There are some current events, politics and/or news I could report on right now. Death panels, really? But, I decided to give a little look back and give President Obama a much needed critique from me. I will do this in a “top 5″ fashion. The following will be the top 5 things that really bug the hell out of me about our president.

5) Obama ran on campaign rhetoric about equality, togetherness and uniting people of all colors, creed and sexuality. Unfortunately, he has not lived up to the hype … yet.

Obama has not done much for a minority group here in the States. The LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender) people have been the one group of people that were basically shafted (no pun intended) in that deal. One problem that Obama faces is the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy of the US military. Here is The Daily Beast writing about Obama and the two prominent officers being dismissed from duty because of being “outed” as gay.

“Gay soliders are being dismissed not because the president of the United States feels they should be discriminated against, which would be bad enough. Instead, they’re being dismissed because the president doesn’t feel like doing anything about it.”

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If you haven’t been paying attention, you might be missing something that is, at the very root of our constitutional republic, so corrosive and damaging to our nation. The Family as they have been called, but are also known as C Street Center, is this very strange, secretive organization that is highly evangelical and is made up of our congressmen and senators.

These politicians are responsible for supporting some of the most fundamentally conservative movements within our government, and their mission, from their own mouths mind you, is to fill as many seats within our political system with highly charged and evangelical, Christian “politicians” as they can.

Unfortunately, this is not just to convert America to the Evangelical religion, but to have a network of many leaders all over the world that support this same “political philosophy of Jesus.” I am not going out on a limb here, this is all real. No subjectivity. Our very own, very powerful Senator Jim Inhofe has been making trips to Africa on the tax payers dollar and representing our nation’s government while being very intimately tied to this Evangelical movement. To prove it, here is Senator Jim Inhofe, a very prominent member of this society, incriminating himself.

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I, like many others, am a huge fan of a good cup of joe, but I wasn’t always a fan. Unfortunately, for most of my life, I hated anything that was bitter. I absolutely despised many things green (steamed broccoli, mustard greens, spinach … ) because it always tasted really bitter to me. I didn’t find out until later in my life that I have a different genetic configuration for my taste perception than that of my parents. This allowed my parents to enjoy a side of broccoli while I choked the horribly bitter things down during dinner. Ah, but I digress.

Let’s get back to the topic at hand. Coffee was one of those things that just tasted too bitter for me to enjoy. The only way I enjoyed a coffee beverage was driving to Starbucks and ordering a Mocha Frappuccino. That is until I discovered that heat was the reason the coffee was bitter, and cold brewing coffee was a bitter-less alternative. Cold brewing is a way of extracting all the goodness out of the coffee bean without the acidic components that cause the bitterness. What you get is the best tasting cup of coffee that you will ever have.

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Snipped from ScienceBlogs.com.

Wow, I am deeply saddened by the continually sinking ship that is our mass media.

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UPDATE: I ran across another article concerning the Kimberley Process. This was a UN proposed method for “weeding” out the so called blood or conflict diamonds. It just shows that when we as humans place so much worth on something, there is another who will find any way to exploit that worth. Here is the article called “Many African diamonds still bloody.“

As I get older, more and more of my associates are getting married, and if you know me by now, I am not all that crazy about traditional culture. I think marriage damages more relationships than extramarital affairs, but that is a whole other story. What I want to address at the moment is what symbolizes this so-called eternal love for each other — the diamond ring. Ahh, you can just see the sparkling goodness right now, can’t you?

How much do they run now? One, two, three thousand dollars? Even more if you REALLY love your wife, right? Well my loving friend, you are forgetting about one small part of that diamond’s history. The possibility that it has a bloody past.

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Snipped from HuffingtonPost.com.

Frank Schaeffer, a New York Times best seller, writes about his experience decades ago as a lead for the conservative movement, and how it relates to Iran today.

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