Daily Dose of BS Nov 13 Secede from country

Not happy with the election from last week?  Why-not secede from the United States?  There are a handful of states that are looking to secede from the United States in the wake of the election last week.  This is horrible- the ribbon generation wins again, what is that generation you ask, it’s a group of young adults that got a ribbon for everything, they never lost, never kept score, played to a tie.  The ribbon generation, makes sense to me if the kid wants to be the pitcher let him do it.  If she wants to play tackle football let her do it.  Playing soccer, running a race, hockey lets all play to a tie….yeah everybody wins.  If you don’t like who is in office lets secede or have a recall.  I am ok with not liking who is voted in for an office, there have been many times I wasn’t happy with the results but I have never nor will I ever sign a petition to recall someone from office, or to have any of the states to secede from the land of the free.  If you want to move from the country because of who is in charge, fine move, but to break up my United States, shame on you.  We just celebrated Veterans Day are you willing to look into the eyes of someone who was just risking their life for you to be free so that you can sign a petition to secede from this great country, again I say shame on you.  I understand that this is mostly a symbolic gesture, but why feed into this BS?  Don’t like the outcome of this election?  Try harder next time.

Daily Dose of BS- Veterans Day / Snow Fall

I saw it driving in this morning, there is not much but we can now say it is here.  I am glad that I am already at work as today as if we get any that sticks around, we will have many people acting like they have never seen it, never been in it, never driven in it, you know I am talking about the first snow fall, while the snow that I saw was like diamonds shimmering in the light of my headlights, with no accumulation, thank goodness.  With the rain from yesterday and the rapid cool down last night, I had a slippery deck this morning, I am glad that my oldest warned of it last night, not that I wouldn’t have seen it but the out loud mention last night made me aware of it this morning.  Yesterday I was thinking of the veterans in my life from my Grandfather to my Father to my Uncles and brother-in-law to many of my friends’ including many who are active now, thank you for your service to our county, thank you for your sacrifice of time, so that we can be free, and live in this awesome country.   Yesterday was  Armistice Day (which overlaps with Remembrance Day and Veterans Day) is celebrated every year on 11 November to commemorate the end of World War One on the "eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month” , Thank you.

Daily Dose of BS Nov 9 - James Bond

I was told I wasn’t a man.  Really not a man, come on.  Here is the reason why, I have never seen a James Bond Movie, the latest in the 007 series is now out and I have never seen a whole James Bond Movie.  I have seen bits and pieces of them, but I have never sat down and watched an entire one of the spy movies.  I don’t see how what movies I have seen make or break a person’s manhood.  I like comedies and well comedies, and only the funny ones like the Naked Gun series and Happy Gilmore, I also really liked Bridesmaids.  While I am admitting it, I watched the first of the Star Wars movies, you know the ones in the 70’s and 80’s but have not seen them since, nor have I seen any of the newer ones, I am not a fan of science fiction.  I feel so much better like a weight lifted off my shoulders, in fact, if there are more of us out there I could see it now.  Hi, I’m Bob and I haven’t seen a James Bond Film. 

Daily Dose of BS Nov 8 - Street Painting

Highway 35 opened a few weeks ago and the crew that put it together did a fantastic job, it looks nicer than I expected it to look, from the landscaping to the streetscaping to the cobblestone crossings the highway project looks great.  The one thing I do not get on the project is the painting of the arrows, I understand when there are arrows that point to a destination like a street or perhaps a driveway but arrows that point to nothing that has to do with driving then why put them on the road?  If you look at the road painting north of Traditions Restaurant there are arrows pointing both East and West, if you go West you will run into driveways, which I can understand having the arrows there, if you go North of the Bed and Breakfast on Highway 35 there are no more driveways and the arrows point off to the river, but to get there you have to go down quite an embankment and over the rail road tracks.  I guess I just don’t understand.  I also would think that the street painters would have thought of that.  Speaking of street painters remember about 5 or 6 years ago on Monitor Street behind Menards it looked like an etchasketch drew those street lines.  While I’m bitching about the roads, when did it become ok to put speed bumps on a city street?  There are speed bumps now in Onalaska and on the South Side of La Crosse in front of the Dairyland Power building.  Just so you know you can get air.   

