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I guess I’m one of Obama cronies

Help support the harshest month of the election by donating to Obama’s campaign.

Even $5 helps, Even $1 helps… Granted more helps.. but any amount is better than nothing.

Wamu takes a dive: that’s NYSE:WM
Wachovia takes a dive: that’s NYSE:WB

Other NYSE:W* to watch
NYSE:WF Woori Finance (off 20% today)
NYSE:WG Willbros Group (Off 16%)
NYSE:WL Wilmington trust (Off 14%)

But honestly.. following the basic pattern the next victim of collapse would be:
NYSE:VQ Venoco, Inc (Oil and energy company off 8% today to $12)
Though if we simply look at Investment/Banking between VQ abd WB we find:

NYSE:VT Vanguard Total World (Off 7.5%)
NYSE:VV Vanguarg Large Cap (Off 4%)

Have fun 🙂

We’re now into the final 100 days before our next election.

This is the time when the ads begin to make you really desire to throw your hands up in disgust and let the system brow beat us into an administration we can’t support.

I’m standing in support of Barack Obama.

Obama is striving to run a campaign based on issues. Money is being raised from individual contributors only.
Commercials are focused on defending his platform.

Over 2 million voters are supporting Obama financially. Frankly, this is unheard of for any candidate in a presidential election.

But the process takes repeat support.

Even if you can only donate $5. It helps.
Even if you’ve donated before… It helps.

No matter what happens, stay active. Stay focussed. And don’t let the legislators be the one to decide who our next president is.

I urge you to take a moment and look at my fundraising page

All money raised goes directly to Obama’s election campaign.

Thank you.

This is just a reminder…

Obama fought a hell of an impressive battle to make it to become the presumptive nominee for democratic candidate for President.

But now the real battle begins… and the cost to do this isn’t over. The republicans are raising lots of money to fund McCain.

And money will be necessary to defray the costs to get Obama around the country.

I strongly suggest dropping by my fundraising site
http://my.barackobama.com/page/outreach/view/main/lordandrei

It really doesn’t matter how little you put forth.. but each dollar does help.

And every dollar goes directly to the Obama effort. None gets siphoned off in processing.

Just my $0.02 (and then some)

I love writing these kinds of rants. They are never aimed at a goal. There is typically a motivation that gets me riled. Then I start writing. I express my gut feeling. Sometimes it leads me off the topic onto another one that may or may not seem related to anyone but me. I will admit that the sentence structure may have errors. (I think and write as I would speak and therefore use punctuation…. um creatively.) So, I nerble my ramblings in journal form. Pulling on dogma and writings that I (at the time of writing) put credibility and support into my opinions. Then I post.

The result is that some people comment. Some do not understand a phrase fragment I’ve dropped and I go back and restate it in English. Some immediately rip apart my ‘train of thought’ logic and I happily open a debate or say, “Gosh, that makes sense.” And some read one line that was meant as a humourous “one-off” and focus on that. Regardless, I put these here because it’s how I feel and how my mind (sorta) works (if we can call it working). It’s a public statement and any person can respond in any way that they will.

So, now that those of you who haven’t seen one of these things before have been warned….

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Currently, on one of my boards is a debate over whether a magickal organization should pay attention to its financial state. This includes such things as maintaining a tax exempt status, realizing its assets, and growing its base of operations.

Ugh… sounds very corporate. Some have gone so far as to use phrases like, “Sucking the magick out.” You see, in many traditions, money has this grubby and dirty connotation. If we invest ourselves in material possessions we cheapen ourselves and loose our spirituality.

Obviously, this explains why the monks and the priests and the hoo-hah out there need renunciation. Renunciate, renunciate, renunciate. Preach it with me. See the mystical figure chanting it much like Ballmer preaching to the developers.

I look at this and think simply… Bugger that

Let’s go back to magick 101…