry. To me that is very presumptuous of you to think I was worried about it to begin with I would have said something or I would have just worried about it but now I have the free pass of not worrying about it at all. Well thank you, thank you very much thank you for the free pass thank you for allowing me off the hook, thanks for the chance for me to have a free conscious. Thanks for making me not think about what I did anymore, what if I wanted to worry, what if that was my main purpose in life at that moment. I sometimes like to worry about things that may or may not have been I sometimes sit and think what if they would not have said no worries and then thought what if I did worry after they said not to, it is no wonder that I go through so many tums and rolaids and other antacids. All this because someone offered me two words after I answered them an answer, the two words of no worries, is what started it all.
Tuesday, July 24, 2012
Daily Dose of BS July 24
A six year old is among the 12 dead, I am sickened by the
fact that this monster James Holmes went in guns blazing to a midnight showing
of The Dark Knight Rises, last Friday in Aurora Colorado. This is unacceptable, a travesty, a horrible
chain of events. I am not claiming to be
a great parent, we all have our own situations that we have to deal with as a
parent but I don’t think that I would have brought my 6 year old or my 4 year
old to a movie at midnight. Especially
to The Dark Knight Rises, these movies are made for an older crowd; a crowd
that understands what it going on. I
sometimes get questioned by my own kids when we are watching things if they are
real (and they are older than six), and when you see things that are in the
movies that are presented as real we sometimes get caught up in the “realness”
events, then bringing your kids to a midnight showing which is way past the bed
time of a typical 6 year old. I am not
trying to start anything with this especially with 71 people shot and 12 dead,
but don’t you think that having kids at that young age in the movie theater is inappropriate. I am angry, actually mad as hell that this
happened, just like the rest of the nation but come on there is a reason that
Bambi isn’t playing at midnight, it is not a movie show time for kids.
Monday, July 23, 2012
Daily Dose of BS July 23
Be a tourist in your own community. In the economy we are enduring and gas prices
un the upward swing again I think we should look at the great things we have in
our own back yard the things that we take for granted like the rivers, and
lakes. When was the last time you were
out on the water here in our backyard?
How about the bluffs and the many miles of trails both on the bluffs and
through the parks, I have been exploring these trails more in the past year
than I did in the first 19 years that I have lived in Gods Country. I also invite you to take in the great local
shops in Downtown La Crosse or a short drive to the north there is the La
Crosse Fairgrounds Speedway, many different foods can be found here and you can't
forget the salute to this that and the other thing, almost every single weekend
we are blessed to live in an area that has fest fairs and fun weekly. So look around and take in what is around and
live life to its fullest. And share what
you have found, don’t just sit on that diamond, let everyone know. The reason I bring this up is I was in
Stevens Point over the weekend for a baseball tournament and when I told a few
people I was going there, everyone mentioned to go to Belt’s for ice cream and
when I posted on fb I was going to Stevens Point everyone there said go to Belt’s
when someone says I am going to La Crosse what do you tell people to check out?
Friday, July 20, 2012
Daily Dose of BS July 20
When you are in line at the grocery store and you write a
check, why would you not put the name of the store, the date, and your signature
on the check while you are in line instead of waiting until the last possible
second to do it? I have been stuck
behind people in the shortest line at the grocery store and 9 out of 10 times
this will happen. Why do the people writing
the checks not use the debt card and why would they wait until the last second
to fill in what could have been done earlier?
And why is it that these people who wait do not seem to have a care in
the world that maybe just maybe this is why they are buying cat food for 10 and
food for one.
Thursday, July 19, 2012
Daily Dose of BS July 19
I got a new toilet at my house it is a 10 when it comes to
the flush at least according to the flush scale, why in the world would anyone
get anything less than the best when it comes to flush power? Do you like to embarrass your guests by putting
it as the guest bathroom toilet and see who comes out and asks for the
plunger? For my top of the line 10
flusher I paid under 200 bucks, 200 bucks for a piece of equipment that takes everyone’s
ummm Schmidt. The reason I bring this up
is that the sound of the toilet is not a nice flushing sound of cascading
waters gently flowing around the bowl but a hack if you will of trying to get
something unstuck from the back of your throat, forcing the mess to its final
resting place, the noise will wake the dog and the kids from a quiet nights
sleep, scare the heck out of you the first time it happens and when you happen
to be napping on the recliner in the other room. It may be a low water user and it may be a 10
on the flush scale, but on a decibel scale it is deafening, so next time you flush
one of the new toilets flush and plug, I better clarify flush and plug your
ears.
