Is The Sky Falling?

Tuesday of this week, September 23, a fellow (name unknown) died in a plane crash just a few feet from my pick up truck. Very sad!

• It was 1:30 in the afternoon and it was a beautiful day. The sun was shinning and seemed to be showing off a bit in the afternoon. A cool breeze blew off and on and kept away the humidity. The AC in the truck was off and the window was down to capture some of the day.

• Lunch at 5 Guys was very good and I was full and beginning to have my after lunch sinking spell. I found gasoline at QT for $3.97 so the truck was full as well.

• Without warning a large piece of formed sheet metal came sliding out into the street in front of me while at the same time, there was some unidentified movement to my left front. I swerved to the right to avoid the large metal object which I determined to be the hood off a car.

• I have heard so often on Law and Order, people say, "it all happened so fast," and they could not realize what was happening. It all happened so fast, it was impossible to tell what was really happening. I looked to my left side and saw what I had imagined to be an automobile or something shredded with a little spiral of light smoke headed up.

• That car had to be flying to get that torn up that badly. No one was around the car even thought other cars were passing me headed in the opposite direction. I quickly pulled off the road in front of a white board fence in front of a church. As I ran across the street, I realized it was not a car, but a small plane. When I reached the plane, the whisp of smoke had stopped.

• Yelling, "can you hear me?" No one answered. I yelled out several times, but I knew that there was no one that could be inside the plane and be alive so I started walking around the yard into which the plane had fallen to see if I could see anyone who might have been thrown clear.

• I called 911 and the operator said they had received a call from PDK airport that a plane was down but they didn't know exactly where. I described the location and then broke the connection. I called WSB Radio to tell them to announce it because the Chamblee Dunwoody Road was going to require closing between I 285 and Peachtree Industrial Blvd., A long way and no place to exit.

• By that time, one other car had stopped and the driver had come up to the scene. Both of us began to look at the pile of scrap metal to see if we could see any movement. There was none, but we did discover a person compacted inside the ball of rubble with an arm and hand sticking out of what had been the cabin door.

• By then, the police began to arrive in packs along with three fire trucks. I left!

• The afternoon, while still beautiful, had a sadness. I couldn't help but think about the family who would not have a brother or father or grandfather or son come home Tuesday night. A blue bag sitting beside the wreckage that seemed to not be damaged.
  
• I learned later in the afternoon that the plane was from Jacksonville, Fla., some women's clinic and then I added to the imagination that he may have been airlifting an organ to someone in Wisconsin who would also be disappointed.

CONCLUSION: I do not know anymore than described about the pilot, but I am still sad about it. He had just filled up the gas tanks and it was dripping from inside the ball of metal and filling the air with that smell that is hard to forget. I have sent up many prayers for the soul of the pilot and his family and the people waiting on the other end for him.

Many prayers have been offered for this unfortunate man that he was a Christian and he knew that God was his savior. I pray that he is in Heaven worshipping and praising his God.

Frankie says to be careful, but be ready.

401K-IRA-Retirement Account, Where Did They Go?

Is the sky really falling? If you listen to CNBC you had better run for cover. There has not been a more gloom and doom bunch in my investing career. It appears that many 401K's have been laid to waste. It is not possible to trust 'risky' stocks like Apple and Mosaic. They are so manipulated that the brokerage houses cannot keep up.

• The stock market is being manipulated by the Ivy League Boys who run the hedge funds. Shalom to you. Greenberg who walked away with hundreds of millions of dollars; Lehman and the boys that that ran Fanny Mae and Freddie Mac, did they leave with a hole in their IRA or retirement? I think not!
• If that were not scary enough, we have a community organizer and 143 day seniority Senator with a post boomer of four decades in the Senate - entirely too many - running for the leading, top most jobs in the world. That is scary!
• Opposing them is another post boomer of over 20 plus years in the Senate who might have been in there longer, but he was tied up at the time he should have been campaigning. He has a current Governor for a running mate from the large rough neck state, Alaska, who has at the age of 44 has spent more time in the Executive branch of government than the three men combined, Sara Palin, a Christian lady with style and class.
• Sarah threw the fear of the unthinkable into the Democrat candidates handlers and the first thing they thought to do (after showering and changing their pants) was start trying to dig up as much dirt as they could even to the point of having some slob of an unwashed freak comic(?) from the UK to beg and plead for Americans to vote against Sarah.
• Then came a paid columnist to call anyone who voted for Sarah Palin "white trash." How dare she? It is obvious to many people that the Canadian columnist is the position of having lost her credibility in Canada so she will see if we blink. We won't! That smear tasteless woman, aka 'writer,' has obviously bought into the very thin full of holes Democrat platform which continues to endorse partial birth abortion while criticizing the U.S.A. qualified Vice Presidential candidate for moose hunting. HUH? If that makes sense to you, please do not vote.
• Frankie has been a bow tie conservative Republican since the days of Barry Goldwater and had not given a retirement account, 401K or IRA a thought. He voted for one Democrat and that was Carter only because he was a 'favorite son' from Georgia. No that was a really big mistake. He, without a doubt, has been the worst President to date, but the best house builder. He has bordered on treason in the eyes of many. He needs to retire and sit and whittle in Plains. I wonder if his retirement account has suffered in the past few days?
• Frankie interviewed a Democrat some four months ago just shortly after Hillary was a "shue in," and following the other candidate leading in the vote, and they said at that time that they were(I am) voting for him." They knew less about him then than now which is darn little. There is something badly tainted about a vote like that. "Don't confuse me with the facts, my mind is made up." Too late to teach that one new tricks.
• It appears that some of the pundits and, yes, some of the voting citizens (or not), believe we have lost our leverage in the political arena and it is 'just too complicated,' or 'I just don't (read as 'take') have time,' 'my one little vote can't do any good,' 'who is running?' We CAN make a difference and we really do need to. We need to put some more legs under our retirement accounts and be able to live the life we had all planned on.
• Allow your voice to be heard NOW, before the registered and not so registered get in the booth and decide your tax rates, Supreme Court Justices, health care, and who they will allow to manipulate your retirement years.
  

I'll see you on the otherside. Frankie

Is Money From The Internet Possible?

Money from the Internet is a statement that we hear often and maybe have no idea what it means. This blog will tell you how different sites on the Internet and the World Wide Webb (two different things) can indeed save you retirement dollars and in some cases make you some money.

• The Money is in The List - that is what you will hear from every site trying to get you to go into their business as an affiliate. "The List" are names and e-mail addresses of people you know. I know some Boomers who have a list of 1,000 names and some with just a few.
• If you are serious about having your own business 'on line,' you need to start with a blog or a web site with a 'squeeze page' which will capture the name of the person reading your blog.
• I have found one of the best ways to make money 'on line' is to be very careful what you purchase on line. I heard yesterday that Billy Mays 'Awesome Auger' costs about $25.00 for the product and $140.00 for the shipping. Surprise, surprise!
• It is possible to make a full time living off of the computer and a few people have figured it out. The simplest site I have found is an network marketing site where it is possible to make money just for telling three people about a site which has great up to date information about having a work at home business. Click here to see all about what may be one of the best paying sites on line.

Frankie will be here tomorrow on his way back from Hilton Head Island. He will have a couple more insights for you about business, golf, the beach, all geared to fellow boomers. FL