Daily Dose of BS Nov 7 - Day after election

The 2012 election is done, it was down to the wire, down to a percentage point here and a percentage point there.  Can one person at the top be the difference between day and night?  I do not believe so, I really think that this is why we have more than one branch of government. I personally think that they all have some good ideas, and many, many more bad ones, if politics were cut and dry that if this is up and this is down then maybe just maybe it would be easier to like what they do, and maybe it would be easier for things that are good for us as Americans to get done, a simple yes or no for this and that is better than filling up a bill with two thousand pages of fluff.  We have a day or two of election talk, and a week or so of no political ads then back with both feet to the fire for 2016. 

5 THINGS YOU CAN TELL ABOUT A WOMAN IN 5 SECONDS:

1. If she looks out of place, she could be there on purpose. She’s savvy enough to know the proper dress code for a dive bar. So if she’s dressed to the nines, she’s probably not there for the beer list. Women go places all the time specifically to meet men. There’s your green light.
2. If she’s drinking red, she could want more action. Italian researchers have found that women who drink 2 glasses of red wine per day crave sex more frequently than women who drink less often. They credit red wine’s polyphenols, which improve blood flow.
3. If she’s wide-eyed, she could be adventurous. Florida State University researchers have found that when women look at men with wide eyes, raised eyebrows, and/or sidelong glances, they usually have higher levels of sexual openness.
4. If she’s sporty, she’s not too concerned about your looks. Meet a cute woman at the weight rack? Don’t worry about being sweaty. Athletic women tend to be less choosy when it comes to a guy’s looks, say Polish researchers.
5. If she seems like an ice queen, she may have been around-the-block. Villanova researchers have found that ladies with cold personalities tend to have more sexual partners. That, psychologists say, is because they aren’t as inclined to form relationships.
– Condensed from MensHealth.com

Daily Dose of BS November 5

I’m not a fan of the switching of time, in March and November we have to switch our lives around, albeit an hour, it is an hour of either lost or gained sleep.  That is what they want you to believe, I have never got the extra hour of sleep, I have lost lots of sleep but not gained an hour.  Take last night for example I went to bed at 8:03pm, I was tired my body was telling me it was 9 o’clock so I went up to bed, in my head I knew it was 8 and thought I shouldn’t go to sleep now cause I will not be able to fall asleep, guess what I got what I was thinking.  Last I looked at the clock it was 8:45 I woke at 2:05a then tossed and turned, got up let out the dog, checked emails for the day thought I was ready for the day, about 3:30 back to bed for 30 minutes, I slept hard for that 30 minutes, now I am tired.  There is no reason for us to change the time now because we have lights, what a concept.   We have lights in the home, on the streets, and we live in a 24 hour a day 7 day a week world why do we have to switch our time?  Plus for many of us we are now at work the entire day of sunshine, and kids don’t get to play outside in the daylight.  You could say I dislike intensely, loathe and despise let’s just say I hate the clock change.  

Daily Dose of BS Nov 2

Day two of the 5 month long debacle is now done, the nice thing is we are in the grace period, the bad thing is the grace period ends soon.  I am talking about alternate side parking.  I hate it.  I don’t park on the street usually but am selling a vehicle so I need to change sides every day now.  Last year my son started driving and I told him at the beginning of the season that I would pay for one ticket, he made the entire winter without getting a ticket he asked me for the 10 bucks for the ticket after the season ended ( a chip off the old block) I have been told by the city that this is not a fund raiser for them, I don’t think I believe it.  How can it not be, it is for plowing the streets.  I have lived here for 20 years and I don’t recall ever having plowable snow the first part of November.  If it is not a money maker, the question I have is this, are you employing more people now overnights to enforce the no parking rule? Only 150 days to go or four months and 30 days, if you think about it that would only be 75 tickets or 750 dollars to park in front of your house.  Happy parking.

Daily Dose of BS November 1

I went to bed last night at 8:59 I noticed the time on my clock next to my bed, I was happy with myself for getting to bed at the right time for a person who gets up at 4.  I was super tired yesterday fighting off not feeling well, with a headache and stomachache.  I woke a couple times during the overnight thinking about what I had going on today, work, the CMNH radioathon, the La Crosse Chamber business expo, I got to bring my kids to the dentist afterschool and a friend of mine will be stopping by later this afternoon to help me sell my van and pick up.  My alarm rang at 4 I listened to the top of the hour news, got ready for work as I always do, headed down to the computer and was checking emails and playing Farkle on facebook when my wife yelled down its quarter to 6.  I gotta be on the air at 6 I live 20 minutes from work, the dirty version of shuckky darn hit me and panic was rolling in.  I grabbed my computer, my jacket and out the door thinking all the way to work don’t speed, don’t speed, don’t speed.  I made it here by 6:04 was on the air as I should have been, but my biggest question is what the hell happened to my alarm clock how did it wake me up at the “right time” but be an hour off?  Am I going to be able to sleep tonight without buying a new alarm clock, my guess is no.  Happy Thursday, I guess the acronym Sure Happy its Thursday is fitting here.   

