Daily Dose of BS Nov 15 cards against humanity

For the past few years the card game Cards Against Humanity has had some sort of holiday prank, to get national press for free, this year is no different, this year the card game is making it difficult for the Trump administration to purchase border land by buying up some of the land that borders the United States and Mexico and vows to make it “as time-consuming and expensive” as possible.  To me that is counterproductive on a couple of different levels, first of all it is the United States, there is such a thing as eminent domain, they can sweep in and take land, and I could really see the government doing something like this, all it would take is a “just” compensation, and secondly, if they are making it “as time-consuming and expensive” as possible, doesn’t that just mean more tax dollars out of my pocket fighting for something that isn’t even going to be built anyway?   I have played the game a few times, it was fun, but I don’t think it was that irreverent, but maybe that’s just me.  

Daily Dose of BS Nov 14 Parking

I hope you enjoyed where you parked last night. It was the last night of parking without alternate side parking until March 15th you have 120 days to try to get it right. I like to look at it like a game you can’t win.  And this year since we have less days the city of La Crosse will not be putting warnings on cars.  The annual free for all money grab starts at 1 tonight as the yearly alternate side parking debacle begins.  I am lucky enough to have off street parking but my son isn’t as lucky. Sometimes he can park behind the house but for the most part it is street parking for him.  From today until March 15^th we will have to follow the even, odd parking rules, this is even if we don’t have any snow or even any snow in the forecast.  I wonder where the parking money even goes?  

Daily Dose of BS Nov 13 Facebook

There are over a billion people on Facebook.   About 58% of Americans are on the social media platform, not bad for a company that didn’t even exist 14 years ago.  With the average American spending almost 40 minutes a day on Facebook, about double of the world wide average,  that is a lot of screen time for those little ads to make their way into your brain.  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 338 friends up from a few years ago in 2013 it was 130 friends.  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, I just started a radio one.   And am slowly getting up to my 338 friends. 

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Daily Dose of BS Nov 10 sexual assault

I get that we are sexual beings.  I really do.  However, I don’t get all these men forcing themselves on others.  It had been going on since the beginning of time and there have been Presidents that were implied did wrong, there was the Bill Cosby stuff, then came Harvey Weinstein, and Kevin Spacey now there are allegations against a few politicians and the comedian Louis C K.  Plus the everyday sexual assault that goes on, each and every day, from schoolyards, to boardrooms, to bedrooms.  I don’t know about you but my parents taught me that no means no, not maybe or yes.  It angers me that these men think that their power gives them the right to be an a-hole.  The thing is that they ruin it for every nice guy out there, every guy that is respectful and loving gets the once over and assumed that he too is a sexual deviant.  Drinking or drugs shouldn’t be used as an excuse either.  We need to respect each other and respect ourselves.  

Daily Dose of BS Nov 9 pot holes

Had a caller yesterday mention how horrible the conditions of the roads in La Crosse are, I will have to agree that some are bad, but not all, in fact not a lot.  According to a few national reports out there the city isn’t alone, the state of Wisconsin has 238,240 miles of road, the 13th most btw, with the 4th highest public roads in poor condition.  Not sure where they are driving.  On my daily commute from south side La Crosse to Onalaska I have great roads all the way here, when going to the mall from my house, same deal, heading downtown, there are a few pockets of crappy roads, but for the most part they are better than the roads in Minnesota where I grew up.  I recall a pothole that about swallowed my car when I was younger.  I think we have work to do to make all the roads smooth as glass but for the many miles of roads that are paved around here, they do a pretty damn good job. 

Daily Dose of BS November 8 deer

Tis the season, not the Christmas season but you wouldn’t know that if you were at any local retailers.  Tis the season for deer crashes in Wisconsin.  There were about 21,000 car vs deer accidents last year.  21,000, that is a lot of white tail being hit and not by hunters.  I think that we have all seen a few of the remains on the side of the road, and after a couple of weeks they aren’t too pretty anymore.  This week is the week were more car vs deer accidents happen on Wisconsin roads than any other.  A little advice when you see a deer slow down, watch the side of the road there may be more following.  Try to avoid taking evasive action by crossing the center line, you may cause more injury or even death.  Last year the average claim after hitting a deer was $3,464 dollars, in fact not a single day went by last year without a single reported deer crash, with an average of 56 per day, and the least being 11 last Christmas and the most being 236 on November 10^th, be safe out there, and remember that the deer crossing sign really isn’t where the deer cross, it is just a reminder to you to be safe. 

Daily Dose of BS Nov 7 flipping off the boss

Do you have the right to express yourself outside of work?  The reason I ask is because Juli Briskman was the unidentified cyclist who flipped off the Presidential motorcade and the picture was seen around the world.  Juli worked for a government contracting firm and when she told her bosses that it was her who was in the picture seen around the world, they fired her for violating a code of conduct policy.  The first amendment will keep you from being punished by the government but it doesn’t protect your paycheck.  Before your praise or chastise her, think about if it was your candidate or a hater of your candidate.  Does it change your way of thinking?  For me I think that she should have kept her job.  Would you like your boss telling you who or who you cannot flip off while you weren’t at work.  Me either. 