Wednesday, July 18, 2012
Daily Dose of BS July 18
Move over; don’t wait until the last possible second. Where there is road construction there are
going to be idiots. I don’t get it. You know that when there is road construction
that you need to move over especially when there is construction that is
ongoing like the Hwy 35 construction in Onalaska or the Losey Blvd construction
in La Crosse, it should not come to a surprise to you that you are going to
have to switch to either the right or left lane, you should know that. Unless today is your first day in the city,
or your first day driving, when you are the car that waits until the last
possible second to merge how did that make you feel? Did you feel like the b.m.o.c? Was it a feeling of power? Was it your winning moment of the day, if so I
am sorry that your life is so boring that you need to put yourself and your passengers
in harm’s way along the way putting my life in danger and in turn ticking me
and everyone else behind me in a bad mood at least for a second. Um if I am talking to you when was the last
time that someone did that same thing to you?
Did it tick you off? I bet it did
and here you are doing the same thing, wonderful. Have a pleasant day, and don’t let the idiots
tick ya off.
Tuesday, July 17, 2012
Daily Dose of BS July 17
If you listened to any radio over the weekend, you may have
heard that the credit card companies are now going to allow stores to pass on
the 3% usage fee to the customer. Now
correct me if I am wrong, isn’t that cost already being passed on to us as the
cost of business? I guess I can honestly
say this right now that I for one will try not to spend my money with
businesses that are adding the credit card fees to my bottom line. I can say as of right now this is how I feel,
but in the grand scheme of things, I hope that this fails miserably and falls
back on the credit card companies and every business that implements this outrageous
fee, unless of course they drop the fees straight across the board for all the
prices at the store for people who pay cash.
I can say this now but will most likely it will be about as meaningful
as a celebrity saying that they will move from the country if x is elected, I don’t
recall anyone of these loud mouthed celebrities moving from the county. If they did move would we miss them, most
likely not but if we all complain about this, maybe just maybe we can make a
difference.
Monday, July 16, 2012
Daily Dose of BS July 16
Do we give in to our kids too much; are we taking too much
crap from our kids? Are the inmates
running the asylum? I see it at my house
and at others around, when I misbehaved I got the look and if that didn’t work I
got the threat of wait until your father gets home. That was about all it took, I am sure I was a
good kid, not like the many that are running all over their parents now. I am not pointing fingers at least not too
much but when was the last time you saw a kid ask either mom or dad for something
heard the parent say no and then the kid turns on the tears, attitude, and
anger only to have mom or dad give in to the kid. It kind of makes me a bit mad to see this,
because what is this teaching these kids, that if they have a fit they will get
what they want. I am sorry to burst your
bubble kid but that is not going to work once you get in life. In fact I am not against punishment for
misbehaving, I am not saying beat your child or even raise your hand but what
is wrong with a few days break from the tv, computer, gaming system or even a
day or two off of spending time with friends.
I feel we need to get our lives back and it can start at home, getting
respect from our kids. It really does
hurt to see a kid walk all over their care giver, parents do your kids and
yourself a favor and take back the house.
Friday, July 13, 2012
Daily Dose of BS July 13
Billboards are great reminders, the one that stands out the
most to me is the one that ran a few years ago that said “Buzzed driving is
Drunk Driving.” I am not a stupid man
and never really thought about it but it made sense to me. It was a wake up call that made me realize
just that. Since that billboard came
into my life, I have changed the way I drive, and when I will get into a
car. I lucked out and I am guessing that
you may have also. It was an easy and
simple message but it hit home, the people who put that message followed it up
with a few car crash billboards with the caption under each that said drunk
driving and showing a smashed car and the same picture with the caption buzzed
driving under it. Bam wake up call. As I said in a few moments ago, wasn’t something
I even though of, so for the people who put up that campaign thank you for
saving some lives.
Thursday, July 12, 2012
Daily Dose of BS July 12
I know a guy who gave up his smart phone since he couldn’t not
look at his phone while he was driving. I
think that if you know you can't not look, this is a smart thing to do. I am not sure how many times throughout the
day that I notice someone texting while driving, and it is both men and women,
young and old. I am often looking at my
phone when I am stopped but have been tempted to look at it I am not going to
lie. I heard on the radio yesterday
morning that there is new technology out there that will stop your phone from
being able to text while driving but only if you are the driver. I like this, I think that this kind of
technology will be a good thing for our younger drivers and heck even the more
seasoned drivers like myself who are tempted to look at the phone while driving. The only thing is how does the phone know
that you are the driver and not just a passenger. I was making a phone call the other day from
my phone in my car and the guy who was in the truck next to me laid on the
horn, at first I was mad, but then realized that he assumed that I was texting,
and I was still mad, but I got over it and understand why he was upset.
