UFO in Waukesha Sky?

When I was about 12 years old, I just happened to look out my bedroom window one night around 1030pm and I saw pretty much the exact thing that is described in the following news account from the Milwaukee area last night. I often wonder what exactly it was that I saw that night so long ago.

I still think it was an alien spacecraft....and I am sure the people that saw the light show last night probably are thinking the same thing......

UFO in Waukesha Sky? Probably a Comet Newsradio 620 - Milwaukee, Wisconsin News, Talk, Sports, Weather Local Headlines

Growing Worry on Rescue Takes a Toll on Banks

This all the plan for those "Not in the Know"...

Major banks will be nationalised, the economic underpinnings of the government will turn into more of a socialistic way of doing things as they are already starting to and soon the entire world will follow suit and a "World Government" will arise out of all of it. They say the "Pheonix Rises" and all other sorts of phrases for this and we are now in the 2nd or 3rd steps of this "One World Government".

As they say.....you have not seen nothin yet. This wild ride is just beginning.
I call it "The Illusion that is our World".

Stay tuned....

Growing Worry on Rescue Takes a Toll on Banks - NYTimes.com

Tax Me Depending on How Many Miles I Drive??

This has got to be the most insane thing that our government has EVER come up with. I sure hope I was wrong in voting for Obama.....

....But there are some things starting to come out of the "Woodwork" of the current administration that are really scaring me...this being one of them.
I drive 45 miles to work one way and there are times when I like to go visit my parents who live close to 3 hours north of me and then there are the road trips I like to take. I just cant imagine that I would have to pay a seperate tax to have to go to work, to have the privlege of going to see my parents or to be able to exlplore parts of this great country that I have not seen yet......

More on this idea can be gleamed by clicking on the links below:
JSOnline.com Associated Press News

http://financecommission.dot.gov/

And a video that brings it all together if you dont feel like reading through the links above:
http://video.ap.org/?t=By%20Section/U.S.&p=&f=WIMIL&g=0220dv_mileage_tax


I sure hope this one goes away as fast as the idea came up!!!

Auto Makers Want More Money From You and I???

ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!!
I begrudgingly went along with these guy's last requests for bailout funds, as did most of you who are reading this (and some of you...you know who you are.... thinking this had to be done as it affects all of us!) but now they are asking for yet many more billions of dollars.

I WHOLEHEARTEDLY say "SHUT YOUR DOORS" if you cannot make your companies financially viable with the funds you have been given already. I have an idea....take some of the highest paid executive's paychecks and use some of their "overpaid" salaries to help run their company. Yes, I know it won't amount to the many billions of dollars they are asking for, but it would be a start...

If some people are to loose their jobs because of this "so be it". I lost a job because of the economy and I found another one and I am surviving and so will they. But I DO NOT want any more of "my money" to go to companies who pay their executives millions of dollars but yet still expect massive government hand outs to operate.

I for one will never buy an American automobile again. Their greed and ignorant corporate decisions have put them in the mess they are in and unfortunately it is affecting their rank and file employees, which has happened in many corporations of late.

I am sick of people making excuses for why we are in the middle of one of the biggest financial messes we have ever faced. The fault falls squarely on the shoulders of greedy corporations and their executives who are highly overpaid, expect massive bonuses, live in 5000 sq. foot plus homes and own sailboats and yachts that the average person cannot even remotely afford or even dream of having in their lifetime. These people took advantage of "personal theoretical value" that really isn’t there to begin with along with mortgages and personal debt that would have baffled our forefathers. All because their financial advisors and their banks said they could....

It is time to get back to common sense and living within our means. And if that means (like our governer Doyle says in his budget propaoal for 2009) taxing the hell out of the wealthiest people and corporations and again taxing their capital gains and using some of that money to recover and get back to a somewhat normal life for the masses, combined with helping the less fortunate in the process, then I am all for it.

Some may call that socialism. I call it "sharing the pie and spreading the wealth". Maybe, just maybe, a "socialistic way" of life for the masses may just save humanity if we haven’t screwed ourselves into total anarchy already.

One thing I know for sure is that "The Free Market Economy" and "Capitalism" as we know it sure isn’t working.


The link to the story that made my blood boil and made me write this missive is below:

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/A/AUTOS_BAILOUT?SITE=WIMIL&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT

SouthLand Tales

There is a movie out there on DVD right now that tells a story about the end of the world as we know it.

It is called SouthLand Tales and though it is fiction, it is a hard hitting scenerio on what the economic downturn and the effects of economic chaos will have on the world:

http://www.southlandtales.com/

And a more detailed synopsis of the movie:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0405336/synopsis


According to the latest NY Times article, maybe we are not too far from that world:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/13/washington/13intel.html?_r=1&hp

Another Jack Ass who Does NOT Get It!! (The Recession)

The following is a copy of an email I sent to a reporter at the Milwaukee Journal in response to the latest “dufus” that was “called out” in response to his reckless actions during this economic downturn. When will these company executives get their heads out of their butts and realize that their actions are part of the reason we are in this mess to begin with???

Warm Regards to all…

John
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From: John [mailto:jrepinski@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2009 10:05 PMTo: 'dbice@journalsentinel.com'Subject: Re: Associated Bank CEO and company trip- after recieving bailout money

Hi Daniel,

I listened to your interview this morning on 620tmj on my way to work and I am so glad that you as a reporter are telling it like it is and calling people “out on the carpet” when they need to be reigned in for the things they do. Though I do not usually care for Charlie Sykes and his views, I had to laugh at the fact that I was actually on his side this time.

I was a bit disappointed by the executive’s statements that though he took the bailout money, he felt that it had no bearing on the planned trip and wasn’t about to let public opinion sway his mindset……. and though I am glad to see he finally cancelled the trip he was planning for himself and his associates:
http://www.jsonline.com/watchdog/noquarter/39476367.html

……I find it funny that he really doesn’t see anything wrong with the whole thing. I guess that is why he is paid $2 million a year in compensation.
This kind of situation is exactly one of the reasons why I have been against this bailout from the get go. I know there are people in the world who will take advantage of every penny that is offered to them and this CEO (and I am sure there are others just like him) is just the tip of the iceberg. Add to that, though he doesn’t feel that the money for these “perks” is coming from the “bail out” funds, he readily admits that the funds from the government are “co-mingled” with other bank funds.

I work my butt off for a pittance of that and I don’t expect anything except a “heartfelt thank you” from my employer for doing the best job I can, a paycheck that will get me home each day, allow me to pay my bills and give me a little something to have fun with every once in a great while (by a little something I mean a DVD or a decent dinner at a nicer restaurant or a trip up north to visit my parents once in a while)and maybe a little extra cash to put away for my retirement….which with the current state of the economy I have not been able to do hardly any of the above very well.

I speak from experience when I say the whole financial meltdown has touched many lives (I got laid off from a 10 year job a few months ago and have just recently returned to the work force with a job that is an hour (vs. 5 minutes) away from my home and at about the same pay) and that the attitudes of people like the CEO of Associated Bank goes to prove (to me at least) that the bank executives (as well as other highly paid executives who “rape” their own companies) themselves, with their decisions and their attitudes about the way they do things, were a big part of why things have gone haywire in the world as we know it.

I always look forward to your column and I hope you are around for a long time to come. The press needs more reporters like you.

Warm Regards,

A faithful reader