Daily Dose of BS Nov 6 more shootings

Another week another shooting, this one at a church.  These shootings are coming at a more rapid pace and are becoming more difficult to understand.  Why?  What is wrong with our society?  Have our lives gone so out of control that in order to be known that you have to do something so bad that your name gets out there?  Maybe the media should vow not to say the names of the shooters more than just once.  Honestly if I thought back to all of the mass shootings that we have heard about over the past decade, I couldn’t name a single one, I may notice a name but for a million dollars I wouldn’t be able to name a name.  I heard this morning that the President called the shooting a "mental health problem," not an issue with US gun laws.  I believe that there is more of a push to recognize mental health issues now more than before, as we are seeing more mental health facilities pop up and more mental health specialists showing up in areas where people gather, especially kids, there has been a push in La Crosse at the YMCA and at the Boys and Girls Clubs.  I hope this helps with our future, and that we don’t continue to see these mass shootings.  

Daily Dose of BS Nov 3 hunting

My kids have participated in the youth hunt as well as the mentored hunt with me and my friends.  A bill was introduced in the Wisconsin state assembly and passed yesterday that would eliminate the minimum hunting age.  Huh?  What are they thinking?  I get that the hunting numbers are dwindling but it isn’t because the age is to high, it is because we are busy being busy and there is no time for the group to get together as they once did.  Plus I am guessing that the scare of chronic wasting disease, and cost for going hunting has stopped many from getting out and enjoying the hunt.  I don’t think that allowing kids that are younger to get out and hunt will help the cause I believe that inviting the people that used to hunt to come back and remember the joys of the hunt, and then the memories will be there to start bringing new people in to hunt.  It is a right of passage in the Midwest, as a young teen, but not having toddlers in the woods.   Please reconsider.  

Daily Dose of BS Nov 2 truck

Yesterday I saw something that nearly drove me off the road, I was driving by a dealership and I saw a window sticker on a new pickup truck in excess of 75,000 dollars.  75 thousand dollars for a pickup?  I am guessing that this is a truck that isn’t for the farmer or the person that needs a truck for work, this is a fashion statement of a truck.  A truck for someone who needs people to see them in a pickup but wants to be surrounded by luxury.  This truck costs more than I paid for my house and almost as much as my house and cabin combined.  I wonder what kind of gas mileage that this truck gets, you know that gas prices just jumped to 2.59 in La Crosse, but I guess if you are driving a 75-thousand-dollar truck that a measly 2.59 a gallon is nothing.  

Daily Dose of BS Nov 1 terrorism

It seems like more and more news is being broke on social media.  I was on Facebook yesterday afternoon and I saw someone post that there is more terrorism on American soil.  I quickly turned on the television not knowing what I was expecting to see.  When I popped it on was shocked to see a mangled-up pickup and many bikes littered on a pathway.  At first it didn’t register as terrorism to me, it looked like someone took a wrong turn down a bike path and panicked.  If the terrorists want us to be confused, then what they are doing is working, I wouldn’t have thought that driving a vehicle down a crowded street is terrorism but if you think about it, it is.  I don’t think I am a fan of every time that there is an event with causalities that the media is quick to call it terrorism, to me that shouldn’t be handed out as freely because I feel the more that the word is tossed out there the more that the people who are perpetrating it win, because it brings fear. 

Daily Dose of BS October 31, Halloween

Let the donning of the masks begin.  Today is Halloween and a day that maybe we show the world who we really are.  Have you ever given that any thought?  Instead of putting on the masks the are meant to entertain, or scare and just be you.  Take off the mask that you put on every morning and be the person you are, it isn’t easy but after a while you will get used to it, and others around you will as well.  I truly try to be me, the same me whether it is around my family, my friends, my coworkers or myself, the Bob you see is the Bob you get.  Be proud of the person you have become, and if you aren’t then change, become the person you want to be.  A quick thought about Halloween, and I am guilty of it also, ever thought that with Halloween we go against everything we teach our kids, don’t beg, don’t talk to strangers and don’t take candy from strangers.  Hmmm.  Happy Halloween. 

Daily Dose of BS Oct 30 opioid

There was an interesting story in the La Crosse Tribune yesterday about the opioid crisis not being the first drug crisis in our history.  I remember the crack problems we had in the 80’s and the Nancy Reagan just say no campaign, followed by this is your brain and this is your brain on drugs egg commercial.  I wonder how many people had the craving for a good omelet after those commercials.  I really wonder what it is going to take to get our kids and our coworkers off drugs.  More than 64,000 Americans died from drug overdoses last year, and I bet we are going to be close to those numbers again this year.  And these numbers don’t include the numbers of people who were given Narcan to bring them back from an overdose.  This truly is an epidemic and I really don’t see an end to it.  We are also still fighting the battle of tobacco and alcohol.  However, I have noticed less people smoking cigarettes there are still a lot of people smoking and drinking, well I live in La Crosse and I like to have a few beers, as do most of my friends.  I guess moderation in the key.  Thoughts? 

