Daily Dose of BS Feb 5 debate

On Wednesday February 13 from 6-9a we will be holding a mayoral forum-debate on Today’s Talk 1490 we have invited all 11 of the mayoral candidates, I have heard back from 10 of the 11 confirming their participation.  I think it is a big group and an important election, because it whittles down the number of candidates from 11 down to 2.  I have 3 questions that I would like them to answer, here are my questions. What specifically will you do to reduce property taxes in La Crosse? How will you corroborate with our neighboring communities? Because many see La Crosse as the bully....and What can we do to better the economic development in La Crosse?  I know there are many more issues that are facing the city of La Crosse, like crime, including drugs.  The north south corridor, inter-turmoil at city hall, what questions would you ask the candidates if you could?  

Daily Dose of BS Feb 4 broken leg

I almost made it 44 and a half years without a broken bone. On Friday I broke that streak.  I went out with a few buddies, it was snowing when I left, I stepped out the bar, walked down the ramp and landed on my hands and knees, after the quick look around to make sure no one was looking I got up, well I tried to get up thank goodness for the ramp rail and the garbage can right there, I was able to prop myself up, swear to myself and trek off to my car.  With each and every step the pain intensified, I thought I sprained it, so I was thinking buck up bucky and off to the car, I brushed it off started it up and went on my way.  When I got home out of the car up the back deck and off to my favorite chair.  The family wanted to see the ankle I was complaining about my son said I have never seen that color before.  Wrapped it with ace, watched some tv then went to bed, up the stairs with every painful step.  I tried to sleep but was up every 20 minutes or so with a throbbing leg, up Saturday morning, thank goodness the walk in is open at 6.  X-rayed then fit with an aircast and sent home to rest.  Just so you know it hurts like hell and I am horrible with crutches.  Plus how are you supposed to shower and sleep with this thing on? 

Daily Dose of BS Feb 1 technology

With the cold weather some of us are enjoying old school heat, while driving to work this morning I smelled at least 2 wood fires, the smell brings you to warmer days and sitting by a crackling fire.  Technology has made the wood stove obsolete, most of us have electric, oil or gas heat, and oh how easy it is to go to the thermostat and set the temperature to make your home comfortable.  Technology has made its way into much of what we do on a daily basis.  For example at the radio station we got a new automation system, a huge upgrade, with an upgrade comes a learning curve and they say you can't teach an old dog new tricks.  I have faith in our team we have all made it from albums to carts to cds and wav files, bring on the new stuff.  

Daily Dose of BS Jan 31 Waffle Bowl

The big game is on Sunday, it is a national day of tv, wings, other tasty treats and lots of alcohol in many cases.  My family however has a totally different menu when it comes to the big game, it started at least 12 years ago.  At the Schmidt house we have a family tradition of waffles, and sausage.  I remember the year we started it after reading the Sunday paper I glanced at a front page of a flyer that had a waffle maker on the front page and bought it, been making waffles every single waffle Sunday since.  It’s a great name cause when your team isn’t in the big game you can waffle back and forth and enjoy the plays and commercials.  I even left a party a few years ago when my team was in the waffle bowl to go home to have the breakfast of hotels.  Have a great Waffle Bowl Sunday and go team.

The Beebs grabbing more than he should

Daily Dose of BS Jan 30 garbage

I don’t know what it is when it comes to the white can in our kitchen.  It gets full and then over full every single day.  Our garbage can must be generating its own mess, I could empty the garbage in the morning have the whole family leave for the day and then when we get home the can needs to be emptied again.  There is more maintenance with the garbage can than there is for the dog, at least the dog lets himself in and out, the garbage on the other hand has to be handled a few times first to feed it then to bring out to the cans then back to grab a bag and replace.  Does this ever happen at your house?  I had to grab a second bag this morning to take the stuff piled up next to and on top of the can, I am glad that this isn’t a regular occurrence I will cut the kids a break today since last night you would have had to put on flippers to get to the garbage cans behind the garage, at least today it looks more like January.

