Yesterday I saw the new vampire movie. Twilight is what you get when you you need to make a vampire movie that can be shown on the family channel. Well maybe it's not that bad but it's very sappy for a vampire movie.

On the other hand I do know it was intended for teenage girls. Boy do I know it. The theater was packed with them. All giggly and stupid with excitement. They started applauding and hollering when the previews ended and the feature started. Part of me wanted to flee in terror. But it was a small part and I told him to suck it up.

I'm sort of glad I stayed... Sort of. Many parts of it were painfully sappy, others were utterly insane for any other vampire movie. What if the Cleavers were vampires and decided to play a family game of Baseball? Yah.. That's not even craziest part. The movie it's self makes the comparison of vampires and humans as being Lions and Lambs. Now imagine a family of Lions being completely fine with one of their sons dating a Lamb. Yes it's that nuts. With all that, I will admit, it's just barely.. mostly entertaining.

I'm sure if you match it's target demographic you will love it. For my self and everybody else, waiting for the inevitable squeals to hit HBO or Showtime would be the best option.

The FFRF is an organization trying to separate religion from politics. Their above billboard was in Rancho Cucamonga, CA. It is tough to tell from the article by the Daily Bulletin, according them it was up for either one day or one week. In that time the city received 90 complaints about it, and then asked General Outdoor (the sign company) to remove it. Which they did of course.

Once again freedom of religion Great! Freedom of no religion Bad! It really bothers me how many freedoms we let the religious conservative and cowardly security freaks take from us.

This morning I was inspired by what was out the window.

It turned out to be a nice desktop wallpaper.

I'm first going to say, I think this is great. Obama appears to be the most promising president I have ever known. I'm very glad that he will be next in charge. The tyrannical rein of George Jr. will come to an end, and I am full of hope and reasonable amount of expectation that the next 4 years at least will be a big improvement for our country.

Now I have to rant a little. I talked to a few people today. Naturally the conversation ran to Obama. Everybody was all excited. I mean really excited. Kind of scary excited.

First: Lots of black people are excited because he's black. I'm sorry but racism goes both ways. Liking a person because of their skin color, is just as prejudicial as not liking them.

Second: Lots of people are crazy happy because the better man was elected. I'm sorry but I'm merely comfortable with our selecting the best man. That's what's supposed to happen. It's like cheering somebody who drove a car a cross town for the 44th time. Hey That's great! You didn't drive into a building by mistake!

My enthusiasm is largely tempered by the fact that the popular vote only had him six points ahead. That's barley a lead. Certainly nothing to be proud of. It means nearly half of us still voted for more of the same policies we had for the last 8 years. Scary.

Third: In the Senate, Democrats needed to bash the Republicans down to 40 or fewer seats. They didn't. That means that any legislation the the Republicans don't want to see through, still won't. They can still filibuster anything they don't like. That will limit what can be done.

So Instead of being excited, just remember, all we did is barley pass with a C. We didn't come close to getting an A+, or anything really great.

Congratulations world! The United States of America have selected your new leader. You should all be proud.

His name is Barack Hussein Obama II. Born August 4th 1961 in Hawaii, to father Barack Hussein Obama, Sr. of Kenya, and mother Ann Dunham of America. He lived with his mother in Indonesia until he was 10, then was raised by his mother's parents in Hawaii.

After High school he moved on to Occidental College in Los Angles, California. After two Years he transferred to Columbia University in New York City. There he majored in Political Sciences, and specialized in International Relations. He graduated from Columbia in 1982. In 1988 he started in Harvard Law School, becoming an editor and later the first black President of the Harvard Law Review. He graduated with a Juris Doctor (J.D.) magna cum laude in 1991.

In 1992 he started teaching Constitutional Law at the University of Chicago. In 1995 he published a memoir Dreams from My Father. In 1997 he became a State Legislator. In 2005 a Senator. Now in 2009 he will become the first black President of the United States.

After 8 agonizingly long years, we have a leader who doesn't go with his gut. Congratulations to us for not being our usual superficially stupid selves.