Daily Dose of BS Oct 27 sleep

While scrolling through Facebook this morning I ran across a video of water beds and how in the late 80’s and early 90’s waterbeds were king.  The first bed that my wife and I had was a waterbed that we used for about a year, after that we to had given up on the sloshing around at night and went to a traditional mattress.  We had our first purchased new bed for about 20 years, then we got a single sided mattress that lasted about 5 years, my wife visited her sister a couple of years ago and she had just got a sleep number bed, and bragged about it, my wife tried it, we now have a mattress that should last for 25 years, we’ll see if it does.  So far so good.  I am constantly futzing with mine changing the sleep number usually getting the best nights sleep with a number between 60 and 85, depending on the day.  With the sleep number bed, and the my pillow, I sleep on two unconventional things, throw in my cpap machine and I rock a great sleep look.  How much sleep do you get a night?  My sleep tracker says I get about 6:27 on average per night.  Close to the 7-8 hours that are needed.  

Daily Dose of BS Oct 26 heat

There is snow in the forecast in the next couple of days.  I haven’t even turned on my heat yet.  Have you?  I always try to push the limits of my house by counting on it to give me shelter, and by shelter I mean from the high costs of heating and cooling.  About 16 years ago we did a huge remodel on our home we added on about half and then reinsulated the rest of the house, that and the addition of a new high efficient furnace and an efficient central air conditioner and my house has been great at giving me shelter.  My thing is that I am cheap and I don’t mind sitting around the house in sweats and a blanket, my kids and wife on the other hand, they would like the heat on.  I still am holding out until November 1^st but if snow does come, I suppose I will break down and turn on the heat.  Are you a date person or when do you turn on your heat?  

Daily Dose of BS Oct 25 IRS Scam

IRS lawsuit.  Bahahahaha.  I got a call on Monday afternoon from the number 206-866-5761 with a cheesy recorded electronic voice telling me that the IRS was going to sue me.  The recorded voice was in broken English and had some grammatically incorrect speech in it.  I wonder how many people fall for these phone calls?  There must be enough of them for them to keep up with the scam.  I feel sorry for people who do fall for these types of scams especially since they do sound so fake.  I know for a fact that the IRS won’t be making any calls to you, they first reach out via the phone.  I also know that if they were calling you that they wouldn’t use a recorded voice inviting you to call them back.  Come on scammers if you really want to do this, use someone with a half way decent voice and have them call and talk with possible mark.  Actually keep doing what you are doing and I like the rest of the population will just quit answering our phones.  

Daily Dose of BS Oct 24 nuclear war

Some top brass are saying that a nuclear war with North Korea is not likely, but the US is putting nuclear bombers on 24 hour alert for the first time since the cold war.  The threat of nuclear war posed by North Korea has grown to an unprecedented level according to a Japanese official, saying that North Korea’s behavior is getting worse and worse.  Kim Jong Un called our president a Lunatic for taking the United States and its poor puppet forces straight into ruin.   Around 22 thousand nuclear weapons can be found around the world today according to the United Nations and their reports so a nuclear attack is not a complete impossibility.  I am guessing if one pulls the trigger, the rest will as well, and if that happens will that be the end of civilization? 

Daily Dose of BS October 23 conferences

I heard a news story this morning about how at schools around the country they are trying something new, having the child lead the school conference.  I hate to say this but in La Crosse they have been doing that for years.  I remember the first time that one of our children was tasked with telling us his progress how scared he was and unsure of how to do it, but by the end of the process he was doing fine, this process lasted through all four of the kids, and now that they are in High School we no longer go to conferences.  One of the people in the story said that when the child is present that the “whole story” doesn’t get out.  Here’s an idea if you have something to say about the child, send them away or you and the teacher step out into the hall.  I think the confidence that it teaches the child as well as the instant accountability that is present because they must tell Mom and Dad what went right and what went wrong is a good thing.  

Daily Dose of BS Oct 20 CMNH

Today marks day 2 of the Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals radioathon in La Crosse. With a goal of over one hundred thousand dollars to help families with kids, those kids facing health challenges. Last year over 8,000 local kids were helped by the Children’s Miracle Network Hospital and each and every child served has a story of courage and perseverance. Please dig deep in your pockets, your seat cushions and piggy banks and help the La Crosse Media Group reach this goal to help thousands of children and their families this year. The phones are manned 6a-6p today and tomorrow 8a-2p. Help the Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals radioathon. The number to help is 608-784-KIDS, 784-5437. Please put your money where the miracles are.  100% of your donation goes to help the families.  Please Help!

Daily Dose of BS Oct 19 clutter

I am not the most organized person in the world but I am not worst ever either.  I read this morning that 20% of us have a room that can’t be used because of clutter or junk.  You know how they say that opposites attract.  Well my wife and I are the ying and the yang of clutter.  I have clutter and it doesn’t bother me, my wife on the other hand gets really bothered over clutter.  If I am tasked with uncluttering a room or the garage, I spend hours in that space, looking at everything, thinking about the story of where it came from and why it was there.  I get sweaty and anxious when tasked with that type of a job.  Weird how some can do it and some cannot.  Don’t get me wrong I know where my stuff is, it just may take me a minute to move this over to there and that to here, and well you get the point.  My space is clean just not that organized.  How about you?