Daily Dose of BS Jan 29 break ins

Another day another nickel, gas up to 3.34 I should have filled up yesterday.  The stoplight at West and Main is still out, what happened there anyway?  It is the end of January and instead of worrying about where to put all my snow, my backyard is flooded, the water is over the sidewalk in the middle of the yard.  We had the sidewalk raised a few years ago, but it must have re-settled and now we need a foot bridge to navigate to the garage.  There have been a rash of burglaries in the neighborhoods between UWL and WTC, the La Crosse police are reminding people to make your house look occupied, lock windows and doors and be a good neighbor.   If you see a crime, please report it. 

Daily Dose of BS Jan 28 gas fire lights

Gas prices are on their way up, again we have 3.27 in La Crosse, funny I was just getting used to the 3.12 we had a few weeks ago.  I thought after the inauguration the prices go down.  Pretty disappointed first of all in myself for allowing myself to think the prices are going to stay at 3.12 and secondly for thinking that the 3.12 was cheap.  I guess it is all relative.  Remember when you were a kid and everyone threw in a buck or two and you cruised for the night.  Not anymore.  Sad day in Brazil as there was a concert where someone was lighting off flairs or pyrotechnics and the fire extinguisher didn’t work, over 200 young adults either burnt or died from smoke inhalation, what a horrible way to die.  I think that pyrotechnics should be outlawed inside.  This is not the first time that this has happened where people going to a concert died because of this stupidity.  Finally I am thinking about who gets contacted when a light is out on the highway?  The light on the road where I turn into the radio station is burnt out?

Daily Dose of BS jan 25 not all created equal

Our forefathers were wrong, we are not all created equal.  I know we all think that we are but guess what we are not.  Let me explain my thoughts here, I will never be able to no matter how hard I try be able to slam dunk a basketball against a professional team, or against anyone for that matter.  I won't be able to run a seven minute mile, I will never be one of the top 100 most handsome people in the world.  There are just somethings that we need to take a look at and say I tried and this is not feasible I am not saying give up on a dream but we have to know that we are not all created equal.  When lots of us were younger I am guessing that we wanted to be something other than what we ended up being because either your parents did it or someone else that you looked up to did that job, we may have even started down the path to obtaining that job but did not do it, why, because either we decided that we didn’t want to do it or we tried and we couldn’t do it, and that is what I am talking about, we are not all created equal.  I think what our forefathers were talking about that we all should have the opportunity to do the things we want.  

DEAR MATT-

“Dear Matt, you are a loser and you have a fat back.” Just one example of the individually-designed hate mail postcards drawn by London-based artist Mr Bingo. It all started when a drunken Mr Bingo impulsively tweeted that he’d send an offensive postcard to the first person who replied. Someone did, and now his hate mail has became so popular, he’s charging a fee to send expletive-laden and obscene postcards to whomever you wish. He’s even put out a collection of his nastiest work … “The Hate Mail Book”.

Daily Dose of BS Jan 24 Office Depot

Well it happened and it was bound to happen, my youngest son ended up with a crack in the glass of his tablet computer that he got for Christmas.  He was bummed and I was kind of mad, in my mind it was ruined and never to be used again after all it was purchased well before Christmas from Office Depot, and I wasn’t sure what kind of a policy they had when it came to broken electronics, boy was I pleasantly surprised as they took the tablet back with the receipt with no questions asked, plus the manager was both friendly and helpful.  This is the way that service is supposed to be, so my hats off to you Office Depot for making it easy on a parent, making a kid happy and for doing business the way it ought to be done, let me rephrase my original kudos, hats off till I head outside, it is below zero after all.  

Daily Dose of BS Jan 23 bathroom doors

I always wondered about public restroom doors, why is it you need to pull a handle toward you rather than a push or a kick motion to open.  You have been in a public restroom where someone used the facility and walked right out the door without even pretending to wash their hands, that is a whole other event using the pot and not sending the job down, gross.  Do these people do this at their own homes I bet not, then why the heck would they leave someone else’s throne disgusting?  Also if ya dribble and I am not talking about on the court or in the field, but in the stall clean it up.  Does the crappy paper that many businesses use help to save money?  Don’t you need 3 or 4x the amount to make it work?  I also think that all the automated things in the bathroom that flush, dispense soap, turn on the water and kick out paper towels or turn on the dryer are nice, but even with all the automation you still have to grab a dirty door handle and turn and pull. 