Daily Dose of BS Halloween

Lions and tigers and bears oh my.  Tonight we will be inundated with short people, short people who are doing a few things that we as parents have told them not to do throughout most of their lives.  Like don’t talk to strangers, don’t take candy from strangers, don’t eat and run.  I guess that we are good at setting rules but not following them, for example the person I was following through La Crosse this morning on my way to work has kids, I know this because they have the little stick figure stickers on the back window that told me there were 5 people and a couple of dogs in that family, this person went straight thru a turn lane about 10 miles per hour over the speed limit, and then when she had a green turn signal she stopped before she went, after I yelled a string of niceties to myself of course, I passed her when possible and guess what, she was texting.  I bet if her teenager was in the car that she would be yelling at him to stop texting and pay attention, but then again many of our kids are out ringing door bells talking to strangers and taking candy from the weirdo on the next block.   Remember kids do as we say not as we do, we mean well.  

Don't get scamed

Disaster scams are crimes of opportunity. Desperate people are willing to do almost anything when catastrophe strikes — and these scamsters prey upon them like buzzards.
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Daily Dose of BS Oct 30

Over 16 dead, millions without power for up to 2 weeks, cars floating, over 7 subway lines are submerged in water, an economic impact of over 100 billion dollars, and super storm Sandy is not done yet.  My heart goes out to the families and businesses devastated by the losses of their homes, businesses and their lives.  The one bright spot is that there will be many in the construction trade that will be busy for years with the rebuild.  To help our brothers and sisters on the East Coast the American Red Cross is accepting donations people can visit www.redcross.org, call 1-800-RED-CROSS, or text the word REDCROSS to 90999 to make a $10 donation.  

Daily Dose of BS Oct 29

We are in the midst of the presidential election and people say stupid things, we hear garbage from all the candidates, I bet if you think about it you can think of stupid things said by each and every person running for office.  We have 8 days left then it all starts again for the next election cycle.  The reason I started with the people say stupid things is that I was on facebook yesterday (by that is not the stupid thing) someone posted “In some parts of the country school is being canceled because of the hurricane” and someone posted “lucky” in response.  Really?  Why would that be lucky?  I understand that some people just don’t get it and some people are trying to be funny, I have been accused of try to be funny many times in my life, but I don’t think I ever wished bad on anyone or was happy for anyone’s misfortune.  This huge super storm dubbed Hurricane Sandy that will be hitting the east coast later today or early tomorrow, will be devastating when it does make land fall.  Walls of water flooding the area, gale force winds, heavy rains and cold weather afterward making for miserable living, I hope and pray for the best.  

Friday night date night...make it memorable

You and your significant other don’t need to go far or spend big to have a special evening together. A few activities you may not have tried in awhile …
✓ TV marathon, 2012 style. Curl up on the couch for the night (weekend?) and plow through an entire TV series you’ve been dying to watch.
✓ Savor the memories. Trot out the old college yearbooks, scrapbooks, and/or photo albums and reminisce and laugh about old times.
✓ Put on your chef hats. Cooking is a great way to get you focused and more attuned to all your senses. Plus, no one can argue with the delicious rewards!
✓ Form your own private book club for two. Read the same tome, grab some grub, and spend the night discussing your deep literary thoughts.
✓ Be cheesy. You could spend big bucks at a wine bar or you could do the pouring, slicing, and tasting at home. Stock up on cheeses, pour some vino, and let your taste buds do the rest.
✓ Belt it out! Download the iKaraoke app, which transforms your Apple device into a makeshift Karaoke machine.
✓ You’ve got game. An adult-only game night plus a bit of sexy wagering could lead to some stiff competition.

Daily Dose of BS Oct 26

Our early afternoon guy Michael Smerconish is going to be interviewing President Obama one-on-one in the Oval Office today.  If you had the chance to sit down with either the President or Governor Mit Romney what would you ask them?  Would you be civil to the other guy (the guy you don’t support) or would you play your political cards?  In your opinion do you like the way that the political process is, if not what would you change?  BTW the Michael Smerconish’s  interview can be heard during Michaels show noon-3 on Today’s Talk 1490.  Every morning I leave my house before 5am to get to work, this morning was one of the few times while driving in that I had to stop at more than one stoplight, I had to stop 3 times on way in I think this is the most times I have ever had to stop this early in the morning (since most of the time the lights are flashing yellow), usually there is no stopping.  I hope the rest of the day goes the way they usually do with no stopping, forward thinking.  I guess that our day is what we make of it, so my goal is like every other day.  It is my choice to make it a great day.  

