Inauguration Day

Obama with a statue of Superman. A great pose for the new president of the United States of America. He also collects Spider Man comics.

Inauguration Day

Right now, I am listening to the inauguration ceremony 1010 Wins AM radio. I prefer to listen to political events on the radio and imagine what they are like. Barack Obama is swearing in on Lincoln's bible.

Yesterday was Martin Luther King's birthday. King paved the way for Obama so he would be able to take office. Without Dr. King they may have never been an Obama in office. Dr. King's legacy of nonviolence is a great contribution to the country. Martin Luther King made it possible for people to speak their political views without being physically intimidated.

I enjoyed reading Barack Obama's books Dreams From My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance and The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming The American Dream. These books are both excellent reading.

My grandmother helped Dianne Feinstein in her election campaign for mayor in San Francisco a long time ago. Dianne Feinstein was one of the speakers during the inauguration. I think eventually she will run for the presidency.

I thought Obama's acceptance speech was very inclusive, it was a nice call to pull everyone together and work together. It also hit the right notes on the concept of the American dream.

I was at the laundromat folding clothes, so I got to watch some more of the inauguration on television. It was fun watching the inauguration day parade. I rather liked the pictures of the motorcade and the Native Americans on horseback. Obama came across very much as a man of the people walking in the parade.

While I am writing about Obama, I took this from off the web:

Barack Obama's favorite books: taken from his facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/barackobamaSong of Solomon (Toni Morrison), Moby Dick,Shakespeare's Tragedies, Parting the Waters, Gilead (Robinson), Self-Reliance (Emerson), The Bible, Lincoln's Collected Writings. In a separate space, he had listed his favorite children's book Where The Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak.

Good Morning, Good Afternoon

Poster for the "War of Wealth" by Charles Turner Dazey, a play that opened February 10, 1896. Reminds me a bit of what is happening now. We never learn.

Good Morning.

A link to the Obama read poster. I wish they had these posters available through the American Library Association. Posters of both McCain and Obama would be a nice boost.
http://newpagesblog.blogspot.com/2008/10/obama-reads.html

A. Lee Martinez has a new paperback of The Nameless Witch. I am looking forward to reading it. Cory Doctorow's Futuristic Tales of the Here and Now is available for free as a web download here. You Can also purchase it in print if you want. It should be fun to read. http://www.archive.org/details/CoryDoctorowsFuturisticTalesOfTheHereAndNow

Good Afternoon

If you feel like wasting a bit of time on a game, Soldak is running an open beta for Kivi's world. It is a 40 megabyte download. If you like the game Diablo, you will probably like this.

http://www.soldak.com/Kivis-Underworld/Demo.html

I am sitting in the library right now, having looked at diet and exercise books. The thought scares me, but I have to do it. I walked up to the library today. I am finally getting over a week and a half of acute bronchitis. My doctor told me lose weight and start exercising or else I am in serious trouble. I don't know if I will get a pair of light weights and do high repetition exercises every day, or simply walk a lot more to start.

I picked up another superhero anthology of short stories, The Darker Mask Heros From The Shadows, Edited by Gary Phillips and Christopher Chambers. It has stories by Tannarive Due, Steven Barnes, Jerry Rodriguez, and others. Tannarive Due and and Steven Barnes are African Amerucan authors. It should be an interesting anthology to read.

Right now, I am reading E. E. Knight, Valentines's Exile A Novel of The Vampire Earth. It is your typical the good guys are the underdogs fighting off the evil extradimensional vampire hordes. At this point our hero, Valentine is fighting the evil Kurians on the border of the Texas Republic. It is an entertaining slightly ridiculous romp.

It remained an entertaining slightly ridiculous romp throughout the novel to the point where it became something unexceptional. It is the kind of book which is there if you want some very light reading. I did not find that it is a book worth reviewing. The concepts of vampires who treat humanity like cattle is not a new one. If you want a story along these lines you are better off reading the Vampire Hunt D novels by Hideyuki Kikuchi.

Apollo Alliance and Obama

I was listening to the debate on 1010 WINS on the radio tonight. Obama gave a set of figures on spending for alternative energy that almost exactly match the spending figures for the Apollo Alliance project a liberal green energy group. I found it rather fascinating. Obama's energy plan figures $500 billion over 10 years creating 5 million jobs are the exact figures as their executive summary.

http://apolloalliance.org/apollo-14/executive-summary/

This shows that the Apollo Alliance is picking up steam and gaining more public support.

I realize now that I made a mistake. I so much wanted to hear the figures the way the Apollo Alliance had them that I misheard. It was $150 billion over 10 years or $15 billion a year for an Apollo like program. So, it sounds like a watered down version of the Apollo Alliance. Not real change. It would generate less jobs than the Apollo Alliance program.

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/05/14/obama-green-talk-is-gold-to-silicon-valley/