Daily Dose of BS Jan 22 warming up your car

La Crosse cops could be ticketing ya soon for warming up your car on the public streets.  If a person leaves their car unattended you are subject to a fine of $114, this applies to vehicles on the street or any other public place.  The ordinance is in place to protect people from car thieves, because if someone passing by who might not have thought about stealing a car may be tempted to take advantage of an easy target.  This is some flawed logic I think, people should have better will power than to take something that isn’t nailed down.  If I walk into a store and there are no cameras and the clerk is in back the opportunity is there for me to clean out the store of their goods, what my parents taught me and the golden rule teaches me to not take stuff that is not mine.  The fining of $114 to warm your car is flawed in my opinion; cause no one likes to get into a cold car and I really hate grabbing the ice cold steering wheel.  I got a better idea make an example of the person who steals the car and make it so that others don’t steal cars.  

Daily Dose of BS Jan 21 inventions

So there I was yesterday afternoon sitting on my recliner, playing on my computer while talking on my smartphone all this while watching a program that recorded a couple weeks ago.  This made me think what are the most important inventions ever, or at least the ones that make a difference in your life?  Some of the ones that I have mentioned are on my list for the best and the worst just think about how much more time we had before we had any of the above because they truly are time suckers and anti-human contact machines.  I also think the car, toilets, indoor plumbing, heat and refrigeration should make the list and the best fix it material out there duct tape should be on the list also.  What are the inventions that you can't live without?   

Some good books

"A World Without Us" by Alan Weisman


"Concussions and Our Kids" by Robert Cantu


"God's Hotel" by Victoria Sweet


"Indomitable Will: LBJ and the Presidency" by Mark Updegrove




"Medicine for the Soul" - inscription at the Library of Thebes
Terri Schlichenmeyer
The Bookworm Sez, LLC
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LaCrosse, WI 54601
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Daily Dose of BS Jan 17 conspiracy theories

I heard yesterday that there are conspiracy theories out there about Newtown, CT.  The conspiracy people are saying that it is an elaborate scheme that the media, the government, and Obama administration either manipulated or orchestrated the shooting to move political opinion on gun control, I call BS.  In particular, a video that focuses on discrepancies in initial reporting about the number and types of guns used in the shooting, information was being found as it happened and the national media was doing what they could.  ENOUGH!  Who would fake such a thing, why would anyone fake such a horrific event? 

How hot is it?

http://www.nrdc.org/extremeweather

Daily Dose of BS Jan 16 phone calls

I went through and deleted a bunch of station voice mails from the station voice mail.  As I was listening to them I realized that we get a lot of spam or telemarking calls to a work line that I put on the no call list.  Many of these calls are robo calls telling me of my winnings, all I have to do is call an 800 number.  I have been getting calls at home saying it is imperative for me to call about my credit card.  I don’t even carry a balance on my card.  Enough of the madness, I don’t even answer my home phone if I don’t recognize the number, it is pretty sad that these companies have taken what we used to look forward to answering making it a chore.  I am also not a fan of those who you know that call wait through the voice mail message then hang up without saying anything, causing you to waste time to call and listen to the hang up noise.  

THE BEER BIBLE:

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– DesignTaxi.com

Daily Dose of BS Jan 15 la crosse mayor

I went to a mayoral forum last night at the Moose lodge; eight of the 11 running for mayor for the city of La Crosse were in attendance.  You can really learn a lot from listening for a couple of hours.  Even though I have lived in La Crosse for the past 21 years and thought I was in the know of who is who there were a handful of people that I didn’t even know who they were.  I even met a few of the people who are running for city council  I hope to have all the men running for mayor on the radio with me, I am about half way there.  I would think that if I were running for office that I would reach out to all medias that are out there, especially if my number was not listed.  Of the candidates that I have had on, their numbers were in the phone book or easily found, the ones I don’t have on yet, well their numbers are either unlisted or changed from the last time the phone book was updated.  Back to the reason I said I hope to have all the men on the air, it surprises me that there are no women running to run our great community.  Remember to do your homework and get out and vote on February 19^th for the primary, this election whittles it down to two candidates that will then run for mayor on April 2^nd.  May the best man win!