Life by numbers

A BS breakdown of who we are and what we do …
• 73% of daily commuters do it alone.
• 72% of men have a cookbook, but only 35% actually use it.
• 71% of men feel their dog understands them at some telepathic level.
• 40% of woman have thrown something at a man while arguing.
• 29% of women say they want to be lied to when asking whether they look fat in something.
• 10% of people over age 60 do not have a grey hair.

Daily Dose of BS Oct 25

There are only 185.5 million people in the US on facebook.  That is over half the population, not bad for a company that didn’t even exist 10 years ago.  With the average person spending almost 7 hours a month on facebook that is a lot of screen time for those little ads to make their way into your brain, and with facebook being a public company now they have to answer to their shareholders, meaning they have to make money, you would think a company with over a billion active monthly users would be raking in the dough, I bet they are.  From posts that used to go to everyone to posts that you can now pay to have seen, there is a lot of growth for this company in its infancy.  I started using facebook kicking and screaming after learning and loving myspace, weird now I am not even sure if myspace even exists.  The voyeur in me keeps me looking and the thoughts that plague my mind give me endless topics to post on here on facebook.  Are we better off now knowing that John had a burger for lunch with his bff?  Does it matter that Sally sold seashells by the seashore, you bet it does, the average person has 130 friends on facebook.  I at one time actually knew all my facebook friends, and many of my radio friends have two accounts the work one and the real one, I guess I wasn’t smart enough to do that when I started with facebook, and now I don’t think I have the time to do more than one facebook account.  I think I like the sharing that happens here, otherwise where would I catch up on the snarky thoughts of my friends, both real and online.  

Daily Dose of BS Oct 24

Things are easier now than they have been, when it comes to voting.  I look forward to going to my polling place November 6^th many are voting early, prior to this year, I have always been against it but after hearing from both sides decided that it is better for the process to open up and allow more to get out and vote.  I remember when Rock the Vote first rolled into existence back when I was starting my voting career.  I have as mentioned in previous posts in every single election and almost every primary election since I have been able to vote.  As I am getting ready to talk with many politicians and others about the up and coming election I found out about the website http://www.myvote.wi.gov on this site I can go and enter a few things and up will pop a voter profile, including when I registered to vote, where I vote, a sample ballot, how to vote absentee and a vast wealth of other information.  I checked myvote.gov and myvote.mn.gov and sorry to say the federal government and the state of Minnesota do not offer this info by going to those websites, but if you live in Wisconsin you can have at your fingertips the ease of knowing, now.  For those of you in Minnesota I did find the link you need it is http://www.sos.state.mn.us/index.aspx?page=134 if you live elsewhere you can always google it.

POPULAR HALLOWEEN COSTUMES 2012

According to National Retail Federation, these are some of the top-selling prepackaged get-ups so far …
KIDS –
1. Princess
2. Batman
3. Spider-Man
4. Witch
5. Disney Princess
ADULTS –
1. Witch
2. Vampire
3. Pirate
4. Batman
5. Zombie
PETS –
1. Pumpkin
2. Devil
3. Hot Dog
4. Cat
5. Bee
– Wtop.com

Daily Dose of BS Oct 23

I am not a big fan of bruised apples or bananas or any bruised fruit or vegetable for that matter.  We picked apples last weekend in Galesville and I grabbed one as heading out the door this morning and was a big bruise on it, a quick couple of cuts and good as new.  The World Series begins tomorrow, not a big fan of baseball on TV, much better to take in a game with the boys of summer live.  My brother went to game seven of the World Series when the Twins won back in the 80’s.  Did you catch any of the debate last night?  It seemed to me that the commentator Bob Schieffer had things in control a bit better than the other moderators that we have seen, but then again I may be partial since we share our initials and a first name.  I thought both candidates seemed tired and got to the shiny foreheads faster than they did in the other debates, also if you are louder than the other candidate are you a better debater?  We have two weeks to get to the polls, early voting opened yesterday in Wisconsin, and early voting ballots were mailed out a couple of weeks ago, there should be no excuses to why you didn’t vote this time around.  Your vote does matter.  As BS mentioned last night that his mom said, I should say Bob Schieffers mother said, "go vote it makes you feel big and strong".  Please do vote November 6^th, or before.