Wednesday, July 11, 2012
Daily Dose of BS July 11
Are you as irritated as I am when you call a business to
talk to someone and they come on with a recorded voice saying we are trying to
make it easier on you by streamlining the process by automating? I call BS I do not recall a single time in my
life that the automated phone answerer has made my life or anyone’s life
easier. How can listening to an
answering machine telling me to listen as our options have changed possibly
make it easier for me to get my job done?
I called a huge business that every one of you have heard of the other
day a number that I had memorized as I have talked to these people for many
years, only to end up 7 minutes later still trying to navigate their stupid
time saver, the only saver of time that was saved was the person on their end
of the line answering the phone and putting me thru to the person that I wanted
to talk to. This reminds me of another Midwest
business that has a generic number out there, and the listing for you to talk
to this department push this etc and I thought I would beat the system and push
zero to get the operator, guess what that just repeated the message and then I was
on a mission to find the operator number so that I could voice my opinion on
how I loved the system, it was a double digit number and when I hit it I was transferred
to a full mail box and hung up on. Needless
to say I voiced my opinion next time I visited the store; the voice mail however
is still the same. Damn.
Tuesday, July 10, 2012
Daily Dose of BS July 10
I had the most surreal week last week. I always wanted to have a 3 hour long morning
talk show, I have been doing radio for much of the past 25 years, and in that
time I have had a 30 minute talk show for about 5 years and produced a talk
show for over 15 years, and filled in for that talk show many times., but the
past week was one of trial and error, more error than trial. I learned a lot, for example you cannot walk
in to a new situation thinking you are able to BS your way through an hour if
someone was not available to talk. I
also learned that a billboard is huge, especially if your mug is on it. It is so surreal to look at a 12 foot high
mug shot on a billboard. It is also weird to have people be totally blunt
with you, for example someone said you are horrible on the radio and I am glad
you got fired from your last job, another person told me I have the face for
radio, I have also heard that I love your voice and I think you are funny. I guess when you have a media job and you are
in the public that you can expect the unexpected. But when you are totally blunt with someone
try to remember that we do have feelings, and maybe try to tone it down a bit,
and I know I got the face for radio and the voice for newspaper.
Monday, July 9, 2012
Daily dose of BS July 9
We have all heard someone we know say I long for the good old days when things were much simpler. Heck I bet that many of you have said it at a point or two in your lives. Now correct me if I am wrong the good old days meant black and white tv, only am radio, no remotes, cell phones, microwaves, or dvd players and dvrs. It also meant getting on your hands and knees to trim grass around the fences, washing dishes by hand and hours and hours of research done at the library. I guess we all love having a hot and humid home especially after last week, and love to cut wood, and stack it only to be woke in the middle of the night to add wood to the fire. And who can forget the ice cold outhouse seat at 2 in the morning with no lights. I for one am glad that we have the modern conveniences, and for the every once in a while that I think otherwise, there is nothing stopping me from getting rid of the modern convenience that have made our lives easier and more productive. If ya don’t like it try spending a day living in the past, winding up your record player, having your phone in your kitchen and having to open your garage door by yourself, oh yea remember men you have to wear a suit to work, with a fancy hat.
Thursday, July 5, 2012
Daily Dose of BS July 5
Hot enough for you? I hate when people say that but have been finding myself saying it within the last few days. The temperatures around La Crosse have been unbearable and as I am getting older I am not as tolerant when it comes to heat and humidity. I was thinking that I have had the air on in my house for the past at least 10 days and maybe even longer. I even gave up going to my cabin on Tuesday night because there is no air there, also didn’t go to Riverfest Tuesday night because of the same thing. I did spend much of yesterday there and also will be walking a mile in her shoes for prevention of domestic violence tonight, come down to the fest grounds to cheer us on and to look at over 300 men wearing high heel. And when we are done doing the walk, I expect that the La Crosse Jaycees Beer tent will be full of men with high heels…the picture of that is just scary and disturbing. Daily Dose of BSweekday mornings on Today's Talk 1490 and weekday afternoons on Magic 105
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